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David Kurnick
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
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
REREADINGS
Antagonistic Cooperation
Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture 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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18919-4 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-18918-7 2021 256 pages
LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF LECTURES
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language
Julia Kristeva Translated by Jody Gladding Foreword by Rowan Williams
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.
$20.00 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20332-6 2021 112 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
A Face Drawn in Sand
Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present Rey Chow Cities of the Dead
Circum-Atlantic Performance, twenty-fifth anniversary edition Joseph Roach
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 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
Worlds Woven Together
Essays on Poetry and Poetics 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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20275-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20274-9 July 2022 280 pages
LITERATURE NOW
Free Indirect
The Novel in a Postfictional Age Timothy Bewes
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.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19297-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19160-9 July 2022 320 pages
LITERATURE NOW
Literature in Motion
Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas 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.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20303-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20302-9 January 2022 272 pages
LITERATURE NOW
The Gentrification Plot
New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel Thomas Heise
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20019-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20018-9 2021 312 pages
LITERATURE NOW
The Racial Unfamiliar
Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture John Brooks
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20503-0 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20502-3 August 2022 312 pages
LITERATURE NOW
Poetics of Liveliness
Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds Ada Smailbegović
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 work of Gertrude Stein, Christian BÖk, Jen Bervin, Lisa Robertson, and other poets.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19827-1 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19826-4 2021 360 pages
1960
When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern 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 Claude McKay
The Making of a Black Bolshevik Winston James
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
B-Side Books
Essays on Forgotten Favorites Edited by John Plotz
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.
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20057-8 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-20056-1 2021 224 pages
PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES
Speculation
A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI Gayle Rogers
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.
$30.00 /£25.00 paper 978-0-231-20021-9 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20020-2 2021 288 pages Finding Ferrante
Authorship and the Politics of World Literature Alessia Ricciardi
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20041-7 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20040-0 2021 256 pages
Medical Storyworlds
Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Elena Fratto
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20233-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20232-9 2021 272 pages
Hard Rain
Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History Alessandro Portelli
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
THE COLUMBIA ORAL HISTORY SERIES
A Revolution in Three Acts
The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge David Hajdu and John Carey 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.
Information
A Reader Edited by Eric Hayot, Anatoly Detwyler, Lea Pao
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 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-18620-9 2021 384 pages $19.95 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-19182-1 2021 176 pages
Information
Keywords Edited by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel
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.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19877-6 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-19876-9 2021 232 pages
The Italian Invert
A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola Edited by Michael Rosenfeld with William A. Peniston Translated by Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston
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 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20488-0 May 2022 256 pages A New Culture of Energy
Beyond East and West Luce Irigaray Translated by Stephen Seely and the author, with Stephen Pluháĉek and Antonia Pont
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.
$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17713-9 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-17712-2 2021 128 pages
Earthlings
Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World Adrian Parr
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.
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-20549-8 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-20548-1 May 2022 224 pages 19 illus. Posthumanism in Art and Science
A Reader Edited by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19667-3 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19666-6 2021 384 pages 25 illus.
Taste
A Book of Small Bites Jehanne Dubrow
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.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20175-9 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20174-2 August 2022 144 pages
NO LIMITS
A Partial Enlightenment
What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection Avram Alpert
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20003-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20002-8 2021 264 pages Self-Improvement
Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Mark Coeckelbergh
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.
$19.95/ / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20655-6 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20654-9 July 2022 176 pages
NO LIMITS
Subaltern Social Groups
A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 Antonio Gramsci Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green
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.
$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19039-8 $140.00 / 115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19038-1 2021 288 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change
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 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20142-1 2021 288 pages 7 illus.
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Narratives of the Vietnam War Tom Burns
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.
$98.00 paper 978-3-8382-1561-7 2021 686 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st-Century Prose
An Anthology of Criticism Edited by Katarzyna Biela, Aleksandra Kamińska, Alicja Lasak, Kinga Latała, and Sabina Sosin
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
21st Century Retro
Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television Debarchana Baruah
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.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5721-0 2021 246 pages
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Aftermath
The Fall and the Rise After the Event 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.
$55.00 / £44.00 paper 978-83-233-4718-7 2021 350 pages 15 illus.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Strindberg and the Western Canon
Edited by Jan Balbierz
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?
$60.00 / £48.00 paper 978-83-233-4779-8 2021 450 pages 6 illus.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Comparing Literatures
Aspects, Method, and Orientation Edited by Alison Boulanger and Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian
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.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1428-3 March 2022 160 pages 6 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
Comparative Practices
Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Nadine BöhmSchnitker and Marcus Hartner
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.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5799-9 2021 220 pages
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Fascist Mythologies
The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt Federico Finchelstein
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.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18321-5 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-18320-8 June 2022 208 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Entanglements
Envisioning World Literature from the Global South 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.
IBIDEM PRESS
Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy
Essays in Literature, Philosophy, and Cultural Politics Gregory Maertz
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.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1591-4 2021 180 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Popular Literature
Texts, Contexts, Contestations Edited by Rupayan Mukherjee and Jaydip Sarkar
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 April 2022 300 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Powerful Prose
How Textual Features Impact Readers Edited by R. L. Victoria Pöhls and Mariane Utudji
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.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5880-4 2021 264 pages 6 illus.
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Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women’s Visionary Writings
Deborah Frick
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.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-5689-3 2021 156 pages
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Beckett and the Irish Protestant Imagination
Feargal Whelan
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.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1123-7 December 2022 302 pages 2 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
Transdisciplinary Beckett
Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process Lucy Jeffery
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.
$70.00 paper 978-3-8382-1584-6 February 2022 340 pages 24 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst
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.
$75.00 paper 978-3-8376-5734-0 April 2022 300 pages
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Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives
Edited by Monika Coghen and Anna Paluchowska-Messing
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.
$55.00 / £44.00 paper 978-83-233-4920-4 2021 310 pages 13 illus.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age
A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning 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.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-5925-2 2021 470 pages 123 illus.
BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sasha Sokolov
The Life and Work of the Russian “Proet” Martina Napolitano
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.
$30.00 paper 978-3-8382-1619-5 March 2022 162 pages 4 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
Black Travel Writing
Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors 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.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5953-5 January 2022 274 pages
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New Perspectives in English and American Studies
Volume One: Literature Edited by Michał Choiński and Małgorzata Cierpisz
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.
$60.00 / £48.00 paper 978-83-233-4685-2 2021 482 pages
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction
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.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8382-1503-7 2021 220 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld
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.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-6004-3 2021 314 pages
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Culture²
Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1 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.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5787-6 2021 300 pages 4 illus.
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Resilience Stories
Individualized Tales of a Metanarrative Hamideh Mahdiani
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.
$75.00 paper 978-3-837658361 2021 270 pages
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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse Sophie Spieler
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 2021 276 pages
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Englishness Revisited
Contemporary Literary Representations of English National and Cultural Identity Karolina Kolenda
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.
$50.00 / £40.00 paper 978-83-233-4604-3 2021 216 pages
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination
Edited by Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck
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 February 2022 118 pages
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reading the Past, Understanding the Present
Edited by Agnieszka Orszulak and Agnieszka Romanowska
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.
$45.00 / £35.00 paper 978-83-233-5001-9 May 2022 200 pages
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Joseph Conrad and Ethics
Edited by Amar Acheraïou and Laëtitia Crémona
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.
$60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-83-227-9457-9 2021 329 pages
MARIA CURIE-SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reading Between the Lines
Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformations in (Post-) Yugoslavia Dora Komnenović
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.
$42.00 paper 978-3-8382-1643-0 April 2022 220 pages 13 illus.
