Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.

Delivers uncomplicated and useful techniques for better teaching to nonmajors in liberal arts courses.

Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.

Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.

The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

Looks at the relationship between religion and literature and how both have appealed to the Western spiritual sensibility.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Situates Lacan’s theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.

Contributors explore the significance of literature and psychoanalysis for medical education and practice.

The origins of early German Romanticism and the philosophical contributions of the movement’s most important philosopher.

Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.

Traces Woolf’s persistent yet vexed fascination with nineteenth-century descriptions of English domesticity and female creativity.

Creates contexts for the body to interpret and reinterpret its experiences of touch.

A new translation of one of Maeterlinck’s four great nature essays.

Fiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction.

Explores the role of the literary protest essay in addressing social divisions in the United States.

Ten contemporary plays that dramatize the volatile relationships between Blacks and Jews in American society.

An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative.

First English translation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s 1909 doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche.

Traces the development of Lacanian theory, and its possible future.

Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.

Addresses the implications of a document found in the Archivio di Stato di Siena which affirms a connection between Farinata degli Uberti, a Florentine conspicuously encountered by Dante the pilgrim in Inferno 10, and the Sienese Ghibellines with whom he and his fellow Florentine Ghibellines joined, in an alliance which produced the Sienese victory at the battle of Montaperti in 1260.

Introduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama.

Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.