Don Quixote's madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our "post-truth" era of virtual reality. Classic Christian paradigms of prophetic revelation and expiatory self-sacrifice emerge transformed in the…

Hybridity and Ideology analyzes the structure, development, and significance of political perspectives that mix or fuse the distinct beliefs, practices, and identities found in other ideologies. This book provides a…

To explore the depth of the literary connection between William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, particularly in relation to their American roots, this book examines their distinct responses to Abstract…

This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the modern subject already…

With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of…

Branching out from his earlier works providing a history and a theory of apophatic thinking, William Franke’s newest book pursues applications across a variety of communicative media, historical periods, geographical…

Critically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, this work contributes both to the criticism of Dante’s Divine Comedy , and to the theory of interpretation. It uses hermeneutical…

Critically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, this work contributes both to the criticism of Dante’s Divine Comedy , and to the theory of interpretation. It uses hermeneutical…