Shows how one of the standard issues of analytic philosophy - realism and anti-realism - has also been at the heart of continental philosophy.... Læs mere
This is a compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that demonstrate the degree to which ancient Russian fairy-tale fantasies acquired political and historical meanings during the catastrophic twentieth century.
Offers a collection of essays on a range of themes and figures spanning the period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers.... Læs mere
Offers contemporary readers seventy-three short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous... Læs mere
In Robert Bowie's translation, with annotations and a critical afterword, this collection of Ivan Bunin's work affords readers of English an opportunity for a... Læs mere
Theatricality is often dismissed as a distraction from “real” politics, as when cynical political gestures are derided as “pure” or “only theater.” But the... Læs mere
Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of... Læs mere
Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our... Læs mere
Sterling A. Brown was renowned for his prolific poetry and scholarship on African American folklife. Edited by the late distinguished poet Michael Harper, this... Læs mere