Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....

Zeitlin taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love,,,

Senechal examines words, concepts, and phrases that demand reappraisal...

Nathanson examines the life of Jim Bouton, a journeyman pitcher whose 1970 book, “Ball Four,” was a lightning rod for controversy and became one of the best sports books of all time....

Glisic demonstrates that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality...

Svich remains one of America’s most exciting playwrights, and this book collects some of her most invigorating work yet.

Lounsbery investigates the long-standing trope of the “provinces” – an imaginary space of static non-modernity where time stands still and where residents nurse an inferiority complex...

McGrath examines the complex and enigmatic Vyāsa, both the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and a key character in the very epic he composes...

Looking at wealth of case studies among Amazon reviewers, redditors, and established journals, "Update Culture" is a deep diver into the many factors that contribute to the circulation of a digital text

Miller explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature...

Shaw invites us to consider the power of myth to guide us not only toward new ways of seeing our current moment—one in which we’re witnessing an unprecedented global pandemic—but also new ways of seeing itself...

Collins examines a fascinating, understudied figure appearing in Sanskrit narrative texts: Paraśurāma, i.e., “Rāma with the Axe”...

As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature.,.

After a life lived in obscurity, Emily Dickinson emerged after death as one of the greatest poets of her time...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil masterpiece...

In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil masterpiece...

The British romantic poet William Wordsworth is best known for his moving evocations of nature,..

Elmer's anthology provides access into a world of religious practice that is otherwise lost – many puritans refusing on principle to put their prayers to paper...

Gruber demonstrates that there is long rich history of images of Muhammad from within the Islamic tradition...

“In the game of thrones you either win or you die."

“Another heavenly day” is the opening line of Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days (1961),...

Picken and Dischinger argue in the introduction that the relationship between the US South and alcohol has been overdetermined in popular imagination...