Literature
Rereading George Eliot
A noted Eliot scholar explores how we become different interpreters of literature as we undergo psychological change.
Musing the Mosaic
Examines Sukenick's role in reshaping the American literary tradition.
From Girl to Woman
Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.
The African American Male, Writing, and Difference
Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic
Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time.
Idioms of Distress
Traces portrayals of psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Voice-Overs
Writers, translators, and critics explore the cultural politics and transnational impact of Latin American literature.
Justifying Belief
The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish's nonliterary writings.
White Women in Racialized Spaces
Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.
Moral Tales and Meditations
Provocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives.
Disciplining English
Offers historical and present-day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it.
The Visionary Moment
Explores and critiques the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment as a convention in twentieth-century American fiction, from the standpoint of postmodernism.
The Lesbian Index
Adds historical and philosophical perspectives to current debates over whether lesbian identity is socially constructed or genetically based.
The Institution of Literature
Leading voices in literary and cultural studies examine the study of literature at the college level, including the fate of theory, the rise of cultural studies, the academic “star” system, and the difficult job market.
Disappearing Persons
Investigates the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society.
Ontology and the Art of Tragedy
Argues for a reading of the Poetics in light of the Metaphysics.
Between Witness and Testimony
Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.
Writing the Radical Center
Explores the cultural work of two important early-twentieth-century writers: the poet William Carlos Williams and the educator/philosopher John Dewey, both key figures in American democracy.
Time Is of the Essence
Examines the intricate relationships between time and gender in the novels of five fin-de-siecle British writers--Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird.
Rewriting
Examines the tendency of post-World War II writers to rewrite earlier narratives by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and others.
Eating Their Words
Examines the figure of the cannibal as it relates to cultural identity in a wide range of literary and cultural texts.
Going beyond the Pairs
Argues that German Romanticism, Zen Buddhism, and deconstruction, for all their cultural differences, are three expressions of a universal vision.
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI
An anthology devoted to the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato.
Memory and Mastery
Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.
New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective
Offers an interdisciplinary approach to narrative perspective, with essays by leading scholars of literary studies, cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and film and media criticism.