734 results for '"Mattli, Walter'

Like Alain-Robbe Grillet, Georges Perec, and the great Oulipo writers, Swiss writer Jurg Laederach constructs seamless narratives based on sly compositional strategies.The phone refuses to ring. I...

Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse,...

Was It For This ...?: Wordsworth And The Birth Of The Gods / Geoffrey Hartman -- Facing Language: Wordsworth's First Poetic Spirits / Andrzej Warminski -- Monument And Inscription: Wordsworth's Rude...

"What did it mean to read fiction about cops and criminals in an era defined by "tough-on-crime" attitudes that mercilessly punished Black communities? How did popular fiction's portraits of...

A long-overdue biography of John Nash, a major British artist of the twentieth century, tracing his connections, affinities, and influences.Having created some of the most memorable paintings of the...

'Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.' Manuel Duran Federico García Lorca is perhaps...

Meredith Russo's award-winning, big-hearted novel If I Was Your Girl is about being seen for who you really are, with a love story you can't help but root for!Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school...

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of The New Republic, an extraordinary anthology of essays culled from the archives of the acclaimed and influential magazine.Founded by Herbert Croly and Walter...

A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience.While psychedelics...

Cundill Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year“Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among...

Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last...

A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of...

Art historian and critic Steven Henry Madoff offers a contemporary reframing of modernist art and the way it presages installation and performance art For more than a century, European modernist art...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZEWINNER2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction2025 Winston Graham Historical Prize for Fiction"Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect...Superb."--Samantha...

Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters...

Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of...

From the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate...

Walter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a 'rascal' in 1924. Joseph Stalin referred him as a 'splendid man', but soon backtracked and labeled him an 'imbecile', while Ernst Thälmann, chairman of the...

About the Author Plusieurs œuvres poétiques anciennes sont placées sous le nom d'Orphée, poète musicien des légendes de Thrace, fils du roi êagre et époux d'EurydiceLuc Brisson est directeur de...

A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of...