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. The diversity of essays written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in subject from the traditional Festschrift theme of the honoree s compelling contributions to the study of realism and the novel s role in history, to chapters on Susan Sontag s experimental films, the thought of the late Marxist philosopher Andre Gorz, silence in the graphic novel, and linguistic disparities between American and Standard...
This collection honors the career of Donald -Sandy- Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for...