Bücher der Reihe Essays from the English Institute

The performance of one's gender and sexuality is now widely seen to be key to debates around identity politics. This collection brings together some of the best-known scholars in the field, from Judith Butler to Cindy Patton.

The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working - or reworking - the problematics of the borders, boundaries and frameworks that structure our various notions of identity. Includes essays by Nancy Miller, Sara Suleri and Jane Marcus.

A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions.

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion

The rise of international capital, the alteration of borders, and local and transnational demands for autonomy are all making cosmopolitanism a key concept in the study of people and language, writing and space. This work asks if we we can sustain the geo-cultural ideal of cosmopolitan identity.

From eleventh-century France to a science-fiction future, Time and the Literary shows how these two concepts have been and will continue to influence each other.

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion