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A suppressor of his own writings, Franz Kafka even requested that upon his death all his extant works be destroyed-yet those very works accurately prefigured the anxieties and alienation so commonly associated with the latter part of the 20th century. This program delves into Kafka's fictional world, primarily through a gripping dramatization of The Trial, a combination of simple tale and complex parable describing Joseph K.'s bizarre arrest and execution....

This 1962 adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel was written and Directed by Orson Welles, who called it "the best film I have ever made." Anthony Perkins stars as Joseph K. Also starring Jeanne Moreau and Romy Schneider.

Translation based on the Latin text of the trial found in the edition of Pierre Champion, Procès de condamnation de Jeanne d'Arc (Paris, 1920). Includes information on accusations against Joan, Saint Catherine, Charles VII, legal procedure, Saint Margaret, Joan's clothing, alleged cursing, escape, fabrications, hair, horse, idolatry, illness, prophecies, relapse, retrial, alleged sorcery, superstition, voices, weapons, wounds, etc.

This book, published in 1984, tells of the insanity defense in English and American law and of the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., in 1982 for the shooting of Reagan and three others on 30 Mar 1981. Recounts the proceedings of Hinckley's trial for the attempted assassination of President Reagan, traces the history of the insanity plea, and argues for the continued use of that defense.

"Violence is an ever-present phenomenon - obstinately resistant to interpretation. This text offers new tools to understand and analyse violence, presenting a new approach based on the subjectivity of the actor, and on the relation between violence and meaning. The first section discusses violence and conflict; violence and the state; and violence and the media. This provides critical context for developing a new paradigm. The second section gives...

In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations,...

Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous English-woman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship, author of the highly acclaimed account of her oft-told tale, disentangling what really happened from the legends that have misrepresented her for so long. As Winship shows, although the trials of Anne Hutchinson and her allies were used ostensibly to protect...

"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces? Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with...

Biographies and critical evaluations of 20th century composers, including detailed notes on over 1500 musical works.