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Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into ΓÇ£monstersΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£monster-talk,ΓÇ¥ and law and crime. ΓÇ£MonstersΓÇ¥ may refer to allegorical or symbolic fantastic beings (as in literature, film, legends, myths, etc.), or actual or real life monsters, as well as the interplay/ambiguity between the two general types of ΓÇ£monsters.ΓÇ¥ This edited collection thus explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving fronts of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and crime, and may be seen as extensions of a Gothic Criminology, generally construed. Gothic Criminology refers to a theoretical framework initially developed by Caroline Joan ΓÇ£KayΓÇ¥ S. Picart, a Philosophy and Film professor turned Attorney and Law professor, and Cecil Greek, a Sociologist (Picart and Greek 2008). Succinctly paraphrased, noting the proliferation of Gothic modes of narration and visualization in American popular culture, academia and even public policy, Picart and Greek proposed a framework, which they described as a ΓÇ£Gothic CriminologyΓÇ¥ to attempt to analyze the fertile lacunae connecting the ΓÇ£realΓÇ¥ and the ΓÇ£reelΓÇ¥ in the flow of Gothic metaphors and narratives that abound around criminological phenomena that populate not only popular culture but also academic and public policy discourses.

Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text examines the nature of modern mystical writing and explains the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy, and apophatic mysticism.

How Non-being Haunts Being explores the many different modes of absence and non-being that pervade life, language, thought, and culture. A highly readable book of great interest to a wide audience, it ensures that readers will never think of life, death, or themselves, the same way again.

Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language examines Camilleri's unique linguistic repertoire provides a systematic analysis of the distribution of Sicilian features in selected historical and mystery (Montalbano) novels, and assesses their function as indices of salient aspects of topics, settings and characters.

Muse of Fire is a collection of the four-time Tony Award-winning playwright's meditations on the power of theater to change minds by first changing hearts, and on the responsibilities of the playwright as a member of the theater community.

Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture examines how the strong mother-son relationship not only affected, but actually shaped the work of Italian artists as different as Pirandello, Carlo Levi, Buzzati, Pasolini, Fellini, concluding on with a look at mammismo/vitellonismo in some Italian film comedies.

Herbert Rowland argues that the American reception of Hans Christian Andersen in the nineteenth century has a respectable place in the international reception of Andersen and his work. Rowland demonstrates that American critics used Andersen's works to support their views of key American issues in the nineteenth century.

In this keen examination of Alfredo de Palchi's lyrical oeuvre, Giorgio Linguaglossa refers to de Palchi as the missing link in Italian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Through brilliant analysis, Linguaglossa gives us a complete picture of de Palchi's asymptomatic creative paradigm.

Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman narrates the transnational life story of Shih-I Hsiung, a Chinese writer known for his English language play Lady Precious Stream. It focuses on Hsiung's extraordinary literary accomplishments, broad theatrical experiences, and major social engagements at various stages of his life in China, England, and Hong Kong.

Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction.

Like a King argues that strategic casting positions Shakespeare's histories as spaces for American political discourse. Drawing from the archive and the rehearsal room, the book examines productions of Richard II, Henry V and King John in the renaissance and the twenty-first century.

Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides; it explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, non-English languages, and non-verbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors.

Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style is an interdisciplinary study that examines the lives and work of four historical figures: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, or Garibaldi, as well as Italian culture and the moral psychology of pride, arrogance, justification, excuse, repentance, and the concept of honor.

This third volume of the Yearbook of Transnational History offers readers new perspectives with regards to urban history. This Yearbook is the worldwide only periodical dedicated to the publication of research in the field of transnational history.

Killing the Buddha examines the influence of Zen Buddhism throughout Henry Miller's life and work, specifically charting the evolution of key Buddhist concepts through close readings of his novels, letters and pamphlets.

This collection of essays by both theatre scholars and practitioners examines the political and aesthetic consequences of the marriage of Shakespearean text and realist performance style, considering productions ranging from the early twentieth century to 2016.

This collection examines the multifaceted opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini through a contemporary critical lens. It offers new interpretations to some classic works such as Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom and Decameron while considering some lesser studied pieces, for example Orestiade and his Friulian verse.

This volume presents two seminal works and three religious speeches by Henry George, in their original forms, with rich annotations to help readers grasp their historical significance. Scholars will find this volume a convenient starting point for research on wealth inequality and poverty, the history of George, and his political movement.

Donald Trump's New World Order addresses U.S. foreign policy initiatives under Mr. Trump's Presidency. In the book, Ambassador T. Hamid Al-Bayati warns and explains how President Trump's foreign policy and trade war could lead to regional conflict and global wars.

Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education captures the evolving struggle for civil rights from the perspective of Charles H. Thompson, an education insider, brilliant scholar-activist, and arguably the leading dean in African American higher education between 1938 and 1963.

This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage

Mormon Women's History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to histories of American religion, politics, and culture.

Willa Cather and E. M. Forster examines the novels of these influential twentieth-century writers in the context of liberal humanism and modernism, as well as the important questions their work continues to raise about being in the world, connections with the Other, and gender and sexuality.

The Author in Criticism offers a comparative analysis of the reception and circulation of Italo Calvino's works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Italy, proposing new views that arise from the analysis of the different phases and faces that characterize Calvino's transnational authorial profile.

This is the firsthand account of a United States Marine during the American Civil War. Beside the average routine of shipboard life, Gregg experienced major battles and the hunt for Confederate raiders. Anyone who wants a better understanding of the navy during the Civil War, especially a scholar doing research, would appreciate this book.

The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns examines a small group of twentieth-century traditionalists in their quest to reconcile and translate conservative traditional ideas within a progressive modern scientific context. The method of reconciliation derives from their continued value of myth, religion, liberal education, and ancient texts.

Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper is devoted to the acclaimed conceptual poet, pedagoge, and provocateur, Kenneth Goldsmith, and his published work in the wake of his controversial reading of a poem based on the Michael Brown autopsy report at Brown University in March 2015.

Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy engages with public policy and its intersection with contemporary discourse on sexuality and rights, and by extension the inclusion or exclusion of groups of individuals in mainstream sociocultural groups in societies.

Betraying Dignity claims that contemporary distress causes individuals and nations around the world to abandon the dignity-based culture of human rights, and embrace new manifestations of honor-based cultures, like extreme nationalism, Jihad, and shaming. This book distinguishes dignity as a way of fortifying the culture of human rights.

This collection of essays charts the shifting representation of World War II in Italian literature and film from 1943 to the present. The essays examine film genre, cultural history, gender, the Holocaust, emotion studies, shame theory, and environmental studies.