9781498520706 | Lexington Books, April 29, 2016, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book argues that the tension between Arabic poetry and the Qur’ān dating back to the seventh century, when the Qur’ān was first recited, is a primary generator of meaning in the Arabic Literary Tradition.

9780739120293 | Lexington Books, November 30, 2006, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: Richard Serrano begins his provocative new work Against the Postcolonial with the bold statement that “Francophone studies is mostly a mirage, while postcolonial studies is mostly a delusion.

9780739110713, titled "Against the Postcolonial: Francophone Writers at the End of the French Empire" | Lexington Books, August 30, 2005, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Richard Serrano begins his provocative new work Against the Postcolonial with the bold statement that OFrancophone studies is mostly a mirage, while postcolonial studies is mostly a delusion.

9781900755603 | Legenda, November 1, 2001, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: In his wide-ranging studies of poetic borrowing, Serrano uncovers the heterogeneity of influences in canonical texts from the Arabic, Chinese and French: Buhturi (821-97) and the Qur’an (7th century ce), Wang Wei (701-61) and the Classic of Poetry (8th century bce), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) and Victor Segalen (1878-1919).