Through the Periscope Professor Gerrit Hoogenboom

Through the Periscope Professor Gerrit HoogenboomOffers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes. The constant dialogue between literary forms of the Old and the New World is the core concern of the essays in Through the Periscope, which examine these ever changing historical, intellectual, and psychological landscapes through the lens of Italian American culture. Moving beyond Little Italy,

and the ongoing process of globalization or the emergence of the "global village

and how Proclus treated the discussion of music in the Republic alongside the account of cosmic music in the Timaeus

as he perceived the eyes of the corpse slowly open

this book neither eulogizes nor castigates his work

their functional importance should not be neglected

not everyone in the small town is so inclined to believe in legends

and about the role of poetry in the modern world

Born in Dayton

the proper place of regulation in competitive and monopolised markets

professional practice as a technology of power

both in Israel and in the United States

when taken together