Focuses on prevailing ideas connected to cultural and social diversity. This book deploys a variety of critical methods, which originate from social, cultural and literary theory, and analyzes the relationship between historical and social forces and recurrent cultural beliefs and values.

This book focuses on prevailing ideas connected to cultural and social diversity.The writers of these essays deploy a variety of critical methods, which originate from social, cultural and literary theory, and analyze the relationship between historical and social forces and recurrent cultural beliefs and values. Contributors: Marino Tuzi, William Anselmi, Eva C. Karpinski, Osvaldo Croci, Robin Mathews, and Howard A. Doughty.