{"title":"Comparative literature Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"disputing-the-deluge-9781501384776","title":"Disputing the Deluge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List\u003c\/b\u003eFor over 50 years, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of scifi to utopian studies, formalist and leftist critical theory, and his broader engagement with what he terms political epistemology. \u003ci\u003eDisputing the Deluge\u003c\/i\u003e joins a rapidly growing renewal of critical interest in Suvin's work on scifi and utopianism by bringing together in a single volume 24 of Suvin's most significant interventions in the field from the 21st century, with an Introduction by editor Hugh O'Connell and a new preface by the author.  Beginning with writings from the early 2000s that investigate the function of literary genres and reconsider the relationship between science fiction and fantasy, the essays collected here--each a brilliant example of engaged thought--highlight the value of scifi for grappling with the key events and transformations of recent years. Suvin's interrogations show how specul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent reminder of how and why [Suvin] gained...the well-earned reputation as the field’s premier Marxist critic and historian can be found in the 24 pieces that make up Disputing the Deluge... It is a reminder that, for all his reputation as a fiercely rigorous (and sometimes rigid) theorist, Suvin has never been less than an activist, and never less than passionate. * Science Fiction Studies *\u003cbr\u003eEverything in here is of note, from the essays early in this century on fascism and on fantasy to the most recent pieces on the enduring importance of communism; the growing danger of anti-utopian discourse; and especially the totalizing environmental, economic, political, and cultural terror and destruction brought on by the systemic operations of the Capitalocene. * Tom Moylan, Glucksman Professor Emeritus at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and author of Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Bloomsbury, 2020) *\u003cbr\u003eDarko Suvin is an erudite and an insightful scholar of the stories and narrative forms of utopia but he is also a utopian writer, a stylist of such brio and finesse that he can balance anger and insight in the most delicate and yet the most piercing of interpretations. The openness and the energy, critical always but never prescriptive, are the features of a stylistic practice which insists on cognizing the forces which constitute anti-utopia, and of yielding them their due in analytic rigour and seriousness yet never yielding to them the entirety of the intellectual ground. This collection of essays, stretching from 2000 to the naming of our own ‘Coronisation Times,’ is both a great addition to existing volumes of Suvin’s work, and a contribution to a reinterpretation of some of the core concepts and arguments of that previous work, a repurposing of them so as to sharpen how they can help us catch the historical continuities and discontinuities which mark the 21st century. The essays by Suvin dramatize in detail both a mode of argumentation as well as the riches that mode can generate. It is a mode we all need--a Suvian mode--if we are to recognize and overcome the antiutopian imperatives which constitute our current deluge. * Patricia McManus, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Brighton, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWith so many scales of crisis simultaneously unfolding around us, we need today more than ever militant, engaged, and hopeful scholarship that brushes against the grain of the 'new modesties' in critical thought and provides signposts for navigating the increasingly perilous terrain of contemporary planetary life. A disputation in the truest sense of the word--a refusal of the complacencies of the status quo and a willingness to seek truth wherever it may lead--this scintillating collection of Darko Suvin’s most significant interventions published in the first two decades of our millennium offers an exemplary case of just such a necessary scholarship. This timely collection should be of tremendous import not only to students of science fiction and Utopian studies, but to anyone interested in a sobering and clear-eyed assessment of our contemporary 'dark times' and an inspiring call-to-arms for developing the strategies necessary if we are to 'emerge from the flood' of our once again grim but still hope-filled present. * Phillip E. Wegner, Professor and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar, University of Florida, USA, and author of Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (2020) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Editor’s Preface: There Is No Alternative: Non-Reading Suvin, Anti-Antiutopianism, Science Fiction, and Communism Author’s Introduction: Words, Shapes, and Our Common World 1. Kick-Off: An Introduction to Narrative Genres, with a View to SF (2007, 2020)  2. Fantasy as Critique and Cognition: Marx’s Black Metamorphoses of Living Labour (1999-2003)  3. A Note on Fascism as Well-Meaning Utopia (2000)  4. Considering the Sense of \"Fantasy\" or \"Fantastic Fiction\": On Ahistorical Alternate Worlds (1999-2001)  5. Going into a New Century: Sociopolitical Prospects for Utopia (2000)  6. A Colloquium with Darko Suvin: Interview with \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, Australia (2000-02)  7. Poems of Old Age I (2000-04)  8. Circumstances and Stances: A Retrospect (2004)  9. Of Starship Troopers and Refuseniks: War and Militarism in US Science Fiction (An Overview) (2005)  10. To Remember Stanislaw Lem (2006)  11. On U.K. Le Guin’s \"Second Earthsea Trilogy\" and Its Cognitions: A Commentary (2006)  12. Poems of Old Age II (2006-10)  13. Literature, Politics, Brecht, Science Fiction vs. Fantasy: Interview with Maria Xilouri (2008)  14. Darwinism, Left and Right: And Some S-F Probes (2010)  15. Ideologies and Criticism: An Interview with Andrés Lomeña (2011)  16. On Climbing the Mountain of Life (2011)  17. Some Grateful Memories of Fred Pohl (2014)  18. A Note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Declaration of the Arts’ Independence from Capitalism (2015)  19. Cognition Is the Esthetic Measure of Estranged Genres: An Interview with Zorica Ðergovic-Joksimovic (2016)  20. On Splitting Notions: Communism, Science Fiction (The Blagoevgrad Theses, 2018)  21. Poems of Old Age III (2014-20)  22. Orwell and \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e Today: Genius and Tunnel Vision (2019)  23. Utopia or Bust: Capitalocene and Our Existential Antiutopia (2019)  24. Antiutopia in Coronisation Times: Capitalocene and Death (2020)  Appendix: D. Suvin: Publications after 2000 on SF and Utopia\/nism  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739789701463,"sku":"9781501384776","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501384776.jpg?v=1720053149"},{"product_id":"the-great-dismissal-9781501392283","title":"The Great Dismissal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVeteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences?In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on the great dismissal,' in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book establishes a new critical standard for memoir. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e demolishes efforts to expunge controversial books from our society simply because they induce people to think. 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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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. 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The question of whether literature has taken a turn for the worse under this change finds a sly answer in chapter 6, which documents the devastating inequity of both sorts of literary prizes. Table after table of data supports Bowskill’s ‘conservative’ estimate: \"three quarters of all literary prizes go to male authors\". \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Literary Prestige\u003c\/i\u003e examine a rigged game beyond the usual accusation of merely contemporary decline. * Emily Hind, Professor of Spanish, University of Florida, and author of Dude Lit: Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955-2012 (2019) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Literary Prestige\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to and expansion of the ground-breaking work of the likes of Mario Santana, Deborah Cohn and Diana Sorensen on the Lain American Boom and the social, political and cultural networks that supported and promoted it. Using a remarkable range of sources, Bowskill covers the Boom authoritatively, but also revealingly unveils the missing women writers of the Boom, and offers new perspectives on developments with regard to gender and indigenous identity, as well as surveying the most recent directions in the literary prize circuit and the alternatives to it. She also penetratingly discusses literature about literary prizes. This is an important book which is hugely informative and insightful, but which also makes visible the politics of literary prestige and nuances the social role of the author beyond that of public intellectual. It is indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand Spanish American literature in the context of its national and global processes of production and consumption. * Philip Swanson, Hughes Professor of Spanish, University of Sheffield, UK, and editor of Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (2014) *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a much-needed and very ambitious study of the literary prize system in Spanish America and how complex and ever-changing cultural, political and identity factors underline the way in which prizes are organized at national, continental and transnational levels. The study argues very compellingly for the concept of prize networks, thus highlighting the reciprocal or relational nature of literary prizes across the Spanish American world, and its multiple methodologies - engaging the sociology of books, book history and cultural studies - have produced a vast, meticulously-researched and very original study that develops new paradigms about how prizes function in many contexts. It will be invaluable to all those study Spanish-language texts within their contexts of production, promotion and reception. * Par Kumaraswami, Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham, UK, and author of The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba: Narrative, Identity, and Well-being (2016) *\u003cbr\u003eSince \u003ci\u003eThe Economy of Prestige\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) by J. English, we have been waiting for a comprehensive study on the literary prizes for Spanish American Literatures. Sarah E.L. Bowskill succeeds in presenting her case that the network of national and international prizes is a system interwoven by politics of prestige intersected by nation-state imaginaries, publishers’ plans and markets, gender and linguistic identities. * Anadeli Bencomo, Professor of Contemporary Latin American Literature, University of Houston, USA, and author of Entre héroes, fantasmas y apocalípticos. Testigos y paisajes en la crónica mexicana (2011) *\u003cbr\u003eBowskill has a fine eye for detail and information that may seem “gossipy.” Her attention and dependence on digital resources, charts, and archives is impressive -- Will H. Corral * World Literature Today *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Literary Prestige, Politics, the Prize Network and the Roles of the Author in Society 1. Literary Prizes, Controversy and the State in Spanish America 2. Peninsular Publishers, Spanish American Authors and Prizes for Literature in Spanish 3. Spanish American Authors on the World Stage 4. Roberto Bolaño, Carmen Boullosa and Fernando Iwasaki Find their Voice in the Prizes Game 5. The Premio Biblioteca Breve and the Forgotten Women of the Boom 6. Women Winning Prizes: A No Win Situation? 7. Prizes for Literatures in Indigenous Languages 8. The Never-Ending Network? \u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex of Prizes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084038250839,"sku":"9781501350771","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501350771.jpg?v=1725550855"},{"product_id":"stereotype-and-destiny-in-arthur-schnitzlers-prose-9781501357329","title":"Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzlers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, \u003ci\u003eStereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler''s Prose\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler.  While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as normal' \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e special' at the same time. While, through the complex of stereotype and destiny, Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study’s nuanced and remarkably cohesive readings are well-versed in social theory, cultural history, and narratology. ... book offers a thorough examination of the complex of stereotyping, which illuminates broader psychosociological phenomena * Austrian History Yearbook *\u003cbr\u003eKolkenbrock’s book provides a compelling analysis of the much-studied crises of subjectivity in \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e Vienna by focusing with laser-like precision on the interplay between stereotypes and destiny in Schnitzler’s prose fiction. It earns its place alongside previous studies of Schnitzler and the crisis of identity and should serve to inspire further work in this area. * The German Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“This fresh and original contribution to the scholarly literature on Arthur Schnitzler is informed by critical paradigms of poststructuralism (particularly Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu) and builds a strong theoretical foundation for original readings of several of his prose works … One of the strengths of this study is its broad definition and problematization of the concept of stereotyping … This monograph is unfailingly lucid in its argumentation and contains a comprehensive apparatus that will be useful to scholars, students, and interested readers. The author is clearly well read in social theory and narratology and brings this nuanced perspective to her readings of individual texts. It is part of the exciting \u003ci\u003eNew Directions in German Studies\u003c\/i\u003e series from Bloomsbury and is a valuable addition to Schnitzler scholarship.” -- Felix Tweraser * Journal of Austrian Studies *\u003cbr\u003eKolkenbrock’s original reading of Arthur Schnitzler’s narrative prose both identifies the hidden normative agenda dominating Viennese society around 1900 and attends to Schnitzler’s complex view of the human psyche. As Kolkenbrock lucidly shows, Schnitzler’s protagonists seek individual autonomy in a society in which stereotypes about sex, race, and culture delimit the parameters of their actions. Kolkenbrock reveals that this futile search for autonomy inevitably leads Schnitzler’s protagonists to the figure of the 'other'—one in conflict with the normative order—yet these encounters ultimately do not provide a sustained escape from societal restraints. * Carl Niekerk, Professor of German, Comparative and World Literature, and Jewish Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and editor of German Quarterly and Lessing Yearbook *\u003cbr\u003eKolkenbrock's elegant and original study discovers 'destiny' as a term for the missing substance of subjectivity in Schnitzler's prose works. By defining the different relations between an individual character's encounter with a sense of destiny, on one hand, and the operation of social stereotyping, on the other, she constructs a supple theoretical tool. The resulting analysis gives a beautifully lucid, but also subtly differentiated, account of how Schnitzler's work embodies the impossible challenge confronting personhood not only in \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e Austro-Hungarian reality, but arguably in modernity in general: how to be normal and special at the same time. * Michael Minden, Former Reader in Modern German Literature and Culture and Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Stereotypes and Physiognomy in \u003ci\u003eDer Weg ins Freie \u003c\/i\u003e(Road into the Open) 2. Madness and Investiture in \u003ci\u003eFlucht in die Finsternis \u003c\/i\u003e(Flight into Darkness) 3. 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Dream, Destiny, and Infectious Alterity in \u003ci\u003eTraumnovelle \u003c\/i\u003e(Dream Story) Conclusion and Outlook Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084038644055,"sku":"9781501357329","price":24.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501357329.jpg?v=1725550856"},{"product_id":"the-avant-postman-experiment-in-anglophone-and-francophone-fiction-in-the-wake-of-james-joyce-9788024649375","title":"The Avant-Postman: Experiment in Anglophone and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new look at the development of innovative postwar writing in France, Britain, and the United States.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Avant-Postman\u003c\/i\u003e explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. 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So although Herder is acknowledged by scholars to be one of the great thinkers of European Enlightenment, there is no up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to his works in English, a lacuna this book fills with seventeennew, specially commissioned essays.    Contributors: Hans Adler, Wulf Koepke, Steven Martinson, Marion Heinz and Heinrich Clairmont, John Zammito, Jürgen Trabant, Stefan Greif, Ulrich Gaier, Karl Menges, Christoph Bultmann, Martin Keßler, Arnd Bohm, Gerhard Sauder, Robert E. Norton, Harro Müller-Michaels, Günter Arnold, Kurt Kloocke, and Ernest A. Menze.    Hans Adler is Halls-Bascom Professor of Modern Literature Studies at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. Wulf Koepke is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German, Texas A\u0026amp;M University and recipient of the Medal of the International J. G. Herder Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the essays represent the height of current research.. A work like this one does not exist in the German language! * ARBITRIUM *\u003cbr\u003eUntil now, anyone looking for a comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of Herder had few options; with their co-edited [volume] however, Hans Adler and Wulf Koepke have identified a need for a general(ist) presentation of his ideas--and satisfied it. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *\u003cbr\u003eNot since the appearance of Clark's monumental Herder: His Life and Thought has anyone produced a Herder study of this scope in English. The list of the 19 contributors of the 17 essays reads like a Who's Who of Herder scholarship.. Several features make this meticulously edited collection particularly attractive. The texts, including those translated, are in clear and readable English. All Herder quotations are given in German and English.. 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Essays examine Bernhard's complex artistic sensibility, his impact on Austria's critical memory, his relation to the legacy of Austrian Jewish culture, his representative value as Austria's prime literary export, and his cosmopolitanism and its significance forthe rapidly changing multicultural landscape of Europe. Matthias Konzett is associate professor of German at Yale University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek (Camden House, 2000).   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Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, andthe Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. Thefirst study to utilize the newly published Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not onlyon Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world.    Genese Grill holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the GraduateSchool and University Center of the City University of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrill's meticulously researched study offers a persuasive and original interpretation of [Musil's] novel. . . . [T]his book is highly recommended for a deeper understanding of Musil's brilliant and still relevant modernist work. * JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES *\u003cbr\u003eGrill's book is a careful meditation on the poetics of metaphor that she finds organizing Musil's novel. 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For illuminating the join between the earlier and latter sections of [Musil's novel] in a way that gives real shape to the whole, Grill's book is tremendous. * DAVID AUERBACH, WAGGISH.ORG *\u003cbr\u003e[I]nspired and textually knowledgeable . . . . [A] spirited and enthusiastic defence of the creative literary act as a kind of utopian 'révolution permanente' . . . forever avoiding closure . . . . 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In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of \"ethnic\" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration. This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on \"ordinary Germans,\" and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation.    Contributors: Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin Schödel, and Stuart Taberner.    Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the University of Leeds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[A]n impressive testament to collaborative research. 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Important, thought-provoking, and fittingly nuanced. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eThe individual essays make a compelling and well-conceived contribution to an important and on-going discussion that in the ten years of its existence has gained in nuance and sophistication. * MONATSHEFTE *\u003cbr\u003eProvides a valuable overview about the range and complexity of literary accounts on 'German suffering. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eProvocative yet accessible to a wide audience. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThe volume adds support to the argument that the notion of 'German victims' did not begin with the fall of the Berlin Wall. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *\u003cbr\u003eClearly structured, with a common theme that gives the work cohesion.... Will certainly stimulate academic debate and scholarship for years to come. * H-NET GERMAN *\u003cbr\u003eHas an impressive array of contributions. . . . 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This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss and destruction. Following these cues,the contributors wander the various modalities of travel in Sebald's writing in order to discover how walking, flying, sojourning, and other kinds of peregrination inform the relationship between writing, reading, memory, and place in Sebald's work. At the same time, the essays uncover in innovative ways the affinities between Sebald and literary travelers like Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, Adalbert Stifter, Christoph Ransmayr, and Joseph Conrad.  Contributors: Christian Moser, J. J. Long, Carolin Duttlinger, Martin Klebes, Alan Itkin, James Martin, Brad Prager, Neil Christian Pages, Margaret Bruzelius, Barbara Hui, Dora Osborne, Peter Arnds.    Markus Zisselsbergeris Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami, Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection [contains] 12 essays of remarkable quality . . . . [It] indeed journeys into 'undiscover'd country,' pursues innovative interpretive paths, and opens intriguing new vistas . . . . [T]he work is destined to become a milestone of Sebald scholarship. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e[T]his is a distinguished addition to Sebald criticism, and essential reading for scholars, students and general readers with any interest in Sebald. * JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES *\u003cbr\u003e[W]ill take its place on the map of Sebald studies . . . . assembling . . . a wide range of (mostly) excellent essays. . . . The real value of this collection lies in the individual essays connected by the master trope of travel. . . . The strongest chapters make a genuine contribution to Sebald studies and will guarantee the book a lengthy shelf life . . . . * ENGLISH STUDIES IN CANADA *\u003cbr\u003eThose new to Sebald would do well to study Zisselsberger's fine introduction, which sums up issues in Sebald scholarship and places the book in the context of the vast literature on Sebald. . . . Though it treats themes familiar to Sebald scholarship, . . . the book does not evoke the feeling of repetitiveness that so many contributions to the Sebald literature do. . . . Illustrations appear throughout. . . . This book is destined to become a standard. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eA significant contribution to scholarship (particularly since it includes a reprint of Sebald's early, not previously widely available essay, 'Die Kunst des Fliegens'). If the exact calibration of the relationship in Sebald's work between the two terms 'travel' and 'literature' remains unresolved, the volume is a fitting tribute to this most elusive of authors. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Fluchtträume\/Traumfluchten;  Journeys to the Undiscover'd Country Die Kunst des Fliegens by W. G. Sebald Peripatetic Liminality: Sebald and the Tradition of the Literary Walk W. G. Sebald: The Anti-Tourist \"A Wrong Turn of the Wheel\": Sebald's Journeys of (In)Attention If You Come to a Spa: Displacing the Cure in Schwindel. Gefühle. and Austerlitz Campi Deserti: Polar Landscapes and the Limits of Knowledge in Sebald and Ransmayr \"Eine Art Eingang zur Unterwelt\": Katabasis in Austerlitz Convergence Insufficiency: On Seeing Passages between W. G. Sebald and the \"Travel Writer\" Bruce Chatwin Tripping: On Sebald's \"Stifter\" Adventure, Imprisonment, and Melancholy: Heart of Darkness and Die Ringe des Saturn Mapping Historical Networks in Die Ringe des Saturn Topographical Anxiety and Dysfunctional Systems: Die Ausgewanderten and Freud's Little Hans While the Hidden Horrors of History are Briefly Illuminated: The Poetics of Wandering in Austerlitz and Die Ringe des Saturn Works Cired Notes on the Contributors Index","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49410275803479,"sku":"9781571135667","price":31.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571135667.jpg?v=1730509646"},{"product_id":"the-heroine-with-1001-faces-9781631498817","title":"The Heroine with 1001 Faces","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in \u003cem\u003eThe Hero with a Thousand Faces\u003c\/em\u003e, emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnsatisfied with Campbell’s once-canonical work, Maria Tatar explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on social missions. Using the domestic arts and storytelling skills, they have displayed audacity, curiosity and care as they struggled to survive and change the reigning culture. 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Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and he obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, and the Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. The first study to utilize the Klagenfurter Ausgabe (Klagenfurt edition) of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not only on Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrill's meticulously researched study offers a persuasive and original interpretation of [Musil's] novel. . . . [T]his book is highly recommended for a deeper understanding of Musil's brilliant and still relevant modernist work. * JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES *\u003cbr\u003eGrill's book is a careful meditation on the poetics of metaphor that she finds organizing Musil's novel. Grill has mined the Nachlaß to good effect, making available important material and new considerations of the novel. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *\u003cbr\u003e[A] worthy contribution to international Musil research. Grill obtains with it the rare status of a researcher who at one and the same time explains a thesis and carries it out in her own writing. For her painstaking work in the archive the study earns the particular praise and interest of those who want to concern themselves more deeply with the canonical works of modernism such as The Man without Qualities. * MUSIL-FORUM *\u003cbr\u003e[P]rovides an invaluable structure - the best I've encountered - for assessing the later sections and unfinished draft material of The Man Without Qualities. . . . Grill's major achievement is in bringing together the disparate, unpublished material of Musil's last years into a structure that clarifies, at least somewhat, Musil's ambitions. . . . 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Mhlambi \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9 Escaping Apartheid: Race, Education and Cultural Exchange, 1955–2003 – Anne-Maria Makhulu \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10 Photographing Home Life in Alexandra between the 1930s and the 1970s – Thuto Thipe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 Down Avenues of (Un)Learning: Reading, Writing and Being – Jill Bradbury\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and pan-Africanism Reconsidered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12 Es’kia Mphahlele and the Question of the Aesthetic – Khwezi Mkhize\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13 ‘African Contrasts’: Noni Jabavu’s Travelogue as Kaleidoscope – Tina Steiner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14 Es’kia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African Literary Publics – Christopher E.W. 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This book is the only one of its kind in English. Part literary history, part literary criticism, it is above all a personal assessment of a rich and important body of work which is still not widely known outside Catalonia. Catalan literature, one of the three major Peninsular literatures, reached an impressive level of excellence in the middle ages, beginning with Ramon Llull and the chronicles, and culminating in the two great fifteenth-century writers,the poet Ausiàs March and Joanot Martorell, the author of Tirant lo Blanc, one of the landmarks in early prose fiction.   After three centuries of relative eclipse, the nineteenth-century Renaixença produced a distinctive version of Romanticism with notable achievements in poetry, theatre and the novel. More recently, Catalan writers have successfully assimilated a number of international tendencies, from Symbolism to Surrealism, while remaining deeply aware of the possibilities of the Catalan language itself. After the cultural disruption caused by the Civil War of 1936-39 and its aftermath, Catalan literature has once again shown its capacity for self-renewal,and the present literary scene is one of great interest and originality.   The book does not presuppose any knowledge of Catalan; all quotations and book titles are translated, and a list of works translated into English is included.      ARTHUR TERRY is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of Essex.   Este libro queda sin paralelo en inglés. Una combinación de historia y crítica literarias, es ante todo una valoración personal de una literatura rica e importante que todavía queda poco conocida fuera de Cataluña. La literatura catalana consiguió un nivel de excelencia impresionante en la Edad Media y, a partir de su restablecimiento a principios del siglo diecinueve, ha demostrado una capacidad extraordinaria de autorenovación que todavía persiste hoy en día. Este libro no presupone saber catalán; cada cita y título de libro queda traducido, y se incluye una lista de obrastraducidas al inglés.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a comprehensive survey from its first beginnings to the twenty-first century. * WORLD LITERATURE TODAY *\u003cbr\u003eImpressive synthesis and guide... 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Modernismo, a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s. It is widely regarded as the first Spanish-language literary movement that originated in the New World and that became influential in the \"Mother Country,\" Spain. Characterized by the appropriation of French Symbolist aesthetics into Spanish-language literature, modernismo's other significant traits were its cultural cosmopolitanism, its philological concern with language, literary history, and literary technique, and its journalistic penchant for novelty and fashion. Despite the splendor of modernista poetry, modernismo is now understood as a broad movement whose impact was felt just as strongly in the prose genres: the short story, the novel, the essay, and the journalistic crónica [chronicle]. Conceived as an introduction to modernismo as well as an account of the current state of the art of modernismo studies, this book examines the movement's contribution to the various Spanish American literary genres, its main authors [from Martí and Nájera to Darío and Rodó], its social and historical context, and its continuing relevance to the work of contemporary Spanish American authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Sergio Ramírez, aargas Llosa.   ANÍBAL GONZÁLEZ-PÉREZ is Professor of Modern Latin American Literature at Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Companion to Spanish American Modernismo es una excelente introducción al Modernismo que nos da una vision general de lo fue este movimiento fundacional de la literatura hispanoamericana moderna. * REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA *\u003cbr\u003eA work of scrupulous scholarship. * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Modernista Age Modernismo and Journalism: the crónicas The Modernista Short Story The Modernista Essay The Modernista  Novel Modernista Poetry Modernismo's Legacy Bibliography Index","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49414005064023,"sku":"9781855662155","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"a-companion-to-javier-marias-9781855662308","title":"A Companion to Javier Marías","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today.  This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías' writing, including discussion and analysis of his literary and intellectual formation, his development as a novelist and short story writer, andhis unique perspective offered in nearly twenty-five years of newspaper columns on topics ranging from religion to football.  Above all, Marías is examined as a writer of fictions. As a translator of several canonical works from English to Spanish, Marías came to appreciate the preciseness of words as well as their ambiguity, their capacity to represent as well as their propensity to distort. The author examines Marías's constant awareness of how languagecan be used to construct stories as the foundation for engaging the world as well as for imagining it. The nature of Marías's storytelling, and the way in which he imagines, form the principal focus of this Companion.    David K. 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This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also examines in great depth two of the main characters of Pedro Páramo (1955), Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel.  The book shows how Rulfo's works can be read as exercises in irony directed againstthe rhetoric of post-Revolutionary Mexican governments. It also demonstrates the relevance of certain legacies of colony in Rulfo's use of irony. Successive Mexican governments promoted a vision of post-Revolutionary society founded on specific notions of  ethnicity, family, nation, education, religion and rural politics. The author combines examination of the speeches, images and newspaper articles which disseminated this vision with incisive literary analyses of Rulfo's work. These analyses are informed both by his original theory of irony, based on \"internal\" and \"external\" referents, and by existing postcolonial theories, particularly those of Homi K. Bhabha.    Amit Thakkar is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reader is captivated by Thakkar's exercise of close reading and his penetrating analysis of Rulfo's work against the discourse of the post-Revolutionary state in speeches, newspaper articles, essays and murals. Read against this background, Rulfo's words acquire an additional weight ... 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