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Sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society's most violent legal institution, the death penalty. This book investigates this question through the works of three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and literary styles: Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus.

Argues that Edmund Husserl's late reflections on Europe should not be read either as departures from his early transcendental phenomenology or as simple exercises of cultural criticism but rather as systematic phenomenological reflections on generativity and historicity.

Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore.

Identifies an intellectual current in the Weimar Republic that drew on biology, organicism, vitalism, and other discourses associated with living nature in order to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age.

In David Barber's third collection of poetry, the past makes its presence felt from first to last. Drawing on a wealth of eclectic sources and crafted in an array of nonce forms, these poems range across vast stretches of cultural and natural history in pursuit of the forsaken, long-gone, and unsung.

Recounts how a diverse contingent of educators, nuns, and political activists embraced institution building as the most effective means to attain quality education. This book makes a fascinating addition to scholarly debates about education, segregation, African American history, and Chicago.

Presents fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduces newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.

Examines the political, ontological, and technological underpinnings of the guerrilla in the digital humanities (DH). Matthew Applegate uses the guerrilla to connect iterations of digital humanities' practice to its political rhetoric and infrastructure. By doing so, he reorients DH's conceptual lexicon around practices of collective becoming.

Examines academic fictions produced by black writers. Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campus life in literature as a space for black writers to produce counter-narratives that celebrate the potentials of black intelligence and argue for the importance of black higher education, particularly in the humanistic tradition.

As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply - literally or metaphorically - an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing.

Adrian Johnston's trilogy forges a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory.

Pays tribute to a well-respected teacher and scholar of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W Leopold. This book documents their lives, their culture, and the nation that grew and changed alongside them.

Featuring thirty-five colour images of William ""Bill"" Walker's work, this edition reveals the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago's famed Wall of Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American historical figures; protested social injustice; and centered imagination, love, respect, and community accountability.

Argues that Shakespeare's plays present ""secularization"" not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government to wonder and the spatial imagination.

This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West's life and their relationship to his works. James Light gives a detailed analysis of each of West's novels, investigating in particular the works' treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.

This classic ethnomusicological survey provides a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music.

Offers a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyses examples of such assessments and provides an independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions.

Examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrence's major works through a literary device that the author coins ""the constitutive symbol"". Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views.

Presents both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity.

The first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory.

This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, ""AE"". Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book of poems, Homeward established him in what was known as the Irish Literary Revival.

Contains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C.P. Snow.

Explores the popularity of magazines in the nineteenth century and the ways that much of the published fiction of the time appeared serially in these publications. Robert D. Mayo's groundbreaking study was one of the first books to examine the impact of magazines on reading and the dissemination of fiction in nineteenth-century England.

Examines Husserl's concept of necessary, a priori, and absolutely certain indubitable evidence, which he terms apodictic, and his related concept of complete evidence, which he terms adequate. To do so the book explicates some of the more general relevant features of phenomenology as a whole.

Offers an examination of the philosophy of G.E. Moore, one of the foremost Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. This book seeks to redress an imbalance in analytic philosophy by making a case for the relevance of analytically oriented historical studies to contemporary problems.

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.

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.