Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America
Caroline Egan
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828467
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Words Made Flesh is a comparative study of grammars, dictionaries, translations, and hymns produced in Indigenous languages in colonial Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. Examining keywords related to the body, the book demonstrates the significant role corporeality played in evangelization campaigns and the development of Indigenous Christianity.
With nearly 200 illustrations, Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen particularly significant case studies, including the Beowulf manuscript, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe.
Lingua Ex Machina investigates the role communication technologies played in shaping the reemergence of modern Hebrew speech, arguing that technologies such as the phonograph, typewriter, and telegraph—whose development paralleled the revitalization of Hebrew—were an active force in shaping the language as a modern medium of communication.
On Revival explores the discourse of language revival in twentieth-century Hebrew literature and its role in the formation of Jewish nationalism, Zionism, and modern Hebrew culture. Because the mission of language revival was entwined with mourning, authors situated the language in a liminal space between the dead and the living.
In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier presents a set of linked thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s plays through recursive and revisionary close reading, revisiting plays from different angles and often contravening prevailing views.
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Occupied Words explores how Yiddish words created during the Shoah, or Khurbn Yiddish, operated as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions.
The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Stefan H. Uhlig
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512824155
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig turns to the decades around 1800 to show how three schools of literary study—rhetoric teaching, theories of poetry, and literary history—emerged and clashed during this time, offering near-contemporaneous, yet divergent, visions of how to understand literature.
Providing innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives on Shakespeare's plays, Patricia Parker offers a series of dazzling readings that demonstrate how easy-to-overlook textual or semantic details reverberate within and beyond the Shakespearean text, and suggest that the boundary between language and context is an incontinent divide.
Beginning with the beguiling queerness of the Renaissance letter Q, Jeffrey Masten's stylishly written and extensively illustrated Queer Philologies demonstrates the intimate relation between the history of sexuality and the history of the language.
