A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

A probing, generative analysis of Knausgård’s My Struggle, with implications for our understanding of the novel form more broadly in the twenty-first century.

Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.