The completeness and excellence of the abstracts make this volume a valuable guide and reference book for all students and scholars who do not own the complete set. For those who do own the first twenty-five volumes, the index will facilitate quick location of important topics and bring ease in tracing the development of psychoanalytic concepts.
The completeness and excellence of the abstracts make this volume a valuable guide and reference book for all students and scholars who do not own the...
The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating-but often bewildering-new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars-with each page the work of multiple hands-The Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the individualist model of authorship that has traditionally dominated scholarship in...
The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating-but often bewildering-new readin...
George Steiner Yale University Press George Steiner
"This book is important--and portentous--for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion and insight with which he writes about the tragedies that have moved him prove that the vision still lives and that words can still enlighten and reveal."--R.B. Sewall, New York Times Book Review "A remarkable achievement. . . . The knowledge is marshalled here with the skill and authority of a great general, and from it a large strategic argument emerges with clarity and force. . . . A brilliantly...
"This book is important--and portentous--for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start contr...
This volume is a special issue devoted to the materials and techniques of Northern European painting from the beginning of the fifteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth. It explores the material characteristics of Northern Renaissance painting, the relationship of style and technique in paintings of this period by Stephan Lochner, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan Gossaert, and Wolf Huber, and the interrelationships in the techniques of painters from some of the most important centers of artistic production in Northern Europe.
This volume is a special issue devoted to the materials and techniques of Northern European painting from the beginning of the fifteenth century to th...
