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Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa, investigating how they experiment with representations of su…

Walter Benjamin,

On Goethe

On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive…

Daniela Kukrechtová

Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry

Reveals how five modern American poets challenged prevailing discourses about urbanization through lyrical representations of cities and the diverse people who lived in them.In early 20th-century America,…

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

Mandy-Suzanne Wong,

Daughter of Mother-Of-Pearl

Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails' and aquatic invertebrates' uncanny ways of living

Philip Meadows Taylor,

Confessions of a Thug

Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since …

Michèle Willems,

Classicizing Shakespeare

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet and of 5 other Shakespeare tragedies for the French theatre.

Home and the World in Slovak Writing

Home and the World in Slovak Writing brings Slovak literature out of isolation and tells the story of how a nation's literature can survive and thrive despite a small domestic audience and limited circula…

Ilaria Marchesi

Women in Martial

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age and demonstrating the extent…

Madoka Kishi

The Suicidal State

Through mapping the entwinement between the turn-of-the-century nativist discourse, "race suicide," and the frequent representation of suicide in Progressive-Era literature, The Suicidal Stateas…

Carolyn Larrington

The Little Book of Trolls

Trolls have escaped from the black lava wastes of Iceland and the dense pine forests of Scandinavia to take on a new life in the collective global imagination. They may not steal goats and eat people quit…

Danielle A St Hilaire

The Art of Pity

"The late 16th and early 17th centuries in England were a time of substantial anxiety over the value of reading and writing literature. The Art of Pity argues that English early modern literature mad…

Liesl Yamaguchi

On the Colors of Vowels

"A thrilling journey to the edges of the mind--and into the heart and soul of language and literature. Guiding us through famous poems and forgotten treatises with equal ease, Yamaguchi unfolds a pow…

Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff,

War and the Iliad

War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.Si…

Stephen Orgel

The Globe in Print

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Editorial efforts since the first folio of 1623 have attempted to establish a correct, final text of Shakespeare's plays. Yet the text in …

Evelyn Gajowski,

Shakespeare and Presentist Theory

Why do Shakespeare's texts resonate so powerfully for us in the 21st century, 400 years after he wrote and produced them? Why is he more popular today than ever before? Why is that popularity now occurrin…

Rory Loughnane, Will Sharpe

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship

This Handbook explores authorship in Shakespeare studies. The four parts study notions of early modern authorship and Shakespeare's formation as an author; the role of audiences and readers in shaping aut…

Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare

"This companion to contemporary global performances of Shakespeare guides students from critical methodologies through big pictures of global Shakespeare to case studies that employ these methodologi…

Jill Suzanne Smith

The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin

Explores the recent proliferation of cultural representations of Weimar Berlin in the German-speaking world, probing the connections between historical and contemporary texts, their contexts, and their cr…