Argues that the post-independence period was a unique era of literary experimentation in Hindi literature, which must be read in the contexts of both local and global cultural, social, and literary history.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

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

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

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

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.

Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.

Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.

Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.

A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.

Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.

Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.

Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors.