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Product Description: The Clearing is at once a point of departure and a point of return. Reminiscent of the Austrian prose stylist Adalbert Stifter, Peter Steiner lovingly describes seemingly insignificant details of a young boy's life and environment...read more

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Product Description: Eurostyle! Ist ein fotografischer Essay in 17 schwarz-weißen Straßenportraits. Er untersucht den Stil des jungen europäischen Straßenlebens. Die Transzendenz der Mode in eine wunderbar beleuchtete, stark ästhetische Ausdrucksweise wird dabei eingefangen

Product Description: El libro ofrece una visión de conjunto de la &ldquo,escuela del método formal&rdquo, y de sus diversas perspectivas teóricas. En él se examinan las relaciones conceptuales entre el ideario del formalismo y la tradición romántica, la fenomenología, la lingü,ística estructural y otras tendencias del pensamiento crítico...read more

Finding a dead body on the doorstep of his home in rural France, former CIA insider Louis Morgan teams up with the local gendarme and finds clues in the loves and betrayals of the past and present.

Product Description: “Thirst-quenching,” “luminous,” “enchanting”: Here are poems to ravish old souls, feed hungry minds, and seduce the pickiest fan of fine writing. Award-winning journalist and author Diana McLellan and New Yorker artist Peter Steiner merge wits and wisdom to create a unique book of her verse, his illustration -- poems of love, of wonder, of loss, of growing old...read more

Product Description: The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity and then finally all of culture, which the Circle conceived of as a structure of sign systems...read more

Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of Formalism to date. Steiner studies the work of the Formalists in terms of the major tropes that characterized their thought. He first considers those theorists who viewed a literary work as a mechanism, an organism, or a system. He then turns to those who sought to reduce literature to its most basic element―language―and who consequently replaced poetics with linguistics. Throughout, Steiner elucidates the basic principles of the Formalists and explores their contributions to the study of poetics, literary history, the theory of literary genre, and prosody. Russian Formalism is an authoritative introduction to the movement that was a major precursor of contemporary critical thought.