Cultural Studies

The World of Obituaries: Gender across Cultures and over Time

Mushira Eid

An examination of changing representations of gender through an analysis of obituary texts in three cultures—Egypt, Iran, and the United States.

The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients

Louis Rose

An exploration of art history, classics, and psychoanalysis as modes of cultural analysis in fin-de-siecle Central Europe.

Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity

Edited by Dan Ben-Amos and Liliane Weissberg

Brings together scholars of folklore, literature, history, and communication to explore the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts.

Psychosocial Spaces: Verbal/Visual Readings of British Culture, 1750–1820

Steven J. Gores

Explores how members of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British society situated themselves in relation to culture and thereby defined the “self” in psychosocial space.

Languages of Visuality: Crossings between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature

Edited by Beate Allert

A major contribution to the ongoing debate among visualists and verbalists, Languages of Visuality addresses the processes of textualization of images and visualization of texts.

Playing by the Rules: Sport, Society, and the State

John Wilson

Describes how the relation between sport and the state has developed over the last one hundred years, and how, largely by indirection and accident, a public policy with respect to sport has emerged.