"Sophocles I" contains the plays "Antigone",‌ translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; "Oedipus the King",‌ translated by David Grene; and "Oedipus at Colonus",‌ translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a mo...

"Sophocles II" contains the plays "Ajax", translated by John Moore; "The Women of Trachis", translated by Michael Jameson; "Electra", translated by David Grene; "Philoctetes", translated by David Grene; and "The Trackers", translated by Mark Griffith...

The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. "The Literary Lacan: From Literature to 'Lituraterre' and Beyond" is de...

In the summer of 1816, aged nineteen, Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein". A pioneering work of science fiction, it captured the popular imagination from the start. The daughter of radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollsto...

The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, "The City Beneath the Snow" is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans, their interactions, and their foibles. These stories reveal the moral decisions that lurk at unexpecte...

"The Fabulous Feminist" brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, "Feminist Fables", and including excerpts from "Saint Suniti and...

Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual lif...

In this classic bestseller, first published in 2000, Cynthia Peters uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. The Deaf literary canon, much like the carnival itself, represents the "count...

For sale in CIS only! "Afghanistan in Ink" uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sough...

Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this boo...