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Wordsworth’s Poetry 1787-1814
The drama of consciousness and maturation in the growth of a poet's mind is traced from Wordsworth's earliest poems to The Excursion of 1814. Mr. Hartman follows Wordsworth's growth into self-consciousness,...
Imagining Nabokov
Russia Between Art and Politics
Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the...
Canon and Creativity
Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
In this illuminating book, one of our foremost literary critics views the much-debated question of the literary canon from an entirely new angle. Robert Alter explores the ways in which a range of iconoclastic twentieth...
Why Poetry Matters
A brief, passionate book about the nature of poetry and its use in the world Poetry doesn’t matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a...
The Bridge at the Edge of the World
Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Large Type / Large Print Edition
“My point of departure in this book is the momentous environmental challenge we face. But today’s environmental reality is linked powerfully with other realities, including growing social inequality and...
The Tragedy of Finitude
Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life
One of the founders of modern hermeneutics, German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) confronted the question of how modern, postmetaphysical human beings can cope with the ambivalence, contingency, and finitude that...
Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century
Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This groundbreaking book...
GIs and Germans
Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945–1949
At the end of World War II roughly 300,000 American GIs were deployed as occupation forces in Germany. Many of them quickly developed intimate relations with their former enemies. Those informal interactions played a...
Tell It Like it Is!
Natural Chinese for Advanced Learners: With Online Media
This unique program emphasizes authentic, unrehearsed Chinese language as it is spoken among Chinese speakers. The program includes an online video component connecting students to Chinese culture, politics, and issues by...
Columbus's Outpost among the Taínos
Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498
In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the...