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Cultural Studies

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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

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

By Dalia Judovitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments

Artaud and His Doubles

By Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice

Mapping Michel Serres

By Niran Abbas
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

International scholars shed new light on the work of renowned French philosopher Michel Serres

The Cat and the Human Imagination

Feline Images from Bast to Garfield

By Katharine M. Rogers
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, American Literature, European Literature, Cultural Studies

An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art

Reading Relationally

Postmodern Perspectives on Literature and Art

By Laurie Dale Edson
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Art, Architecture, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies

How reading literature through the lens of visual art sheds new light on the accomplishments of modernist and postmodernist writers

An Utterly Dark Spot

Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy

By Miran Bozovic
Foreword by Slavoj Zizek
Subjects: Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Two concepts of special interest to contemporary theorists--the gaze and the body--approached in a fresh and fascinating way

The Imperialist Imagination

German Colonialism and Its Legacy

Edited by Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne M. Zantop
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature

The Subject and Other Subjects

On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy, Cultural Studies

Advances a new theory on the nature of subjectivity and notions of identity

Rosa Bonheur

The Artist's (Auto)biography

By Anna Klumpke
Translated by Gretchen van Slyke
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

The intimate biography of French painter Rosa Bonheur by her companion Anna Klumpke

Poetics of Relation

By Edouard Glissant
Translated by Betsy Wing
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, American Studies

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies

Edited by Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

Dehexing Sex

Russian Womanhood During and After Glasnost

By Helena Goscilo
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

A look at women's changing roles and images in the emerging new Russian society

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