Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
On Deconstruction
Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation...
The Senses of Humor
Self and Laughter in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history...
by Robert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect...
The Gumilev Mystique
Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia’s greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen...
Race, Rights, and Recognition
Jewish American Literature since 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-based...
Fictions of Authority
Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining...
Borderwork
Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of...
The Other Side of the Story
Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists—notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood—attempt innovations in narrative form that are more radical in their implications than the dominant modes of fictional experimentation characterized...
Women and Romance
The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox,...
Echoes of Desire
English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary...
Hard Interests, Soft Illusions
Southeast Asia and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important...
The Expense of Spirit
Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period...
Outlaw Rhetoric
Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community....
Writing History for the King
Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Writing History for the King is at once a reassessment of the reign of Henry II of England (1133–1189) and an original contribution to our understanding of the rise of vernacular historiography in the high Middle Ages. Charity Urbanski focuses on two dynastic histories commissioned by Henry: Wace’s...