By Tania Chakravertty
July 10, 2024
This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright’s deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions. The book analyses Williams’s wonderful play with the sense of time and shows ...
By Inge van de Ven, Lucie Chateau
July 02, 2024
In our information age, deciding what sources and voices to trust is a pressing matter. There seems to be a surplus of both trust and distrust in and on platforms, both of which often amount to having your mindset remain the same. Can we move beyond this dichotomy, towards new forms of ...
By Jillian Loise Melchor
June 14, 2024
The first comprehensive review of all extant ‘Italian’ chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes ‘Filipino’ Otherness with the unique condition of ‘Italian’ ambivalence and alterity within Europe. This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an ...
By Abhisek Ghosal
June 11, 2024
Emerging concerns and contexts of geological thinking seek to bring out how energopolitical interventions into the geokinetic ‘unfolding’ of the Earth assume new dimensions and directions, owing to the complex and evolving intersections between ‘folds’ and ‘fluxes’ of energy in the context of ...
By Johannes D. Kaminski
June 10, 2024
This book considers the contemporary political formula of the “Chinese Dream” in the light of the treatment of dreams in Chinese literary history since antiquity. Sinic literary and philosophical texts document an extensive spectrum of dream possibilities: starting with Zhuangzi’s eminent butterfly...
By Nandita Dinesh
May 28, 2024
In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are hosting heated debates about what it means for authors to write about experiences outside their own. This book focuses on writing as the act of witnessing when the writers themselves ...
By Iman Al-Attar
May 27, 2024
The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi scholars provides insights from inside, ...
By Charles F. Altieri
May 27, 2024
In today’s classrooms, educators specializing in literature and the arts have found themselves facing an escalating crisis. Most obviously, they encounter serious budget cuts, largely because students tend in increasing numbers to prefer majoring in disciplines that provide clear, practical ...
By Harold Schweizer
May 27, 2024
This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the ...
By Shawn Smith
May 27, 2024
This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word "pity" contained a broader range of meaning ...
By Philip Goldfarb Styrt
May 27, 2024
Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America. It looks at American politics through the lens of Shakespeare, not simply equating figures in the contemporary world to Shakespearean characters, ...
By Brian Russell Graham
May 27, 2024
Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blake’s epic poem Milton. With the ...