Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism—an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to harness the very mechanisms of inspiration—the volume also recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. Perhaps the most infam ...
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century, Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readi ...
The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers. Stores could then better customize their offerings and independent publishers could access national distribution. Shops opened up a space for quirky ideas to gain an audience and helped transform small-press series, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Tu ...
What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace , Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memori ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children’s classic The Secret Garden , but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of children’s stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burn ...
Dieses Gespann ist unschlagbar: komisch und verschmitzt, aber auch hintersinnig und tiefgrundig. Wer sonst konnte die Texte des kampferischen Tigers so scharfzungig und schnoddrig schon vortragen wie die Berliner Schnauze Katharina Thalbach. Dieses Horbuch vereinigt die beruhmtesten Gedichte und Geschichten aus Tucholskys Feder mit weniger bekannten Trouvaillen unter dem Motto: «Sprache ist eine Waffe. Haltet sie scharf.» ...
Thanks to the runaway breakout success of H is for Hawk , household name Macdonald is now regarded as one of our preeminent nature writers and has a semi-regular column in the New York Times Magazine in which she explores the human relationship to the natural world. Vesper Flights springs from some of these best-loved essays along with newly written ones on a wide range of topics from human migration to the solar eclipse, to Macdonald’s own ...
– Race Man offers the collected works of one of the most influential civil rights activists in US history, a unique, first-person perspective on the life and times of a historic—and beloved—civil rights leader. – Bond's works, many of them published here for the first time, can offer us the fresh guidance we need in our ongoing fight against the virulent strain of  ...
A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column «Notes of a Dirty Old Man» appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drin ...
