Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0810124440 ISBN 13: 9780810124448
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Author Steven J. Harper pays tribute to a well-respected teacher with this biography of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W. Leopold. Harper had maintained contact with his former professor, as had hundreds of other alumni, meeting with him in the apartment to which his age and health confined him. When Leopold invited him to review his biographical materials to prepare a New York Times obituary, Harper began to catch glimpses of a deeper history in Leopolds life: that of Jews in America after the turn of the century.Across two years of Sundays, Leopolds life came together and Harper began to notice parallels between the life of his professor and the life of his recently deceased father-in-law. Both grew up in less orthodox households but were still identified as Jewish by others; both attended Ivy League colleges, fighting (and beating) anti-Semitism there; and both served their country with distinction in World War II. The two men persevered through a twentieth century Jewish-American experience that they and many others shared, but rarely discussed. Steven Harper has caught them both on the page just in time to document their lives, their culture, and the nation that grew and changed alongside them.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0810106647 ISBN 13: 9780810106642
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. 1. The sixteen essays collected in The Theater of Essence define the point of view of one of the most influential theater critics of our time. Jan Kott's subjects extend from Tadeusz Borowski, Ibsen, Ionesco, and Gogol to Bunraku theater in Japan, Yiddish theater in New York, and Grotowski's theater in Poland.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0810108496 ISBN 13: 9780810108493
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. Compilation volume for all those interested in art history.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0810107155 ISBN 13: 9780810107151
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. This is the first English translation of Witold Gombrowicz's Diary, the most Polish and the most universal of his works. Gombrowicz (1904-1969), who left Poland at age thirty-five and never returned, whose writings were banned in his own country, has had an impact on Polish literature unlike any of his contemporaries. But he changed more than the image of Polish letters. If literature cannot influence national character, it can at least influence the national image, its understanding and evaluation of itself. That is what Gombrowicz changed: the image and stereotype of the Pole.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0810107066 ISBN 13: 9780810107069
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Book by Lustig, Arnost.
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1969
ISBN 10: 0810100126 ISBN 13: 9780810100121
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0810107295 ISBN 13: 9780810107298
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Book by Holquist, Michael.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0810111926 ISBN 13: 9780810111929
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Product Description Winner of the 2004 German Publishers and Booksellers Association Peace Prize Named aNew York Times Notable Book of 1994 Winner of 1995 The New York Times Review Notable Books An elaborate, elegant homage to the great Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal (author ofClosely Watched Trains),The Book of Hrabal is also a farewell to the years of communism in Eastern Europe and a glowing paean to the mixed blessings of domestic life. Anna, blues-singing housewife and mother of three, addresses her reminiscences and reflections to Hrabal. They swing from domestic matters, to accounts of the injustices suffered by her family during the Stalinist 1950s and the police harassment in subsequent years, to her husband's crazy ideas. He frets over his current project, a book celebrating Hrabal, but seems unable to write it. Meanwhile, two angels, undercover as secret policemen, shadow the household-communicating via walkie-talkie-to prevent Anna from aborting her fourth child. God himself (aka Bruno) enters the scene; he chats with Hrabal, takes saxophone lessons from an irreverent Charlie Parker (unfortunately even this doesn't cure his tone-deaf ear), and tries to play the saxophone to dissuade her from ending the pregnancy. From Publishers Weekly Politics may make strange bedfellows, but those pairings pale beside the cast assembled here by Hungarian author Esterhazy. The odd roster includes a Hungarian writer (a nameless scribe who was "supposed to write about [the real Czech writer Bohumil] Hrabal"); his wife, Anna, who has an ongoing internal conversation with Hrabal; their unborn child, whom Anna wants to abort; their live children (who play minor roles); two angels disguised as secret policemen, who watch the house and whose mission is to prevent the abortion; and-last but hardly least-God himself, who instructs the angels, takes saxophone lessons from Charlie Parker, ponders philosophy and bickers with his nagging mother. Given this uncommon assemblage, it is perhaps not surprising that the resultant work proves often confusing-in large part because Esterhazy shifts perspective at will and without warning. Still, flashes of wit and tongue-in-cheek aphorisms frequently enliven the convoluted proceedings. Though this discursive yarn will not strike all readers' fancies, those with a fondness for mittel-European whimsy may well be charmed.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Anna is a Hungarian housewife and mother of three who finds herself pregnant and wanting an abortion. Her husband is a writer whose current subject is the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. Anna's reflections on her condition, her country's condition, her family, and her marriage are addressed to Hrabal, who becomes Anna's confidant. God is also a player in this freely associative novel, for He sends two angels, disguised as secret police, to watch over Anna and prevent her from aborting the child. Toward the end, with the outcome in doubt, God takes saxophone lessons from Charlie Parker in an attempt to woo the blues-loving Anna into keeping the baby. Difficult, complex, and fascinating, this 16th novel from Hungarian playwright and essayist Esterhazy will appeal to serious readers of literature.Ruth M. Ross, Olympic Coll. Lib., Bremerton, Wash.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Considering the changes in the countries once behind the Iron Curtain, it shouldn't surprise much that new, post-cold war, surrealist East European novelists are refracting these nations' revolutions through the lenses of their craft. The Hungarian Esterh{ }azy'sBook of Hrabal is a perplexing, phantasmagorical view--through the eyes of a writer, his wife, and various interconnecting spirits--of the totalitarian past and an uncertain future. Anna, who sings the blues and is saddled with an unwanted pregnancy, has a solid outlook on personal and political history that contr.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0810107945 ISBN 13: 9780810107946
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Revised and Amended. Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Her eponymous heroine is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0810111497 ISBN 13: 9780810111493
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. In IRISH JOURNAL, Heinrich Boll the celebrated novelist becomes Heinrich Boll the relatively obscure traveler, touring Ireland in the mid-1950s with his wife and children. While time may stand still in Irish pubs, Boll does not, and his descriptions of his various travels throughout Ireland are as vivid and compelling today as they were over 40 years ago.
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0810104032 ISBN 13: 9780810104037
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Heroic nature : ideal landscape in English poetry from Marvell to Thomson.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0810103702 ISBN 13: 9780810103702
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 081010590X ISBN 13: 9780810105904
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. In Speech and Phenomena, Jacques Derrida situates the philosophy of language in relation to logic and rhetoric, which have often been seen as irreconcilable criteria for the use and interpretations of signs. His critique of Husserl attacks the position that language is founded on logic rather than on rhetoric; instead, he claims, meaningful language is limited to expression because expression alone conveys sense. Derrida's larger project is to confront phenomenology with the tradition it has so often renounced--the tradition of Western metaphysics.
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0810119714 ISBN 13: 9780810119710
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritageRoughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a wild card of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition.The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0810103478 ISBN 13: 9780810103474
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Book by Ihde, Don.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0810108615 ISBN 13: 9780810108615
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0810109034 ISBN 13: 9780810109032
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0810104261 ISBN 13: 9780810104266
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0810113961 ISBN 13: 9780810113961
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0810111470 ISBN 13: 9780810111479
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0810116634 ISBN 13: 9780810116634
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Book by Levendel, Isaac.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0810105985 ISBN 13: 9780810105980
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Ricoeur, Paul, Editions De Seuil.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1970
ISBN 10: 0810103036 ISBN 13: 9780810103030
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 0. Book by Abu-Lughod.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0810115670 ISBN 13: 9780810115675
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly affected him and who had died a year earlier. Although a great modern painter, Modersohn-Becker is remembered primarily as she is portrayed in Rilke's poem. Dear Friend looks at the relationship of two great artists whose often-strained friendship was extraordinary for both.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 081010430X ISBN 13: 9780810104303
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Sartre, Jean-Paul.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0810104482 ISBN 13: 9780810104488
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0810107597 ISBN 13: 9780810107595
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Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0810113414 ISBN 13: 9780810113411
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved.
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0810103958 ISBN 13: 9780810103955
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. English, German (translation).
Verlag: Brand: Northwestern University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0810123355 ISBN 13: 9780810123359
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