Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...
The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE WOMEN CONTENTS OF VOL. 19, NO. 3 (191 PAGES): "Gendering Policy // Reconstructing Lives // Working and Learning // Gendered Violence // Poetry // Book Reviews. FROM THE EDITORIAL: It has now been 10 years since the last...
By the time of her death in 1971 in Greenwich Village, New York City, Diane Arbus, had changed documentary photography for ever. For almost 30 years, her quest had been for the quintessence of self, which she once said was "what's left when you...
