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Swan’s Way
Rarely has anyone taken Swann's Way down a stranger path, and never with such intriguing results. What begins as a meditation on the fictional...
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Renaissance Drama 31
"Performing Affect," Volume 31 of Renaissance Drama, examine the rehearsal of emotion on the Renaissance stage. These new essays consider...
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Russia Reads Rousseau, 1762-1825
This book is the first study of the dynamics and individual character of the Russian reception of Rousseau. An earlier version of the manuscript was...
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The Book of Hours
This is the first complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours in more than forty years. This bilingual edition provides...
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The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde
Among the avant-garde of the early twentieth century, the German movement remains one of the least understood in the current avant-garde and...
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Metamorphoses - A Play
Called by Time the "theater event of the year," Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to stunning visual life. Set in...
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Milestones - A Bilingual Edition
Milestones is an apt title for this collection, for the eighty-four poems within show a poet passing from mere talent into mastery of her craft....
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Choice of the Elect
Edmee lacks for nothing. Her adoring husband is a handsome and cosmopolitan engineer, they have two beautiful children, and they live a prosperous...
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Gogol’s Afterlife
Gogol's claim to the title of national literary classic is incontestable. An exemplar of popular audiences no less than for the intelligentsia,...
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Chicago Parks Rediscovered
With this exquisite collection of color photographs of Chicago's parks, photographer and Chicago native, Frank Dina has cast a fresh eye on these...
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New Essays on Fichte
The philosophical thought of J. G. Fichte, particularly his later work, is at the very center of the paradigm shift under way in the field of German...
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The Noise of Time - Selected Prose
Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in...
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The Thinking of the Master
Mastery of many sorts emerges in new configurations in Peter BÜrger's The Thinking of the Master: as an idea developed by Hegel in the...
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Through the Poet’s Eye
Though best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), and Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945) wrote some of the most original...
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Ecuador: A Travel Journal
Poet Henri Michaux boarded a ship for Ecuador in 1927 as "a man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal." The result is a...
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Time in the Ditch
In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effect of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950s. The possibility that the...
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Prior to Meaning
Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually...
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The Sovereigns
This memoir is a moving testament to the power of family. The Lucas clan was a close-knit, successful family of rural German Jews--butchers and meat...
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The Frame and the Mirror
If the postmodern is a collage--as some critics have suggested--or if collage is itself a kernel of the postmodern, what does this mean for our way...
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The Liberation of Tolstoy
This first annotated translation of Ivan Bunin's The Liberation of Tolstoy is a timely accompaniment to the ongoing revival of the Russian...
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The House of Returned Echoes
Arnošt Lustig's fiction has always been to close to the facts for comfort. In The House of Returned Echoes, he pays tribute to the life of his...
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The Day Underneath the Day
Gifted with a vivid and exact skill, C. Dale Young's writing resembles an intricate anatomy lesson. His powers of observation probe the small...
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Human Experience of Time
First published in 1975 and still without equal, The Human Experience of Time provides a thorough review of the concept of time in the Western...
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Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology
Combining Maurice Merleau-Ponty's 1960 course notes on Edmund Husserl's "The Origin of Geometry," his course summary, related...
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