Biography, Literature and Literary studies Books
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Poststrukturalismus: Herausforderung an die Literaturwissenschaft. DFG-Symposion 1995
Book SynopsisDieser Band bietet eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme und produktive Verarbeitung der Situation der Literaturwissenschaft 'nach dem Strukturalismus' und vor der Etablierung einer neuen Kulturwissenschaft unter den Leitkategorien 'Psychoanalyse', 'Rhetorik', 'Philosophie' und 'Geschichte'.
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Macmillan Learning Wuthering Heights
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WW Norton & Co Byron in Love A Short Daring Life
Book Synopsis“How long it’s taken for these two mad, bad and dangerous writers to get together!”—Alan Cheuse, San Francisco ChronicleTrade Review"Few writers are better suited than [Edna O’Brien] to take his measure, and to plumb his heart." -- Judith Thurman, author of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller"[A] mischievously complicit biography." -- Kathryn Harrison - New York Times Book Review"Succinct and eloquent." -- Kerstin Parmley - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Random House USA Inc Candide 1
Book SynopsisCandide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in 'the best of all possible worlds.' On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distringuished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.
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Random House USA Inc Wuthering Heights
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Random House USA Inc The Federalist Papers
Book SynopsisOriginally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America’s greatest patriots and political theorists were created during a critical moment in our nation’s history, providing readers with a running ideological commentary on the crucial issues facing democracy.Today The Federalist Papers are as important and vital a rallying cry for freedom as ever.This edition features the original eighteenth-century text, with James Madison’s fascinating marginal notations, as well as a complete text of the Constitution.
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Random House USA Inc Faust Der Tragodie Erster Und Zweiter Teil
Book SynopsisGoethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe’s genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe’s characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches’ Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen’s tragic fate.This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm’s wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immed
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Hilaire Wellness and Beauty Clinics Sydneys Bleu Journey of a Girl Who Never Gave Up
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Book SynopsisEnduring friendships Olof Palme and Thabo Mbeki.
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Edinburgh University Press Contributions to Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine
Book SynopsisAlthough portrayed as the ''boozing buffoon'' of Blackwood''s Edinburgh Magazine, Hogg (both as the celebrated Ettrick Shepherd and anonymously) was a key contributor of songs, narrative poems, tales and reviews to the liveliest of all early nineteenth-century periodicals. The present volume includes several items hitherto published only in Blackwood''s, and ranges from the infamous ''Chaldee Manuscript'' to newly-identified items such as a Scottish commemoration of the coronation of George IV. The volume also includes works Hogg intended for Blackwood''s but which are now published for the first time.Hogg''s work for his favourite periodical is provided in this volume in full cultural context, including detailed annotation and a convenient and complete editorial apparatus. Also included is music for several of the Shepherd''s songs.Trade ReviewBeautifully printed on fine paper, this edition is a pleasure to read. The editorial notes are copious, comprehensive and scholarly. -- Allan Massie Times Literary Supplement Identifying and collecting Hogg's contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in volume form is clearly a tremendous advantage for students and scholars without ready access to the original issues. In keeping with the ethos of this edition, there are also some previously unpublished works, for example, the pastoral Dramas of Simple Life No. II that Hogg would later revise extensively for publication as A Bush Aboon Traquair. -- Deirdre A. Shepherd, University of Edinburgh BARS Bulletin and Review ...impressive work of scholarship... -- Sharon Alker Scottish Literary Review Beautifully printed on fine paper, this edition is a pleasure to read. The editorial notes are copious, comprehensive and scholarly. Identifying and collecting Hogg's contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in volume form is clearly a tremendous advantage for students and scholars without ready access to the original issues. In keeping with the ethos of this edition, there are also some previously unpublished works, for example, the pastoral Dramas of Simple Life No. II that Hogg would later revise extensively for publication as A Bush Aboon Traquair. ...impressive work of scholarship...Table of ContentsIntroduction; Contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for 1817-1828; Appendix A: Chaldee Manuscript 'Continuation'; Appendix B: Musical Notation; Appendix C: Chronological Listing; Hyphenation List: Notes; Glossary.
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Africa World Press Kiswahili Kwa Kitendo
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Red Sea Press,U.S. Tigrinya Grammar
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Karia Press For Those Who Will Come After Collected Poems
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Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd Fathers Daughters
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Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd Empathy Rage
Book SynopsisThe first ever anthology of literature exploring the representations of female genital mutilation in art. Contributors include leading acadmics and writers.
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MTA Publications Literature and Landscape in East Devon
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Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70
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Ciao Yummy! Paris Part Time
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Banipal Books Syria in the Heart
Book SynopsisNew poetry & fiction from Syrian authors Nouri al-Jarrah, Rosa Yassin Hassan, Rasha Omran, Dima Wannous, Hala Mohammad, Maha Hassan and Khaled Khalifa, Haitham Hussein, Monir Almajid, Fawaz Kaderi, Nada Menzalji and Mohamad A A Moula. Plus works by Liana Badr (Palestine) and Muhsin al-Ramli (Iraq), and guest feature “Literature from Flanders”.
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Pearson Education Engineering Mechanics Statics SI Units Mechanics
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Philosophy of Science Fiction
Book SynopsisJames Burton is a research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, Germany. A former Alexander von Humboldt fellow, he has been a lecturer at the universities of Goldsmiths, Kent and Klagenfurt. His interdisciplinary research across philosophy, literature, cultural and media studies, concerns the myriad critical, cultural and ethical relationships between fiction, technology and the posthuman.Trade ReviewBurton’s monograph masterfully recuperates the forgotten or maligned aspects of both Dick’s and Bergson’s works and raises genuinely interesting questions about sf’s capacity to affect, influence, and foster positive change in the world. * Science Fiction Studies *Through a lucid exposition of Bergson and a careful analysis of Dick’s novels, [Burton] convincingly argues for their compatible views of salvation ... [His] study is innovative, elegantly written, and not only will it be of interest for scholars of cultural studies and philosophy, but also for science studies scholars. * Pulse: A History, Sociology and Philosophy of Science Journal *In investigating both the prolific and controversial science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick (1928–82) and Henri Bergson (1851–1941), whom William James deemed an intellectual genius, Burton (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin) takes a bifurcated path. Examining the strange affinity between these two seemingly different thinkers, the author navigates ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of soteriology. Both Dick and Bergson balked at the push toward mechanization, in which destruction of the planet seemed so immanent (as it still does today). Only collaboration between a science fiction writer and a philosopher could lead, Burton argues, to a realistic outlook that sutures contradictory imperatives. Their respective approaches may be said to fuse in fictionalizing/fabulation, which is a powerful tool of mechanization, yet is also capable of implementing a device for its undoing. This reviewer's favorite chapter deals with Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), adapted for the screen as Blade Runner in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott. Here the author covers provocative themes like robot theology, creative destruction, and salvation. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Thinking through the work of Philip K. Dick alongside the philosophy of Henri Bergson is no mere contrivance. By showing how each was writing at the edge of knowledge, both theirs and ours, Burton has fabulated a new thought with truly evental consequences for metafiction, ecology, and theology. * John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Kingston University, UK *In a brilliant act of superimposition, James Burton brings Henri Bergson’s evolutionary mysticism to bear on the divine invasions—in fiction and in life—of S-F writer Philip K. Dick. The vision of “immanent soteriology” that emerges, in which transcendent fictions jam the engines of necessity, not only illuminates the method behind Dick’s madness but reveals the crucial emancipatory role that fabulation can and does play within posthuman thought and religion. With clear thinking and graceful writing, Burton boldly indicates a “perturbation in the reality field” of contemporary materialism. * Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on References Introduction Philosophy and Science Fiction The Edge of the Known The Ethics of Balking Philip K. Dick Studies Note on Terminology: Fabulation Chapter One: Fabulation: Counteracting Reality Mechanization and the War-instinct The Biological Origins of Society Countering the Intellect The Morality of Violence Open Morality and the Misdirection of Mechanism True Mysticism: Immanent Salvation An Incomplete Soteriology Fabulation for the Open Conclusion Chapter Two: Fabulating Salvation in Four Early Novels Solar Lottery The World Jones Made Vulcan’s Hammer Time Out of Joint Conclusion: Super–everyman to Solar Shoe Salesman Chapter Three: The Empire That Never Ended The Open and the Universal The Life-Death Chiasmus The Fictitious Event The Messianic Tension The Remnant and Messianic Time The Magic of Language Sci-fi: the genre of ‘as not’ Conclusion: Gnostic Politics Chapter Four: Objects of Salvation: The Man in the High Castle The Fabulation of History Mechanization and Paralysis Worldly Remains Openings Between Worlds The Tyranny of the Concrete Objects of Salvation Conclusion: Reality Fields Chapter Five: How We Became Post-Android The Mechanization of Pot-healing The Alien God The Saviour in Need Robot Theology Humans: the Cosmic Bourgeoisie Android and Theoid Creative Destruction Conclusion Chapter Six: The Reality of Valis Salvator Salvandus The Believer and the Sceptic The Pharmakonic God Reduplicative Paramnesia (Time Becomes Space) The Fabulative Cure Recursion: Valis as Limitlessly Iterative Soteriology Befriending God Conclusion Epilogue: Soter-ecologies Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Cherry Orchard
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian physician, dramatist and author, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of short stories and modern drama. Born in Taganrog, a port town near the Black Sea, he attended medical school at Moscow University. He began writing to supplement his income, writing short humorous sketches of contemporary Russian life. A successful literary careered followed, before his premature death of TB at the age of 44. He is best-remembered for his four dramatic masterpieces: The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).Rory Mullarkey graduated in 2009 from Cambridge, after which he studied at the State Theatrical Arts Academy of St. Petersburg. A translator of Russian Drama, Mullarkey's translations have been produced by the ADC Theatre, The Royal Court and the Free Theatre of Belarus. Plays include Single Sex (Royal Exchange); Remembrance Day (Royal Court), Trade ReviewRory Mullarkey's poetical, darkly funny but never murky adaptation proves stimulating and surprising . . . makes you laugh one moment and shudder the next * Times on The Oresteia *The verse rhythms are fluid and flexible, allowing for passages of lyric song, and the language is pithy and vivid . . . shows how "justice" - the word that resounds through Mullarkey's text like a drumbeat - easily transmutes into blood-soaked revenge. * The Guardian on The Oresteia *There are ticklish jokes and moments of enjoyable mischief... * Evening Standard on Saint George and the Dragon *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rails
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBleakly beautiful… A compelling tale of rural life * Lyn Garnder, Guardian (on Gundog) *A beautiful and truthful thing * WhatsOnStage (on Gundog) *Raw, bleak and humane * Stage (on Gundog) *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
Book SynopsisIn contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the erudite blockbuster', which for the fTrade ReviewScholars will have much to learn from this book; more importantly, it now represents the best introduction to the Enlightenment, and (quietly) provides an effective refutation of the widespread postmodern belief that the Enlightenment stands for imperialism, patriarchy and cold-blooded, scientific rationalism. And it is already available as a reasonably priced paperback, the modern equivalent of a cheap duodecimo. * The Critic *Revealing the social, cultural and political impact of 12 bestselling titles of the 18th century, this imaginative and engaging study offers a fresh take on the Enlightenment which will be much admired. -- Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary University of London, UKBased on impressive new research, Kates places books, the printing industry, and the public at the center of a vibrant interpretation of this important cultural movement. We see a dynamic Enlightenment emerge over the course of the century in which even books we thought we knew look different through the eyes of those who read and helped shape them into texts which resonate today. -- Dena Goodman, Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. The Enlightenment Reading Public 2. Fénelon’s Adventures of Telemachus (1699) 3. Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1721) 4. Voltaire’s History of Charles XII (1731) & Montesquieu’s Considerations on the Greatness and Decline of the Romans (1734) 5. Voltaire’s Philosophical Letters (1733-1734) 6. Richardson’s Pamela (1740) 7. Hume’s Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-1742) 8. Graffigny’s Letters from a Peruvian Woman (1747) 9. Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) 10. Rousseau’s Emile (1762) 11. Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) 12. Raynal’s Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies (1770-1780) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Power of Distraction
Book SynopsisFrom Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to live and work better. But Alessandra Aloisi argues that we are missing the point.Drawing on a broad range ofEuropean philosophy and literature, this book considers distraction not as an expression of human imperfection, but as a creative, subversive, and aesthetic capability. In contrast to the traditional accounts, from Saint Augustine to Robert Burton, which either associated distraction with sin or considered it as a symptom of melancholy, Aloisi argues that it is often precisely when we stop thinking about something that inspiration finds us. Why else are artists described as having their heads in the clouds? This book demonstrates the serendipity of distraction through close readings of cultural and visual sources ranging from the mathematician Poincaré to the Netflix show, Black Mirror.With inspiration from La Bruyère, Rousseau, Leopardi
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Orion Practice
Book SynopsisSix o''clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January.In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student works on an essay about Shakespeare''s sonnets.Annabel has a meticulously planned routine for her day - work, yoga, meditation, long walks; no apples after meals, no coffee on an empty stomach - but finds it repeatedly thrown off course. Despite her efforts, she cannot stop her thoughts slipping off their intended track into the shadows of elaborate erotic fantasies.And as the essay''s deadline looms, so too does the irrepressible presence of other people: Annabel''s boyfriend Rich, keen to come and visit her; her family and friends who demand her attention; and darker crises, obliquely glimpsed, all threatening to disturb the much-cherished quiet in her mind.Exquisitely crafted, wryly comic, and completely original, Practice is a novel about the life of the mind and the life o
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Decades of Contemporary British Fiction
Book SynopsisLeigh Wilson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. Nick Hubble is Head of English Literature at Brunel University, UK.Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively.
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Edinburgh University Press Ivy ComptonBurnett
Book SynopsisThis re-valuation of a neglected artist is a close analysis of forms, ideas and language in novels which range from her first conventionally moral love-story, Dolores, which she tried to suppress, to startling stories about landed gentry in Victorian and Edwardian England.
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Edinburgh University Press Modern Print Artefacts
Book SynopsisThis study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930.
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Edinburgh University Press Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Book SynopsisThis volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Rodgers Hammersteins The King and I
Book SynopsisÊThe King and IÊ opened on Broadway on March 29 1951. The musical is based on a 1944 novel by Margaret Landon ÊAnna and the King of SiamÊ which in turn was adapted from the real-life reminiscences of Anna Leonowens as recounted in her own books ÊThe English Governess at the Siamese CourtÊ and ÊThe Romance of the HaremÊ.ÞIt is 1862 in Siam when an English widow Anna Leonowens arrives with her young son at the Royal Palace in Bangkok having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West and he seeks Anna''s assistance in changing his image if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values Anna and the King grow to understand and eventually respect one another in a truly unique love story. Along with the dazzling score the incomparable Jerome Robbins ballet ÊThe Small House of Uncle ThomasÊ is one of the all-time marvels of the musical sta
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Red Sea Press,U.S. How To Say It English/tigrinya/italian:
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Red Sea Press,U.S. How To Say It English/amharic/italian
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Red Sea Press,U.S. Space And Trauma In The Writings Of Aminatta
Book SynopsisA critical study of the writings of Aminatta Forna
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Red Sea Press,U.S. Visitations: Conversations With The Ghost Of The
Book SynopsisAn arresting account of South Sudan's struggle for independence.
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Autonomedia A Person Of Letters In The Contemporary World
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Africa World Press Borderline Movements In African Fiction
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Africa World Press Early Achebe
Book SynopsisA close look at the early work of Chinua Achebe.
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PM Press Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One
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Akashic Books,U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco And Firearms: Stories and Essays
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PM Press Journey Through Utopia: A Critical Examination of
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Verso Books Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the
Book SynopsisTransformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel eraCuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the strain of new forms of consumption.Planet/Cuba examines how art and literature have responded to a new moment, one both more globalized and less exceptional; more concerned with local quotidian worries than international alliances; more threatened by the depredations of planetary capitalism and climate change than by the vagaries of the nation's government. Rachel Price examines a fascinating array of artists and writers who are tracing a new socio-cultural map of the island.Trade ReviewA rich revelation of Cuban art today; it will amaze, fascinate and instruct. -- Fredric JamesonThis brilliant book charts the cultural life in Cuba from the coming to power of Raúl Castro to the 'normalization' of relations with the US. What could be more timely than a cognitive map of this already heterogeneous island, once a trigger point in the Cold War, as it is vectored by new forces that are planetary in reach-neoliberalism, climate change, and pervasive surveillance? -- Hal Foster, author of Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, EmergencyPrice's insights into this complicated and conflictive landscape make for cultural criticism at its best-ample in range, acute in its eye for the telling detail. Contemporary Cuba is a moving target and this book gets that, following along with clarity, grace and flashes of illumination. -- Rachel Weiss, author of To and From Utopia in the New Cuban ArtA superbly crafted book that takes scholarship on Cuban art and literature in a fresh, entirely new direction. Planet/Cuba is both uniquely timely and full of foresight: it will shape discussion of contemporary Cuba for years to come. -- Esther Whitfield, Brown UniversityPrice shrewdly surveys art in Cuba over the period since Fidel Castro ceded control of the government to his brother Raúl . [An] excellent and welcome study. * Choice *This meticulously detailed text is a productive exploration of globalized Cuban art and culture. * Publisher’s Weekly *
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Granary Books Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005
Book SynopsisInseparable collects poems written between 1995 and 2005 by the New York poet, editor and novelist Lewis Warsh. Strongly identified with New York since the 1960s, when he co-founded Angel Hair magazine with Anne Waldman, Warsh makes poems from the city’s linguistic fabric, interwoven with a bemused real-time interiority. The 35 poems of this collection are pitted with reminiscences made approachable to the reader by their lack of self-absorption; it is the momentum of the will to persist by means of language--“moving, word by word”--against the incipient flickerings of mortality, that is their real logic. This act of self-propulsion may be subject to doubt (“Can we spend our lives feeding/off simple endurance?”), but it is humbly pursued: Warsh resists the inflated rhetoric such preoccupations usually attract and sticks instead with (in the words of his colleague Clark Coolidge) “confusion, in strict order.”
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