The so-called Song of Deborah celebrates a decisive victory during the era of the Judges, and praises Jael and the Israelites for their defeat of a Canaanite coalition led by Sisera. Despite generati
McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term “metafiction” here refers to a strain in American
The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrit
Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidoc
Carew (music, Cardiff U., UK) chronicles the rise of the piano from 1760 to 1850, from its first appearances in the public to the founding of the Steinway company and the beginnings of the modern conc
This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and piano musi
Since it was first published a decade ago, A Writer’s Book of Days has become the ideal coach for thousands of writers. Author Judy Reeves meets writers wherever they may be on a given day wi
War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violen
Du Quenoy (history and archeology, American U. of Beirut, Lebanon) explores the diffusion of thought about and admiration for German composer Richard Wagner (1813-83) across the difficult border betwe
In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risque? and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Chil
Current philosophical discussions of selfdeception remain steeped in disagreement and controversy. In The Self-Deceiving Muse, Alan Singer proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding
