The essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired…

An introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, a respected and acclaimed director in the history of cinema. His films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws…

The international team of contributors and consultants have provided over 700 entries offering wide-ranging coverage and crossing the traditional boundaries between disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. French culture…

An essential reference for any student of the Renaissance, this book is a collection of readings on one of the most fascinating periods of Western development. Eminent scholars explore themes…

This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.

One of the South’s most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. In this welcome guide to Gaines’s fiction, Keith Clark offers insightful analyses of his…

This work offers information on counselling in the primary and the secondary school. It draws upon material on the relationship between families and schools, the functioning of peer groups and…

Keith Tuma’s Fishing by Obstinate Isles explores the complex relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging reductive American views of a British poetry dominated by anti-modernism while discussing the…