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My Final Territory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as public intellectual he has received numerous awards including the Herder Prize, Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Goethe Medal.
My Final Territory is a collection...
by David S. Danaher
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres – poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and political speeches – he left behind a range of...
Writing the Yugoslav Wars
Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational...
by Guillaume De Machaut, Minnette Gaudet, Constance B. Hieatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of fourteenth-century France, had considerable influence on subsequent generations of writers in both France and England. With this scholarly translation, Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt made his long-neglected narrative poem, the...
The Cast of Character
The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques and perspectives from rhetoric, philosophy, and sometimes theology to fashion figures who define not...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only recently...
Objects Observed
The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes...
Selections from Canadian Poets
With Occasional Critical and Biographical Notes and an Introductory Essay on Canadian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Selections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation...
They Need Nothing
Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how...
Lorca in Tune with Falla
Literary and Musical Interludes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Federico García Lorca (1889-1936) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century; Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) is Spain’s most performed composer of the same period. The two were very different – Lorca was gay, liberal, and a member of the avant garde, while Falla was...
by Enrique Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century...
Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504)
A Discourse of Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants.
Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial...
Heroic Forms
Cervantes and the Literature of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility...
Snorri Sturluson and the Edda
The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Why would Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the most powerful and rapacious Icelander of his generation, dedicate so much time and effort to producing the Edda, a text that is widely recognized as the most significant medieval source for pre-Christian Norse myth and poetics? Kevin J. Wanner brings...