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Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory

Stephen Benson

Analyzes how the folktale has influenced the development of narrative theory and how postmodern fiction has drawn on the folktale to experiment with diverse narrative concepts.

Without Hatreds or Fears: Jorge Artel and the Struggle for Black Literary Expression in Colombia

Lawrence E. Prescott

A study of Colombia’s premier poet, Jorge Artel.

A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria

Walter P. Zenner

A study of ethnic integration and continuity within a Sephardic Jewish community.

From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile’s Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale

Nancy L. Canepa

A study of the emergence of the first collection of literary fairytales in the Italian Baroque.

Alexander Kluge: The Last Modernist

Peter C. Lutze

Close readings of the films and television work of an influential modernist figure in the New German Cinema.

Ed Bullins: A Literary Biography

Samuel A. Hay

A study of seminal playwright Ed Bullins within the context of African American intellectual history and dramatic theory.

Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

Michael A. Meyer

A history of the Reform Movement from the beginnings of modernization in late eighteenth century Jewish thought and practice, through Reform’s American renewal in the 1970s.