"Many of the world's most important historical figures were imprisoned for holding unpopular or heretical beliefs. Some used their time behind bars to write books that shaped the course of history. This collection of new essays offers a wide-ranging examination of influential wo…
L.A. Rebellion: creating a new black cinema
"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s…
"How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity. Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'an…
"How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'ano…
Publisher description: Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse--novels, films, television series--is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it necessa…
Buchmesse in Leipzig. Die ganze Stadt fiebert der Präsentation des neuen Romans von Bestsellerautor Willi Lachmann entgegen. Doch die Lesung endet im Fiasko: Vor den Augen von mehr als 100 Gasten wird der Leipziger Autor kaltblütig erschossen. Kommissar Kroll übernimmt die Ermit…
