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...

Focusing on the storied afterlives and artistic re-purposings of photographic images from key junctures of China’s twentieth-century – the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square protests – Hillenbrand shows how they expose the subtle contours of what it is permissible and what impermissible to know...

The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in Theravada Buddhism...

Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...

Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...

Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...

Jones problematizes long-held beliefs among literary critics and linguists that habla de negros as represented in dominant Spanish literature was exclusively racist stereotypes...

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s...