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- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Chemical Process Design
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- This electronic textbook is a student-contributed open-source text covering the materials used in our chemical engineering capstone design courses at Northwestern. The goal of this project is to provide the greater chemical engineering community with a useful and relevant resource on chemical process design methods and case studies. This project...
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering--Study and teaching and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Fengqi You
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Process Optimization
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- This electronic textbook is a student-contributed open-source text covering a variety of topics on process optimization.
- Creator:
- Fengqi You
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- A qualitative evaluation of the Africa Demos forum from a small group of African scholars and one journalist writing on various topics related to Africa.
- Keyword:
- africa and democracy
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Contributor:
- Stephen N. Ndegwa, Celestin Monga, Adigun Agbaje, Wilson Wanene, Tessy Bakary, Patrick Molutsi, Michael Chege, Patricia Williams, Kwame Ninsin, and Ruth Iyob
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Publisher:
- ASDP Occasional Publications
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/31/2017
- Date Modified:
- 07/31/2017
- Date Created:
- 1997
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Paul Kent Alkons Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline provides reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. Shortly after its publication, Alkons book became first of all the standard reading of Johnsons essays, contrasting them with the moral ideas Johnson discussed in his sermons, as moral writings, and second, as...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Paul Kent Alkon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1967
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The richness, variety, and complexity of the culture of the Hausa city-states are illustrated in microcosm in Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts, in which several hundred Hausa terms for music are collected. David W. Ames and Anthony V. King concentrate on the kingdoms of Zaria and Katsina,...
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- David W. Ames and Anthony V. King
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Ruth M. Amess The Fulfillment of Scriptures approaches Langlands key medieval text, Piers Plowman, using critical literary methods developed in interdisciplinary programs that explore the intersections of religion and literature. Ames draws on the history of the development of Christian doctrine as she explores the ways that the allegory of...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Ruth W. Ames
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- William Warners Syrinx, or a Sevenfold History, may be the first English novel. Unlike others of the time, though, Warner wrote a realistic novel whose ancestors include the adventure stories of Alexandrine romance, and focus not on the tales of an aristocratic class but on the lives of middle-class individuals....
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- William Warner and Wallace A. Bacon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Scandinavian Elements of Finnegans Wake, Dounia Bunis Christiani addresses herself to an enormous task: examining the significance of Scandinavian history, literature, and languages for the composition of James Joyces masterwork. Whereas critical studies of Joyce tend to fall into two categoriesthose exploring the philosophical grounding of his works and...
- Keyword:
- Ireland
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Dounia Bunis Christiani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1965
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Africa South presents a history and description of southern Africa from the arrival of Europeans until the creation of the Republic of South Africa in 1961. Harm J. de Blij provides a portrait of the landscape and the internal policies and struggles within the region. The work serves as a...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Harm J. de Blij
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Yeatss Shakespeare,thefirst full-length study of Yeatss interest in Shakespeare, Rupin W. Desai explores how Shakespearean works influenced Yeatss poetry and mythological drama. Exploring Shakespeares sonnets and Yeatss poetry, Desai illustrates the deep degree to which Yeats identifies with Shakespeare, even to the extent of including some of Shakespeares heroes...
- Keyword:
- England
- Creator:
- Rupin W. Desai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Alan C. Dessens Johnsons Moral Comedy asks the question about the character of Ben Jonsons comedies: were they sentimental or were they didactic and moralistic comedies? Dessens groundbreaking text remains significant for its contribution to early conversations about Jonsonian comedy, as well as its contribution to the practice of ethical...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Alan C. Dessen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Southern Nilotic History,Christopher Ehret reconstructs the history of the Southern Nilotic speaking peoples of East Africa, from their earliest origins to the beginning of the colonial period. As a history, the book is a remarkable tour de force. Using mainly linguistic evidence, the author locates populations, moves them around,...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Christopher Ehret
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Iseult) remains one of the most popular romances ever written. Although the tale was believed to have originated in Germany, bards in France and Britain composed their own versions of the story, a tale of adultery, betrayal, mistaken identity, and thwarted love. In The Tristan...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Sigmund Eisner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynicchronicles British novelist William Thackerays ambivalent attitudes toward society and traces his conduct during the major crises of his life in terms of those attitudes. Lambert Ennis examines the emotional tensions in Thackerays life and the impact they had in his work. In so doing, he illustrates...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Lambert Ennis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist, originally published in 1951, makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of racialism current during his lifetime. Frederic E. Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently....
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Frederic E. Faverty
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1951
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Originally published in 1945, An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology provides a comprehensive listing of the most important works written up to that time on cryptography, as well as works in related fields in which cryptography appears. It includes a vast range of materials: scientific and...
- Keyword:
- Reference
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Joseph S. Galland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1945
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori is a close studyof Kants conception of metaphysical propositions. In it Moltke Gram aimsto show 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 Kants theory of dialectic...
- Keyword:
- Metaphysics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moltke S. Gram
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1968
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Fair Rosamond Virgil B. Heltzel traces the character of Rosamond Clifford, known as Fair Rosamondwhich has its origins as a theme in medieval literaturethrough its use in poetry and plays and novels, from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Heltzels book retains its importance today for scholars tracing...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Virgil B. Heltzel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1947
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- John Donnes poetry is often difficult and perplexing, even more so because it undergoes a shift away from secular topics after he converts and begins to lead a religious life. Robert S. Jacksons John Donnes Christian Vocation is one of the first studies that takes seriously the ways that Donnes...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Robert S. Jackson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Epistemology of G. E. Mooreis an examination of the philosophy of G. E. Moore, one of the foremost Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of the twentieth century.This book, together with Reinhardt Grossmanns Reflections on Freges Philosophy and Moltke Grams Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori, seeks to redress an imbalance in...
- Keyword:
- Epistemology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- E. D. Klemke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- InReason and Evidence in Husserls PhenomenologyDavid Michael Kleinberg-Levinexamines Husserls 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 it explicates some of the more general relevant features of phenomenology as a...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Three Nigerian Emirates:A Study in Oral History is a widely held study on a scarcely examined region of Nigeria. Victor N. Low presents a detailed account of the leaders, people, and culture of the Hadejia, Katagum, and Gombe regions documented in a transcribed oral history. This work presents a valuable...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Victor N. Low
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Anatomy of Disillusion is an introduction to Heideggers phenomenology that focuses on Heideggers notion of truth. Unlike many of his contemporaries, W.B. Macomber presents Heidegger as a systematic thinker, whose phenomenology is inextricably bound up with his ontology and epistemology.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- W. B. Macomber
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1967
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The English Novel in the Magazines, 17401815, 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. Mayos groundbreaking study remains important to scholars of the nineteenth century as one of the...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Robert D. Mayo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Containing details of 390 L.P. and E.P. recordings,African Music on LP: An Annotated Discographycontributed to the scholarship of African music at a time when very little had been written. Organized by record label and arranged in alphabetical order, Allen P. Merriam assesses the stylistic characteristics of each recording, providing new...
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Alan P. Merriam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Selected Prose of N. M. Karamzin, Henry Nebels translation and extensive introductory material presents a collection of primary sources by a Russian author whose tales explore the creative exploitation of sentimentalisms potentialities.
- Keyword:
- Russia
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- N. M. Karamzin and Henry M. Nebel Jr.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Glenn OMalleys Shelley and Synesthesia examines a little-known aspect of Percy Shelleys poetry, offering a history of synesthesia and engaging in close readings of Shelleys poetry, focusing primarily on his longer works. OMalley explores the internal structure of Shelleys poems to concentrate on patterns of imagery and symbolism, bringing attention...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Glenn O’Malley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1964
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Science and the Humanitiescontains 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.
- Keyword:
- General
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moody E. Prior
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship provides one the earliest attempts to write a theoretical method for evidence within plays to help determine authorship or to help distinguish the work of one author from another. Samuel Schoenbaums study remains valuable, for the attempt to attribute unattributed plays to one or...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- S. Schoenbaum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1966
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan is the first critical, annotated translation in English of the collected work of poet Aimeric de Peguilhan. In itWilliam P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers provide translations and introductory material to the work of the medieval French troubadour.
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- William P. Shepard, Aimeric de Peguilhan, and Frank M. Chambers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French writer Romain Rolland remains best known for his epic coming-of-age tale, Jean Christoph. InA Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland William Thomas Starr Starr painstakingly collects the information on all writings by and about this prolific author through 1949. Organized into two...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- William Thomas Starr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The teachings of Epicurus, whose philosophy focused on the pursuit of happiness, attracted adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. The Philosophy of Epicurus contains a long introductory essay on the philosophy of Epicurus and a selection of primary texts. In inGeorge K. Strodach translates...
- Keyword:
- Ancient and Classical
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Epicurus and George K. Strodach
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1963
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory assesses contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic movement, and the existentialist-phenomenologist movement. In refuting these trends, Henry B. Veatch argues that moral and ethical...
- Keyword:
- Ethics and Moral Philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Henry B. Veatch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissancecontains nearly 30 prefaces from the works of French poets and dramatists published from 1525 to 1611. Bernard Weinbergs helpful book collects prefaces from the works of satirical poets, as well as dramatists, and provides a short introduction to each preface setting it in its...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Bernard Weinberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Lionel Trilling was one of the twentieth centurys most widely read and influential American literary critics. Mark Krupnick traces Trillings career from the 1920s through the 1970s, following the shifting intellectual and ideological currents in his thought. Krupnick places Trillings criticism and fiction in the context of his New York...
- Keyword:
- United States
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Mark Krupnick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1986
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- 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: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- N/A
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1961
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Sacred Meadows is an anthropological study of the religion of Lamu, the oldest inhabited town in Kenya, originally settled in 1370, and situated on an island off the Kenyan coast. Abdul Hamid El-Zein discusses the religious impact of Islam and its place in Lamu society. He explores the structure...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Abdul Hamid M. el Zein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1974
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Dark Conceit is 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. The greater...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Edwin Honig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1959
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This Africa is 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. Authors whose works are studied include...
- Keyword:
- Literature
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Judith Illsley Gleason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1965
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In D. H. Lawrence, Eliseo Vivas examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrences major works through a literary device that he coins the constitutive symbol. Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views. Vivas covers a wide range of Lawrences work, including Aarons...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Eliseo Vivas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1960
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Reflections on Freges Philosophy, Reinhardt Grossmann investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and functions, his characterization of numbers as nonmental classes, his theory of sense and reference, and his ontology of truth-values. Grossmann examines Freges solutions to...
- Keyword:
- Analytic
- Creator:
- Reinhardt Grossmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- Philosophy
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roy Lawrence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This classic ethnomusicological survey provides as 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. Contributors are Lois Ann Anderson, John Blacking, Philip J....
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Klaus P. Wachsmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work probes the relationship between the aesthetic structures of modernism and its political and philosophical shape. James F. Knapp exploresmodernisms engagement with and reaction to the theories and discourse of scientific management that were reshaping the workplace in the early twentieth century, and in...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Knapp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This edition of Jean de La Fontaines fables includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883-85 edition by Henri Rgnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spectors translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Jean de la Fontaine and Norman B. Spector
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of Wests life and their relationship to his works. James F. Light gives a detailed analysis of each of Wests novels, investigating in particular the works treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.
- Keyword:
- United States
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Light
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This encyclopedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes canon. Arranged alphabetically, Orlando Park provides entries on all manner of people, places, and objects from Arthur Conan Doyles novels and stories, as well as thorough treatments of the traits and opinions...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Orlando Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- First published in German in 1917, On Emotional Presentation investigates the interrelation of emotions, values, and obligation. Alexius Meinong presents a realist theory of values in which values are given in and through emotion but are also ontologically independent of emotion or any subjective attitude. Meinongs first discusses the concept...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- J. N. Findlay, Alexius Meinong, and Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying considers this significant pair of types of expressive behavior, considering them both in themselves and in their relation to the fundamental nature of humanity.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Marjorie Grene, Helmuth Plessner, and James Spencer Churchill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- Some five years ago, during the first year of my assistantship at the Music Academy in Katowice, I required students to analyse some of Penderecki's early, so-called "sonoristic" pieces. The outcome of that assignment proved unsatisfactory, however, because the students tended to describe Penderecki's pieces as chaotic assemblages of sound...
- Keyword:
- poland and sonorism
- Subject:
- Polish people--Music and Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933-
- Creator:
- Danuta Mirka
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/17/2019
- Date Created:
- 1997
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- This book has to do with the period in which Britain’s mandate in Palestine ended, the state of Israel was born, and the Arab refugee problem originated. Many historians have written on these matters, and many more will do so. I arrived in Haifa, Palestine, on 23 December 1947, and...
- Keyword:
- program of african studies and special papers series
- Subject:
- Isreal History, Palestine History, Biography, Great Britain Army Officers, and 20th Century
- Creator:
- Ivor Wilks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2019
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- 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
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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
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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
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- Description:
- [EXCERPT:] On April 2, 1982 a group of concerned alumni met to discuss the need for a Black Alumni Association at Northwestern University. These alumni recognized that such an organization could help serve the needs and aspirations of Black alumni and undergraduates from Northwestern. They decided it would be best...
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, Black staff, Black alumni, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Northwestern University Department of Alumni Relations and Northwestern University Black Alumni Association
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1982
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- For Members Only and Black Student Alliance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1978
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- 1984-2003 (Not complete). Blackbeat is a biweekly newsletter aimed to supplement the quarterly Blackboard magazine, the official publication of For Members Only (FMO). It includes editorials, poetry, cartoons, and announcements to Black students at Northwestern University.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- For Members Only and Black Student Alliance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1984
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- A quarterly literary newsletter. The literary expressions of African American students. New Sense was reissued in 1989, beginning with vol.6 no.1. Electronic reproduction
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Creator:
- For Members Only and Black Student Alliance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- New Sensors
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1974-
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- The Black Student Handbook includes on and off-campus resources for Black students at Northwestern University. It also has a brief history of the Black experience at Northwestern and the leadership structure of For Members Only (FMO). Additionally, it features a calendar of events for the academic year, a list of...
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- For Members Only and Black Student Alliance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1973
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1998
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- Publication of For Members Only (FMO).
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- Word from the House is a newsletter created by the Department of African American Student Affairs. It includes event announcements, tutoring schedules, faculty and staff highlights, and academic resources.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Black faculty, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, Black staff, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Department of African American Student Affairs, Northwestern University Department of African American Student Affairs, the Black Student Union at Northwestern University, Black Student Alliance , and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1990
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1974
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- The newsletter of The Office of African-American Student Affairs. The mission of the publication is to expose undergraduate Black students to African American role models, Northwestern faculty, staff, alumni, and graduate students and support their personal and professional development of futures Black leaders.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1997
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- First official publication of For Members Only (FMO), a precursor to Blackboard.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1968
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- 1984-2003 (Not complete). Blackbeat is a biweekly newsletter aimed to supplement the quarterly Blackboard magazine, the official publication of For Members Only (FMO). It includes editorials, poetry, cartoons, and announcements to Black students at Northwestern University.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1984
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- Blackboard is the official publication of For Members Only (FMO). It provides Black students at Northwestern University with news and relevant campus editorials. Currently, the publication is digitized up to 2011. However, publications from 2012 to the present are available in print at University Archives.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- For Members Only and Black Student Alliance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/27/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- Voices and Vision is a quarterly literary magazine to celebrate Black artists, poetry, photography, paintings, and drawings. The digitized collection represents the publication's resurgence from an earlier 1970s magazine called New Sense.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- For Members Only and Black Student Alliance
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 2006
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- This report shows that compensation plans have not met the needs of victims of nuclear disasters for three primary reasons: compensation plans have been devised by unelected officials and without full public knowledge or participation, governments have often capped the liability of the owners of nuclear facilities, which distorts cost-benefit...
- Keyword:
- nuclear disaster relief, chernobyl, fukushima, nuclear power, and nuclear accidents
- Subject:
- Nuclear energy--Government policy and Nuclear power plants
- Creator:
- Miyazaki, Hirokazu
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/23/2021
- Date Modified:
- 03/09/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-03-09
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- 978-1-954984-00-4 and 978-1-954984-01-1
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- Description:
- ¿Cómo funciona el concepto de paisaje en los Andes? ¿Cómo pensar lo andino por medio del paisaje? ¿De qué manera se superponen el concepto del trabajo, los discursos de la geografía, las ciencias sociales y las prácticas del extractivismo, la arqueología y la historia del arte en el paisaje andino?...
- Keyword:
- region, Andes, Latin America, and landscape
- Creator:
- Briceño, Ximena and Coronado, Jorge
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Plural Editores
- Language:
- Spanish
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts. Incorporating original research from the private archives of leading narrators—artists who write and perform their work—Juliet... and 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...
- Keyword:
- registers of dialogue, archives, classical oration, social issues, microhistory, students, dramaturgy of the world, international populism, laboratorio teatro settimo, theatrical traditions, david enia, laura curino, animazione teatrale, The long 1970s, radio clandestine, nationalist politics, workers, site-specific performance, dialect, italian television, festival, marco baliani, beppe grillo, heterotopia, fake news, public space, giovanni levi, carlo gizburg, and five star movement
- Subject:
- Italian drama
- Creator:
- Guzzetta, Juliet
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4386-9 , Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4387-6 , and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4388-3
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- Description:
- The textbook proceeds with an introduction to theory and concept building, moves to an explanation of causal inference (how do we 'know' whether something is causal?), and then provides a quick introduction to data and hypothesis testing. Following that, each chapter is devoted to a particular research method used within...
- Keyword:
- textbook, open educational resources, and introduction to political science
- Subject:
- Quantitative research, Political science, and Open educational resources
- Creator:
- Clipperton, Jean
- Contributor:
- Ochoa, Erin, Ruan, Zhihang, Lee, John, Manzi, Pilar, Zimmerman, John, Kwon, Irene, Gubitz, Sam, Noor, Salih, and Weylandt, Max
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/24/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/17/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-05-9
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- Description:
- This introductory chemistry textbook was compiled by Shelby Hatch at Northwestern University and is adapted from the following sources: "Introductory Chemistry" by David W. Ball, The Saylor Foundation, Cleveland State University, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and is available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introductory-chemistry ; "Chemistry of Cooking" by Sorangel Rodriguez-Velazquez, American...
- Keyword:
- open textbook, chemical reactions, chemical bonds, measurements, atoms, health, stoichiometry, pharmeceuticals, gases, oer, ions, nuitrition, and molecules
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hatch, Shelby
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2022
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- Forthcoming...
- Keyword:
- buffett
- Creator:
- Mori, Hiroyuki
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/21/2022
- Date Modified:
- 03/21/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
-
- Description:
- Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly haste or strategic delay, sparked new kinds of attachments,... and 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 Minnesota. Learn more at the TOME website,...
- Keyword:
- theatre and early modern history
- Subject:
- Medieval and early modern world and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Row, Jennifer Eun-Jung
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4470-5 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4472-9 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4471-2
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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 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
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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 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Description:
- 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
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- Description:
- In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological... 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, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Wetters, Kirk
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2976-4, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3253-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6764-3
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- Description:
- This book discusses how cities that have developed through the successive stages of capitalism should transform themselves when adapting to the conditions of the contemporary global age. Since modern times, the capitalist economy has largely defined society, politics, and environment—this has casued the collapse of communities, the crisis of democracy,...
- Keyword:
- smart cities
- Creator:
- Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko, Yoshida, Tomohiko, and Mori, Hiroyuki
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/29/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/29/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-02-8
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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
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- Description:
- In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. To the contrary, she agrees, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. While they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable... 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:
- phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, and Levinas
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Achtenberg, Deborah
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6782-7, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3563-5, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2994-8
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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
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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 With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women’s devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, alongside their male counterparts, such as Sir Thomas More and Sir...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Goodrich, Jaime
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2938-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6738-4, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2969-6
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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 Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than patriotic victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in recent years, especially in...
- Keyword:
- Battle of Bannockburn, Scotland, gaelic language, colonialism, fiction, postcolonialism, literary criticism, Scottish nationalism, England, literature, United Kingdom, Britain, novels, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stroh, Silke
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3403-4, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3405-8, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3404-1
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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 George Eliot's Religious Imagination addresses the much-discussed question of Eliot’s relation to Christianity in the wake of the sociocultural revolution triggered by the spread of theories of evolution. The standard view is that the author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner “lost her faith” at this time of religious crisis. Orr...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Orr, Marilyn
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3589-5, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3588-8, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3590-1
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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 In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, language game, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and logic
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Golub, Spencer
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2992-4 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6779-7
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- Description:
- In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead,... 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:
- Schuman, Rebecca
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3146-0, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3150-7, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3184-2
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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 Kierkegaard’s psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich—Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine—and has had a major influence on Heidegger, Sartre, and existential psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, his accomplishment has not always been fully appreciated, in part because it is so scattered across...
- Keyword:
- psychoanalysis, Kierkegaard, and pscyhologist
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- McCarthy, Vincent A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3181-1, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3131-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3132-3
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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 In this volume fifteen eminent scholars illuminate the broad and often underappreciated variety of the nineteenth‑century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s engagements with literature and the arts. The essays in Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, contextualized with an insightful introduction by Eric Ziolkowski, explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature (poetry, prose,...
- Keyword:
- dance, music, existentialism, philosophy, visual arts, and aesthetics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ziolkowski, Eric
- Contributor:
- Jothen, Peder, Lorentzen, Jamie A., Linnet, Ragni, Fiskvik, Anne Margrete, Peterson, Nils Holger, Garff, Joakim, Pattison, George, Mooney, Edward F., Barnett, Christopher B. , Robinson, Marcia C., Pickett, Howard, Rovira, James, Boven, Martijn, and Green, Ronald M.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3597-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3596-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3598-7
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- Description:
- The Middle Included is the first comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek word logos in Aristotelian philosophy. Logos means many things in the Aristotelian corpus: essential formula, proportion, reason, and language. Surveying these meanings in Aristotle’s logic, physics, and ethics, Ömer Aygün persuasively demonstrates that these divers meanings of logos... 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:
- mind & body, ancient & classical, history & surveys, language, Aristotle, and philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Aygün, Ömer
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3401-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3400-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3402-7
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- Description:
- Contemporary Ethiopian is, without question, facing enormous challenges. At the core of these challenges lay a state-building process major constituencies and elite groups were either alienated from, forced to acquiesce to, or coopted into. Unable to derive political legitimacy from democratic participation, successive governments largely relied on coercion and neopatrimonialism,...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, managing diversity, constitutional law, law, states' rights, Ethiopia, political science, consociationalism, federalism, democratization, constitutionalism, intersectionality, and ethnic federalism
- Subject:
- Law and Political Science
- Creator:
- Dr. Juweria Ali, Loid Taye, Dr. Solomon Negussie, Melhik A. Bekele, Fowsia Abdulkadir, Dr. Christophe Van der Beken, Rediet Baye Ayalew, Professor Thomas Geraghty, Prof. Dr. Adeno Addis, Teguadda Alebachew, Dr. Abchu Wassihun, Dr. Mulugeta Mengist Ayalew, Prof. Dr. Assefa Fiseha, Dr. Mizanie Abate Tadesse, Dr. Getachew Assefa Wodemariam, Dr. Semir Yusuf, Abduletif Kedir Idris, Dr. Aberra Degefa, Kokebe Wolde Jemaneh, Dr. Kalkidan Negash Obse, Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim, Dr. Zemalek Ayitenew Ayele, Dr. Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha, Dr. Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Dr. Abdi Jibril, Dr. Sossina M. Haile, Dr. Tigist Shewarega Hussen, Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Dr. Adem K. Abebe, Dr. Mohammed Dejan Assen, Dr. Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, Gossaye Ayele, Dr. Yitayew Alemayehu, Dr. Shimelis Mulugeta Kene, and Dr. Sisay Alemahu Yeshanew
- Contributor:
- Mezgebu Tesema (cover art) and May Malone (cover design)
- Owner:
- Basia Kapolka
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries and Northwestern University Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-06-6
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- Description:
- 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
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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 and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, Aristotle, literary criticism, essays, invention, and Montaigne
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hartle, Ann
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6733-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2932-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2965-8
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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 and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Muslims in Kenyan Politics explores the changing relationship between Muslims and the state in Kenya from precolonial times to the present, culminating in the radicalization of a section of the Muslim population in recent decades. The politicization of Islam in Kenya is deeply connected with the sense of marginalization that...
- Keyword:
- colonialism, Muslims, politics, and Kenya
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Africa
- Creator:
- Ndzovu, Hassan J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3002-9 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6787-2