Publications

Crítica práctica/práctica crítica
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 2002
Description:

A result of his fruitful work as a researcher and critic of Latin American literature, González Echevarría presents a collection of insightful essays in which he analyses, with great clarity, the narrative works of the Latin American authors represented, from el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Pedro Mártir de Anglería to Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier and Severo Sarduy, who contributed to the creation of a universal Latin American voice.

Suddenly the sight of War: Nationalism and Violence in Hebrew Literature of the 1940s
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 2001
Description:

The symbol ruled 1930s and 1940s thoughts and writing of Israeli Hebrew poetry. In 1934 Avraham Shlonsky published Rough Stones, a book of poems that became the textbook of the symbolistic school of poetry that gathered around him. Nathan Alterman, Yocheved Bat-Miryam, Ezra Zusman, Yakov Orland, Lea Goldberg, Avraham Halfi, Alexander Penn, Yonatan Ratosh and others all wrote, in their own fashion musical symbolistic, precisely styled poetry, centered on the grief of modern existence as a general human stance, abstract, at times also pacifist, being realized in European spaciousness.

Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon: Nation Building and Minority Discourse
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 2001
Description:

By illuminating both the process of canon formation and the voices excluded from the canon this book offers a powerful alternative reading of twentieth century Hebrew fiction. A people’s literary texts can play a dramatic role in nation building, as the development of modern Hebrew literature powerfully illustrates. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Hebrew writers in Europe and Palestine/Israel have produced texts and consolidated moments in the shaping of national identity.

The Soviet Novel
Katerina Clark
Publication Year: 2000
Description:

A dynamic account of the socialist realist novel’s evolution as seen in the context of Soviet culture. A new Afterword brings the history of Socialist Realism to its end at the close of the 20th century.

The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 1999
Description:

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more than a story of balls and strikes, but a richly detailed history of Cuba told from the unique cultural perch of the baseball diamond.

Literature Written from Here: A Brief Summary of Israeli Literature
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 1999
Description:

This book presents a panoramic and all-inclusive portrait of the literature written in Hebrew during the state of Israel’s 50 years. This portrait contains books translated from other Israeli languages such as Yiddish and Arabic, as well as a number of foreign languages. All these texts, as well as texts written about literature, critical texts, children’s books, and popular writing, are a lively, active, productive, and influential component of “Israeli Literature.”

In the Language of Walter Benjamin
Carol Jacobs
Publication Year: 1999
Description:

This book insists on Benjamin’s method of philosophical contemplation as performance, on a performance that demands precise immersion in the minute details of its subject matter. Readings of some of his key works: the autobiographical Berlin Chronicle, the apparently biographical study of Proust, the fictional autobiographical story “Myslowitz—Braunschweig—Marseille,” and those essays on the theory of language so crucial to an understanding of Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator,” “Doctrine of the Similar,” and “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man.”

Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution
Katerina Clark
Publication Year: 1998
Description:

In this new book, Katerina Clark does not attempt to account for such a devolution by looking at the broad political arena. Rather, she follows the quest of intellectuals through these years to embody the Revolution, a focus that casts new light on the formation of Stalinism. This revisionist work takes issue with many existing cultural histories by resisting the temptation to structure its narrative as a saga of the oppressive regime versus the benighted intellectuals.

Epic and Empire
David Quint
Publication Year: 1998
Description:

Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature.

The Image in Dispute: Art and Photography in the Age of Cinema
Dudley Andrew
Publication Year: 1997
Description:

An anthology of thirteen original essays divided into sections on Walter Benjamin and his influence on images, on the traditional fine arts in the light of photography, and cinema confronted by changes in technology.

Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire
Katie Trumpener
Publication Year: 1997
Description:

This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain’s overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history of the English-speaking world. Katie Trumpener recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of fiction to describe the history of the novel during a period of formal experimentation and political engagement, between its eighteenth-century “rise” and its Victorian “heyday.”

Modern Philology
Katie Trumpener
Publication Year: 1995
Description:

co-edited with Joshua Scodel, 1995–2002.

Modern Philology sets the standard for literary scholarship, history, and criticism. The journal features contributions on literature in all modern world languages, including productive comparisons of texts and traditions from European and non-European literatures. Its wide editorial scope encompasses literary works, literary traditions, and literary criticism from, roughly, the time of Charlemagne to the present. MP also publishes insightful reviews of recent books as well as review articles and research on archival documents.