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Robert Rand tells the tale of how dancing freed him from the grip of panic disorder. Rand was a serious, shy, and intense scholar who had achieved national recognition in a writing and radio production career. Dancing became a cathartic and liberating endeavor.
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In the work, William is sent to study two sisters - one a brilliant recluse, the other possibly murderous - with pasts as murky as Hedda's. Characters are mirrored, parallel plots... Læs mere
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In the course of its more than six-hundred-year history, the Ottoman Empire weathered rebellions and mutinies from every quarter, both within the imperial... Læs mere
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From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time.
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Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Reclaiming the lost voices of the victims... Læs mere
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Defining the political and aesthetic tensions that have shaped Cuban culture for over forty years, Linda Howe explores the historical and political constraints imposed upon Cuban artists and intellectuals during and after the Revolution.
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From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings,... Læs mere
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An analysis of gender, sexuality, nationalism, the public and private spheres, and the relationship between... Læs mere
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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture is John G. Cawelti's discussion of American popular culture and violence, from its precursors in Homer and Shakespeare to the... Læs mere
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This broad study of how James Joyce's work was received in the Anglophone world, written for both academic and lay readers, shows how the reading of... Læs mere
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As a member of Salvador Allende's Personal Guards (GAP) Luz Arce worked with leaders of the Socialist Party during the Popular Unity Government from... Læs mere
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Vladimir E. Alexandrov advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach designed to... Læs mere