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  • The Homoerotics of Orientalism

    par Joseph Boone ...
    One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Melville Effect

    A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

    par Joseph Boone ...
    Traces of Herman Melville are everywhere. Works directly or loosely inspired by the nineteenth-century writer abound, from adaptations and artistic experiments to parodies and cheeky references. They are as distinct as Sena Jeter Naslund’s novel Ahab’s Wife, Laurie Anderson’s mixed-media spectacle Songs and Stories from Moby-Dick, Maurice Sendak’s queer illustrations of Pierre, and the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Intellectuals and the Masses

    Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

    par John Carey ...
    Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

    par Umberto Eco ...
    Collections Livre 59 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”—The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is narrative. He published his famed debut novel The Name of the Rose when he was forty-eight years old, yet he believed that everything he had written to that point—from ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • 149 Paintings You Really Should See in Europe — Spain

    par Julian Porter ...
    This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Spain. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe. In this segment he visits Madrid and Toledo and discusses works by masters such as Goya, Bosch, Velázquez, Picasso, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

    A Critical Study

    par Patrick Grant ...
    Collections series Cultural Dialectics
    When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, and ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • When Heroes Love

    The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

    par Susan Ackerman ...
    Collections series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual language found in the Gilgamesh epic and the biblical David ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Lesbian Decadence

    Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France

    par Nicole Albert ...
    Traduit par Nancy Erber, William Peniston ...
    In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative ... En savoir plus

    $28.79 CAD

  • Developments in the Histories of Sexualities

    In Search of the Normal, 1600–1800

    Modifié par Chris Mounsey ...
    Collections series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositionscreated by the official exclusion ofbanned sexual practices and theresistance to that exclusion throughwidespread acceptance of thoseoutlawed practices at an interpersonallevel. At different times and in differentplaces, state legislation sets up—ortries to set up—a “normal” by rejectinga ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Aesthetics

    Native Art, Media, and Identity

    par Steven Leuthold ...
    What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making medium, specifically video or film, affect the aesthetics of the Native culture?These are some of the questions that underlie this rich study of Native ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Communities of Learned Experience

    Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance

    par Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Collections series Singleton Center Books in Premodern Europe
    Sixteenth-century physicians had their letters on medical topics published in printed collections to record their exchange of ideas and make known their professional expertise.During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe

    Islam in German Culture

    par B. Weber ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD