Biography, Literature and Literary studies Books
University of Illinois Press Passing for Spain
Book SynopsisCervantes challenges the state's attempt to categorize its subjects by presenting characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion.Trade ReviewREVIEWS "Highly recommended."--CHOICE ADVANCE PRAISE "Passing for Spain is a healthy sign that Renaissance scholars are finally looking to early modern Spain as a likely locus for the study of self -fashioning and the formation of the nation-state. Fuchs takes the literary breadth of the foundational Spanish writer Cervantes to examine the concept she calls passing --the deliberate impersonation of a seemingly fixed identity -- to prove just how disarmingly unfixed the markers of identity were in early modern Europe." -- Anne Cruz, professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsPassing and the fictions of Spanish identity; border crossings - transvestism and "passing" in "Don Quijote"; empire unmanned - gender trouble and genoese gold in "Las dos doncellas"; passing pleasures - costume and custom in "el amante liberal" and La gran sultana; La disimulaci on es provechosa - the critique of transparency in the Persiles and "La espaanola inglesa".
£26.59
University of Texas Press A Rosario Castellanos Reader
Book SynopsisRosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.Trade Review... Castellanos has not been accorded the recognition she deserves as this century's foremost Latin American feminist thinker. [This book] seeks to remedy that. * Review: Latin American Literature and Art *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs Contexts Poetry: Silences and Otherness Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos The Appropriation of Signs: Intertexts and Subtexts Fiction: Under a Man’s Hand Essays: Writing Her Self The Eternal Feminine: Destroying the Myths Notes Works Cited Rosario Castellanos: A Basic Bibliography of Her Writing A Select Bibliography of Rosario Castellanos Criticism Poetry, translated by Maureen Ahern Silence Near an Ancient Stone To a Tiny Mayan Badger The Other Monologue of a Foreign Woman Routine Presence Passage Consciousness Metamorphosis of the Sorceress Chess Brief Chronicle Malinche Memorandum on Tlatelolco Self-Portrait Speaking of Gabriel Home Economics Learning about Things Postscript You Are Not Poetry Re: Mutilations Meditation on the Brink Kinsey Report Looking at the Mona Lisa Nobodying Nazareth Short Fiction The Eagle, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Three Knots in the Net, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Fleeting Friendships, translated by Lesley Salas The Widower Román, translated by Ruth Peacock Cooking Lesson, translated by Maureen Ahern Essays Incident at Yalentay, translated by Maureen Ahern Once Again Sor Juana, translated by Maureen Ahern An Attempt at Self-Criticism, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Discrimination in the United States and in Chiapas, translated by Maureen Ahern A Man of Destiny, translated by Maureen Ahern Woman and Her Image, translated by Maureen Ahern The Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman, translated by Maureen Ahern Language as an Instrument of Domination, translated by Maureen Ahern If Not Poetry, Then What?Translated by Maureen Ahern Self-Sacrifice Is a Mad Virtue, translated by Laura Carp Solomon The Liberation of Love, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Herlinda Leaves, translated by Maureen Ahern TheaterThe Eternal Feminine, translated by Diane E. Marting and Betty Tyree Osiek Notes Notes on the Editor and the Translators Index Permissions
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University of Washington Press Haa Tuwunáagu Yís for Healing Our Spirit
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Speeches from Various Occasions -- A.P. Johnson, Sitka 1971 -- Unidentified Speaker, Sitka 1899 -- Unidentified Speaker, Sitka 1899 -- Johnny C. Jackson, Kake 1971 -- Jimmie George, Kake 1971 -- Thomas Young, Klukwan 1972 -- Tom Peters, Teslin 1972 -- Charlie Joseph, Sitka 1972 -- Willie Marks, Mt. Edgecumbe 1976 -- David Kadashan, Hoonah 1976 -- Emma Marks, Juneau 1982 -- Jennie Thlunaut, Haines 1985 -- Jennie Thlunaut, Haines 1985 -- Jennie Thlunaut, Klukwan 1985 -- Austin Hammond, Fairbanks 1988 Speeches for the Removal of Grief from the Memorial for Jim Marks, Hoona 1968 -- Jim Marks (Posthumous) -- Matthew Lawrence (1) -- David Kadashan -- William Johnson -- Jessie Dalton -- Austin Hammond -- Matthew Lawrence (2) "Because We Cherish You . . ": Sealaska Elders Speak to the Future (Selected Speeches from the First Sealaska Elders Conference, Sitka 1980) -- Charlie Joseph (1) -- George Davis (1) -- William Johnson -- Charlie Jim -- George Davis (2) -- George Jim -- George Davis (3) -- George Davis (4) -- George Davis (5) -- Charlie Joseph (2) Notes Glossary to the Speeches for the Removal of Grief Biographies References
£41.78
WW Norton & Co Henry Miller and James Laughlin Selected Letters
Book SynopsisA sparkling, lively record of a remarkable author/publisher relationship.
£35.14
WW Norton & Co Sophie Crumb
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a young artist's life through her own drawings-from toddlerhood to motherhood.Trade Review"With brief introductions from each of her parents, short notes and captions from Sophie (also a tattoo artist), and a sense of empathy for others, a strong personal connection is forged with readers in this truly unique volume." -- Booklist
£20.89
WW Norton & Co A Readers Book of Days
Book SynopsisA witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.Trade Review"Completely winning… Clearly a masterpiece… A Reader's Book of Days is any reader's delight." -- Michael Dirda - Wall Street Journal"The world's least useful, most wonderful reference book, a masterpiece with a wry sensibility… Whether you browse at random or read a page a day, this book will delight." -- Camila Domonoske - NPR.org"A treasure hunt between book covers — and my new favorite gift book… This book is a joy… [Nissley] is a marvelous storyteller." -- Elizabeth Taylor - Chicago Tribune"Essential… Terrifically fun." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Sunday Globe"Tantalizing long entries on such writerly topics as day jobs, marriage, mothers, Melville, sports, and suicide." -- Mary Norris - The New Yorker"Eclectic and wide-ranging… Delightfully illustrated." -- Publishers Weekly"Charming, funny, beguiling, this literary miscellany combines true events in writers’ lives and fictional events in their books. The perfect gift for any reader." -- Shelf Awareness"Finally, a book to live by. Every day will remind me of the few things I've read and all the endless treasures I have to look forward to. How lucky for readers that Tom Nissley has turned his formidable intelligence to the history of literature." -- Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder"Oh, this is a true delight!" -- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love"Packed with charming anecdotes and delicious facts, A Reader's Book of Days is an utterly delightful and immensely enjoyable book-lover's companion. I'll always have a copy close at hand, and I’ll be giving it as a gift for years to come." -- Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette"Brilliant, fascinating, and fun!" -- Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! champion and author of Because I Said So!"Those who know Tom Nissley simply as a Jeopardy! stud, prepare to be amazed. He's more than just a gutsy wonk with a photographic memory; as A Reader's Book of Days establishes for all time, he's witty, erudite, and sweet-natured, and he has a gorgeous prose style to boot. Beware: read one of these pages and you're hooked." -- Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life
£18.99
WW Norton & Co Hemingway
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the release of the HBO film Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.Trade Review"Sets the standard that all other [Hemingway] biographies will be measured against." -- Boston Globe"Reynolds reveals the beauty, tragedy, and ultimate mystery of one of America's few mythic writers." -- Chicago Tribune"Reynolds was noted for his meticulous scholarship and for his efforts to sort the autobiographical fact from the fiction in Hemingway’s work. At times, he seemed to enter Hemingway’s mind and to know his most intimate thoughts." -- New York Times"A faithful portrait of one of the most interesting men of the century." -- Los Angeles Times"Excellent." -- James Woods - New York Times Book Review
£18.99
Harvard University Press The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Book SynopsisAnne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose includes an introduction that sketches the poet's life.
£999.99
Harvard University Press On the World and Religious Life
Book SynopsisSalutati’s first surviving treatise was written for a lawyer who entered a Florentine monastery and requested a piece encouraging him to persevere in religious life. On the World and Religious Life is a wide-ranging reflection on humanity’s misuse of God’s creation and the need to orient human life with a proper hierarchy of values.
£26.96
Harvard University Press Word by Word
Book SynopsisConsigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings—or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors’ perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom.Trade ReviewThrough a series of bold, imaginative and insightful case studies, Christopher Hager uncovers the intellectual world of U.S. slavery and charts the hopes, expectations and fears of enslaved writers… By understanding emancipation as a slow process rather than a rapid transformation, Word by Word shows how literacy was an incomplete and sometimes flawed instrument of black self-determination. The idea of emancipation as an unfinished revolution is not new, nor is the attention to subterranean networks of enslaved information and exchange particularly novel in slavery studies. By rendering legible and audible the writings of the literate minority, however, Hager reveals the desperate and creative measures taken by former slaves to assert their communal and individual voices. Most of course continued unlettered, but the striking improvement in black literacy during the two decades after emancipation (from 10 to 30 per cent) is testimony to the enduring importance attached to the written word and the empowering potential of African-American writing. -- Richard Follett * Times Higher Education *Christopher Hager does a fascinating job of sifting through these letters [written by slaves], fleshing out as much as possible the stories of their authors, and casting it all as black America’s first attempts at forging a voice in this strange land, in Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing. -- Mark Reynolds * PopMatters *While Frederick Douglass invigorated abolitionists with his eloquent prose, many of his contemporaries, still enslaved or recently freed, scrawled barely legible letters to friends and family sold to distant masters. In this revelatory hybrid of history and textual analysis, Hager argues that the act of writing—often in defiance of states’ antiliteracy laws—was an exceedingly potent form of self-empowerment for these oppressed men and women, never mind their poor spelling and unorthodox methods (one potter carved poetry into his work, another ‘composed at the handle of the plough’ and kept the lines memorized till he learned to write). Primary documents, intensely scrutinized, reveal powerful emotions and common hardships, bear witness to racial struggles across the country, and provide unalloyed insight into the stark yet hopeful reality after the Emancipation Proclamation. Particularly fascinating is the evolution of writing as a form of power: a former slave protests, via letter, to a Union general about Union soldiers attacking his neighbor’s wife, while another journals his integration into the U.S. Navy with perfunctory but increasingly assured entries. This thoughtful examination of the artifacts of a too-long-silenced population is made all the more eloquent by accompanying facsimiles of the arduously penned missives. * Publishers Weekly *Hager provides an informed and informative view of writings produced by formerly enslaved African Americans, often overlooked as an illiterate group. Hager reminds readers to attend to those texts that have the power to give scholars a broader perspective of particular moments… By paying attention to these authors, Hager aims to develop new models for the interpretation of historical sources and give voice to both the unknown and the underappreciated. -- T. T. Green * Choice *[An] always engaging account of how the path to freedom was paved, in part, with written words. * Kirkus Reviews *Hager seeks to craft an intellectual history of a people too often dismissed as illiterate and lacking a culture of letters. His focus is not on stars who are well known from fugitive slave narratives, but on a handful of more or less literate blacks whose previously unpublished letters provide pieces of a complex and rich narrative of liberation. Hager discusses the mental process of writing, exploring the inner lives, secrecy, and subversion shown in black initiatives to learn how to write and how to use writing to end enslavement and to embrace emancipation. -- Thomas J. Davis * Library Journal *From its first pages, where a stumbling black writer in Civil War New Orleans picks up the U.S. Constitution, Word by Word focuses on the initial tremors of freedom for ordinary people amid wartime turmoil and the process of emancipation. This is original work of the highest order. -- Kathleen Diffley, editor of To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861–1876Hager brilliantly imagines scenes of writing among freed people in the decades immediately following emancipation, showing how former slaves turned to writing as a way of taking control of their world. Word by Word is a major and revelatory act of historical recovery done with imaginative sympathy and critical verve. -- Robert S. Levine, author of Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary NationalismA penetrating and revealing portrait of people in the process of defining freedom, Word by Word is a stirring, important work that reshapes our understanding of slavery and emancipation. -- Louis P. Masur, author of Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
£24.26
Harvard University Press Brahmanical Theories of the Gift
Book SynopsisBrahmanical Theories of the Gift constitutes the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a dananibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. David Brick has included an extensive historical introduction to the text and its subject matter.
£39.06
Harvard University Press Johnson and His Age
Book SynopsisPublished in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson's life, major figures of the age, and the novel.Table of ContentsJohnson's Life and Thought Johnson and the Meaning of Life Lawrence Lipking
£33.11
Harvard University Press Johnson and His Age
Book SynopsisPublished in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson's life, major figures of the age, and the novel.Table of ContentsJohnson's Life and Thought Johnson and the Meaning of Life Lawrence Lipking
£16.10
Harvard University Press 18431847
Book SynopsisThe pages of these five journals from the years 1843 to 1847 document Emerson’s struggle to formulate the true attitude of the scholar and disinterested, independent writer to the vexing question of public involvement. He notes to himself that he “pounds…tediously” on the “exemption of the writer from all secular works.”Table of ContentsFOREWORD TO VOLUME IX The Journals: 1843-1847 Chronology Symbols and Abbreviations The Texts of the Journals U V W Y O Textual Notes Index
£107.96
Harvard University Press The History of Akbar: Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe History of Akbar by Abu’l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. In this volume, Humayun’s turbulent reign ends, and Akbar ascends his father’s throne.Trade ReviewAs with the first volume, the second volume is readable and interesting, with many tidbits that delight the reader…All in all, the second volume of The History of Akbar is an interesting and valuable primary source narrative on the origins of one of history’s most consequential empires. -- Akhilesh Pillalamarri * The Diplomat *Of all the great monarchs to have ruled over India—a land whose history is richer and more turbulent than that of almost any other—the one who most retains our modern-day attention is Akbar, Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605…[The History of Akbar] includes accounts of his court and his governance, as well as of the wars, alliances and intrigues of his time…Thackston’s translation is the first complete rendition into English of Abu’l-Fazl’s Persian text since Henry Beveridge, a British orientalist and imperial civil servant, completed his version in 1921…Thackston’s English is modern and…[his] translation…is impressively meticulous. -- Tunku Varadarajan * Wall Street Journal *At a time when Hindutva historians are eager to distort the history of Muslim invasions in order to deepen religious cleavages and consolidate vote banks, [Abu’l-Fazl's] elaboration of Akbar’s legacy as a tolerant Muslim ruler of a non-Muslim majority is an important reminder of how Indian society has evolved. -- Pragya Tiwari * India at LSE blog *We can only welcome an undertaking like the Murty Classical Library of India, which intends to inject fresh blood directly into the circulatory system of the English language. Any intelligent reader cannot fail to be favorably impressed in the presence of the variegated offerings of the series’ first titles…The Murty Classical Library offers a surprising array of texts that are in any case capable of broadening the all-too-restricted horizons of the average Western reader. -- Roberto Calasso * New York Review of Books *
£26.96
Harvard University Press Modernism Reconsidered
Book SynopsisThese 13 essays range freely over the literature of the modernist period from the turn of the century to World War II. Contributors examine less familiar worksor aspects of the workof major writers, reconsider authors not usually thought of as modernist, and explore received opinions about modernist theories.Table of ContentsTowards Early-Modern Autobiography: The Roles of Oscar Wilde, George Moore, Edmund Gosse, and Henry Adams Jerome H. Buckley The Art of Arnold Bennett: Transmutation and Empathy in Anna of the Five Towns and Riceyman Steps Donald D. Stone William James and the Modernism of Gertrude Stein Lisa Ruddick Contrived Lives: Joyce and Lawrence Monroe Engel The Great War and Sassoon's Memory Thomas Mallon Neither Worthy Nor Capable: The War Memoirs of Graves, Blunden, and Sassoon John Hildebidle Modernism: The Case of Willa Cather Phyllis Rose Jacob's Room and Roger Fry: Two Studies in Still Life Robert Kiely Mr. Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The Rhythm of Creativity in To The Lighthouse J. Hillis Miller Modern/ Postmodern: Eliot, Perse, Mallarme, and the Future of the Barbarians Ronald Bush Instances of Modernist Anti-Intellectualism Robert Coles Modernism in History, Modernism in Power Bruce Robbins Behind the Door of 1984: "The Worst Thing In The World" Judith Wilt
£17.06
Harvard University Press The History of Akbar: Volume 3
Book SynopsisThe History of Akbar by Abu’l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry, and is both a biography and a chronicle of sixteenth-century India. In this volume, the Mughal Emperor Akbar quells a rebellion, conquers Malwa, and marries a Rajput princess.Trade ReviewOf all the great monarchs to have ruled over India—a land whose history is richer and more turbulent than that of almost any other—the one who most retains our modern-day attention is Akbar, Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605…[The History of Akbar] includes accounts of his court and his governance, as well as of the wars, alliances and intrigues of his time…Thackston’s translation is the first complete rendition into English of Abu’l-Fazl’s Persian text since Henry Beveridge, a British orientalist and imperial civil servant, completed his version in 1921…Thackston’s English is modern and…[his] translation…is impressively meticulous. -- Tunku Varadarajan * Wall Street Journal *At a time when Hindutva historians are eager to distort the history of Muslim invasions in order to deepen religious cleavages and consolidate vote banks, [Abu’l-Fazl's] elaboration of Akbar’s legacy as a tolerant Muslim ruler of a non-Muslim majority is an important reminder of how Indian society has evolved. -- Pragya Tiwari * India at LSE blog *We can only welcome an undertaking like the Murty Classical Library of India, which intends to inject fresh blood directly into the circulatory system of the English language. Any intelligent reader cannot fail to be favorably impressed in the presence of the variegated offerings of the series’ first titles…The Murty Classical Library offers a surprising array of texts that are in any case capable of broadening the all-too-restricted horizons of the average Western reader. -- Roberto Calasso * New York Review of Books *
£26.96
Harvard University Press The Phœnix Nest 1593
Book SynopsisA reissue of a volume published in 1931. Originally published in 1593, this book is one of the best of the many Elizabethan anthologies and includes poems of such fine writers as Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Peele, and Robert Greene.
£27.86
Harvard University Press On Married Love. Eridanus
Book SynopsisGiovanni Pontano, the dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, wrote two brilliantly original poetical cycles. On Married Love is the first sustained exploration of married love in first-person poetry. Eridanus combines familiar motifs of courtly love with an allusive matrix of classical elegy and Pontano’s distinctive vision.
£26.96
Harvard University Press Renaissance Genres
Book SynopsisGenre studies are flourishing, nowhere more vigorously than in the field of Renaissance literature, given the importance to Renaissance writers of questions of genre. The 18 essays in this volume are striking in their diversity of stance and approach. Three are addressed to genre theory explicitly, and all reveal a concern with theoretical issues.
£40.76
Harvard University Press Shelley and His Circle 17731822
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£194.36
Princeton University Press The Sorcerers Apprentice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n eclectic collection ... spanning millennia and continents."--Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald "[A] comprehensive anthology... [A]lso of note are artist Frank's gorgeous illustrations."--Library Journal "It is not often that a new book comes along that is both a breakthrough in scholarly terms and also a magnificent work of art. Jack Zipes's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, illustrated by Natalie Frank, is both."--Maria Tatar, Breezes from WonderlandTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Preface xi Notes and Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Harry Potter, and Why Magic Matters 1 Part I The Humiliated Apprentice Tales Early Tales Lucian of Samosata, "Eucrates and Pancrates" (ca. 170 CE) 85 Francois Petis de la Croix, "The Story of the Brahmin Padmanaba and the Young Hassan" (1707) 88 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The Pupil in Magic" (1798) 97 Nineteenth-Century Tales Robert Southey, "Cornelius Agrippa's Bloody Book" (1801) 101 Sir Walter Scott, "The Last Exorciser" (1838) 103 John Naake, "The Book of Magic" (1874) 103 Alfred Cooper Fryer, "The Master and His Pupil; or, The Magic Book" (1884) 105 Sheykh-Zada, "The Lady's Fifth Story" (1886) 110 Edith Hodgetts, "The Blacksmith and the Devil" (1890) 112 Twentieth-Century Tales Henry Thomas Francis, "The Rash Magician" (1916) 117 Richard Rostron, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1941) 119 Richard Dorson, "The Mojo" (1956) 123 Harold Courlander, "The Do-All Ax" (1957) 124 Part II The Rebellious Apprentice Tales Early Tales Ovid, "Erysichthon and Mestra" (8 CE) 129 Rachel Harriette Busk, "The Saga of the Well-and-Wise-Walking Khan" (ca. 3rd Century to 11th Century) 136 Somadeva, "Bhavasarman and the Two Witches" (ca. 1070) 140 Farid al-Din 'Attar, "The Magician's Apprentice" (ca. 1220) 142 Giovan Francesco Straparola, "Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi" (1553) 144 Sangendhi Mahalingam Natesa Sastri, "The Deceiver Shall Be Deceived" (ca. 1770) 151 Nineteenth-Century Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "The Nimble Thief and His Master" (1819) 163 Kazimierz Wladyslaw Woycicki, "The Sorcerer and His Apprentice" (1839) 166 Arthur and Albert Schott, "The Devil and His Pupil" (1845) 169 Ludwig Bechstein, "The Magic Combat" (1857) 174 Johann Georg von Hahn, "The Teacher and His Pupil" (1864) 178 Giuseppe Pitre, "The Tuft of Wild Beet" (1875) 184 Domenico Comparetti, "Oh, Relief!" (1875) 190 Francois-Marie Luzel, "The Magician and His Servant" (1885) 193 George Webbe Dasent, "Farmer Weathersky" (1888) 202 Jerome Curtin, "The Fisherman's Son and the Gruagach of Tricks" (1890) 209 Edith Hodgetts, "The Wonderful Trade" (1890) 218 Charles Swynnerton, "The Story of Ali the Merchant and the Brahmin" (1892) 227 Twentieth-Century Tales Leo Wiener, "The Tale of the Sorcerer" (1902) 243 Joseph Charles Mardrus, "The Twelfth Captain's Tale" (ca. 1904) 247 Fletcher Gardner, "The Battle of the Enchanters" (1907) 253 Peter Buchan, "The Black King of Morocco" (1908) 254 Cecil Henry Bompas, "The Boy Who Learnt Magic" (1909) 257 Edith Nesbit, "The Magician's Heart" (1912) 260 Claude-Marius Barbeau, "The Two Magicians" (1916) 272 Hermann Hesse, "The Forest Dweller" (1917) 274 Heywood Broun, "Red Magic" (1921) 281 Dean Fansler, "The Mysterious Book" (1921) 286 Elsie Clews Parsons, "The Battle of the Enchanters" (1923) 289 Romuald Pramberger, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1926) 293 Seumas MacManus, "The Mistress of Magic" (1926) 296 Joseph Medard Carriere, "The Two Magicians" (1937) 306 John Mason Brewer, "The High Sheriff and His Servant" (1958) 311 Corinne Saucier, "The Man and His Son" (1962) 312 A. K. Ramanujan, "The Magician and His Disciple" (1997) 313 Part III Krabat Tales Joachim Leopold Haupt, "About an Evil Man in Gross-Sarchen" (1837) 323 Michael Hornig, "Krabat: A Legend from Folklore" (1858) 324 Georg Gustav Kubasch, "Krabat" (1865) 326 Edmund Veckenstedt, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, I" (1880; Recorded by Hendrich Jordan) 329 Edmund Veckenstedt, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, II" (1880; Recorded by Alexander von Rabenau) 331 Johann Goltsch, "The Story about Krabat" (1885) 333 Georg Pilk, "The Wendish Faust Legend" (1900) 334 Jerzy Slizinski, "Krabat" (1959) 344 Biographies of Authors, Editors, Collectors, and Translators 349 Filmography 365 Bibliography 369 Selected and Chronological List of Sorcerer's Apprentice Tales 387 Index 397
£28.50
Princeton University Press Cervantes Aristotle and the Persiles
Book SynopsisBased on the author's thesis, Princeton University.Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. The Critique and Purification of the Romance of Chivalry, pg. 11*CHAPTER II. Heliodorus and Literary Theory, pg. 49*CHAPTER III. The Dialogue Between the Canon and Don Quixote, pg. 91*CHAPTER IV. The Narrator and His Audience The Liberation of the Imagination, pg. 131*CHAPTER V. The Critical Examination of Literary Theory in the Persiles, pg. 169*CHAPTER VI. Periandro's Narration THE HERO AS POET, pg. 187*CHAPTER VII. Topics of the Marvelous THE GARDEN PARADISE, pg. 212*CHAPTER VIII. The Narrator of the Persiles, pg. 257*CHAPTER IX. The Cervantine Figure of the Poet: Impostor or God?, pg. 305*CONCLUSION, pg. 339*Bibliography, pg. 349*Index, pg. 361
£46.80
New Directions Publishing Corporation Tyrant Memory
Book SynopsisCastellanos Moya's most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny.Trade Review"Brilliantly funny and unsettling. Despite his estrangement from his country and his merciless criticism of it, he has put El Salvador on the literary map, giving it an international existence." -- Natasha Wimmer - The Nation"A welcome, eye-opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare." -- Anderson Tepper - Time Out New York"In Tyrant Memory, Castellanos Moya’s ambitious and deft handling of his characters’ stories and political milieus reveal a writer unparalleled in his ability to portray the anxieties and messy complexities of political and personal turmoil." -- Jeffery Zuckerman - Review of Contemporary Fiction"Tyrant Memory stands out because of its scrupulous evocation of an atmosphere of conspiracy and its use of historical events." -- Times Literary Supplement"The only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time." -- Roberto Bolan~o"Castellanos Moya can be a brilliant practitioner of edge of collapse, culling searing narratives of exile and estrangement." -- Julia Haav - Three Percent
£12.34
University of Pennsylvania Press The Killers
Book SynopsisThe Killers is a tale of gang violence, revenge, kidnapping, racial and ethnic conflict, international intrigue, and working-class triumph. Based on the real-life events of a Philadelphia race riot, this long-out-of-print sensational novella showcases the political and literary interests of its author, bestselling novelist George Lippard.Trade Review"With its resonant social commentary, The Killers has assumed significance in recent American studies. But this engaging novel stands on its own as a portrait of city life, with special emphasis on the street gangs of Philadelphia's underworld." * David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia, by a Member of the Philadelphia Bar Appendix 1. Life and Adventures of Charles Anderson Chester Appendix 2. Introduction to the Serialized Version of The Killers Appendix 3. Related Contemporary Documents Notes Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press The Medical Imagination
Book SynopsisIn 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Science does not know its debt to imagination, words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine—to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make groundbreaking discoveries. We know a great deal about the empirical aspects of medicine, but we know far less about what the medical imagination is, what it does, how it works, or how we might train it.In The Medical Imagination, Sari Altschuler argues that this was not always so. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and other health writers in the early United States, literature provided important forms fTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Revolution Chapter 2. Yellow Fever Chapter 3. Cholera Chapter 4. Difference Chapter 5. Anesthesia Conclusion. Humanistic Inquiry in Medicine, Then and Now Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
The Catholic University of America Press The Dry Wood
Book SynopsisThe Catholic Women Writers series brings together the English-language prose works of Catholic women from the 19th and 20th centuries. The first volume in the series is Caryll Houselander's The Dry Wood. It offers a vital contribution to the modern literary canon and a profound meditation on the purpose of human suffering.
£18.36
Rutgers University Press Bold Words A Century of Asian American Writing
Book SynopsisA century of Asian American writing has generated a forceful cascade of "bold words." This anthology covers writings by Asian Americans in all genres, from the early twentieth century to the present. Trade ReviewBold Words is an ambitious attempt to sweep together, into an elegant volume, examples of the literature produced by Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian and South-east Asian Americans. The bookÆs reach extends beyond ethnic boundaries; it consciously erases the boundaries of gender and genre often observed by anthologies. The result is a richly varied . . . collection of stories, poems, drama and memoir, the multilingual voices echoing different corners of the world . . . * Times Literary Supplement *Bold Words is an ambitious collection of a wide range of works by Asian American authors. In contrast to the limited scope of previous compilations, this volume successfully reflects the incredible diversity of the Asian American experience in terms of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, mixed racial heritage, region and generation. . . . An anthology that would be equally useful in the classroom or for an individual who wishes to acquire broad knowledge of and exposure to Asian American literature over the past century. . . . Comprehensive, well organized and accessible, Bold Words would make a fine addition to any personal or library collection. The reader will encounter many familiar names, such as Carlos Bulosan, David Mura and Maxine Hong Kingston, as well as an exciting array of other talented authors whose work one will be happy to read. * Pacific Reader *Srikanth and Iwanaga reframe the debate by shifting attention away from the ethnic and/or gender identities of the writers and onto the writing itself by arranging the text by genre. With the material grouped in this way, readers will attend to the contribution writers are making to the literary field rather than to their representation of any particular identity. . . . In doing so, they present a broader range of international heritages, including a strong showing of Indian, Arab, and Southeast Asian writing, areas heretofore mostly overlooked. . . . The text is rich with solid favorites and surprisingly good newcomers. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Rajini Srikanth PART 1 MEMOIR PART 2 POETRY PART 3 FICTION PART 4 DRAMA Appendix 1: Themes and Topics Appendix 2: Ethnicity of Authors Glossary About the Contributors About the Editors Copyrights and Permissions Index of Authors and Titles
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University of Hawai'i Press The Ise Stories Ise monogatari
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£999.99
University of Hawai'i Press Andha Yug The Age of Darkness Manoa
Book SynopsisOne of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Dharamvir Bharatiâs Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. The once-beautiful city of Hastinapur is burning, the battlefield beyond the walls is piled with corpses, and the few survivors huddle together in grief and rage, blaming the destruction on their adversaries, divine capriciousnessâanyone or anything except their own moral choices. Andha Yug explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a blind, dispirited age. Andha Yug is illustrated with paintings from a rare, single manuscript of the Razmnama (Book of War), dated to 1598â1599. Created during the reign (1556â1605) of the great Mughal emperor Akbar, the Razmnama is written in Persian, yet it is a translation of the Mahabharata, one of the great Indian epics of Hinduism. An essay by Yael Rice reveals the Indian, Pe
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Liverpool University Press Christians and Moors in Spain Volume I AD 7111150
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together extracts from texts in Latin, Hispanic vernaculars, and French, concerning the relations of the Christians and Moors in Spain in the first four hundred years of their co-existence in the Peninsula. An effort has been made to illustrate aspects other than the exclusively military.
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Liverpool University Press Christians and Moors in Spain. Vol 3 Arab sources
Book SynopsisThe last two volumes in this series have looked at the confrontation between Christian and Moor in Medieval Spain exclusively from the Christian side.This book attemps to redress the balance by looking at many of the same incidents from the Moslem point of view.Table of Contents Map of Spain Acknowledgements Introduction: Booklist Texts Glossary Index
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Liverpool University Press Lazarillo de Tormes La Vida De Lazarillo De
Book SynopsisLazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of masters, in reality it is a comical and caustic exposé of sixteenth century Spanish society, and especially the Church.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Bibliography; Text; Translation; Notes
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WW Norton & Co The Myth of Americas Decline Politics Economics
Book SynopsisA provocative and contrarian work—filled with great lessons from history—that challenges the pervasive notion that America is on the decline.Trade Review"The Myth of America’s Decline effectively lays to rest the belief that America has lost its preeminence. Joffe’s well-documented research confirms an entirely different story: that the United States stands near or at the top of every ranking used to measure a nation’s strength and vigor. It is a book that should be of interest to all who may be worried about America’s future." -- Henry A. Kissinger"In lucid and logical style, one of Europe’s leading intellectuals skewers the anti-Americanisms of his compatriots while telling the United States how to survive as the only superpower." -- Joseph S. Nye Jr., author of Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics"Josef Joffe is a brilliant observer of international politics. He is also a keen student—and admirer—of the United States. He combines these two passions in this remarkable reflection on America’s role in the world. It is the best book on the subject in years." -- Fareed Zakaria, author of The Future of Freedom"Joseph Joffe has written a bracing and intelligent reminder that, for all its woes, America remains extraordinarily dynamic, innovative and resilient. Pessimists on the left and right should read it carefully, as should all of us." -- Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World"Joffe’s counter-argument that indeed America is not in relative decline is persuasive…. Joffe’s detailed catalogue of economic and civil weaknesses in the Chinese police state is the book’s high point, however, with the author observing that repression has been the Chinese way since the Ming Dynasty…. For readers tired of blame-America-first critics or who want to find out what a smart, influential European thinks of the country’s prospects, Joffe’s book is a useful place to begin." -- Publishers Weekly"A solid…job of refuting the declinism so feared by the right and perhaps welcomed by some even farther to the right and left. Along the way, Joffe cites some little-discussed statistics, such as the fact that China’s aging population and the need for a replenished labor pool to support it fall into ‘ratios [that] are far worse than any in the West.’ So much for China as the rising dominant world power. There is no triumphalism here, for Joffe notes that there are plenty of problems for the United States to overcome, such as ‘the breakdown of bipartisanship…intractable deficits and rising debt…[and] social polarization.’" -- Kirkus Reviews"German intellectual Josef Joffe makes a stirring case against the Fareed Zakaria and Thomas Friedman’s of the world that America is strong and getting stronger…. While acknowledging that anything is possible and America’s best days may yet be behind us, Joffe is adept at explaining the intangible factors that will likely ensure America’s preeminence for ages to come." -- James Kirchick - The Daily Beast"Brave and bracing…. Joffe makes a strong case that a mix of Chinese vulnerabilities and American strengths means it is unlikely that China will replace the United States anytime soon as the center of the global system. Yet, as Joffe notes, constant anxiety about the United States’ prospects might be one of the cultural forces responsible for the country’s persistent strength; rather than resting on their laurels, Americans continually and even neurotically poke at their social fabric, looking for tears that need mending." -- Walter Russell Mead - Foreign Affairs
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WW Norton & Co The Theatre of E E Cummings
Book SynopsisThe complete collection of E. E. Cummings’s writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century.
£20.89
WW Norton & Co On Tocqueville
Book SynopsisTocqueville's gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume.Trade Review"Ryan's excellent introduction makes Tocqueville's observations and anxieties vitally relevant for 21st-century readers."
£11.99
WW Norton & Co On Machiavelli
Book SynopsisAn essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli.Trade Review"A brief and pithy summary of the contributions of Niccolò Machiavelli, a pivotal figure in modern political thought who is nevertheless often misunderstood…. Ryan’s summary is accompanied by fairly substantial extracts from Machiavelli’s key texts, allowing this book to serve as a teaching resource as well as a concise and readable introduction to its subject." -- Booklist"Alan Ryan captures Machiavelli’s hold on the modern moral imagination when he says, “The staying power of The Prince comes from…its insistence on the need for a clear-sighted appreciation of how men really are as distinct from the moralizing claptrap about how they ought to be.” This moral clarity remains bracing in an era like our own, when politicians hide the necessary ruthlessness of political life behind the rhetoric of family values and Christian principles …. We are still drawn to Machiavelli because we sense how impatient he was with the equivalent flummery in his own day, and how determined he was to confront a problem that preoccupies us too: when and how much ruthlessness is necessary in the world of politics." -- Michael Ignatieff - The Atlantic
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WW Norton & Co The HEAD Game
Book SynopsisA leading US government analyst and secret intelligence commentator distills his decision-making expertise into this ground-breaking approach to problem solving.Trade Review"... he [Philip Mudd] writes succinctly and with exceptional clarity." -- The Huffington Post
£19.94
MP-MLA Modern Lanuage Assoc Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction
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University of Iowa Press For Love of the World
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£17.05
East European Monographs Committing Community CarpathoRusyn Studies as an
Book SynopsisLeading scholars of Slavic, Russian, and Ukrainian national issues debate the history and place of Rusyns within East Central Europe.Trade ReviewIn many ways this is a fine introduction to Carpatho-Rusyn studies, an emerging field in the transnational highland borderlands of East Central Europe. Polish Review
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Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library Fregi e Majuscole Incise e Fuse da Giambattista
Book SynopsisA facsimile of Giambattista Bodoni's first type specimen, "Fregi e Majuscole" of 1771, two copies of which were given to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Houghton Library by William Bentinck-Smith, Class of 1937.
£7.71
Purdue University Press Striking Their Modern Pose: Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdós, Pardo Bazán, and Picón
Book SynopsisThe importance of fashion in the construction and representation of gender and the formation of modern society in nineteenth-century Spanish narrative is the focus of Dorota Heneghan’s Striking Their Modern Pose. The study moves beyond traditional interpretations that equate female passion for finery with symptoms of social ambition and the decline of the Spanish nation, and brings to light the manners in which nineteenth-century Spanish novelists drew attention to the connection between the complexities of fashionable female protagonists and the shifting limits of conventional womanhood to address the need to reformulate customary ideals of gender as a necessary condition for Spain to advance in the process of modernization. The project also sheds light on an area largely unexplored by previous studies: men’s pursuit of fashion. Through the analysis of the richness of sartorial subtleties in Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s portraits of their male characters, this book brings forward these writers’ exposure of the much-denied bourgeois men’s love for self-adornment and the incoherencies and contradictions in the allegedly monolithic, stable concept of nineteenth-century Spanish masculinity. While highlighting the ways in which the art of dressing smartly provided nineteenth-century Spanish novelists with effective means to voice their critique of conventional gender order, the book also lends insight into these authors’ methods of manipulating sartorial signs to explore and to envision (as in the case of Pardo Bazán and Jacinto Octavio Picón) alternative models of masculinity and femininity. Threading through all chapters of the study is the idea propagated by all three of these writers that Spain’s full integration into modernity required not only the redefinition of the feminine role, but the reconfiguration of the masculine one as well.
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Liverpool University Press Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of
Book SynopsisSituated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad’s geographic position—seen as strategic by various imperial governments—led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island’s literature. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state’s national literature. Alternatively, the political threats posed around San Fernando in Trinidad’s southwest in the 1930s and from within the capital in the 1970s present a different picture of western Trinidad—one in which the fractures of Trinidad and Tobago’s projected nationalism are prevalent.While sugar remains a dominant narrative in Caribbean literary studies, this book offers a unique literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. This study places works by well-known authors such as V. S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad’s nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented.Table of ContentsIntroductionA Geographic Reading of Trinidad’s WestTracing a Caribbean Literary Past and the Role of the LocalDecoupling the Literary Map from the Modern StateBeyond Sugar: Remapping Trinidad’s Literary HistoryChapter 1 Traversing Trinidad’s Wild West (1783-1907)Charting the Terrain: Three MapsMapping the Conquest and the Myth of Terra CognitaUncultivated Lands and Wild FrontiersConquistadors of Sense and SensibilitiesThe Wandering, Innocent Eye/I in the Tropical PicturesquePirates, Revolution and Creole ConsciousnessChapter 2 Peeping Through the Partition (1927-1936)Modernist Visions, Porous Barrack-Yard BoundariesPrivacy, Private Property and RentThe Gynocentric YardDangerous TransgressionsResisting Patriarchy and ColonialismChapter 3 Dark Thresholds in the Colonial House (1934)Setting Boundaries, Crossing BordersPolicing the PerimeterPlaying House in the CommunityChapter 4 Challenge from the South (1935-45)Oil, Possession, Labour and the Yankee DollarOilPossessionLabourThe Yankee DollarChapter 5 The Sub-Urban Expansion (1940s-50s)Views of the Port, City and CountryWaterside Relations: the Port, Saga and SteelbandMyths of City and CountryChapter 6 From the Grassroots to Woodford Square (1962-2010)Community, Nationhood and the Politics of the LocationFrom the University of Woodfood Square to the People’s ParliamentConclusionBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism:
Book SynopsisAlgeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988–2015 offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realities, the chapters in this volume serve to open up any discourse that would tie ‘Algeria’ to a fixed meaning or construct it in ways that neglect the weft and warp of everyday cultural production and political action. The configuration of these essays invites us to read contemporary cultural production in Algeria not as determined indices of a specific place and time (1988–2015) but as interrogations and explorations of that period and of the relationship between nation and culture. The intention of this volume is to offer historical moments, multiple contexts, hybrid forms, voices and experiences of the everyday that will prompt nuance in how we move between frames of enquiry. These chapters — written by specialists in Algerian history, politics, music, sport, youth cultures, literature, cultural associations and art — offer the granularity of microhistories, fieldwork interviews and studies of the marginal in order to break up a synthetic overview and offer keener insights into the ways in which the complexity of Algerian nation-building are culturally negotiated, public spaces are reclaimed, and Algeria reimagined through practices that draw upon the country’s past and its transnational present.Trade ReviewReviews 'This volume edited by Patrick Crowley looks at the current state of the country by drawing on cultural studies and historical analysis. It proposes a series of case studies on the representations of contemporary Algeria and their political meanings, with the objective of challenging any political discourse that homogenizes the idea of 'Algerianity.' From a pedagogical perspective, this is a useful resource to understand the role of dominant narratives and key historical references, as well as the formulation of alternative discourses. It is especially effective in challenging the twin narratives presenting a country plagues by 'violence' and 'culture wars.' Last but not least, the volume offers of collection of contribution that illuminates a wide range of issues such as the meanings associated to the memories of the 1970s, the artistic use of audiovidual documents to fight institutional amnesia, the appropriation of the arts of movements (parkour, street dance) by the Algerian youth or the political functions of sports and especially football. Therefore, the book edited by Crowley is a crucial resource to introduce students to the diversity of the country.' Muriam Haleh Davis, and Thomas Serres, Jadaliyya'Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism, 1988–2015 is a welcome effort to shed light on the current state of the country by drawing on historical analysis and cultural studies. Engaged in a decade-long effort to scrutinise the cultural dynamics that shaped colonial and postcolonial subjects, Patrick Crowley has focused on Algeria as a site for the production of exemplary imperialist and revolutionary discourses...This is a rich and diverse book that brings together numerous inspiring contributions. It far surpasses its stated goal of complexifying our understanding of Algeria, offering insights for rethinking how Algeria has been framed by past and present researchers. Rather than being a merely useful work for specialists of the country and students interested in cultural studies, this volume makes interventions that are both necessary and profound given the current state of the field.' The Journal of North African Studies'[T]he diversity of themes and methodologies, and the focus on putting national dynamics, transnational processes and the everyday into dialogue, make this volume a critical text for anyone working on contemporary Algeria. Individual chapters will also be of interest to scholars working on music, postcolonial literature, political movements, discourses of identity, youth and relations between the cultural and the political.' Camille Jacob, International Journal of Francophone Studies‘Crowley’s Introduction effectively maps out why each of these frames is so useful to scholarship on contemporary Algeria...Another great strength of the collection is to give readers access to exciting work by promising young scholars…’Todd Shephard, French StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIllustrationsIntroductionAlgeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015 Patrick CrowleyNation, State and SocietyIn the Shadow of Revolution James McDougallAlgeria’s ‘Belle Époque’: Memories of the 1970s as a Window on the Present Ed McAllisterThe Many (Im)possibilities of Contemporary Algerian Judaïtés Samuel Sami Everett1988-1992: Multipartism, Islamism and the Descent into Civil War Malika RahalAlgerian Heritage Associations: National Identity and Rediscovering the Past Jessica NortheyCultural MediationsWriting in the Aftermath of Two Wars: Algerian Modernism and the Génération ’88 Corbin TreacyThe Persistence of the Image, the Lacunae of History: The Archive and Contemporary Art in Algeria (1992-2012) Fanny GilletMusic, Borders and Nationhood in Algeria Tony LangloisAlgerian Youth on the Move. Capoeira, Street-dance and Parkour: Between Integration and Contestation Britta HeckingSport in Algeria — from national self-assertion to anti-state contestation Philip DineBeyond France-Algeria: The Algerian Novel and the Transcolonial Imagination Olivia C. HarrisonAfterwordPerforming Algerianness: The National and Transnational Construction of Algeria’s ‘Culture Wars’ Walid Benkhaled and Natalya VinceNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Liverpool University Press Essays in Romanticism, Volume 24.1 2017
Book SynopsisEssays in Romanticism, a peer-reviewed journal edited by Alan Vardy, is the official journal of the International Conference on Romanticism, succeeding Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism. Available to purchase as a single issue, EiR continues the tradition of its predecessor in encouraging contributions within an interdisciplinary and comparative framework. More broadly, it welcomes submissions on any aspect of Romanticism, and especially work using emergent or innovative perspectives and approaches.Table of Contents 1) William D. Brewer: Female Dueling and Women’s Rights 2) Christina Solomon: Figuring Orientalism: The Arabesque and Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer 3) Ruth Knezevich: The Empire of the Page: Footnotes in Byron’s The Giaour 4) Melissa Hurwitz: Robinson's Female Vagrant 5) Hannah Markley: The Mother Palimpsest: Reproduction in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria de Profundis 6) Nicole A. Sütterlin: E.T.A. Hoffmann and Development of Trauma
£47.50
Liverpool University Press Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism:
Book SynopsisAlgeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988–2015 offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realities, the chapters in this volume serve to open up any discourse that would tie ‘Algeria’ to a fixed meaning or construct it in ways that neglect the weft and warp of everyday cultural production and political action. The configuration of these essays invites us to read contemporary cultural production in Algeria not as determined indices of a specific place and time (1988–2015) but as interrogations and explorations of that period and of the relationship between nation and culture. The intention of this volume is to offer historical moments, multiple contexts, hybrid forms, voices and experiences of the everyday that will prompt nuance in how we move between frames of enquiry. These chapters — written by specialists in Algerian history, politics, music, sport, youth cultures, literature, cultural associations and art — offer the granularity of microhistories, fieldwork interviews and studies of the marginal in order to break up a synthetic overview and offer keener insights into the ways in which the complexity of Algerian nation-building are culturally negotiated, public spaces are reclaimed, and Algeria reimagined through practices that draw upon the country’s past and its transnational present.Trade ReviewReviews 'This volume edited by Patrick Crowley looks at the current state of the country by drawing on cultural studies and historical analysis. It proposes a series of case studies on the representations of contemporary Algeria and their political meanings, with the objective of challenging any political discourse that homogenizes the idea of 'Algerianity.' From a pedagogical perspective, this is a useful resource to understand the role of dominant narratives and key historical references, as well as the formulation of alternative discourses. It is especially effective in challenging the twin narratives presenting a country plagues by 'violence' and 'culture wars.' Last but not least, the volume offers of collection of contribution that illuminates a wide range of issues such as the meanings associated to the memories of the 1970s, the artistic use of audiovidual documents to fight institutional amnesia, the appropriation of the arts of movements (parkour, street dance) by the Algerian youth or the political functions of sports and especially football. Therefore, the book edited by Crowley is a crucial resource to introduce students to the diversity of the country.' Muriam Haleh Davis, and Thomas Serres, Jadaliyya'Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism, 1988–2015 is a welcome effort to shed light on the current state of the country by drawing on historical analysis and cultural studies. Engaged in a decade-long effort to scrutinise the cultural dynamics that shaped colonial and postcolonial subjects, Patrick Crowley has focused on Algeria as a site for the production of exemplary imperialist and revolutionary discourses...This is a rich and diverse book that brings together numerous inspiring contributions. It far surpasses its stated goal of complexifying our understanding of Algeria, offering insights for rethinking how Algeria has been framed by past and present researchers. Rather than being a merely useful work for specialists of the country and students interested in cultural studies, this volume makes interventions that are both necessary and profound given the current state of the field.' The Journal of North African Studies'[T]he diversity of themes and methodologies, and the focus on putting national dynamics, transnational processes and the everyday into dialogue, make this volume a critical text for anyone working on contemporary Algeria. Individual chapters will also be of interest to scholars working on music, postcolonial literature, political movements, discourses of identity, youth and relations between the cultural and the political.' Camille Jacob, International Journal of Francophone Studies‘Crowley’s Introduction effectively maps out why each of these frames is so useful to scholarship on contemporary Algeria...Another great strength of the collection is to give readers access to exciting work by promising young scholars…’Todd Shephard, French StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIllustrationsIntroductionAlgeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015 Patrick CrowleyNation, State and SocietyIn the Shadow of Revolution James McDougallAlgeria’s ‘Belle Époque’: Memories of the 1970s as a Window on the Present Ed McAllisterThe Many (Im)possibilities of Contemporary Algerian Judaïtés Samuel Sami Everett1988-1992: Multipartism, Islamism and the Descent into Civil War Malika RahalAlgerian Heritage Associations: National Identity and Rediscovering the Past Jessica NortheyCultural MediationsWriting in the Aftermath of Two Wars: Algerian Modernism and the Génération ’88 Corbin TreacyThe Persistence of the Image, the Lacunae of History: The Archive and Contemporary Art in Algeria (1992-2012) Fanny GilletMusic, Borders and Nationhood in Algeria Tony LangloisAlgerian Youth on the Move. Capoeira, Street-dance and Parkour: Between Integration and Contestation Britta HeckingSport in Algeria — from national self-assertion to anti-state contestation Philip DineBeyond France-Algeria: The Algerian Novel and the Transcolonial Imagination Olivia C. HarrisonAfterwordPerforming Algerianness: The National and Transnational Construction of Algeria’s ‘Culture Wars’ Walid Benkhaled and Natalya VinceNotes on ContributorsIndex
£30.25
Liverpool University Press A Companion to Ezra Pound's Guide to Kulchur
Book SynopsisPublished in 1938, Guide to Kulchur encapsulates Ezra Pound’s chief concerns: his cultural, historiographic, philosophical, and epistemological theories; his aesthetics and poetics; and his economic and political thought. In its fifty-eight chapters and postscript, it constitutes an interdisciplinary and transhistorical cultural anthropology that exemplifies his slogan for the renovation of ancient wisdom for current use—“ Make It New.” Though wildly encyclopedic, allusive and recursive, Guide to Kulchur is inescapable in any serious study of Pound. A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur addresses the formidable interpretive challenges his most far-reaching prose tract presents to the reader. Providing page-by-page glosses on key terms and passages in Guide, the Companion also situates Pound’s allusions and references in relation to other texts in his vast body of work, especially The Cantos. Striking a balance between rigorous scholarly standards and readerly accessibility, the bookis designed to meet the needs of the specialist while keeping the critical apparatus unobtrusive so as also to appeal to students and the general public. A long-needed resource, A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur makes a lasting contribution to thestudy of one of the most influential and controversial literary figures of the twentieth century.Trade Review'The amount of scholarly labour that Araujo has put into this project is prodigious, and the result is both fascinating and useful… Guide to Kulchur is an enormously suggestive work, Araujo’s Companion makes it more suggestive still, a companion that stands tall with older friends and guides: Terrell, Ruthven, Cookson, Kearns and Henderson.' Alec Marsh, Make It NewTable of ContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionFrontispiece to PrefaceI. Section I.1: Digest of the Analects2: The New Learning Part One3: Sparta 776 B.C.4: Totalitarian5: Zweck or the AimSection II.6: Vortex7: Great Bass: Part One8: Ici Je Teste9: TraditionII. Section III.10: Guide11: Italy12: Aeschylus and…13: Monumental Section IV.14: The History of Philosophy is…?III. Section V.15: Values16: Europe or the Setting17: Sophists18: Kulchur: Part One19: Kulchur: Part Two20: March 12th21: Textbooks Section VI.22: Savoir Faire23: The New Learning: Part Two24: Examples of Civilization25: Books “About”26: On Answering CriticsIV. Section VII.27: Maxims of Prudence28: Human Wishes Section VIII.29: Guide to Kulchur30: The Proof of the Pudding31: Canti32: The Novel and So Forth33: Precedents34: On Arriving and Not Arriving35: Praise Song of the Buck-Hare36: Time-Lag37: The Culture of an Age Section IV.38: Education or Information39: Neo-platonicks Etc.40: Losses41: Odes: Risks42: Great Bass: Part Two43: ToneV. Section X.44: Government45: The Recurring Decimal46: Decline of the Adamses47: Royalty and All That Section XI.48: Arabia Deserta49: Kung50: Chaucer was Framed?51: Happy Days52: Promised LandVI. Section XII.53. Study of Physiognomy54: And Therefore Tending55: Pergamena Deest56: Watch the Beaneries Section XIII.57: Epilogue58: To RecapitulateAddenda: 1952Notes
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