威廉·巴特勒·叶芝(William Butler Yeats，1865-1939)，爱尔兰诗人、剧作家。生于都柏林。父亲是画家。曾在都柏林市立美术学校学习，并开始写诗。1889年，叶芝成为爱尔兰民族自治运动的骨干。1891年与诗友组织“诗人俱乐部”和“爱尔兰文学会”，主张诗歌要有梦境的朦胧、含蓄和超俗。早期创作具有唯美主义倾向，著名作品有诗剧《心愿之乡》和诗《被拐逃的孩子》、《十字路口》、《茵尼斯弗利岛》等。 1896年叶芝结识了剧作家格雷戈里夫人，此后的创作都得力于她的支持。叶芝与她一起收集爱尔兰民间文学，又一同创建了爱尔兰文学剧院，即后来的阿贝剧院，创作了一批关于爱尔兰历史和农民生活的戏剧。这时的叶芝诗风明朗，作品充满民族热情，重要作品有诗剧《胡里痕的凯瑟琳》、《黛尔丽德》等，另有诗集《苇问风》、《在七座树林中》、《绿盔》、《责任》等，并陆续出版...(展开全部)

`Theory of the Modern Drama' is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. This concise but wide-ranging book discusses the work of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Satre, Brecht and Wilder, among others.

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)

肯尼斯・弗兰姆普敦，1930年生，建筑师、建筑史家及评论家，曾作为一名建筑师在伦敦AA（建筑协会）建筑学院接受培训，现为美国哥伦比亚大学建筑规划研究生院威尔讲席教授。他曾任教于本学科内许多一流的院校，其中包括伦敦皇家艺术学院，苏黎世ETH学院，阿姆斯特丹伯拉杰学院（Berlage Institute），洛桑EPFL及维吉尼亚大学。他写有大量关于现当代建筑的论著，并从1986－1990年担任由密斯・凡・德・罗基金会赞助的位于巴塞罗那的EEC欧洲建筑奖评委会主席。

Social media are an integral part of contemporary society; transforming the way we communicate, use information and understand the world, so we must explore critical questions about social media and dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. This book does just that, equipping students with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions ...(展开全部)

This new volume in the Clarendon Hume series presents a definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy. In his elegant and lucid Enquiry Hume gives us an accessible presentation of a fully developed ethical theory. The distinguished Hume scholar Tom L. Beauchamp presents an authoritative text accompanied by introduction, annotation, glos...(展开全部)

This new volume in the Clarendon Hume series presents a definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy. In his elegant and lucid Enquiry Hume gives us an accessible presentation of a fully developed ethical theory. The distinguished Hume scholar Tom L. Beauchamp presents an authoritative text accompanied by introduction, annotation, glos...(展开全部)

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, an...(展开全部)

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, an...(展开全部)