The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination 9780226774213, 2020044847

The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination 9780226774213

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as

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Myths of Love: Echoes of Greek and Roman Mythology in the Modern Romantic Imagination 1610352114, 9781610352116

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America's favorite sex therapist, analyzes ancient myth and its relevance to 21st century rela

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The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination 9781786723574

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The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination 9780228015765

How the Etruscans reappeared in Western archaeology, history, and culture nearly a thousand years after their disappeara

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The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan 9780226060736

InThe Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the

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The Machinery of the Mind

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The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo 9780822390862

An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930–1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican R

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Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination 9781474211390, 9781441176547, 9781441145543

The first book to investigate Jane Austen’s popular significance today, Everybody’s Jane considers why Austen matters to

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Byzantium in the Popular Imagination 9780755607303, 9780755607280, 9780755607297

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Sea! the Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination 9781472540980, 9780715633083, 9780715635711

‘Thalatta! Thalatta!’ (‘The Sea! The Sea’), was the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the famous Te

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