LITERARY STUDIES 2022
New and Forthcoming Titles
CO LUMBIA UN IVER SI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U
Letter from the Editors: Thank you for your interest in Columbia University Press’s new books in literary studies. Amid the many crises we continue to confront, reading and studying literature continues to provide important ways for us to understand our world and each other. We hope these books reflect that as they foreground what makes literature distinctly revelatory and pleasurable. It’s been a challenging year, and we feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with such wonderful and dedicated authors. One of the defining features of our list has been its emphasis on twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury literary studies. The Literature Now series has been crucial in providing important new critical perspectives on contemporary literature and culture. Forthcoming books from the series include Literature in Motion, Ellen Jones’s remarkable new book on literary multilingualism; Free Indirect by Timothy Bewes, which develops a compelling new theory of the novel; and Vidyan Ravinithiran’s Worlds Woven Together, a thoughtful and beautifully written collection of essays that puts Western and South Asian poetry in conversation. David Kurnick’s The Savage Detectives Reread is our newest entry in our popular and critically acclaimed Rereadings series. In it, Kurnick brings passionate, critical insight to Bolano’s novel and its complicated reception. We also have two new books in our other recently launched series, No Limits: In Taste, poet Jehanne Dubrow considers how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting. Self-Improvement by Mark Coeckelbergh, demonstrates how self-improvement culture became so toxic—and why we need both a new concept of the self. Our list in Black literary studies and I am looking forward to the publication of Robert O’Meally’s Antagonistic Cooperation, which examines how key African American writers, musicians, and visual artists provided a lens to understand American society and the global African diaspora. John Brooks’s The Racial Unfamiliar, also part of the Literature Now series, considers how contemporary Black writers and artists challenge ideas about Black identity. Columbia University Press’s list in Asian literary studies continues to shape the field with works of innovative scholarship. Hoyt Long’s The Values of Numbers, which offers a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods. The Promise and Peril of Things by Wai-yee Lee, traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. . We hope you share our excitement and please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like to discuss your own book project. Philip Leventhal Senior Editor Philip Leventhal, senior editor for literary and film studies. @PhilipLeventhal Christine Dunbar, editor for Asian humanities and literature in translation. @cad_pub Wendy Lochner, publisher for philosophy and religion. @raspeditor
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NEW AND FORTHCOMING
The Savage Detectives Reread
New and Forthcoming...........................................3 Asian Literary Studies.........................................19
David Kurnick
Asian Literature..................................................22
Russian Library..................................................24 World Literature.................................................26 Film and Media Studies ....................................27 New in Paperback..............................................28
Ordering Information.........................................29 Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the following editors: Philip Leventhal (pl2164@columbia.edu), senior editor for literary and film and media studies. Christine Dunbar (cd2654@columbia.edu), editor for Asian humanities and literature in translation. Wendy Lochner (wl2003@columbia.edu), publisher for philosophy and religion. For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website: cup.columbia.edu.
David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolaño’s life and work have obscured his achievements—and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. He explores the novel as an epic of social structure and its decomposition. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19411-2 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19410-5 February 2022 224 pages
REREADINGS
To Write as if Already Dead Kate Zambreno
Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press. Titles published by the Transcript Publishing, ibidem Press, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press are available from Columbia only in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly.
To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates Guibert’s methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of his work. $18.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18845-6 $70.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18844-9 2021 192 pages
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Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language
Antagonistic Cooperation
Julia Kristeva
Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
Translated by Jody Gladding Foreword by Rowan Williams
Robert O'Meally
From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.
Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. Reading across his major novels and shorter works, Kristeva offers incandescent insights into the potent themes that draw her back to the Russian master.
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2021 112 pages
2021 256 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL
LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF LECTURES
THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
A Face Drawn in Sand
Cities of the Dead
Rey Chow
Joseph Roach
Circum-Atlantic Performance, twenty-fifth anniversary edition
Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present
Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucault’s concept of “outside.” She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry. $27.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18837-1 $115.00 / £95.00 cloth 978-0-231-18836-4 2021 224 pages
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nterweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance along the Atlantic rim from the eighteenth century to the present, Cities of the Dead explores a rich continuum of cultural exchange that imaginatively reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20387-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20386-9 2021 352 pages
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Free Indirect
Worlds Woven Together
The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Essays on Poetry and Poetics
Timothy Bewes
Vidyan Ravinthiran
The critic, poet, and scholar Vidyan Ravinthiran searches for alternatives to the standard models of writing about poetry, pursuing close, imaginative readings of a variety of authors. Discussing neglected writers and those in the West, Ravinthiran's essays are unabashedly passionate and subjective yet keenly analytical and investigative.
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LITERATURE NOW
LITERATURE NOW
This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls “free indirect,” in which the novel’s refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found.
The Gentrification Plot
Literature in Motion
Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas
New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel Thomas Heise
Ellen Jones
Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation.
Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging “gentrification plot” in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict the sweeping transformations of five iconic neighborhoods—the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Red Hook, Harlem, and BedfordStuyvesant.
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2021 312 pages
January 2022 272 pages
LITERATURE NOW
LITERATURE NOW
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The Racial Unfamiliar
Poetics of Liveliness
John Brooks
Ada Smailbegović
Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds
Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture
John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference.
Ada Smailbegović shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers have intermingled scientific methodologies with poetic form to reveal unfolding processes of change. Poetics of Liveliness moves across scales to explore the
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2021 360 pages
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work of Gertrude Stein, Christian BÖk, Jen Bervin, Lisa Robertson, and other poets.
1960
Claude McKay
When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern
The Making of a Black Bolshevik Winston James
Al Filreis
Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literary, and intellectual figures who strove to create a new language to reckon with the trauma of World War II and to imagine a new world. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20185-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20184-1 2021 352 pages
One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. Winston James offers a revelatory account of McKay’s political and intellectual trajectory from his upbringing in Jamaica through the early years of his literary career and radical activism. $32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-13593-1 $135.00 / £104.00 cloth 978-0-231-13592-4 May 2022 384 pages
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B-Side Books
Finding Ferrante
Edited by John Plotz
Alessia Ricciardi
Authorship and the Politics of World Literature
Essays on Forgotten Favorites
Leading writers, critics, and scholars show why their favorite forgotten books deserve a new audience. In these thoughtful, often personal essays, contributors—including Caleb Crain, Merve Emre, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Namwali Serpell—read books by writers such as Helen DeWitt, Shirley Jackson, Stanislaw Lem, Paule Marshall, and Charles Portis.
Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Elena Ferrante’s identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels’ literary ambition and politics. Ricciardi reads Ferrante’s fiction as world literature, foregrounding the alleged writer Anita Raja’s work as a translator.
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PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES
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Medical Storyworlds
Speculation
Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI Gayle Rogers
Elena Fratto
Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles, and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Gayle Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation-and why it so often appears so threatening-is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future.
Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.
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2021 272 pages
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2021 288 pages
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Hard Rain
A Revolution in Three Acts
Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History
The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
Alessandro Portelli
David Hajdu and John Carey
Bob Dylan’s iconic 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of the song, considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan’s work. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20593-1 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20592-4 May 2022 184 pages
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Foreword by Michele Wallace
Bert Williams—a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay—an entertainer with the signature song “I Don’t Care” who flouted the rules of propriety to redefine womanhood for the modern age. Julian Eltinge—a female impersonator who entranced and unnerved audiences by embodying the feminine ideal Tanguay rejected. A Revolution in Three Acts explores how these vaudeville stars changed how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to be Black, to be a woman or a man. $19.95 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-19182-1 2021 176 pages
Information
Information Keywords
A Reader
Edited by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel
Edited by Eric Hayot, Anatoly Detwyler, Lea Pao
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Bringing together essays by prominent critics and scholars, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range of theoretical, historical, and global perspectives.
2021 384 pages
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Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the “information age” or expand upon it. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18621-6
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A New Culture of Energy
The Italian Invert
A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola
Beyond East and West Luce Irigaray
Edited by Michael Rosenfeld with William A. Peniston
Translated by Stephen Seely and the author, with Stephen Pluháĉek and Antonia Pont
Translated by Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston
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Luce Irigaray reflects on three critical concerns of our time: the cultivation of energy in its many forms, the integration of Asian and Western traditions, and the reenvisioning of religious figures for the contemporary world. A philosopher as well as a psychoanalyst, Irigaray draws deeply on her personal experience in addressing these questions.
May 2022 256 pages
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In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: in a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. This is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20489-7
2021 128 pages
Earthlings
Posthumanism in Art and Science
Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World
A Reader
Adrian Parr
Edited by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-20549-8
Posthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring a diverse sampling of major thinkers as well as acclaimed artists and curators. Their provocative and compelling works speak to the ongoing conceptual and political challenge of posthuman theories in a time of cultural and environmental crises.
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May 2022 224 pages 19 illus.
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2021 384 pages 25 illus.
Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Adrian Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival. Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it.
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Self-Improvement
Taste
Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A Book of Small Bites Jehanne Dubrow
Mark Coeckelbergh
Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses. Structured as a series of “small bites,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world. Through flavorful explorations of the sweet, the sour, the salty, the bitter, and umami, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste.
August 2022 144 pages
We are obsessed with self-improvement; it’s a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. This book shows how selfimprovement culture became so toxic. Mark Coeckelbergh delves into the history of the ideas that shaped this culture, critically analyzes the role of technology, and explores surprising paths out of the self-improvement trap.
NO LIMITS
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NO LIMITS
A Partial Enlightenment
Subaltern Social Groups
Avram Alpert
Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green
A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 Antonio Gramsci
What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection
Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.
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This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.
2021 264 pages
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EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
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Faces of Crisis in 20thand 21st-Century Prose
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change
An Anthology of Criticism
Edited by Katarzyna Biela, Aleksandra Kamińska, Alicja Lasak, Kinga Latała, and Sabina Sosin
Jason Miller
Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art is found in the reflexive self-awareness that it enables. The significance of art in modern life is that it shows us both the particular element in humanity as well as the human element in particularity. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20143-8
This book offers innovative readings of the motif of crisis as explored by twentieth- and twentyfirst-century novelists, spanning personal and identity crisis, interpersonal relationships and family ties, and threats on a global scale. $45.00 / £35.00 paper 978-83-233-4881-8 2021 168 pages
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
“There It Is”
21st Century Retro
Narratives of the Vietnam War
Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television
Tom Burns
Debarchana Baruah
$98.00 paper 978-3-8382-1561-7
Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies toward history’s nonevents and antiheroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a new vocabulary to discuss these works, using Mad Men as her primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples.
2021 686 pages
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5721-0
IBIDEM PRESS
2021 246 pages
This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. It discusses a far greater number and variety of works than is typical of previous studies of Vietnam literature.
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Aftermath
Strindberg and the Western Canon
The Fall and the Rise After the Event
Edited by Jan Balbierz
Edited by Robert Kusek, Beata Piątek, and Wojciech Szymański
This volume’s twenty-three essays by international scholars revisit the notion and representation of aftermath, understood here as a consequence, result, or aftereffect of a seminal event (to an individual, a community, society, regions, or nations), and explore its transformative and life-changing characteristics.
During the whole of his writing career, August Strindberg was a restless canon maker. This volume gathers contributions from renowned Strindberg scholars to discuss questions such as: How did Strindberg construct his predecessors, and to which traditions did he link himself ?
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2021 450 pages 6 illus.
2021 350 pages 15 illus.
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Comparing Literatures
Comparative Practices
Aspects, Method, and Orientation
Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Alison Boulanger and Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian
Edited by Nadine BöhmSchnitker and Marcus Hartner
During periods of globalization and encounters as well as clashes between cultures, the place of literature within society is often questioned. From the reception studies of the 1970s and 1980s to the stress laid on intermedial and intercultural relations, this question opens up a wide field of research.
The contributors to this volume investigate the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation and considers how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1428-3
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5799-9
March 2022 160 pages 6 illus.
2021 220 pages
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Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy
Fascist Mythologies
The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt
Essays in Literature, Philosophy, and Cultural Politics
Federico Finchelstein
Gregory Maertz
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics.
In these nine related essays, Gregory Maertz investigates the expression of romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to modernism. Other essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America.
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2021 180 pages
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June 2022 208 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1591-4
Popular Literature
Entanglements
Texts, Contexts, Contestations
Envisioning World Literature from the Global South
Edited by Rupayan Mukherjee and Jaydip Sarkar
Edited by Andrea Gremels, Maren Scheurer, Frank Schulze-Engler, and Jarula M.I. Wegner
This book challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of “entanglements”: as a field of crisscrossing relations of literary activity beyond the confines of literary canons, cultural containers, or national borders. $42.00 paper 978-3-8382-1593-8 May 2022 240 pages 1 illus.
This volume offers a selection of critical essays on texts that can be broadly categorized as popular literature. In addition to critical readings of popular texts such as The Jungle Book and The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book considers populist tendencies in literary classics like Jane Eyre and Frankenstein. $48.00 paper 978-3-8382-1666-9
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April 2022 300 pages
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Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women’s Visionary Writings
Powerful Prose
How Textual Features Impact Readers
Edited by R. L. Victoria Pöhls and Mariane Utudji
Deborah Frick
What makes a reading experience “powerful”? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to theorize this widely used notion, providing new insights into the mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features.
In the medieval and early modern eras, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas. Deborah Frick analyzes medieval writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley.
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2021 264 pages 6 illus.
2021 156 pages
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Beckett and the Irish Protestant Imagination
Transdisciplinary Beckett
Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process
Feargal Whelan
Lucy Jeffery
Detailed analysis of works drawn from all genres and from all periods of Beckett’s oeuvre trace his engagement with Ireland and the impact of the country, its culture, and its landscape on his writing, from the direct social commentaries of the early prose to the haunted persistence of its memories in the later work.
This is the first book to analyze Beckett’s use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett’s complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1123-7
$70.00 paper 978-3-8382-1584-6
December 2022 302 pages 2 illus.
February 2022 340 pages 24 illus.
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Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives
London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst
Edited by Monika Coghen and Anna Paluchowska-Messing
Júlia Braga Neves
Júlia Braga Neves shows how queer spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and within London’s sexual geographies. She reflects on queer historiography and the relationship between subject and urban space.
Contributors to this book examine romantic writers’ responses to their contemporaries and explore their dialogues with the culture of the past and their interactions across the arts and sciences. They also scrutinize the romantics’ far-reaching influence, linking them with their predecessors and successors across Europe and America.
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2021 310 pages 13 illus.
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The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age
Sasha Sokolov
The Life and Work of the Russian “Proet”
A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning
Martina Napolitano
José Calvo Tello
This interdisciplinary digital humanities study analyzes a corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the Silver Age (1880–1939), including authors such as Baroja, Pardo Bazán, and Valle-Inclán. José Calvo Tello’s key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.
Martina Napolitano explores the poetics of one of the most significant Russian authors of the twentieth century, Sasha Sokolov, whose legacy can be traced in most prose and poetry appearing in post-Soviet Russia. From a close reading of Sokolov’s works, she teases out Sokolov’s theory of literary creation.
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Black Travel Writing
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Volume One: Literature
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Isabel Kalous
Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical travel narratives by African American and Black British authors published from the 1990s to 2010s. She outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of transnational Black travel writing. Authors discussed include Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.
This volume presents a selection of papers delivered at the fourteenth International Conference on English and American Literature and Language, an international event organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The articles in the first volume revolve around the topics of literary and cultural studies.
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The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld
The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself
Naghmeh Varghaiyan
In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan shows how humorous female discourse subverts stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. She reveals how women’s humor in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence enables female characters to survive in a patriarchal culture.
Biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of “do-it-yourself.” Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.
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2021 220 pages
2021 314 pages
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Hamideh Mahdiani
Edited by Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre
This essay collection is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theories, methods, and ideas.
Today, “resilience” is among the most repeated buzzwords. Hamideh Mahdiani challenges a reductionistic understanding by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an ageold concept and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience.
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2021 270 pages
2021 300 pages 4 illus.
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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Englishness Revisited
Sophie Spieler
Karolina Kolenda
Contemporary Literary Representations of English National and Cultural Identity
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
2021 276 pages
This book discusses selected works of literature written in Great Britain in the final decades of the twentieth century in the context of contemporary debates on English national and cultural identity. It investigates how Peter Ackroyd, Julian Barnes, and Adam Thorpe address the issue of Englishness and how they revisit its traditional formulations.
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2021 216 pages
Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. $55.00 paper 978-3-837657296
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Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination ventures into the realms of genre literature to explore its rendering of locations and spaces. It brings a varied theoretical framework to the exploration of genres such as crime fiction, the spy novel, the academic mystery, crime comics, and crime film. $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-83-233-4980-8
This book is a collection of essays by students from nine European universities, who took part in a strategic partnership aiming to promote historical understanding of the crises plaguing Europe and the world today. They examine early modern theater, the works of Shakespeare in particular, and consider how it speaks to local and global issues.
February 2022 118 pages
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Joseph Conrad and Ethics
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Dora Komnenović
Joseph Conrad’s ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet it has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is fully devoted to ethics in Conrad’s fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad’s ethical reflection that challenges and extends current discussions.
When postcommunist libraries discarded a large number of books, was it a “bibliocide”—as it was labelled by some media in Croatia? This book offers an innovative and original interpretation of postsocialist transition and post-Yugoslav memory.
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Internationalist Aesthetics
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Edward Tyerman
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Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community.
Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application together with reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate.
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2021 480 pages 46 illus.
The Promise and Peril of Things
Made in Censorship
The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film
Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China
Thomas Chen
Wai-yee Li
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Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen examines the surprisingly rich corpus of Tiananmen literature and film produced in mainland China since 1989, contending that censorship does not simply forbid—it also shapes what is created.
April 2022 360 pages
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Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20103-2
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How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese
How to Read Chinese Prose A Guided Anthology
A Course in Classical Chinese
Edited by Zong-qi Cai
Jie Cui, Liu Yucai, and Zong-qi Cai
This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of traditional Chinese prose.
This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chineselanguage learners.
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2022 416 pages
HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE
HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE
The Substance of Fiction
Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775 Sophie Volpp
The Culture of Language in Ming China
Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge Nathan Vedal
Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality themselves, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality.
The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century.
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March 2022 320 pages 19 illus.
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Looking Back at Hong Kong
Transmutations of Desire
Edited by Nicolette Wong
Qiancheng Li
Literature and Religion in Late Imperial China
An Anthology of Writing and Art
Amid the reshaping of Hong Kong’s social, cultural, political, and ideological landscape, how do we reenvisage a city that exists in our memories? This collection of prose, poetry, and photography by eighteen writers and artists gathers reflections on the profound changes and subtle transitions that have transpired in Hong Kong.
Qiancheng Li examines the nuances of the trend toward love occupying center stage in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on readings of literary texts, including important Ming- and Qing-dynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts, and other religious and philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power.
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2022 156 pages 15 illus.
2021 310 pages
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Literary Information in China
Creative Lives
Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers
A History
Edited by Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk
Edited by Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose
Twelve acclaimed writers from the tradition of South Asian diasporic writing are interviewed by experts in the field about their political, thematic, and personal concerns as well as their working methods and the publishing scene. The book also includes an authoritative introduction to the field and essays on each writer and interviewer. $34.00 paper 978-3-8382-1544-0 2021 260 pages 14 illus.
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“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital age. Leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment. $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19552-2 2021 672 pages 24 illus.
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The Backstreets
Longing and Other Stories
A Novel from Xinjiang Perhat Tursun
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous
Translated by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. Perhat Tursun follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the capital of Xinjiang. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20291-6 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20290-9 September 2022 208 pages
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20215-2 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-120214-5
2022 160 pages
The Membranes
Faraway
Chi Ta-wei
Lo Yi-Chin
A Novel
Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
A Novel
Translated by Jeremy Tiang
$17.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19571-3
In the Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin’s Faraway, a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his comatose father home. Lo offers a deft portrayal of the rift between China and Taiwan through an intimate view of a father-son relationship that bridges this divide.
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2021 168 pages
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2021 328 pages
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies—into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding.
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Suncranes and Other Stories
The Fragrant Companions
Translated by Simon Wickhamsmith
Li Yu
Modern Mongolian Short Fiction
A Play About Love Between Women Translated by Stephen Roddy and Ying Wang
Suncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices from Mongolia’s modern literary traditions. Spanning the years following the socialist revolution of 1921 through the early twenty-first century, these stories offer vivid portraits of nomads, revolution, and the endless steppe. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19677-2 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19676-5
The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. It is at once an unconventional romantic comedy, a barbed satire, and a sympathetic portrayal of love between women. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20629-7 $120.00 /£94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20628-0 July 2022 256 pages
2021 296 pages
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
Samak the Ayyar
A Tale of Ancient Persia Translated by Freydoon Rassouli
Dung Kai-cheung
Adapted by Jordan Mechner
The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran. Translated from the original Persian by Freydoon Rassouli and adapted by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, this timeless masterwork can now be enjoyed by Englishspeaking readers.
Translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson
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Dung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of latenineties Hong Kong. It comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. A major work from one of Hong Kong’s most gifted and original writers, Dung’s archaeology of the end of the twentieth century speaks to perennial questions about consumerism, nostalgia, and identity.
2021 464 pages
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June 2022 400 pages
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To the Stars and Other Stories
Homeward from Heaven
Translated by Susanne Fusso
Translated by Bryan Karetnyk
Fyodor Sologub
Boris Poplavsky
This book brings together remarkable short stories by the Russian symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde.
Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirtytwo. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, it recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates.
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Stravaging “Strange”
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Countries That Don’t Exist
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Selected Nonfiction
Translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov
Edited by Jacob Emery and Alexander Spektor
This book presents three tales that encapsulate Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias. It also includes excerpts from his notebooks—aphoristic glimpses of his worldview, moods, humor, and writing methods—and reminiscences of Krzhizhanovsky by his lifelong companion, Anna Bovshek.
Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis Borges for their distinctive blend of metafictional play and philosophical thought experiment.
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The Life Written by Himself
The Symphonies
Translated by Kenneth N. Brostrom
Andrei Bely
Archpriest Avvakum
Translated by Jonathan Stone
Archpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar. $19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19809-7 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19808-0
This book presents Andrei Bely’s four Symphonies—“Dramatic Symphony,” “Northern Symphony,” “The Return,” and “Goblet of Blizzards”—fantastically strange stories and quintessential works of modernist innovation. $24.95 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19909-4 $40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19908-7 2021 512 pages
2021 208 pages 5 illus.
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The Voice Over
The Little Devil and Other Stories
Poems and Essays
Alexei Remizov
Maria Stepanova
Translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Edited by Irina Shevelenko
Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia’s first postSoviet literary generation. The Voice Over brings together two decades of Stepanova’s work, showcasing her range, virtuosity, and creative evolution.
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Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian symbolist movement. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes works from across Remizov’s career encompassing his thematic preoccupations and stylistic experimentation.
May 2021 392 pages
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2021 336 pages
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Atacama
Rebellion’s Daughter
Carmen Rodríguez
Judi Coburn
A Novel
Firmly rooted in true historical developments and covering themes related to class, gender, trauma, and survival, Atacama is the story of two fictional characters of disparate backgrounds but connected by a profound understanding of the other’s emotional predicaments and by their unwavering commitment to social justice.
In this historical fiction, spirited young Eunice escapes inequity and, dressing as a boy, joins a rebellion against the elite-ruled government. $22.00 paper 978-1-77363-485-2 2021 272 pages
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Quaternity
A Loss
Maria Rybakova
Olesya Khromeychuk
Four Novellas from the Carpathians
The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister
This book presents four thematically linked novellas that focus on obsessive relationships, stolen identities, and illusions of grandeur in the post-1989 Carpathian-Balkan region. $22.00 paper 978-3-8382-1586-0 2021 200 pages
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This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline in 2017. Olesya Khromeychuk takes the point of view of a civilian and a woman, perspectives that tend to be neglected in war narratives, and focuses on stories that play out far from the war zone. $22.00 paper 978-3-8382-1570-9 2021 140 pages 6 illus.
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Second Time Around
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication
From Art House to DVD D. A. Miller
Siegfried Kracauer Edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch, and John Abromeit
This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period. $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-15896-1
The films that D. A. Miller discovered in the 1960s and ’70s are now at his fingertips with DVDs and streaming media. In Second Time Around, Miller watches digitally restored films by directors from Mizoguchi to Pasolini and from Hitchcock to Honda, looking to find not only what he first saw in them but also what he was kept from seeing.
March 2022 464 pages
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
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2021 264 pages 117 film stills
Horror Film and Otherness
Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures
Adam Lowenstein
Film and History in the Postcolony
Rochona Majumdar
Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the category of the other is not fixed. Instead, the genre captures ongoing metamorphoses across “normal” self and “monstrous” other. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20577-1
Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it anticipated some of the most influential insights of postcolonial thought. She analyzes the films of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak as well as a host of film society publications.
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July 2022 288 pages
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2021 320 pages 35 film stills
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Inventing Tomorrow
At the Mercy of Their Clothes
H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture
Sarah Cole
Celia Marshik
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19313-9
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17505-0
2021 392 pages
2021 264 pages 24 illus.
MODERNIST LATITUDES
My Brilliant Friends
The Digital Banal
Our Lives in Feminism
New Media and American Literature and Culture
Nancy K. Miller
Zara Dinnen
$19.95. / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19055-8 2021 232 pages.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-184298
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The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China
2021 240 pages 10 illus.
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Make It the Same Poetry in the Age of Global Media
From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
Jacob Edmond
Ling Hon Lam
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18795-4 2021 360 pages
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19003-9 March 2022 360 pages 34 illus.
A Light in Dark Times
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The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile Judith Friedlander $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18019-1 January 2022 496 pages
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