Cornell University Press: 1150 books
by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special...
Russia on the Edge
Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical...
by Christopher Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work...
Welcome to the Suck
Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier’s...
Bureau of Missing Persons
Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whose fathers have led secret lives. Some of the fathers had second families; some had secret religious lives; others have been criminals, liars, or con men....
Literary Transcendentalism
Style and Vision in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms...
On Deconstruction
Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation...
The Senses of Humor
Self and Laughter in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history...
by Robert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect...
The Gumilev Mystique
Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia’s greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen...
Race, Rights, and Recognition
Jewish American Literature since 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-based...
Fictions of Authority
Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining...
Borderwork
Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of...
The Other Side of the Story
Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists—notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood—attempt innovations in narrative form that are more radical in their implications than the dominant modes of fictional experimentation characterized...