In this book, Harold Hellwig analyzes film noir, outlining the major genres which it includes: the city and the detective; science fiction, the Western; and comedy. Elements of American film noir and its contexts are evaluated within different adaptations in film and television.
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
"A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence"--
"The Book of Travels is oHannaa Diyaab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again"--
The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810
The sixth volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents for the first time writing from the final years of Brown's life, including from his magisterial periodical project, the American Register, in which Brown narrates a contemporary history of the United States and Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
Out of Isolation is a collection of writing from the COVID-19 pandemic. From famous authors such as Julian Fellowes, Derren Brown and Alexander McCall Smith to historians, travel authors, poets, screenwriters, actors and a Junior Doctor, the pieces range from personal reflections on life in isolation, to poems on love, to the diary of a journalist ......
A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author 'Ayn al-Qudat, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition of mysticism in ......
Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century
Interweaving lost articles by the Osage author, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews with insightful commentaries and essays by his biographer, Michael Snyder, Our Osage Hills tells a fascinating story of the Whazhazhe people in the Great Depression period and beyond.
Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science
This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre.
