African Philosophy

Segun Gbadegesin

• Paperback | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 134
• The question whether or not there is African philosophy has, for too long, dominated the philosophical scene in Africa, to the neglect of substantive ... Lees meer

Menippean Elements in Paul Scarron's «Roman Comique»

Barbara L Merry

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 172
• This work evaluates the influence of Menippean satire on the seventeenth-century French novel and specifically studies its role in the Roman comique .... Lees meer

Detox

Catherine Fellman

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 1
• This book discusses the holistic process of detoxification and treatment of the alcoholic. It includes a thorough discussion of alcohol-induced diseas... Lees meer

Toward the Death of Man

William Kluback

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 116
• From the Foreword by Louis Dupré, Yale University: «This work, glowing with admiration and enthusiasm for now mostly neglected thinkers, proves how be... Lees meer

Philosophical Grounds

Prof Thomas Molnar

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 114
• The author selected here seven basic themes of western philosophical speculation as they appeared from the earliest times of systematic thought and ha... Lees meer

The Life Significance of French Baroque Poetry

Marlies Kronegger

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 81
• With baroque poets, the vocation of literature seems to be the exaltation of the elemental significance of life and of the human spirit. The tetrad pa... Lees meer

Possibility

Prof Francis Golffing, Barbara Gibbs

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 109
• Possibility is a work of general sociological and philosophical import addressed both to academics and to enquiring lay readers. Drawing on a wide var... Lees meer

William James and the Affirmation of God

George P Graham

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 110
• This work explores William James' approach to the affirmation of God, as developed in The Will To Believe and, especially. The Varieties of Religious ... Lees meer

Edmond Jabès

Miryam Laifer

• Hardcover | Frans | American University Studies | nr. 39
• Ce livre est une étude du Judaïsme dans l'oeuvre d'Edmond Jabès. Le Judaïsme lie tous les différents thèmes des livres d'Edmond Jabès ensemble: le dés... Lees meer

Puritan Sensibility in T.S. Eliot's Poetry

Dal-Yong Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 165
• This book studies Eliot's New England Puritanism in consultation with the major works of 17th- and 18th-century American Puritan writers. Eliot's work... Lees meer

Nerval's Magic Alphabet

Phyllis Jane Ringler

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 102
• This innovative study of the fiction and poetry of the French writer Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) provides new readings of the writer's works. Phyllis... Lees meer

The Twain Meet

Noojin Walker, Martha Fulton-Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 23
• The Twain Meet describes the dynamic relationship that exists between two seemingly dissimilar endeavors - the physical sciences and poetry. The book ... Lees meer

Middle English Historiography

Robert A Albano

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 168
• Examples of chronicle writing during the Middle Ages often present skewed or based interpretations of historical events. Yet such bias or misrepresent... Lees meer

The Return of the Gods

Prof Frederick Sontag

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 78
• This book contains reference to a number of Sontag's earlier articles on Becker. Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for writing The Denial of Death. His ps... Lees meer

Five Texts in Etruscan

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 35
• The mystery of what language Etruscan originated from is solved in the translation of five texts. Etruscan is revealed to be an early Gothic language,... Lees meer

The Influence of Rhetoric on Jean-Philippe Rameau's Solo Vocal Cantatas and Treatise of 1722

Lucinda Heck Sloan

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 13
• This book discusses the influence rhetoric had on Rameau's solo vocal cantatas and his treatise of 1722 and how the bond between rhetoric and music in... Lees meer

Faith and Finality

John Whiton

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 93
• Important works of major German authors are given detailed, in-depth analysis in this wide-ranging and original study. Going from Wieland and Lessing ... Lees meer

Lire, Enfin, Robbe-Grillet

Robert R Brock

• Hardcover | Frans | American University Studies | nr. 163
• M. Brock a choisi de croire Robbe-Grillet quand celui-ci insiste qu'il n'a pas écrit de roman psychologique. Il montre clairement que l'auteur des Gom... Lees meer

Paul Valéry

William Kluback

• Paperback | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 180
• In this fifth volume of Kluback's Paul Valéry studies, thought takes on a new dimension: the realm of the Analecta. This is the realm of the imaginati... Lees meer

Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics

Domnita Dumitrescu

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 35
• This collection of essays on Spanish pragmatics can be understood in its broadest sense in Iacob L. Mey's words as the study of the conditions of huma... Lees meer

Rewriting Academia

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies
• In broad historical and European contextualization, 25 experts from Continental Europe give an overview of the development of the Anglicist Women's an... Lees meer

Women and Contemporary World Literature

Deborah Weagel

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 62
• Many women in cultures throughout the world exhibit resilience and power in the face of obstacles and vicissitudes. From colonial New Spain to postcol... Lees meer

The Unknown Christ of Christianity

Enrico Beltramini

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 337
• In this theoretical investigation, Panikkar's remark on the unknown Christ of Christians is reevaluated and deepened in order to deploy it for rethink... Lees meer

Capitalism and Development

Marcial Ocasio-Melendez

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 119
• This book tells the story of Tampico, and how it became Mexico's major port city between 1876 and 1924. This was achieved by local businessmen through... Lees meer