Books in the Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History series

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I.

Offers an examination of seven disciplines within the humanities field which underwent a fundamental transformation. In order to apply 'exact' scientific methods, these disciplines turned away from their very subjects and took a revisionist approach based on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, tracing the search for common and specific grounds of the humanities.

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I.

Offers a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the ""tragic"" combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse, the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as ""the other"" of the West.