Dubreuil explores the power-language phenomenon in the context of European and, particularly, French colonialism and its aftermath.

In this book, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, considering history as both process and representation.

Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries, finding that despite differences of language and culture, death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially.

Elizabeth S. Anker examines human rights in the narrative imagination and, in the process, makes a compelling case for literature as a uniquely valuable point of entry into theoretical discussions of human rights.

Kutzinski shows that translating and being translated (and often mistranslated) are as vital to Hughes's own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism.

In Gilgamesh among Us, Theodore Ziolkowski explores the surprising legacy of the poem and its hero, as well as the epic's continuing influence in modern letters and arts.

Situating the Gesamtkunstwerk at the heart of European modernism.

Recovering Walter Benjamin's connection to seventeenth-century Baroque literature and political theory.

Analyzing contemporary narratives of the secret lives led by writers' fathers.

Wiggins charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across Europe snapped up novels, they domesticated the genre.