Authors:Rainer Maria Rilke,  Walter Arndt, Cyrus Hamli
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: compact, commentary, biography, english, german, originals, facing, form, true, verse, translations, rilke
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 1989-05-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0874514614
ISBN-13: 9780874514612

A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.

Author: Marianne Hirsch
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: gaze, familial
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 1999-01-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0874518954
ISBN-13: 9780874518955

Contemporary artists, writers, and theorists challenge standard interpretations of family photographs.

Authors:Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, Leo Spitzer,
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: present, recall, cultural, memory, acts
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1998-12-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 087451889X
ISBN-13: 9780874518894

A theoretically grounded interdisciplinary study of "cultural memory" in sites ranging from Chile, Bolivia, and South Africa to Germany and the US.

Author: C. L. R. James
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: colonialism, reencounters, new, perspectives, americas, live, world, castaways, renegades, story, herman, melville, mariners
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 158465094X
ISBN-13: 9781584650942

Available in its complete form for the first time since its original publication.

Authors:Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. M
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: writings, rousseau, vol, collected, malesherbes, correspondence, including, letters, confessions
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 1995-06-15
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0874518369
ISBN-13: 9780874518368

A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition.

Author: David Gessner
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: nature, sick
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1584654643
ISBN-13: 9781584654643

David Gessner’s Return of the Osprey is "among the classics of American nature writing," said the Boston Globe. So why does this critically acclaimed nature writer now declare himself to be "sick of nature"? In diverse, diverting, and frequently hilarious essays, Gessner wrestles with father figures both biological and literary, reflects on the pleasures and absurdities of the writing life, explores the significance of place for both his work and his sense of well-being, and rails at the confines of the nature genre even as he continues to find fresh inspiration for his writing in the n

Author: Gisli Palsson
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: explorer, arctic, stefansson, passions, travelling
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2005-09-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1584655100
ISBN-13: 9781584655107

The new biography of Iceland’s famed explorer and anthropologist.