The Poetics of Re-Enchantment in Polish and Russian Modernist Fiction
In the development of modernist fiction, perhaps no artistic product has had as vaunted a place as the novel, a genre theorized primarily with recourse to Western authors. Here, Lukasz Wodzynski challenges the primacy of the novel as the organizing principle of modernist prose in Eastern and Central Europe, particularly in Polish and Russian ......
In 1960, the popular Soviet magazine Krokodil dubbed Mark Twain the USSR's "American Friend No. 1." This surprised neither the Kremlin nor the magazine's readers: Twain and especially his Mississippi novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, were favorites throughout the Soviet period, with the first translations ......
We often speak of a divide between online and offline cultures, despite growing recognition that the two are intertwined. Here, folklorist Anthony Bak Buccitelli challenges the idea of any divide at all in contemporary American culture. He argues that digital communications and behaviors are already deeply embedded in everyday expressive life and ......
We often speak of a divide between online and offline cultures, despite growing recognition that the two are intertwined. Here, folklorist Anthony Bak Buccitelli challenges the idea of any divide at all in contemporary American culture. He argues that digital communications and behaviors are already deeply embedded in everyday expressive life and ......
Class consciousness and contradictions percolate throughout Losers, Colin Pope's third collection. Highly personal, these poems acknowledge the damage wrought on underprivileged populations while celebrating a working-class background. Dishwasher, delivery guy, ne'er-do-well, paper boy-the characters who populate this volume are not de facto ......
Part reckoning with a father's chronic illness, part coming of age in the Upper South, part meditation on the slow, painful accumulation of adulthood, Another Man considers issues of family, care, and inheritance. These powerful poems capture unexpected moments of lucidity among the desire and heartbreak of becoming oneself. In his debut ......
Born to poverty in the Irish county of Tipperary, John Egan participated in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century, including mass migration to the United States during a catastrophic famine, the "opening" of Japan via gunboat diplomacy, Sherman's March to the Sea, and homesteading in the Upper Midwest. In Irish Born, American ......
Highlighting the prominent and contradictory place children occupy in Western culture, where they are at once cherished and reviled, As Lightning interrogates the nature of childhood itself. Offering multiple pathways through her own past via unexpected means-tests, riddles, word searches, rhyme, and a tour-de-force grouping of ......
Many people around the world feel resistant to their governments' actions yet do not know how to act; protest may feel out of reach, like something only seasoned activists can do. This accessible guide explores the creativity, joy, and accessibility of peaceful protest. Megan Hershey introduces readers to twenty-five specific and inspiring ......
