Books by Ronald Schleifer

Literature and Medicine: A Practical and Pedagogical Guide is designed to introduce narrative medicine in medical humanities courses aimed at pre-medicine undergraduates and medical and healthcare students.

This book examines the complex unity of modernist culture by focusing on literature and the arts; intellectual disciplines of post-classical economics; and institutional structures of corporate capitalism and the lower middle-class. This book is for graduates, scholars, and researchers working in Modernism.

In Modernism and Popular Music, Ronald Schleifer shows how the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thomas 'Fats' Waller and Billie Holiday can be considered as artistic expressions equal to those of the traditional high art practices in music and literature.

Modernism and Time offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism across a broad range of disciplines. Ronald Schleifer examines changing conceptions of temporality in post-Enlightenment thought and engages with the work of writers and thinkers as diverse as George Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Einstein and Russell.