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Theory as World Literature

The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa.What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literatu…

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Hamid Dabashi
Persian Parables

A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinkingIn this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian …

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Short Story as World Literature

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story …

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Holly A Yanacek,
Rethinking Feeling

Holly A. Yanacek traces a new history of emotions through the German novel, showing how long before social media existed, literature and art played important roles in negotiating emotions with moral value…

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Bandwidths

Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with Garrett Stewart's twenty books of inter-medial analysis, shelved across several disciplines, in a collection of essays as multifaceted and …

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Maggie Nelson
Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets , Pathematamerges a pain diary chronicling a decade of …

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Pushkin After 1831

Сборник 'Пушкин после 1831 года' посвящен одному из самых сложных периодов жизни поэта, когда видимый конфликт с читающей публикой, с одной стороны, и невидимый, но острый конфликт с властью- с другой, пр…

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Spies in European Culture, 1815-1914

This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the spy in Europe between 1815 and 1914. As such, it is the fir…

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Matthew J. Christensen
Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020

Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught …

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Sarah D Phillips,
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary con…

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Sarah D Phillips,
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary con…

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Cathy McAteer,
Cold War Women

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to and, in some cases, decisively shaped the reception of Russian and So…

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Patrick Jones
Henry James and the Question of Living

A bold reinterpretation of Henry James's fictional universe that shows how characters who desire to "live" but struggle to translate that desire into reality actually have much to teach us about…

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Life Writing as World Literature

A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by and becomes world literatu…

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Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

The twelve essays gathered in this collection interrogate the concept of 'authenticity' across the European Middle Ages and Early Modern period in a variety of literary genres. It presents authenticity as…

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Sophie Heywood,
Children's Publishing in Cold War France

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated t…

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Daniel Jenkin-Smith
The Rise of Office Literature

Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.Literary critics have long cited the clerk in 19th-centu…

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Ed Simon
Writing During the Apocalypse

All of American literature is a tragedy. What we're living through now isn't a tragedy, however - it's a horror novel. W hy bother writing when the world's on fire?Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inflatio…

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