Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship' finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democrati…
"Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democrati…
Democracy challenges ordinary citizens, calling upon them both to resist institutionalized rule as a potential gateway to elite domination and, at the same time, to work towards responsible collective action. This book locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic dispositio…
This literary/biographical study of Melville contains ten essays which focus on his spiritual, psychological and vocational life. There are new readings of the often debated relationship between Melville and Hawthorne and other issues addressed include his attitude to religion a…
"Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narra…