The Strange genius of William Burges, "art-architect", 1827-1881

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun, or spi...

Strange inversions occur when things work in ways that turn received wisdom upside down. Hume offered a strangely inverted story about causation, and Darwin, about apparent design....

Abstract Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian ...

This biography offers students and general readers an insightful look into Jerry Garcia's creative genius as a founding member of The Grateful Dead and the various influences on hi...

Singularities are lonely social groups; lonely in their relation to other singularities and so, lacking in a language shared with one another. With this isolation comes certainty a...

Written by a composer and a musician,The Contemporary Violinoffers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen...

Abstract Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which...

Wilhelm Storck rechnete wohl nicht damit, dass seine Übersetzung der »Sämmtlichen Canzonen« des Camões in Portugal irgendwelche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren würde, als er im April 1874 ...