{"title":"Comparative literature Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"up-from-the-depths-9780691215419","title":"Up from the Depths","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent. . . . A braided account of Melville and Mumford, aimed at exploring the strange resonance between their times and ours.\"\u003cb\u003e---Daniel Immerwahr, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] unique investigation of parallel lives. . . . Sachs’s chapters interweave periods of the two men’s lives, creating a dappled effect of shared shadows and light. Certain biographical overlaps are particularly striking.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich double portrait of Herman Melville and Lewis Mumford. . . . [Sachs’s] voice is exact, good-humored and passionate—all the qualities we need in our own dark times.\"\u003cb\u003e---James Marcus, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement ​​​​​​​\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sachs has written a sort of palimpsest of biography itself, showing how, generation by generation, we begin to see through the traffic between past and present that leads to the rediscovery of figures like Melville and Mumford, who wanted for themselves and their progeny (which includes us) a recognition that going backward can also be a way of going forward.\"\u003cb\u003e---Carl Rollyson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sachs manages a set of impressive balancing acts: matching scholarly diligence with fluent, stylish prose; admiration for his subjects with an alertness to their flaws. \u003ci\u003eUp from the Depths\u003c\/i\u003e packs multiple books into one: an introduction to Mumford’s thought, an innovative study of Melville, and a history of the modern age through the eyes of two uniquely perceptive writers.\"\u003cb\u003e---Madoc Cairns, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rare and remarkable.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jennie Hann, \u003ci\u003eNational Book Critics Circle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An inspired study of [Melville and Mumford], juxtaposing their lives and works in alternating chapters. . . . What draws Sachs to [these writers] is the dialectic in each between continuity and disruption, confidence and despair.\"\u003cb\u003e---Steven G. Kellman, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Illuminating.\"\u003cb\u003e---Allison Gilbert, \u003ci\u003eBUST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An incisive homage to the continuing relevance of two towering writers. . . . A well-informed, thoughtful dual biography.\" * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating. . . . In shining a light on Mumford’s efforts during the ‘Melville Revival’ of the mid-1900s, Sachs makes a strong case for the rediscovery of Mumford’s own writing. . . . A well-executed literary history.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"This fascinating book explores the connection between two American writers, novelist Herman Melville (1819–91) and Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), the novelist’s biographer. In brief, lively, and engaging chapters, Sachs . . . alternates back and forth between the two men, detailing many correspondences in their lives and work despite the years that separated them. . . . Sachs provides sensitive analysis of text and context, offers a wealth of resources in his bibliography, and models how historians and critics can pose questions that continue to matter.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Sachs] weaves the two writers’ contrapuntal historical dialog into a single narrative, a reading experience enhanced by Sachs’ fluent, often-lyrical writing skills.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kevin Lynch, \u003ci\u003eCulture Currents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sachs’s ‘willingness to flash back and forth in time’ leaves readers with a subtle, poignant, understanding of the relationship between the past, present, and future. Sachs also offers his readers a tether for those who feel unmoored and alone as a result of modernity. 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Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidationas when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. 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Through an improvised mash-up of original poetry, trenchant cultural analysis, and touching memoir, Sussman's amazing book is an electroshock to the deadened brain of America. This kaleidoscopic survey of life during the Trump-COVID years from one of Derrida's most celebrated students is an extremely important and highly original work of social and political criticism. A must read for anyone who wants to make \u003ci\u003ethinking\u003c\/i\u003e great again! * Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Professor of English and Philosophy, University of Houston, Victoria, USA, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Sussman crafts an extraordinary voice meticulously registering the existential vagaries of life in New York City during the twin plagues of COVID and Trump. This intimately personal, nonlinear chronicle foregrounds contemporary journalism that challenges the mendacity, hypocrisy, and subterfuge of American political culture. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e is a sustained meditation on intellectual redemptions that refuse to be dismissed by the Pharisees of disinformation. * Bruce Clarke, Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science, Texas Tech University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eNo one today writes – or thinks – quite like Henry Sussman. A rhizomatic memoir of the Trump era, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e reads as a critique of the present penned simultaneously from the future and past. Pulling from Piketty and Poe and conversations in the street with equal attentiveness, Sussman offers a vibrant, searing, subjective answer to the still critical questions: What is to be done, and Who is to blame? The passion of the prose itself models an alternative – an irrational but inexhaustible, perennial hope – to the post-apocalyptic global present he so skillfully scalpels apart. * Marijeta Bozovic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. November 18, 2020. \u003ci\u003ePostal\u003c\/i\u003e. 2. October 6\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e2020. \u003ci\u003eApocalypse red, apocalypse blue\u003c\/i\u003e. 3. December 12, 2020. \u003ci\u003eConfederacy of zombies\u003c\/i\u003e. 4. October 18, 2019. \u003ci\u003eProtests, curtailment of bus service, Queens. \u003c\/i\u003e 5. June 7, 2020. \u003ci\u003eAtlas of vanished places.\u003c\/i\u003e 6. February 10, 2021. \u003ci\u003eRequiem to disinterest\u003c\/i\u003e. 7. January 27, 2020\u003ci\u003e. New feudal lords. \u003c\/i\u003e 8. 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It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as political and social actors and shedding new light on the dynamics of human flourishing. Drawing on important secondary scholarship across several humanities disciplines, especially literature, philosophy, and the performing arts, Nimi Wariboko provides compelling and innovative analysis of the challenges and opportunities on governance and development in postcolonial Nigerian state and society. 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And when one has grasped the explanation, one has acquired the concept.\"--Le Figaro Litteraire Praise from the French edition: \"A dictionary cannot be summarized. One great lesson, nevertheless, which can be distilled from this one (it can be gathered in the masterworks of the entries 'Traduire' ['Translate'] and 'Langues et traditions' ['Languages and traditions']), is that no language is born a philosophical one. It becomes philosophical, as it engages in exchanges with other languages. Philosophical language is impure language, and a national philosophy cannot, therefore, exist. This conviction can perhaps be one of the meanings of the unity of Europe, to which the Vocabulaire renders homage, and service.\"--Vincent Aubin, Le Figaro (review translated by Mark Jensen) \"[I]nteresting reading. The Dictionary of Untranslatables is a wonderful addition to my language library... [A] book to savor and think about and to learn in the broader sense of learning. For anyone interested in language, in words, and the scope of meaning that a word can encompass, I recommend the Dictionary of Untranslatables.\"--Rich Adin, American Editor \"[G]reat success... By preserving the specificity of words in their source languages, but then proceeding though so many near-synonyms in other tongues, the Dictionary bridges this ideological divide, providing a different way of understanding what it is to be in, and between, languages.\"--Tom Bunstead, Independent on Sunday \"[Y]ou should equip yourself with this extraordinary book... You could probably, and profitably, spend your life reading this book... The volume offers a detailed and up-to-date map of abstract thinking, from the classical age to now.\"--Douglas Kerr, South China Morning Post \"The Dictionary of Untranslatables, newly translated from the French original, wears its modest megalomania well. An 11-year project involving some 150 contributors and comprising more than 400 entries, the Dictionary suggests comparison with Volume XI of the First Encyclopedia of Tlon, described by Borges as 'a vast and systemic fragment of the entire history of an unknown planet.' The planet in question here is what we usually call 'continental philosophy.'... [A] heady universe of speculative thinking about the meaning of life, the history of ideas, the fate of mankind, and so on... [T]he Dictionary is revealing for the way it sketches, lexically, a set of parallel but alternate intellectual traditions. What language teachers call 'false friends' are everywhere, inspiring a constant alertness to nuance... Scrupulous and difficult, it's everything that the Internet, which wants everything to talk 'frictionlessly' with everything else, is not. No dreams of universal translation here--enjoy the friction. Use it for bibliomancy, the lost art of divination by book (with scripture or Virgil or Homer or Hafiz).\"--Ross Perlin, New Inquiry \"A vast, lovingly detailed translator's note to western philosophy... This fascinating book belongs to the interesting-in-itself side.\"--George Miller, Le Monde Diplomatique \"[This] is an invaluable reference for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the multilingual lives of some of our most influential words and ideas... It has already provided me with several pleasurable evenings of educational reading adventures, and promises many more for the future. A superb gift for English-speaking writers, linguists, verbivores and linguaphiles.\"--GrrrlScientist \"The Dictionary demonstrates how much vitality and endurance these languages gain from the dialogue they engage in with other world languages--a dialogue structured and catalyzed by relations of power... 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The Dictionary of Untranslatables, in addition to its other pleasures, has a great deal to teach American scholars of the humanities about the depth and complexity of the languages and discourses we've picked up only recently--and a few powerful suggestions about what we may find waiting when we choose to turn back to our own.\"--Michael Kinnucan, Asymptote \"Dictionary of Untranslatables is a treasury of linguistic and philosophical paradoxes, both absorbing and diverting.\"--Alexander Adams, Spiked Review of Books \"[T]his erudite volume is indispensable for advanced European philosophy, literature, and translation studies.\"--Choice \"Dictionary of Untranslatables is one of the most solid, wide-ranging, and remarkable books of our time. Very few will ever read it cover to cover, but anyone who dips into it with a little background in the philosophical tradition, and a desire to learn more about what life is actually about, will be rewarded many times over for the effort.\"--John Toren, Rain Taxi Review of Books \"All dictionaries are encyclopedias in disguise. But the Dictionary of Untranslatables is one of the most remarkably discursive works of reference I have encountered... [T]his giant tome, edited by Barbara Cassin, is ... a bonanza for anyone interested in the history of ideas--a kind of miniature Enlightenment.\"--Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal \"This astoundingly erudite work instantly asserts itself as one of the high points in European scholarship.\"--James W. 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In my more hopeless moments, this question bubbles up inside me, and I'm chomping at the bit to hear Puchner's answer, grounded in history and informed by cultures around the world' -- Sophia Stewart\u003cbr\u003e'Well written, nuanced and light in style, spinning a series of historical narratives in an erudite and engaging way' -- Marguerite Johnson * The Conversation *","brand":"Bonnier Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868569383255,"sku":"9781804182536","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781804182536.jpg?v=1722288670"},{"product_id":"culture-the-surprising-connections-and-influences-between-civilisations-genius-william-dalrymple-9781804182543","title":"Culture: The surprising connections and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A writer of genius' - William Dalrymple\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Remarkable' - Kwame Anthony Appiah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Utterly captivating' - Anthony Doerr\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan anyone really own a culture? 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Johnson\u003cbr\u003e2.3 “This distanced technique of writing from the unconscious”: Alan Burns\u003cbr\u003e2.4 “The voyce crying in the wilderness, rejoice with me”: Brigid Brophy\u003cbr\u003e2.5 “A death wish and a sense of sin”: Ann Quin\u003cbr\u003e2.6 “Who’s she when she’s (not) at home”: Christine Brooke-Rose, 1964–75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3. MAKING JOYCE “PART OF THE LANDSCAPE”:\u003cbr\u003eAMERICAN LITERARY EXPERIMENT, 1953–1973\u003cbr\u003e3.1 “A new mythology for the space age”: William S. Burroughs\u003cbr\u003e3.2 “The self who could do more”: William Gaddis\u003cbr\u003e3.3 “That style which deliberately exhausts its possibilities”: John Barth\u003cbr\u003e3.4 “Never cut when you can paste”: William H. Gass\u003cbr\u003e3.5 “The book remains problematic, unexhausted”: Donald Barthelme\u003cbr\u003e3.6 “Orpheus Puts Down Harp”: Thomas Pynchon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4. JOYCEAN OULIPO, OULIPIAN JOYCE\u003cbr\u003e4.1 The joys of constraint and potential\u003cbr\u003e4.2 “Nothing left to chance”: Raymond Queneau\u003cbr\u003e4.3 “A man of letters”: Georges Perec\u003cbr\u003e4.4 “A pre-modern, encyclopedic cast of mind”: Harry Mathews\u003cbr\u003e4.5 “The Babel effect”: Jacques Roubaud \u003cbr\u003e4.6 The anticipatory plagiarist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5. “THE CENTENARIAN STILL SEEMS AVANT-GARDE”:\u003cbr\u003eEXPERIMENT IN BRITISH FICTION, 1976–2006\u003cbr\u003e5.0 “Of the dissolution of character”: Christine Brooke-Rose, 1984–2006\u003cbr\u003e5.1 “Life’s too shored to embark on it now”: Brian W. Aldiss\u003cbr\u003e5.2 “Packed with meaningless local references”: J.G. 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She combines close readings of a wide variety of poems with research in the philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology of attention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, as our attention is nearly suffocated by the forces of commodification, Lucy Alford awakens us to the subtle powers and true breathing room that poems extend to us. Her focus ranges from Sappho to pre-Islamic poetry through the Renaissance to French and German modernism and the living poets of North America as she attends to the emergent forms of individual works and the manifold experiences of their reception. Close or far, immediate or withdrawn, vivid or abstract, with or without present subjects and objects, poets and their readers begin in perception and arrive at an ethics of care and even love. -- Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003eWidely read in modern poetry and in philosophical, psychological, and sociological studies of attention, Lucy Alford has produced a boldly ambitious book with a new take on poetry in general and the sorts of things it can do. She explores how poems shape and are shaped by different kinds of attention with authority, eloquence, and sureness of touch. -- Jonathan Culler, author of \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Lyric\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy Alford’s elegant and original book incisively distinguishes among the various forms of poetic attention. Fusing lyrical responsiveness with sharp-eyed analysis, it offers supple and intricate readings of attention in a stunningly transnational and transhistorical array of poems, from ancient Egypt and Greece to contemporary America. -- Jahan Ramazani, author of \u003ci\u003ePoetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlford proposes a truly new taxonomy of interest to any student of poetry and poetics: how do poems hold our attention? What are the separable ways in which they do so? How does a poem send us back out into the rest of the world, and when does it encourage us to go, and to stay, nowhere? These questions apply not just to particular poets, but to the whole of a literary enterprise: Alford gives us an acoustically and aesthetically sensitive way to talk about poems from varying language and periods and about the diversity within their unity. -- Stephanie Burt, author of \u003ci\u003eDon't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer readings are sensitive and nuanced. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: What Is Poetic Attention?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Attending to Objects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Modes of Transitive Attention\u003cbr\u003e2. Contemplation: Attention’s Reach\u003cbr\u003e3. Desire: Attention’s Hunger\u003cbr\u003e4. Recollection: Attending to the Departed Object\u003cbr\u003e5. Imagination: Attention’s Poiesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Objectless Awareness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. 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This is an important study of the contemporary condition where people find themselves in weird enclaves of territory, strange folds of legality, or passing through those transitional pockets of airports, detention camps, freeports, or gated communities that increasingly define existence. Hart makes a compelling argument that this condition is tied to the shifting forms and genres of the contemporary novel. With exhilarating readings of J. G. Ballard, China Miéville, Hilary Mantel, Amitav Ghosh, and others, each chapter opens up hugely productive insights. An essential read. -- Roger Luckhurst, University of London\u003cbr\u003eHart’s timely book zeros in on fundamental tensions between sovereignty and territoriality that have only become more urgent in the current moment of crisis. Mining contemporary novels and works of art for insights into political geography, Hart expertly reveals the overlapping jurisdictions and mixed regimes of power that define our world of ‘gated communities, mobile border regimes, and insular solidarities.’ \u003ci\u003eExtraterritorial\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lively and engaging mix of theoretical speculation, historical thinking, and sophisticated cultural analysis. -- Michael Rothberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[B]rilliantly original . . . this book asks urgent questions about what it means to belong to a territory. * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003eA very different ethical commitment emerges in Hart’s \u003ci\u003eExtraterritorial\u003c\/i\u003e to the revolutionary attitude of modernism, not one of escape, but a movement inwards, into the cracks. 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