This first full-length treatment of Lenin's studies of Hegel presents Lenin as a major figure in Hegelian Marxism, providing a more nuanced portrait of his work than that of either official Marxist-Leninism or most Western accounts.''With impressive argumentation and wide-ranging scholarship, Anderson presents us with a Lenin that no one seriously ......
Includes the first complete English translation of Jacques Derrida's book-length essay, ''Shibboleth for Paul Celan.''''Despite a growing interest in Celan over the past twenty years, there is no collection in English which comes as close to the extended critical presentation assembled here. Word Traces will be a standard text on Celan--the ......
Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
'It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's selfthrough the eyes of others.' For Adell, W. E. B. Du Bois's famous articulation of the 'twoness' ofblack Americans is the key to understanding the 'double bind' which afflicts contemporaryAfrican-American literary theory. . . . [The book] demands and ......
William H. Rueckert's landmark 1963 study, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations, is often credited with bringing the field of Burke studies into existence. Here, Rueckert has gathered his ''encounters'' with Burke over the past thirty years--brieft talks, position papers, rethinking and reformation of earlier ideas, and detailed analyses ......
Sherwood Anderson's first and most autobiographical novel and the only one set in Illinois, Windy McPherson's Son received uniformly high praise from literary critics when it was first published. It tells the story of an Iowa newsboy who fights his way to fortune in Chicago, then questions the meaning of his success. It was republished in 1922 ......
''No Shakespearean, feminist or not, should fail to read this book, the boldest, most tough-minded and meticulous feminist interpretation of the plays that has been written thus far.''-- Shakespeare Quarterly ''Important not only for the contribution it makes to our understanding of Shakespeare but for the work it enables and provokes.''-- ......
Traces the conceptual lineage of modernism, examining its evolution in Western art andliterature through empiricism, idealism, and romanticism. Berman demonstrates howmodern social, political, and scientific developments -- including capitalism, socialism,humanism, psychoanalysis, fascism, and modernism itself -- have altered attitudes towardtime, ......
Cuts a feminist swath through orthodox readings of southern literature. ''Distinguished. . . . Theseessays reclaim women's traditions which have been neglected by critics who ought to have knownbetter.'' -- Kathryn Lee Seidel, author of The Southern Belle in the American Novel
When City of Discontent was first published, it bore the subtitle ''An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that state, and that nation.'' But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's Lincoln, not so much a biography as a poetic interpretation of the life ......
