Through a wide-ranging study of literature, art, and philosophy, Daniel Cottom explains why ours is an unhuman culture and how this culture still gives us reason for hope.
Die Postmoderne ist zu Ende! Seit drei Dekaden hallt diese Diagnose durch den geisteswissenschaftlichen Diskursraum. Doch was kommt jetzt? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes schlagen kein neues Epochenkonzept vor, sondern widmen sich den Phänomenen Postironie, Pop III, Heimat und Po…
Disaffected examines the effects of anti-sedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124A, a law that used the term "disaf…
Disaffected examines the effects of anti-sedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124A, a law that used the term "disaf…
The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writingThe Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist. Winner of the Man Booker Internation…
The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writingThe Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist. Winner of the Man Booker Internation…
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem capture worldwide attention in various media outlets. The continuing q…
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time.…
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time.…
The first overview of later medieval English monasticism for a generation, Monasticism in late medieval England, c.1300-1535 provides the first collection of translated sources on this subject. The volume covers both male and female houses of all orders and sizes, and offers a r…
?It is strange,? Proust wrote in 1909,?that, in the most widely different departments ... there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American.? In the spirit of Proust?s admission, this engaging and critical volume offers …
