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World within walls
The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's vast literary output, providing both lay re...
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Infowhelm
Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in the age of climate crisis and informational overload. She argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking ...
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Light verse from the floating world
Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical—and often humorous—poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literature unworthy of serious study. Senryu are intere...
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Imagining india in modern china
Gal Gvili examines how Chinese writers’ image of India shaped the making of a new literature and spurred efforts to achieve literary decolonization. She argues that multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections empowered Chinese literary figures to resist Western imperialism and its legacies th...
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Joseph conrad and the fiction of autobiography
Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stori...
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The gentrification plot
Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging “gentrification plot” in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict the sweeping transformations of five iconic neighborhoods—the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Red Hook, Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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The lost garden
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in the early days of Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Zhu Zuyan spends his days luxuriating in his Lotus Garde...
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The future as catastrophe
The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of...
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Between form and faith
What is a “Catholic” novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions, arguing that Greene has a dramatic contribution t...
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Holy envy
What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . .” (Amos Oz, Judas)Among the great social shifts of the post–World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations. We read each other’s scriptures and openly discuss ...
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Powerful prose
What makes a reading experience “powerful”? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to theorize this widely used notion, providing new insights into the mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as ...
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A new vocabulary for global modernism
Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture.
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Gay science
Gay Science is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical questions surrounding sexual orientation research. Bioethicist Timothy Murphy presents the views of many gay men and women who detect ominous motives behind this research. If a genetic marker were discovered for homosexual tendenci...
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Killing the moonlight
Tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash
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Revelation of self in language
This book draws us into questions about personal identity through narratives. Firmly ensconced within the discipline of linguistics and using the framework of Conversation Analysis, it captures the moment of interlocution when our stories define us in conversation.
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The king and the corpse
A classic work of comparative mythology by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerDrawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale ...
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Newsmakers
Will the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior? Francesco Marconi, who has led the development of the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal’s use of AI in journalism, offers a new perspective on the potential of thes...
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Black travel writing
Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical travel narratives by African American and Black British authors published between the 1990s and 2010s. She outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of transnational Black travel writing. Authors discussed includ...
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Amor and psyche
A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius’s second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature. In this landmark book, Erich Neumann reveals how this tim...
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Popular literature
This volume offers a selection of critical essays on texts that can be broadly categorized as popular literature. In addition to critical readings of popular texts such as The Jungle Book and The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book considers populist tendencies in literary classics like Jane Eyre...
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Exploring the fantastic
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The c...
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Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself
Biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of “do-it-yourself.” Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirem...
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Reified life
Reified Life delineates how financial and neoliberal capitalism, digital and bioengineering technologies are remaking historical concepts of the human, and documents their effects on culture, human rights, language and literature.
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The fabulous imagination
"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University"In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman contemporizes the great writer....
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Toward the geopolitical novel
Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengest...
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Gendered dichotomies in african youth language and language practices
This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youth languages and youth language practices, against the backdrop of urbanity as well as rurality. With representations from different parts of Africa, the volume examines sundry youth usage in different contexts and ...
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Literature and the cult of personality
The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe's authority, a previously hidden chapter in t...
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The poet and existence
This book presents a critical study of five poetry collections by the Iraqi poet Hatif Janabi (Hātif Janābī) published between 1998 and 2017. This study seeks to address essential aspects of Janabi’s poetry, related to its ideational and philosophical contents, focusing on the major milestones of...
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The fury archives
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women’s movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another. Jill Richards argues that these movements were deeply interconnected. Rather than focus on the demand for the vote, The Fury Archives turns to the daily pra...
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Free indirect
This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls “free indirect,” in which the novel’s refusal of prevailing ...
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Shadow archives
Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers and provides a nuanced view of how archives shap...
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My friend hitler
Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas—two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writ...
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Against sustainability
Against Sustainability responds to contemporary environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of U.S. environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literature and cultural contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. Chapters explore sustain...
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A cognitive approach to genericity in norwegian
This book provides a cognitive approach to genericity in Norwegian based on three data sets analyzed with both qualitative and quantitive methods.
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Serendipities
Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers laye...
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The philology of life
The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin’s work as a whole. According to Benjamin, Germ...
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Thinking with adorno
This book argues that the work of Theodor W. Adorno is best understood through the lens of his highly suggestive—yet often overlooked—concept of the “uncoercive gaze,” an innovative way of relating to the object of one’s analysis that interweaves critical intimacy and analytic vigilance.
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Sasha sokolov
Martina Napolitano explores the poetics of one of the most significant Russian authors of the twentieth century, Sasha Sokolov, whose his legacy can be traced in most prose and poetry appearing in post-Soviet Russia. From a close reading of Sokolov’s works, she teases out Sokolov’s theory of lite...
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Novel sounds
Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover d...
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Betrayal
Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative positions that distort the ...
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Pedagogical translanguaging
This book presents cutting-edge qualitative case-study research across a range of educational contexts, as well as theory-oriented chapters by distinguished multilingual education scholars, which take stock of the field of translanguaging in relation to the education of multilingual individuals i...
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Worlds woven together
The critic, poet, and scholar Vidyan Ravinthiran searches for alternatives to the standard models of writing about poetry, pursuing close, imaginative readings of a variety of authors. Discussing neglected writers and those well-known in the West, these essays are unabashedly passionate and subje...
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What else but love?
Weinstein investigates the stories blacks and whites, men and women, tell about each other through the work of two quintessential American novelists: William Faulkner and and Toni Morrison. Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and describing how differently their "Americanness"...
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Made in censorship
Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen examines the surprisingly rich corpus of Tiananmen literature and film produced in mainland China since 1989, contending that censorship does not simply fo...
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Mistress and maid (jiohong ji) by meng chengshun
Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on ...
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Peacebuilding in language education
This book shares wisdom and strategies to help language teachers, teacher educators, and peace educators communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into classrooms and daily life. The book’s Language of Peace Approach and more than 50 creative activities nurture peacebuilding ...
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A thousand moons on a thousand rivers
Winner of the 1980 United Daily Literature Competition, this novel about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition in small-town Taiwan was an instant bestseller when first published in Taiwan. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwa...
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A little gay history
When was the first chat line between men established? Who was the first "lesbian"? Were ancient Greek men who had sex with each other necessarily "gay," and what did Shakespeare think about crossdressing?A Little Gay History answers these questions and more through close readings of art objects f...
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