796 results for '"Irene Smit'

A major rethinking of twentieth-century abstract art mobilized by the work of Brazilian artist Lygia ClarkWhat would it mean to treat an interval of space as a line, thus drawing an empty void into a...

From the creators of The Assassin’s Cloak comes an anthology of powerful and sometimes surprising daily wartime diary entries from war fronts throughout history. The War Diaries brings together—in...

A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite FrançaiseWritten between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel...

A brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unraveling, and a powerful examination on the disruptive impact of social media on our livesOnce an ambitious and promising student at an...

In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by...

Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the...

The biography of Theodore Low De Vinne (1828–1914): illustrious printer and scholar of typography.Theodore Low De Vinne was a seminal figure in the history of American printing. De Vinne was born in...

Your Name Written on Water, winner of an international contest for erotic literature in Spanish and a bestseller in Spain, is a startling and charged exploration of desire and narcissism that reads...

A groundbreaking approach to mergers and acquisitions It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by...

Synthesizing the vast amount of research done in the last two decades on the roles of women in economic development, this anthology provides both a historical and political overview of the field and...

Previous studies on the relationship between rhetorical theory and Roman poetry have generally taken the form of lists enumerating elements of style and arrangement that poets are said to have...

Medieval Sephardi literature was a catalytic presence in the Jewish intellectual landscape of the eighteenth century. In Sepharad in Ashkenaz, a celebrated group of contributors provides the first,...

The author traces the gradual progression of Mayfair from an attractive village to the center of fashion and elegance.

"There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes." So writes Valerie Flint in this powerful work on magic in...

Comprehensive commentaries on the Homeric texts abound, but this commentary concentrates on one major aspect of the Odyssey--its narrative art. The role of narrator and narratees, methods of...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped...