Search results for “[Subject: genres-styles-classical]”

• Author(s): Petronius • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first ...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Richard Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolve...

• Author(s): Nicholas Tawa • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ClassicalThe years of the Great Depression, World War II, and their aftermath brought a sea change in Am...

• Author(s): Barbara C. Foley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsBarbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fictio...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Jason Colavito • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Tracing the development of horror entertainment since the late 18th century, this study argues that scientific discover...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Karl Marx • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas s...

• Author(s): George Mariscal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseThis ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by ...

• Author(s): Peter S. Beagle • Publisher: Ace Books • Publisher Imprint: Ace Books • BISAC: Fantasy - GeneralINCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS Experience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that T...

• Author(s): Alberto Manguel • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: LiteraryIn this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew--or thought they knew--Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, in...

• Author(s): Arlene Keizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWriters as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and D...

• Author(s): Tamara Loos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as ...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Kenneth Von Gunden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The five directors studied here embody postmodernism--the erosion of the earlier 20th century distinction between "...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Brundage • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Thrillers - SuspenseBy the acclaimed novelist of All Things Cease to Appear "An intense, provocative thriller."--Publishe...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Julie Ellison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): Janet Beizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralIf questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are par...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): John Fawell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Few directors are characterized by both extraordinary film craft and the ironic reputation for lowbrow films. Despi...

• Author(s): Tracie Matysik • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyReforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe be...

• Author(s): Mary V. Thompson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: African American & BlackGeorge Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuri...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...

• Author(s): Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay | Chris Vander Kaay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy Much of 20th century science fiction foretold...