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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,... Les mer
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... Les mer
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"... Les mer
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... Les mer
Contradictory Characters
Winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism Playwright and critic Albert Bermel examines thirteen modern plays to assess the... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer
Venus and Don Juan
In her sixth book of poems, Carol Frost gives a bravura performance as metaphorist and deft artist. Her poems are an inquiry into morals and mystery:... Les mer
Measures of Science
Drawing on past and current research in continental philosophy, Measures of Science: Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought... Les mer
Antonina
Patterned on the novels of the BrontË sisters, Antonina is a poignant account of a young Russian whose life is shaped by the cruel neglect of her... Les mer
War with the Newts
Working in the fantastic satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Karel Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent... Les mer
Don Quixote in Exile
Peter Furst's biographical novel is the chronicle of a Jew who fled Germany in the 1930s. The odyssey begins in Monte Carlo, where a narrator... Les mer
Words Are Something Else
David Albahari is one of the most prominent prose writers to come out of the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His short stories, which... Les mer
Midrash and Theory
In Midrash and Theory, David Stern presents an approach to midrashic literature through the prism of contemporary theory. As midrash--the... Les mer
The Shadow of That Thought
The debate on Heidegger's turning toward National Socialism that began in the 1940s returned in force with the publication of Victor Farias's... Les mer
Mimesis and the Human Animal
In Mimesis and the Human Animal, Robert Storey argues that human culture derives from human biology and that literary representation therefore must... Les mer