New Books in Literary Studies

2490 Episodes

1. Emily Petermann, “The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction” (Camden House, 2014)

   Published: 4/17/2018
2. Marcel Schmid, “Autopoiesis and Literature: The Short History of an Endless Process” (transcript, 2016)

   Published: 4/12/2018
3. Nick Admussen, “Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry” (U Hawaii Press, 2016)

   Published: 4/11/2018
4. Lana Lin, “Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer” (Fordham UP, 2017)

   Published: 4/3/2018
5. Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

   Published: 4/2/2018
6. Ruth von Bernuth, “How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition” (NYU Press, 2017)

   Published: 4/2/2018
7. Amelia Glaser, “Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising” (Stanford UP, 2015)

   Published: 3/30/2018
8. Mehammed Mack, “Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture” (Fordham UP, 2017)

   Published: 3/29/2018
9. Kerry Wallach, “Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany” (U Michigan Press, 2017)

   Published: 3/29/2018
10. Christopher B. Patterson, “Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

    Published: 3/26/2018
11. Till Nitschmann, “Theater of the Maimed” (Konigshausen and Neumann, 2015)

    Published: 3/23/2018
12. Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

    Published: 3/22/2018
13. Hoda Yousef, “Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930” (Stanford UP,

    Published: 3/20/2018
14. Reiko Ohnuma, “Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/20/2018
15. Robert Darnton, “A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 3/15/2018
16. Sergej Rickenbacher, “Wissen um Stimmung” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015)

    Published: 3/14/2018
17. Marian Wilson Kimber, “The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word” (U Illinois Press, 2017)

    Published: 3/13/2018
18. Didem Havlioglu, “Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History” (Syracuse UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/13/2018
19. Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017)

    Published: 3/12/2018
20. Christine Arce, “Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women” (SUNY Press, 2017)

    Published: 3/9/2018