Much has been written about the relationship between blacks and Jews in America. Some texts highlight the mutual struggle... Læs mere
This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527-1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly and commercial circles of his day.
Contains essays by Foucault-scholars and Foucault himself. It concentrates on Foucault's later works, where there is a shift of focus from the... Læs mere
An examination of the effect of ""suicidal literature"" on readers - novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of suicide. In particular it explores the work of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, Kate Chopin and William Styron.
Author Victor Grossman was born Stephen Wechsler but changed his name after defecting to the German Democratic Republic in 1952. A child of the Depression era, he fled McCarthyite America and potential prosecution and this memoir offers his view of the Cold War.
The essays in this volume aim to add to the understanding of the role of the 19th-century French press in producing the commodities, consumers and ideological frameworks that are the hallmarks of this shift.