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Russian Nights
This captivating novel is the summation of Odoevsky's views and interests in many fields: Gothic literature, romanticism, mysticism, the occult,...
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Bread for the Departed
Bread for the Departed details the experience of the Jewish community in Warsaw between 1940 and 1942; the final chapters take place during the mass...
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A Journey Back
At the age of twenty-one, Arnon Tamir was deported to Poland from his home in Germany. A Journey Back describes Tamir's life in Germany, his...
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Merry-Making in Old Russia
Popov's short stories move from the village prose genre into the territory of the grotesque via the stark reality of late Soviet life. In a...
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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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Language Beyond Postmodernism
Eugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays edited by David Michael Levin. This compilation...
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Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty
In Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty, editor Hugh J. Silverman has collected essays from the leading scholars in Continental...
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Piaget Philosophy and the Human Sciences
Leading scholars place Piaget's theory of the development and nature of knowledge in the context of twentieth-century European thought, and...
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Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading
Julian W. Connolly's companion to Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading includes a general introduction discussing the work in the...
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Shayndl and Salomea
At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history. From stories both told and untold,...
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Hegel Myths and Legends
For many years, scholars in German idealism have known that a number of the views of Hegel rife in the Anglo-Saxon world are highly inaccurate. The...
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Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis
Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry"...
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Tolstoy: Plays V2 - Volume II: 1886-1889
Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist. Because his plays are satirical, didactic, and colored by complex...
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Contradictory Characters
Winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism
Playwright and critic Albert Bermel examines thirteen modern plays to assess the...
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Following Form and Function
The concepts of form and function have traditionally been defined in terms of biology and then extended to other disciplines. Stephen T. Asma...
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The Psychoanalytic Movement
How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of...
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The Dance of the Intellect
Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single," or can it accommodate the impurities Yeats and his Modernist...
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Death and the Dervish
Sheikh Nuruddin is a dervish at a Sarajevo monastery in the eighteenth century during the Turkish occupation. When his brother is arrested, he...
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The Return of the Author
The Romanian critic Eugen Simion contests leading twentieth-century critics who deny the author a place in criticism by maintaining that the...
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The Unloved - From the Diary of Perla S.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
Perla S. is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl who, while interred in the Theresienstadt...
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Hegel Myths and Legends
For many years, scholars in German idealism have known that a number of the views of Hegel rife in the Anglo-Saxon world are highly inaccurate. The...
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Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu
On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified...
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Mask Improvisation for Actor Training and Performance
Because mask improvisation work is relatively new in American theater training, this book is designed not only to acquaint readers with the theory of...
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Phenomenology and Skepticism
This volume of essays honors the extensive contributions of James M. Edie to the development of phenomenological thought. Grounded in Edie's...
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