Books by Ronald Schleifer

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas-the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by...

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.

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.