Books published by Northwestern University Press

Adrian Johnston's trilogy forges a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory.

Pays tribute to a well-respected teacher and scholar of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W Leopold. This book documents their lives, their culture, and the nation that grew and changed alongside them.

Featuring thirty-five colour images of William ""Bill"" Walker's work, this edition reveals the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago's famed Wall of Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American historical figures; protested social injustice; and centered imagination, love, respect, and community accountability.

Argues that Shakespeare's plays present ""secularization"" not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government to wonder and the spatial imagination.

This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West's life and their relationship to his works. James Light gives a detailed analysis of each of West's novels, investigating in particular the works' treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.

This classic ethnomusicological survey provides a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music.

Offers a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyses examples of such assessments and provides an independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions.

Examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrence's major works through a literary device that the author coins ""the constitutive symbol"". Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views.

Presents both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity.

The first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory.

This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, ""AE"". Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book of poems, Homeward established him in what was known as the Irish Literary Revival.

Contains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C.P. Snow.