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Literature, European

The Grateful Dead

The History of a Folk Story

Author: Gordon Hall Gerould Introduction by Norm Cohen
Pub Date: 2000

An early example of folklore scholarship, also a highly readable and fascinating collection chronicling the recurring legends of the Grateful Dead (from which, by the way, the rock band did get its name). learn more...

Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature

Author: Rachel Rubin
Pub Date: April 2000

A look at the Jewish gangster between the wars (focusing on the Russian writer, Isaac Babel, and Americans Gold, Ornitz, and Fuchs but also taking into consideration cartoons, movies, and modernist painting), Rubin sees the “gangster” as a way Jewish writers could examine their place in world literature. learn more...

Medieval Lyric

Genres in Historical Context

Author: Edited by William D. Paden
Pub Date: April 2000

Opens up not only a reconsideration of genre in medieval European lyric, this book also re-examines the notion of “genre” itself, showing that it should be considered as an historical phenomenon influenced by the cultures in which the lyrics arose. learn more...

Mist

A Tragicomic Novel

Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Pub Date: 2000

A revolutionary landmark in world literature that introduces the anti-hero/anti-novel, undergirded by philosophy learn more...

The Origin of Philosophy

Author: José Ortega y Gasset
Pub Date: 2000

An immensely readable translation of one of Spain’s most highly-regarded 20th Century authors and thinkers, delves elegantly into the nature of philosophy itself learn more...

A Theory of Parody

The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms

Author: Linda Hutcheon
Pub Date: 2000

Examines the historical development of parody in order to analyze its place, purpose and practice in the postmodern world of contemporary artforms learn more...