Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
The Law of Kinship
Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many...
by Frank R. Ankersmit
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm...
by Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist perspective...
Building a National Literature
The Case of Germany, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine...
The Sanctity of Louis IX
Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Louis IX of France reigned as king from 1226 to 1270 and was widely considered an exemplary Christian ruler, renowned for his piety, justice, and charity toward the poor. After his death on crusade, he was proclaimed a saint in 1297, and today Saint Louis is regarded as one of the central figures...
Reappraisals
Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants....
Representing the Holocaust
History, Theory, Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center of bitter controversies, from debates over Paul de Man's collaborationist journalism and Martin Heidegger’s...
by Lloyd P. Gerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato’s own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson...
by Laurie A. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical...
Dangerous Guests
Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners—both British regulars and...
Russia's Unfinished Revolution
Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now require...
Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
The Race for Space and World Prestige
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded...
Priest, Politician, Collaborator
Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Priest, Politician, Collaborator, James Mace Ward offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887–1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was...
Poetry in Speech
Orality and Homeric Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study...