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Cinderella Across Cultures

Edited by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey and Monika Wozniak

Preface by Cristina Bacchilega

Publication Date: June 2016

Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.

Queer Enchantments

by Anne E. Duggan

Publication Date: October 2013

Both film and fairy-tale studies scholars will enjoy Duggan's fresh look at the distinctive cinema of Jacques Demy.

The Monstrous Debt

Edited by Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf-Turley

Foreword by Lucy Newlyn

Publication Date: September 2006

Scholars and students of the Romantic era will enjoy this informative volume.

Mothering Daughters

by Susan C. Greenfield

Publication Date: July 2003

Exploring the historically contingent assumptions about maternal care that informed writers during this period, Greenfield argues that women's novels helped construct the story of mother love and loss that psychoanalysis would soon inherit.

Music in the World of Islam

by Amnon Shiloah

Publication Date: August 2001

By the end of Islam’s third century, distinct autonomous styles began to appear involving Persians and Turks in particular.

Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity

Edited by Dan Ben-Amos and Liliane Weissberg

Introduction by Liliane Weissberg

Afterword by Dan Ben-Amos

Publication Date: January 1999

Building on research in the field, their contributions clearly show that cultural memory has become the creative invention of the past in service of both the present and an imagined future.

Folk Music in the United States

by Bruno Nettl

Revised by Helen Myers

Publication Date: February 1976

It uses music as an index to understanding American culture while it introduces readers to various concepts in the field of ethnomusicology.

Literary Criticism

Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Harry Hayden Clark

Publication Date: January 1962

Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of value at present, either in developing our own critical thought or in interpreting the most important literature of their own ages.