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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

To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

The Dybbuk Century

The Jewish Play That Possessed the World

Edited by Debra Caplan & Rachel Merrill Moss
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

How a 100-year-old play about spiritual possession beyond the grave continues to engage and fascinate

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

Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By Zhiyi Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, History, Chinese History

The first comprehensive biography of  Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history

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

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

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

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

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony

Poems Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula

By Abdilatif Abdalla
Edited by Annmarie Drury
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: African Perspectives

First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla’s influential Voice of Agony

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

By Rocio 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

Ghosts and the Overplus

Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

By Christina Pugh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry

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

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

Legal Stories

Narrative-based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

By Gregory Steirer
Subjects: Law, Intellectual Property, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature

How copyright law and the practice of narrative-based property development influenced each other before 1978

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Uncovering the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)

poetry & parenting

By Nathaniel Perry
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Thinking about parenting through the lens of poetry

How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

By Christopher Smith
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products

Firsthand

How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things

By Keith Gandal
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Memoir
Series: Writers on Writing

On writing, researching, and tennis

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