In post-Civil War America, Victorian men and women turned to physicians for scientifically based impartial advice on personal and moral questions as well as for health matters. Doctors played willing advisors to trusting patients. Making their consultation rooms authoritarian settings, they presumptuously doled out personal advice on all ......
The Pickle clowns have performed to great acclaim with Cirque du Soleil, Circus Flora and the Pickle Family Circus in dance concerts, one-person shows, and plays by Beckett, Bracht, Fo, O'Casey, Shakespeare, Jonson and Moliere. For the first time outside a circus ring, the Pickle clowns reveal all about their popular comedy acts, their eccentric ......
An admirer of Pirate president Barney Dreyfuss, prolific baseball writer Frederick G. Lieb consorted with the club's biggest stars, christened the legendary Dreyfuss "the first-division man," and produced The Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the fifteen celebrated histories of major league teams commissioned by G. P. Putnam's Sons in the 1940s and ......
Applying research findings from studies in visual perception, neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and anthropology, Joseph D. Anderson defines the complex interaction of motion pictures with the human mind and organizes the relationship between film and cognitive science. Anderson's primary argument is that motion ......
The authoritative ACLU guide to patient rights in a completely revised edition Now in its third edition, The Rights of Patients has long been considered the definitive guide to understanding the legal and ethical issues patients face in our often mismanaged healthcare system. Offering fully docu-mented exposition and explanation of the rights of ......
The Scenographic Model, third edition, builds upon the theories and exercises of noted scenographer and author, Darwin Reid Payne, to provide a contemporary exploration of the art, resources, and practice of theatrical modelmaking. Bringing together a vast array of information on subjects like traditional and contemporary materials, tools, and ......
Fascination, Failure, and Form in Literature of the Enlightenment
In this hermeneutic analysis of seven literary texts, Stephanie Barbe Hammer studies the roles of criminal protagonists in the dramas of George Lillo (The London Merchant) and Friedrich Schiller (The Robbers) and in the narratives of Abbe de Prevost (Manon Lescaut), Henry Fielding (Jonathan Wild), Marquis de Sade (Justine), William Godwin (Caleb ......
The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film examines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Taking on such issues as Hollywood blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics, editor David Blakesley presents fifteen critical essays that examine rhetoric's role in such popular films as The Fifth ......
D. H. Lawrence, asserts Jack Stewart, expresses a painter's vision in words, supplementing visual images with verbal rhythms. With the help of twenty-three illustrations, Stewart examines Lawrence's painterly vision in The White Peacock, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Kangaroo, and The Plumed Serpent. He concludes by synthesizing the ......
