Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuers first publication, The Man with the Strange Head; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as Gostak and the Doshes and Mechanocracy; and Breuers essay The Future of Scientifiction, one of the early critical statements of the ......
This volume contains the shorter books and monographs of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studies" and "Scottish Eccentrics".
Provides the reader with a sense of the historical range of Kabbalah, as well as examples of various kinds of approaches, including those of intellectual and social history, history and phenomenology of religions, motif studies, ritual studies, and women's studies. This book discusses mystical motifs, theological ideas and devotional practices.
An anthology in which 20 contributors address how Judaism views women and men, and their places within Judaism quite differently. Among the many subjects covered are - gender boundaries in Kabbalah, images of Jewish masculinity and the challenge of women's rabbinic leadership.
The reissue of this anthology serves as a provocative and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before gay life became chic. It demonstrates the influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature, theatre, poetry, dance, music and the arts.
The reissue of this anthology serves as a provocative and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before gay life became chic. It demonstrates the influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature, theatre, poetry, dance, music and the arts.
Sherwood Anderson's first and most autobiographical novel and the only one set in Illinois, Windy McPherson's Son received uniformly high praise from literary critics when it was first published. It tells the story of an Iowa newsboy who fights his way to fortune in Chicago, then questions the meaning of his success. It was republished in 1922 ......
Transformations in the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric
Gregory Clark and S. Michael Halloran bring together nine essays that explore change in both the theory and the practice of rhetoric in the nineteenth-century United States. In their introductory essay, Clark and Halloran argue that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, rhetoric encompassed a neoclassical oratorical culture in which ......
