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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Murder She Wrote A Study of Agatha Christies
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Eyewear Publishing Off The Road
Book SynopsisOff the Roadtells the intimate story of two of the most famous, and yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature - Jack Kerouac and his friend, travelling companion and hero, Neal Cassady. Written by the woman who loved them both - as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac - it is the remarkable record of marriage to the man whose exploits, as Dean Moriarty inOn the Road, caught the imagination of a generation and fired the Beat movement.Carolyn Cassady''s book spans one of the most vital areas in twentieth-century literature and culture. It begins in the early days of Kerouac and Cassady''s friendship, when the former was a struggling author trying to make his way with his first novel, and goes on to the explosive success ofOn the Roadand Ginsberg''sHowl, the flowering of the ''Beat generation'', and the social revolution of the 1960s which saw Kerouac and Cassady - by then famed as driver of Ken Kesey''s legendary Merry Pranksters ''bus'' taken up as founding fathers of the emerging worldw
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State University of New York Press Lilys Tongue The Figure and Authority in
Book SynopsisExamines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.How do texts speak with authority? That is the question at the heart of Kierkegaard''s theory and practice of "indirect communication." None of Kierkegaard''s texts respond to this question more concisely and powerfully than the four discourses he wrote about the lily in the Gospel. The Lily''s Tongue is a nuanced, sustained reading of these Lily Discourses. Kierkegaard takes the lilies as authoritative, rather than merely "figural" or "metaphorical." This book is a careful exploration of what Kierkegaard means by this authority.Frances Maughan-Brown demonstrates how Kierkegaard argues that the key is in the act of reading itself-no text can have authority unless the reader grants it that authority because no text can entirely avoid figural language. Texts don''t speak directly; their tongue is always the lily''s tongue. What is revealed in the Lily Discourses is a groundbreaking theory of figure, which requires a renewed reading of Kierkegaard''s major pseudonymous works.
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State University of New York Press Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
Book SynopsisExamines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy''s most famous postwar film directors.Since the beginning, much of Italian cinema has been sustained by transforming literature into moving images. This tradition of literary adaptation continues today, challenging artistic form and practice by pressuring the boundaries that traditionally separate film from its sister arts. In the twentieth century, director Luchino Visconti is a keystone figure in Italy''s evolving art of adaptation. From the tumultuous years of Fascism and postwar Neorealism, through the blockbuster decade of the 1960s, into the arthouse masterpieces of the 1970s, Visconti''s adaptations marked a distinct pathway of the Italian cinematic imagination. Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation examines these films together with their literary antecedents. Moving past strict book-to-film comparisons, it ponders how literary texts encounter and interact with a history of cultural and cinematic forms, genres, and traditions. Matching the major critical concerns of the postwar period (realism, political filmmaking, cinematic modernism) with more recent notions of adaptation and intermediality, this book reviews how one of Italy''s greatest directors mined literary ore for cinematic inspiration.
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Rowman & Littlefield Critical Theory and Animal Liberation
Book SynopsisCritical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or left tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of animal rights, the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. The contributions highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of social power, mass violence, and domination, from capitalism and patriarchy to genocide, fascism, and ecocide. Contributors include well-known writers in the field as well as scholars in other areas writing on animals for the first time. Among other things, the authors apply Freud's theory of repression to our relationship to the animal, debunk the Locavore movement, expose the sexism of the animal defense movement, and point the way toward a new transformative politics that would encompass the human and animal Trade ReviewThis book breaks new ground in both critical theory and the ethics debate surrounding the mistreatment and domination of animals by humans. An indispensable collection for anyone interested in these areas of social critique, these essays sketch a comprehensive alternative to the prevailing strands of neo-Marxist and liberal philosophies. -- David Ingram, Loyola University, ChicagoSanbonmatsu has done the field of animal studies a great service by bringing together this rewarding collection of critical interventions. Just as feminist and phenomenological thinking injected needed doses of existential and hermeneutic sensitivity into the first wave of predominantly analytic animal ethics, so Critical Theory and Animal Liberation now joins pragmatism in projecting ethico-political engagement and socio-economic guidance across the new wave of animal theory. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra UniversityThis is an engaging analysis of some of the key issues in animal/human liberation, which makes it clear how connected the oppression of animals is to the oppression of other humans. All of the authors wonder how we can be sensitive to human suffering yet blind to animal suffering. The truth is, we cannot, or must not any longer. This book fulfills a long-awaited mandate demanding a deep change of view. I commend it highly. -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of AnimalsContributors examine how our hidden, institutionalized violence to animals, epitomized by industrial farming and laboratory experimentation, coexists with spectacles of human-caused suffering, degradation and destruction of animals in “visible but not seen” forms, such as circuses and road kill....Critical Theory and Animal Liberation looks not only at the obviously hidden suffering of animals on industrial farms and in laboratories but at the plight of animals who suffer and die openly in front of our eyes through human causation. * Karen Davis, President, United Poultry Concerns *Critical Theory and Animal Liberation, edited by John Sanbonmatsu, knits together a wide range of intersectional and interdisciplinary voices from across the spectrum of Critical Animal Studies. Nuanced and multifaceted, this text succeeds in applying critical perspectives in political and social thought to the problem of our relationship with other animals..../Critical Theory and Animal Liberation/ is an invaluable text for scholars and students of a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. In particular, this book is a must-have for anyone studying or writing within the burgeoning field of Critical Animal Studies. Perhaps the most compelling achievement of this text is its instrumental role in opening up new debates around critical, 'left' classical and contemporary Marxist and posthumanist thought all while sidestepping the popular currents in apolitical, mainstream animal studies. In addition, this book offers a first ambitious step into an uncharted territory -- moving away from the liberal ethics on which most animal 'rights' theory has, since its inception, been built. * Journal for Critical Animal Studies *Due to its exercise of deepening the critique of oppression and its potential to inspire a vision of the social world made whole, Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is a highly recommended read. * Humanimalia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Commodity Fetishism and Structural Violence Chapter 1: Procrustean Solutions to Animal Identity and Welfare Problems Karen Davis Chapter 2: Road Kill: Commodity Fetishism and Structural Violence Dennis Soron Chapter 3: Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal Rights Carl Boggs Part II. Animals, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School Chapter 4: Humanism = Speciesism?: Marx on Humans and Animals Ted Benton Chapter 5: Reflections on the Prospects for a Non-Speciesist Marxism Renzo Llorente Chapter 6: Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer, and Adorno Christina Gerhardt Chapter 7: Animal is to Kantianism as Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's Bestiary Eduardo Mendieta Part III. Speciesism and Ideologies of Domination Chapter 8: Dialectic of Anthropocentrism Aaron Bell Chapter 9: Animal Repression: Speciesism as Pathology Zipporah Weisberg Chapter 10: Neuroscience (a Poem) Susan Benston Chapter 11: Everyday Rituals of the Master Race: Fascism, Stratification, and the Fluidity of "Animal" Domination Victoria Johnson Part IV. Problems in Praxis Chapter 12: Constructing Extremists, Rejecting Compassion: Ideological Attacks on Animal Advocacy from Right and Left John Sorenson Chapter 13: "Green" Eggs and Ham? The Myth of Sustainable Meat and the Danger of the Local Vasile Stanescu Chapter 14: After MacKinnon: Sexual Inequality in the Animal Movement Carol Adams Chapter 15: Sympathy and Interspecies Care: Toward a Unified Theory of Eco- and Animal Liberation Josephine Donovan Note Index About the Editor and Contributors
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Rowman & Littlefield Reading Richard Matheson
Book SynopsisRichard Matheson (19262013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career helped shape the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and television for over sixty years. Matheson authored more than ninety short stories and dozens of novels, many of whichincluding I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, The Shrinking Man, Hell House, and Bid Time Returnhave been adapted into feature films. Despite his extensive body of work and influence, however, Matheson has remained largely outside the scope of academic scrutiny. The essays in Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey provide the first critical overview of Matheson's texts, covering seven of Matheson's novels, a sampling of short stories, and several adaptations for both film and television. The essays are arranged thematically and address the sociopolitical anxieties reflected in Matheson's oeuvre; consider his precursors and successors; and situate him within narrative traditions of mythology, cinema, genrTrade Review'Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey' is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the origins of today’s pop culture at a deeper level and gaining a greater appreciation of the work of Richard Matheson. * Comics Grinder *Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Matheson: Wisdom Writer Cheyenne Mathews Part I. I Am Legend: Influence and Intertextuality Chapter 1: “Crawling Out of the Middle Ages”: The Deep Literary Roots of the Vampires in I Am Legend, Charles Hoge Chapter 2: “The last of the old race”: I Am Legend and Bio-Vampire-Politics, Aspasia Stephanou Chapter 3: “Wild Work”: The Monstrosity of Whiteness in I Am Legend, Adryan Glasgow Chapter 4: “The World is Quieter Now”: The Threat of Silence in Night of the Living Dead and I Am Legend, Ruth Ellen Covington Chapter 5: Last-Person Narration: Cultural Imagination At the End of the World As We Know It, Glenn Jellenik Chapter 6: Who Killed All the Humans?: The Threat of Conformity, Consumerism, and Pure War in “Lemmings,” Amy S. Jorgensen Part II. Norms from the 1950s to Now: Gender, Sexuality, and Race Chapter 7: Giant Bugs and Shrinking Men: Domesticating Technology in The Incredible Shrinking Man, Amanda Hagood Chapter 8: (Male) Matter and its Dissolution: Crisis of Masculinities as Horror in Richard Matheson’s Short Stories, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Chapter 9:“The Most Monstrous of Monsters”: Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage in A Stir of Echoes and Earthbound, Rebecca Janicker Chapter 10: “Amelia” and Trilogy of Terror: Mother-Daughter Identification and the Oscillation of the Abject-Matrophobic, Kyle Christensen Chapter 11: “The Most Bizarre of All”: Reading Progressive Race and Gender Identity Markers in “From Shadowed Places,” Tiffany A. Bryant Chapter 12: “lice-infested, mule-eating Apaches!”: The Intersection of the First Technological Revolution and Gothic Imperialism in Shadow on the Sun, Shannon Cummings Part III. The Forms of Matheson’s Fiction Chapter 13: What Would You Do? Justice Between Destiny and Freedom in Richard Matheson’s Short Fiction, Ralph Beliveau Chapter 14: A “private and particular hell”: Mathesonian Noir in The Twilight Zone, Cheyenne Mathews Chapter 15: (Re)Presenting the Past: Bid Time Return as Historiographic Metafiction, Tanfer Emin Tunc Chapter 16: Locked in Time: Trauma, Memory, and the Barthesian Punctum in Richard Matheson’s Fiction, Simon Bacon Chapter 17: Another Time: Novelizing History after the Canon in Matheson, Joshua Comer
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Tyndale House Publishers The Gene Edwards Signature Collection
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Anthem Press Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from
Book SynopsisThe consequences of high-end inequality seep into almost every aspect of human life: it is not just a question for economists. In this highly accessible new work, Professor Shaviro takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore how great works of literature have provided some of the most incisive accounts of inequality and its social and cultural ramifications over the last two centuries. Through perceptive close readings of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Edith Wharton, among others, he not only demonstrates how these accounts are still relevant today, but how they can illuminate our understanding of our current situation and broaden our own perspective beyond the merely economic.Trade Review“Literature and Inequality is an eye-opening and powerfully affecting book. By rereading literary classics through the lens of high-end inequality, and by emphasizing their fascination with the contest between patrimonial complacency and meritocratic ambition, Shaviro opens a new window into familiar texts. And by confronting us with the lessons of his readings, Shaviro compels a new reckoning with the rising high-end inequality and regenerated caste system that increasingly plague our own age.” —Daniel Markovits, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, Yale Law School, USA, and Author of The Meritocracy TrapShaviro has successfully made a case for the study of creative literature by economists and tax specialists, who can now look at the history of literature as a history of their own. — Robert Appelbaum, British Tax Review (2021)Table of ContentsIntroduction; PART ONE: ENGLAND AND FRANCE DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION; Why Aren’t Things Better Than This? Class Relations Within the Top One Percent in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; A Rising Tide Rocks All Boats: The Threat of Rising Prosperity in Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir; Arrivistes, Rentiers, Mandarins, and Flunkies in Honoré de Balzac’s Le Père Goriot; PART TWO: ENGLAND FROM THE 1840S THROUGH THE START OF WORLD WAR I; Why Do “Scrooge Truthers” Hate Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?; Not to Blame? Plutocrats, Capitalism, and Foreigners in Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now; Unconnected: Rentier Intellectuals Uber Alles in E.M. Forster’s Howards End; PART THREE: GILDED AGE AMERICA; Anti-Success Manual? Mark Twain’s and Charles Dudley Warner’s The Gilded Age; No Success Like Failure? Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth; Superhero or Bungler? Frank Cowperwood / Charles Yerkes in Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier and The Titan; Conclusion; Index.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Spatial Perspectives: Essays on Literature and
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event spaces to domestic interiors to the fictional buildings of the novel. Topics include the building of imaginary spaces, such as the architectural models of comic book worlds created by the cartoonist Seth and the Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, which is both novel and building. Real architectural spaces are recontextualized through literature: reading the work of Louis Kahn through his personal library and envisioning the writing haven of James Baldwin through his novels. Another approach links literary style with architectural form, as in the work of the New York School poets, who reformulate the built environment on the page. Architectural landmarks like Robert Stevenson’s Roundhouse (1847), Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition and the 2012 Olympic Park are reconsidered as counter-narratives of postcolonialism and empire, and the New York skyline is examined alongside literature and visual culture. This collection demonstrates the reciprocal exchange that exists between the disciplines of literature and architecture and promotes new ways of understanding these interactions.Table of ContentsContents: Terri Mullholland/Nicole Sierra: Introduction – Douglas Tallack: Tall Stories: New York Skyscrapers in Art and Literature – Julian Ferraro: Comics and the Architecture of Nostalgia: Seth’s Dominion City – Nathaniel Robert Walker: Crystallizing Visions: Glass Architecture in Utopian Literature before and after 1851 – Henderson Downing: To the Roundhouse: Returning London Psychogeography – Lisa Mullen: Literature and Distraction: Poetic Inscription at the 2012 London Olympics and the 1951 Festival of Britain – Darren R. Deane: Louis Kahn’s Translation of the Fairy Tale: A Study in Literary-Architectural Interaction – Esra Almas: Representation, Refuse and the Urban Context in Orhan Pamuk’s Museum(s) of Innocence – Greg Thomas: The Tower of Babel: Concrete Poetry and Architecture in Britain and Beyond – Yasmine Shamma: ‘Room in the room that you room in?’: Ted Berrigan’s Structures – Magdalena J. Zaborowska: No House in the World for James Baldwin: Reading Transnational Black Queer Domesticity in St Paul-de-Vence.
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Pearson Education King Lear York Notes Advanced everything you
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
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Pearson Education The Glass Menagerie York Notes Advanced
Book Synopsis"York Notes Advanced" aim to help make the study of literature more fulfilling and lead to exam success. They should also be of interest to the general reader, as they cover the widest range of popular literature titles. This title covers "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
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Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Philip K. Dick and Philosophy
Book SynopsisScience fiction writer Philip K. Dick (19281982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular cultureboth movies directly based on his writings, such as Blade Runner (based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau plus cult favorites such as A Scanner Darkly, Imposter, Next, Screamers, and Paycheck and works revealing his powerful influence, such as The Matrix and Inception. With the much anticipated forthcoming publication in 2011 of volume 1 of Exegesis, his journal of spiritual visions and paranoic investigations, Dick is fast becoming a major influence in the world of popular spirituality and occult thinking.In Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Who Adjusts the Adjustment Bureau?, twenty Dick fans and professional thinkers confront the fascinating and frightening ideas raised by DickR
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Academic Studies Press Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion,
Book SynopsisDostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky’s thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary theory and literature, science and society, scientific and theological components of comparative intellectual history, and aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of the intellectual framework of this book. Dostoevsky’s oeuvre with its wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time emerges as a particularly important case for the study of cross-fertilization among disciplines. The individual chapters explore Dostoevsky’s real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic, philosophic, and scientific thought of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, revealing Dostoevsky’s forward looking thought, as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory, philosophy, theology and science.Trade Review"This valuable book includes very well-researched articles written by the scholars of the field which examine the dialogues of Dostoevky’s personas from aesthetic, philosophical and religious viewpoints. It is a major contribution to the Russian literature associated with Dostoevky’s name and works. — International Journal of Russian Studies, 8.1 (2019)Table of Contents Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana Evdokimova I. Encounters with Science 1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical Youth David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson 2. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep Liza Knapp 3. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood Anna A. Berman 4. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and “Our Dostoevsky” Daniel P. Todes II. Engagements with Philosophy 5. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life” Steven Cassedy 6. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief David S. Cunningham 7. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher Charles Larmore 8. “If there’s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea Sergei A. Kibalnik III. Questions of Aesthetics 9. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb Robert L. Jackson 10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov Susanne Fusso 11. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation Svetlana Evdokimova IV. The Self and the Other 12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double Gary Saul Morson 13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm Yuri Corrigan 14. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov Michal Oklot 15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Vladimir Golstein 16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead Carol Apollonio 17. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” Deborah A. Martinsen 18. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes Inessa Medzhibovskaya V. Intercultural Connections 19. Achilles in Crime and Punishment Donna Orwin 20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding) Olga Meerson 21. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom Marina Kostalevsky
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White Pine Press Isla Negra
Book SynopsisFew writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that unravelled in a series of essential images that are fundamental to an understanding of his mature work.
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Oxford University Press Journey to the Moon
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Pearson Education The Crucible York Notes for GCSE Grades AG
Table of Contents Part 1: Induction Part 2: Plot and Action Part 3: Characters Part 4: Key Contexts and Themes Part 5: Language and Structure Part 6: Grade Booster Literacy Terms
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HarperCollins Publishers GOOD AS HER WORD Selected Journalism
Book SynopsisA sparkling collection of journalism from the critically acclaimed author of BAD BLOOD and MOMENTS OF TRUTH.Trade ReviewPraise for GOOD AS HER WORD: 'A tremendous and bracing read that almost brings Sage back to life … Dazzling, erudite pieces.' Observer 'A brilliant collection … When reading her reviews, you get a wonderful feeling of collusion, of attending the best kind of party which mixes great warmth with sophistication.' Time Out 'Smart …. At her epigrammatic best' Daily Telegraph Praise for MOMENTS OF TRUTH ‘Packed with razor-sharp observations and exhilerating humour.’ Sunday Times ‘Thank goodness for Lorna Sage’s brilliant ‘Moments of Truth’. Going into a book with her is like going into a gloomy church, say, in some some foreign city: her eyes adjust to the light so fast she can see the frescoes, and describe them to you in vivd detail, while you are still blinking like a mole.’ Financial Times This is writerly criticism – down to earth, incisive, peppered with memorable phrases – and it makes exhilarating reading.’ Irish Times ‘An apt memorial to a brilliant and stimulating mind.’ Literary Review
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pocket Business Italian Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis dictionary offers over 5000 terms translated to and from English covering all aspects of business, including office practice, the stock market, international trading, accounting and marketing terminology.Trade Review'...a blessing. Pocket sized, but packed with all the terminology you need' Traveller
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Ohio State University Press Unnatural Voices
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Barfield Press UK Poetic Diction
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the historical development of postmodernism. Covering subjects from the Cold War and countercultures to the Latin American Boom and magic realism, this History traces the genealogy of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in current scholarship. It also presents new critical approaches to postmodern literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.Trade Review'… this collection will be invaluable to students of literature.' C. E. O'Neill, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Postmodernism and its precursors Joe Bray; 2. After the Holocaust Robert Eaglestone; 3. Empire's ebb Theo D'Haen; 4. Cold War culture at the mid-century Alan Nadel; 5. Mass mediation John Johnston; 6. Countercultures David Shumway; 7. New novels Randall Stevenson; 8. The Latin American boom and the invention of magic realism Wendy B. Faris; 9. Rise of theory Thomas Docherty; 10. The architectural paradigm Brian McHale; 11. The dematerialization of the art object – a conversation Amanda Gluibizzi and Michael Mercil; 12. The new Hollywood cinema and after John Hellmann; 13. Second-wave feminism and after Robin Warhol; 14. Gay and lesbian subcultures from Stonewall to Angels in America Martin Dines; 15. The 'post' in 'postcolonial' Sara Upstone; 16. 'Celtic' postmodernism and the break up of Britain Len Platt; 17. Historiographic metafictions Amy Elias; 18. High/low, or avant-pop Brian McHale; 19. The oulipo, language poetry, and proceduralism Andrew Epstein; 20. Punk and MTV Barry Shank; 21. Cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction Elana Gomel; 22. The art market and the revival of painting in the 1990s Frazer Ward; 23. Hip hop is (not) postmodern James Braxton Peterson; 24. Postmodern Japan and global visual culture Takauko Tatsumi; 25. Digital culture and posthumanism Dave Ciccoricco; 26. Culture war at the turn of the millennium Ellen G. Friedman; 27. Second-generation postmoderns Stephen Burn; 28. Postmodern China Wang Ning; 29. Towards cosmodernism? Christian Moraru; Epilogue: Y2K and after Andrew Hoberek.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Homer Encyclopedia 3 Volume Set
Book SynopsisThe Homer Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference work encompassing the world and artistry of Homer, the historical and cultural background of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homeric scholarship, and Homeric reception from antiquity to the present. Represents the first encyclopedia on Homer ever published Features contributions from 130 recent and established Homeric scholars Covers Homeric scholarship and reception from antiquity to the present 1360 entries supplying information on every aspect of the Homeric poems Trade Review“This is not to detract from the undoubted merits and richness of what F. and her team have produced; only to question whether it is not time for putting a curb on publishers’ seemingly insatiable taste for ventures of this kind.” (Scripta Classica Israelica, 2012) “This is a remarkably comprehensive encyclopedia, embracing everything one might think of in relation to Homer, and even more one might not immediately expect … It is another of those reference works I am happy to recommend both as a source of reference information on demand by the user, and as a fascinating work to browse and read more widely.” (Reference Reviews, 2012) "What we have [here] is a brilliant achievement: three volumes, which anyone—either the layman or the Homeric scholar—will use to his great enjoyment and benefit, since it is detailed, reader-friendly and always informed with the ‘last word’ on numerous aspects of Homer’s work and world." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, March 2012) "The coverage is thorough, and the articles are accessible to the general reader while maintaining a scholarly sophistication that makes them useful for the specialist. A handy and valuable resource for any serious student of Homer." (Library Journal, July 15, 2011) "Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 August 2011)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors (Volume I only). Preface (Volume I only). List of Abbreviations. Maps. Volume I. Volume II. Volume III. Bibliography.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend
Book SynopsisText with facing translation of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend. This is the first in a set of three volumes making available for the first time critical editions and translations of important medieval Arthurian texts from Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Devoted to the Tristan legend. It contains Geitarlauf and Janual, Old Norse translations of the French lais Lanval and Chevrefeuil; Tristrams saga ok Isöndar, Brother Thomas's Old Norse translation of Thomas's Tristan, dated 1226 and commissioned by King Hákon Hákonarson the Old of Norway; "Tristrams kvædi", a fourteenth-century Icelandic "Tristan" ballad; and the Saga af Tristram ok Isodd, a fourteenth-century Icelandic version of the Old Norse Tristrams saga ok Isöndar. The translators are: ROBERT COOK, PETER JORGENSEN, JOYCE HILL, MARIANNE E. KALINKE. Professor MARIANNE KALINKE teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Trade ReviewA welcome resource... Validates its texts as a significant corpus of Arthuriana and will appeal to a wide readership of medievalists. * SAGA-BOOK OF THE VIKING SOCIETY *A major contribution, not only to the Old Norse field, but to the broader world of medieval literature and culture... will endure for years to come. * SPECULUM *Those responsible for bringing out this series have performed a service to readers, showing how mediaeval Scandinavia dealt with the matter of Britain. * SCANDINAVICA *Provide access to some of the most important Norse versions of French Arthurian narrative ... a very valuable service... will make this corpus of Arthurian literature better known to a non-specialist readership. * SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES *
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Nine Arches Press Poetry Projects to Make and Do: Getting your
Book SynopsisPoetry Projects to Make and Do, edited by Deborah Alma, The Emergency Poet, is a ‘how to’ handbook of essays, prompts, advice, and ideas designed to help both aspiring and established poets find new ways not only to create new poetry, but to share and take it out into the world through collaboration, projects, performances – and more. With an array of real-life examples from experienced poets, Poetry Projects to Make and Do provides imaginative case-studies and inspiration for readers to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. Each essay encourages experimentation alongside plenty of practical tips and guidance. From projects which poets can try out at home, to ones which take poetry out into the streets; from having a go at making poetry films or podcasts, to hand-crafting a poetry residency; from how to apply for funding, to working in collaboration and involving music, art or photography in your poetry. This indispensable book covers a broad range of topics to empower and encourage poetry as part of everyday creativity. Poetry Projects to Make and Do follows previous popular creative writing handbook titles for Nine Arches Press – including The Craft, Why I Write Poetry and How to be a Poet – and is edited by Deborah Alma, aka The Emergency Poet and founder of the world’s first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy, based in Bishops Castle, Shropshire. Includes 20+ essays by: Deborah Alma; Jean Atkin; Casey Bailey; Roshni Beeharry; Julia Bird; Jo Bell; Jane Burn; Lewis Buxton; Jane Commane; Jonathan Davidson; Helen Dewbery; Pat Edwards; Jasmine Gardosi; Roz Goddard; Daisy Henwood; Sophie Herxheimer; Helen Ivory; Gregory Leadbetter; Arji Manuelpillai; Caleb Parkin; Nina Mingya Powles; Jacqueline Saphra; Clare Shaw; Degna Stone and Tamar Yoseloff.
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Feminist Press at The City University of New York On Strike Against God
Book SynopsisA lost feminist masterwork by feminist and speculative fiction icon Joanna Russ about a lesbian’s coming-to-consciousness during the social upheaval of the 1970s. When Esther, an English professor living in 1970s small-town New York, has her first lesbian love affair, the fallout brings her everyday miseries into focus and sends her spiraling. Confronted with the homophobia of straight feminists and the misogyny of gay men, Esther is left to forge a language for her feminism and her burgeoning lesbian desire. A darkly comedic story of feminist love, hope, and reckoning, On Strike Against God’s call to readers —“Let’s be reasonable. Let’s demand the impossible”—rings urgently true today.Originally published in 1980, On Strike Against God is the only realist novel by feminist science fiction icon Joanna Russ. This new critical edition includes previously unpublished alternate endings to th
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Grave
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide, Allison C. Meier has spent more time walking among tombstones than most. Even for her, the grave has largely been invisible, an out of the way and unobtrusive marker of death. However, graves turn out to be not always so subtle, reverent, or permanent. While the indigent and unidentified have frequently been interred in mass graves, a fate brought into the public eye during the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice today is not unlike burials in the potter's fields of the colonial era. Burial is not the only option, of course, and Meier analyzes the rise of cremation, green burial, and new practices like human composting, investigating what is next for the grave and how existing spaces of death can be returned to community life.Object Lessons Trade ReviewBeautifully written and filled with empathy and insight, Grave is a rumination over the how and why of human burial, complete with a slew of little known historical tidbits pulled together from years of the author’s fascination with the topic. It should be considered essential reading for anyone interested in funerary history, especially in the United States. * Paul Koudounaris, author of Heavenly Bodies, Memento Mori, and Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses *A thorough, insightful survey of the past, present, and future of the grave, and how humanity has grappled with the many problems and possibilities it represents. With compassion and an uncommon eye for detail, Allison Meier examines how the grave has functioned as a site of social inequality for centuries, and how a mixture of new technology and a revival of older practices may enliven cemeteries as sites of renewed community meaning. * Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses (2016) *Table of Contents1. The Grave: Our House of Eternity 2. Navigating Through Necrogeography 3. The Living and the Dead 4. The Privilege of Permanence 5. An Eternal Room of Our Own 6. No Resting Place 7. To Decay or Not to Decay 8. New Ideas for the Afterlife 9. Dead Space Notes Index
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Graywolf Press 99 Poems: New & Selected
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Broadview Press Ltd The Garies and Their Friends (1857)
Book SynopsisUnjustly overlooked in its own time, Frank J. Webb’s novel of pre-Civil War Philadelphia weaves together action, humor, and social commentary. The Garies and Their Friends tells the story of two families struggling for di¦ erent sorts of respectability: the Garies, a well-to-do interracial couple who relocate to Philadelphia from the plantation South in order to legalize their marriage, and their friends the Ellises, free black Philadelphians hoping to make the move from the working class into the bourgeoisie. Along the way the families confront racialized violence, melodramatic villainy, and sentimental reversals. Entertaining and fastmoving, the novel has a Dickensian mix of uncanny coincidence and interwoven personal experiences.The historical documents accompanying this Broadview Edition provide reviews of the novel along with extensive materials on slavery, the color line, and contemporary Philadelphia.Trade Review“This is an outstanding edition of Webb’s powerful (and still relatively neglected) novel about the struggles of the free black community in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The editors make the bold decision to use as their source text the ‘Cheap Series’ paperback edition widely circulating in London, where The Garies and Their Friends was published in 1857. They provide reviews, new information about Webb, and compelling contextual materials that help us to better understand the novel in relation to key legal and social contexts. Webb has been wonderfully served by Howell and Walsh. I couldn’t imagine teaching any other edition, and the excellence of this edition should help to bring new readers to Garies.” — Robert S. Levine, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, and author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass“The Garies and Their Friends is one of the most interesting American novels of the mid-nineteenth century; the new Broadview edition finally gives it the editorial treatment it deserves. William Huntting Howell and Megan Walsh share supplemental documents essential to reading or teaching the novel, and they frame this work in a rich set of transatlantic contexts.” — Eric Gardner, author of Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture“Frank Webb’s stunning novel comes alive in this accessible and informative edition edited by Howell and Walsh. The annotations are well crafted and will introduce readers to the broad racial, social, and literary contexts of Garies. The appendices are likewise well formulated to illuminate both the novel’s reception and its key geographic and legal coordinates. This wonderful edition is a boon for new readers and also for those who are already familiar with Webb’s novel.” — Jeffory Clymer, University of Kentucky, author of Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth CenturyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank J. Webb: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Garies and Their FriendsAppendix A: Contemporary Responses From The Observer (London) (20 September 1857) From the Literary Gazette (London) (26 September 1857) From The Morning Post (London) (6 October 1857) The Standard (London) (7 October 1857) From The Daily News (London) (9 October 1857) From the Athenaeum (London) (24 October 1857) Appendix B: Law, Culture, and the Color Line From William Goodell, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (1853) From George M. Stroud, A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery (1827) From John F. Denny, An Enquiry into the Political Grade of the Free Colored Population (1834) From Benjamin C. Howard, Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford (1857) From Frederick Douglass, “The Dred Scott Decision,” delivered before the American Anti-Slavery Society, NY (14 May 1857) Edward Williams Clay, Life in Philadelphia, Plate IV (1829) Appendix C: Black Philadelphia in the Antebellum Era Map of Philadelphia (1848) From A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour, of the City and Districts of Philadelphia (1842) From Robert Purvis, Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disenfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania (1838) From Joseph Willson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia (1841) Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Lady Hatherton (24 May 1856) Appendix D: Racism in Philadelphia From “The Philadelphia Riots,” the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette (2 August 1842) From History of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) John Sartain, The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Vandover and the Brute
Book SynopsisWritten circa 1894-95 but published posthumously in 1914, Frank Norris’s Vandover and the Brute presents an unflinching portrait of unconventional sexuality, moral dissolution, and physical degeneration. In the setting of turn-of-the-century San Francisco depicted in Vandover, disaster encompasses far more than the vivid accounts of shipwreck or earthquake that appear in the novel. The slow wasting away of characters who contract syphilis, the suicide of a young girl, and the murder of a man clinging to a lifeboat fascinate readers today as much as they did a century ago, when this scandalous novel was first published. The most complete wreck is Vandover himself, whose artistic talents and constitution collapse after orgies of drink and sexual abandon.Russ Castronovo’s new edition gathers historical materials on literary naturalism, gender and criminality, and the visual culture of the late nineteenth century.Trade Review“I’ve been howling like a wolf for years about the absence of a teachable edition of this amazing, just-on-the-verge-of-modern novel. College boys’ drunken revels over a welsh rarebit? Earnest discussions of the moral complexities posed by ‘modern girls’? Gamblers who start acting like living slot machines? Gobbling chocolates in the tub before scratching yourself for an hour? This one has it all. Thank you, Russ Castronovo, for bringing back a text that has never failed to fascinate undergraduates and PhD students alike.” — Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University“An accessible edition of Frank Norris’s outlandish and historically significant novel has been long overdue, and Russ Castronovo has made it happen. An embarrassment of riches, this edition will be of tremendous value to scholars and students. Vandover is an exceptional text, one that demonstrates the intersections of modernity, aesthetics, sexuality, and race in such a way as to make it indispensable in any course on American literature and culture. The critical analysis and historical contextualization Castronovo brings to bear on it serve to enrich our understanding.” — Dana Seitler, University of TorontoTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank Norris: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextVandover and the BruteAppendix A: Norris, Naturalism, and the Novel Frank Norris, “Zola as a Romantic Writer” The Wave (27 June 1896) From Émile Zola, “The Experimental Novel,” The Experimental Novel and Other Essays (1893) From Frank Norris, “The Responsibilities of the Novelist,” The Responsibilities of the Novelist (1903) From Frank Norris, “The Novel with a ‘Purpose,’” The Responsibilities of the Novelist (1903) Appendix B: Gender, Evolution, and Degeneration Frank Norris, “Western City Types: The ‘Fast’ Girl” The Wave (9 May 1896) From Joseph Le Conte, Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought (1899) From Max Nordau, from Degeneration (1895) Appendix C: Visual Contexts Luis Ricardo Falero, Witches Going to the Their Sabbath (1878) Philippe-Jacques Van Bree, The Harem Bath Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Great Bath at Bursa, Turkey (1885) Jean-Léon Gérôme, Thirst (1888) Images of Gibson Girls Select Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Voices
Book Synopsis Antonio Porchia (1886–1968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction by translator W.S. Merwin, this bilingual volume brings back into print one of Latin America’s great literary treasures. He who tells the truth says almost nothing.*I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.*Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.*Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.*When I come upon some idea that is not of this world, I feel as though this world had grown wider.*This world understands nothing but words, and you have come into it with almost none.*We become aware of the void as we fill it. Antonio Porchia (1886–1968) was born in Italy. After his father died, he emigrated to Argentina with his mother and seven siblings, and as the eldest child, started working at the age of 14. He was self-taught, and his only book, Voices, caught the attention of a noted French critic who assumed him to be a scholar of Kafka and Buddhism, rather than the humble man who loved to tend his garden. Today, Porchia’s aphorisms are published in more than a dozen Spanish-language editions as well as in German, French and Italian. W.S. Merwin’s awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the Tanning Prize, the Bollingen Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and translations. He lives in Hawaii.
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Graywolf Press The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness,
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Cornell University Press Bandits in Print
Book SynopsisBandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizi
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University of South Carolina Press Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive guide to the life and work of the author of ""The Remains of the Day"".One of the most closely followed British writers of his generation, the Japanese-born, English-raised and -educated Ishiguro is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including ""A Pale View of Hills"" (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature), ""An Artist of the Floating World"" (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award), ""The Remains of the Day"" (1988, Booker Prize), and ""The Unconsoled"" (1995, Cheltenham Prize). Ishiguro's reputation also extends beyond the world of English-language readers. His work has been translated into twenty-seven foreign languages, and the feature film version of ""The Remains of the Day"" was nominated for eight Academy Awards.Brian W. Shaffer's study reveals Ishiguro's novels to be intricately crafted, psychologically absorbing, hauntingly evocative works that betray the author's grounding not only in the literature of Japan but also in the great twentieth-century British and Irish masters - Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce - as well as in Freudian psychoanalysis. All of Ishiguro's novels are shown to capture first-person narrators in the intriguing act of revealing - yet also of attempting to conceal beneath the surface of their mundane present activities - the alarming significance and troubling consequences of their past lives.
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1926-1930
Book SynopsisThese first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume II continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in "Jesting Pilate." The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.Trade ReviewPerusing Volume One, I was struck by the sensitivity and the unerring perception in these unknown reviews, ultimately my most enjoyable reading of the year. -- Robert Craft, conductor and writer on music * Times Literary Supplement, (Books Of The Year, Dec.) *The editors...have done their job with commendable thoroughness. -- P. N. Furbank * Times Literary Supplement *An important and admirable publishing event. * Atlantic Monthly *Huxley was among the few writers who played with ideas so freely, so gaily, with such virtuosity, that the responsive reader was dazzled and excited. -- Isaiah BerlinA remarkable publishing event...these volumes return Huxley from our forgetfulness so as to enjoy his fine intelligence, prose and exemplary strengths. -- Jeffrey Hart * The Washington Times *His reading was immense, his taste was impeccable, and his ear acute...His place in English literature is unique and is certainly assured. -- T. S. EliotThere is much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document of his times. * Economist *He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references. -- Christopher Hitchens * Los Angeles Times *To read all the essays in sequence is like being enrolled at the college of your dreams. * The New Yorker *
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to
Book SynopsisReading Susan Sontag is the first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. Carl Rollyson, Ms. Sontag's first biographer, is uniquely situated to provide well-informed and clear readings of all her major work. He writes for general readers and students as well as for specialists. Each of his chapters is devoted to one of Ms. Sontag's books and is divided into three sections: synopsis, Ms. Sontag's own views of her work, and critical commentary, and thus progresses from basic knowledge to more sophisticated interpretation. In a detailed chronological overview of her work, Mr. Rollyson also describes and comments on Ms. Sontag's forays into film and theatre, showing how her interests in dance and opera, for example, are connected to her aesthetic view of the world. A helpful glossary at the end of the book defines the terms and figures of speech that characterize her essays and may inhibit readers who do not share her formidable command of world culture; it also traces her use of allusions to other writers from one essay to the next. In all, Reading Susan Sontag is an enormously useful companion to the work of one of our major writers.Trade ReviewReading Carl Rollyson's reading Susan Sontag is like reading Susan Sontag through a prism of a clear and articulate sensibility. One can ask for no better guidebook to an appreciation and understanding of a major American public intellectual and literary figure. -- M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College; editor of Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show
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West Margin Press Romeo and Juliet
Book SynopsisRomeo and Juliet (1597) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by an Italian tale adapted for an English audience in 1562 by Arthur Brooke and in 1567 by William Painter, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet sometime between 1591 and 1595. Alongside Hamlet, it is one of Shakespeare’s most performed plays and has served as source material for countless film and television adaptations. “Two households, both alike in dignity, / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, / From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” For his wit and wordplay alone, William Shakespeare is often considered the greatest writer to ever work in the English language. Where he truly triumphs, however, is in his ability to portray complex human emotions, how these emotions contribute to relationships, and how these relationships interact with politics, culture, and religion. In Romeo and Juliet, a “pair of star-cross’d lovers” risk their lives for one another. Because Romeo is a Montague, he cannot love Juliet, a Capulet, the sworn enemies of his family and their major rival in the city of Verona. As is often the case, their hearts refuse the limits of history, leading them to their tragic, unforgettable end. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Interlink Publishing Group, Inc On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry
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Dalkey Archive Press Theory of Prose
Book SynopsisAs time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century’s most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Founded on the concept of “making strange,” it lays bare the inner workings of fiction—especially the works of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Sterne, Dickens, Bely and Rozanov—and imparts a new way of seeing, of reading, and of interacting with the world.Trade Review"Out of Shklovsky’s conviction came critical works of great beauty and complexity, but also several utterly remarkable literary works." -Martin Riker "Shklovsky’s audacity gave him the freedom to take apart Cervantes and Sterne, Gogol and Tolstoy, with a brilliance that still dazzles ninety years later."-The Nation "Shklovsky, who refers to own his style as "serpentine," employs digression, repetition, autobiography and occasional salutations to the reader, confounding one's expectations of how a book of literary criticism should unfold. In doing so, he crafts a true rarity: a superbly written, extended critical study that's capable of inducing a feeling of affection in the reader towards its author."-The Guardian
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Dalkey Archive Press Barbara Wright: Translation as Art
Book SynopsisLegendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the most innovative French literature of the last hundred years: a world without Alfred Jarry's "Ubu," Raymond Queneau's "Zazie," and Robert Pinget's "Monsieur Songe" scarcely bears thinking about. This wonderful collection of texts about and by Barbara Wright--including work by David Bellos, Breon Mitchell, and Nick Wadley, as well as a previously unpublished screenplay written and translated by Wright in collaboration with Robert Pinget--begins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt.Trade ReviewBoth a useful resource and a fitting memorial to one of translation's modern virtuosos. Times Literary Supplement
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University of Toronto Press The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of
Book SynopsisHomeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that like cures like, counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniar’s engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism sheds light on issues that continueTrade Review‘Excellent history… This text provides interesting insight into the history of homeopathy and how this history affects the way homeopathy is viewed today.’ -- J. Saxton * Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017 *"The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism is an important study that increases our understanding of both Romantic Naturphilosophie and homeopathy in a very significant way. " -- Asko Nivala * European Romantic Review 29:5 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: The Law of Similars Chapter Two: The Law of the Single Dose Chapter Three: The Law of Minimum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Racist Fantasy
Book SynopsisWhat stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this fantasy continues to underlie contemporary society, McGowan claims, racism will remain with us, no matter how strenuously we struggle to eliminate it. The racist fantasy, a fantasy in which the racial other is a figure who blocks the enjoyment of the racist, is a shared social structure. No one individual invented it, and no one individual is responsible for its perpetuation. While no one is guilty for the emergence of the racist fantasy, people are nonetheless responsible for keeping it alive and thus responsible for fighting against it. The Racist Fantasy examines how this fantasy provides the psychic basis for the racism that appears so conspicuously throughout modern history. The racist fantasy informs everything fTrade ReviewWe confront the world these days with increasing perplexity as old problems resurface from a distant and, we presumed, superseded past. How is this so? Facing squarely one such problem Todd McGowan lucidly explains why racism is so recalcitrant and how it exposes the naivete of prevailing theories of the phenomenon, while offering an extended account of its complex phantasmatic structure. A timely and thorough book. * Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, USA *Rarely is theory elucidated with such clarity or applied with such historical range. By foregrounding fantasy as the frame that structures our enjoyment, McGowan’s The Racist Fantasy baldly positions psychic enjoyment as the unconscious source for varieties of racism, from anti-blackness to antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism. This is a capacious study, able to unveil the function of the racist fantasy not only at the heart of our contemporary capitalist society but also at the root of the Enlightenment thinking that gave birth to our modern world. The Racist Fantasy is a needed corrective to contemporary anti-racist thinking that only nominally invoke the unconscious or that completely ignore its role in structuring the enjoyment that binds us to racism. * Sheldon George, Professor and Chair of Literature and Writing, Simmons University, USA and coeditor of Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalysis (2021) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Hiding the Unconscious 1. The Racist Fantasy 2. The Fantasy’s Breadth 3. Racism and Modernity 4. The Variegations of the Fantasy 5. The Violent Issue 6. On the Other Side of Fantasy Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature
Book SynopsisUlrika Maude s Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Bristol, where she also directs the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science. Her publications include Beckett, Technology and the Body (2009), Beckett and Phenomenology (2009) and The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (2015).Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He is Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies and Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.Trade ReviewIn the short but excellent ‘Resources’ section, Alex Pestell and Sean Pryor cover key terms from ‘avant-garde’ to ‘vers libre’ - and include valuable summaries of how concepts such as ‘fascism’, ‘primitivism’, ‘race’ and ‘high modernism’ shape how we think about modernist literature - while an extensive annotated bibliography of major works of criticism provides a good grounding for students wishing to explore the subject further. * Times Literary Supplement *The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature, edited by Ulrika Maude and Mark Nixon, provides fresh insights. By viewing Modernist Literature through the prism of seemingly unrelated disciplines, such as economics, the Theory of Relativity, and neurology, the Bloomsbury Companion … reveals research synergies and provides opportunities for discovery … While geared towards the more advanced researcher, this book would certainly assist those less familiar with Modernist Literature when taking those first steps from casual readership into research. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature makes it new and keeps it real. * American Reference Books Annual *[These] assembled essays and resources comprise an impressive array of frequently challenging, illuminating scholarship … [This] Companion does not settle for simply being a guide to existing knowledge, but instead blazes exciting new trails for the rest of us to follow. * Modern Language Review *The book as a whole illustrates superbly what Emily Hayman and Pericles Lewis refer to as “the persistence of modernism". * Recherche Littéraire *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction, Ulrika Maude Part I: Defining the Field and Research Issues The Modernist Everyday 2. Anything but a Clean Relationship: Modernism and the Everyday, Scott McCracken 3. Geographies of Modernism, Andrew Thacker 4. Modernism and Language Scepticism, Shane Weller 5. Modernism and Emotion, Kirsty Martin 6. Myth and Religion in Modernist Literature, Michael Bell The Arts and Cultures of Modernism 7. Modernism and Music, Tim Armstrong 8. Modernism and the Visual Arts: Kant, Bergson, Beckett, Conor Carville 9. Modernist Literature and Film, Laura Marcus 10. Modernism and Popular Culture, Lawrence Rainey 11. Modernist Magazines, Faith Binckes 12. Minding Manuscripts: Modernism, Genetic Criticism and Intertextual Cognition, Dirk Van Hulle The Sciences and Technologies of Modernism 13. Einstein, Relativity and Literary Modernism, Paul Sheehan 14. Modernism, Sexuality and Gender, Jana Funke 15. Modernism, Neurology and the Invention of Psychoanalysis Ulrika Maude 16. Modernism, Psychoanalysis and other Psychologies, Laura Salisbury 17. Modernism and Technology, Julian Murphet The Geopolitics and Economics of Modernism 18. Can there be a Global Modernism? Emily Hayman and Pericles Lewis 19. A Departure from Modernism: Stylistic Strategies in Modern Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity, Benita Parry 20. Modernist Literature and Politics, Tyrus Miller 21. A New Sense of Value: Modernism and Economics, Ronald Schleifer Part II: Resources 22. A to Z of Key Words, Alex Pestell and Sean Pryor 23. Annotated Bibliography, Alexander Howard Chronology Index
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University of Wales Press The Horse in Celtic Culture
Book SynopsisEver since its domestication, the horse has played a central role in the history of mankind. This multifunctional animal was responsible for revolutionizing transportation and fighting techniques, which led ultimately to significant social, economic and cultural changes. Horses in Celtic Culture examines a fascinating topic that to date has received very little attention from historians and literary specialists. Table of ContentsThe horse in pagan Celtic religion, M. Aldhouse-Green; horses in the early historic period, I. Hughson; words for "horse" in the Celtic languages, P. Kelly; the horse in the Welsh law texts, D. Jenkins; horses in medieval court poetry, D. Ann-Jones; the triads of the horses, R. Bromwich; horses in the Mabinogion, S. Davies; praise lasts longer than a horse, B. Owen-Jones; the horse in Welsh folklore, J. Wood.
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Random House USA Inc The Idiot
Book SynopsisRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.
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WW Norton & Co Quixote
Book SynopsisAn innovative cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated and most imitated novel in the world.Trade Review"This enjoyable book, a fast and fun read, informs us deeply about [Don Quixote]. As such, it is a model work of criticism. It sends us back to the original work, eager and informed and moved to reread it or read it for the first time." -- Tim Redman - Dallas Morning News "A combination of celebration, meditation, and quest, Stavans's book is bound to please el Quijote's devoted readers and win new fans." -- Publishers Weekly "Bold, imaginative, and deeply learned... Stavans, one of our most gifted scholars of Hispanic literature, has arrived to narrate the tale of how modernity was birthed amid the whirl of windmills and all those chasing them." -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University "Stavans brings infections enthusiasm and penetrating scholarship to this lively investigation of a grand novel and its readers." -- Kirkus Reviews "If, like me, you live with the guilt of not having read Don Quixote of La Mancha, this delightful romp will inspire you to act. It is a splendid work of historiography that looks at the knight's influence on just about everything-including the Muppets. Ilan Stavans delivers another keen-eyed, delightful tour de force." -- Barry Moser, illustrator of The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible "Ilan Stavans, like Cervantes, tells stories of errantry: of his own travels with and through the book, of El Quijote's journey across and around the world, of the characters' voyages through the imaginations of creators and re-creators. The result is as engaging, funny, readable, and illuminating as the book it's about: an idiosyncratic yet amazingly comprehensive companion, which all readers of El Quijote will want." -- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years and 1492: The Year the World Began "A masterly history of Don Quixote that approaches the book from multiple angles: literary, historical, cultural, linguistic, and personal. Ilan Stavans has given us a compelling, readable, and often humorous portrait of the book and its author." -- Laila Lalami, author of The Moor's Account "In this sparkling narrative, Ilan Stavans takes us on an exploration of a novel he reveres... A fascinating, deeply enjoyable read." -- Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life "The impression is of abundant intelligence poured into a vessel whose aim is not tidy scholarship but joyous insight. Book lovers will relish this expansive and generous tome." -- Library Journal "Expertly connects Cervantes' satire of then-popular novels of chivalry to the political climate of the time... The combination of cultural analysis, textual examination, and enthusiastic commentary makes for an excellent primer to celebrate this momentous anniversary [of Quixote's publication.]" -- Booklist
£12.34
Association for Scottish Literary Studies Naomi Mitchisons Early in Orcadia The Big House
Book Synopsis
£8.64
University of Wales Press Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual
Book SynopsisZombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved laws, issues within higher education, and even the structure of human societies. Despite the surge of interest in the zombie as a critical metaphor, no coherent theoretical framework for studying the zombie actually exists. Addressing this current gap in the literature, Theorising the Contemporary Zombie defines zombiism as a means of theorising and examining various issues of society in any given era by immersing those social issues within the destabilising context of apocalyptic crisis; and applying this definition, the volume considers issues including gender, sexuality, family, literature, health, popular culture and extinction.Table of ContentsContents: Abstract Author Biographies List of Figures Introduction - Scott Hamilton and Conor Heffernan I. Zombified Bodies 1. Zombies, Deviance, and the Right to Posthuman Life - Poppy Wilde (Birmingham City University) 2. The Apocalypse Workout: Health, Identity and Zombies - Conor Heffernan (University of Texas at Austin) 3. Zombie Orgies and the Fear of the Outer Limits: Examining the Relationship between Fear, Pornography and Zombies - Caroline West (Dublin City University) 4. Aloha-oe: Hello, Goodbye to Love and Family in Sang-ho Yeon's Train to Busan - Harvey O'Brien (University College Dublin) II. Critical Environments 5. The Stalking Dead: Ireland's Ambiguous Revenants and the Case for a Folk-Zombie Revival - Jack Fennell (University of Limerick) 6. M.R. Carey's The Boy on the Bridge: Ethics and the Apocalypse - Scott Eric Hamilton (University College Dublin) 7. Zombie Colony: The Heteronomy of the Greek State & The Datura of Cultural Capital - Konstantinos Kerasovitis (University of Wolverhampton) 8. Last Ones Left Alive: Zombies and Post-Politics - Deirdre Flynn (University College Dublin) III. Undead Cultures 9. Beware the Zuvembies: Comics, Censorship, and the Ubiquity of Not-Quite-Zombies - Chera Kee (Wayne State University) 10. Distortions of the Video Dead: The Degradation of Reality in the Era of Zombie VHS - Peter Wright (The University of Sydney) 11. 'Violence is Italian art': Art and Adaptation in Lucio Fulci's 'Gates of Hell' Trilogy - Miranda Corcoran (University College Cork) 12. Surviving the Shambling Signifieds: Zombies, Language, and Chaos - Andrew Ferguson (University of Maryland) Bibliography Index
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