Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (18921938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settingsPeru and Pariswhich were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo s writings with cultural, historical,...
Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian ...
On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de Medici murdered Alessandro de Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican tyrant-slayer. Wings for Our Courage offers an epistemological critique of this republican politics, its invisible oppressions, and its power by reorganizing the meaning of Lorenzino s assassination around issues of gender, the body, and political subjectivity. Stephanie H. Jed brings into...
On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de Medici murdered Alessandro de Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in F...
In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egyptby the French in 1798 and by the British in 1882in a rich comparative analysis of acts, fictions, and theories that translated the European into the Egyptian, the Arab, or the Muslim. Tageldin finds that the encounter with European Orientalism often invited colonized Egyptians to imagine themselves equal to or even masters of...
In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relat...
Winner, 2015 LAJSA Best Book in Latin American Jewish Studies The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in public debates since the early 2000s following human rights abuses around the globe. Yet discussion of torture has remained restricted to three principal fields: the legal, the pragmatic, and the moral, eclipsing the less immediate but vital question of what torture "does.""Figurative Inquisitions" seeks to correct this lacuna by approaching the question of torture from a literary vantage point.
This book investigates the uncanny presence of the...
Winner, 2015 LAJSA Best Book in Latin American Jewish Studies The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in publi...
For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory. In "Periodizing Jameson, "Phillip E. Wegner builds upon Jameson s unique dialectical method to demonstrate the value of Jameson s tools periodization, the fourfold hermeneutic, and the Greimasian semiotic square, among others and to develop virtuoso readings of Jameson s own work and the history of the contemporary American university in which it unfolds.
Wegner shows how Jameson s work intervenes in particular social, cultural, and political situations, using his...
For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory. In "Periodizing Jameson, "P...
Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as society s moral epics. Yet religion beginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979, through the collapse of communism, and culminating in the singular rupture of September 11, 2001 has not retreated quietly out of sight.
In Fiction Beyond Secularism, Justin Neuman argues that contemporary novelists who are most commonly identified as antireligious among them Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Haruki Murakami, and J. M. Coetzee have...
Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as society s moral epics. Yet religion beginnin...
Mariano Siskind s groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the place of Latin America in its imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind s formulation, world literature is a modernizing discursive strategy, a way in which cultures negotiate their aspirations to participate in global networks of cultural exchange, and an original tool to reorganize literary history. Working with novels, poems, essays, travel narratives, and historical documents, Siskind reads the way Latin American literary modernity was produced as a global relation, from the rise...
Mariano Siskind s groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the place of Latin America in its imagi...
Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable? Making use of the Deleuzian concept of 'the powers of the false, ' Doro Wiese offers readings of three novels that deal with the Shoah, with colonialism, and with racialized identities
Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable? Making use of the Deleuzian concept of 'the powers of the false, ...
The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti's notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade's poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu's essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic...
The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atl...
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...
