This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,

Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...

Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...

For Abell, fictional entities exist in the same way that marriages and corporations do...

The volume is compiled to honor the contribution of Marko Pavlyshyn to the development and establishment of Ukrainian studies in Australia, as well as across the globe..,

Livers offers a solid background that helps historicize the conspiracy preoccupations in Russia...

This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...

By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....

Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....

Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker...

Sutton and Mifsud explain that our classical conceptions of stylistic language may be more open opening to otherness than stabilizing meaning...

The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...

In this episode you’ll hear disaster stories, finishing a book project, poetry, and what resilience is and isn’t...

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century...

We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good. There's even a dog....

Gordon explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men...

Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice....

Shneyder examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution....

We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and Wisconsin...

Almada presents a comprehensive collection examining Indigenous comic book artists and the history of representations of Indigenous peoples throughout comic book history....

Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape in the U.S. context and how writers of color intervened in the “mainstream” writing...

Knight joins the emerging subfield of literature in Islamic Studies exploring embodiment and materiality as concepts for making sense of the spatial and temporal developments of Muslim subjectivities....

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust...

What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over?