in this issue
general news
Welcome to the January issue of Bluelines!
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new & noteworthy
The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua
Yael Halevi-Wise
“Yael Halevi-Wise’s book on A. B. Yehoshua is a useful, intelligent introduction to the fiction of arguably the most talented Israeli novelist.”—Dan Miron, author of From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
Canis Modernis
Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature
Karalyn Kendall-Morwick
“A long-overdue, definitive statement about the importance of dogs in modernist literary fictions by a rising star of a new generation in literary animal studies. . . . it fills a tremendous gap in understandings of how and why literary representations both reflect and influence the conceptual crisis of humanism that comes to a head in the twentieth century.”—Susan McHugh, author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction
Becoming Audible
Sounding Animality in Performance
Austin McQuinn
“Becoming Audible provides a compelling array of contemporary artworks that explore animality alongside or at the limits of culture.”—Ron Broglio, author of Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art
On Transhumanism
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, and translated by Spencer Hawkins
“Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is one of the world’s leading experts in the fields of trans- and post-humanism. His new book is both thoughtful and forward-looking and will be a welcome addition to the literature on the subject.”—Wolfgang Welsch, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena
subject/series highlight
Hagia Sophia author Bissera V. Pentcheva discusses the sensory and spiritual experience of the Hagia Sophia w/ Medievalists.net. Click here to listen.
awards & reviews
upcoming events
psu press presents
Virtual Author Events
If you missed our November virtual author panel, “New Books in Biblical and Akkadian Literature from Eisenbrauns,” you can watch it on the Eisenbrauns Facebook page!
Click here to learn more about PSU Press Presents.
unlocked book of the month
Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open-access initiative featuring scholarly digital books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. This month’s pick: Allegheny Episodes.
journals news
Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry and Journal of Austrian-American History have been accepted for inclusion in Scopus.
new from eisenbrauns
The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721–705 BC)
Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch
