New Books in Literary Studies

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Arts
2226
Cosmopolitan Printing in a Hybrid Language: A D...
An interview with Tom Hoogervorst
26 min
2227
Great Books: John Callahan on Ellison's "Invisi...
Ellison tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity in a country dead-set on not seeing him...
50 min
2228
Carl W. Ernst, “Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr”...
“I am the Real,” is the ecstatic statement often associated with the early Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj...
57 min
2229
Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Di...
Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
2230
Andrew Milner, "Again, Dangerous Visions: Essay...
The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,
64 min
2231
Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's ...
Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...
57 min
2232
Adrian Wisnicki, "Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-190...
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.
31 min
2233
Great Books: Peter Brooks on Freud's "Civilizat...
You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...
49 min
2234
Lijun Zhang and Ziying You, "Chinese Folklore S...
The discipline of folkloristics in the People’s Republic of China is robust and well-funded...
70 min
2235
D. Gilhooley and F. Toich, "Psychoanalysis, Int...
This book bears witness to what’s possible when the raw pain and heartbreak of life and death are worked with in Psychoanalysis...
54 min
2236
Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their ...
"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
71 min
2237
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
2238
Great Books: Emily Bernard on Larsen's "Passing"
Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..
62 min
2239
Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early ...
Why did early modern people change their religious affiliation? And how did they represent that change in writing?
32 min
2240
S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wol...
"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...
61 min
2241
Carol Zaleski, "The Fellowship: The Literary Li...
Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings...
59 min
2242
Great Books: Benjamin Reiss on Thoreau's "Walden"
Thoreau, set out for a simpler, more mindful, and more deeply lived life on Walden Pond on July 4th, 1845...
58 min
2243
Abdullah Qodiriy, "Bygone Days" (Bowker, 2019)
Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel "Bygone Days" brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences...
61 min
2244
Misguided Bias: How Revisionism May Have Distor...
An interview with Adam Talib
8 min
2245
Great Books: Glenn Wallis on Gibran's "The Prop...
Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...
63 min
2246
D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literat...
Who were the Lost Girls?
20 min
2247
Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Repre...
Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...
70 min
2248
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
2249
Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior'...
51 min
2250
Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federa...
Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...
34 min