Harry Eiss is a Full Professor at Eastern Michigan University, USA. His publications include The Joker, Insanity and Genius, Divine Madness, Christ of the Coal Yards, and The Mythology of Dance. He has taught at numerous colleges and universities, including the University of North Dakota, Northern Montana College, and Minnesota State University, and received national recognition for his pedagogy.
11 Ebooks by Harry Eiss
Harry Eiss: Christ of the Coal Yards
No one heard the shot. No one ever found the gun. It was Sunday, July 27, 1890. Vincent had recently finished Wheatfield with Crows, thought to be his final painting, one that he described as …
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€80.93
Harry Eiss: Divine Madness
Lila is Sanskrit for play, the play of the gods. It is the self-generating genesis of Bliss, created by Bliss for the purpose of Bliss. It is the uninhibited, impulsive sport of Brahman, the free …
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€100.18
Harry Eiss: Joker
To prepare for the role of the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a London hotel room, trying to understand and become a character he saw as "an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, …
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€113.99
Harry Eiss: Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
Richard Dadd is a trickster, a pre-post-modern enigma wrapped in a Shakespearean Midsummer Night’s Dream; an Elizabethan Puck living in a smothering Victorian insane asylum, foreshadowing and, in …
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€81.39
Harry Eiss: Mythology of Dance
The lights dim and soon the theatre becomes dark. The audience conversations end with a few softly dissipating whispers, and the movie begins. Nina Sayers, a young ballerina, dances the prologue to …
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€99.78
Harry Eiss: Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem
On Monday, 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. In the single largest act of destruction ever initiated by humans, a bomb with the equivalent force of 20, 000 tons of TNT shattered …
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€89.68
Harry Eiss: Insanity and Genius
In his book about the discovery of the structure of DNA, James Watson wrote, "So we had lunch, telling ourselves that a structure this beautiful just had to exist." Indeed, the quest most …
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€125.80
Harry Eiss: Seeking God in the Works of T. S. Eliot and Michelangelo
Do I dare disturb the universe? It is a question recognized by people around the world. If typed into the internet, hundreds of examples appear. Many know that it comes from one of the best known …
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€96.05
Harry Eiss: Young Adult Literature and Culture
This book offers a multifaceted approach to the world of young adults, everything from Ray Schrock’s use of Walter Dean Myers’ sports stories to discuss race relations and cultural politics to Joyce …
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€63.58
Harry Eiss: Children’s Literature and Culture
This collection of scholarship on the world of the child offers an eclectic overview of several aspects of youth culture today. The first essay focuses on Donna Williams, Joanna Greenberg, Temple …
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€63.45
Harry Eiss: Detailed Explication of T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Do I dare disturb the universe? This is a question recognized by people around the world. If typed into the internet, hundreds of examples appear. Many know that it comes from one of the best-known …
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€135.27
