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Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle

Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle


Olga Matich



Erotic Utopia makes a theoretically exciting and richly informative contribution to our understandin...
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Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire

Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire


Jeff Nunokawa



Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. ...
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Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics

Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics


Gonda Van Steen



Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire uses these traveler’s tales of Marcellus as a pla...
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On Dialogue

On Dialogue


David Bohm



The late David Bohm, one of the greatest physicists and foremost thinkers this century, was Fellow o...
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Reforming the Humanities: Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times

Reforming the Humanities: Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times


Peter Levine



Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism T...
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Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age

Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age


Grammatiki A. Karla



Grammatiki A. Karla (PhD 2000, Freie Universitat Berlin), is lecturer in Greek Literature at the Uni...
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Toys, Games, and Media

Toys, Games, and Media


David Buckingham, Jeffrey Goldstein, Gilles Brougere



Toys, Games, and Media provides an impressive overview of the toy culture, children, and digital med...
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Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

Shakespeare, Sex, and Love


Stanley Wells



As anyone who has read the non-Bowdlerized editions of his plays can attest, Shakespeare loved a lus...
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My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts

My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts


N. Katherine Hayles



“[My Mother Was a Computer] exhibits an impressively interdisciplinary energy: one minute, Hay...
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The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition (Oxford Oriental Monographs)

The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition (Oxford Oriental Monographs)


Philip F. Kennedy



"...an accomplished and attractive study of one of the Arabic language's most celebrated poets."--Mi...
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Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual

Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual


Paul A. Griffith



Review of Texas BooksPenguin Pocket Anthology ...
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Reconstructing Tradition: Advaita Acarya and Gaudiya Vaisnavism at the Cusp of the Twentieth Century

Reconstructing Tradition: Advaita Acarya and Gaudiya Vaisnavism at the Cusp of the Twentieth Century


Rebecca Manring



(E. Findly Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries January 2006) (Intl Journ of Hindu Studie...
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Basic Elements of Narrative

Basic Elements of Narrative


David Herman



"This book has some very valuable pieces of narrative wisdom that would be useful to scholars in nar...
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Understanding Storytelling Among African American Children: A Journey From Africa To America

Understanding Storytelling Among African American Children: A Journey From Africa To America


Tempii B. Champion



Champion's book is appealing to scholars of critical language studies for its apt incorporation of p...
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Electra (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Electra (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)


Euripides, M. J. Cropp Tr.



Text: English, Greek --This text refers to the edition. ...
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Letters for Origin 1950-1956

Letters for Origin 1950-1956


Charles Olson



Letters for Origin 1950-1956...
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Media Literacy and Semiotics (Semiotics and Popular Culture)

Media Literacy and Semiotics (Semiotics and Popular Culture)


Elliot Gaines



Media Literacy and Semiotics is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and the general pu...
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Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present)


Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle



"Of Hospitality provides us with a glimpse of Jacques Derrida as not only the brilliant thinker and ...
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A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens

A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens


Eleanor Cook



In contrast to guides that provide long, involved commentaries, Cook's incisiveness and brevity are ...
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century (Companion to Literature Series)

The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century (Companion to Literature Series)


William Flesch



The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century (Companion to Literature Series)...
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Heidegger and ''the jews''

Heidegger and ''the jews''


Jean-Francois Lyotard



This work is the author's response to "the ongoing debates in France regarding the resurgence of ant...
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Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Comparative Feminist Studies)

Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Comparative Feminist Studies)


Laura Mulvey, Flavia Laviosa



Visions of Struggle leaves the reader with a revealing and nuanced account of the very struggle to b...
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In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)


Ronald G. Witt



'"Ronals Witt's new book, recipient in 2000 of the Renaissance Society of America's Phyllis Goodhart...
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Culture, Language and Personality: Selected Essays

Culture, Language and Personality: Selected Essays


Edward Sapir



"For sheer brilliance Edward Sapir is unsurpassed by any American anthropologist, living or dead."--...
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Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition

Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition


Henry D. Thoreau



"There is nothing like this—within the covers of one book—in the world of Thoreau schola...
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