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Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders

By Shuang Shen
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural production of Sinophone communities outside of China during the Cold War

Agony for Others

On Literature and Pain

By Jessica Colangelo
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Pain as a political force

Hungry Subjects

Mapping Appetites in the African Cultural Landscape

By Njeri Githire
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Interrogating the plate, palate, and African literary imagination of food and eating

Sideways Developments

Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong

By Kai Hang Cheang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

A meditation on queer and trans persistence in global Hong Kong

Late Stage

Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging

Edited by Benjamin Gillespie & Cindy Rosenthal
With Elinor Fuchs
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Examining age as an embodied and socially constructed identity, both on and off the stage

Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus

By Emma Warhover
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Historical Methods and Theory, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The works of Tacitus through the lens of humor

Romanticism and Anthony Trollope

A Study in the Continuities of Nineteenth-Century Literary Thought

By L. J. Swingle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature

Postmodern Theatric(k)s

Monologue in Contemporary American Drama

By Deborah R. Geis
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Sound and Form in Modern Poetry

A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell

1st Edition

By Harvey Gross
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Appropriated Voice

Narrative Authority in Conrad, Forster, and Woolf

By Bette London
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature

Married, Middlebrow, and Militant

Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel

By Teresa Lynn Mangum
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The Untold Story

Women and Theory in Golden Age Texts

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Planetarity from Below

Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora

By Emily Yu Zong
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Asian Studies, China, American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics

Rome's Visceral Reactions

Politics and Poetics in Flesh and Blood

By Caitlin Hines
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

How the word viscera is intrinsic to public discourses around civil war, fertility, and succession in Roman history

Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde

Performance and Textuality

Edited by James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

The Daughter as Reader

Encounters between Literature and Life

By Paula Marantz Cohen
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

Artificial Humanities

A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI

By Nina Beguš
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Using the humanities to thoughtfully approach the development of AI

Crip Authority

Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How Renaissance writers and artists with disabilities engaged with consolatory literature to relate to their lived experiences

Arthurian Intertextualities

Misreading and Rereading Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative and Stanzaic Mortes

By Fiona Tolhurst & K S Whetter
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

Reinterpreting Malory’s major contexts and characters: Arthur and Guenevere, Launcelot and his two Elaynes, and Palomydes and Trystram and Isode

Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis

Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath

By John Ireland
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Theater and Performance, History, European History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation and Algerian War

A Commentary on Cicero, De Natura Deorum II

By Andrew R. Dyck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

First English commentary on Cicero’s examination of the gods in over fifty years
 

Notes on Vermin

By Caroline Hovanec
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

How and why modern literature came to love its pests

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, African Studies

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Specters of Cavafy

By Maria Boletsi
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Greek / Modern Intersections

Haunting the future through poetry

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

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