The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe’s distinctively…

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future ofcomparative literary studies….

In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time…

A critical study of the 1966 Nobel Laureate in literature.

Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to express a new understanding of…

The fifth volume of UCLA Slavic Studies commemorates the 40th anniversary of Anna Akhmatova`s death. The first part of the collection, In Memoriam, contains previously unpublished diaries and memoirs about…