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Examines the extent that changes in the world around them affected backcountry Quakers, by focusing on the activities of Exeter Monthly Meeting of Friends, based in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Friends within the realm of Exeter Monthly Meeting had to confront matters the Quaker founders of the province could hardly have anticipated.

The original essays in this book explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology. These scholars argue that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of the oral and literate within a given culture.

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The essays in this volume represent multiple perspectives on Lawrence Durrell's sojourn in the Hellenic diaspora and his art's connection to the Greek world.

Writing became a widespread practice only in the last four hundred years. Before written texts could record and preserve the stories of a culture, cloth was one of the primary modes for transmitting social messages. In Weaving the Word, Kathryn Sullivan Kruger examines the link between written texts and woven textiles.

This study places Djuna Barnes's early work in the context of symbolist ideas and practices. It presents Barnes not only as a woman writer, but also as an American writer, especially in her attention to the search for identity and to the conflict between individual values and those of society.

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This book maintains that a Catholic sacramental understanding of the self and the world is at the center of Percy's imaginative and philosophical vision. In close textual analysis of The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming, Love in the Ruins, and The Thanatos Syndrome, the author shows bow these works present Percy's sacramental worldview. The imagery and symbolism in these novels point out how the novels' existential wayfarers make their journe...

Oakeshott and His Contemporaries is an exploration of the ideas of one of the most important twentieth-century English political philosophers vis-a-vis related ideas in the thought of seven prominent European thinkers. The intent is to show the importance and coherence of Oakeshott's various themes by indicating how they modify, amplify, or contrast with similar and related themes in the thought of Montaigne, St. Augustine, Hegel, Hobbes, Benj...

Spiegel explores how in one of his best known novels the 19th-century Russian author used laughter not only to flesh out characters but also to foreshadow and intensify events, highlight thematic and compositional parallels, influence the plot, and shape the novel's symbolic structure. As background

This study develops the idea of irony as the product of the divine point of view through a selective survey of Greek and Israelite religious literatures, including Oedipus, Orestes, and The Bacchae, as well as the Exodus story and the Lord's answer to Job. A discussion of Socrates considers the divine origins of his irony, and includes an assessment of Kierkegaard's theory of irony. Paul the apostle is discussed as an author whose use of irony...

This book is the first collection of Crommelynck's work in English and includes a translation of The Magnanimous Cuckold, as well as The Merchant of Regrets, The Sculptor of Masks, The Childish Lovers, Golden Guts, Carine, or The Young Woman Who Was Crazy about Her Soul, A Small-Hearted Woman, and Hot and Cold, or Mr. Dom's Idea, all written and published between approximately 1910 and 1930.

This book explores the genre of Russian tragifarce (an extreme form of tragicomedy) that emerged as a phenomenon in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian theater and drama, yet still remains an essentially uninvestigated literary and theatrical form in Western dramatic criticism. It traces the development of tragifarce in Russian theater, focusing on dramatic works written by Gogol, Sukhovo-Kobylin, Chekhov, Erdman, Bulgakov, and others, a...

Essays include studies on Grave's literary criticism, new insights into his poetry and fiction, reflections on the origins of his White Goddess and examinations of the literary cross-currents that have pollinated his work. The essays draw on new biographical material and manuscripts that have come to light in the last ten years.

The volume gives an excellent overall view of Rodoreda's poetry in the original and in translation, her short stories and novels. A completely annotated, cross-indexed bibliography of the critical work on Rodoreda, accompanied by an analysis of the current state of criticism on her work is included.

This book is an oral history and ethnography of the Afro-Caribbean individuals and families who settled in Tortuguero, a small village in northeastern Costa Rica. The author uses the concept of creole cultures and societies to analyze and interpret the descriptive, ethnographic data in the book. lllustrated.

This is the first full-length biography of Mary Grew (1813-96), an American abolitionist and feminist, who worked steadily in the antislavery crusade from 1834 to 1865, in the Negro suffrage campaign from 1865 to 1870, and in the woman's rights movements from 1848 to 1892, her eightieth year.

This book focuses on John B. Keane, a successor to the peasant playwrights of the Celtic Revival, and it demonstrates the vitality of the sense of place in modern theater.