Abject Terrors is an expansive study of the most significant films from the prolific horror genre - from its origins in the 1920s and 1930s, to its contemporary representations. This survey brings together close analyses of individual motion pictures, demonstrating the interconnections among these filmic texts and their contribution to defining quintessential aspects of the modern and postmodern horror film.

This detailed analysis of the theme of retribution is a key to understanding the fiction of Flannery O Connor. An idea central to the Bible, Dante, and Chaucer one is paid back for the evil one does or for failure to do good retribution expresses O Connor s interest as a writer and defines the contour of her achievement as an artist. Within the twenty-year span of her writing career, O Connor s notion of retribution expanded from her original concept in her first story, -The Geranium, - of retribution as personal and familial, to her final version in her last story, -Judgement Day, - which...

Philanthropy is typically considered to be within the province of billionaires. This book broadens that perspective by highlighting modest acts of giving by African Americans on behalf of their own people. Examining the important tradition of Black philanthropy, this groundbreaking work documents its history: its beginning as a response to discrimination through self-help among freed slaves, and its expansion to include the support of education, religion, the arts, and legal efforts on behalf of civil rights. Using diverse approaches, the authors illuminate a new world of philanthropy one...

This book examines the effects of international migration on the shaping of national and gender identities of Spanish women who migrated to the UK between the 1940s and the 1990s from different socio-economic, educational backgrounds and generations. It explores the dynamics between the power of social institutions and women s agency in shaping their identities in two different countries: Spain and the UK. In looking at individuals formation of identities, the complexity of the social sites of different social classes, educational attainments and generations, is illuminated.
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Philanthropy is typically considered to be within the province of billionaires. This book broadens that perspective by highlighting modest acts of giving by African Americans on behalf of their own people. Examining the important tradition of Black philanthropy, this groundbreaking work documents its history: its beginning as a response to discrimination through self-help among freed slaves, and its expansion to include the support of education, religion, the arts, and legal efforts on behalf of civil rights. Using diverse approaches, the authors illuminate a new world of philanthropy one...

Logic of the Fall is the first book to examine the formal logical properties of central speeches and dialogues in Paradise Lost, according to John Milton s formulae, principles, and concerns in his own Art of Logic. In so doing, this book offers unconventional but cogent readings of this poem s central issues: the respective roles and responsibilities of Adam and Eve; the method of Satan s engineering of the Fall (and on who falls first); the causative properties of the Fall and the issue of culpability; and Milton s ultimate legacy for his readership. The Fall of...

Spanning the worlds of literature and the history profession, the Prussian novelist and historian Gustav Freytag (1816-95) was influential in shaping opinion for his generation of liberals. Best known as the author of the popular novel Soll und Haben (1855), Freytag represented the views of a generation of National Liberals in the debate over Jewish assimilation, political reform in Prussia, and German unification. This new study places Freytag in his proper political and social context as a member of an elite of academic historians and liberal publicists who promoted German...

Nineteenth-century American women s patchwork-quilt fiction sought to redefine the concept of -brotherhood-, established in Winthrop s -city upon a hill-, by providing an inclusive and matriarchal model for the communal experiment that was America. Patchwork-quilt fiction, from such domestic writers as Susan Warner to local colorists like Sarah Orne Jewett, combines realistic detail with women s metaphors like the hearth, home, kitchen, garden, and quilt, to express feminine ideas about community."

Music is unique among the arts in its ability to bring large numbers of people together in a communal creative activity transcending social, cultural and linguistic boundaries. This book looks at many examples of composers working in schools, community centres, hospitals and other situations which are not traditional contexts for music. Examples are taken from the United Kingdom as well as from projects from other places in Europe which participated in the EU-funded Rainbow across Europe programme. This study examines the development over the past hundred years of what has come to be known as...