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The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Edited by Trudier Harris (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; NHC Fellow, 2018–19), Frances Smith Foster, and William L. Andrews A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of … Continued

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Waiting for Nothing, and Other Writings

Edited by James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) and Arthur D. Casciato In "Waiting for Nothing" and Other Writings, the works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and, with greater detachment, the powerless … Continued

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שדה ומסגרת : מסות בתיאוריה של ספרות ומשמעות = Sadeh u-misgeret: masot be-teoryah shel sifrut u-mashma’ut

By Benjamin Harshav (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) This book brings together essays and studies, which pave the way for an original theory of literary creation and of meaning in context, whose motto is: complexity. The theory goes far beyond naratology and develops tools for discussing the full range of formal and thematic aspects of literary creation. The name … Continued

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African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon

Edited by Aretha Phiri (NHC Fellow, 2018–19) Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence on—and literature’s creative stimulus for—sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within the broader context of renewed interest in and … Continued

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Antimachus of Colophon: Text and Commentary

Edited by Victor J. Matthews (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) This volume is an edition of the fragments of the Greek epic and elegiac poet, Antimachus of Colophon (ca. 400 B.C.), an important figure linking the literatures of Archaic and Classical Greece with that of the Hellenistic Age. The introduction examines the poet's life and work, discussing … Continued

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Boccaccio: Decameron

By David Wallace (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) In Boccaccio's innovative text ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of storytelling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts with … Continued

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Coleridge’s Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo

By Eric G. Wilson (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) This lively intellectual biography of the second half of Coleridge's life argues that the poet, in his mature work, reveals a brilliant though troubled genius for conveying the ambiguities of psychological limbo. Asserting that the later poetry is the key element of Coleridge's career, Eric G. Wilson proposes … Continued

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Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism

By Lee Clark Mitchell (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands … Continued