Stanford University: 1318 books
Borrowed Light
Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe....
The Enigma of Isaac Babel
Biography, History, Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded"...
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle
Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893–1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer. His dramatic life story offers a fascinating...
by Jonathan M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
For generations of German-speaking Jews, the works of Goethe and Schiller epitomized the world of European high culture, a realm that Jews actively participated in as both readers and consumers. Yet from the 1830s on, Jews writing in German also produced a vast corpus of popular fiction that was explicitly...
The Arts and the Definition of the Human
Toward a Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves—our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human—are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and language. Margolis rejects the idea that any concepts...
Warped Mourning
Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their...
The Ridiculous Jew
The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Rosenshield does not attempt to expose the stereotype—which was self-consciously and unashamedly employed....
The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination
A Case of Russian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people...
Binding Violence
Literary Visions of Political Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat—that speak to a blind spot in democratic...
Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity
Rise and Decline of an Urban Image
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Since the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Barcelona has striven to sustain an image of modernity that distinguishes itself within Spain. Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity traces the development of that image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. It begins with...
Adventures in the French Trade
Fragments Toward a Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France...
Multidirectional Memory
Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the...
Worlding America
A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives before 1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary. Building on recent reconsiderations of American literature in light of transnational and hemispheric approaches, it follows the migration...
The Courtesan and the Gigolo
The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death—the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde....