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A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature
Series: FlashPoints
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature engages the poetic on its own terms, allowing poetic texts to dictate the search for meaning and significance and to expand our imagination of what Maghrebi literature in French was, is, and might become.
Revolutions in Verse
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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.
The Necessary Past
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future
Economies of Praise
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity
Sing by the Burying Ground
Meditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows
Brodsky in English
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
An in-depth study of exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky’s translations of his own Russian poems into “new originals” in English offers a radical reappraisal of these works and of the project of translation itself.
The Bilingual Muse
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
This book of literary criticism analyzes seven Russian poets, including Elizaveta Kul’man, Wassily Kandinsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, and Joseph Brodsky, who translated their own work. The Bilingual Muse contributes to the rapidly growing field of self-translation studies and sheds light on an overlooked chapter of Russian literary history in a transnational context.
How Women Must Write
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Olga Peters Hasty’s How Women Must Write provides an insightful analysis of the emergence of women poets in Russia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of quickly shifting social, political, and cultural conditions.
Yeats's Shakespeare
In Yeats's Shakespeare, the first full-length study of Yeats’s interest in Shakespeare, Rupin W. Desai explores how Shakespearean works influenced Yeats’s poetry and mythological drama....
John Donne's Christian Vocation
John Donne’s poetry is often difficult and perplexing, even more so because it undergoes a shift away from secular topics after he converts and begins to lead a religious life. Robert S. Jackson’s...
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature
Series: FlashPoints
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature engages the poetic on its own terms, allowing poetic texts to dictate the search for meaning and significance and to expand our imagination of what Maghrebi literature in French was, is, and might become.
Revolutions in Verse
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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.
The Necessary Past
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future
Economies of Praise
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity
Sing by the Burying Ground
Meditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows
Brodsky in English
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
An in-depth study of exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky’s translations of his own Russian poems into “new originals” in English offers a radical reappraisal of these works and of the project of translation itself.
The Bilingual Muse
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
This book of literary criticism analyzes seven Russian poets, including Elizaveta Kul’man, Wassily Kandinsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, and Joseph Brodsky, who translated their own work. The Bilingual Muse contributes to the rapidly growing field of self-translation studies and sheds light on an overlooked chapter of Russian literary history in a transnational context.
How Women Must Write
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Olga Peters Hasty’s How Women Must Write provides an insightful analysis of the emergence of women poets in Russia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of quickly shifting social, political, and cultural conditions.
Yeats's Shakespeare
In Yeats's Shakespeare, the first full-length study of Yeats’s interest in Shakespeare, Rupin W. Desai explores how Shakespearean works influenced Yeats’s poetry and mythological drama....
John Donne's Christian Vocation
John Donne’s poetry is often difficult and perplexing, even more so because it undergoes a shift away from secular topics after he converts and begins to lead a religious life. Robert S. Jackson’s...