In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief I…
"Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays - As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest." "The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple quest…
Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays - As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest." "The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questi…
"Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays - As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questio…
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the…
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Goethe, and Benjamin, as well as his reflections on a variety of subjects. This edition presents this classic work in full in a single volume, with a new i…
