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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 2022 336 pages
LITERATURE NOW
Turn the World Upside Down
Empire and the Unruly Forms of Black Culture in the U.S. and the Caribbean Imani D. Owens
In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. In Turn the World Upside Down, Imani D. Owens explores how Black writers and performers reimagined folk culture—and Blackness itself—as a site of disruption, ambiguity, and flux. Their works reveal how Black people contribute to the stirrings of modernity while being excluded from its promises.
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20889-5 $130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20888-8 June 2023 256 pages
BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
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Freedom Reread
L. Gibson
In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Wide-ranging and stylistically ambitious, Freedom Reread delivers an assured, artful inquiry into Franzen’s novelistic technique and public persona.
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18893-7 $80.00 /£62.00 cloth 978-0-231-18892-0 February 2023 144 pages
REREADINGS
The Last Samurai Reread
Lee Konstantinou
Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt’s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt’s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a potent social critique.
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18583-7 $60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-18582-0 2022 144 pages
REREADINGS
The Savage Detectives Reread
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 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 2022 224 pages
REREADINGS
Storythinking
The New Science of Narrative Intelligence Angus Fletcher
Drawing on new research in neuroscience and narrative theory, Angus Fletcher explores the nature of imagination, innovation, and creativity. He provides answers to such questions as: How does storythinking work? Why did it evolve? How can it misfire? And what problems can it solve?
$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20693-8 $100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20692-1 June 2023 192 pages
NO LIMITS
Aging Moderns
Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life Scott Herring
What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20545-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20544-3 2022 288 pages
The American Poet Laureate
A History of U.S. Poetry and the State Amy Paeth
Amy Paeth examines the work of American Poet laureates such as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Billy Collins and the development of what became a national poetic voice that emphasized the expressive agency of the individual citizen. She shows how a certain idealized practice of poetry served the aims of midcentury Cold War nationalism and the later project of multicultural, neoliberal identity formation.
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19709-0 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19438-9 May 2023 320 pages Modernism at the Beach
Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons Hannah Freed-Thall
Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall reveals the beach as a surprisingly generative setting for literature and art. Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Modernism at the Beach offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature.
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19709-0 $130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19708-3 March 2023 296 pages
MODERNIST LATITUDES
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 2022 384 pages
On Ovid's Metamorphoses
Gareth Williams
Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself.
$14.95 / £11.99 paper 978-0-231-20071-4 $60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-20070-7 January 2023 192 pages 3 illus.
CORE KNOWLEDGE
The First of a New Genus Susan J. Wolfson
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Wolfson provides fresh perspectives for both first-time readers and those seeking a nuanced appreciation of her achievements.
$14.95 / £11.99 paper 978-0-231-20625-9 $60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-20624-2 April 2023 128 pages
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Death of a Discipline
Twentieth Anniversary Edition Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world literature in translation are being undertaken in the United States, how can we protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. What Is Sexual Difference?
Thinking with Irigaray Edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares
This book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20273-2 $140.00/ £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20272-5 July 2023 464 pages 14 illus.
$20.00 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-207232 $85.00 / £66.00 cloth 978-0-231-20722-5 April 2003 136 pages
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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 from South Asia and 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 2022 280 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 2022 312 pages
LITERATURE NOW
Literature in Motion
Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas Ellen Jones Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
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 2022 272 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
Images of the Present Time
Alain Badiou Translated by Susan Spitzer Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard
Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of “the present.”
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-176064 December 2022 472 pages
THE SEMINARS OF ALAIN BADIOU
Young Foucault
The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 Elisabetta Basso Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough.
Recently discovered manuscripts from the mid1950s, when Michel Foucault was a lecturer at the University of Lille, testify to the significance of the philosopher’s early work. Elisabetta Basso offers a groundbreaking and in-depth analysis of Foucault’s Lille manuscripts that sheds new light on the origins of his philosophical project.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20585-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20584-9 2022 352 pages What World Is This?
A Pandemic Phenomenology Judith Butler
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—have challenged us to reconsider the sense of the world that such disasters bring about. Criticizing notions of unlimited personal liberty and the killing forces of racism, sexism, and classism, this book suggests that the pandemic illuminates the potential of shared vulnerabilities as well as the injustice of pervasive inequalities.
$17.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20829-1 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20828-4 2022 144 pages
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 2022 152 pages
NO LIMITS
The #MeToo Effect
What Happens When We Believe Women Leigh Gilmore
Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.
$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-19420-4 April 2023 256 pages 2 illus.
GENDER AND CULTURE SERIES
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.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-15897-8 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-15896-1 2022 480 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Singular Pasts
The "I" in Historiography Enzo Traverso
Translated by Adam Schoene
Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians who reveal their emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary flavor. They’re also memoirists and creators of literature, not only historians.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20399-9 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20398-2 2022 216 pages
Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet
Ted Striphas
Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled. From Cambridge, England to Cambridge, Massachusetts by way of medieval Baghdad, this book pinpoints the critical junctures at which algorithmic culture began to coalesce in language long before it materialized in the technological wizardry of Silicon Valley.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-15897-8 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20668-6 May 2023 336 pages 11 illus.
Accidental Agents
Ecological Politics Beyond the Human Martin Crowley
Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20403-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20402-6 2022 296 pages
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
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 2022 256 pages Critique of Bored Reason
On the Confinement of the Modern Condition Dmitri Nikulin
Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept’s genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such thinkers as Descartes, Pascal, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kracauer, Heidegger, and Benjamin, Critique of Bored Reason places boredom on center stage in the philosophical critique of modernity.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18907-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18906-4 2022 328 pages
Barbary Captives
An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa Edited by Mario Klarer
In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17525-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-17524-1 2022 416 pages
Perplexing Plots
Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder David Bordwell
David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how popular culture has evolved over the past century.
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20659-4 $130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20658-7 January 2023 512 pages 93 illus.
FILM AND CULTURE 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.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19183-8 2023 176 pages
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
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 2022 184 pages
THE COLUMBIA ORAL HISTORY SERIES
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 2022 240 pages 1 illus.
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 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.
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Writing Facts
Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity Susanne Knaller
The book shows why and how “facts” are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives on “fact” and its impact on modernity.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-6271-9 January 2023 320 pages 15 illus. TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Imaging the Scenes of War
Aesthetic Crossovers in American Visual Culture Christof Decker
In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its consequences.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6202-3 2022 160 pages
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Global Curriculum Development
How to Redesign U.S. Higher Education for the 21st Century Linn Friedrichs
How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects John Dewey’s education theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum-design approaches to propose a new educational model for our age of complexity, crisis, and innovation.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6023-4 2022 260 pages
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Beyond Narrative
Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work Edited by Sebastian M. Herrmann, Katja Kanzler, and Stefan Schubert
An investigation of the borderlands of narrativity — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6130-9 2022 270 pages
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The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms Katja Schulze
Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come into view.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6260-3 2022 300 pages
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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 2022 274 pages
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Putting Age in its Place
Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction Ulla Kriebernegg
Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar Casares, John Mighton, and several others, Ulla Kriebernegg explores how the setting at the nexus of home, hospital, hotel, and prison functions in the newly emerging genre of the care-home novel.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6412-6 May 2023 310 pages 5 illus.
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Culture²
Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 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 2022 300 pages 4 illus.
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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 2022 220 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 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 2022 340 pages 24 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
Ezra Pound's Atlas
Essays on Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Textuality in The Cantos Mark Byron Foreword by Ira B. Nadel
These essays engage with recent developments in such fields as early medieval studies, modernism studies, Chinese and Japanese studies, textual criticism, literature and music, and digital scholarly editing to shed new light on Pound's sources, his scholarly and poetic techniques, and his relevance to contemporary thinking about poetry, editorial methods, and global intellectual history.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1081-0 2022 310 pages
IBIDEM 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 / £50.00 cloth 978-83-227-9457-9 2022 329 pages
MARIA CURIE-SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY 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 2022 300 pages
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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 2022 160 pages 6 illus.
IBIDEM 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 2022 118 pages
JAGIELLONIAN 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 labeled 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 2022 220 pages 13 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
NEW AND FORTHCOMING IN ASIAN LITERARY STUDIES How to Read Chinese Drama
A Guided Anthology Edited by Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas
This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18649-0 $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-186490 2022 480 pages 13 illus.
HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE
How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese
A Language Companion Guo Yingde, Wenbo Chang, Patricia Sieber, and Xiaohui Zhang
This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. A companion to How to Read Chinese Drama designed for Chinese-language learners, it provides a versatile introduction to traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original language.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20957-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-209564 March 2023 208 pages
HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE
How to Read Chinese Prose
A Guided Anthology Edited by 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.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20365-4 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20364-7 2022 440 pages
HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE
How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese
A Course in Classical Chinese Jie Cui, Liu Yucai, and Zong-qi Cai
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 Chinese-language learners.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20293-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20292-3 2022 416 pages
