Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are meant to be a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy.
In Decadent Style, John Reed defines “decadent art” broadly enough to encompass literature, music, and the visual arts and precisely enough to examine individual works in detail. Reed... Læs mere
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A Jew, Pole, daughter, mother, wife, Communist, migrant, Holocaust survivor, and refugee driven to fight for a better world. Ordinary or... Læs mere
Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and... Læs mere
For Will Wells, recipient of the thirteenth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, this includes reaching across centuries and continents, into the minds and hearts of disparate... Læs mere
Offers a collection of poems that are greetings from destinations as disparate as Cape Cod, Kentuckiana, and Croatia. Chosen from hundreds of submissions, this book is the winner of the ninth Summers Poetry Prize.
The first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë. It intervenes in debates on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, and the position of women in the Victorian period.
This case study contextualizes calls to decolonize global health within a long history of negotiations between scientists based in... Læs mere
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enslaved Africans and Asians were crucial to expanding the Portuguese Catholic empire.... Læs mere
Although one of the world’s deadliest diseases, tuberculosis today is confined to a small group of countries, including... Læs mere