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Flesh of My Flesh
(July 2021)
Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature
Ilana Szobel - Author
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Material Insurgency
(July 2021)
Towards a Distributed Environmental Politics
Andrew Rose - Author
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Portraits
(June 2021)
The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel
David Patterson - Author
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Explores Elie Wiesel’s portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.
Elie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic tradition. While he is well known for his testimony on the Holocaust and as a messenger ...(Read More) |
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Poetics of Breathing
(May 2021)
Modern Literature's Syncope
Stefanie Heine - Author
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A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.
Breathing and its rhythms—liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous—have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath’s punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, ...(Read More) |
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Premises and Problems
(April 2021)
Essays on World Literature and Cinema
Luiza Franco Moreira - Edited and with an introduction by
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Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.
World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to criti...(Read More) |
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Death Rights
(March 2021)
Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism
Deanna P. Koretsky - Author
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Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.
Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative “genius.” Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literatur...(Read More) |
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Against the Despotism of Fact
(February 2021)
Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt
T.J. Boynton - Author
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First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.
Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J....(Read More) |
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Joan Didion
(February 2021)
Substance and Style
Kathleen M. Vandenberg - Author
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Explores how Didion’s nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.
Much acclaimed and often imitated, Joan Didion remains one of the leading American essayists and political journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The lone woman writer among the New Journalists in the 1960s and ’70s, Didion became a powerful critic ...(Read More) |
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Medicine Is War
(February 2021)
The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture
Lorenzo Servitje - Author
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Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.
Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as “the war against the coronavirus,” “the front lines of the Ebola crisis,” “a new weapon against antibiotic resistance,” or “the im...(Read More) |
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