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• Labours of Love: Women, Marriage, and Service in Twelfth Night and The Compleat Servant-Maid

  Editors:Graham Bradshaw, Michael Neill, and Tom BishopFrom: The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 5, Special Section, Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service

  200512,350 words Critical essay [(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Dowd interprets Twelfth Night as a reflection of changing labor practices in early modern England and, especially, the shifting role of household servants. Dowd’s essay focuses...

• Philosopher-Poet

  From: The Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane

  199317,784 words Critical essay, Excerpt [(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt, Dooley examines Crane's poetry and contends that the author's philosophy is theistic, not nihilistic, agnostic, or atheist, as it is often characterized by critics.] I...

• Subjectivity and Totality in Dubliners

  From: James Joyce and Victims: Reading the Logic of Exclusion

  200318,504 words Critical essay, Excerpt [(essay date 2003) In the following excerpt, Murphy discusses the sociohistorical connotations of Dubliners, highlighting Joyce's materialist analysis of the link between colonial subjectivity, fragmented identity, and...

• Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights.

  From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2022735 words Article Taleghani, R. Shareah. Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 296 pages. Paperback $34.95 Readings in Syrian Prison Literature is a...

• Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity, Science and Secularism.

  Author:M.M. SilverFrom:American Jewish History (Vol. 104, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2020999 words Article Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity, Science and Secularism. By Matthew Kaufman. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019. 266 pp. Horace Kallen Confronts America is a highly readable, analytically...

• POLITICAL ACTS: WOMEN IN NORTHERN IRISH THEATRE.

  Author:Maria KurdiFrom:Theatre Journal (Vol. 70, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20181,139 words Article POLITICAL ACTS: WOMEN IN NORTHERN IRISH THEATRE, 1921-2012. By Fiona Coleman Coffey. Irish Studies series. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016; pp. 304. Scholars have recently begun to publish an increasing...

• The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel

  Author:Zobar SegevFrom:American Jewish History (Vol. 99, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2015924 words Article The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel. By Ofer Shiff. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2.014. At the end of 1945, David Ben Gurion, then chairman of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem...

• The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzio Yezierska, Sonya Levin, and Jetta Goudal

  Author:Lara VapnekFrom:American Jewish History (Vol. 101, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20171,033 words Article The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzio Yezierska, Sonya Levin, and Jetta Goudal. By Alan Robert Ginsberg. Syracuse University Press, 2016. XXIV + 363 pp. How does the modern woman measure her worth, by the...

• Generations of Dissent: Intellectual, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa.

  From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2021828 words Article Alexa Firat and R. Shareah Taleghani, Editors, Generations of Dissent: Intellectual, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019. 320 pp....

• Fine Meshwork: Philip Roth, Edna O'Brien, and Jewish-Irish Literature Dan O'Brien.

  Author:George BornsteinFrom:Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies (Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20212,056 words Article Fine Meshwork: Philip Roth, Edna O'Brien, and Jewish-Irish Literature Dan O'Brien Syracuse University Press, 2020. 277 pages. ISBN: 9780815636212 "It is an epic of two races (Israel-Ireland)", wrote Joyce to his...

• The Plays of Margaret Drabble. A Critical Edition.

  Author:Laura Monros-GasparFrom:International Journal of English Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20211,616 words Article Francisco Fernandez, Jose (Ed.). (2018). The Plays of Margaret Drabble. A Critical Edition. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Pages: 176. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3605-2 A first-class degree graduate in English Literature...

• Meanwhile, Back in Albany

  From: America

  Apr. 22, 2002902 words Critical essay [(review date 22 April 2002) In the following review, Deignan declares that, with Roscoe, Kennedy "has created that rare thing: an enlightening, original book on politics."] In a new book of essays entitled Reading...

• Black Elk Speaks and Is Spoken: The Dialectic of Constitutions Revisited

  From: Identity’s Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion

  200712,382 words Critical essay [(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Anderson uses Kenneth Burke’s theories of constituted identities to assess the authenticity of Black Elk’s identity as presented by Neihardt.] Insofar as situations to which...

• The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre: Beyond O'Casey.

  Author:Patrick LonerganFrom:Comparative Drama (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall-Winter 20191,525 words Article Elizabeth Mannion. The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre: Beyond O'Casey. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2014. P. xvii +218. $34.95. The international reputation of Ireland's Abbey Theatre is strongly...

• Shahaama: Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories.

  From:Arab Studies QuarterlyPeer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019832 words Article Atiya, Nayra. Shahaama: Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. 184 pages. Paperback $19.95 Nayra Atiya's narrative opens a window into Egypt's cultural life from the...

• Horacio Quiroga's Obsessions with Abnormal Psychology and Medicine as Reflected in 'La gallina degollada.'

  From: Literature and Psychology

  19866,912 words Critical essay [(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Pearson studies the sources of Quiroga's interest in medicine and abnormal psychology and illustrates how the author expresses these interests in the short story "La gallina...