New Books in Literary Studies
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Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
An interview with Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
An interview with Colleen Taylor
Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
An interview with Denise Kripper
Tim Lanzendörfer, "Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
An interview with Tim Lanzendrfer
David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
In Memoriam: David Ferry (1924-2023)In thisRecall This Bookconversation from 2021, poets David Ferry and Roger Reeves talk about lyric, epic, and the underworld. The underworld, that repository of the Shades of the Dead, gets a lot of traffic from hero
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
An interview with Shakuntala Gawde
Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
An interview with Stephanie Li
Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
An interview with Coretta M. Pittman
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
An interview with Rachel Gordan