A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

A probing, generative analysis of Knausgård’s My Struggle, with implications for our understanding of the novel form more broadly in the twenty-first century.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.