Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic?

Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?

Wang's is the first study of the whole life of Guo Moruo, the ‘writer, poet, dramatist, Marxist historian, paleographer . . . revolutionist and cultural fighter.'

Margaret Leslie Davis traces the journey of one copy of the Gutenberg Bible – known as Number 45 – over the course of two centuries as it changed hands through a succession of owners.

Kaul upturns many prevalent views about the cultural history of Kashmir...

Thomas A. Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, has done something remarkable — he has retranslated the New Testament...

Ralph James Savarese challenges the notion that autistic readers are unable to immerse themselves in figurative language or get lost in imaginative worlds...

Why did creative writers in early modern England write so forcefully about the relationship between aesthetics and morality?

By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987...

That the Roman leader Gaius Julius Caesar is so well remembered today for his achievements as a general is largely due to his skills as a writer...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

The volume provides an overview of Polish culture and literature that absorbs local and global experiences.

How did Rolland, and other French leftists, come to celebrate and actively promote the authoritarian regime of Joseph Stalin?

How do we project imagined worlds?

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...

One of the great archeological finds of the 20th century, the Gandhāran Buddhist Texts, dating from the 1st century CE, are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts ever discovered...

In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,

In this bold and deeply interdisciplinary work, Brown demonstrates the centrality of race to modern architectural design...

Nir shows how the postmodern turn in the 1980s expressed a crisis of social and historical imagination...

Studies of Hindu saints tend to focus primarily on the saints themselves—their words, teachings, and practices—rather than tending to the often complex and complicated world of texts and traditions about those saints...

When and where did Jesus offer himself to God?

Far more than just an introductory book, Richard argues not only that the Pali Canon records the words of the Buddha, but that the Buddha himself is responsible for the Pali language...

Aimée Israel-Pelletier looks at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers...

What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex?