Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial decades surrounding decolonization, Preetha Mani contends... Læs mere
An anthology of poems in the Age of Trump - about much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes.
Max Reinhardt was one of the formative directors of modern theatre. Marx provides a broad panorama of Reinhardt’s work, portraying not only his work method and some of his best known productions, but also the cultural conditions of his visionary enterprise.
The renowned scholar Rüdiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism and, more critically, traces its lasting influence,... Læs mere
Adrian Johnston's Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, planned for three volumes, will lay the foundations for a new... Læs mere
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rice University.
Slavoj Zizek is an important philosopher, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular culture and contemporary... Læs mere
Brings together twenty-two essays by Paul Ricoeur under the topics of structuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and religion. In dramatic... Læs mere
Anna Akhmatova was a great Russian poet of the 20th century. Lydia Chukovskaya, an admirer who became the poet's close friend, kept intimate diaries that reveal... Læs mere
An analysis of the writer's obligations to truth, and an astute satire on the workings of history and politics in a totalitarian state.
The second volume of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres.
Because mask improvisation is relatively new in American theatre training, this work is designed to acquaint readers with the... Læs mere