Judith: 2966 books
Black Atlas
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism,...
Mistral's Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man—Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all.
Maggy: Flamboyant mistress of Mistral’s youth, the toast of Paris in...
The Latin Deli
Prose and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Reviewing her novel, The Line of the Sun, the New York Times Book Review hailed Judith Ortiz Cofer as "a writer of authentic gifts, with a genuine and important story to tell." Those gifts are on abundant display in The Latin Deli, an evocative collection of poetry, personal essays, and...
Ballet in the Cane Fields
Vignettes from a Dominican Wanderlogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Ballet in the Cane Fields, by diplomat-cum-author Judith Ravin, takes the reader to the Dominican Republic of today—the “loudest place on earth”—where nothing is too insignificant to be a conversation starter. While neighbors bring chairs outside for idle conversation, everything moves in slow...
The Story
A Reporter's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Judith Miller—star reporter for The New York Times, foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous locations, Pulitzer Prize winner, and longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources—turns her reporting skills on herself in this “memoir of high-stakes journalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
In...
The Bad Secret
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The Bad Secret takes readers on a dark yet sometimes comic sojourn through the undercurrents of a life suddenly unmoored by grief, and then to the subsequent rise of the spirit to recovery. Tough-minded and intellectual, Judith Harris's poems are also distinguished by brilliant images close to metaphysical....
In a Queer Time and Place
Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
by Judith Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides...
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. In it, Nietzsche presents a set of problems, criticisms and philosophical challenges that continue both to inspire and to trouble contemporary thought. In addition,...
by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu...
Wittgenstein
A Way of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In Wittgenstein's Way of Seeing, Judith Genova provides a an illuminating introduction to two surprisingly neglected aspects of his work: his conception of philosophy and his search for a style to embody his revolutionary practice. Genova examines the nuances, contours, and texture of logical twists...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
Reading the Allegorical Intertext
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging...
Motion and the English Verb
A Diachronic Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. Huber demonstrates how...