Arts

Cinéma

Guides & Revues

Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters

de Jeff Burger

Offering fans an extensive look at the artist’s own words throughout the past four decades, Springsteen on Springsteen brings together Q&A–formatted articles, speeches, and features that incorporate significant...

Acheter

16,79 $

Musique

Rock

A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York

de Kevin C. Fitzpatrick

Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Mrs. Parker, the new edition of this guide includes never-before-seen archival photographs to illustrate Dorothy...

Acheter

10,99 $

Voyage

Amérique du nord

États-Unis

Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture

de David Kunzie

From corsets to codpieces, stockings to stilettos and piercing to push-up bras, fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This new edition of David Kunzie's rich and revealing history of...

Acheter

15,99 $

Design

Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack

de Judith Cook

In the late 1580s a new kind of entertainment flowered in London: professional theatre, with its custom built playhouses, professional companies, incredible staging and, last but not least, the new writers,...

Acheter

9,79 $

Biographie & Aut...

Littérature

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

de David Whitley

Whitley's compelling study complicates our understanding of the classic Disney canon by focusing on the way images of the natural world are mediated within popular art for children. He examines a range of Disney's...

Acheter

81,29 $

Animation

Visions of Venice in Shakespeare

de Laura Tosi & Shaul Bassi

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between...

Acheter

103,79 $

Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594: Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy

de Mike Rodman Jones

Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594 argues that the ostensibly revolutionary character of early Protestant literary culture was deeply indebted to medieval satirical writing. Indeed, the author shows that Protestant...

Acheter

90,29 $

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713

de Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are...

Acheter

90,29 $

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Volume 10: Special section, The Achievement of Robert Weimann

de Graham Bradshaw & Tom Bishop

This issue marks the 10th anniversary of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. On this occasion, the special section celebrates the achievement of senior Shakespearean scholar Robert Weimann, whose work...

Acheter

112,79 $

The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring

de Kristen Lacefield

Analyzing the extraordinary trans-cultural popularity of the Ring phenomenon, inaugurated with the 1991 publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, The Scary Screen embraces a wide variety of interpretive approaches....

Acheter

90,29 $

Cinéma

Histoire & Criti...

Adapting King Lear for the Stage

de Lynne Bradley

Exploring whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares adaptations of King Lear from the seventeenth...

Acheter

103,79 $

Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

de Frances Cruickshank

Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poetry, as well as letters, sermons, and prose treatises....

Acheter

90,29 $

<1799

A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work

de Yisrael Levin

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature work. Among the key features of the collection is the contextualizing...

Acheter

90,29 $

1799-avant 1945

At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies

de Geraldo U. de Sousa

Geraldo U. de Sousa's interdisciplinary study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear,...

Acheter

90,29 $

Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page

de Sarah K. Scott & M.L. Stapleton

Contributions to this volume explore the idea of Marlowe as a working artist, in keeping with John Addington Symonds' characterization of him as a "sculptor-poet." Throughout the body of his work-including not...

Acheter

94,79 $

Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition

de Paola Pugliatti

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays, and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's...

Acheter

103,79 $

Histoire par pays

Europe

Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger

de Joanne Rochester

In Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger, Joanne Rochester examines examples of on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Focusing...

Acheter

90,29 $

<1799

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction: Literacy, Textiles, and Activism

de Christine Bayles Kortsch

Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing, what Kortsch terms "dress...

Acheter

103,79 $

Mode

Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé: Voice, Conversation and Music

de Helen Abbott

Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future...

Acheter

103,79 $