New Books in Literary Studies
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Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Surve...
As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...
28 min
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Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians a...
Driscoll charts the development of the writer’s ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life...
94 min
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Caroline Weber, “Proust’s Duchess” (Knopf, 2019)
Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...
69 min
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Ann K. McClellan, "Sherlock’s World: Fan Fictio...
McClellan explores fan fiction inspired by one of the most-watch BBC series in history...
66 min
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Richard F. Thomas, "Why Bob Dylan Matters" (Dey...
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...
64 min
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Lian Xi, "Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Li...
In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...
75 min
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Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Cat...
Rubin-Detlev evaluates the place that Catherine sought to occupy in the intellectual and cultural landscape of her time...
56 min
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Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothi...
Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...
23 min
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Mark Alizart, "Dogs" (Polity, 2019)
Alizart offers us a surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker―a thinker who may perhaps know the true secret of our humanity...
44 min
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Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popu...
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?
65 min
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Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing ...
McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..
32 min
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Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: T...
Science fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism for over a century...
42 min
2163
John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Qua...
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life...
47 min
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Annabel L. Kim, "Unbecoming Language: Anti-Iden...
Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...
58 min
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Emily Wilson, trans., "The Odyssey" (Norton, 2017)
Wilson’s "Odyssey" captures the beauty and enchantment of this ancient poem...
65 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Tamara Hundorova, "The Post-Chornobyl Library: ...
Hundorova has written a compelling study of the literary changes that mark Ukrainian literature at the end of the 20th century...
45 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Andrew Hobbs, "A Fleet Street In Every Town: Th...
The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...
43 min
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Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology a...
The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...
65 min
2171
Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: F...
In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”
64 min
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Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Co...
Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...
103 min
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Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pe...
In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...
57 min
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Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Co...
Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...
103 min
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthro...
DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...
33 min