In this examination of the rise of formalism in the visual arts, Sam Rose uses a close contextual study of Roger Fry and British art writing from 1900 to 1939 to rethink how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement's significance to art history today.
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
A study of ancient Rome as a prominent topic in the works of Middle English poets. Discusses how each these poets conceives of ancient Rome and Romans, both pagan and Christian, and why it matters to their work. Includes the works of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate.
Explores the uses of Shakespeare in Manhattan’s Lower East Side from the 1890s to 1920s, as part of a cultural exchange among non-Anglo and Anglo-identified groups, intermingling different communities’ ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national belonging should and could mean for Americans.
In this book, Jeffery Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents—many of which are published or translated here for the first time—that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. ......
This is the story of an effort to ease world suffering, centered principally on one individual that, in cooperation with many others, brought relief from previously intractable epidemics. It concludes with the history of Brother's Brother Foundation as a charity dedicated to carrying on this mission of service and neighborliness.
Plato's Logic analyzes thirteen Platonic works, but it focuses on five of them because these instance the logic most completely. The logic is found to be uniform throughout Plato's corpus, so it does not evolve after its genesis as a revision of Heraclitus.
This book traces the revival of Chinese literature after China's reform in the 1980s, examining the literature and language portion of the College Entrance Examination (CEE) from 1954-2007 in order to show how the restoration of Classical literature in its original meaning has replaced literature that served Communist political ideology.
In Spatializing Social Justice: Literary Critiques Maryann DiEdwardo uses seven literary critiques and seven reflections to share her newest research about the healing power of literature. DiEdwardo argues that literacy is the lifelong intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of written or printed text.
In this book, Irene Levin Berman tells the story of her father's heroic attempts to save the Jews of Norway, as well as hundreds of stateless refugees who escaped to Norway in the 1930s, from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. In 1962 Marcus Levin was awarded a Medal of Honor by King Olav of Norway for his efforts.
