Explores the unique and volatile relationship of these two nations and cultures over the past two centuries, as expressed in literature, film, and philosophy.

Examines Brecht's use of the theatre as a public arena for political change.

Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid’s fiction and nonfiction.

Shows how Alfred the Great's translations of Latin works exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical learning and Christian thought while bringing prestige to the king and his West Saxon dialect.

A groundbreaking work that uncovers an implicit system of hermeneutics in traditional Chinese thought and aesthetics.

Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.

Recovers a dynamic women’s tradition of vision and sexuality, challenging Darwinian and Freudian accounts of women as nonvisual sexual agents.

Explores how literati of China’s mid-Northern Song period developed a social and therapeutic tradition in poetry. Includes a number of translations of the witty poems of the period.

Uses the concept of the poetic fragment to draw connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory.

Explores the comic devices Roth uses to satirize his times, the Jewish community, and himself.

An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.

An in-depth companion guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Explains why poetry gave way to the realist novel as the dominant literary form in nineteenth-century England.

Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.

Explores the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of nature up until the time of Plato.

An introduction to Badiou's philosophical thought and its implications for other humanistic disciplines and the social sciences.

A collection of sixty short stories by women writers from across the Arab world.

Offers the most comprehensive collection of Basho's prose available, beautifully translated into English.

Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.

An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.

Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

Uses literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to explore the emerging logic of the posthuman.

Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.