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We live in a visual age. Images play an essential role in shaping international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, cinema, television and new media sources all influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, humanitarian crises, protest movements and election campaigns.

This exciting new textbook draws together the leading scholars in the field and presents the first comprehensive guide to the visual in global politics

Featuring a broad range of topics such as war, terrorism, security, foreign policy, social movements and democratization,...

"An original and significant contribution to scholarship in the fields of 20th-century poetry, Italian literature, and European literature. . . . The rose demonstrates both the skeletal similarities between ancient and recent lyric and the peculiar marks that distinguish the poetry of our time from its traditional heritage." Beverly Allen, Syracuse University

Thomas Peterson surveys the use of the rose topos in 20th-century Italian poetry, providing an illuminating cross-section of the work of all the major poets, and the movements in which it appears. He examines the development...

Czeslaw Milosz (19112004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. "An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz" presents a collection of remembrances from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in America and Poland.
Milosz s oeuvre is complex, rooted in twentieth-century eastern European history. A poet, translator, and prose writer, Milosz was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from...

"Excellent . . . the only critical book on prose poetry that not only provides a historical background for the prose poem in English, but also focuses on contemporary American prose poets."--Peter Johnson, Providence College
The American prose poem has a rich history marked by important contributions from major writers. Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s.
Delville reassesses the work of established prose poets in relation to the history of...