Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and ...

The Encyclopedia presents more than 1,000 entries on the basic trajectory of early cinema history, with coverage of film production, filmmakers, film genres, and individual films.

Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.

THE STORY: Under siege by the armies of the giant barbarian, Holofernes, the Judean city is about to capitulate--and the people, and prophets, call out to the lovely, virginal Judith as their last hope of salvation.

By examining nearly sixty works, the author traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some eighteenth-century writers with the Enlightenment gave rise to the genre nearly a century before it is ...

This book refocuses attention on how such provocation is an integral part of the texture of his novels.Williams considers Houellebecq's writing about literature and outlines the key principles of the author's poetics, founded on an acute ...

This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y.

Readers will find themselves instinctively rooting for these children caught in the whirlwind of World War II. In a newly translated afterword, Joffo responds to questions he's been asked most frequently by students-about anti-semitism, ...

The essays can be divided into three categories. The first addresses general questions concerning Plato’s literary style. The second concerns the relation of his style to other genres and traditions in Ancient Greece.