(Hardback)

This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of ambka, a minor Rmyaa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the ambka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.

(Hardback)

Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.

(Paperback)

Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.

(Paperback)

By exploring Englands fanatical consumption of the so-calledbooks of the braveconquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.

(Hardback)

By exploring Englands fanatical consumption of the so-calledbooks of the braveconquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.

(Hardback)

This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteos scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.

(Paperback)

This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo's scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.

(Paperback)

This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of ambka, a minor Rmyaa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the ambka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.