Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...

Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...

Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...

Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...

"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...

Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human...

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies....

Why do contemporary writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, Pharaonic Egypt, the Viking north, Africa's west coast, and Hebrew and Christian traditions?

The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and religious circumstances in Eurasia.

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

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

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....

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

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

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.,.

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