University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
Trams or Tailfins?
Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these...
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Roger Ebert is a name synonymous with the movies. In Ebert’s Bests, he takes readers through the journey of how he became a film critic, from his days at a student-run cinema club to his rise as a television commentator in At the Movies and Siskel & Ebert. Recounting the influence of French...
Dolphin Confidential
Confessions of a Field Biologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Who hasn’t fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? We need not live this solely in our imaginations anymore. With Dolphin Confidential Maddalena Bearzi invites all of us shore-bound dreamers to join her and travel alongside the dolphins. In...
by Julia A. Stern
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the...
Paraliterary
The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, “good” readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre’s tongue-in-cheek term, “bad” readers. They...
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man
Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unknown. This volume illuminates three major currents of thought dominant in the earlier Italian Renaissance:...
Bas Jan Ader
Death Is Elsewhere
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a...
Galateo
Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
“Since it is the case that you are now just beginning that journey that I have for the most part as you see completed, that is, the one through mortal life, and loving you so very much as I do, I have proposed to myself—as one who has been many places—to show you those places in life where,...
Bernini
His Life and His Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic...
Comics & Media
A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry"
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success*. Comics & Media* reflects that, bringing together an amazing array of contributors--creators and critics alike--to discuss the state, future, and potential of the medium.
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The Ancient Shore
Dispatches from Naples
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard’s writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by...
Laughing at Leviathan
Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In Laughing at Leviathan, Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty...
Poetry and Its Others
News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system—“suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse,” in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary poetry’s animated dialogue with other...
by Jahan Ramazani
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most provincial of the arts,” according to W. H. Auden. But in *A Transnational Poetics, *Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination—in modernism...