What is depression? An “imagined sun, bright and black at the same time?” A “noonday demon?” In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical politics, these media employ imagery, narrative, symbolism, and metaphor to forge imaginative, exploratory, and inno...(展开全部)

What is depression? An “imagined sun, bright and black at the same time?” A “noonday demon?” In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical politics, these media employ imagery, narrative, symbolism, and metaphor to forge imaginative, exploratory, and inno...(展开全部)

Eclectic and illuminating, the essays collected in this volume were the last to be published by Somerset Maugham. They range from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, criticism of three journalists, and a consideredanalysis of the short-story, a form at which Maugham himself excelled.

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆，英国小说家、剧作家。代表作有戏剧《圈子》，长篇小说《人生的枷锁》《月亮和六便士》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》《阿金》等。

Born in 1968, the young German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has created an impressive list of accomplishments, most important of which is the designation of being the first German-born artist, and first photographer, ever to be awarded Britain's prestigious Turner Prize. This new, substantial monograph presents a wide variety of Tillmans' work, particularly the many unpublish...(展开全部)

The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked b...(展开全部)

The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked b...(展开全部)

At thirty, Helen Clarvoe is alone: her only visitors are the staff at the hotel where she lives, and her only phone calls come from a stranger. Until that stranger, with a quiet, compelling voice, lures the aloof and financially secure Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness and murder. But who is the hunter and who is the victim...? A gothic chi...(展开全部)

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆，英国小说家、剧作家。代表作有戏剧《圈子》，长篇小说《人生的枷锁》《月亮和六便士》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》《阿金》等。

Eclectic and illuminating, the essays collected in this volume were the last to be published by Somerset Maugham. They range from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, criticism of three journalists, and a consideredanalysis of the short-story, a form at which Maugham himself excelled.