Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.

A spirited reading of Derrida’s view of ethics as transcendental and performative.

Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S.-led global “war on terror. ”

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.

Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.

Explores both the literary features and historical context of poetry written for imperial rulers during China’s early medieval period.

Poetry that responds to the Qur’an and to the tradition it created.

Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Creates contexts for the body to interpret and reinterpret its experiences of touch.

Explores the role of the literary protest essay in addressing social divisions in the United States.

Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.

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

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.

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

Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.