925 results for '"Moore, Joan'

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reading, with contributions from computer science, psychology, and philosophy. This book highlights cutting-edge research relevant to the...

"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History

Depicts the relationship between Gilles de Rais, later know as Bluebeard, and Joan of Arc, and suggests the effect of her condemnation and martyrdom on him

Focusing on her life rather than her death, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan offers an interpretation of Joan of Arc as a political thinker and actor.

Analyzes the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, and describes their interest in science and technology

Concentrating on the work Marianne Moore produced during the first two decades of her long career (1915–36), John Slatin's closely documented account of Moore's poetic development affords a radically...

As a white southern photographer, Charles Moore was in a unique position to record the history-making events of the late 1950s and 1960s in the South. Powerful Days brings together Moore's action...

1867. Wandering Jew; Prester John; Divining Rod; Seven Sleepers of Ephesus; William Tell; The Dog Gellert; Tailed Men; Antichrist and Pope Joan; Man in the Moon; Mountain of Venus; Fatality of...

Includes the plays Joan of Arc and William TellTwo plays about historical characters whose fame has also raised them to the level of myth. In Joan of Arc (1801), Schiller allows his heroine a more...

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean) of a woman whose attempts to...

“Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author.” ―Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the SixCharmingly candid, hilarious, and deeply moving, The Nobodies...

From an award-winning historian of Black radical politics comes the definitive biography of Audley Moore—mother of modern Black Nationalism and trailblazer in the fight for reparations “Queen Mother...

Exquisite and nuanced in its storytelling, Midnight crafts intimate, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. Midnight is a...

A number of prominent art historians pay homage to Linda Nochlin, the pioneering critic and art historian, in a series of essays addressing the intersection of subjectivity and history. Topics...

Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical FictionAn Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award WinnerWinner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult...

The legendary figure who launched the careers of Spike Lee, Michael Moore, and Richard Linklater offers a no-holds-barred look at the deals and details that propel an indie film from a dream to...

14 essays cover cities in United States, Canada, England, France, and Columbia. Contributors include Norman Birnbaum, Stuart Blumin, Michael Frisch, Clyde Griffen, Herbert Gutman, Michael Katz, Peter...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2002!Traces the tempestuous romance of Lice Ruth Moore and Paul Laurence Dunbar, early 20th century's most noted African-American literary coupleOn February 10, 1906,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of...

The First Part of King Henry VI, which gives us Shakespeare's portrait of Joan of Arc, is revealed as a successful venture in its own exploratory style, and as a necessary account of key events in...