Fordham University Press: 585 books
Ghost-Watching American Modernity
Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, María del Pilar Blanco revisits nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish America and the United States to ask how different landscapes are represented as haunted sites. Moving from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the diverse ways...
Poetics of Emptiness
Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.
This conceptual migration is detailed in two...
Walking New York
Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL
It’s no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many novelists, poets, and essayists have enjoyed long walks in New York, not all of them have had...
Inventing the Language to Tell It
Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world was Robinson Jeffers’s obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers’s poetic experiment is an important contribution...
Left Bank of the Hudson
Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers,...
Only in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Sam writes the Bookshelf column in Sunday Metro section of The New York Times and has covered a lot of our regional books. He plans to write an epilogue to our version to bring it up to date.
The Routes Not Taken
A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. The Routes...
Post-Mandarin
Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial...
As Bad as They Say?
Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s...
The Historical Uncanny
Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public’s self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that...
by Joan Marans Dim, Antonio Masi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi teams up with writer and New York City historian
Joan Marans Dim to offer a multidimensional exploration of New York City’s nine major bridges, their artistic and
cultural underpinnings, and their impact worldwide.
The tale of New...
Fighting Authoritarianism
American Youth Activism in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recent historical events, in particular the Great War and the global economic collapse, as well as by the events unfolding both at home and abroad. They worked...
A Shot Story
From Juvie to Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The botched robbery didn’t do it. Neither did the three gunshots. It wasn’t until he was administered last rites that David Borkowski realized he was about to die, at age fifteen. A Shot Story: From Juvie to Ph.D. is a riveting account of how being shot saved his life and helped a juvenile delinquent...
Receptive Spirit
German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, Fichte,...