Water Margin

Literature & Fiction

David Weir

Genre Fiction

Star Books

Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism

University of Massachusetts Press

Argues that the myths and ideals of William Blake's poetry were heavily influenced by the Oriental Renaissance―the British discovery of Hindu literature. Examining William Blake’s poetry in relation to the mythographic tradition of the eighteenth century and emphasizing the British discovery of Hindu literature, David Weir argues that Blake’s mythic system springs from the same rich historical context that produced the Oriental Renaissance. That context includes republican politics and dissenting theology―two interrelated developments that help elucidate many of the obscurities of Blake’s poetry and explain much of its intellectual energy. Weir shows how Blake’s poetic career underwent a profound development as a result of his exposure to Hindu mythology. By combining mythographic insight with republican politics and Protestant dissent, Blake devised a poetic system that opposed the powers of Church and King.

Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance

British & Irish

State University of New York Press

This study demonstrates that the disaster at Bhopal exposes a global syndrome that puts countless lives at risk and proposes measures to reduce the unnecessary risks

The Bhopal Syndrome

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Random House, Inc.

The son of Miguel Almereyda, an anarchist activist who died in prison, Jean Vigo kept faith with the politics of his father through his art. One of the most influential filmmakers in cinema history, Vigo gave aesthetic expression to anarchist ideology in four films: the city symphony À propos de Nice (1930), the sports documentary Taris ou la natation (1931), the medium-length Zéro de conduite (1933), and the feature-length L'Atalante (1934), currently ranked by the British Film Institute as the twelfth greatest film of all time. Although his career was cut short by tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine, Jean Vigo continues to be one of the most commanding figures in the history of cinema. In this book, David Weir examines Vigo's cinematic career in both the political and the cultural context of the interwar period in European history, taking stock of the ideological upheavals of the 1930s that plunged the continent into the horrors of fascism and war. Weir also explores Vigo's relationship to other filmmakers of the period, such as Luis Buñuel, Jean Renoir, and Marcel Carné all of whom, like Vigo, range across the leftist spectrum of the interwar years. In the end, Weir argues that, whereas L' Atalante and the other films have been mostly restored to something like their original condition, more work needs to be done to restore the original ideological meaning of those films.

Jean Vigo and the Anarchist Eye

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

On Our Own Authority! Publishing

Learn more about the interconnected band of bohemians who created an artists paradise along the Pacific coast, south of San Francisco and north of Los Angeles, in this collection of contemporary writing and vintage articles. 
 This unique publication (the book, a writer's journal, and a slipcase printed with original art), was created in conjunction with the California Preservation Foundation annual conference. 
This book explores California s Monterey Peninsula as a crossroads of art, culture, architecture, literature, and society in the first half of the twentieth century. A group of prominent academics and historians has contributed essays, articles, and excerpts that discuss the lives and artistic endeavors of notable residents of the region during this fascinating period. 
 Among those discussed in the text are Robinson Jeffers, Lincoln Steffens, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Austin, Sinclair Lewis, Joaquin Miller, Charles Stoddard, Upton Sinclair, Richard Neutra, Arnold Genthe, William Keith, Arthur Mathews, Anne Bremer, E. Charlton Fortune, Armin Hansen, Clark Hobart, Mary DeNeale Morgan, Xavier Martinez, Helen Bruton, Margaret Bruton, Jeannette Maxfield Lewis, Paul Whitman, Charles Sumner Greene, John Cunningham, Johan Hagemeyer, Edward Weston, R.M. Schindler, and Pauline Schindler.

Bohemian Crossroads: Art & Culture Collide Then Subside on the Monterey Peninsula

Scott A. Shields

Susan Shillinglaw

Ted Wells

Barbara Lamprecht

John Crosse

Barbara J. Klein

Guardian Stewardship Editions

Ulysses Explained How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce’s Modernist Vision

Springer

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)

Bloomsbury UK

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