Autor: Morris Rosalind C. Morris

For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses’s term "fetishism" has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to "magic, " but nonetheless ex …

Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature …

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader’s personal experiences, social visions and theory, …

Introducing Photographies East, Rosalind C. Morris notes that although the camera is now a taken-for-granted element of everyday life in most parts of the world, it is difficult to appreciate "t …