This highly original work is about the spatial imagination as it has manifested itself in one of the most beautiful and historically important cities in the world. The subject is …
What special possibilities for literary creation arise in periods of rapid transition from one set of social institutions to another? This book examines four such periods in …
The spiritual revival that is sweeping the Soviet Union today had its genesis in the religious renaissance of the early 20th century. In both cases, it was lay intellectuals, …