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Consequences of Hermeneutics
The publication of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s magnum opus Truth and Method in 1960 marked the arrival of philosophical hermeneutics as a dominant force...
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Stalin’s Romeo Spy
Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901–75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet...
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Vita Nuova - A Novel
Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal’s wife, Elis.ka, about their life in Prague from...
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Voices from the Gulag
After the publication in 1962 of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began receiving, and would continue to receive...
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Dollhouse: A Play
Nora seems to have it all: a successful husband, three adorable children, and a beautiful home in the tony Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. But...
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At Home with André and Simone Weil
Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century’s most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her...
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Institution and Passivity
Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection...
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Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism
The great modernist eccentric Alexei Remizov was a “writers’ writer” whose innovative poetic prose has long since entered the Russian literary...
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Freedom to Self-Destruct
Four decades of essays illuminate the ideas and influence of this poet, lecturer, publisher, and founder of numerous writing programs to train black...
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Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality
Can one be happy and free, and nonetheless be moral? This question occurs at the core of daily life and is, as well, a question as old as philosophy...
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Three Sons
Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction—J. M....
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Through the Stonecutter
The inaugural winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, Indigo Moor’s Through the Stonecutter’s Window is a sustained...
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Harriet Jacobs - A Play
Throughout her meteoric rise into the upper ranks of young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American...
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The Third Body
In The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist HÉlÈne Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes,...
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Constraining Chance
A token of the world’s instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems:...
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Constraining Chance
A token of the world’s instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems:...
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The Trace of Judaism
The defining quality of Russian literature, for most critics, is its ethical seriousness expressed through formal originality. The Trace of Judaism...
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Crossing the Sierra de Gredos - A Novel
On the outskirts of a European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to...
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The Dacha Husband - A Novel
In addition to offering fresh editions of well-known works, Northwestern World Classics will also reintroduce to a new generation "lost...
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DAI (enough) - A Play
Set in a Tel Aviv café in the moments before a suicide bomber enters, Iris Bahr’s 2008 Lucille Lortel Award–winning DAI (enough) courageously...
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Dance with Snakes
“The acid humour of Horacio Castellanos Moya, resembling that of a Buster Keaton movie or a time-bomb, threatens the hormonal stability of...
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Daniil Kharms - Writing and the Event
The "texts" of Russian artist and thinker Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) were so many and varied and often unique (narrative, dramatic,...
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The Sublime Artist’s Studio
In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his...
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