Author: Gregory Stephenson
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: study, fiction, science, fantasy, contributions, ballard, dream, night, thematic
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1991-10-30
List price: $112.95
ISBN-10: 0313279225
ISBN-13: 9780313279225

The author of Empire of the Sun and other acclaimed novels and stories, British writer J. G. Ballard is here given a penetrating analysis, his work being explored in terms of its internal coherence, thematic continuity and development, and mythic and metaphysical aspects. Ballard’s fiction is widely considered to be a critique of our secular, rational, technological culture, but the writer is shown not to be fatalistic, but, rather, concerned with the redemption and regeneration of the human psyche. This study examines Ballard’s output over four decades and compares him to several

Author: Miguel Gonzalez-Pando
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: americans, new, cuban
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-02-28
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0313298246
ISBN-13: 9780313298240

Today more than one million emigres make up the Cuban diaspora, and many, though living in America, still consider themselves part of Cuba. This book captures the struggles and dreams of Cuban Americans. Using this resource, students, teachers, and interested readers can examine the engaging and often controversial details of Cuban immigration. Such details include patterns of immigration, adaptation to American life and work, cultural traditions, religious traditions, women’s roles, the family, adolescence, language, and education. Because the author is himself a Cuban American, he does

Author: Missy Dehn Kubitschek
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: critical, contemporary, writers, popular, companion, morrison, toni, companions
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0313302650
ISBN-13: 9780313302657

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, Toni Morrison is among our most distinguished contemporary novelists. Morrison describes herself as a "black woman novelist," and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. Exploring the entire cycle of human life in a spiritual context, her novels are also universal in their depiction of families, especially mothers and their children. From her first novel, The Bluest Eye, to her most recent, Paradise, Toni Morrison has explored the African American experience, and by extension, the human experience. The characters s

Author: Arnold Sparr
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: catholicism, american, contributions, study, religion, transformation, cultural, redeem, defend, catholic, literary, revival, promote
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1990-06-27
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0313263914
ISBN-13: 9780313263910

The Catholic literary revival in America refers both to the impact of the modern resurgence in European Catholic thought and letters upon the American Church between 1920 and 1960, and to efforts by American Catholic leaders to induce a similar flowering in their own country. Sparr examines those areas of Catholic thought and culture that most concerned educated American Catholics, critics, and cultural leaders between 1920 and 1960: the renaissance in Catholic literary, theological, philosophical, and social thought; its application to modern problems; and the growth and development of the 20

Authors:Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ramona Hernandez,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: americans, new, dominican
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-05-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0313298394
ISBN-13: 9780313298394

This profile of Dominican Americans closes a critical gap in information about the accomplishments of one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States. Beginning with a look at the historical background and the roots of native Dominicans, this book traces the story of U.S. and Dominican relations. With great detail and clarity, the authors explain why the Dominicans left their homeland and came to the United States. The book includes discussions of education, health issues, drugs and violence, the visual and performing arts, popular music, religion, food, gender, and race. Most importa

Author: David T. Twining
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: contributions, military, studies, issues, security, soviet, reform, glasnost
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1992-08-30
List price: $103.95
ISBN-10: 0313284733
ISBN-13: 9780313284731

Twining and his colleagues look at the impact of glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet system on the military. The case study approach used allows for in-depth examination of a number of key issues, ranging from the role of women in the Soviet armed forces to the rule of law to Sino-Soviet military rapproachment are examined. In a concluding chapter, Twining offers a broad theoretical overview that places the Soviet difficulties in the context of governance problems that affect developed countries in general.

Authors:William Shaman, William J. Collins, Calvin M. Goodwi
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: golden, opera, discographies, recordings, smith, discography, edward, ejs
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 1994-02-28
List price: $201.95
ISBN-10: 0313278687
ISBN-13: 9780313278686

Between 1956 and 1981, Edward J. Smith issued three series of private long-playing recordings devoted almost entirely to historical operatic performance. Smith’s first series, "The Golden Age of Opera," appeared between 1956 and 1971, and its contents are catalogued here for the first time. Notorious for their lack of accurate documentation, the LPs have remained a source of great frustration to collectors and historians. This volume presents an exhaustive accounting of the thousands of individual recordings contained on the 479 "Golden Age of Opera" LPs, documented from the most reliabl