New Books in Literary Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books

Arts
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Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuc...
For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen...
21 min
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Robbie Richardson, "The Savage and Modern Self:...
Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...
44 min
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Niall Geraghty, "The Polyphonic Machine: Capita...
What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence?
33 min
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Dirk Jongkind, "An Introduction to the Greek Ne...
Is the New Testament text reliable? What do we do with textual variants? How do I use the Greek New Testament?
26 min
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Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Co...
Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...
60 min
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
33 min
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Derrick Spires, "The Practice of Citizenship: B...
In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship...
49 min
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Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, "Inclusive Young Adult...
Does publishing have a diversity problem?
36 min
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Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical...
Golding examines the current status of Star Wars, as well as the similarities and differences between the old and the new...
72 min
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Robin Truth Goodman, "The Bloomsbury Handbook o...
The Bloomsbury Handbook is is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...
55 min
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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
62 min
2162
Ryan Hackenbracht, "National Reckonings: The La...
Hackenbracht's book opens up questions about how seventeenth-century writers understood the Christian doctrine of the last judgement, and how the thought of that final reckoning shaped new attitudes to church and to nation....
39 min
2163
Susan Lepselter, "The Resonance of Unseen Thing...
Susan Lepselter asks what happens when we listen to “UFO talk” ethnographically, understanding it as a form of vernacular American poetics that must be made sense of within specific cultural and political contexts...
53 min
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Christina Yi, "Colonizing Language: Cultural Pr...
The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone
59 min
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Adriana X. Jacobs, "Strange Cocktail: Translati...
Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry...
39 min
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William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradi...
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...
45 min
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A. M. Ruppell, "The Cambridge Introduction to S...
Why would anyone want to study Sanskrit, an ancient complex tongue? What’s the best way to go about doing so?
74 min
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Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and The King in Indi...
Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic?
43 min
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Pu Wang, "The Translatability of Revolution: Gu...
Wang's is the first study of the whole life of Guo Moruo, the ‘writer, poet, dramatist, Marxist historian, paleographer . . . revolutionist and cultural fighter.'
63 min
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Clas...
Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?
51 min
2171
Margaret Leslie Davis, "The Lost Gutenberg: The...
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.
58 min
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Shonaleeka Kaul, "The Making of Early Kashmir: ...
Kaul upturns many prevalent views about the cultural history of Kashmir...
70 min
2173
Thomas A. Wayment, "The New Testament: A Transl...
Thomas A. Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, has done something remarkable — he has retranslated the New Testament...
70 min
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Ralph James Savarese, "Classic Novels, Autistic...
Ralph James Savarese challenges the notion that autistic readers are unable to immerse themselves in figurative language or get lost in imaginative worlds...
49 min
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Joel Elliot Slotkin, "Sinister Aesthetics: The ...
Why did creative writers in early modern England write so forcefully about the relationship between aesthetics and morality?
31 min