Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe

Author: Dagmar Wernitznig

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780761836896

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Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is an accessible and multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this pioneering work, European fascination with and phantasmagorias of 'Indianness' are comprehensively discussed, involving perspectives of history, literature, and cultural criticism. Topics range from so-called Pocahontas, paraded as an exotic souvenir princess in front of seventeenth-century Londoners, to Native Americans touring Europe as show token Indians with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in the late nineteenth-century. European strategies of playing Indian include German dime novel artisan Karl May (1842-1912) and his literary fabrications of the 'vanishing race, ' which were utilized by National Socialist propaganda, as well as the Englishman Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (1888-1938) reinventing himself as Grey Owl, or contemporary Europeans, 'cloning' surrogate Indian identities and 'patenting' synthetic tribes. Covering a vast transatlantic spectrum of aspects and anecdotes, Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is a seminal study for anyone interested in learning more about European motives, mythopoetics, and microcosms of 'dressing in feathers.'

The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13:

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"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy", is an 1842 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ballwithin seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn. Poe's story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the titular disease. The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham's Magazineand has since been adapted in many different forms, including a 1964 film starring Vincent Price.

Enter The Body
Enter The Body

Author: Carol Chillington Rutter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134767803

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One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them.

Women's Bible Commentary
Women's Bible Commentary

Author: Carol Ann Newsom

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780664257811

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In the critically acclaimed best-seller,Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.

Introductions, Notes and Commentaries to Texts in 'The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker': Volume 4, The Sun's Darling; Britannia Honor; London's Tempe; Lust's Dominion; The Noble Spanish Soldier; The Welsh Embassador
Introductions, Notes and Commentaries to Texts in 'The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker': Volume 4, The Sun's Darling; Britannia Honor; London's Tempe; Lust's Dominion; The Noble Spanish Soldier; The Welsh Embassador

Author: Cyrus Hoy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780521225069

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Companion guide to the fourth volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Sun's Darling, Britannia Honour, London's Tempe, Lust's Dominion, The Noble Spanish Soldier, The Welsh Ambassador.

Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

Author: R. Hillman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-05-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0230372899

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This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic construct. Both the approach itself and the conclusions it generates significantly diverge from the standard New Historicist/Cultural Materialist narrative of subjectivity. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.

Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors'
Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors'

Author: Molly G. Yarn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1009006290

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From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare's women editors lived extraordinary lives and produced editions that, throughout England and America, were read and used by people of all ages. This compelling book draws on book history, literary studies and women's history alike to tell their remarkable stories.