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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Tells the story of Bavaria’s acquisition of ancient Greek sculptures that rivaled those acquired by England from the Parthenon.

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

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

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

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

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.