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In Fair Rosamond Virgil B. Heltzel traces the character of Rosamond Clifford, known as ""Fair Rosamond"" - which has its origins as a theme in medieval literature - through its use in poetry and plays and novels, from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century.

Offers a close study of Kant's conception of metaphysical propositions. In it Moltke Gram shows in what sense Kant is offering a theory of metaphysical propositions about objects in general. Gram presents a criticism of the tendency to focus on Kant's theory of dialectic as the source of paradigm cases of metaphysical propositions.

Originally published in 1951, this book makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of ""racialism"" current during his lifetime. Frederic Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently.

Offers a study of the sources of the Tristan romance, tracing them through the various versions of the legend. Sigmund Eisner makes the claim that the story was first written in North Britain during the seventh century, that it involves people who actually lived in the area, and that its writer wove in motifs from various classical legends.

In this first full-length study of Yeats's interest in Shakespeare, Rupin Desai explores how Shakespearean works influenced Yeats's poetry and mythological drama. Desai illustrates the deep degree to which Yeats identifies with Shakespeare, even to the extent of including some of Shakespeare's heroes in his own late poetry.

Examines the significance of Scandinavian history, literature, and languages for the composition of James Joyce's masterwork. The significance of Dounia Bunis Christiani's work lies in her deep historical and cultural analysis.

Wallace Bacon's critical edition brings Warner's important novel - with its young protagonists being dragged through many adventures, tried and tested by Fortune, with their tales being brought to a close by auspicious gods - to life, preserving it and introducing it to new generations of readers.

Provides a reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. After its publication, Alkon's book became the standard reading of Johnson's essays, contrasting them with the moral ideas Johnson discussed in his sermons, as moral writings, and one of the first books to explore the essayist's focus on moral thinking as central to his writing.

Brings together twenty-two essays by Paul Ricoeur under the topics of structuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and religion. In dramatic conciseness, the essays illuminate the work of one of the leading philosophers of the day. The diversity of essays speaks beyond the confines of philosophy to linguists, theologians, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.

Presents an analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother.

A mastermind in a new language of poetry, that engages and challenges readers to see beyond the traditional spaces poems are shaped and exist, Avery Young's neckbone extends tentacles in literature, art, and activism - redefining the collective and the sermon of the "blk" experience.

Studies the rise and fall of the Yellow Press. This book documents the fierce competition that characterized yellow journalism, the social realities and trends that contributed to its success (and its ultimate demise), its accomplishments for good or ill, and its long-term legacy.

Presents an aesthetic and methodological study of the traditional Italian theater form. This book describes what Commedia is, and what it should be. It offers philosophical and technical guidelines to performing the stock characters of ""Commedia"", observing its structure, extracting its poetics, exploring its themes, and using the mask.

In her third poetry collection, Miracle Marks, the indomitable Purvi Shah charts women's status through pointed explorations of Hindu iconography and philosophy and powerful critiques of American racism.

New media are often greeted with suspicion by older media. The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall explores how, when the commercial press arrived in France in 1836, popular theatre critiqued its corruption, its diluted politics, and its tendency to orient its content toward the lowest common denominator.

Enlivened by rum, mutiny, and buried treasure, Treasure Island is the classic pirates' tale, widely regarded as the forerunner of this genre. After discovering a treasure map, young Jim Hawkins sets off to sea as cabin boy aboard the Hispaniola, where he encounters one of the most unforgettable characters in literary history.

Jacques Ranciere's work is increasingly central to several debates across the humanities. Distributions of the Sensible confronts a question at the heart of his thought: How should we conceive the relationship between the ""politics of aesthetics"" and the ""aesthetics of politics""?

Explores the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is an entirely new approach to the study of literature as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise.

Aesthetic Spaces analyzes intermedial relations between film, painting, and theater.

The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe's Seduction, the "I" becomes the "Eye", serving as metaphor and witness in a narrative compilation from a master of poetic music. Elegies and dramatic odes look at the seduction of all things loved or hated, especially the man made of colour.

If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what would they say? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spokesman for the humanizing forces of poetry, music, and art, parts the Atlantic and rattles the ground built on slavery with Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer.

Employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in Quebec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French Quebecois de souche - the French-speaking descendants of white European settlers who understand themselves to be settlers no more but rather colonized.

In the broadest sense, this volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy's program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and knowledge, become educated, and speak and think about history and social change.

Although begun as an account of how one man encounters and laments his death and makes this death his own, Tolstoy's On Life describes the optimal life in which we can all be happy despite our mortality. his critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English.

Considers whether politics - conceived as the struggle for power between groups, nations, and states - belongs to the essence of the human. Helmuth Plessner proposes a genealogy of political life and outlines an anthropological foundation of the political.

The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and sustain the South Side Community Art Center and the DuSable Museum of African American History. As Mary Ann Cain reveals, the primary motivations for these efforts were love and hope.

Shows how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense or meaning within nature, and how this quest calls for and develops into a radically new ontology. This makes key issues in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy clear and accessible to a broad audience while also advancing original philosophical conclusions.

According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912. The result is a deeply textured memoir.

Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to typify Russian literature. Its "hero," Grigorii Pechorin, also established a character type that became known in Russian fiction as "the superfluous man".

On May 21, 1991, popular University of Chicago Divinity School Professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu, Ted Anton pieces together the evidence and shows that the murder is in fact what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil. This book traces Culianu's life from his privileged childhood in Romania, through his days at the University of Bucharest, where he first encountered the methods of Securitate surveillance, to his time at the University of Chicago, where, as a handpicked successor to Mircea Eliade, he was becoming a renowned scholar in his own right. Anton shows how Culianu - an expert on magic and the occult whose predications were often remarkabley accurate - began toying with a new far-right coalition in Romania, taunting them from the presumed safety of his American base with the content and tone of his articles, goading them into believing him dangerous. Besides shedding new light on the murder, this book offers a fascinating introduction to Romanian politics in the aftermath of the 1989 revolution and to the relation of ideas to power in current history, as well as to the exotic and mystical ideas of a brilliant man.