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Marshall, Emily Zobel. American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit,. Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. 182 pages. Hardcover. $115. In one of the most well-known American trickster tales, Brer Fox sets [...]

V. S. Naipaul's In a Free State (1971), comprising two short stories and a lengthy title novella framed by a prologue and an epilogue which are reshaped entries from Naipaul's [...]

Identity, space, and self-esteem issues are central to everyday existence in a multicultural society that is growing out of its imperial shadows. There have been many endeavors to study such [...]

On Saturday, 13 April 2019, the third annual Thomas Hardy Society Study Day took place in the Town Hall at the Corn Exchange in Dorchester, attended by 115 people from [...]

Milthorpe, Naomi. Evelyn Waugh's Satire: Texts and Contexts. Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2016. 185 pages. Paperback. $42.99. Time rounds off the rough edges of the avant-gardes and transforms them into mainstream [...]

Wolfson, Susan J. Romantic Shades and Shadows. Johns Hopkins UP, 2018. 272 pages. Hardcover. $64.95. Susan J. Wolfson's Romantic Shades and Shadows is, first and foremost, a virtuoso performance of [...]

With Appointment in Samarra (1934), John O'Hara positions himself as the authority on all things automotive in American literature. Drawing on George J. Becker's 'creed' for the realist novel, O'Hara [...]

Scholarship on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin is rich in insights about Stowe's appropriation of revivalist forms and ideas. In Sensational Designs, for example, Jane Tompkins argues that [...]

Most lists of important female contributors to the African literary canon, particularly in French, make mention of Mariama Ba. Examples of such lists include d'Almeida's study on Francophone African Women [...]

'The heart of ethics is the desire for community.' Tobin Siebers The recent shift in critical attention to the transnational circulation of literature has generated debate about the need for [...]

Warwick Research Collective. Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature. Liverpool UP, 2015. 256 pages. Paperback. $34.95. Franco Moretti's 'Conjectures on World Literature' challenged prevailing approaches to [...]

Kirsch, Adam. The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21 (st) Century. Columbia Global Reports, 2017. 120 pages. Paperback. $12.99. Adam Kirsch's recent book, The Global Novel, is a [...]

The question 'what is world literature?' is not a new one, but it is one that has seen considerable debate over the last twenty years. The scholarly discourse around this [...]

In a series of performance events that span Antonin Artaud's career, he locates the performing body as the physical vector of spiritual pathogens that can transform society for good or [...]

The article offers information on the Sixth International Joseph Conrad Conference organized by Professor Wiesław Krajka for scholars in Poland and Ukraine from June 20-27, 2016. Topics discussed include featuring of several papers offering critical approaches to writer Joseph Conrad's work and life, sessions on several topics including Christianity, colonialism and gender and sexuality, and establishment of Holocaust museum established in 1944 to commemorate the concentration camp.

Nicholas Davis, Head of Society and Innovation at the World Economic Forum, recognized in 2015 that we live in the era of the ''Fourth Industrial Revolution': a fundamental shift in [...]

Most post-revisionist critics of The Tempest would have us believe that the American association of the play has been overdone. In advancing their argument, they suggest alternate ways of reading [...]

Morgenstern, Naomi. Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics. U of Minnesota P, 2018. 278 pages. Paperback. $25. Naomi Morgenstern's Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics articulates an ethics [...]

Appearing in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row (1945) and East of Eden (1952) are two memorable Chinese images that always generate conflicting critical comments from scholars. Nearly all the Steinbeck critics [...]

E. M. Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer! April 13-14, 2018 Ludwigsburg, Germany The international conference 'E. M. Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer!' was the third scholarly gathering organized by the International E. [...]

Chapman., Alison A. The Legal Epic: Paradise Lost and the Early Modern Law. U Chicago P, 2017. 291 + xii pages. Cloth. $40. Milton's Paradise Lost is saturated with the [...]

In 1919, one of the first short stories by Croatian modernist Miroslav Krleza appeared in the Marxist journal Plamen (The Flame). The story centered on a naive young Croat, Pero [...]

Samir Amin, the Franco-Egyptian world-renowned political economist and global intellectual, passed away at age 87 in Paris on August 12, 2018. He grew up primarily in Egypt but was educated [...]

Okiji, Fumi. Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited. Stanford UP, 2018. 160 pages. Hardcover. $70. In the lecture inaugurating his entry into the philosophy faculty at the University [...]

The nation's memory was held to be powerfully unified; no more discontinuity existed between our new Greco-Roman cradle and the colonies of the Third Republic than between the high erudition [...]

The decolonization/decoloniality of the twenty-first century should not be confused with postmodernism and postcolonialism, which cascaded from the powerful Euro-North American academies as well as from the influence of South [...]

McKittrick, Katherine, ed. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. Duke UP, 2015. 304 pages. Hardcover. $82.25 There are few interdisciplinary, provocative thinkers of decoloniality with as much range and [...]

What if the world has changed so drastically as to allow now for almost the first time a new geographical consciousness of a decentered or multiply-centered world, a world no [...]

Chander, Manu Samriti. Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century. Bucknell UP, 2017. 144 pages. Hardback, $90. eBook, $85.50. Manu Samriti Chander's Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism [...]

Nathaniel Hawthorne's preoccupation with history or the burden of the past is widely embodied in his art. Denis Donoghue argues that there is a greater sense of history in Hawthorne's [...]

Riley, Kathleen, Alastair J. L. Blanshard and Iarla Manny, eds. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity. Oxford UP, 2018. 382 pages. Hardcover. $100. In a comprehensive volume, Oscar Wilde and Classical [...]

In the last decades of the twentieth century, the literary production in Scotland saw such an important revitalization that the period has been recorded by literary historians as the 'Second [...]

Headache sufferer Marie St. Clare is one of the sickest characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and Harriet Beecher Stowe's oeuvre. Marie frequently complains and rests because her headaches cause [...]

What are the implications for modernist studies of the reappraisal, through subaltern, neglected archives, of one of modernism's crucial enterprises in its engagement with the new media industries of the [...]

The endings of Katherine Mansfield's stories are often ambiguous, leaving the reader with an unsettled feeling coinciding with the protagonist's revelation or epiphany. Anne Mounic draws attention to the fact [...]

Jaillant, Lise. Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers' Series and the Avant-Garde. Edinburgh UP, 2017. 184 pages. Hardcover. $105. For scholars of modernism interested in the archives, the potential scope for [...]

Battershill, Claire, et al. Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. New Directions in Book History. 182 + xv pages. Hardcover. $109.99. Excitement [...]

INTRODUCTION The modernist scholar increasingly engages in work in the archive. Yet, as much as it is a place of work, it seems also to function domestically, as Jacques Derrida [...]

The article presents literary criticism of the play "Love! Valour! Compassion!" by Terrence McNally. Particular focus is given the role of unconditional love in the play and in the works and personal papers of writer John Cheever. Details on McNally's teleplay adaptation of Cheever's short story "The Five-Forty-Eight" are presented. McNally's screenplay "Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune" is also discussed.

Snyder, Robert Lance. John le Carre's Post-Cold War Fiction. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2017. 204 pages. Hardcover. $50.Robert Lance Snyder's John le Carre's Post-Cold War Fiction offers a thorough [...]

'Just like in 'real life,'' claims Howard Sklar in the opening of his 2013 book, The Art of Sympathy in Fiction, 'our encounters with fictional 'people' sometimes surprise us by [...]

Pecora, Vincent P. Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. 214 + xiv. Paperback. $30.00.In Secularizaton without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. [...]

In an early essay titled 'Against Dryness: A Polemical Sketch,' Murdoch claims that the novelist, in the search for 'consolation,' is often attracted to a type of 'closed,' 'clean crystalline [...]

Of Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles Duncan writes, 'The multitude of voices... in his fiction forms one of the most comprehensive explorations of identity found in American literature' (24). What may [...]

One of the most important themes of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy--Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013)--is that of genetic engineering, explored mainly through [...]

What is the pertinence of Moby-Dick (1850) for the narrative technique, political concerns, and lingering guilt of Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), a reformed Communist Party member and Hungarian-British novelist who was [...]

Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is usually seen as representing a momentous shift in Gothic literature from the exotic to the urban to the [...]

Anatol, Giselle Liza. The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora. Rutgers UP, 2015. 295 pages. Paperback. $32.95. Displaying an encyclopedic [...]

Sorett, Josef. Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. 312 pages. Hardcover. $34.95. Described as a work of religious history, Josef Sorett's [...]

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story [...] is everything. [...]