The compositions of Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) are known for their exquisite construction, their unlikely embrace of material from disparate sources, their predisposition for melancholia, and their tremendous beauty. This title presents his life, his works, other composers, and a range of topics in twentieth-century music.
One of the most original and successful filmmakers, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884. Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. This book is a critical assessment of Micheaux's accomplishment in the art of cinema.
Presents an edited text of the author's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. This book is based on a study of known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of his poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the previous centuries.
Traces the influence of Norwegian poetry, ancient songs, traditional dances, and the sound of folk instruments. Treating each of the shorter pieces individually (including the ten collections of Lyric Pieces), this title suggests architectural interpretations on a larger scale for the massive cycles of Opp 66 and 72.
Readings of Germany's leading Romantic poet by Germany's foremost 20th-century philosopher
It is a superb study, of obvious value to folklorists, but of interest to literary critics, literary historians, anthropologists, and others.
A remarkable Red Cross woman in wartime England and France.
A collection of essays that looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after World War II. It describes this research, how it was brought to light, and the rationalizations of those who perpetrated and benefited from it.
Major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity
A historical study of Husserl's phenomenological method, this book presents an interpretation of the development of Husserl's philosophical position against the background of an insight into the phenomenon of horizon - perhaps the issue that motivates and guides Husserl's thought.
Instead of following the traditional chronological order in studying the Beethoven piano sonatas, this title places them in categories that reflect certain qualities of the music. It begins with the Classic composers' expressive treatment of the keyboard - such as touches, articulation, line, colour, silence, and the pacing of musical ideas.
Was Mau Mau a national effort or an ethnic outburst? What were its political aims? Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya African Union; and the impact of Mau Mau on decolonization in Kenya.
The musical and literary works of Luis Milton reveal the performance practices and theoretical conventions of the early 16th century.
... thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing."e; -Radical Philosophy... striking for the clarity and singularity of its styles and voices as well as for the compelling measure of genuine philosophic originality which it contributes to questions of community and (its) communication."e; -Research in PhenomenologyArticulating the author's journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continental thought, Alphonso Lingis launches a devastating critique, pointing up the myopia of Western rationalism. Here Lingis raises issues of undeniable urgency.
Maternal repression is at the basis of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Only with modernism does the mother become a central figure-both celebrated and ambivalent -in daughter-artist's text and family romance. For modernist heroines, psychoanalytic theories of femininity of the 1920s and the 1930s, as well as the novels of Woolf, Colette, and Wharton, show painful oscillations and contradictions between maternal and paternal identifications. Hirsch argues that fictional and theoretical feminist writing still situates itself at uncomfortable distance from the maternal: the concrete stories of mothers are still unspeakable or as Alice Walker says, 'cruel enough to stop the blood.' They point to a feminist discourse of identity which begins with mothers and thereby reframes our conception of self, family, and plot.
The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makerswere rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The films ofthe New Wave in Japan have, until now, been largely overlooked. Eros plus Massacre(taking its title from a 1969 Yoshida Yoshishige film) is the first major studydevoted to the examination and explanation of Japanese New Wave film.Desser organizes his volume around the defining motifs of the NewWave. Chapters examine in depth such themes as youth, identity, sexuality, andwomen, as they are revealed in the Japanese film of the sixties. Desser's researchin Japanese film archives, his interviews with major figures of the movement, andhis keen insight into Japanese culture combine to offer a solid and balancedanalysis of films by Oshima, Shinoda, Imamura, Yoshida, Suzuki, andothers.
Erasmus' Christian humanism has much to say to citizens of the atomic age, and the reasonable faith and constructive prescriptions of the Enchiridion were perhaps never as much needed as today.
Jeremy Bell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University.Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media and Derrida From Now On.
Focuses on contemporary filmmaking since the 1980s, but also considers the longer history of Arab cinema. This book offers both a coherent, historical overview and an in-depth critical analysis of Arab filmmaking.
Tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. This book offers an insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.
Franz Rosenzweig's near-conversion to Christianity in the summer of 1913 and his subsequent decision three months later to recommit himself to Judaism is one of the foundational narratives of modern Jewish thought. This book presents an examination of this important time in Rosenzweig's life.
Historically grounded essays by leading scholars engage the issues that continue to shape Palestinian society.
How does Christian philosophy address phenomena in the world? Felix O Murchadha believes that seeing, hearing, or otherwise sensing the world through faith requires transcendence or thinking through glory and night (being and meaning). By challenging much of Western metaphysics, O Murchadha shows how phenomenology opens new ideas about being, and how philosophers of "e;the theological turn"e; have addressed questions of creation, incarnation, resurrection, time, love, and faith. He explores the possibility of a phenomenology of Christian life and argues against any simple separation of philosophy and theology or reason and faith.
Explores the response of society in general and religion in particular to major cultural shocks such as the Famine and to long term processes such as urbanization.
';[Tully] paints Admiral Nishimuras high-speed run into history with an entirely fresh palette of detail.' James D. Hornfischer, New York Timesbestselling author of Neptune's Inferno Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls together all of the existing documentary material, including newly discovered accounts and a careful analysis of US Navy action reports, to create a new and more detailed description of the action. In several respects, Tullys narrative differs radically from the received versions and represents an important historical corrective. Also included in the book are a number of previously unpublished photographs and charts that bring a fresh perspective to the battle. ';By giving a fuller view of the Japanese side, Tullys work forces a substantial revision of the traditional picture of the battle. Battle of Surigao Strait is not only military history based on scrupulous use of a plethora of new source materials, but is a spanking good read. Highly recommended.' War in History ';Tully has managed to trace the complicated flow of and reason for events on the nights of 24-25 October with a skill and aplomb that forces one to reconsider previously held views.' Naval History
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