Beyond Gold and Diamonds
(January 2021)
Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel Melissa Free - Author
Super Schoolmaster
(January 2021)
Ezra Pound as Teacher, Then and Now Robert Scholes - Author David Ben-Merre - Author
DIY on the Lower East Side
(August 2020)
Books, Buildings, and Art after the 1975 Fiscal Crisis Andrew Strombeck - Author
Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.
The severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis resulted in a city falling apart. Broken windows, crumbling walls, and piles of bricks were everywhere. While, for many, this physical decay was a sign that the postwar welfare state had failed, f...(Read More)
Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.
Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of “mythology” from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensively ...(Read More)
Logoi and Muthoi
(June 2019)
Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and Literature William Wians - Editor
Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward prog...(Read More)
Argentina Noir
(March 2019)
New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz - Author
An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.
Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close ...(Read More)
Writing in Witness
(July 2018)
A Holocaust Reader Eric J. Sundquist - Editor
FINALIST- 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections Category, presented by the Jewish Book Council
Silver Winner - 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies category
A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.
Writing in Witness is a broad survey of the most important writing about the...(Read More)
Figures of Time
(February 2018)
Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry David Ben-Merre - Author
Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.
Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of...(Read More)
