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City of Light
Paul Kessey, age twenty-nine, is caught between two worlds. Although his is a privileged world of successful blacks in Chicago, and he is a graduate...
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New Poems - A Bilingual Edition
New Poems (1907-1908) represented a departure for Rilke from the traditional German lyric poetry of which he was then considered a master. Apparent...
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The Grassy Street (Vol.18 of the GLAS Series)
The portrait of a moldering Moscow outskirt, The Grassy Street chronicles ordinary life in a typical Soviet suburb in the 1940's. Unsavory stuff...
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Poetry On and Off the Page
The fourteen essays that make up this collection have as their common theme a reconsideration of the role historical and cultural change has played...
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Smoke over Birkenau
Winner of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award
An Italian-Jewish journalist and schoolteacher who joined the Italian partisans in 1943,...
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The Poetic Avant-Garde
The Poetic Avant-Garde compares three avant-garde groups active in the era between the world wars: those surrounding Jorge Luis Borges, W.H. Auden,...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
This companion to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's includes a general introduction discussing the work in the context of the author's oeuvre as well...
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Disputatio Volume 2
Northwestern University Press is pleased to announce this volume in its journal addressing late medieval culture (ca. 1300-1550). Constructions of...
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Imagining Otherwise
Andrew Cutrofello's book performs a psychoanalytic inversion of transcendental philosophy, taking Kant's synthetic a prior judgments and...
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Renaissance Drama 26
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The...
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Inscriptions
Positioning itself within the Continental tradition, Inscriptions is an interwoven set of investigations into the differences between phenomenology...
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Rilke’s Russia: A Cultural Encounter
Anna A. Tavis explores the important of Russia in shaping Rilke's aesthetics. Rilke's two trips to Russia at the turn of the century, made in...
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Travels Through France and Italy
"Traduced by malice, persecuted by fiction, abandoned by false patrons, and overwhelmed by the sense of a domestic calamity," Tobias...
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The Man with the Black Coat
This book brings together works by two of the outstanding talents of the Soviet period, Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. The Man with the Black...
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The Urban Crisis
While the problems facing our cities increase in number and magnitude, there are few coordinated mechanisms in place for effecting change. In an...
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The Ethics of Postmodernity
In The Ethics of Postmodernity, Gary B. Madison and Marty Fairbairn have collected instructive and illuminating essays that address the dilemmas left...
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Vagadu - The Adventure of Catherine Crachat
Vagadu continues the saga of Catherine Crachet begun in Hecate. Having returned to Paris after a sojourn in Vienna, Catherine seeks new...
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Phenomenology
J.N. Mohanty is one of America's leading interpreters of Husserl's phenomenology and the phenomenological movement for which Husserl's...
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The Disappearance
First published posthumously in 1987 during the post-glasnost rise of literary freedom, Disappearance is a work of earlier times. Originally begun in...
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Winter Dialogue
Best known in the U.S. as a scholar and critic, Tomas Venclova is a gifted poet whose work has remained largely unknown to an English-speaking...
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