Michael P. Kramer & Hana Wirth-Nesher 
Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature 

This book presents a range of analytical responses towards 9/11 through a critical review of literary, non-literary and cultural representations. The contributors examine the ways in which this event …

Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole …

Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer”s …

Plato”s philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre. Plato borrows from, as well as rejects, earlier and contemporary authors, and he is constantly in conversation with …

More than 700 ”utopian” novels are published in Russia every year. These utopias – meaning here fantasy fiction, science fiction, space operas or alternative history – do not set out merely to …

Applying the latest narratological theory and focusing on the use of anachrony (or ”chronological deviation”), this book explores how Statius competes – successfully – for a place within an …

First published in 1998. This collection of original essays identifies and analyzes 19th-century women”s theological thought in all its diversity, demonstrating the ways that women revised, subverte …

The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume …

This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy. The essays reflect on the thought of Nietzsche, Hei …

Edith Ayrton Zangwill”s 1924 novel The Call is widely regarded as one of the most important suffrage novels of the early 20th century. Including authoritative notes and commentary throughout, this …