Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so:
In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character
Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the m
Five Faces of Exile is the first transnational history of Asian American intellectuals. Espiritu explores five Filipino American writers whose travels, literary
What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been s