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"e;Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger."e; Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world …
The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the …
An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary …
Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal …
Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew writers …
A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining …
This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal …
Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works Lewis Carroll s Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi s …
Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male …
An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard's writings and our time.Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the …