Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
The Poetics of Appropriation
The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
The poets of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126) were writing after what was then and still is acknowledged to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, the Tang dynasty (618-907). This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals...
Sound and Sight
Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483-493)
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
This is the first book to examine Chinese poetry and courtier culture using the concept of shengse—sound and sight—which connotes "sensual pleasure." Under the moral and political imperative to avoid or even eliminate representations of sense perception, premodern Chinese commentators...
On Making Sense
Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960s novel Another Country to Margaret Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy,...
Karman
A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their...
On Uneven Ground
Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of this neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa...
by Haiyan Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There has been a pervasive sense of moral...
Becoming Modern Women
Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love and female identity, Becoming Modern Women focuses...
Politics of Deconstruction
A New Introduction to Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The book offers a new introduction to Jacques Derrida and to Deconstruction as an important strand of Continental Philosophy. From his early writings on phenomenology and linguistics to his later meditations on war, terrorism, and justice, Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) achieved prominence on an international...
Human Rights as a Way of Life
On Bergson's Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially...
Deleuzian Concepts
Philosophy, Colonization, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments of the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. They situate his thought in the contemporary intellectual landscape by comparing him with contemporaries such as Derrida, Rorty, and Rawls and show how elements of his philosophy...
The Problem with Grace
Reconfiguring Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction. With his bold suggestion that political philosophy must begin with political theology, Vincent Lloyd investigates a series of religious concepts such as love, faith, liturgy, and...
Refugees of the Revolution
Experiences of Palestinian Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees...
Burying the Beloved
Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism...
Mandatory Separation
Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change? This question, so central to contemporary conversations about religion and extremism, has generated varied responses over the last century. Taking Jewish and Islamic education as its objects of inquiry,...