Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism is a provocative exploration of the cultivation of weak subjectivity in late Soviet fiction as both an aesthetic strategy and an ethical code.
Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form is a study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature that reveals the potential in thinking with and through a position stretched out across, dependent on, and undetachable from the earth.
Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays is a multimedia critical audio collection and performance study that returns us to the music and sound of Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio.
Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism 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.
Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures studies new categories of fiction—including migrant forms, township tales, weekend stories, and digital diaries—to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged southern Africa's changing literary and political terrains.
How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanityNegative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept...
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.
This book is an original contribution to digital humanities (DH), a newly established field rethinking literary critical approaches to reading and writing in light of technological advances. Applegate draws from political theorists to reimagine digital humanities’ intervention into the humanities.
