הוצאת NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
הספרים של הוצאת NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Melville’s long poemClarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land(1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville’s advocates hesitated to endure a four-part p... |
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Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature’s sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think “too much.” ... |
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Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
מאת Alison James A token of the world's instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems: Must the artist struggle against chance in pursuit of a flawless work? Or does chance have a place in the artistic process or product? This b...
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First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet. Isaac Rosenberg was among the greatest poets of the First World War. The British-born son of impoverished Russian Jews, Rosenberg fought as a private in the trenches of the Great Was and died on the Western Front in 1918 as ...
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Reaching simultaneously into the realms of film and literature, this detailed exploration of The Night of the Hunter examines the genesis and the eclectic form of each work and the process of transformation by which the novel became a motion picture. It provides the first major study ... |
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Although he surprised the world in 1866 with his first published book of poetry, "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War", Herman Melville had long been steeped in poetry. This new offering in the authoritative "Northwestern-Newberry" series, "The Writings of Herman Melville", with a historical note b...
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Charles Darwin’s monumental The Origin of Species, published in 1859, forever changed the landscape of natural science. The scientific world of the time had already established the principle of the “intelligent design” of a Creator; the art worl... |
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An institution at the "Chicago Sun-Times", his home paper for more than twenty-five years, Pulitzer Prize - winning editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins gathers for the first time in "My Kind of 'Toon, Chicago Is" approximately 250 editorial and political cartoons. Over the years, he has filed syndicat...
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Upon Scheler's death in 1928, Martin Heidegger remarked that he was the most important force in philosophy at the time. Jose Ortegay Gasset called Scheler 'the first man of the philosophical paradise.' "The Human Place in the Cosmos", the last of his works Scheler completed, is a pivotal piece in th...
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In "The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche's Truth" Daniel T. O'Hara traces critically the current reception and translation of Nietzsche's corpus and then some of Nietzsche's boldest textual experiments in the art of reading as a way of life, including those in "The Birth of Tragedy", "T...
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Lincoln Kirstein was a tireless champion of the arts in America. Working behind the scenes to provide artists with money, space, audiences, and, at times, emotional support, he helped found such landmark cultural institutions as the New York City Ballet, the School of American Ballet, New ...
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On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having commissioned a famous writer to undertake her “aut...
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A multimedia companion to Theater Games for the Classroom, that makes teaching acting easier and more exciting ...
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With faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul Goodman, and Robert Rauschenberg, Black Mountain College ranked among the most important artistic and intellectual communities of the twentieth century. I...
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A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside spa. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book...
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Daniil Kharms: Writing and the Event (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
מאת Branislav Jakovljevic PhD
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 - thr...
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Carolyn Brown, one of the most renowned dancers of the last half-century, lived at the center of New York's bold and vibrant artistic community, which included not only dancers and choreographers but composers and painters as well. Brown's memoir recounts her own remarkable twenty-year tenure w...
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Crisis, breakdown, rejuvenation: this is the territory of poetry that Rudman takes readers into with this set of essays. Constructed as a series of character studies, the essays are rooted in autobiographical material with biographical counterpoints, tying the poets distinctly to places... |
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In a story that brings to life the founding of one of the world's great cities, "Fort Dearborn" takes us back to Chicago's early struggle of fire and blood. Through the eyes of two young boys and their fathers - one father a sergeant with the United States First Infantry, the other a Potawatomi warr...
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With the aim of guiding readers along, in Hegel’s words, “the long process of education towards genuine philosophy,” this introduction emphasizes the importance of striking up a conversation with the past. Only by looking to past masters and their works... |
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Although he surprised the world in 1866 with his first published book of poetry, "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War", Herman Melville had long been steeped in poetry. This new offering in the authoritative "Northwestern-Newberry" series, "The Writings of Herman Melville", with a historical note b...
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Paul Bowles, best known for his classic 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, is one of the most compelling yet elusive figures of twentieth-century American counterculture. In this definitive biography, Virginia Spencer Carr has captured Bowles in his many guises: gifted composer, expatriate novelis...
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The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy (Medill Visions of the American Press)
מאת Mark Neuzil This history of environmental journalism looks at how the practice now defines issues and sets the public agenda evolving from a tradition that includes the works of authors such as Pliny the Elder, John Muir, and Rachel Carson. It makes the case that the rel... |
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Founded by Maksim Gorky and Kornei Chukovsky in 1919 and disbanded in 1922, the Petrograd House of Arts occupied a crucial moment in Russia's cultural history. By chronicling the rise and fall of this literary landmark, this book conveys in greater depth and detail than ever before a signi...
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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 ...
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Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles--either with his dependents or with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at forty-four. He was one of the greatest playwrights and short story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between fami...
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Part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue, this loving reflection is a poignant, funny narrative about an American professor spending a year in Rome. A scarred veteran of academic culture wars retreating to a cradle of cultu... |
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Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek together have emerged as two of Europe's most significant living philosophers. In a shared spirit of resistance to global capitalism, both are committed to bringing philosophical reflection to bear upon present-day political circumstances. These thinkers are especially ...
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David R. Slavitt does not believe in literary criticism so much as in 'remarks', and in this witty and unusual work, he remarks on the life of the poet: how it was - and how it is - to be an American writer in our time. Combining personal reminiscence with deft literary analysis, incisive biographic...
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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 p...
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Slavoj Žižek is one of the most interesting and important philosophers working today, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular culture and contemporary politics. This book focuses on the generally neglected and often overshadowed philosophical c... |
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Since the publication of her first book in 1967, Ewa Lipska has been among the most acclaimed of contemporary Polish poets. Yet, to date she has not enjoyed the same popularity in the United States as her fellow Poles Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, and her contemporary Adam Zagajewski. "The New...
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When one great author engages another, as Andrei Bely so brilliantly does in "Gogol's Artistry", the result is inevitably a telling portrait of both writers. So it is in "Gogol's Artistry". Translated into English for the first time, this idiosyncratic, exhaustive critical study is as interesting fo...
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In "The Scarlet Ibis", Susan Hahn has created an intricately structured sequence of interlinked poems centered around the single compelling image of the ibis. The resonance of this image grows through each section of the book as Hahn skillfully employs theme and variation, counterpoint and mirroring...
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The defining quality of Russian literature, for most critics, is its ethical seriousness expressed through formal originality. The Trace of Judaism addresses this characteristic through the thought of the Lithuanian-born Franco-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Steeped in the Russian classic...
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Three Plays: Dividing the Estate, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Young Man from Atlanta
מאת Horton Foote Bringing together the rich characters and wry humor of a celebrated Texas s ...
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Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek together have emerged as two of Europe's most significant living philosophers. In a shared spirit of resistance to global capitalism, both are committed to bringing philosophical reflection to bear upon present-day political circumstances. These thinkers are especially ...
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American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings (Medill Visions of the American Press)
מאת Claude Cookman
The traditional approach to studying American photojournalism explains the what and who of photojournalism - what events and developments occurred, what notable images were taken, and who took them. Without neglecting those concerns, "American Photojournalism" emphasizes the why. It explains how con...
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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 privati...
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Phenomenology and the Problem of History: A Study of Husserl's Transcendental Philosophy (SPEP)
מאת David Carr
Examines the paradox between Husserl's transcendental philosophy and his later historicist theory. Rejecting the arguments of earlier critics, this book proposes a model of the transcendental philosopher who balances historical reduction with a strict mind of historical context....
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How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a methodology consistent with the fact of our embodiment; he uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of 'intertwining' - the presence of one's self in the world and of the...
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In addition to offering fresh editions of well-known works, "Northwestern World Classics" will also reintroduce to a new generation 'lost classics', such as Ivan Shcheglov's 1896 "The Dacha Husband" ("Dachnyi muzh"). Despite being considered the most interesting writer of the late 1800s by no less a...
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Rarely has anyone taken Swan's Way down a stranger path, and never with such intriguing results. What begins as a meditation on the fictional identity of the elegant "swan" of Proust's In Search of Lost Time becomes, through a series of turns and twists, an ingenious investig...
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Postulates a dualistic conception of Kant's a priori as a structure that expresses itself outside the human subject, but also as a virtual knowledge that points to a philosophy of immediate apprehension or feeling....
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Daniil Kharms: Writing and the Event (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
מאת Branislav Jakovljevic PhD
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 - thr...
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Taking its inspiration from Sanders' own autobiography "Memoirs of a Professional Cad" (1960), this book is part witty, bawdy, and irreverent memoir, part moving meditation on the price of fame; like most of David Slavitt's work, it defies easy categorization. In George Sanders, "Zsa Zsa, and Me", S...
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Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett (Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies)
מאת Daniel Katz
In recent criticism, Samuel Beckett's prose has been increasingly described as a labour of refusal - most notably seen by its literal disavowal of consciousness and expression as conventions in the narrative and the novel. Beginning from the premise that Beckett never betrays his belief in "the impo...
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Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
מאת Tyrus Miller
This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's geog...
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Hahn s new collection wrestles with the elemental and enduring challenges of the human condition: What can we use from our spiritual heritage? How should we find relief? How, after it all, do we live? The poems are presented as a letter to the world from a woman preparing to leave it. In four...
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“Who would have looked for philosophy in whales, or for poetry in blubber?” the London John Bull remarked in October of 1851. And yet, the reviewer went on, “few books which professedly deal in metaphysics, or claim the parentage of the muses, co... |
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At the time "New Glory (Neue Herrlichkeit)" was published in 1984, most dissident authors had fled the German Democratic Republic, then in its final years. Gunter de Bruyn courageously remained to satirize the regime from behind the Iron Curtain. He is a popular writer and cultural commentator in un...
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A Fourth of July backyard barbecue is the setting for Rebecca Gilman's new play, "The Crowd You're in With", a funny, thought-provoking, ultimately disquieting exploration of the question of whether to have children. Melinda and Jasper, the hosts, are deeply divided by the issue; Tom and Karen, thei...
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Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize 2009! Not since Don DeLillo and George Saunders has a writer caught the humor and irreverent seriousness of our time like Barkan has through his protagonist Paul Berger, a flawed hero whose so-called fate drives him toward enlightenment just as surely as it pr...
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Set in a Tel Aviv cafe in the moments before a suicide bomber enters, Iris Bahr's 2008 Lucille Lortel Award - winning "DAI (enough)" courageously speaks to tragic current events. Bahr plays eleven different characters who span the ideological and class spectrum of Israeli society, including a Zionis...
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When a self-proclaimed "lazy scholar" embarks on a trip through his life's influences--as diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van Gogh--readers are in for an illuminating ride. This collection of essays from cultural critic Di Piero veers from his early years as the son of immigrants i... |
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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 ...
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When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky’s work, reading through the facts--the text--of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that they dis...
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