Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays.

Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.

Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.

Explores why women abolitionists turned to children's literature to make their case against slavery.

A noted Eliot scholar explores how we become different interpreters of literature as we undergo psychological change.

Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.

Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.

The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish's nonliterary writings.

Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.

Adds historical and philosophical perspectives to current debates over whether lesbian identity is socially constructed or genetically based.

Investigates the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society.

Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.

Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.

Examines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth-century French writers.

Explores the role of shame as an important affect in the complex psychodynamics of literary and philosophical works.

Rapp mounts a devastating critique against the notion that literary and cultural theory since the 1960s has succeeded in effecting, or at least reporting, both the demise of philosophy and the emergence of a genuinely post-philosophical culture.