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Out now, and open access via Project MUSE Johns Hopkins University Press

Extended deadline! Submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue. Articles may address any aspect of Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language (particularly Yiddish and Hebrew).

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by Sam Spinner

At the center of our new Comparative Literature issue is a dossier featuring a rediscovered text written by Auerbach during his exile in Turkey: the same period in which his masterpiece Mimesis took shape. The typescript appears alongside new critical perspectives on his work and legacy. Open access from Johns Hopkins University Press
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader.
Segalovitz’s How Close Reading Made Us (published by SUNY Press) extends this argument by tracing the global circulation of close reading as a technique of the self. Her review essay is open access Johns Hopkins University Press

Also in our new Comparative Literature issue: Iván Hofman, Emily Apter, Bruno Bosteels, and Alex Verdolini discuss Severo Sarduy’s Barroco and Other Writings (translated by Verdolini and published by Stanford University Press). Hofman writes, "after a century, Barroco retains the capacity to decenter and unsettle."

The issue is open access via Project MUSE

Among other treasures in our new comparative literature issue: an article by Jeppe Barnwell that examines a genre he calls "fictional documentarism"-- texts that imitate or creatively engage with documentary forms while still openly presenting themselves as invented.

Barnwell argues that these works challenge and complicate the very idea of documentation, including how information is recorded, represented, and trusted.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/981040

Now up on Project MUSE and open access!
This issue include an archival find-- the typescript of a lecture given by Erich Auerbach during his exile in Turkey. The subject is literature and war (who gets to write about war? who feels they have agency?) + general articles on subjects such as literary texts that use fake documents to blur the lines between truth and fiction + an essay on the renaissance of close reading + more. Please share!

Johns Hopkins University Press

Just printed! Our most recent comparative literature issue includes an archival find: the typescript of a lecture Erich Auerbach gave in 1941, during his exile in Turkey. The subject is literature and war (who gets to write about war? Who feels they have agency? etc.)
+ many fascinating essays including one on the renaissance of close reading, another on literary texts that use fake documents to blur the lines between truth and fiction, etc.
This issue will be available on Project MUSE soon Johns Hopkins University Press

We recorded a podcast about our forthcoming comparative literature issue (the issue will be available on Project MUSE very soon). In this episode for Johns Hopkins University Press, researcher Christian Rivoletti discusses an archival find-- a typescript of a lecture delivered by Erich Auerbach during his exile in Turkey.
Plus Leonardo Lisi (editor for comparative literature) and Victoria Livingstone (managing editor) highlight other parts of the issue-- a review essay on close reading, a discussion of contemporary genre-blurring texts, and more.