Examines a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and... Læs mere
Melville's long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Clarel is one of the most complex theological explorations of faith and doubt in all of American literature, and this edition brings Melville's poem to new life.
Brings together the work of a wide range of Chicago theatre companies to share strategies for cocreating theatrical performance as an ensemble. Each... Læs mere
Osip Mandelstam has come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. This volume includes his autobiographical sketches, ""The Noise of Time""; his novella ""The Egyptian Stamp""; ""Fourth Prose""; and his travel memoirs. There are essays by Clarence Brown.
Kim O'Neil's debut collection is a fictional biography of three generations of women. It begins at the turn of the twenty-first century with Jean, a young woman at an impasse. What... Læs mere
Examines twenty-first-century documentary theatre in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the... Læs mere
Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett’s library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosopher’s relevance to the Nobel laureate’s work is scarcely acknowledged... Læs mere
"First published in Croatian in 2007. Copyright (c) by Miljenko Jergovic/Actes Sud"--T.p. verso.
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 death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit.