New Books in Literary Studies
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1901
Jack Zipes on Life as a Folklorist, Folklore St...
Today I talked with Jack Zipes about a life in Folklore Studies, about some of his many publications, and about publishing fairy tales....
41 min
1902
Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecke...
After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...
46 min
1903
Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Soverei...
Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire?
30 min
1904
Krista Brune, "Creative Transformations: Travel...
Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries...
89 min
1905
Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: A...
Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...
30 min
1906
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min
1907
Catharine Abell, "Fiction: A Philosophical Anal...
For Abell, fictional entities exist in the same way that marriages and corporations do...
60 min
1908
Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Sl...
Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...
48 min
1909
A. Achilli and S. Yekelchyk, "Cossacks in Jamai...
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..,
57 min
1910
Keith A. Livers, "Conspiracy Culture: Post-Sovi...
Livers offers a solid background that helps historicize the conspiracy preoccupations in Russia...
54 min
1911
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Mo...
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
53 min
1912
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
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....
50 min
1913
Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical...
Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....
51 min
1914
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contes...
Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker...
48 min
1915
J. S. Sutton and M. L. Mifsud, "A Revolution in...
Sutton and Mifsud explain that our classical conceptions of stylistic language may be more open opening to otherness than stabilizing meaning...
55 min
1916
Dale Kedwards, "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Ic...
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...
64 min
1917
Shyam Sharma, "Writing Support for Internationa...
72 min
1918
Finishing Your Book When Life Is A Disaster
In this episode you’ll hear disaster stories, finishing a book project, poetry, and what resilience is and isn’t...
44 min
1919
Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment:...
The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century...
78 min
1920
Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvar...
We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good. There's even a dog....
82 min
1921
Pip Gordon, "Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosex...
Gordon explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men...
63 min
1922
Vadim Shneyder, "Russia's Capitalist Realism: N...
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....
37 min
1923
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A C...
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....
63 min
1924
Jo Mackiewicz, "Writing Center Talk over Time: ...
We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and Wisconsin...
80 min
1925
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Co...
Almada presents a comprehensive collection examining Indigenous comic book artists and the history of representations of Indigenous peoples throughout comic book history....
48 min