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Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition
A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia
Aaron Sherraden
This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984693
August 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)
The Paladins of France in America
Jo Ann Cavallo
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.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987649
July 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This 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.
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Epic Ambitions in Modern Times
From Paradise Lost to the New Millennium
Robert Crossley
Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985485
February 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
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Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy
Tudor and Stuart Black Legends
Victoria Muñoz
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, 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.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273308
January 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, 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.