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Disputatio 1200?1800
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00A disputation is an academic debate with fixed rules. Both in oral and written form it was a characteristic feature of university life of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. As genre and interaction model, it had an impact even outside the universities. The articles in this book illuminate different aspects of the disputation in the period between... more...
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 86.00Wide-ranging study by leading experts focusing on the careers of Virgil, Horace and Ovid and the responses they provoked. more...
Self-Reference in Literature and Music
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 56.00This volume contains a selection of nine essays with an interdisciplinary perspective. They were originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was held at Edinburgh University in June 2007 and was organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The contributions to this volume... more...
The Dude Abides
Zondervan 2009; US$ 11.99Join award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani as she explores the serious existential questions raised in the movies of the wildly popular and always irreverent Coen brothers. Coen fans and film lovers will appreciate Falsani's unique blend of contemporary insight and spiritual discernment that is both entertaining and illuminating. more...
Ingrid Bergman
Faber & Faber 2010; US$ 13.99?Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, ?natural? Swedish girl?she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation.? Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Bergman commanded a love that has hardly ever been... more...
The Profession of the Playwright
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00This book examines the working world of the playwright in nineteenth-century Britain. more...
A Companion to Henslowe's Diary
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 36.00A thorough analysis of Philip Henslowe's diary which provides a unique source of information on Elizabethan repertory theatre. more...
Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This timely investigation contextualizes twenty-first century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework of inter-American literary narratives. Pitt examines a wide range of sources, from Hawthorne to Faulkner to Danticat, and finds a persistent focus on the body that links contemporary practices of political... more...
Peckinpah's Tragic Westerns
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00The work of Sam Peckinpah represents a high point in American cinema. This text is the first theoretical and critical attempt to place Peckinpah within the 2,000-year-old tradition of western tragedy. The tradition, enfolding the Greeks, Shakespeare and modern tragedians, is represented in Peckinpah's art in numerous ways, and the fact that he... more...
The Left Side of the Screen
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00In examining the careers of communist and liberal actors, screenwriters, playwrights, and directors in Hollywood from the late 1920s to the present, this book uses studio and PCA correspondence, FBI files, film and theater reviews, and other sources to reveal how all of these artists were concerned with and active in the cinema of social protest. It... more...









