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Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best.

Musical understanding has evolved dramatically, principally through an appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This book examines the open and active circle between the values and valuations placed on music by individuals and societies, and the discovery, through music, of what and how to value.

Providing a synthesis of Byzantine Christian thought, this book offers an understanding of the Byzantine view of man, his destiny of deification, the evolution of Byzantium and its ability to survive under diverse historical circumstances.

Explores the embodied aspects of ownership and private property as these emerge in a range of American literary texts across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, "American" and "French".

Analyzes Aristotle's natural philosophy and metaphysics from a feminist, deconstructive, psychoanalytic perspective, showing that Aristotelian teleology relies on the disparagement of chance and the feminine simultaneously and finding resources therein for contemporary feminist thought.

Communities in Fiction reads in detail six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Nancy for communities or non-communities in the real world.

Demonstrates how "circumcision" - the fetishized signifier of Jewish difference and source of knowledge about Jewish identity - is central to Freud's construction of psychoanalysis. This work depicts Freud as an ordinary Viennese Jew making extraordinary attempts to mitigate the trauma of everyday antisemitism.

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. This edition of Fenollosa's important work is accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages.

Drawing on letters, memoirs and other key documents from the Fordham archives, Hennessy opens a window on 19th-century Catholic New York, with profiles of three leading Jesuit educators - Clement Boulanger, August Thebaud and John Larkin.

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was one of the most prolific and influential theologians of the twentieth century. This study seeks to show the fruitfulness of his thought by drawing out its philosophical implications for the question of truth.

"Part I ... is an economical recapitulation of mystical writing ... Part II explores the theological dialogue between East and West...Part III shares personal experience of the two traditions... an excellent primer for introduction to the wellsprings of spirituality."-Christian Century

Murrow is the biography of America's foremost broadcast journalist, Edward R. Murrow.

Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.

Traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.

This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999-2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars.

An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, literary and urban culture.

This book describes new affective and material modes of print media consumption that emerged in the nineteenth century, when ephemeral printed material and objects became part of everyday modern life. It offers a history of our own moment of digital absorption, information addiction, and social media obsession.

Latinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.

The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power.

On the Nature of Marx's Things traces to Marx's earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline of "the great utopias of labor" in the first half of the twentieth century.

Indecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanism's increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetry's imaginative worlds.

Brings together four long out-of-print Honig translations: Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult, Devotion to the Cross, The Phantom Lady, and The Mayor of Zalamea.

Vivid tales and anecdotes about the theatre told by John D. Mitchell, founder of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts.

Vivid tales and anecdotes about the theatre told by John D. Mitchell, founder of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts.

This new translation is annotated with the comments of Yuri Zavadski, one of Russia's most acclaimed and decorated stage directors. Drawing fro his extensive experience directing under the aegis of both Stanislovski and Vakhtagnov, Zavadski illumi-nates the text of Chekhov's dramatic masterpiece.