Books from Northwestern University Press
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The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil
By Sarah J. TownsendStage. of. the. Avant-Gardes. At a certain point in O banquete (The Banquet), a collection of pseudo-Platonic dialogues by the Brazilian writer and musicologist Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), the character most closely identified with ...
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Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundations of Literary Representation
By Robert StoreyNancy Eisenberg and Paul A. Miller, in a recent reexamination of the literature, conclude that "empathic responding is an important source of prosocial (including altruistic) behavior" (91). Earlier, Martin Hoffman had distinguished ...
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Materada: Fulvio Tomizza ; Translated from the Italian by Russell Scott Valentino
By Fulvio Tomizza, Russell Scott ValentinoMaterada, the first volume of Fulvio Tomizza's celebrated Istrian Trilogy, depicts the Istrian exodus of the hundreds of thousands who had once thrived in a rich ethnic mixture of Italians and Slavs.
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Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas
By Tom McEnaneyIn the sonic logic of the story's first section, the opening song, “Go t sleep baby ... Bang! Bang! And with each bang the baby smiled and said, “Ahh!” Mabbe thall keep yuh quiet erwhile.72 Song, sung to induce silence, or at least a shift.
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Dos Passos: A Life
By Virginia Spencer Carr... Lola Szladits, Robert F. Wiseman, and John D. Stinson in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Divisions of The New York Public Library, New York City; Diana Haskell, Curator of Modern Manuscripts, the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois; ...
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Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson: A Biography
By Elizabeth MaslenShe simply told Vera “everything has changed since you went away” (SJ to VB, 10.25.38). As for Chamberlain and the government, she saw them as much more authoritarian than Vera did, but here too, she was cautious in her wording.
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Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays
By William TwiningNew York . Corbin , A. L. ( 1914 ) ' The Law and the Judges ' , Yale Rev. 234 . Cover , R. and Fiss , O. ( 1979 ) The Structure of Procedure . Mineola , NY . Cowen , Zelman and Carter , Peter ( 1956 ) Essays in the Law of Evidence .
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The Legal Foundations of the Welfare State
By Ross CranstonThe Legal Foundations of the Welfare State
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The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater
By Mike Thomas44 The Second City Unscripted Roberta Maguire Abbie Hoffman not only came to our shows almost every night, but he stayed with me, and we were lovers at one point. For the trial. He'd go to the trial, and then he'd come at night and do ...
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The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right
By James Brian McPhersonPopular conservative Sean hannity cohosts another fox show, paired with quieter, less well-known, and more liberal Alan colmes. oliver north, who once lied to congress about the illegal sale of weapons to iran, has a show on fox news.
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In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination : Essays, 1980-1991
By Alan ShapiroA collection of essays on the situation of poetry in contemporary American culture, from Shapiro's multiple perspectives as poet (four volumes), teacher of poetry (U. of North Carolina, Greensboro), and reader.
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"Work Hard, Study . . . and Keep Out of Politics!"
By Steve Fiffer, James A. BakerJames A. Baker, Steve Fiffer ... See also Baker, Mary Stuart McHenry McInturff, Bill, 84 McKinley, William, 81 McLennan,Judy, 46 McPherson, Peter, 46, 458 Madrid, Spain, Arab-Israeli meeting, 303–4 Mail, Reagan and, 157 Maine, ...
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Gust: Poems
By Greg Alan BrowndervilleFrom a Nationally Televised Press Conference Starring the Poetic Sheriff, Joseph Kilpatrick Conway, After a Van Gogh Painting Is Stolen from a Little Rock Exhibit and Recovered in Monroe County Sheriff, Sheriff Conway, Sheriff!
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The Anthropology of Music
By Alan P. Merriam, Valerie Merriam(1942:303) The question, then, of full support for the musician is not answered clearly in the literature, although the evidence, particularly from the griots and from Nadel's description of Bida musicians, indicates that some musicians ...
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The Spirit of Poesy: Essays on Jewish and German Literature and Thought in Honor of Géza Von Molnar
By Richard A. Block, Peter David Fenves, Géza von MolnárThis text presents a collection of essays in honour of Geza von Molnar. The essays focus on topics in literary theory and criticism.
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Being and God: A Systematic Approach in Confrontation with Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Marion
By Alan White, Lorenz B. Puntel... 107–8, 111–12 first philosophy, 289–91, 338 five ways (Aquinas), 34–38, 79, 378, 406–7 formal logic, 7, 159–60 forms of life, 52, 55–56 Forrest, Peter, 234 Fößel, Thomas, 267 foundation, 307, 364 foundationalism, 22 fourfold, 95–96, ...
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Journals
By Herman Melville, Lynn Horth, Howard C. Horsford20.29 St : Giles ) Again , as on the day before , M's circular itinerary is taking him through the dreadful rookeries lying north of his lodging and Trafalgar Square , those near the eighteenth - century church of St. Giles in the ...
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The Structures of the Life World
By Alfred Schutz, Thomas Luckmann(b) Dewey's origin of generic concepts (c) Bergson's attempt at a solution [1041 J (Choosing) Husserl's distinction between open and problematic possibilities. Of multiple importance (where should it be inserted?)
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The Powers: A Novel
By Valerie SayersYou'dfeel good ahout it, he— cause that would he justice. He's squeezing Agnes's breasts, hard this time. Norman Thomas, in bow tie, approaches the microphone at last, and the audience turns the same adoring gaze on him.
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Victims of Justice Revisited: Completely Updated and Revised
By Thomas Frisbie, Randy Garrett... inkle, though, promised the investigation wouldn't be a ish. ortly after his appointment, the law firm of Pope, Cahill le had dissolved, and Kunkle joined with nine other part- the old firm to form Cahill, Christian & Kunkle.