LITERARY CRITICISM

This book shows how the early Soviet proliferation of interartistic modernist experiments and the emergence of new media technologies made poetry visible as a medium in its own right, taking seriously literature's transformative potential as a means of knowing and understanding the social world. 

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:...

Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature

Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future

Exposes German Romanticism’s entanglements of aesthetic philosophy with racialized models of humanity

Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature

Alisa Zhulina shows how canonical fin-de-siècle playwrights interrogated the meaning of capitalism, staging economic questions as moral and political concerns and challenging contemporary socioeconomic theories within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.

This is a study of the archival formations, theoretical debates, and geopolitical frameworks that constructed an idea of China in Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present.

This study offers new insights into notoriously difficult texts from Latin America and calls attention to a previously unrecognized transnational community of thinkers and writers united by a critical regionalist ethos.

Combining close readings of key texts and previously unexamined ephemera, Laura Hughes traces critical connections between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida across their overlapping archives.