Collected essays by noted scholars covering the breadth and influence of Kurt Vonnegut's literature.

Examines the manifestations of racism, sexism, and homophobia in the literary works of Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Joseph Conrad, and Toni Morrison.

Treats time, eternity, language, and silence in an original way.

Explores the continuing relevance of important political themes in five of Shakespeare's English History plays.

Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.

A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.

Raises the radical question of how Dante’s understanding of poetry shaped his theology, his ethics, and, more generally his sense of the organization of knowledge or encyclopedia.

Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.

English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.

Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch’s Rime sparse inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe.

Explores the hidden political and ethical dimensions of the work of Samuel Beckett, an author who might otherwise be considered indifferent to such considerations.

Explores the way chaos theory is incorporated in the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Don DeLillo, and Michael Crichton.

Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.

This postcolonial study explores the Western myth of Tahiti as a paradise, as well as the complex and diverse ways the Maohi people have responded to this myth.

Explores Aristotle's theory of the causes that give rise to stasis ('civic disorder'), and provides an original and systematic account of his understanding of political justice and friendship.

Offers a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, demonstrating how his development as a writer was shaped by shifting twentieth-century ideas about the social function of literature.

A philosophical inquiry into the essence of comedy.

Ten short stories and a dramatic monologue by one of contemporary Austria's most important and provocative writers.

Explores how shifts in the job market and changes in university culture and administration have influenced the "post-theory" generation of literary critics.

Wry and honest essays on the everyday conditions of professional life at a "second-rate" university, with implications for our understanding of higher education in general.

Explores James Joyce's use of parody and humor in his representation of women, gays, and Irish nationalism, and discusses how his complex attitude toward parody and stereotyping is related to his aesthetic vision.

Connects Holocaust literature and film to other works of "historical horror" in order to examine the limits that trauma imposes upon literary and artistic expression.

Examines German women's literary and cultural representations of the Nazi era.

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.

Explores Lacan's theory of the registers through readings of a wide variety of texts.