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Philosophy in Dialogue
Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. Inevitably,...
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New Short Fiction from Cuba
With the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Cuba's political future, the onslaught of tourists, and the...
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A Thing of This World
At a time when the analytic/continental split dominates contemporary philosophy, this ambitious work offers a careful and clear-minded way to bridge...
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Comic Mask in the Commedia dell
Nobody says Shakespeare is dead, Antonio Fava tells us, but Commedia, they say, is dead. Why? Because clearly, he goes on, we have Shakespeare's...
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Guy Davenport - Postmodernism and After
Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a...
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About Chekhov: The Unfinished Symphony
Seven years after the death of Anton Chekhov, his sister, Maria, wrote to a friend, "You asked for someone who could write a biography of my...
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Postal Indiscretions
In a brief life deeply and traumatically disrupted by two years in concentration camps as a political prisoner, Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) was...
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Heather Raffo
This new edition of Nine Parts of Desire includes a CD that is an elegantly enhanced audio version of the play with the full text performed by...
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Style and Time
Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity--the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its...
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Conversation with Spinoza
Prizing ideas above all else, radical thinker Baruch Spinoza left little behind in the way of personal facts and furnishings. But what of the tug of...
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Lessons and Legacies VII
As the discipline of Holocaust studies matures, new questions and themes come to the fore. Among these are critical issues that receive serious...
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Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy
For decades Continental theorists from Derrida to Deleuze have engaged in provocative, penetrating, and often extensive examinations of modern...
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Odyssey, The - A Play
This dramatic adaptation of Homer's myth begins with a modern young woman who is struggling to understand Robert Fitzgerald's translation of...
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The Day I Wasn’t There
In this memoir-novel, a narrator who resembles Helene Cixous obsessively recounts an incident--the premature death of her first-born child, a Down's...
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The Idea of a Free Press
With the introduction of the printing press in England in 1476, a struggle over its control--and its potential for interrupting power--was joined....
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Literature and Human Equality
When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr....
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Testimony after Catastrophe
Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies,...
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The Painter’s Wife
Evelyn Rowat is an extraordinary product of a childhood tyrannized by her emotionally frigid and abusive mother whose life centers on her weekly...
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Renaissance Drama 34
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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Under the Sky of My Africa
Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the...
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Heather Raffo
As topical as today's newspaper headlines, these rich monologues bring to life nine distinct Iraqi women whose very different stories convey the...
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Reveries of the Wild Woman
All the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, I dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria.
Born in Oran, Algeria, Helene Cixous spent her...
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A Russian Prince in the Soviet State
Of a noble and distinguished family disenfranchised by the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Trubetskoi (1892-1937) alone remmained in Russia, and...
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