Modern American Grotesque by James Goodwin explores meanings of the grotesque in American culture and explains their importance within our literature ...

In the medieval period, as in the media culture of the present, learned and popular forms of talk were intermingled everywhere. They were also highly ...

In  Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature , Katra A. Byram proposes a new category-the dynamic ...

In Syphilis: Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France , Deborah Losse examines how images of syphilis became central to Renaissance ...

The Medieval Risk-Reward Society offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de ...

Samuel Steward and the  Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives  examines one of the most fascinating sexual renegades of the ...

In Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora , K. Merinda Simmons argues that, in first-person narratives about women of color ...

Committed to rigorous "close reading" and engagement with the "text itself" rather than information "extrinsic" to the text, John Crowe Ransom and a ...

Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film  by George Butte offers a new phenomenological understanding of how fiction and ...

Since the 1980s, research in the history of sexuality has grown exponentially. Not surprisingly, this new research has made its way into the classroom. ...