The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that indicate that...

"Jamake Highwater, one of the most important, original and popular writers of our time, here continues a voyage into the realms of myth, art, and contemporary culture that began with his best-seller The Primal Mind and continued with Myth and Sexuality...

Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the...

Focuses on Victorian culture, assessing the immense influence the ancient Greeks had on British classical education, the images and themes of George Eliot's writings, Christian sensibility, decorative arts, and English playing fields during the...

Une Histoire Générale Du Roman Français Des Origines à La Révolution A Longtemps Fait Défaut ; On Manquait également D'études Particulières Sur Bon Nombre De Romanciers, Ou Bien Elles étaient Anciennes Ou Dépassées. Cet Ouvrage, Répondant à Ce Manque,...

Product Description This collection honors the career of Donald «Sandy» Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays – written by colleagues, friends,...

In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful—and controversial—influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly...

In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they now constitute the new academic order. Scott Wilson...

Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, Proust's poor soul was not ready for the...

Play and the Artist's Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both...

Toulmin offers a radically new interpretation of Western intellectual history that humanizes our conception of modernity and reconciles the precision of scientific theory with the reality of human experience.

Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendous amount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades have built up not just for her intricate plots...

While riding on a bus in New York City, the author looks back on his life and examines the Jewish culture

“Has the page-turning quality of a thriller.” —NPR“Strange and wonderful…A book for our times.” —The New York Times Book Review“Propulsive…mesmerizing…breathtaking.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)This unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of...

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. The author of the New York Times bestselling The...

"America is the world's biggest haunted house and American Scary is the only travel guide you need. I loved this book." --Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group From the...

Philip Goldstein examines in this study the politics of a potpourri of modern criticism - new critical, authorial, reader-oriented phenomenological, structuralist, and poststructuralist. In the process, he contends that Marxist and feminist criticism...