If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age the era in which visual activity achieved unprecedented prominence. As this volume richly demonstrates, the visual mode was nowhere more dynamic and powerful during the 1900s than in Germany.
Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany explores a wide spectrum of visual media in 20th-century Germany in their critical and social contexts. Contributors examine film, photography, cabaret performance, advertising, architecture, painting, dance, television, and cartography, investigating the...
If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age the era in which visual activity achieved unprecede...
Rather than analyzing women's humour in isolation, this study maps the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each holds exclusively. The essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humour and romantic comedies, as well as erotic language, sexual jokes and humour-charged expression. With its emphasis on the roles that gender plays in the creation, reception and interpretation of comic art, the book looks critically at generic and gender diversity as well as comedy's underlying unities.
Rather than analyzing women's humour in isolation, this study maps the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each holds exclusively. The e...
Literature of Fantasy and the Supernatural, edited by Gail Finney, presents a diverse and colorful spectrum of supernatural phenomena-- automatons, ghosts, talking animals, detached body parts with a life of their own, magical transformations, animated objects, mad scientists, and angels-- offering a vivid display of the endless powers of the imagination. Although fantasy and the supernatural have been present in literature since its beginnings, in the West these themes are especially prevalent in the 19th and 20th centuries. This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the...
Literature of Fantasy and the Supernatural, edited by Gail Finney, presents a diverse and colorful spectrum of supernatural phenomena-- automat...
