Bucknell University Press imprint: 206 books
A Slant of Light
Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting...
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Duvakin Interviews, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2019
Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor Duvakin, Mayakovsky scholar, fellow academic,...
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...
Antigone's Ghosts
The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Sophocles' play Antigone is a starting point for understanding the perpetual problems of human societies, families, and individuals, who are caught up in the terrible aftermath of mass violence. What is one to do after the killing has stopped? What can be done to prevent a round of new violence? The...
Beyond Human
Vital Materialisms in the Andean Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
In the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have been central to the organization of knowledge since precolonial times. The legacies of colonialism and the continuance of indigenous cultures makes the...
Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory
Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880...
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 24)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications...
Community and Solitude
New Essays on Johnson’s Circle
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that
explores relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances...
by Frieda Ekotto, Corine Tachtiris, Lindsey Green-Simms
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Don’t Whisper Too Much was the first work of fiction by an African writer to present love stories between African women in a positive light. Bona Mbella is the second. In presenting the emotional and romantic lives of gay, African women, Ekotto comments upon larger issues that affect these women,...
Novel Bodies
Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. In imagining the lived...
by Kostas Myrsiades
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers....
In Pursuit of Poem Shadows
Pureza Cantelo's Second Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Born in the small Extremaduran town of Moraleja in 1946, Spanish poet Pureza Canelo, at the age of twenty-five, published her first collections of poetry, Celda verde and Lugar comon (winner of the 1970 Adonais Prize). By 1979, she had settled upon an understanding of her own aesthetic evolvement,...
Transmedia Creatures
Frankenstein’s Afterlives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative...
Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century
"By Succession of Delight"
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
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Poet, essayist, actor, hymn-writer, wit, magazine editor, transvestite stage performer: Christopher Smart, Georgian don-turned-writer, was all of these. He was, and remains, a mercurial individual, an idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar writer of spiritual heights and material...