The Merchant of Venice Larry Stern

The Merchant of Venice Larry SternThis book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeares play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty first century.

Philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life

weaving together a range of theoretical approaches to Lynch's films to make new connections among film theory

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posters – resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity

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and features covering global contemporary art scenes and cultures

A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George

A unique title considering the challenges to the World Bank's development goals and reducing world poverty

including intentionality

Based on an exhaustive number of focus groups

A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography

Among the contributions are overviews of the development of Luhmann’s thinking