Book Reviews

CLS gives priority to reviewing books that—like the articles published in the journal—focus on literature, cultural production, the relationship between aesthetics and political thought, and histories and philosophies of form across the world, addressing the transregional and transhistorical circulation of genres and movements across different languages, time periods, and media.

We are specifically interested on scholarly works that: (1) are comparative (deal in more than one literary/cultural field, region, tradition, or discipline); (2) study their primary materials in the original language; (3) do theoretical work (such as grapple with a conceptual or methodological problem in at least one field, look for new ways to conceptualize a field in light of emergent paradigms); (4) deal with literature/cultural production in “less studied” languages or regions; (5) deal with topics related to World Literature; and, finally, (6) theorize the discipline of Comparative Literature.