A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture. There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than Sophocles' Antigone. The general perspective from ......
Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants' liveliness and animation, ......
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in ......
For more than half a century, the Village Voice served as America's most influential alternative newspaper - a fearless chronicler of politics, culture, and everyday life in New York City. American Bohemia gathers the extraordinary photographs that helped define the paper's visual identity and shaped how readers saw the city and themselves. ......
The first English-language translation of a major biblical commentary written in Arabic by a seminal figure in the history of Christianity in the Middle East. Abu-l-Faraj ibn al-?ayyib (d. 1043) spent his adult life in Baghdad, where he served as a priest in the Church of the East around the turn of the first millenium. He was a polymath - a ......
The first English-language translation of a major biblical commentary written in Arabic by a seminal figure in the history of Christianity in the Middle East. Abu-l-Faraj ibn al-?ayyib (d. 1043) spent his adult life in Baghdad, where he served as a priest in the Church of the East around the turn of the first millenium. He was a polymath - a ......
Investigates how discourse spills from language to action, generating, obfuscating, and perpetuating violence while also offering the words, principles, and practices that may interrupt it. We are continually catching up with and being caught by words, especially words that hurt. These collected essays probe the interaction of violence and words ......
Investigates how discourse spills from language to action, generating, obfuscating, and perpetuating violence while also offering the words, principles, and practices that may interrupt it. We are continually catching up with and being caught by words, especially words that hurt. These collected essays probe the interaction of violence and words ......
A pathbreaking study of the role space and place play in theological thought What does Christian theology have to do with place? How does theology influence the spaces and places in which we live? How does theology do geography? In Theology in Place, L. Patrick Burrows develops a framework for the interpretation of the Christian theologies that ......
