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"the nose"
This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol’s absurdist masterpiece “The Nose.” Part I focuses on numerous instances of the writer’s wordplay, which is meant to surprise and delight the reader, but which o...
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A reader’s companion to mikhail bulgakov’s the master and margarita
Readers are often left uncertain how to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov’s comic and beautiful novel The Master and Margarita. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This Companion guides the readers through the work’s themati...
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Acts of logos in pushkin and gogol
Acts of Logos examines the 19th-century foundations of St. Petersburg’s famous literary tradition, with a focus on the unifying principle of material animation. Innovative interpretations of canonical texts by Pushkin and Gogol shed new light on the powerful, creative function of language in the ...
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American pulp
A richly illustrated cultural history of the midcentury pulp paperback"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp...
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Andrey bely’s “petersburg”
Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Andrey Bely’s Petersburg, this volume offers a cross-section of essays that address the most pertinent aspects of his 1916 masterpiece. Frequently compared to Joyce’s Ulysses, no novel did more to help launch modernism in turn-of-the century Russia.
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Archipelagothic: studies in the philippine gothic
Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, re...
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Argimou
Valorizing his Mi'kmaq protagonist, Argimou, and using European/aboriginal conflicts of 1755 as a literary catalyst, Huyghue plunges his protagonists into a Maritime captivity tale-journey of natural & human dangers. The novel ends as it began with Huyghue/Argimou mourning the loss of aborigi...
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Blooming spaces
Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central vehicle for her modernist experiments in poetry and prose. This ground-breaking collection presents the work of the key yet unrecognized figure in the co...
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Breaking free from death
Breaking Free from Death examines the lives and choices that Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, and Meyerhold must have faced in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness and success.
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Chernobyl trauma and gothic
This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of surviv...
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Colombian gothic in cinema and literature
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
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Comic enlightenment
How the seventeenth-century translations of notoriously obscene tales by Rabelais shaped some of the great works of eighteenth-century English fictionFrançois Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel—loosely related tales of gluttonous, drunken giants and their fantastic adventures—was one of the most...
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Companion to victor pelevin
Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to t...
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Contemporary gothic and horror film
This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.
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Conversations of german refugees and wilhelm meister's journeyman years
The definitive English version of two landmark works of world literatureGoethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and...
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Create dangerously
A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards—now with a new preface by the author"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I'...
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Crime fiction in the age of #metoo
Informed by fourth-wave feminism, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely reading of crime fiction in the age of #MeToo.
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Crosstalk
What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narrato...
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Culture and communication
Yuri Lotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. This approachable collection of translations provides a primer to his vast intellectual legacy with a choice of works that address contemporary concerns such as gender, memory,...
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Dostoevsky beyond dostoevsky
This volume deals with Dostoevsky’s wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time. It includes contributions by prominent Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy.
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Dostoevsky’s "crime and punishment"
A chapter-by-chapter guide to Dostoevsky’s most popular novel that reveals how Crime and Punishment works. Narrative strategy, why the novel is not a whodunit but whydunit, and clear explanations of the novel’s ideological debates.
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Excavating memory
This book brings the Turkish writer Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) into a new critical spotlight by examining the author’s poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul’s Beyoğlu. Gökberk contextualizes these posthumously published pieces in an approach informed by studies on memory, ide...
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Fate, nature, and literary form
A theoretical reexamination of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by Western critical theory, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature in Japan that has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and socia...
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Hugh garner's best stories
Social justice is at the core of these award-winning stories exploring the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, feminism, racism, disenfranchisement, and mistreatment.
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Indianthusiasm
Indianthusiasm brings together interviews with twelve Indigenous authors, artists and scholars who comment on the German fascination with North American Indigenous Peoples.
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James joyce
A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political insight unrivalled among his fellow modernists....
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Jane austen, early and late
A reexamination of Austen’s unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels—and that challenges distinctions between her “early” and “late” workJane Austen’s six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it ...
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Land/relations
Land/Relations examines colonial, national, historical, and social relations that have given shape to a body of literature in Canada and the politics and possibilities of solidarity across geography and communities, bridging genres and critical methods to propose new directions for cultural accou...
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Like a cat loves a bird
“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”—Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An AfterlifeA spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentieth-century British author of beloved novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of S...
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Meet me on the barricades
Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a “guileless” protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier.
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Microtravel
This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with trav...
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Middlemen
A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to todayMiddlemen rewrites literary history from the perspective of one of its most important but least visible figures: the literary agent. Chronicling the story of agents in the United States fro...
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Nabokov and the real world
From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsma...
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Nation, city, household
Adopting a spatial and affective perspective, the monograph presents a study of contemporary Pakistani women’s fiction. It analyses a corpus of novels with strong female protagonists and asks how they depict articulations of women’s relationship to the everyday experiences of nation, city and hou...
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Nostalgia for a foreign land
This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of 1990s or later, and whose largest part of the works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson.
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Now comes good sailing
From twenty-seven of today’s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case • George Howe Colt • Gerald Early • Paul Elie • Will Eno • Adam Gopnik • Lauren Groff • Celeste Headlee • Pico Iyer • Alan Lightman • James...
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Nuclear gothic
Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic pr...
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Overwriting chaos
A study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s prose that examines his most important characters as well as his treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for literary puzzles and games; erotic themes; and polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism.
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Philosophical siblings
A collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—that shows how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risksAlice James: an exemplary nineteenth-century neurasthenic and diarist. William James: a foundational figure for American psychology and philosophy. Henry Jam...
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Race, law, and speculative fiction
An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers new directions for serious appraisals of race and racism between yesterday, today, and tomorrowIn Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction, Isiah Lavender III takes seriously the theoretic...
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Romanticism's generative reading
An exploration of the generative energy of literary texts, from Frankenstein’s origin stories and Jane Austen’s loose ends to the genius of William EmpsonIn Romanticism’s Generative Reading, Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situations: lightning, Franken...
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Silent love
In this study the numerous literary and autobiographical allusions in Nabokov’s novel are annotated and analyzed, which reveals an altogether different love affair the main character had than the narrator wishes the reader to believe.
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Swedish gothic
The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
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