In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set out from England in his untested trimaran, a competitor in the first singlehanded nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, the boat was found in a calm mid-Atlantic, structurally intact with no one on board. Through Crowhurst's logs and [...]

This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and Application Essays by well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Mel[...]

"Subjectivity" explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the classical era to the present and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. It examines all the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the 20th and 21st centuries.[...]

Former poet laureateDonald Hall selects the essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry. The ability to write poemshas abandoned DonaldHall, now in his eighties, one of the most significant and beloved poets of his generation. Instead of creating new poems, he has looked back over his [...]

Donald Hall, själv en framstående amerikansk poet, gjorde på 1960-talet en lång serie intervjuer med beundrade läromästare ­"Deras uråldriga, glittrande ögon" ­ för den klassiska tidskriften Paris Review. Framför allt samtalade han med Ezra Pound, och har nu kompletterat intervjun med en[...]

"Reading Sexualities" confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to: examine the vexed [...]

Musical acoustics presents a unique opportunity to see science and art working together. This book is a balanced presentation of all aspects of musical acoustics. It explains how our ears and brains interpret musical events, and connects traditional physical analyses to musical reality. The purpose [...]

Is Italy il bel paese - the beautiful country - where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy. The fifte[...]