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This book is a study of the interrelationship between comedy and selfhood. While most people have a clear idea of what is meant by comedy, the notion of a self is much more enigmatic and therefore requires illumination. The book is accordingly divided into two parts: the first attempts to clarify what is meant by a self, and the second applies the resulting schematization of selfhood to the phenomenon of laughter. The two parts echo one another, contributing both to an understanding of comedy and to the ongoing philosophical question of identity.

He was the great English poet of the First World War. She was a shy but perceptive teenage schoolgirl. The passionate, witty, and inspiring letters they exchanged--never before published--will surely be hailed as one of the most romantic of all literary correspondences, and as a rich and truthful portrait of Edwardian and Georgian England. 32 pages of photos.

This symposium served as a form for the exchange of views and concerns pertaining to the use of prescribed fire in the Prince Rupert Forest Region and its effect on forest soil.

This is a Navy Records Society book.

"Feasting with Panthers is an illuminating study of certain notorious and brilliant Victorians. The great flowering of decadent art toward the end of the nineteenth century has prompted Rupert Crofte-Cook to examine the lives and the works of the most famous and influential writers of that time-- the men who made a cult out of their sexual idiosyncrasies, who created an esthetic from their perversity, and who managed to initiate a revolution in morality that continues today" -Publisher.