New Books in Literary Studies
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2051
Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's ...
Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...
57 min
2052
Adrian Wisnicki, "Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-190...
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.
31 min
2053
Great Books: Peter Brooks on Freud's "Civilizat...
You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...
49 min
2054
D. Gilhooley and F. Toich, "Psychoanalysis, Int...
This book bears witness to what’s possible when the raw pain and heartbreak of life and death are worked with in Psychoanalysis...
54 min
2055
Lijun Zhang and Ziying You, "Chinese Folklore S...
The discipline of folkloristics in the People’s Republic of China is robust and well-funded...
70 min
2056
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
2057
Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their ...
"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
71 min
2058
Great Books: Emily Bernard on Larsen's "Passing"
Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..
62 min
2059
Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early ...
Why did early modern people change their religious affiliation? And how did they represent that change in writing?
32 min
2060
S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wol...
"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...
61 min
2061
Carol Zaleski, "The Fellowship: The Literary Li...
Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings...
59 min
2062
Great Books: Benjamin Reiss on Thoreau's "Walden"
Thoreau, set out for a simpler, more mindful, and more deeply lived life on Walden Pond on July 4th, 1845...
58 min
2063
Abdullah Qodiriy, "Bygone Days" (Bowker, 2019)
Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel "Bygone Days" brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences...
61 min
2064
Misguided Bias: How Revisionism May Have Distor...
An interview with Adam Talib
8 min
2065
Great Books: Glenn Wallis on Gibran's "The Prop...
Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...
63 min
2066
D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literat...
Who were the Lost Girls?
20 min
2067
Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Repre...
Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...
70 min
2068
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
2069
Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior'...
51 min
2070
Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federa...
Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...
34 min
2071
Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stor...
Why and how is fiction important to women?
29 min
2072
Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern I...
Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....
51 min
2073
Great Books: Rich Blint on James Baldwin's "Ano...
James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience...
63 min
2074
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Ra...
Thomas dives into the question of, why magical stories are written for some people and not for others...
63 min
2075
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (R...
A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...
66 min