History and criticism
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- Auteur:Byrne, DavidSommaire:
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.
- Auteur:McMurtry, LarrySommaire:
McMurtry presents the final installment in his memoir trilogy. Tinged with his wry humor and Texas swagger, Hollywood is McMurtry's anecdote-filled take on Tinseltown from the year his Horseman, Pass By was adapted into Hud (1963) to...
- Auteur:Bouguerra, Mohamed RidhaSommaire:
- Auteur:Reagin, Nancy RuthSommaire:
Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride an old-fashioned steam train to school, notes are taken on parchment with quill pens, and Muggle legends come to life in the form of werewolves,...
- Auteur:Meineck, PeterSommaire:
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck discusses the historical, social, political and cultural context of ancient Greek drama, concentrating on the four playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes...
- Auteur:Young, ArleneSommaire:
The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young...
- Auteur:Drout, Michael D. C.Sommaire:
In this course, Wheaton College professor Michael D.C. Drout traces the history of science fiction. From Mary Shelly's Frankenstein to today's cutting-edge authors, Drout offers a compelling analysis of the genre.
- Auteur:Barr, Marleen S.Sommaire:
The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent...
- Auteur:Potkay, Monica BrzezinskiSommaire:
In this course, College of William & Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay provides an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail.
- Auteur:Tissières, HélèneSommaire:
Ce livre est le premier à traiter des multiples circulations qui traversent les oeuvres littéraires écrites en français, provenant du Maghreb et de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Tout en s'écartant des scissions communément pratiquées entre...
- Auteur:Shutt, Timothy BakerSommaire:
Kenyon College professor Timothy B. Shutt delivers a revealing study of Dante's greatest work, The divine comedy. The Commedia is about the afterlife, not just Hell, but Purgatory, and Heaven too. Dante's genius is the genius of the...
- Auteur:Mathijs, ErnestSommaire:
- Auteur:Rosenfarb, Chava, Morgentaler, GoldieSommaire:
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950...
- Auteur:Nagano, Kent, Kloepfer, IngeSommaire:
How relevant is classical music today? The genre seems in danger of becoming nothing more than a hobby for the social elite. Yet Kent Nagano has another world in mind - one where everyone has access to classical music. In Classical...
- Auteur:Hudson, AïdaSommaire:
Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds of Middle-earth, Earthsea, or...
- Auteur:McKegney, SamSommaire:
Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that...
- Auteur:Turner, SteveSommaire:
Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates in detail the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives and work during 1966. He looks at the historical events that had an impact on the group, the music...
- Auteur:Manjikian, MarySommaire:
Mary Manjikian's Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only those who feel the most safe and whose lives are least precarious can engage in the sort of storytelling which envisions erasing...
- Auteur:Cazenave, Odile M.Sommaire: