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Modernism-Dada-Postmodernism
The relationships between modernity and modernism, modernism and the historical avant-garde, modernism and postmodernism, and postmodernism and the... Les mer
Positive Hero in Russian Literature
This classic text brings a period of Russian literature to life and demonstrates how the battles over the positive hero reappeared with dramatic... Les mer
Time Gifts
Zoran Zivkovic weaves four mysterious encounters around philosophical questions at the core of human existence. Provocative and original, Time Gifts... Les mer
Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilich
This latest volume in the acclaimed AATSEEL series assembles fact and informed opinion on the most celebrated work of Tolstoy's later period.... Les mer
Lessons and Legacies III
The process of looking back on the Holocaust is one of a double nature: it can bring both enlightenment and a paralyzing pain, particularly for its... Les mer
The Springs of Liberty
The Springs of Liberty takes up questions of literary history and theory and explores sources of power harnessed by modern political doctrines and... Les mer
Fools, Martyrs, Traitors
Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of the human experience:... Les mer
His Master’s Voice
Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutrino message of extraterrestrial origin has been... Les mer
The Fortress
The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to... Les mer
Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy
In this collection of essays, one of the most insightful of contemporary literary theorists investigates the intersection of literature and... Les mer
After the Others: Poems
In his twelfth volume of poetry, Bruce Weigl continues his quest for emotional and spiritual enlightenment. Quiet and moving, these poems combine an... Les mer
The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube)
In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), PÉter EsterhÁzy tells the story of a professional traveler, commissioned--like Marco Polo by... Les mer
Teresa
Teresa, first published in 1886, is set in Italy's Po Valley near Cremona. The story relates the life of Teresa Caccia, an eldest daughter whose... Les mer
Renaissance Drama 28 - New Series XXVIII
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The... Les mer
Invisible Walls and To Remember is to Heal
Ingeborg Hecht's father, a prosperous Jewish attorney, was divorced from his titled German wife in 1933--two years before the promulgation of the... Les mer
Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? -
Drawing attention to the vexed relationship between feminist theory and philosophy, Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? demonstrates the spectrum of... Les mer
Retracing the Platonic Text
Written from a Continental perspective, Retracing the Platonic Text reveals dimensions of the dialogues that are not addressed by traditional... Les mer
The Tragic Menagerie
Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a... Les mer
Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy
In this collection of essays, one of the most insightful of contemporary literary theorists investigates the intersection of literature and... Les mer
Endings
In this collection of essays, leading scholars provide a variety of models from which to view the unique relationship between the bodies of thought... Les mer
The Poetics of Indeterminacy
In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central... Les mer
Marx on Suicide
In 1846, two years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto and twenty-one years before the publication of Das Kapital, Karl Marx published... Les mer
The Wandering Jew
According to the myth of the Wandering Jew, Ahasverus denied Christ a resting place while Christ was traveling to Golgotha. In turn, Ahasverus was... Les mer
A Perfect Vacuum
In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature--works that, in many cases, could not... Les mer