Publications

Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 1990
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Myth and Archive presents a new theory of the origin and evolution of Latin American literature and the emergence of the modern novel. In this influential, award-winning exploration of Latin American writing from colonial times to the present, Roberto González Echevarría dispenses with traditional literary history to reveal the indebted relationship of the novel to legal, scientific, and anthropological discourses.

Uncontainable Romanticism
Carol Jacobs
Publication Year: 1989
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Readings of major works by Percy Byssge Shelley, Emily Brontë, and Heinrich von Kleist. An examination of how these authors treat the crucial questions of authority and representation in such central texts as Prometheus Unbound, Wuthering Heights, and Penthesilea. What is at stake is the relation of truth and fiction to the concepts of self, law, passion, art, and language.

Film in the Aura of Art
Dudley Andrew
Publication Year: 1984
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Close analysis of masterpieces, mainly individual films (Sunrise, Diary of a Country Priest, L’Atalante, etc) or of the work of master auteurs (Welles, Mizoguchi). Reflections on the importance of art for interpretation and of interpretation for art.

The Dissimulating Harmony: The Image of Interpretation in Nietzsche, Rilke, Artaud, and Benjamin.
Carol Jacobs
Publication Year: 1978
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Readings of Nietzsche’s notebooks to The Birth of Tragedy, Rilke’s Tenth Duino Elegy, Artaud’s Héliogabale, and Benjamin’s essay on Marcel Proust.

André Bazin
Dudley Andrew
Publication Year: 1978
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An intellectual biography of André Bazin.

Note: A second edition with a new preface was published in 2014.

Uri Zvi Greenberg, 80th Anniversary Exhibition
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 1977
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This book is the first literary monograph on the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg. It examines Greenberg’s poetry from his sentimental work written in the beginning of the twentieth century, through his expressionistic works written in Hebrew and Yiddish, to his groundbreaking avant-garde political poetry. Uri Zvi Greenberg established milestones on the map of Hebrew poetry, writing the most prominent work about the Holocaust as well as militant poems about the wars of the State of Israel. He created Hebrew fascist poetry as the ultimate example of Judeo-centric radical Hebrew poetry.

The Major Film Theories
Dudley Andrew
Publication Year: 1976
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A comparison of key ideas in film theory with chapters on Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Bazin, Kracauer, Mitry, and French Phenomenologists.

Translated into: Spanish (1978); Serbo-Croatian (1986); Chinese (1985); Portuguese (1988); Korean (1990); Polish (1995); Turkish (2000); Chinese [second edition] (2013); Korean [second edition] (2015)

The City That Never Sleeps: Poems of New York
Shawkat Toorawa
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