A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany on the world’s literary map.

A diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction literature from across the Arabic-speaking world.

Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.

The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.

Rethinks the significance of the son’s relationship to his father for Freud’s psychoanalytic theory.

Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.

This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.

A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.

Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives.

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century.

Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe’s cosmological treatise.

Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.

Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.

First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

Explores the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s ideas on the practice and study of cinema.

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.

Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.