Books from Northwestern University Press
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The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy
By Mark NeuzilThis history of environmental journalism looks at how the practice now defines issues and sets the public agenda evolving from a tradition that includes the works of authors such as Pliny the Elder, John Muir, and Rachel Carson.
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Northwestern University: Celebrating 150 Years
By Jay PridmorePublished in celebration of the university sesquicentennial, this text chronicles Northwestern's history, from the effort to found an institution of the highest order through the rise of the modern university.
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Salvage: Poems
By Cynthia Dewi Oka... guilty and standing here long past the last train, waiting for the police sweep, waiting for the clamp on the wrist Still, I feel a kinship because we both committed a kind of treason (against slender destiny / we rowed far beyond ...
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At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter
By Erica WeitzmanFriedrich Balke, Joseph Vogl, and Benno Wagner (Zurich: Diaphanes, 2008); and J. Hillis Miller, “The Sense of an Un-ending: The Resistance to ... Rodney Livingston et al., ed. Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith ...
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Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War
By Anna TeekellIn his introduction to the Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism, Cleary notes that “a remarkable but still scarcely conceptualized late Irish modernism begins to appear” (3) when ...
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Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama
By Joanna Kot, Associate Professor of Russian and Polish Joanna KotBooth , Wayne C. 1983. The Rhetoric of Fiction . 2nd ed . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Bowie , Malcolm . 1978. Mallarmé and the Art of Being Difficult . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Brach - Czaina , Jolanta .
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Avenue of Vanishing
By William OlsenIn lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes at the very nature of human language.
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Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68
By Kate Bredeson... each invoking particular and evocative times and places: Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson, Norman Morrison, Texas Tower sniper Charles Joseph Whitman, John Foster Dulles, Bertrand Russell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Steinbeck, ...
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Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit
By Bret W. DavisBernasconi, Robert, and Simon Critchley, eds. Re-Reading Levinas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Bourdieu, Pierre. The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger.Translated by Peter Collier ...
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Antonina
By Evgeniya TurThree weeks , dear . " I started thinking ; I tried to recall everything that had happened . I rubbed my forehead but couldn't remember anything . I had nothing to compare my present condition to ; I was like someone who wakes up trying ...
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Process: An Improviser's Journey
By Mary Scruggs, Michael J. GellmanThrough Geoff’s eyes, the book introduces readers to key tenets of improvisation: concentration, visualization, focus, object work, being in the moment, and the crucial “yes, and.” His experiences with the basics of improvisation do ...
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Meteor in the Madhouse
By Leon ForrestForrest's long-awaited last work follows the last days of journalist Joubert Jones and his long relationship with his friend and mentor, the idealistic and doomed poet Leonard Foster.
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The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting
By Michael B. Smith, Maurice Merleau-PontyTogether the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Discovering Existence with Husserl
By Emmanuel LevinasIn collecting nearly all of Levinas's articles on Husserlian phenomenology, this volume gathers together a wealth of exposition and interpretation by one of the more important European philosophers of the 20th century.
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Rallying Cries: Three Plays
By Eric BentleyI'm willing to take his word on what is presently visible through it . Scholar 6. I wish I knew . I was all set to see Jupiter and four little Jupiters , as Galilei suggested . There are a few things bobbing about there that could be ...
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Meteor in the Madhouse
By Leon ForrestImprisoned to your obsession for their nutrition of body, mind, and soul, you, Phillipa, have starved yourself, even as I see your bloated cheeks before me allowed day into night out to McDonald's to become your Midnight Special—night ...
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A Documentary History of the African Theatre
By George ThompsonA history of the African Theatre, the first all-black theatre company in the United States.
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The Revelation of Imagination: From Homer and the Bible through Virgil and Augustine to Dante
By William FrankeIn The Revelation of Imagination, William Franke attempts to focus on what is enduring and perennial rather than on what is accommodated to the agenda of the moment.
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The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative
By David Sloan Wilson, Jonathan GottschallThe goal of this book is to overcome some of the widespread misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically.
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A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative
By Michelle Martin, Daniel T. O'Hara, Donald PeaseA William V. Spanos Reader collects Spanos’s most important critical essays, providing both an introduc-tion to his prophetic, visionary work and a provocation to the practice of humanistic criticism.