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Ranging through the centuries and across the globe, Kasia Boddy explores the importance of flowers from their associations in perfumes and paintings to their use in social and political ritual. She moves through the seasons to consider how and why the sunflower, poppy, geranium?and many others?matter so much to us.

Author of "The American Short Story Since 1950" Kasia Boddy explores the symbolic and cultural associations of different kinds of flowers around the world and across historical periods.

Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws ...

La boxe è uno degli sport più antichi e appassionanti: i suoi scontri violenti e sanguinari hanno permeato la cultura occidentale fin dal 3000 a.C. e, nel corso della sua storia, pittori, poeti, romanzieri, illustratori, fumettisti, scultori, cantautori, fotografi e registi erano lì a registrarli e interpretarli, imprimendoli per sempre nella memoria collettiva. Nella sua ricerca enciclopedica sulle multiformi risonanze sociali, politiche e cu...

This book focuses specifically on short fiction written since 1950, a particularly rich and diverse period in the history of the form. A selective approach has been taken, focusing on the best and most representative work.

Kasia Boddy teaches in the English Department at University College London. She has published widely on American topics and her books include Boxing: A Cultural History (2008) and The American Short Story Since 1950 (2010). She has also co-edited several other anthologies, most recently, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer (2009) from Penguin Classics.

Boddy tells the story of the geranium's inexorable rise to floral domination, uncovering its role in botanical exploration and commercial cultivation, and considering its uses for pharmacists, philanthropists, poets and painters.

Boxing is one of the oldest and most physical of sports, and has penetrated deep into Western culture: its has been depicted in a wide range of media and forms, from 18th century novels to films. But how did it emerge from ancient Greece, transcending politics, race, ethnicity and economics?