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- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things. He shows that Aristotle’s distinctive ontological claim—that...
- Keyword:
- metaphysics, philosophy, Aristotle, physics, rereading ancient philosophy, and ancient philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Sentesy, Mark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4190-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4188-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4189-6
- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions of self-translated poetic texts by Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Gritsman, Katia Kapovich, Marina Tsvetaeva, Wassily Kandinsky, and Elizaveta Kul’man, Adrian Wanner considers how verbal...
- Keyword:
- literary criticism, comparative literature, Slavic and Eastern European studies, and Russian literature and theory
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Wanner, Adrian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4124-7, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4123-0, and E-book ISBN 978-0-8101-4125-4
- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and In Original Forgiveness, Nicolas de Warren challenges the widespread assumption that forgiveness is always a response to something that has incited it. Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, he argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an original...
- Keyword:
- phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- de Warren, Nicolas
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4280-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4279-4, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4278-7
- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Michigan State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available... and This book begins by tracing the history of naturalist fiction from the 1860s into the twentieth century and the reasons it spread around the world. Hill explores the development of three naturalist figures—the degenerate body, the self-liberated woman, and the social milieu—through close readings of fiction from France, Japan, and...
- Keyword:
- Argentina, translation, transnational, world literature, France, naturalism, comparison, Alexander Beecroft, United States, Latin America, Mariano Siskind, Erich Auerbach, realism, Emile Zola, Brazil, Japan, Aamir Mufti, Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, novel, Damrosch, and global
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Laing Hill, Christopher
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4215-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4216-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4214-5
- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Tennessee. Learn more at the TOME website,... and A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism—in India, South Africa, and Black America—used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the story of this...
- Keyword:
- anti-racism, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sister Nivedita, internationalism, literary criticism, comparative literature, interpretive communities, translation studies, anti-colonialism, postcolonial theory, Rabindranath Tagore, Sonja Schlesin, and Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Subject:
- Comparative literature
- Creator:
- Lahiri, Madhumita
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4266-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4268-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4267-1
- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Tennessee. Learn more at the TOME website,... and Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this book proposes the notion of “precarious intimacies” to navigate a dilemma: how to recognize, affirm, and value love, touch, and care while challenging the racialized and gendered politics in which...
- Keyword:
- Julia Oelkers, Michael Winterbottom, immigration, precarity, intimacy, European film, Arash T. Riahi, Phillippe Lioret, and refugee
- Subject:
- Performing arts
- Creator:
- Stehle, Maria and Weber, Beverly
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4213-8, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4212-1, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4211-4
- Description:
- In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Kuzmic, Tatiana
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/27/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3399-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3398-3, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3397-6
- Description:
- Hasan Sijzi, also known as Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day—from the legacy of Hasan’s poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin. As... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- poetry collections, poems, verse, and poetry
- Subject:
- Poetry
- Creator:
- Gould, Rebecca and Sijzi, Hasan
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3231-3 and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3230-6
- Description:
- In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, and Damon Galgut. Specifically, Stan shows that these... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- Zaoui, Plessner, George Orwell, Annie Ernaux, Walter Benjamin, Crowds and Power, modernism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Elias Canetti, community, Jean-Luc Nancy, modernity, Levinas, literary criticism, ethics, Roland Barthes, Freud, Montaigne, Damon Galgut, Iris Murdoch, alienation, moral philosophy, Günter Grass, The Bell, Paul Morand, adorno, Sloterdijk, and relationships
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stan, Corina
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3685-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3687-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3686-1
- Description:
- In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- film theory, captive, Lacan, and confinement
- Subject:
- Performing arts and Psychology
- Creator:
- Connelly, Thomas J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3922-0, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3923-7, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3921-3