Beschreibung
This collection honors the career of Donald «Sandy» Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. This collection is a fine text for courses in nineteenth-century as well as contemporary French studies and literature.
Autorenportrait
Robert Harvey is Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he chairs the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory. He has written extensively on Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras, Marcel Duchamp, and Michel Deguy and has translated Lyotard, Deguy, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Paul Ricœur. His most recent books are
, and
. Harvey is a major co-editor of the prestigious Pléiade edition of the complete works of Marguerite Duras. He served as Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris (2001–2007).
Patrice Nganang, writer and scholar, is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Nganang has published collections of poetry:
and
; novels:
, and
, which constitute a cycle depicting city life,
and
, a cycle about wars from a Cameroonian point of view; and short novellas:
and
His publications also include three collections of essays:
and
In addition, his columns appear regularly in Cameroonian and international newspapers such as
and
His novel
is scheduled to appear in English.
Inhalt
Contents: John Krapp: The Present King of France is Bald – David Anshen: Sandy Petrey’s Unacknowledged Contribution to Historical Materialism – Thoma J. J. Altizer: Revolution and God – Kathryn M. Grossman: Victor Hugo as Realist in Notre-Dame de Paris – Armine Kotin Mortimer: Legality, Narrative Order, and Vagabondage in Balzac’s Ferragus – Dick Howard: André Gorz and the Philosophical Foundation of the Political – E. Ann Kaplan: Sontag Between America and Europe – Herman Lebovics: Ministering to the Culture – Claire Burrows: Desperate Artist – Lori Repetti: A Note on English Loan Words in American Italian and Standard Italian.
