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

«Betwene Ernest and Game»

Alexandra Hennessey Olsen

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 110
• This study of the Confessio Amantis by the fourteenth-century poet John Gower uses linguistic and structuralist techniques to assess aspects of the li... 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

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

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

The Images of Order

David Frank Maas

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 15
• The Images of Order is a novel application of a fertile idea originally conceived by Kenneth Boulding in The Image and expanded by J. Samuel Bois in T... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Weighing Delight and Dole

Peter B Waldeck

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 26
• This work establishes a concept of anxiety reduction which is applied to a discussion of the literature on comedy and tragedy in order to propose new ... Lees meer

The Liminal Novel

Wangari Wa Nyatetu-Waigwa

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 6
• Critical studies of African literature, especially those treating colonial-era novels, have typically taken the form of thematic analyses. In an impor... Lees meer

The Piano Sonatas of Carl Loewe

John Salmon

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 7
• While Carl Loewe may be unfamiliar nowadays, in the previous century he was well-known. He won praise from such notables as Weber, Mendelssohn, Schuma... Lees meer

Sex, Gender, and Religion

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 242
• Sex, Gender, and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited will appeal to readers interested in women's subjectivity and agency. Josephine Butler (1828-190... Lees meer

The Prophetic Novel

Molly A Daniels

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 116
• In this brilliant and original essay, Molly A. Daniels for the first time probes into the manner in which Forster manages to weave multiple belief sys... Lees meer

A Music of Grace

Jeanne Foster

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 55
• In our mid-to-late twentieth century secular society, a most pressing theological question is, Where does the dimension of the sacred reside? The ques... Lees meer

The Validity of the Case Study

Daniel Leigh Haytin

• Hardcover | Engels | American University Studies | nr. 23
• This work examines the case study as a methodological paradigm within sociology, psychology and criminology and within the social sciences generally. ... Lees meer