Explores the full extent of Hegel’s interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

Examines the ideas of justice in Euripidean tragedy, which reveals the human experience of justice to be paradoxical, and reminds us of the need for humility in our unceasing quest for a just world.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.

An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.

Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.

An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.

Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation.

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.

Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.