Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Uncle Tom
From Martyr to Traitor
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle...
Iranophobia
The Logic of an Israeli Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back from all-too-common...
The Long and Short of It
From Aphorism to Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works—wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questions—Gary Saul Morson argues passionately...
by Dmitri Nikulin
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses and attain thinkable being, to Cusanus, to modern philosophers—Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher...
by Andrew Elfenbein
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends classic reader-response theory and attends to neglected...
What Is a Classic?
Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee...
by Zachary Sng
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical...
Modern Girls on the Go
Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course...
Clio/Anthropos
Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been—a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the methodologies of anthropologists to explain inequalities of power, problems of voicelessness, and conceptions...
Worlds Within
National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Worlds Within tracks the changing forms of novels and nations against a long, postcolonial twentieth century. While globalization has sometimes been understood to supersede national borders, this book distances itself from before-and-after sequences in order to trace the intersection between national...
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...