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Linda Myrsiades
Myrsiades captures the agitation-propaganda efforts mounted by rebel communities and groups together with petitions and speeches in the rebel assemblies in demonstrating that popular culture offered a clear politico-legal justification…
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Linda Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades
Karagiozis – a form of comic folk drama employing stock puppet figures – was immensely popular in Greece until recent years, when newer forms of entertainment have virtually eclipsed it.
Margins in the Classroom was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University…
Kostas Myrsiades
Homer’s Odyssey, the first great travel narrative in Western culture, is a compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home. Reading Homer’s…
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Approaches to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
Drinking from the Blood-Pit is a work of creative nonfiction, which uses Odysseus’s descent to the underworld (Od.10.490-95) as a unifying theme for each of the fourteen pieces included. Each…
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Provides a book-by-book commentary on the The Iliad’s 24 parts. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume…
Approaches to Teaching World Literature 13.
In this book, 14 contributions from scholars in the U.S. and abroad discuss the Beat movement in literature. The emphasis is on the works and influence of Jack Kerouac.
Focusing on doctors’ feuds and duels, yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, and a court-martial of the medical director of army hospitals in the Revolutionary War, this title is set during…
This study focuses on two critical figures in late eighteenth-century America–the physician Benjamin Rush and the journalist William Cobbett– as they clashed in one of the most important trials of…
From Treason to Runaway Slaves provides case studies of high-profile trials from the early republic examined in terms of the period's history, law, and culture. It focuses on a historical…
Looks at the political and cultural issues involved in teaching postcolonial literatures and theories.
Nikos Kazantzakis
"A tragic play about the Ancient Greek warrior-king Odysseus, and a prequel to Nikos Kazantzakis's epic poem The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, inspired by Homer's The Odyssey"--
Linda S. Myrsiades
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. Eruptions: New Thinking across the Disciplines. Vol. 20 General Editor: Erica McWilliam
Yannis Ritsos
1991 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year–Choice. Friar and Mysiades deserve much credit for providing, in one volume, the first full-range sampling of this fecund, variegated, and highly original poet…
Henry A. Giroux,Kostas Myrsiades
A decade of budgetary, policy, and ideological contention has resulted in American universities being run by management models and the nation is seen by some to have lost its vision…
