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Presents an illumination of the individual Jewish identity of the major modernist German author - Kafka. Through an examination of Kafka's life, his influences, and his writings, this work makes a case for Kafka's interest in Zionism and demonstrates the presence of Jewish themes and motifs in Kafka's literary works.

Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.

Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.

This collection of essays reveals the beauty and value of hornets, bats, katydids, mice, cicadas, and other tiny creatures. Allen M. Young records his keen observations of the natural world as he walks through urban woods near Lake Michigan, or sits on his deck in his own backyard.

How much did making it new have to do with making it? For the four ""outsider poets"" considered here, the connection was everything. Both a social history of literary ambition in America in the 1950s and 1960s and a collective literary biography, this is an account of postwar poetry underground.

This chronicle of a unique period in the development of printmaking in the U.S. at the University of Wisconsin, 1945-95, tells the story beautifully, in interviews with and about those who taught and those who were taught, and with examples of their prints.

In this critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, Victor Terras discusses psychological, political, mythical and philosophical approaches, guiding readers through the range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations of Dostoevsky's rich novels.

Drawing on surviving records of antisuffrage organizations, the author argues that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests rather than an ideal of ""true womanhood"". The book reveals an increasingly militant style as powerful women sought to exclude ""the ignorant vote"".

Designed as a companion and study guide for the textbook ""Comprehending Technical Japanese"", this book serves as a supplement to ""Basic Technical Japanese"". It provides explanations of the origin and meaning of more than 500 Kanji, chosen for their significance in the literature of the sciences.

Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

In every culture there exists unwritten law - obligations and prohibitions that are understood, and transgressions that are punished. These volumes explore the historical implications of folk law, its influence around the globe, and the conflicts that arise when it diverges from official law.

The author of this book was a chronicler whose ear was close to the northern Wisconsin ground. In his Sac Prairie Saga, of which ""Walden West"" is the crowning volume, he captures the essences of midwestern village life with his distinctive combination of narrative and prose-poetry.

This work on concerns arising from contemporary medicine, looks at the careers of a number of general physicians of 70 years ago who have become today's scientific specialists, and asks how they have responded to change, and what their hopes are regarding the profession's current directions.

Provides edited accounts of six English voyagers and their experiences in Muscovy Russia between 1553 and 1600. With modernised spelling and presentation, these accounts are accompanied by a glossary of Russian terms, introductions of their authors, and annotations that help put the travellers' narratives into perspective.

German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking. Through a reading of Schmitt's corpus, this work highlights the importance of the ""Jewish Question"" on the breadth of Schmitt's work.

This is a textbook for the teaching of standard Macedonian grammar and vocabulary to English speakers. Designed by an experienced teacher to be completed in one year of intensive study, this second edition includes expanded glossaries and an answer key for those studying on their own. The sixteen chapters provide a basic knowledge of Macedonian language as well as an introduction to Macedonian life, culture, history, and literature.

Reveals major figures in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the ""Metamorphoses"". This title explores issues central to Ovid's poetics - the status of the image, the generation of plots, repetition, opposition between refined and inflated epic style, and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry.

This work combines the author's vision and practicality and seeks to answer questions such as ""why dance?"", and to give voice to her plea of universal dance training as a reconized course in formal education.

A comprehensive textbook teaching English-speakers to read, write and speak contemporary Bulgarian. Volume two, treating more complex issues of grammar and syntax, contains lessons 16-30 and a cumulative Bulgarian-English glossary covering both volumes.

This teacher's guide for intermediate-level students of Norwegian, accompanies an anthology intended primarily to complement ""Norsk, Nordmenn, og Norge"" a widely used Norwegian text. It contains suggestions on a range of classroom communication activities for both pairs and small groups.

Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll.

Challenges the often-romanticised view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass.

From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time.

History of a Nicaraguan family based on conversations with its members over a four-year period. The author traces their story from the years of repression and guerilla activity under Somoza, through to an era of personal and political revolution in the 1970s and 1980s.

This volume gives accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures. The text examines the nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood.

A first hand account of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, created in 1994 by the United Nations Security Council to seek accountability for some of the worst atrocities since World War II. Drawing on interviews with these protagonists and hi

The foremost religious festival of ancient Athens was the Panathenaia. This work addresses the problems of its interpretation, discussing the seasonal controversy over the Parthenon frieze. The festival is also compared with others held throughout the ancient Greek world.

This work examines the relationship between European and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the past. Following field work in Bolivia, the author argues that complex Andean rituals have hybridized European and indigenous traditions and are evidence of a keen social memory in the community.