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If babel had a form
“The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences,” writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, “renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy.” If Babel Had a Form asks not if his claim may be true, but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do. In twentie...
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Losing matt shepard
The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against minorities, and something about Matt Shepard himself struck a chord with people across the nation. Al...
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Obscene gestures
Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer...
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The literature of lesbianism
Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. Thi...
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Ngos as newsmakers
Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersection...
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The best american magazine writing 2018
In a time of reckoning with wrongdoing in high places, this year’s National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in all its forms.
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Who is a muslim?
Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of p...
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Global curriculum development
How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects John Dewey’s education theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum design approaches to propose a new educational model for our a...
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Pleasure in profit
In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its pu...
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How to read chinese poetry in context
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, it is a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, ...
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Infrapolitical passages
This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and v...
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Preparing teachers to work with multilingual learners
This book examines a diverse range of approaches to multilingualism in teacher education programmes across Europe and North America. It studies how pre-service teachers are being prepared to work in multilingual contexts and the key features of current initiatives that address the linguistic and ...
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Members of his body
Framing the Christian defense of marital monogamy against Ephesians 5’s suggestion that all believers are married in Christ, this book argues for the presence of competing marriage theologies in four Shakespeare plays: The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Winter’s Tale.
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Inceptions
The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text’s vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work— its inabi...
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Ecstasy in the classroom
Ecstasy in the Classroom analyzes the early thirteenth century theological discourse about Paul’s rapture and other modes of cognizing God. It reconstructs the perceptions of transformation and self they imply, and demonstrate their role in establishing the peculiar professional identity of schol...
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Medical storyworlds
Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the li...
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The critical pulse
This unprecedented anthology asks thirty-six leading literary and cultural critics to elaborate on the nature of their profession. With the humanities feeling the pinch of financial and political pressures, and its disciplines resting on increasingly uncertain conceptual ground, there couldn't be...
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Chinese script
Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging introduction to the complexity and beauty of writte...
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Journalism in the age of virtual reality
John V. Pavlik argues that a new form of media has emerged: experiential news, which delivers not just news stories but also news experiences, in which the consumer engages as a participant or virtual eyewitness in immersive, multisensory, and interactive narratives.
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World literature for the wretched of the earth
This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery w...
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Mapping memory
Interweaves visual and performance theory with memory and affect studies to develop the theory of memory mapping, defined as the visual process of representing the affective, sensorial, polyvocal, and temporally layered relationship between past and present, anchored within the specificities of p...
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Information
Bringing together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range...
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Not exactly lying
From fibs about royal incest in America’s first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama’s birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what’s real and what’s not—and why that matters for democracy.
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Exterranean
Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. By shifti...
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Totality inside out
However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed and marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, and/or ability,...
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Think in public
Think in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today’s leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitali...
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Infrapolitics
Infrapolitics: A Handbook elaborates conditions of existence that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It offers a general critique of the political apparatus and seeks to establish an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. The book provides a genealo...
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Computing the news
Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journali...
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Radio empire
Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.
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Worlds of journalism
Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and the nature and meaning of their work.
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Reading popular romance in early modern england
With the expansion of the publishing industry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people, not just the wealthy and educated. The growth of the book trade produced, alongside elite literature, a parallel popular literatur...
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The watchdog that didn’t bark
How mainstream business news failed its readers and what it means for the future of the profession.
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Speculation
In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces the debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Recasting centuries of contests over the power to anticipate tomorrow, this book reveals the crucial role speculation has played in how we create—and potentially d...
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Redlining culture
Richard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequality in American publishing that reveals the persistence of an extreme bias toward white authors.
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Photo poetics
Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture.
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Ascent to glory
Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment Gabriel García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyo...
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Haiku before haiku
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to ...
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The problem with pleasure
A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period’s formal and ideological innovations.
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Making waste
The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and memorialize the waste matter tha...
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The poetics of early chinese thought
The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in t...
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Finding ferrante
Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Elena Ferrante’s identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels’ literary ambition and politics. Ricciardi reads Ferrante’s fiction as world literature, foregrounding the alleged writer Anita Raja’s work as a transla...
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Power relations in black lives
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key con...
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Far beyond the field
Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has created an overview of the way in which this...
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Antidemocracy in america
Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand the fragility of American democracy and how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump’s victory brought into view. It offers essays from leading scholars on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protes...
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The last samurai reread
Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt’s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt’s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a pote...
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Humanist reason
Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new vision that moves beyond traditional disciplines to demonstrate what the humanities can tell us about our world.
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Commerce with the universe
Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa’s encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization.
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Poetry unbound
Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry’s...
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Reading better states
Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms and climate catastrophe.
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