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Revolutions in Verse
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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.
Negative Life
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:...
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form
Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature
The Necessary Past
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future
Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism
Exposes German Romanticism’s entanglements of aesthetic philosophy with racialized models of humanity
The Unwritten Enlightenment
Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature
Theater of Capital
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.
Disoriented Disciplines
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.
Dwelling in Fiction
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.
Archival Afterlives
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.

Revolutions in Verse
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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.
Negative Life
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:...
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form
Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature
The Necessary Past
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future
Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism
Exposes German Romanticism’s entanglements of aesthetic philosophy with racialized models of humanity
The Unwritten Enlightenment
Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature
Theater of Capital
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.
Disoriented Disciplines
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.
Dwelling in Fiction
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.
Archival Afterlives
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.