Collected plays (2 vols.)
Title: The Collected Plays, Vol. 2 Author: Neil Simon ISBN: 0452263581 Publisher: Plume Genre: Date Published: 1986-11-01 Pages: 752 Alternate description: Amazon Download : Download … Read more
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Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society
Papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Maharashtra: Culture and Society held in April, 1991 at the Arizona State University. This volume, a companion … Read more
Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives
Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary … Read more
Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
This is a book about Mark E. Smith and The Fall – or more precisely, their ever-influential world. The Fall were so many things, so … Read more
Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism
The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton’s primary concern … Read more
Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain
In this innovative synthesis of film history and cultural analysis, Marsha Kinder examines the films of such key directors as Buuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodvar, … Read more
The Four Funerals in “Beowulf” and the Structure of the Poem
It is well known that the old English poem ‘Beowulf’ begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. … Read more
Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education
Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn … Read more
Bylina and Fairy Tale: The Origins of Russian Heroic Poetry
A comparison of the Russian folk epos – the ‘byliny’ (sing. ‘bylina’) – with the fairy tales reveals similarities in structure and content. Such similarities … Read more
Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter … Read more
The world of Muslim women in colonial Bengal, 1876-1939
None This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its frames of reference … Read more