After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content."
Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new medications, have significantly improved the lives of people who have... Læs mere
By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.
Thus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact.
By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.
Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.
These features make Phantom Menace or Looming Danger? a must-read for government policymakers and intelligence experts.
Narrating 9/11 pushes beyond a critical focus on domestic realism, offering chapters that examine speculative and genre fiction, postmodernism, climate change, and the evolving security state, as well as the television series Lost and the film Paradise Now.
Fascinating, unfamiliar, and full of surprises, this book will appeal to historians and general readers alike.
This book offers a clear-eyed perspective on the potential and peril of this new form of education.
The book includes suggestions for further reading, including the latest material available online.
Based on a century of accumulated data and fifteen years of intensive study, The Mammals of Luzon Island delivers a message that will appeal equally to scientists, conservationists, and ecologically minded travelers.