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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 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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- 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...
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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- 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
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- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2992-4 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6779-7
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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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
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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 Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Bray, Patrick M.
- 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 978-0-8101-6638-7 and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2866-8
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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 Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is...
- Keyword:
- individualism, perception, philosophy, Aristotle, ethics, phenomena, and virtue
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Rabinoff, Eve
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3644-1, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3642-7, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3643-4
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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 In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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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
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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 Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Social sciences, Literary criticism, Religion, and Islam
- Creator:
- Edwin, Shirin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3369-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3367-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6
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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 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
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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 Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies examines the key role that the law and legal frameworks played in the ways Shakespeare explored character and selfhood.
- Keyword:
- English, law, philosophy, theater, Shakespeare, and performing arts
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Curran, Kevin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3518-5, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3517-8, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3516-1
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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 and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent Egyptian performance practices from 2004 to 2014 to demonstrate how young dramatists staged new narratives of citizenship outside of state institutions, exploring rights claims and enacting generational identity. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book traces this avant-garde from the theater networks of the...
- Keyword:
- Egypt, Egyptian revolution, avant-garde, theater, ethnography, and performance
- Subject:
- History, Art, Middle Eastern, Performing arts, and Theater
- Creator:
- Pahwa, Sonali
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4177-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4176-6, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4175-9
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- Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of... 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:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- History and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Berger, Alan L. and Aarons, Victoria
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3410-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3411-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3409-6