Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History
From Princeton University Press, more information here.
What Proust Said: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk
Michael Lucey offers a linguistic ... anthropological analysis of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses
Published by Stanford University Press; more information can be found here.
Queer Euripides
Mario Telo (Comparative Literature Professor) and Sarah Olsen co-edited this forthcoming book.
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us from tragic suffering, or does the proximity to death tap into something more primal?
Strange Likeness
The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century.
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan
Jean Daive; translated by Rosmarie Waldrop; Intro by Robert Kaufman, Philip Gerard
Acoustic Properties
Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture.
Accidental Orientalists
This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to do against a backdrop of comparative reference to works in English and French that preceded or were contemporary to them.
The Senses of Democracy
Tracing the evolution of “sense work” in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.