‘Through the Looking Glass’: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali
Aisha Dad
Indeterminate “Greekness”: A Diasporic and Transnational Poetics
Ilana Freedman
Imagined Mothers: The Construction of Italy, Ancient Greece, and Anglo-American Hegemony
Francesca Bellei
The Untimely Avant-Garde: Literature, Politics, and Transculturation in the Sinosphere (1909-2020)
Fangdai Chen
Recovering the Language of Lament: Modernism, Catastrophe, and Exile
Sarah Corrigan
Beyond Diaspora:The Off Home in Jewish Literature from Latin America and Israel
Lana Jaffe Neufeld
Artificial Humanities: A Literary Perspective on Creating and Enhancing Humans from Pygmalion to Cyborgs
Nina Begus
Music and Exile in Twentieth-Century German, Italian, and Polish Literature
Cecily Cai
We Speak Violence: How Narrative Denies the Everyday
Rachael Duarte Riascos
Anticlimax: The Multilingual Novel at the Turn of the 21st Century
Matylda Figlerowicz
Forgetting to Remember: An Approach to Proust’s Recherche
Lara Roizen
The Event of Literature:An Interval in a World of Violence
Petra Taylor
The English Baroque:The Logic of Excess in Early Modern Literature
Hudson Vincent
Porte Planète; Ville Canale –parisian knobs /visually/ turned to \textual\ currents
Emma Zofia Zachurski
‘…not a poet but a poem’: A Lacanian study of the subject of the poem
Marina Connelly
The Tune That Can No Longer Be Recognized: Late Medieval Chinese Poetry and Its Affective Others
Jasmine Hu
The Invention of the Art Film: Authorship and French Cultural Policy
Joseph Pomp
Apocalypticism in the Arabic Novel
William Tamplin
The Sound of Prose: Rhythm, Translation, Orality
Thomas Wisniewski
The New Austerity in Syrian Poetry
Daniel Behar
Mourning the Living: Africa and the Elegy on Screen
Molly Klaisner
Art Beyond the Norms: Art of the Insane, Art Brut, and the Avant-Garde from Prinzhorn to Dubuffet (1922-1949)
Raphael Koenig
Words, Images and the Self: Iconoclasm in Late Medieval English Literature
Yun Ni
Europe and the Cultural Politics of Mediterranean Migrations
Argyro Nicolaou
Voice of Power, Voice of Terror: Lyric, Violence, and the Greek Revolution
Simos Zenios
Every Step a New Movement: Anarchism in the Stalin-Era Literature of the Absurd and its Post-Soviet Adaptations
Ania Aizman
Kino-Eye, Kino-Bayonet: Avant-Garde Documentary in Japan, France, and the USSR
Julia Alekseyeva
Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System
Peli Grietzer
Year of the Titan: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Ancient Poetry
Benjamin Sudarsky
Metropolitan Morning: Loss, Affect, and Metaphysics in Buenos Aires, 1920-1940
Juan Torbidoni
Sophisticated Players: Adults Writing as Children in the Stalin Era and Beyond
Luisa Zaitseva
Collecting as Cultural Technique: Materialistic Interventions into History in 20th Century China
Guangchen Chen
Pathways of Transculturation: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia and Japan (1880-1930)
Xiaolu Ma
Beyond the Formal Law: Making Cases in Roman Controversiae and Tang Literary Judgments
Tony Qian
Alternative Diplomacies: Writing in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai, Istanbul, and Beyond?
Alice Xiang
The Literary Territorialization of Manchuria: Rethinking National and Transnational Literature in East Asia from
the Frontier
Miya Qiong Xie
World Literature and the Chinese Compass, 1942-2012
Yanping Zhang
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