культура и искусство

От Петра Арбузова ушла жена. Ушла к его бывшему лучшему другу. Решив, что на свете больше нет ни одной женщины, которую он смог бы полюбить, Пётр вознамерился прожить оставшуюся часть жизни убеждённым холостяком. Бабушка Петра, Елизавета Апполинарьев…

From The Gospel According to Matthew to Jesus Christ Superstar, from The Passion of Joan of Arc to The Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus of Montreal, The Religious Film captures the glory, gore, and centrality of this important genre. A short, acce…

The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such as The Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbus…

SALON-interior был создан в 1994 году и с момента основания публикует лучшие работы ведущих архитекторов, дизайнеров и декораторов, созданные в России и странах ближнего зарубежья. SALON-interior – авторитетный российский журнал по архитектуре и диза…

«Я хожу и думаю. Я хожу и думаю – и думаю я о Федоре Ивановиче Шаляпине. Сейчас ночь; город угомонился и засыпает: нет его назойливых звуков, нет его бессмысленно-пестрых красок, которые в течение всего дня терзают слух и зрение и так оскорбительны с…

«У меня был маленький, беленький котенок, на которого приятно было смотреть в минуты грусти. Вся его нехитрая жизнь была сплошной иллюзией: ни одного предмета не видел он таким, каков он есть, а вкладывал в него самостоятельное и очень интересное сод…

В настоящий сборник включены тексты писателя Петра Вайля, посвященные исключительно Италии. Выходившие более чем в ста изданиях в течение двадцати лет, они проникнуты любовью к этой стране, ее культуре, народу, кулинарии. Впервые публикуются письма, …

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of Bruce Mitchell, the eminent Oxford…

The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali…

This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others Considers key tec…

Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil’s great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil’s poetic images and the mental images with which the Roma…

Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity. The first systematic survey of the most important and popular recent films about Roman an…

Rome, Season One: History Makes Television examines the first season of the HBO-BBC collaboration, Rome, in a collection of thought-provoking essays by some of the world’s most influential scholars in the fields of classical antiquity and popular cul…

Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adaptations reflect the shifting historical situations and ideological concerns of their own times. Explor…

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an e…

With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. The first book…

This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. Offers an…

This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them. Focuses on the key themes to emerge from Spivak’s work, such as ethics, literat…

This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for t…