The best book to discuss the creative work of Aboriginal author, playwright and poet (1917-2000). First published in 1994, including essays by Ooodgeroo.
For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-Catholic, a Puritan-baiter, a secularist, or a devotee of some hybrid faith. In Religion Around Shakespeare, Peter Kaufman sets aside such speculation in favor of considering the historical and religious context surrounding his work. ......
In Mirrored Sublimation: Essays on the Early Work of Knut Hamsun, Lisa Yamasaki examines a small selection of the Norwegian dramatist Knut Hamsun's early work that reveals the theme of sublimation from a psychoanalytic perspective. Although Hamsun wrote many short stories, plays, and novels in the late nineteenth century, Yamasaki focuses on those ......
Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory
New Drama-a collection of actors, directors, and playwrights in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus-is one of the most active and vibrant artistic movements in the Russophone world today yet remains understudied in the West. E. Susanna Weygandt demonstrates that the major innovation of New Drama is a sonic turn, an aesthetic development that moves away ......
Although few of his plays exist in full today, the fourth-century BCE Greek dramatist Menander was known far and wide throughout antiquity. He was one of the first to locate his dramas in the common household, rather than the mythic world of gods and heroes, and is now recognized as one of the pioneering figures of ancient Greek "New Comedy." ......
In this biting, lyrical memoir, Camara Lundestad Joof, born in BodO to Norwegian and Gambian parents, shares her experiences as a queer Black Norwegian woman. Joof's daily encounters belie the myth of a colorblind contemporary Scandinavia. She wrestles with the fickle palimpsest of memory, demanding communion with her readers even as she ......
Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession
Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor (""Mrs. F,"" 75), who was convinced that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was William ......
Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity. McClure (1932-2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From ......
