Explores the work of beloved Sufi poet Umar Ibn al-Farid and its context. Provides many translations of Ibn al-Farid’s poetry.

Explores the transformation of Hindi poetry as it reflects a changing society during the period from 1885 to 1925.

Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy.

Examines the metaphors of the “primitive” and the “industrial” in the rhetoric and imagery of anticapitalist American radical and revolutionary movements.

A visionary journey into the crucible in which America was born, a tale of love and war and of a master shaman who folds time to seek the key to the survival of his people.

Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.

A comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers and critics.

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).

A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.

Brings ecocriticism into conversation with critical American studies approaches to literary canon formation.

Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U. S. through a focus on historical, visual, cultural, and literary texts.

Philosophical interpretation of Proust based on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.

Study of self-consciousness in Hegel and Shakespeare.

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.

Details the transformation of Tamil literary culture that came with colonialism and the encounter with Western modernity.

The first English translation of Novalis’s unfinished notes for a universal science, Das Allgemeine Brouillon.

Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.

Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.

An insightful and often humorous tale of rural life and how an old house and its land can bring a broken person back to wellness.

Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism.

Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.

Recovers Walt Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.