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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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The Void of Ethics
In a pluralistic society without absolute standards of judgment, how can an individual live a moral life? This is the question Robert Musil...
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Victory Gardens Theater Presents
In 2001, Victory Gardens Theater received the Tony Award for Regional Theatre and was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the...
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Waiting for Gautreaux
On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a...
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Apprehending the Inaccessible
Throughout history philosophers have relentlessly pursued what may be called "inaccessible domains." This book explores how the traditions...
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The Architects
Written between 1963 and 1966, when its publication would have proved to be political dynamite-and its author's undoing-this novel of political...
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The Military and the Press
Because news is a weapon of war--affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy--for more than a century America's wartime officials have...
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Earl B. Dickerson
At fifteen, Earl Burrus Dickerson stowed away on a train in Canton, Mississippi, fleeing the racial oppression of his native South. But Chicago, the...
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Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
Although Albanian literature dates back to the 1500s, creative prose in that nation is very much a twentieth-century phenomenon; and much as the...
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Poems - A Bilingual Edition
In cities strange and yet weirdly familiar, women watched by monstrous demons give birth to headless infants, vast gods straddle apartment blocks and...
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Postmodern Pooh
Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, this sequel of sorts to the...
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Night of Denial: Stories and Novellas
The first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Ivan Bunin is often considered the last of the great Russian masters. Already...
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Binding Words
In a work that brings a new field-altering perspective as well as new tools to the history of philosophy, Karen S. Feldman offers a powerful and...
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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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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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The Black Notebook
In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Celine Poulin, who was born a midget, works the night shift at...
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Subject to Delusions
A figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. As such, the concept might...
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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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Bonbons Assortis/Assorted Candies
Bonbons Assortis /Assorted Candies completes Michel Tremblay's autobiographical narrative oeuvre. Like the previous three volumes, which...
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