According to Stavans (Latin American and Latino culture, Amherst College), Luis Leal has, since his first publication in 1942, "done more than any other writer or scholar to foster the critical apprec
Ricoeur waited until the 1980s to publish a series of essays on his overriding project, an ontology of action. This edition of the 1991 translation contains the essence of that project, from Ricoeur's
We are living in what one author describes as "highly promotional times." Governments, corporations, non-profits, and special interest groups all have spin doctors trying to turn the news to their ad
In About Chekhov Ivan Bunin sought to free the writer from limiting political, social, and aesthetic assessments of his life and work, and to present both in a more genuine, insightful, and personal w
That aesthetics is central to Hegel's philosophical enterprise is not widely acknowledged, nor has his significant contribution to the discipline been truly appreciated. Some may be familiar with his
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes at the very nat
The problem of the will has long been viewed as central to Heidegger's later thought. In the first book to focus on this problem, Bret W. Davis clarifies key issues from the philosopher's later period
When age becomes a factor in their ability to find good work in Hollywood, a director and a critic are forced to step back and reevaluate their futures in the movie business.
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 classic send-up of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex
Contemplations of survival by one of the leading Czech writers of the twentieth centuryIt occurred to me why I was able to forgive the Italians, but never the Germans. Was it because the Italians nev
For decades Continental theorists from Derrida to Deleuze have engaged in provocative, penetrating, and often extensive examinations of modern philosophers-studies that have opened up new ways to thin
When Abigail Adams made her famous plea to John Adams to "remember the ladies," the role of advocacy on behalf of U.S. gender equality began its rocky and still uncompleted journey. In Women and the P
Twins who anesthetize and dress up small animals to cheer their grieving mother; childhood friends who return every year to the amusement park near the site of their kidnapping; an awkward teen trying
The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their liv
The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their li
The great Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann died in Rome but was buried in Klagenfurt, the city of her childhood. Only days later, Uwe Johnson made a pilgrimage to her grave site and to Klagenfurt its
Tengelyi (philosophy, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany) outlines a phenomenological approach to questions of meaning, sense, temporality, unity of life, narrative history, self-identity, inter
As a member of the mid-sixteenth-century literary group the Pleiade, Joachim du Bellay sought to elevate his native French to the level of the classical languages - a goal pursued with great spirit,
Challenging the view that Pushkin rejected drama as political commentary in his effort to modernize Russian theater, Clayton (arts, U. of Ottawa) studies his 1831 play to argue that it reflects Pushki
In authoritative, nonpolemical essays on some of the latest and most contentious issues surrounding the Holocaust, the contributors to this volume revisit some topics central to Holocaust studies, suc
Dworkin (English, Princeton U.) explains how to comprehend modern poets, in various media, who go to great lengths to make themselves incomprehensible. The CiP claims the study was his 1998 doctoral d
In authoritative, nonpolemical essays on some of the latest and most contentious issues surrounding the Holocaust, the contributors to this volume revisit some topics central to Holocaust studies, suc
Late Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of the country's great
An Irish-American woman returns to her old home in Niger to visit her daughter and finds herself working the clinic of a village devestated by drought, in a critically acclaimed autobiographical novel
"Welcome to the 21st Century" bids the opening line of this literary "multimedia" experience, brought to us by three leading Black author-activists of the post-Civil Rights Movement generation. This c
Doyle (English, U. of Massachusetts) presents ten essays that use the theories of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (on the relation of the body to the world) as a springboard to examine a
Avant-garde poet Henri Michaux boarded a steamship bound for Ecuador in December 1927 as "a man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal." He set out to record a journey, but his vivi
When age becomes a factor in their ability to find good work in Hollywood, a director and a critic are forced to step back and reevaluate their futures in the movie business.
Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays t
This bilingual edition introduces readers to the sixteenth century poet Jean de Sponde, considered one of the most important poets of the Renaissance period and a precursor to Donne, in his poetry Spo
Arnošt Lustig's fiction has always been too close to the facts for comfort. In The House of Returned Echoes, he pays tribute to the life of his father, who died in Auschwitz in 1944. In Prague in the
The Hermitage is a compelling and heartbreaking soliloquy, a farewell to a lover long gone and to the self-imposed exile undertaken by the woman he left behind. On her last night of isolation, the nar
This vivid expose of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. They Forged the
Russia has fascinated outsiders for centuries, and according to Alicia Chudo, it is high time this borscht stopped. In this hilarious send up of Russian literature and history, Chudo takes no prisoner
In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition which cannot properly be situated within the
The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the d
Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of the human experience: the willingness to die to sanctify a deity, defend a
