Using a combination of anthropological and psychoanalytic methods, Farrell relates the fantasies of "play-death" to the Renaissance belief that through self-effacement an individual may achieve autonomy in the family and society. Farrell develops a wide-ranging analysis of cultural responses to the human dread of death and makes Shakespeare's art a lens that brings into unusually sharp focus Renaissance social structure, gender relations, ideology, and religion.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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Product Description: According to Kirby Farrell, the concept of trauma has shaped some of the central narratives of the 1990s -- from the war stories of Vietnam vets to the video farewells of Heaven's Gate cult members, from apocalyptic sci-fi movies to Ronald Reagan's memoir, Where's the Rest of Me? In Post-traumatic Culture, Farrell explores the surprising uses of trauma as both an enabling fiction and an explanatory tool during periods of overwhelming cultural change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In Boston visiting his daughter Rachel, private detective Duncan Ames reluctantly agrees to find out who is threatening Dawn Ashland, an actress who also works as a call girl, a case complicated by an attack on Dawn's sister and the murder of Dawn's boyfriend

Product Description: Since the 1970s, interest in women and women's writing of the early modern period has produced an inquiry of range and intensity. The journal, "English Literary Renaissance", has been an important medium of that inquiry, beginning with its inaugural issue in 1970...read more

When someone with anti-Iranian sentiments threatens Mehdi Farhat, an Iranian-born Boston chiropractor, Dorothy O'Hare, the doctor's assistant, hires private eye Duncan Ames, but she is then shot execution-style, and Ames has yet another mystery to deal with