Columbia Press: 2357 books
by Akinari Ueda
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were...
An Imperial Concubine's Tale
Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an...
Gorbachev
On My Country and the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1999
Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place...
Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality
Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique...
Chow Chop Suey
Food and the Chinese American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white...
by Nabil Matar
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2000
During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or...
The End of the Soul
Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct...
Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
An Expanding Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging...
Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the...
Thinking Animals
Why Animal Studies Now?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species...
Pretty
Film and the Decorative Image
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but its opposition to the decorative represents a long-standing Western aesthetic bias against...
by Christopher Prendergast
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political...
But Enough About Me
Why We Read Other People's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters...