New Books in Literary Studies

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Arts
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Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespear...
This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...
34 min
2202
Tim Frandy, "Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from ...
First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...
60 min
2203
Kfir Cohen Lustig, "Makers of Worlds, Readers o...
Cohen Lustig suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature...
29 min
2204
Jeffrey Saks, "Agnon Library of The Toby Press"
Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
38 min
2205
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
2206
Andrew Newman, "Allegories of Encounter: Coloni...
Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...
94 min
2207
Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Ma...
Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...
50 min
2208
John T. Lysaker, "Philosophy, Writing, and the ...
What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?
70 min
2209
Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility...
Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...
57 min
2210
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
2211
Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: ...
The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..
52 min
2212
Lenora Warren, "Fire on the Water: Sailors, Sla...
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...
47 min
2213
Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic...
The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...
57 min
2214
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, "Reciting the Godd...
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...
58 min
2215
Aimee Bahng, "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Spe...
Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...
61 min
2216
Elizabeth R. Baer, "The Genocidal Gaze: From Ge...
Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...
79 min
2217
Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Lite...
Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...
65 min
2218
Melissa McCormick, "The Tale of Genji: A Visual...
The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist...
54 min
2219
Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Foo...
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...
71 min
2220
Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Re...
Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...
57 min
2221
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Sovi...
Popoff brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus...
62 min
2222
Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early Am...
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...
59 min
2223
Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives ...
Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...
91 min
2224
Dean Anthony Brink, “Japanese Poetry and its Pu...
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?
37 min
2225
Lorenzo Andolfatto, "Hundred Days’ Literature: ...
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...
64 min