For centuries, critics have failed to define Menippean satire. This book reveals a potent new method: the satire does what a Cynic would. This approach explains the fluid, polymorphous form in any medium and ends with a litmus test for its detection.
D. H. Lawrence
Offering a selection of papers delivered at the 13th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, the essays here provide new readings of Lawrence’s work and ideology through various theoretical and philosophical approaches, while others focus on translation.
Hoshi considers Lawrence’s exploration of relativity in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European cultural climate of Modernism and examines his representation of this theoretical concept in four of his more well-known works.
D. H. Lawrence Then and Now
In 26 short, alphabetically arranged chapters, this jargon-free book explores the strange, often offensive ideas that accompanied D. H. Lawrence’s genius. It offers a surprising new portrait that will intrigue even those who know his work well.
D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix
This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.
Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea
In an era of hardship, new religious movements (NRMs) emerged in East Asia. This book presents the unique case of Daesoon Jinrihoe, a native Korean NRM which successfully survived and transformed. It offers insight that such groups can thrive in a digital era, not just disappear.
The thirteen highly personal essays in this volume anatomize the elements of our lives—the habits that make us what we are. Readers will emerge refreshed from this excursion into the hidden mysteries of that most obvious of conditions: daily life.
Daimonic Imagination
This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence—god, angel, muse, spirit—and its role in inspired creativity. Contributors evoke the daimon through history, literature, and encounter, exploring humanity’s relationship with mysterious and numinous reality.
Dalit Women and Dropout Rates in Collegiate Education
Caste remains a hurdle in Indian education, particularly for Dalit women. This book throws light on the social stigma they face, leading to high dropout rates from college in the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh.
This book discusses the socio-economic and cultural problems faced by the Dalit community. Despite a long movement for land, dignity, and equal rights, the practice of suppression and humiliation continues today. This book explores the circumstances of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh.
This book examines important issues in tort and free speech, including asset freezing orders, contributory negligence, robotic speech, disinformation, and social media platform censorship.
Dance in Ireland
Dance in Ireland provides an in-depth view of dance during the colonial and post-colonial eras. It presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and a signifier of cultural change. An indispensable resource for academics and artists alike.
Dancing the Tao
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
Dangerous Men
This analysis of dangerous offender legislation in Canada develops a political economy of dangerousness. Using case studies and interviews, it argues that the label of “high-risk convict” obscures the social and economic conditions that many marginalized people experience.
Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization
A gap exists between our intentions and their objective consequences, creating a chaos, or incommensurability, that foils human plans. This book explores how this dynamic reveals the tenuous character of our world through global warming, peak oil, and volatile economics.
Daniel François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s music is lively and tender in this tale of social intrigue and artistic integrity. Opera singer Henriette is wooed by an ambassador, but after a rival betrays her, she tears up their marriage contract, choosing the stage over aristocratic pretense.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, a celebrated name in 19th-century French opera, collaborated with librettist Eugène Scribe on La Circassienne. This satirical opéra-comique tells of a Russian officer disguised as a woman who is wooed by his general.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From one of musical history’s most successful partnerships, composer Auber and librettist Scribe, came their final work: La Fiancée du Roi de Garbe. Based on Boccaccio, this opéra-comique follows a princess on a picaresque journey with pirates.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From 19th-century French composer Daniel Auber comes the forgotten opera *Le Lac des fées*. Based on the same tales that inspired Tchaikovsky’s *Swan Lake*, it tells of a student’s love for a fairy and may have influenced Richard Wagner.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In this opéra-comique by Auber and Scribe, a myth becomes a fable of art and love. To woo the secluded Adèle, Count Léoni disguises himself as a blind singer. He is asked to pose as Actaeon for a painting, but when his deception is revealed, disaster looms.
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