Literature
The Dybbuk
A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.
Empire of Culture
Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.
Myth and the Making of History
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.
The Serpent's Plumes
Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.
Soundings in Context
Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.
The Recursive Frontier
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.
Through a Nuclear Lens
Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.
Tracking Capital
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
Awakening a Living World on a Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage
Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.
The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics
Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.
Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations
A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.
Resonances against Fascism
Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel
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.
Psychoanalysis
Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.
Masculine Pregnancies
Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.
Damned Agitator
The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.
The Promise of Friendship
Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.
The Radical Isaac
Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.
Romantic Immanence
Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.
Struck by Apollo
Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.
Thresholds, Encounters
Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.
Inrushes of the Heart
A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.
Ecopolitics
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.
Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines and Other Essays
Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.