A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature.
Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American PoetsA bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth centuryOne of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life.
How the legacy of the Civil Waras presented by writers, poets, and artists of the timehas shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others to investigate the long cultural shadow of America's cataclysmic sundering.
How the legacy of the Civil Waras presented by writers, poets, and artists of the timehas shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others to investigate the long cultural shadow of America's cataclysmic sundering.
Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American PoetsA bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth centuryOne of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life.
Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeusand its major themes, creation and beautythrough the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato's Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers.
Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeusand its major themes, creation and beautythrough the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato's Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers.
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ';the Wandering Jew'The story behind the mythical figure of ';the Wandering Jew' is one of the most fascinating tales in European history.
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.
El reconocimiento internacional y su condición de escritor icónico parecen dejar a Borges a salvo de las disputas, aunque todavía pesan sobre él estigmas o prejuicios que para algunos lectores funcionan como barreras infranqueables.
Resistencias letradas reune un conjunto de ensayos que analizan las relaciones entre la escritura concebida como tecnologia del poder, las distintas formas de construccion de la autoridad intelectual y las reapropiaciones estrategicas del saber occidental incorporado en los procesos de letramiento en un grupo de autores y agentes subalternos durante el periodo colonial en la America hispana.
Proust y otros estudios literarios reúne los textos –artículos, prólogos, conferencias, discursos– en los que Paul Valéry (1871-1945) se ocupó de poetas y novelistas, dramaturgos y "hombres de letras", motivos literarios, obras y tópicos.
Credo Book Award Winner - Natural Theology"e;There are so many books on Lewis that are simply a rehash of existing knowledge; by contrast, this is a work of fresh, detailed, illuminating scholarship.
This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered in many different areas of literary study.
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ';the Wandering Jew'The story behind the mythical figure of ';the Wandering Jew' is one of the most fascinating tales in European history.
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.
Stern und Kosmos als Zeitsignatur der Moderne: Die Suche nach gesellschaftlicher Orientierung, umfassender Erkenntnis und ästhetischer Form führt um 1900 an den Sternenhimmel.
A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea s most prominent living poets'Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing.
En apenas una generacion, el tiempo que va desde la aparicion de la oferta comercial de television en 1990, hasta la actualidad, el medio televisivo ha cambiado tan profundamente que hace irreconocible las formas y las practicas que conociamos hace tan solo dos decadas.
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend.
Espíritu de la letra, de José Ortega y Gasset, pensador fundacional de la modernidad española, reúne sus mejores reseñas y ensayos literarios, donde demuestra que la crítica literaria es, ante todo, un ejercicio de filosofía aplicada a la vida.
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe empowering, must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, perfect for readers of Glennon Doyle and Miranda July.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David BaddielA novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century.
Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government during the past 40 years, in Free the Press, renowned journalist Brian J.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the darkness can point the way to living beautifully in the midst of a tragic world.
Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government during the past 40 years, in Free the Press, renowned journalist Brian J.
