Cultural Studies: Showing 1 to 25 of 151 results where the Subjects is Literary Studies sorted by Newest to oldest

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes China's cultural diplomacy by using the emergence of the China Institute in America and the Chinese Nationalist government

After Disruption

A Future for Cultural Memory

By Trevor Owens
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education, Digital Projects

How we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for memory infrastructure

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

The Violence of the Letter

Toward a Theory of Writing

By Melanie McMahon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing, Cultural Studies

The alphabet's devastating consequences for humanity

Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

By Revathi Krishnaswamy
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Working Time

Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

From the Valley of Bronze Camels

A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

"What makes art 'modern' and what does 'urgent' mean now?"

Touching the Unreachable

Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan

By Fusako Innami
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier

By Naama Harel
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies

Traces the dissolution of the boundary between human and other animals in the work of Franz Kafka and, in doing so, radically revisits interspecies relations

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Ruins

Classical Theater and Broken Memory

By Odai Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theater—the aesthetics of ruins

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

Mongrel Nation

Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

By Ashley Dawson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Caribbean Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The first cultural history of African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom from 1948 to the present

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring

By Sherry Lee Linkon
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

Transforming Gender and Emotion

The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea

By Sookja Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Korea, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Illuminates how one folktale serves as a living record of the evolving cultures and relationships of China and Korea

Transgression in Korea

Beyond Resistance and Control

By Juhn Young Ahn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Challenges our understanding of transgression— its causes, goals, and motives— across a comprehensive reading of South Korean media

Communicative Biocapitalism

The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

By Olivia Banner
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Scrutinizes dominant models of health and ability, race, and gender and the structure of digital health

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

By Dina Khapaeva
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Media Studies, History

Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

Strange Science

Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age

By Lara Pauline Karpenko & Shalyn Rae Claggett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History

A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time

Risk Criticism

Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty

By Molly Wallace
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays give context to environmental risk

War on Autism

On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

By Anne McGuire
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges the discourses of autism awareness campaigns for the “logic of violence” they often conceal

Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures

Comparative Perspectives

By Anita Norich & Joshua L Miller
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A fascinating discussion of Jewish multiculturalism through the range of Jewish lingualisms, cultures, and history

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