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Eugene Jolas
Critical Writings, 1924-1951
Av Northwestern University Press, Klaus H. Kiefer m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
412 kr
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Dividing his youth between the United States and the bilingual Alsace-Lorraine, Eugene Jolas (1894-1952) flourished in three languages. As an editor and poet, he came to know the major writers and artists of his time and enjoyed a pivotal position between the Anglo-American and Continental …
Billy Budd Melville Volume 11
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2017
688 kr
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The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a masterpiece, a canonical work. But that assessment is at least partly founded on the assumption that …
War with the Newts
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 1996
283 kr
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First published in 1936, a story which focuses on the discovery by humankind of a species of intelligent reptiles which also live on Earth. People have exploited these creatures, but what would happen if the reptiles turned on their overlords?
Israel Potter Special Trade Edition
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 1998
267 kr
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Southern Press
Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
297 kr
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The Southern Press suggests that the South's journalism struck a literary pose closer to the older English press than to the democratic penny press or bourgeois magazines of the urban North. The Southern journalist was more likely to be a Romantic and an intellectual. The region's journalism was …
People Are the News
Grant Pick's Chicago Stories
Av Northwestern University Press, John Pick
Inbunden, 2008
352 kr
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This distinctive collection features writings from Grant Pick's long, distinguished career in literary journalism. Pick had a uniquely open eye and ear for people who were in difficult situations, doing extraordinary things, or both. Most of his stories focus on interesting but overlooked …
Daniil Kharms
Writing and the Event
Av Northwestern University Press
Inbunden, 2009
1582 kr
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The 'texts' of Russian artist and thinker Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) were so many and varied and often unique (narrative, dramatic, philosophical, poetic, mathematical, pictographic, diagrammatic, musical, biographical) that they defied categorization - and, thus, thorough study or appreciation - …
Daniil Kharms
Writing and the Event
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
445 kr
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The 'texts' of Russian artist and thinker Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) were so many and varied and often unique (narrative, dramatic, philosophical, poetic, mathematical, pictographic, diagrammatic, musical, biographical) that they defied categorization - and, thus, thorough study or appreciation - …
Answering the Ruins
Poems
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2008
206 kr
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In his new collection, Gregory Fraser crafts extraordinary poems out of ordinary subjects such as relationships and childhood. Moving from narrative to monologue to lyric, he fills each poem with wise and tricky allusions and a rich range of expression. In ""Autobiography at Seventeen,"" for …
Sublime Artist's Studio
Nabokov and Painting
Av Northwestern University Press
Inbunden, 2009
598 kr
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In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his keen sense of visual detail, nuanced perception of color, and vast knowledge of the fine arts are all manifest in his literary works, which abound with …
Retrieval of the Beautiful
Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
387 kr
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In this elegant new study, Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson's formulation, the ontology of Flesh as element …
Three Sons
Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald
Av Northwestern University Press
Inbunden, 2010
1582 kr
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Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction - J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald - have all acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka, both in interviews and in their own academic essays and …
Four Places
A Play
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
206 kr
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Sketched together on a deceptively simple frame, this emotionally precise play uses its spare structure to devastating and darkly comic effect. A brother and sister have received word from their parents' caretaker that their elderly parents may be a danger to each other. The brother breaks his …
Trace of Judaism
Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
313 kr
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Linking new readings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, and Osip Mandelstam to the work of Franco-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, ""The Trace of Judaism"" asks: how does Judaism haunt Russian literature; in what ways is Levinas' ethics as 'Russian' as it is arguably 'Jewish'; and, more …
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
331 kr
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In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgotten - obscured in part by a myopic focus on solving 'environmental problems' without asking how these problems are framed. But an 'environmental crisis', existing as it does in the human world of value …
Tempered Wind
Av Northwestern University Press, Phyllis Lassner m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
259 kr
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Poet Karen Gershon (1923-1993) opens ""A Tempered Wind"", the sequel to volume 1 of her autobiography ""A Lesser Child"", in 1943. It begins tragically with the death of Karen's sister Anne in England, where they had escaped from Nazi Germany with their third sister Lise via the Kinder-transport …
Third Body
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
202 kr
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In ""The Third Body"", the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Helene Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers. Cixous …
Traveling on One Leg
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2010
234 kr
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Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the orbit of three troubled men, while simultaneously embarking on an inner exploration of exile, homeland, and …
Where I Must Go
A Novel
Av Northwestern University Press
Inbunden, 2009
336 kr
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Lyrical, penetrating, and highly charged, this novel displays a delicately tuned sense of difference and belonging. Poet Angela Jackson brings her superb sense of language and of human possibility to the story of young Magdalena Grace, whose narration takes readers through both privilege and …
Gate of Horn
Poems
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2010
221 kr
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Apart from two volumes published in the 1990s, the work of L.S. Asekoff has been winning admirers only among those lucky enough to encounter it in poetry journals and magazines over the last three decades. Now comes a new collection from this startlingly original poet. Astonishing in its variety of …
Stateside
Poems
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2010
206 kr
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Although the poems in ""Stateside"" are concerned with a husband's deployment to the war in Iraq, Jehanne Dubrow's riveting collection is driven more by intellectual curiosity and emotional exploration than by any overt political agenda. The speaker in these poems attempts to understand her …
