Litteraturvetenskap

As a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he …

A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of "e;long modernism."e;In recent decades, Virginia Woolf s contribution to literary history has been located primarily …

Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls "e;the Blue Period."e;In the years …

An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state.The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to …

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry.In My Poetics, Maureen N. McLane writes as a …

Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world.Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as …

An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us.Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that …

A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and …

An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes.Social climbers have often been the core …

A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice-close reading.Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism …