This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...

First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...

Cohen Lustig suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature...

Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...

Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...

Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...

What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...

The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...

The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...

This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...

Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...

Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...

Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...

The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist...

Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...

Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...

Popoff brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus...

Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...

Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and deal with our past and our future?

Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens...