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  • Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration

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    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 and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Screening Auschwitz is the first and definitive discussion of the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap). Directed by Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska, The Last Stage was the first film of its kind. Marek Haltof has incorporated a wealth of new sources to trace the creation of this...
    Keyword:
    film, cinema, Auschwitz, judaism, movies, and holocaust
    Subject:
    History and Performing arts
    Creator:
    Haltof, Marek
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/23/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/23/2023
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3608-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3610-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3609-0

  • The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

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    A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet—as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme—is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which... 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 and links to the open-access version can be found at...
    Keyword:
    cosmopolitanism, environmentalism, geoculture, essays, and globalization
    Subject:
    Philosophy
    Creator:
    Moraru, Christian and Amy J. Elias
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/23/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/23/2023
    Date Created:
    2015
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3073-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3075-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3074-6

  • Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel

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    What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic...
    Keyword:
    The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Russian literature, Dostoevsky, realism, and Anna Karenina
    Subject:
    Literary criticism and Russia
    Creator:
    Kitzinger, Chloë
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/19/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/19/2023
    Date Created:
    2021
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4398-2, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4397-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4396-8

  • The Fabulous Future?: America and the World in 2040

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    Description:
    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. and Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a techno­logically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 draws its inspi­ration from a...
    Keyword:
    Twenty-first century, forecasting, and social prediction
    Subject:
    History
    Creator:
    Schapiro, Morton and Morson, Gary Saul
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    07/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    07/14/2022
    Date Created:
    2015
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3197-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3198-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3196-5

  • Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling

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    Description:
    Deploying literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and an archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court examines how literature both reflects and constructs the emotional dynamics of life in the Renaissance court. In it, Bradley J. Irish argues that emotionality is a foundational... 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:
    Tudor, fiction, Great Britain, literary criticism, prose, literature, and England
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Irish, Bradley J.
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    07/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    07/14/2022
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3639-7 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3641-0 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3640-3

  • Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature

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    Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial... 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:
    decolonization, reparations, intimacies, and feminisms
    Subject:
    Literary criticism and Political science
    Creator:
    Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C.
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    06/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2020
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4244-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4242-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4243-5

  • Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema

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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 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

  • Original Forgiveness

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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 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

  • The Bilingual Muse: Self-Translation among Russian Poets

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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 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

  • Aristotle's Ontology of Change

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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