Stanford University: 1318 books
A Question of Tradition
Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded...
The Slow Boil
Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they...
Aspiring to Home
South Asians in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means...
The World in Play
Portraits of a Victorian Concept
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future.
A world in play means two things: a world...
Impossible Modernism
T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Impossible Modernism reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) to examine the relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. It focuses particularly on how they both...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of the sources, and the motivations behind their release—which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies....
by Brenda Machosky
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Thinking Allegory Otherwise is a unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways. The contributors include Jody Enders, Karen Feldman, Angus Fletcher, Blair Hoxby, Brenda Machosky, Catherine Gimelli Martin, Stephen Orgel, Maureen Quilligan,...
Clepsydra
Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and...
Critical Excess
Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the...
Chinese Chicago
Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that developed at the same time in Chicago. In this...
Testing the Limit
Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered...
by Gerald Bruns
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" On Ceasing to Be Human examines philosophical as well as literary texts and contexts, in which various senses of Cavell's question might be explored and developed. During the past thirty or so years,...
The Off-Screen
An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting everything that is within it from the continuity of the world and creating a realm we understand as...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses. As practices and ideas travel the globe—such as the promotion and transmission of zero tolerance and retributive justice programs, the near ubiquitous acceptance of the...