Alejandro Zaera-Polo's book is a first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University's School of Architecture, an international architect who served as a professor who worked at the school for ten years. The book describes the climate of ideological suppression in an elite American university and the mechanisms involved in the process. ......
Alejandro Zaera-Polo's book is a first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University's School of Architecture, an international architect who served as a professor who worked at the school for ten years. The book describes the climate of ideological suppression in an elite American university and the mechanisms involved in the process. ......
Based on newly available documents and others translated for the first time, physician Nicholas Kadar sheds important new light on the thinking of the celebrated Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) at the Vienna School of Medicine, where he discovered the cause and prophylaxis of childbed fever, one of the greatest findings in the ......
Identity Politics and the Third World revisits the theories of identification in challenging existing methods of ascertaining developing world identities on the grounds of objectivity and universality. The construction of postcolonial identities refers to the creation of systems of identification. This construction is undertaken at two levels: by ......
This new interdisciplinary treatise on the unusual features of literary and cultural items connected with the ancient idea of "translation" including the motif of ascension as a phenomenon complete with its own premises, literary and narratological conceits, but one that has been understudied as an influence on Western culture, religion and its ......
The culture wars are raging again. The term, which gained popular usage in the United States in the 1920s to describe the ideological divide between those with progressive versus conservative beliefs, now pits a coalition of conservatives and classical liberals against those who adhere to a far-left, postmodern ideology. Iconoclast: Ideas That ......
Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Wing Pinero and Modernism on the London Stage, 1880-1890
Foreword by Professor Joseph Donohue "..Matos's important book provides a well-researched, well-written, and fascinating discussion of the notion of contagion from Ibsen and into Pinero and Jones." Professor Gregory Tague, St Francis College, editor of Origins of English Literary Modernism,1870-1914 The Independent Theatre's production of Ghosts ......
The Significance of the Irish Language in 'Finnegans Wake' and in OtherWorks of James Joyce
The central theme of this monograph is James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in Finnegans Wake, the virtuosity with which he makes use of the tongue, the understanding of its grammatical and syntactical subtleties which he reveals in the book and ''the explanatory treasure of heart and mind'', as the the author put it himself, which the ......
