Books from University of Notre Dame Pess
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Volition's Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature
By Andrew EscobedoIndeed, “possession” becomes a kind of interpretive procedure in the work of Julian Yates, the critic who has perhaps most resourcefully used the trope of prosopopoeia to translate posthumanist thinking into Renaissance studies.
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Indecent Liberties
By Robert SchmuhlAs Robert Shogan points out in The Double-Edged Sword, Theodore Roosevelt's sickly childhood and youthful insecurity stand in marked contrast to his leading the Rough Riders and to his strenuous (yet “bully”) life in politics.
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The Pocket-Size God: Essays from Notre Dame Magazine
By Robert F. Griffin C.S.C.Mickey Ashford was a very real nine-year-old whom I befriended as though he were the little prince. I spent two years being his closest grownup friend, loving him as best I could without spoiling him. Later, I would be asked if I were ...
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Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity
By Adam A. J. DeVilleDunn, Dennis J. The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars and Commissars. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Duprey, Pierre. “The Synodical Structure of the Church in Eastern Theology.” One in Christ 7 (1971): 152–82.
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Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age
By Angus RitchieIn this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-right populism of billionaire Donald Trump ...
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Boccaccio’s Corpus: Allegory, Ethics, and Vernacularity
By James C. Kriesel... and “pudico e casto” (discrete and chaste) Boethius (AV 4.34–39, 42, and 82–83). Given the geographical and structural placement of Wisdom within the vision, the episode evokes at least two key metaliterary episodes in the Comedy.
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John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic: Catholicism in American Culture
By Jeffry H. MorrisonTrevor Colbourn (New York: W. W. Norton, 1974), 93–106. Adair saw Hume especially clearly in Madison's formulation of the extended republic, and he quoted from Hume's “Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth” as follows: “[t]hough it is ...
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The Golden Cord: A Short Book on the Secular and the Sacred
By Charles TaliaferroA. J. Malherbe and E. Ferguson (New York: Paulist Press, 1978), 2:3. 9. Sterry, “A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will,” 181. 10. Ibid. 11. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, trans. S. Nofke (New York: Paulist Press, 1980), 37–38. 12.
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Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation
By John Fea, Eric Miller, Jay GreenWritten from several different theological and professional points of view, the essays collected in this volume explore the vocation of the historian and its place in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciples.
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Irish Ethnologies
By Diarmuid Ó GiolláinSo when Northern Ireland was set up in 1921 almost everyone in the dominant Ulster Unionist Party was in the Orange Order. The July parades were huge events involving tens of thousands of people, the largest parade going right through ...
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Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel
By Shabtai ShavitThis is an essential book for everyone who cares for Israel’s security and future, and everyone who is interested in intelligence gathering and covert action.
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Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present
By Anna M. NogarThis book will interest scholars and researchers of colonial Latin American literature, early modern women writers, folklore and ethnopoetics, and Mexican American cultural studies.
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Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: New Directions in a Divided America
By Darren DochukThis volume reframes the narrative that has too often dominated the field of historical study of religion and politics: the culture wars.
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Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy
By David M. Elcott, C. Colt Anderson, Tobias CremerTo lay the groundwork for a religious response, the book offers chapters showing how Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism can nourish liberal democracy.
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The Incurables
By Mark BrazaitisThe ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors of mental illness to the beguiling and baffling complexities of romantic and familial ...
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The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
By Erika BachiochiDrawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Mary Ann Glendon, this book is unique in its treatment of the moral roots of ...
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The Star of Redemption
By Franz RosenzweigAn affirmation of what Rosenzweig called “the new thinking,” the work ensconces common sense in the place of abstract, conceptual philosophizing and posits the validity of the concrete, individual human being over that of “humanity” ...
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Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University
By Cornelius G. ButtimerThis catalogue describes the collection in full for the first time and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output. The author’s introduction examines how the collection was formed.
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Furious Dusk
By David CamposRhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos’s winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son’s efforts—only partially successful—to fulfill his father’s ...
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Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology
By Curtis A. GruenlerIn this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the ...