Hayden White borrows the title for "The Practical Past "from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-artistic artifacts that individuals and institutions draw on for guidance in quotidian affairs. "The Practical Past," then, forms both a summa of White s work to be drawn upon and a new direction in his thinking about the writing of history.
White s monumental "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe "(1973) challenged many of the commonplaces of professional historical writing and wider assumptions...
Hayden White borrows the title for "The Practical Past "from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material a...
Media Laboratories explores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and '40s. Cinema, radio, and the typewriter, once seen as promising catalysts for new kinds of writing, began to be challenged by authors, workers, and the public. What happens when media no longer seem novel and potentially democratic but rather consolidated and dominant? Moving among authors from Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and among the genres of fiction, the essay, popular journalism, and experimental little magazines, Sarah Ann Wells shows how writers on the periphery of global modernity were...
Media Laboratories explores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and '40s. Cinema, radio, and the typewriter, once seen as...
Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory. Over time, he has assisted in the development of distinctively Chinese forms of literary theory, Comparative Literature, and World Literature. The fifteen lectures gathered in "An Innocent Abroad "span both time and geographic location, reflecting his work at universities across China for more than twenty-five years. More important, they reflect the evolution of Miller s thinking and of the lectures contexts in China as these have markedly changed over...
Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory. Over tim...
How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. "Eastern Europe" in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object that is continually misapprehended. From the intersection of comparative literature, area studies, and literary theory, Anita Starosta considers the epistemological and aesthetic consequences of the disappearance of the Second World. Literature here becomes a critical lens in its own...
How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on...
Anjali Nerlekar's" Bombay Modern" is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. Nerlekar shows how a bilingual, materialist reading of Kolatkar's texts uncovers a uniquely resistant sense of the "local" that defies the monolinguistic cultural pressures of the post-1960 years and straddles the boundaries of English and Marathi writing. "Bombay Modern" uncovers an alternative and provincial modernism through poetry, a genre that is marginal to...
Anjali Nerlekar's" Bombay Modern" is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of bot...
Intimate Relations remaps the discussion on gender and the nation in South Asia through a close study of the domestic novel as a literary genre and a tool for social reform. As a product of the intersection of literary and social reform movements, in the late nineteenth century the domestic novel became a site for literary innovation and also for rethinking women s roles in society and politics. Krupa Shandilya focuses primarily on social reform movements that negotiated the intimate relations between men and women in Hindu and Muslim society, namely, the widow remarriage act in Bengal...
Intimate Relations remaps the discussion on gender and the nation in South Asia through a close study of the domestic novel as a literary genre...
The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the use of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure, from the practice's origins in nineteenth-century sexology through writings in the fields of psychoanalysis, Modernist fiction, and contemporary Queer Theory. The book is the first to identify the process by which medical sources simplified the diversity of trans feminine experience into a single diagnostic narrative. It then demonstrates that this medical figure became an archetype for the "sexual anarchy" of the Modernist period in works...
The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the use of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure,...
