New Books in Literary Studies

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, “Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation” (Grand Concourse Press, 2015)

2015/8/7

Poetry is far more than crafting verse. Poetry is a way of thought and a way of being. It seeps into

Mrinalini Chakravorty, “In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary” (Columbia UP, 2014)

2015/8/2

In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014) is a ma

Alexander Etkind, “Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied” (Stanford UP, 2013)

2015/7/26

Theoretical and historical accounts of postcatastrophic societies often discuss melancholia and trau

Derek Sayer, “Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History” (Princeton UP 2013)

2015/7/24

Prague, according to Derek Sayer, is the place “in which modernist dreams have time and again unrave

Carlos Rojas, “Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China” (Harvard UP, 2015)

2015/7/8

Carlos Rojas‘s new book is a wonderfully transdisciplinary exploration of discourses of sickness and

Nick Sousanis, “Unflattening” (Harvard UP, 2015)

2015/6/12

Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the rela

Greg Barnhisel, “Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy” (Columbia UP, 2015)

2015/6/2

Greg Barnhisel‘s new book, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (Co

Magda Romanska, “The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor” (Anthem Press, 2014)

2015/6/2

Jerzy Grotowsky and Tadeusz Kantor were influential in avant-garde theater in the West in the 1960s

Paul K. Saint-Amour, “Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/5/6

Paul K. Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is a ruminati

Eva Illouz, “Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)

2015/4/27

Eva Illouz is professor of sociology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and president of the Bezalel

Andrew Cayton, “Love in the Time of Revolution” (UNC Press, 2013)

2015/4/21

Andrew Cayton is a distinguished professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In his bo

Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)

2015/4/6

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Jewish settlement in Palestine and the revival of Hebrew as

Paula T. Connolly, “Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010” (U of Iowa Press, 2013)

2015/3/26

The “peculiar institution” upon which the US nation was founded is still rich for examination.Perhap

Wen Jin, “Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms” (Ohio State University Press, 2012)

2015/3/20

Wen Jin’s book, Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multicultu

Helena Gurfinkel, “Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2014)

2015/3/16

What is a father? In Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy

Mark Dennis and Darren Middleton, eds., “Approaching Silence: New Perspectives on Shusaku Endo’s Classic Novel” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

2015/3/15

What does it mean to be a martyr? What does it mean to be an apostate? How should we understand peop

Robert P. Burns, “Kafka’s Law: ‘The Trial’ and American Criminal Justice” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)

2015/3/13

Professor Robert P. Burns of Northwestern University School of Law offers an insightful critique of

Justin Martin, “Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians” (Da Capo Press, 2014)

2015/3/10

Biography is, both etymologically and in its conventional forms, the writing of a life. But what is

Sarah M. Allen, “Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014)

2015/3/9

Sarah M. Allen‘s new book looks at the literature of tales in eighth- and ninth-century China. Shift

Wilt Idema, “The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun” (Columbia University Press, 2014)

2015/3/4

Wilt Idema‘s new book traces a story and its transformations through hundreds of years of Chinese li

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