Based for the most part on Ovid's Metamorphoses, epyllia retell stories of the dalliances of gods and mortals, most often concerning the transformation of beautiful youths. This short-lived genre flourished and died in England in the 1590s. It was produced mainly by and for the young men of the Inns of Court, where the ambitious came to study law and to sample the pleasures London had to offer. Jim Ellis provides detailed readings of fifteen examples of the epyllion, considering the poems in their cultural milieu and arguing that these myths of the transformations of young men are...
Based for the most part on Ovid's Metamorphoses, epyllia retell stories of the dalliances of gods and mortals, most often concerning the tra...
Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.
Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarman's work-including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane-in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in...
Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek...
Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.
Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarman's work-including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane-in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in...
Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek...
It's 1999, and J. Robinson Blake is still dead. Spy, traitor, maybe both, Blake was crushed and buried in the rubble of the former Soviet Union. But if Jack Blake is dead, who is the mysterious stranger who has come back to America? Ghost, opportunist, or assasin, the new Jack Blake is a man with a hunger for vengance and an improbable secret that threatens to turn the death of the Cold War into the birth of a World War.
It's 1999, and J. Robinson Blake is still dead. Spy, traitor, maybe both, Blake was crushed and buried in the rubble of the former Soviet Union. But i...
"I need a favor, Just a little one..." Trey Hughes reluctantly agreed to accompany his girl to a beautiful mountain retreat in the Carolina woods. A chance to relax and reconnect. But when his girlfriend Nina disappears, Trey becomes a key suspect in the crime and begins a desperate search for the missing girl, aided by a unique collection of friends he makes in the wilderness. There is also an evil in the woods, and Trey will soon be forced to chose between the two women he loves, and face dangers that will cost him his friends, his family... or his life.
"I need a favor, Just a little one..." Trey Hughes reluctantly agreed to accompany his girl to a beautiful mountain retreat in the Carolina woods. A c...
