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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

The Next Draft

Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop

Edited by Brenda Lynn Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

Essays inspiring readers to take an innovative approach to writing

Bad Chaucer

The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

By Tison Pugh
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s blunders in the classic Canterbury Tales make it far from a perfect masterpiece

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology

By Tedd Wimperis
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context

Millions of Suns

On Writing and Life

By M.C. Benner Dixon & Sharon McDermott
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

Invites all writers to share their own perspective

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

Act Like a Man

Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

By Robert Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Sexuality Studies

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.

Going to the Tigers

Essays and Exhortations

By Robert Cohen
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Writers on Writing

The art of fiction, uncaged

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?"

On Burning Ground

Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry

By Sandra Gilbert
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

Beholding Disability in Renaissance England

By Allison P. Hobgood
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England

Monstrous Kinds

Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Elucidates how Renaissance writers used monstrosity to imagine what we now call disability

Dialectical Imaginaries

Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Marcial Gonzalez & Carlos Gallego
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latinx Studies, American Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Gathers materialist readings that provide productive new insights on Latino/a literature in the neoliberal era

The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

By Clark Lunberry & Joseph Roach
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Biography

Leading theater artists and scholars offer reflections on and interpretations of the life and thought of Herbert Blau

Autistic Disturbances

Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe

By Julia Miele Rodas
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Finds and investigates the resonances between autistic speech patterns and literary texts

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

Reactivations

Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Art, Art History, Theater and Performance, Media Studies, New Media, Dance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience’s experience of it

Academic Ableism

Disability and Higher Education

By Jay T. Dolmage
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Education, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability

By Shelley Lynn Tremain
Subjects: Philosophy, Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault’s work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability

Microdramas

Crucibles for Theater and Time

By John H. Muse
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores what brevity can teach us about the powers and limits of theater

The Mirror Diary

Selected Essays

By Garrett Hongo
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Poets on Poetry

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

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