From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career. In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface, “A Life with Books”), Julian Barnes examines the British, French and American...(展开全部)

Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces—personal, critical, and meditative—the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a wi...(展开全部)

哈罗德•布鲁姆，当代美国极富影响的文学理论家、批评家。1930年生于纽约，曾执教于耶鲁大学、纽约大学和哈佛大学等知名高校。主要研究领域包括诗歌批评、理论批评和宗教批评，代表作有《西方正典》（1994）、《如何读，为什么读》（2000）、《影响的剖析》（2001）等。被誉为“西方传统中最有天赋、最具原创性和最富煽动性的一位文学批评家”。

This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible, engaging, and relevant. The book's unique integration o...(展开全部)

Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life? On 10 November 2009 the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was thirty two years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs including Jose Mourinho's Ben...(展开全部)

Like the haggadah, the traditional "telling" of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural realities of Jews in America. In an industry strongly influenced by Jewish filmmakers who made and continue to make the decisions as to which fi...(展开全部)

埃里克•高德曼，美国叶史瓦大学、美国犹太神学院（纽约）电影专业客座教授。作为一名电影学者，高德曼教授对意第绪电影、以色列电影和犹太电影都颇有研究。此外，他还是埃尔格传媒公司（专门发行犹太电影的知名影视公司）的创建者和董事长，并曾经担任犹太媒体中心的负责人。著有《视线、影像、梦想：意第绪电影的前世今生》一书。

文学成就比肩海明威、福克纳、马尔克斯的大师 改变侦探小说书写规则，引领“美国革命”的巨匠 硬汉派小说鼻祖，“黑色电影”的创始人 被誉为欧美侦探文学最后一位先知 * * * 达希尔·哈米特全名萨缪尔·达希尔·哈米特，出生于美国马里兰州西岸的圣玛利县，在费城和巴尔的摩长大。 哈米特十三岁辍学，之后数年间做过报童、码头装卸工、机关勤杂人员和证券公司小职员，后来加入位于巴尔的摩的“平克顿全国侦探事务所”。一九一五年至一九二一年期间，他在平克顿事务所任职，这段经历为他后来创作侦探小说提供了广泛的素材。在第一次世界大战期间，达希尔应召入伍，但是后来因结核病而被迫长期疗养，继而导致他的婚姻破裂。之后他开始依赖酒精，曾尝试广告业，最终踏上了写作一途。他贫寒的出身、在下层社会摸爬滚打的青年时代，以及在当时全美最大的平克顿侦探社任职多年所获得的丰富经验，使他的作品独树一...(展开全部)

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures p...(展开全部)

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures p...(展开全部)