“weindling paul julian”

The Theatre of Garcia Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Maranon, Langston Hughes, Andre Gide, and Lluis ... More

This book offers new readings of major texts in the literature of theSpanish Renaissance or Golden Age. Beginning with a comparison of Renaissance and modern theories of discourse, the author proceeds to analyze, from a post-structuralist viewpoint, the major genres of the period--lyric poetry, pica... More

This is the first book to analyze Spanish and Spanish-American literature in light of several theories of sexuality advanced since Freud. Bringing into discussion such writers as Fuentes, Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Galdos, and St. Teresa of Avila, Smith draws on critical approaches derived from Marx, Lac... More

"Amores Perros" (2000), directed by first-time film-maker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu, with its intersecting storylines and treatment of urban violence and decay, kick-started a renaissance for Mexico's film industry. It was the first Mexican film for generations to achieve major international succe... More

This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials re... More

This is an extremely rare and important book on religion, first published in Germany in 1905. The first page of the book clarifies what sin really was, in its original form. It is defined as having been anything done to anger the gods. This work offers an outstanding rundown on the early gods, who t... More

The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of JanaD&cek's most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this fascinating description of the Mass and its history, Paul Wingfield brings together information on all significant asp... More

Vivaldi's celebrated Four Seasons are among the most popular works of all time and these, with the rest of the concertos in Op. 8, represent the composer's remarkable innovation in the field of the Baroque concerto. This detailed guide examines the work's origin and construction in a way that enable... More

Jean Baudrillard's work has enraged and baffled critics and commentators in the English speaking world for over twenty years. Has he gone beyond a joke? Or do his writings on the contemporary world and its significance offer us revelatory insights? _This classic anthology of Baudrillard's writings i... More

This next book in the acclaimed "See-Through" series captivates readers with thrilling facts about different types of storms while the unique acetate overlays let young meteorologists look behind and inside tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, and tsunamis. From the invention of the thermometer to the B... More