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9/11
Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading scholars, 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature is a wide-ranging guide to literary...
Aesthetics of Displacement
Turkey and its Minorities on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Displacement does not only have an effect on groups' and individuals' ways of relating to their identity and their past but the knowledge and experience of it also has an impact on its representation. Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey's minorities,...
by Hilary Neroni
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from...
Baudelaire the Damned
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a fascinating new perspective on Baudelaire's extraordinary, complex personality, his artistic achievements, and his tormented life.
Hemmings,...
by F. W. J. Hemmings
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
This book, first published in 1987, complements the author's earlier volume on Culture and Society in France 1848-1898. It deals with the interaction of social history and cultural history, covering in succession the Revolutionary period, the Napoleonic Empire, the Restoration and the July Monarchy....
Made For Each Other
Fashion and the Academy Awards
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
At the Academy Awards, the answer to who wore what matters just as much as who won what. Focusing on the actresses nominated for Oscars and a few seminal presenters, Made for Each Other traces the fashion trends of the widely watched Oscar ceremony. From the splendor of Vivien Leigh to the spare war-era...
Golden Gate
The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wild
headlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of California
and America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spot
commensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completed
in 1937, also announced...
Ansel Adams
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
First published in 1996, Mary Street Alinder's biography of Ansel Adams remains the only full biography of one of the greatest American photographers. Alinder is a respected scholar, and also had a close connection to Adams, serving as his chief assistant in the last five years of his life. The portrait...
Félix Ravaisson
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher Félix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation...
by Professor Susanna Braund
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim...
Philosophical Chemistry
Genealogy of a Scientific Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through...
From Byzantium to Italy
Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes – in Latin translation – when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but...
The Superhero Costume
Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero's otherness and empowers its wearers to seek a primal form of justice.
This book provides the first interdisciplinary analysis of the superhero costume...
The Scorpion's Sweet Venom
The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
"If I'm going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one."
Known to her clients as "Bruna the Surfer Girl," Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilian...