A survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses This collection of essays reviews the state of theory on James Joyce's Ulysses more than 100 years after the fictitious Leopold Bloom steps into the novel, a day Joyceans celebrate as Bloomsday. The contributors-well known for their work in James Joyce studies-each provide three assessments ......
"In addition to a superb analysis of the role of Protestantism in Cuba, [Yaremko] provides an excellent analysis of life in Cuba during the first half of this century."--Luis Martinez-Fernandez, Rutgers University Following the end of the Spanish-Cuban-American war in 1898, the U.S. Protestant Church embarked on a religious mission in Cuba that ......
On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled ......
Exploring the global connections of Latin America's revolutionary movements in the 1960s and 1970sThis volume showcases new research on the global reach of Latin American revolutionary movements during the height of the Cold War, mapping out the region's little-known connections with Africa, Asia, and Europe. Toward a Global History of Latin ......
During the weekend of July 4, 1999, Benjamin 'August' Smith went on a three-day rampage in Illinois and Indiana, attacking Asians, Orthodox Jews, and African Americans. He left two dead and nine wounded, and then committed suicide. As a former member - conveniently resigning the day before the shootings - of the World Church of the Creator (now ......
Two little-known story collections from H.D. that offer new ways of thinking about the role of the short story genre in the writer's career and the modernist movement The Imagist poet H.D. is widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers of free verse in English. In the last few decades, her poetry and novels have received increasing ......
Eight decades of presidential policies and how they shaped American Jewish identity and history The first book to explore how American presidents have responded to and shaped issues central to Jewish Americans across eighty years, The US Presidency and American Jewry from FDR to Trump traces presidential actions and their effects on both ......
A collection of literary work that shows the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author From her first poems and stories to her finely crafted essays as a newspaper and feature writer to the gathering brilliance that began at the outset of her Florida Period, highlighted by the Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling in 1939, Marjorie ......
An introduction to key concepts in international relations and strategy through the interstellar narratives of Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning trilogy Science fiction has long examined social, political, and moral issues through imagined worlds. This book uses Chinese author Cixin Liu's award-winning trilogy as a teaching tool to illustrate ......
