Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Cooper’s The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Makes literature of Niagara Falls available to readers with a variety of interests in literature, culture, and place.

Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.

Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Explores Yalom’s profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.

A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel.

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.