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David Frick's biography-the first major English-language work on Smotryc'kyj-examines the ways in which established cultures were altered by cross-cultural understandings and misunderstandings, resulting from the confrontation and mutual adaptation of two or more diverse cultures.

Professor Oleh Ilnytzkyj seeks to rectify the misinterpretations surrounding the Futurists and their leader Mykhail Semenko by providing the first major English-language monograph on this vibrant literary movement and its charismatic leader.

Emerson's journals of 1847-1848 deal primarily with his second visit to Europe, occasioned by a British lecture tour. The journals, notebooks, and letters of these years recorded materials for lectures that Emerson composed abroad and shortly after his return to Concord, and ultimately for English Traits, which he was to publish in 1856.

In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868¿1912). Placing gender analysis at its core, the book offers fresh perspectives on what women did beyond domestic boundaries, while showing men¿s lives, too, were embedded in home and kin.

Architect Frida Escobedo's early project Split Subject deconstructs a fraught allegory of national identity and modernism in Mexico. Frida Escobedo: Split Subject unpacks it and traces its influence throughout her career, and includes essays by Julieta Gonzalez, Alejandro Hernández, Erika Naginski, Doris Sommer and José Falconi, and Irene Sunwoo.

Grounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century gathers essays on what the study of oral poetry means today across diverse traditions, especially in light of transformations that have dramatically reshaped and destabilized the notion of tradition.

In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding contends that political issues addressed in Euripides¿s tragedies are inextricably related to his use of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylus¿s Agamemnon. Poetry and politics each illuminate the other.

Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined geography and the relationships among power, knowledge, and space¿including connections within this region and with Iran, Inner Asia, and the Indian Ocean. It is a sequel to Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space.

In Blemished Kings, Andrea Kouklanakis looks to Irish satire as she interprets the language of the suitors in the Odyssey¿their fighting words¿as Homeric expressions of reproach and critique against unsuitable kings, and provides evidence for the concept that blame poetry can physically blemish, hence disqualify, rulers.

College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent rows of students. Yet research shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective and inclusive. The New College Classroom translates the evidence into hands-on guidance for teachers in every discipline and institution, so all students can excel.

Musicians have always been migratory frontrunners, and musical encounters have always generated nodes of cultural complexity. Seachanges brings together original essays that complicate Mediterranean and Atlantic histories and foreground music in mobility studies, from Turkish songs in France to Indigenous musicians in Latin America, and more.

Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. It features essays on 21st century architecture by Catherine Ingraham, Lucia Allais, Stan Allen, Phillip Denny, Edward Eigen, Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, Marrikka Trotter, and others.

Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government's retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War, its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new relationships with the United States led to fundamental changes in how the Nationalists engaged with science and technology as tools to promote development.

Defeat in World War II profoundly shaped how the Japanese reconstructed national identity and reengaged with Asia. In Asia and Postwar Japan, Simon Avenell reveals the critical importance of Asia in Japanese thought, activism, and politics-as a symbolic geography, as a space for grassroots engagement, and as the source of a new politics of hope.

"David Albert's 2000 book Time and Chance attempts to account for some of the most intractable problems in theoretical physics, in particular those arising from the direction of time. This collection assembles essays exploring and debating Albert's ideas, now recognized as among the most important recent contributions to the philosophy of science"--

Though celebrated at the peak of his career, Australian architect John Andrews¿ fame waned over time. His body of work exemplifies the late-modern development of architecture and deserves to be better known. John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense examines his most important buildings and presents his local and international legacy.

Pairs is a student-led journal at Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to design conversations. Pairs 03 features Thomas Demand, Mindy Seu, Mira Henry and Matthew Au, Alfredo Thiermann, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, Anne Lacaton, Edward Eigen, Katarina Burin, Marrikka Trotter, Christopher C. M. Lee, Keller Easterling, and others.

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism--rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, genre, and purpose are obscure. What Is the Mishnah? collects papers by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel and gives a clear sense of the direction of Mishnah studies.

"In the late ninth or early tenth century, a scholar in southern England-sometimes identified as King Alfred of Wessex (r. 871-899)-translated two difficult works of Latin philosophy into his native Old English vernacular: The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, who died in 524 or 525 CE, and Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia (Soliloquies), completed in 386-387 CE. The manuscript exemplar of the Latin Soliloquia that was used by this Old English translator is not extant; however, based on the Old English version, we can deduce that the textual variants in that Latin exemplar were very similar to those that survive in a manuscript copied in southern England in the decades around the middle of the tenth century (now Brussels, KBR, MS 8558-63, part 1). As for the vernacular version, which modern editors have named the Old English Soliloquies, it survives, fragmented but nearly complete, in a single copy produced in the mid-to-late twelfth century. The scribe who produced this copy wrote in an idiosyncratic form of Old English that is difficult to digest, even for readers who are trained in "textbook" Old English. The present volume includes both the Old English Soliloquies and Augustine's Latin Soliloquia, the latter based on the Brussels manuscript. Because the Brussels text differs notably from those found in modern editions, this single-text edition of the Latin Soliloquia offers readers a better understanding of what was in the translator's exemplar, and thus provides the foundation for a more accurate appraisal of his methods as he reworked his chief Latin source into the Old English Soliloquies. The Soliloquia is a dialogue in which an interlocutor called "Augustine" converses with his own faculty of reason, as though talking to himself; hence Augustine coined the term soliloquium, based on the adjective solus, "alone," and the verb loquor, "speak." The conceit of the soliloquy prompts the reader to question what and where the faculty of reason is and how it communicates with the mind or the self. The Old English Soliloquies is conventionally and conveniently labeled a translation, but it is more accurate to describe it as a vernacular adaptation of excerpts from Augustine's Soliloquia, supplemented with apparently original material and with excerpts translated from other Latin sources"--

Adam Sandel revives one of the oldest philosophical questions: What constitutes a good life? Drawing on thinkers ancient and modern, as well as his own experience as a record-setting athlete, he argues that fulfillment lies not in achieving goals but in forging a life journey that enables us to see our struggles and triumphs as an integrated whole.

Empty Plinths responds to the debate around the Columbus monument in Mexico City and probes the unstable narratives behind other memorials and public sculptures in the city. This collection of essays, interviews, artistic contributions, and public policy proposals reveals and reframes the histories embedded within contested public spaces in Mexico.

Empty Plinths responds to the debate around the Columbus monument in Mexico City and probes the unstable narratives behind other memorials and public sculptures in the city. This collection of essays, interviews, artistic contributions, and public policy proposals reveals and reframes the histories embedded within contested public spaces in Mexico.

Though best known for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also a pioneering critic. He introduced the idea that criticism was an act of creation, not just appraisal. Wilde transformed the genre by extending its ambit beyond art to include society itself, all while injecting it with his trademark wit and style.