Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this 2010 volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmode...(展开全部)

When Space Meets Art / When Art Meets Space Spatial, Structural and Graphics for Event and Exhibition Design Often overlooked, the importance of space design to the overall experience of an event or exhibition cannot be overstated. An environment must be created that takes into account all of the integral parts, which make up a good display. When Space Meets Art / When Art Mee...(展开全部)

When Space Meets Art / When Art Meets Space Spatial, Structural and Graphics for Event and Exhibition Design Often overlooked, the importance of space design to the overall experience of an event or exhibition cannot be overstated. An environment must be created that takes into account all of the integral parts, which make up a good display. When Space Meets Art / When Art Mee...(展开全部)

贾平凹，当代作家，原名贾平娃。陕西丹凤人。1975年西北大学中文系毕业后任陕西人民出版社文艺编辑、《长安》文学月刊编辑。1982年后从事专业创作。任中国作家协理事、作协陕西分会副主席等职。 著有小说集《兵娃》、《姐妹本纪》、《山地笔》、《野火集》、《商州散记》、《小月前本》、《腊月·正月》、《天狗》、《晚唱》、《贾平凹获奖中篇小说集》、《贾平凹自选集》，长篇小说《商州》、州河》、《浮躁》、《废都》、《白夜》，自传体长篇《我是农民》等。散文集《月迹》、《心迹》、《爱的踪迹》、《贾平凹散文自选集》、诗集《空白》以及《平文论集》等。他的《腊月·正月》获中国作协第3届全国优秀中篇小说奖；《满月》获1978年全国优秀短篇小说奖。他于1988年获美国飞马文学奖。1997年获法国女评外国文学奖。 贾平凹小说描写新时期西北农村，特别是改革开放后的变革，视野开，具有丰...(展开全部)

Zhange Ni is Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.

In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "pagan criticism," which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular. Focusing on two ...(展开全部)

When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives....(展开全部)

When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives....(展开全部)

The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching.Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to unde...(展开全部)

The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching.Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to unde...(展开全部)