ELT & Literary Studies Books
Pearson Education Poetry of the First World War York Notes Advanced
Book SynopsisFull of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you’re studying, whether it’s poetry, a play or a novel.
£7.99
Walker Books Ltd Shakespeares Words of Wisdom Panorama Pops
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£6.00
Scholastic A Christmas Carol
Book SynopsisStep-by-step essay plans to help achieve higher grades in the closedbook AQA English Literature examination. With hints and tipsto plan and structure 'great answers' this title will help studentsto see how a great answer meets the required Assessment Objectivesand to perfect their own technique.
£6.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Springboard Shakespeare King Lear
Book SynopsisKing Lear is a towering drama of personal and national tragedy. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the challenges and the rewards it presents to actors, audiences and students. Springboard Shakespeare: King Lear has a three-part structure: whether you''re watching or reading, Ben Crystal takes you through exactly what you need to know Before, During and After the play. He combines a genuine passion and understanding of Shakespeare with his experience as an actor, giving the reader a clear route to thinking about, understanding and enjoying King Lear.Trade ReviewHaving Crystal as a companion through the stickier parts of Hamlet and Macbeth is like going to the theatre with an intelligent friend. * The Independent *How different it might have been if we’d had Ben Crystal’s sparky little books to introduce us. My Shakespearean epiphany would have come much sooner...[the books] lead newcomers into the play in question in a gentle, upbeat, unpretentious way. Fresh and slim, they’re about as far as could be from dusty, dry study guides relating to school exams...much better than the average theatre programme...I’d like to see them on sale in theatre bookshops, and/or wherever there’s a production of one of these plays...I’d also recommend them for classroom use. -- Susan Elkin * The Independent on Sunday *A highly worthwhile series, which should prove to be valuable for directors, actors and students…This formula really works. As an experiment, your dedicated reviewer tried out Macbeth in preparation for and following on from the Eve Best production of the Globe. The experience was definitely improved, with some of the tips on words and language proving especially helpful and enlightening… These really are excellent little guides that will prove informative to almost anybody with an interest in the subject. -- Philip Fisher * British Theatre Guide *
£13.93
Pearson Education York Notes Companions Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisDr Beth Palmer is lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey (from September 2010). Her teaching interests are wide-ranging and she has taught British and American literature from the 18th to 21st centuries with particular interests in Victorian fiction, women's writing, and the Bronte sisters. Her research interests have centred around Victorian fiction, print culture and the press, readership and women's writing. Forthcoming publications are Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford University Press, 2011) and A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900, eds Beth Palmer and Adelene Buckland (Ashgate, 2011). She is currently developing a new research project on the relationship between the popular theatre and the Victorian novel and is also interested in neo-Victorian fiction. Trade Review"The book was well written and flowed neatly, linking ideas and works by different authors, and as ever quotations help to outline different points... The book was very useful, particularly its extended commentary on Dorian Gray" - Kimberley Simpson, English Student Warwick UniversityTable of Contents Part One – Introduction Part Two – A Cultural Overview Part Three – Texts, Writers and Contexts Victorian Poetry – Memory and Mourning: The Brownings, Swinburne and Alfred, Lord Tennyson Extended commentary: Tennyson, In Memoriam The Social Problem Novel: Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley and Elizabeth Gaskell Extended Commentary: Gaskell, North and South (1855) The Provincial or Regional Novel: Anthony Trollope, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy Extended Commentary: Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd Sensation Fiction: Wilkie Collins, Ellen Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon Extended Commentary: Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) Victorian Drama: Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw Extended Commentary: Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession (1893) Aesthetes and Decadents: Walter Pater, Arthur Symonds, J. K. Huysmans and Oscar Wilde Extended Commentary: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) Part Four: Critical theories and Debates Reader Reception and the popular author New women, New Readers The Literature of Empire and National Identity Science, Eugenics and Evolution Part Five – References and resources Timeline Further reading Index
£10.44
Pearson Education Birdsong York Notes Advanced everything you need
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
£7.99
Pearson Education Limited Market Leader ESP Book Human Resources
Book Synopsis The Market Leader specialist titles extends the scope of the Market Leader series and allows teachers to focus on the reading skills and vocabulary development required for specific areas of business.
£16.39
Pearson Education Limited Market Leader ESP Book Logistics Management
Book Synopsis The Market Leader specialist titles extends the scope of the Market Leader series and allows teachers to focus on the reading skills and vocabulary development required for specific areas of business.
£16.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Poets Wives
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet''An outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts'' Irish Times''The Poets' Wives is a marvellous triptych: lyrical, respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical'' Sunday Times__________________Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalin's terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husband's death as she seeTrade ReviewHe writes prose of gravity and grace ... Line for line, it is hard to think of a more skilful contemporary Irish novelist. He shares with John McGahern a refusal of cheap flamboyance, with Dermot Bolger a sense of suppressed fury … There is a Coetzeean accuracy to the writing * Joseph O’Connor, Guardian *Recent years have seen an explosion of books about wives of famous men ... The Poets’ Wives ... Is a fine contribution to this genre ... The Poets’ Wives is a marvellous triptych: lyrical, respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical * David Grylls, Sunday Times *Sparse, lyrical and yet clear-headed prose leaves no room for false notes, nostalgia or self-serving mythologies. One of the quiet men of Irish writing, he also possesses one of its truest voices and has built up a deeply impressive oeuvre without fuss or pyrotechnics ... infused with the depth of character and emotion that are hallmarks of his work as a novelist of enormous sensitivity -- Dermot Bolger * Irish Mail on Sunday *Marvellous * Sunday Times Must Reads *Intriguing and impressive ... With its stylistic felicity ... its concern with integrity and with upholders of humane, and humanistic values, The Poets' Wives displays without ostentation its author's resourcefulness and versatility * Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement *An outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts * Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Irish Times *Beautifully wrought -- Holly Williams * Independent on Sunday *Intensely evocative, thought-provoking -- Anita Sethi * Observer *
£8.54
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Man with the Golden Typewriter
Book Synopsis''Constantly entertaining ... So much here to amuse and inform'' Observer''These friendly, knockabout letters are a treat'' Sunday Telegraph''Irresistible'' New York Times________________________Before the world-famous Bond films came the world-famous novels. This book tells the story of the man who wrote them and how he created spy fiction''s most compelling hero.In August 1952, Ian Fleming bought a gold-plated typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked in glamorous style the arrival of James Bond, agent 007, and the start of a career that saw Fleming become one of the world's most celebrated thriller writers. Before his death in 1964 he produced fourteen bestselling Bond books, two works of non-fiction and the famous children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. Fleming's output was matched by an equally energetic flow of letters. He wrote constantly, to his wife, Trade ReviewIan Fleming writes with a kind of pushing, bloodcurdling elegance. His thrillers are models of fastidious murder * New York Times *Fleming is splendid; he stops at nothing * New Statesman *Entertaining and revealing * The Times *Constantly entertaining … still so much here to amuse and inform … But it is Fleming’s replies to his picky readers that supply the most fun … The most sobering and self-effacing appraisal of Fleming’s achievements emerges from his correspondence with Raymond Chandler, to which Fergus Fleming devotes a brilliant chapter * Observer *It has great appeal … These friendly, knockabout letters are a treat, although the steely eyed attention of the editors makes it difficult to go back to the Bond books with a straight face … Writing to fans and friends, Fleming is modest, quick-witted and able to stand at substantial ironic distance from the books he refers to as “opuscula” * Sunday Telegraph *To anyone who has ever worked on a book — writing one, editing one, marketing one, publishing one — or, heck, even just read one, this volume is a giant stalk of catnip ... Irresistible ... Fergus Fleming, Ian’s nephew and an author in his own right, writes the introduction and serves as the collection’s Jeeves throughout, providing his services when droll and illuminating context is required but otherwise quietly stepping out of the way * New York Times *A revelation … The letters are full of good jokes … Interesting and entertaining -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *If Bond was Fleming's carbon copy, then this book is the photographic negative of the novels ... Edited and elaborated upon by his nephew Fergus, this book collates those letters, painting a fascinating portrait of Bond's creator, revealing a man of keen wit and charm ... they progress in tandem with the Bond saga, offering insight into his bestselling series * Gentleman's Journal *
£13.59
Spark Pride and Prejudice SparkNotes Literature Guide
Book SynopsisWhen an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.
£7.49
Union Square & Co. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book SynopsisAmericanah features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols including: the importance of authenticity; race and racism; the male peacock; reading and novels; lies; and hair.
£7.49
Union Square & Co. The Bonesetters Daughter by Amy Tan
Book SynopsisFeatures explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols and detailed analysis of important characters.
£7.49
Spark Antony Cleopatra
Book SynopsisNo Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Antony and Cleopatra on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
£7.99
Crossway Books Lost in the Caverns Volume 3
Book SynopsisIn the third book of the Dream Keeper Saga, Lily McKinley must help Prince Rowan rescue his kin from the wicked king Magnus to restore the kingdom of the Mist Elves and share Prince Pax's message of hope.
£10.79
State University of New York Press The Redskins
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£29.45
John Murray Press Write Poetry and Get it Published
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to writing poetryWrite Poetry - and Get it Published is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide written by two well-published poets that will prove indispensible if you''re seeking creative guidance, inspiration and practical advice. Covering everything from mood, style and tone to poetry on the internet, this fully updated edition will help you find your voice. Containing straightforward advice and the very latest on prizes, festivals and performance poetry, this book will enable an aspiring or seasoned poet alike to gain the confidence and necessary knowledge to write and publish compelling poetry.Write Poetry and Get it Published includes:Chapter 1: What does it take to be a poet?Chapter 2: Bump-starting the poemChapter 3: A challenge to the reader: groundwork exercisesChapter 4: Getting started: working arrangementsChapter 5: I gotta use words when I talk to youChapter 6: Letters, alphabetTrade Reviewcomprehensive and practical...the next best thing to having [the authors] on hand to encourage and coach you * Obsessed with Pipework *Table of Contents : acknowledgements 01: what does it take to be a poet? 02: bump-starting the poem 03: a challenge to the reader: groundwork exercises 04: getting started: working arrangements 05: i gotta use words when i talk to you 06: visualising 07: drafting and revision 08: using models 09: the co-operative approach 10: subject matter 11: context, mood and tone 12: writing in different modes 13: style 14: getting the rhymes to choose you 15: it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing 16: translation 17: writing for children 18: getting published 19: reading aloud 20: ars poetica : last words : taking it further
£11.69
Amberley Publishing At Home with the Brontes
Book SynopsisThe story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in April 2013.
£14.39
Pearson Education The Bloody Chamber York Notes for AS A2
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Part 1: Introducing The Bloody Chamber Part 2: Studying The Bloody Chamber Part 3: Characters and Themes Part 4: Structure, Form and Language Part 5: Contexts and Critical Debates Part 6: Grade Booster Essential Study Tools
£7.99
Pearson Education Limited Market Leader 3rd Edition PreIntermediate
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£63.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Orwell
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFascinating book. * The Times *A brilliant biography of Orwell, reminding us that his work is as relevant as ever. * Irish Independent *Excellent. ***** * The Telegraph *Bradford gives a compelling analysis … pleasing idiosyncrasy, odd surprises and well-landed punches. * The Oldie *This authoritative and informative study is a fascinating examination of his life and ideas * Choice Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Misfit and the Pure Hell of St Cyprian’s 2. Eton 3. Burma 4. Slumming it 5. Was Orwell an Antisemite? 6. Hopeless 7. Books, Marriage, and the Journey North 8. Spain and Serious Politics 9. Between Wars 10. War 11. Explosive Journalism 12. Changes 13. Animal Farm 14. Jura 15. Nineteen Eighty-Four Epilogue Bibliography Index
£15.00
Canongate Books The Shadow of the Empire
Book Synopsis''Brilliant'' -Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewThe legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this intriguing companion novel to Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder set in seventh-century China.Judge Dee Renjie, Empress Wu''s newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor for the Tang Empire, is visiting provinces surrounding the grand capital of Chang''an. One night a knife is thrown through his window with a cryptic note attached: ''A high-flying dragon will have something to regret!''Minutes after the ominous warning appears, Judge Dee is approached by an emissary of Internal Minister Wu, Empress Wu''s nephew. Minister Wu wants Judge Dee to investigate a high-profile murder supposedly committed by the well-known poetess and courtesan, Xuanji, who locals believe is possessed by the spirit of a black fox.Why is Minister Wu interested in Xuanji? Despite Xuanji confessing to th
£22.79
Little, Brown Book Group Backing into the Spotlight
Book Synopsis''Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity'' Daily MailStanding in front of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection.''Michael, what the f*** do you think you''re doing?''Theatrical agent Michael Whitehall spent a career pushing others into the spotlight. He had been involved behind the scenes with the careers of many prominent actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers.But then, much to his surprise, his son Jack becomes a successful comedian and actor and decides that his new comedy partner should be his father. WhitehaTrade ReviewBacking into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity * Daily Mail *Hugely entertaining -- Neil Armstrong * Mail on Sunday *This excellent memoir stands on its own merits, full of great stories told with Michael's dry wit * Choice *
£10.44
Little, Brown Book Group Orwell
Book SynopsisOver seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics. D.J. Taylor''s new biography, the first full-length study for 20 years, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material - newly-discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues, the recollections of the dwindling band of people who remember him, new information about his life in the early 1930s - to produce a definitive portrait of this complex, driven and self-mythologising man.Trade ReviewIf you want to know how [Orwell] became a great writer, and a tormented figure, and a national treasure, David Taylor's New Life is the doubleplusgood place to start * New Statesman *An astonishing verdict on George Orwell's virtues - and his vices . . . [The book] adds fresh material to give a fuller portrait of the real Eric Blair . . . it is hard to imagine him portrayed more sensitively or judiciously than he is here * Telegraph *Incisive * The Times *Mr. Taylor's Orwell: The New Life is a new text that completes the picture by fleshing out Orwell's emotional life with recently discovered letters and interviews with the last living people to have known him. Expertly told and subtle in judgment, The New Life will not be the last word in the ever-growing field of Orwelliana, but it will become its central monument * Wall Street Journal *Fluent, careful, nuanced and revealing . . . Taylor is excellent on how Orwell's childhood nourished and shaped his life . . . Taylor presents Orwell's deficiencies unstintingly while at the same time managing not to toxify the subject . . . illuminating, fair-minded work * Irish Independent *A full, richly detailed, admiring, illuminating account that nevertheless retains a sprightly, sometimes ironic pithiness . . . With a wealth of contextual information and access to extensive archival material, Mr Taylor assuredly traces his subject's picaresque progress * Country Life *Taylor is not only a compelling writer, but is also able to distil the essence of a notoriously elusive man . . . his prose [is] brisk and entertaining without skimping on detail . . . Orwell: the New Life comes as close to recreating the man as can be expected, and at a time when his insights are most needed * Critic *Taylor presents Orwell's deficiencies unstintingly while at the same time managing not to toxify the subject . . . [an] illuminating, fair-minded work * Irish Independent *A tour de force . . . if you read this definitive book, you'll almost feel you've been George Orwell himself * Daily Mail *This is a book which tells the story of how and why George Orwell became George Orwell, what it means and why it matters * Spectator *Orwell's voice comes alive again in a biography drawing on newly discovered letters * Guardian *[A] rich, vivid and comprehensive profile . . . DJ Taylor's landmark biography feels like the closest we will ever get to the truth behind [Orwell] * Business Post *Taylor keeps man and myth in play, always countering our idea of Orwell with Orwell's idea of himself and rendering his odd, infuriating, delightful character from the various shadows he threw * Tablet *An astonishing verdict on George Orwell's virtues - and his vices . . . [The book] adds fresh material to give a fuller portrait of the real Eric Blair . . . it is hard to imagine him portrayed more sensitively or judiciously than he is here * Telegraph *
£24.00
Little, Brown Book Group Guarded by Dragons
Book SynopsisThe Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - ''a super yarn''''Rick Gekoski''s encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them'' Ian RankinRick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried and often jealously guarded, knowledge of its hiding place shared through word of mouth like the myths of old.In Guarded by Dragons, Gekoski invites readers into this enchanted world as he reflects on the gems he has unearthed throughout his career. He takes us back to where his love of collecting began - perusing D.H. Lawrence first editions in a slightly suspect Birmingham carpark. What follows are dizzying encounters with literary giants as Gekoski publishes William Golding, plays ping-pong with Salman Rushdie and lunches with Graham Greene. A brilliant stroke of luck sees STrade ReviewRick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them * Ian Rankin *Feisty, astutely dry, intellectually adroit - an intensely pleasurable and rewarding read * William Boyd *Shrewd and gossipy memoir * Observer *The great, renowned rare-book dealer Rick Gekoski is . . . like something out of a Raymond Chandler . . . an absorbing read . . . such fun * Spectator *Gekoski, a fine raconteur, does for bibliomania what James Herriot did for vets. As his previous books, such as Tolkien's Gown, remind us, he has a wealth of quirky stories, and you feel he could keep entertaining his readers for ever * The Times *Entertaining, beautifully written and deeply personal * The Critic *Combines a relish for commerce with tremendous joie de vivre. He loves literature . . . Guarded by Dragons is fresh and fun and bursting with good stories -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *Many entertaining anecdotes . . . Gekoski - a larger-than-life character both on and off the page - writes with style,verve and just the right amount of self-deprecation . . . Gekoski proves a genial companion in the thrill of the chase * Financial Times *Gekoski is wonderful company on the page, with a fine flair for storytelling and an eye for fascinating eccentricities among his colleagues and customers . . . Gekoski lets us in on the intricacies of the trade with candour and insouciance -- John Banville * Irish Times *A cache of engaging tales . . . He is an incredibly gifted storyteller who spins yarns with broad literary appeal . . . Gekoski never fails to amuse and to amaze. Guarded by Dragons is a bibliophilic treasure * Fine Books & Collections magazine *Highly entertaining and frequently very funny * Jewish Chronicle *Wonderfully gossipy, sharply written memoir . . . Gekoski's swashbuckling stories reveal a trade that is certainly not for cissies. That's precisely what makes this book as engrossing as it is entertaining -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *Entertaining and revelatory * The Chap *Gekoski, possibly the most important book dealer of the last 50 years, fills page after page with witty anecdotes on dealing with the rarest books in the world, the people who wrote them, and the people that collect them. Beyond great stories well told, it's an education on the book trade itself. An absolute must-read for book lovers. -- Mark Galeotti * War on the Rocks *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Course in General Linguistics
Book SynopsisFerdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics. His lectures, posthumously published as the Course in General Linguistics ushered in the structuralist mode which marked a key turning point in modern thought. Philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes, psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan, the anthropologist ClaudeLevi-Strauss and linguists such as Noam Chomsky all found an important influence for their work in the pages of Saussure''s text. Published 100 years after Saussure''s death, this new edition of Roy Harris''s authoritative translation is now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series with a substantial new introduction exploring Saussure''s contemporary influence and importance.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Editor's Introduction, Roy Harris Introduction 1. A Brief Survey of the History of Linguistics 2. Data and Aims of Linguistics: Connexions with Related Sciences 3. The Object of Study 4. Linguistics of Language Structure and Linguistics of Speech 5. Internal and External Elements of a Language 6. Representation of a Language by Writing 7. Physiological Phonetics Appendix: Principles of Physiological Phonetics 1. Sound Types 2. Sounds in Spoken Sequences Part One: General Principles 1. Nature of the Linguistic Sign 2. Invariability and Variability of the Sign 3. Static Linguistics and Evolutionary Linguistics Part Two: Synchronic Linguistics 1. General Observations 2. Concrete Entities of a Language 3. Identities, Realities, Values 4. Linguistic Value 5. Syntagmatic Relations and Associative Relations 6. The Language Mechanism 7. Grammar and Its Subdivisions 8. Abstract Entities in Grammar Part Three: Diachronic Linguistics 1. General Observations 2. Sound Changes 3. Grammatical Consequences of Phonetic Evolution 4. Analogy 5. Analogy and Evolution 6. Popular Etymology 7. Agglutination 8. Diachronic Units,Identities and Realities Appendices Part Four: Geographical Linguistics 1. On the Diversity of Languages 2. Geographical Diversity: Its Complexity 3. Causes of Geographical Diversity 4. Propagation of Linguistic Waves Part Five: Questions of Retrospective Linguistics Conclusion 1. The Two Perspectives of Diachronic Linguistics 2. Earliest Languages and Prototypes 3. Reconstructions 4. Linguistic Evidence in Anthropology and Prehistory 5. Language Families and Linguistic Types Index
£21.84
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespearean Tragedy
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right through to his last, Coriolanus. The four full-length studies at the heart of the book focus in depth on Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Shakespearean Tragedy engages with each of these titanic masterpieces as a singular, complete work of dramatic art with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges, but with the same unmistakably Shakespearean tragic vision at its core. Through compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the transfigured future that our world still awaits.Trade ReviewKiernan Ryan approaches Shakespearean tragedy like a visitor from the future, to reveal how these centuries-old plays still ‘dream on things to come’ through the politics of time. He shows how the lovers are crossed by stars dead for millennia; and why the light that breaks in their day is a dawn that hasn’t yet arrived. But we are the future Hamlet awaits, in Ryan’s time frame; Cordelia’s ‘smiles and tears’ are our cues for ‘a better way’. So, this is truly a world turned upside-down, where the hero counts the ‘hours, days, years’ before ‘desolation begins to make a better life’. In short, Shakespearean Tragedy gives us a master-class in ‘the revolution of the times’. * Richard Wilson, Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Kingston University, UK *Kiernan Ryan has done more than anyone else to bring to light what he calls, in this splendid and beautifully written book, the “mutinous utopian logic” of Shakespeare’s drama—to show us that, as Shakespeare said, “Thought is free”, able to peer beyond a cabined, cribbed, confined present to an emancipated, more human, future. Shakespearean Tragedy is not only a masterwork of subtle, scrupulous, attentive criticism, written in admirably straightforward prose, it is also a major contribution to a leftist politics characterized above all by universalism and solidarity. Here is Shakespeare criticism for the 99%! * Peter Holbrook, Professor of English Literature, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia *This brilliantly written and consistently illuminating book presents a wholly original perspective on every one of Shakespeare’s tragedies, and makes a compelling case for their importance now. With a refreshing range of reference across the breadth of the critical tradition, not to mention the whole scope of theory and philosophy, it thrillingly opens our ears to Shakespeare as ‘the prophetic soul of the wide world’. Thanks to Ryan, the most famous characters in literature come close and confess that they are haunted by their own fulfilled selves in the transfigured future to which Shakespeare is ushering us, even as they fall prey to their times. * Ewan Fernie, Chair and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK *Ryan’s chapters on Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and King Lear, incomparable in their coverage, depth and reasonableness, should become obligatory reading for anyone interested in those plays … Shakespearean Tragedy is of incalculable value. * Sederi Yearbook *Table of ContentsPreface PART I 1 The Birth of Shakespearean Tragedy: 2 & 3 Henry VI The Quondam King The Wild Morisco The Upstart Crow The Devil’s Butcher PART II 2 Titus Andronicus: A Sympathy of Woe Prototypes and Precursors A Wilderness of Tigers This Fearful Slumber 3 Romeo and Juliet: Kissing by the Book Strange Love Grown Bold The Prison-House of Language Empowering the Audience 4 Julius Caesar: The Common Good An Icy Anatomy Scorning the Base Degrees The Foremost Man of All the World PART III 5 Hamlet: A Kind of Fighting The Stamp of One Defect Seeing Doubles That Within Which Passes Show Things Rank and Gross in Nature The Whips and Scorns of Time The Strong Confluence of Contending Forces A King of Infinite Space The Prophetic Soul of the Wide World 6 Othello: Thereby Hangs a Tail Expectation in Preference to Surprise Sinking Below Shakespeare True Colours The Green-Eyed Monster Who Hath Done This Deed? The Tragedy of the Handkerchief If Wives Do Fall Motiveless Malignity and the Curse of Service What You Know, You Know A Pageant to Keep Us in False Gaze 7 King Lear: Shakespeare’s Leviathan A Play Fit for a King Echoes and Anticipations (i) Echoes and Anticipations (ii) A Better Where to Find The Whoreson and the Plague of Custom The Fool and the King The Art of Known and Feeling Sorrows The King and the Beggar So Distribution Should Undo Excess A Whole Dead World Galloping Over the Living Earth 8 Macbeth: The Habit of Another Nature Embracing the Butcher Supernatural Soliciting Terrestrial Tragedy The Language of Complicity Vaster Powers Without: Mirroring Macbeth So Much More the Man Dispossession and Disavowal Pity, Like a Naked New-Born Babe Blood Will Have Blood Ere Humane Stature Purged the Gentle Weal PART IV9 Antony and Cleopatra: Making Defect Perfection Tragedy Travestied The Nobleness of Life Past the Size of Dreaming: Utopian Realism A Lass Unparalleled 10 Coriolanus: A World Elsewhere Antecedents and Affinities An Inventory to Particularize Their Abundance To Unbuild the City and to Lay All Flat A Kind of Nothing Works Cited Index
£71.25
John Murray Press Literary Theory A Complete Introduction
Book SynopsisLiterary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and writing, literary theory fosters new avenues into the text. It allows you to make informed comments about the language and form of literature, but also about the core themes - concepts such as gender, sexuality, the self, race, and class - which a text might explore.Literary theory gives you an almost limitless number of texts to work into your own response, ensuring that your interpretation is truly original. This is why, although literary theory can initially appear alienating and difficult, it is something to get really excited about. Imagine you are standing in the centre of a circul
£13.49
Edinburgh University Press Us Modernism at Continents End
Book SynopsisThis book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Richard Jefferies After London or Wild England
Book SynopsisThis new critical edition situates 'After London' in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Michael Fields Revisionary Poetics
Book SynopsisExamines history, modernity, gender, and sexuality through the literary innovations of two late-Victorian female co-authors
£19.99
Edinburgh University Press Seamus Heaney Virgil and the Good of Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.Trade Review"Falconer's powerful and probing study of Seamus Heaney's career-long relationship with Virgil reveals the Latin poet to be Heaney's inner interlocutor". Her sensitive close analysis of the wide-ranging intertextualities of Heaney's poetry brilliantly uncovers his complex identifications with Virgil as a poet with strong attachment to his rural roots."" -Susanna Braund, University of British Columbia
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the
Book SynopsisThis book includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence's relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts.
£153.00
Edinburgh University Press The Libyan Novel
Book SynopsisAnalysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era, focusing on encounters between humans, animals and the land.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace
Book SynopsisExamines how D. H. Lawrence established a professional writing career.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of Reading
Book SynopsisCommon Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of Reading
Book SynopsisSubversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Asbestos the Last Modernist Object
Book SynopsisPresents the first extended account of asbestos in literature, film and visual culture.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisVictorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Modernist War Poetry
Book SynopsisRe-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetryTrade Review"This book is literary scholarship at its very best. The research is immaculate, the thinking profound and the style masterly. It magnificently illustrates developing poetic thought in relation to the First World War, experience and the imagination, guiding the reader authoritatively through the months of 1914 to 1920 to produce a brilliant micro-literary history." -Kate McLoughlin, University of Oxford
£76.50
Orion Publishing Co The Reading Cure
Book Synopsis''Freeman''s pleasure in the food of literature ... is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a book'' Bee WilsonAt the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. But even when recovery seemed impossible, the one appetite she never lost was her love of reading. Slowly, book by book, Laura re-discovered how to enjoy food - and life - through literature.Trade Review[A] beautifully written hybrid of memoir and literary criticism... This book is about the anguish of anorexia, written by a bookworm unfurling her wings as a writer of considerable power. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * TIMES *A miraculous memoir ... Anyone who has encountered anorexia, either first hand or in someone they love, will recognise this harrowing yet heartening portrait. The Reading Cure is a book for the bookish, for those hungry for self-knowledge, or for those who are just hungry. -- Daniel Johnson * STANDPOINT *In its subtle, undogmatic way, The Reading Cure is a tale of joy winning against piety, and the triumph of life over death... both a stimulating argument for the power of fiction as a force for personal change and a wise memoir of anorexia. Moreover, it is never pat, always intelligent, full of enthusiasm, and almost entirely free of self-pity. -- Craig Brown * MAIL ON SUNDAY *Enchanting and original... an illuminating and highly engaging way to think about all kinds of literature. * Amanda Craig *Gentle in its tone and astute in its insights, the book is a treat... [and provides] sound evidence for the ability of literature to affect life. -- Ada Coghen * LITERARY REVIEW *The most moving, most evocative book. -- Sophia Money-Coutts * THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *The Reading Cure by Laura Freeman is devastatingly close to the bone for anyone who has had an eating disorder and knows its power to warp the mind. Gripping, moving, healing, mouthwatering. * Ysenda Maxtone Graham *You might not expect a book on anorexia to be a joy to read, yet somehow this is. Laura Freeman is unflinchingly honest about the loneliness and misery of suffering from an eating disorder: the desperate calculations over 'an inch of almond milk', the 'shivering hunger'. But her pleasure in the food of literature - from sweets in Harry Potter to roast goose in Charles Dickens - is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a book. There are no easy epiphanies here, but you are cheering Freeman on, page by page, as she slowly recovers her appetite, both for double-cheese toasties and for life. -- Bee WilsonThis book seems to have had the most unanimously glowing reviews of 2018 so far. Quite rightly: Freeman's wonderfully uplifting book is all about how she rediscovered the joy of food, and overcame her anorexia, by escaping into the fictional worlds of Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf. * SUNDAY TIMES STYLE *The Reading Cure is a painful exploration of anorexia but also a love letter to the healing power of books written with expert care, talent... and hope. -- Francesca Brown * EMERALD STREET *Freeman's writing throughout is beautiful and bountiful; her descriptions of food are full of flavour and temptation; her journey to wellness an inspiring one. -- Lucy Pearson * THE LITERARY EDIT *This stirring autobiography by Laura Freeman looks set to be a key release. * IRISH INDEPENDENT *Inspiring and illuminating. * CULTURE FLY *[An] honest, beautifully written account. -- Eithne Farry * PSYCHOLOGIES *Do read this book, whether or not you've been afflicted or affected by mental illness. Read it as a book-lover; read it to read with fresh eyes - or sharpened tastebuds; read it for fellow-feeling and hard-won wisdom, and for the sheer joy of taking pleasure in good things. * CORNFLOWER BOOKS *What strikes you most about this remarkable memoir is its joyous absorption in literature in general, and food-writing in particular. It is lyrical, exuberant, optimistic and engaging. -- Patricia Craig * IRISH TIMES *Hers is a story of salvation and picnics, ravioli and freedom, Dickens and survival. Laura's recovery is testament to the power of literature, the love of a concerned family and the tenacity of a woman on a mission. -- Kate Leaver * THE POOL *Lyrically written, raw and honest, this inspiring book truthfully describes an ongoing struggle with inner demons but celebrates those hard-won achievements with grace and gladness as books and their invaluable lessons restored Laura's appetite for life. -- Eithne Farry * S MAGAZINE *Shines like a beacon -- Jake Kerridge * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Clear-eyed, ambrosial, impassioned, bountiful... The Reading Cure is the work of a true-blue bibliophile, and it's impossible not to be seduced by Freeman's love of prose. It's essential reading not just for those who love food, but words. Come dine with her. -- Tanya Sweeney * IRISH INDEPENDENT *An extraordinary account of mental illness captured in all its vivid, perplexing extremity. * SUNDAY BUSINESS POST *Warm and insightful, Freeman takes us on an exhilarating journey. -- Bel Mooney * DAILY MAIL *Highly charged but beguiling and absorbing. * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE *[A] joyful celebration of literature and a candid account of how reading about other people enjoying real or fictional meals helped Freeman recover from anorexia -- Ruth Scurr * THE SPECTATOR Books of the Year *The most delightful hymn to the joys of reading that you could imagine. -- Jake Kerridge * S MAGAZINE *
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Orion Publishing Co Alfred Lord Tennyson
Book SynopsisTennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:''Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all''His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems. Some of his words were engraved in the 2012 Olympic village and his early poetry was a major influence on and inspiration for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Tennyson initially declined a baronetcy - indeed, he wrote a substantial amount of unoffical political poetry. To this day, he remains one of Britain''s most popular poets.''No man ever got very high by pulling other people down... Don''t knock your friends. Don''t knock your enemies. Don''t knock yourself'' Tennyson
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McFarland & Co Inc The New Man of the House
Book Synopsis The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt more besieged. Anxieties about hygiene, pollution, purity, the home, class, gender roles, patrilineal power and the state of the Empire rippled through British fiction. The new man of the house was trying, often desperately, to hold onto the old order, changing even more rapidly as the 20th century and modernist fiction arrived. This study traces suburban masculinities in popular genres--speculative fiction, comic fiction and detective fiction--and in literary works from the late-Victorian era to the start of the First World War.Table of Contents Acknowledgments viii Preface Introduction: The Victorian Suburbs' (Un)making of Masculinity Chapter 1. As Pure as the Driven Fog: William Delisle Hay's The Doom of the Great City (1880) and Grant Allen's The British Barbarians (1895) Chapter 2. Pootering Him Back in His Rightful Place: George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody (1892) Chapter 3. Unsurelocked Homes: Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" (1893) and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (1908) Coda: The Remaking of Suburban Masculinities in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction List of Works Locations of Works in Suburban London Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press The Hundreds
Book SynopsisIn The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What''s an encounter with anything once it''s seen as an incitement to composition? What''s a concept or a theory if they''re no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in whichAndrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respondwith their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.Trade Review"In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy. It is a way of framing uniquely modern questions." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"The seemingly arbitrary parameters Berlant and Stewart put in place act out an illuminating thought experiment for the reader. . . . A haunting and thought-provoking read that asks readers to slow down and take stock of what is in front of them." -- Julia Shiota * Ploughshares *"A roving adventure in critical prose. . . . Berlant and Stewart eschew a literary focal point for a broadly questioning spirit. . . . The point is not to 'track thing into their secret lairs,' or to place them in the 'so-called big picture,' rather, it is to look again, and encourage the reader look again too." -- Michael Caines * TLS *"The Hundreds is playful and loose, it roams and discovers, only to drift elsewhere, but it works: it grounds theory, makes it real." -- Casey Dawson and Christopher Schaberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Hundreds focalizes an intrinsic desire to explore the world’s simplicities as the foundation for the potentiality of the extraordinary. Berlant and Stewart show that, indeed, ordinary life is ordinary and transformative, containing so many possibilities for thinking about who we are in the world, really." -- Matt Morgenstern * Cleveland Review of Books *"The Hundreds, by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant and anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, is at once a bold thought experiment and a radical exploration of reflexive ethnographic writing. . . . The Hundreds is a must read for scholars interested in affect as another register of human experience that exists alongside the psychological and phenomenological." -- Asha L. Abeyasekera * Feminism & Psychology *"As compositions, the hundreds illuminate and obscure, defamiliarize and refamiliarize, reflect and refract (tip of the cap to Volosinov 1973) both their authors and the cultural artifacts that appear in them, and offer a way of archiving cultural moments in ways that acknowledge, even foreground, their affective power." -- Seth Kahn * Anthropological Quarterly *"A speculative and seductive book. . . . The Hundreds asks us to pay attention to the capacious and crucial smallness of our everyday, to slow down and dial in to the richness and frustrations of ordinary encounters as a grounding and creative political practice." -- Elisabeth R. Anker * Theory & Event *
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Duke University Press Wild Things
Book SynopsisIn Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity''s orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries—from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip''s Zong! to Maurice Sendak''s Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement—to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things, Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more bTrade Review“Where can the wild take you? With Jack Halberstam as guide, to places fabulous, cruel, soaring, undead, hilarious, dark, seductive, promising, nonprovidential. Wild Things is a brilliant phenomenology of the (more than) human condition of bewilderment. Its critique of invocations of wildness tethered to colonial, racist fantasies also marks how the figure can contribute to forms of desire bent toward the feral, the incipient, the otherwise. Wild Things is an awesome trip.” -- Jane Bennett, author of * Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman *“How does one learn about wildness? Coming from a longtime scholar of sexuality, the animal, desire, and anarchy, Jack Halberstam's Wild Things fosters a generous archive, favoring bewilderment over a ritual turn back to order and knowing. Following this book constitutes a kind of epistemological travel and culminates in a habit of sensation, a disorderly campaign, and a queer method that will stay with you.” -- Mel Y. Chen, author of * Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect *"[A] creative, discipline-smashing study exploring the human attraction to 'the wild.' . . . Halberstam’s approach is equal parts academic and poetic, making for a dense and, at times, beautiful text. This is a work that demands attention, which it rewards with both insight and entertainment." * Publishers Weekly *“In Wild Things Halberstam moves restlessly across literature, cinema, theater, music, and poetry, determining the various modes by which people have devoted themselves to, or been effectively written within, the incomprehensibilities of the wild, of wildness, and of bewilderment…. Wild Things (un)clarifies the wild as an always-present threat to modernity’s coherence, illuminating the anti-Black and heteronormative carceral logics at the heart of liberal democracy by unveiling those under common ways of knowing and being that liberalism seeks to obscure, incorporate, lock up, or destroy.” * Invisible Culture *"The limits of Halberstam's analysis are boundlessly educative and entertaining: one chapter calls out proto-queer male writers for their affinity and identification with feral falconry while another examines the nature of family pets. Within the realms of what the author himself calls a 'counterintuitive queer project,' Halberstam's intellectually engrossing phenomenology evokes thoughts of how the concept of 'wild' can be applied to creatures and concepts both great and small while inspiring spirited conversation and debate." -- Jim Piechota * Bay Area Reporter *"Wild Things offers readers and scholars working on environmental questions a vibrant archive for thinking histories of sexuality and desire alongside concepts of the “wild” and its disorders. . . . The text is especially rich as an archive of the ways wildness persists within and can be activated against modernist writers. Halberstam’s wildness is a morally ambivalent, non-identitarian invitation—one that might lead to bewilderment, zombies, children’s books, hawks, or any number of other queer, wild things." -- Julia Dauer * Edge Effects *“Through Halberstam’s examination of pop culture and political projects, his analysis is consistently brought back to racial tropes that define the socio-political state of colonialism today.... Wild Things is a reminder that critical scholarship’s penchant for world-making and un-making is a political imperative to thinking beyond our hegemonic constraints.” -- Jake Kyer Townsend * Cultural Studies *“The book’s first half is a remarkable example of ecstatic intellectual curiosity, flying high on seemingly perpendicular currents Halberstam teaches us to navigate with smooth and logical flow. . . . Halberstam wrote exactly the wild book he set out to write.” -- Nicholas Tyler Reich * Transgender Studies Quarterly *“With regard to queer topics, Halberstam has been an influential figure in modern queer theory and Wild Things attests to this status as it is steadfastly grounded in the scholarship of the field. . . . The author does not simply connect wildness with queerness, but braids the two strands of theory together thus expanding their discursive potential.” -- Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis * European Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Part I. Sex in the Wild Introduction. Sex before, after, and against Nature 3 1. Wildness, Loss, and Death 33 2. "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and and Indigenous Aesthetics of Bewilderment 51 3. The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry 77 Part II. Animality Introduction. Into the Wild 115 4. Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children 125 5. Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World 147 Conclusions. The Ninth Wave 175 Notes 181 Bibliography 201 Index 211
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Duke University Press The Affect Theory Reader 2
Book SynopsisBuilding on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies. It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. Tracing affect’s resonances with today’s most critical debates, The Affect Theory Reader 2 will reorient and disorient readers to the past, present, and future pTrade Review“The Affect Theory Reader 2 surveys the burgeoning field whose development its predecessor did so much to catalyze. In the intervening thirteen years, the study of affect has spread its capillaries across an ever-growing spectrum of disciplines, while at the same time expanding the scope of its own problematics. This new anthology skillfully presents a much-needed digest of the state of the field today. The essays it brings together address a wide range of topics, opening new perspectives on some of the most pressing issues of our time, including, in a reckoning that is long overdue for the field, an emphasis on issues of race. This is an excellent and timely volume that readers interested in affect studies and allied areas will find indispensable.” -- Brian Massumi, author of * Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism *“The essays in The Affect Theory Reader 2 offer galvanizing, clarifying experiments with thought and form. Wholly reimagined from its previous incarnation, this ‘cluster of attunings’ showcases the maturity of this line of inquiry and so many of its emergent conversations, while at the same time finding the mettle to rethink the origins and legacies of ‘affect theory’ as such. An exciting offering for anyone who imagines the minor registers of experience deserves an unmistakably major volume.” -- Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell 1 Part One. Tensions, In Solution 1. The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack 63 2. Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen 85 3. Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 103 4. Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer 122 5. Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller 141 Part Two. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form 6. Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich 161 7. Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino 179 8. Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley 191 9. Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani 214 Part Three. Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival 10. Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner 233 11. Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza 255 12. The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson 273 Part Four. The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of Its Necessary Modesty 13. Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson 295 14. Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor / Erin Manning 315 15. Emotions and Affects of Convolution / Lisa Blackman 326 16. Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia Macón 347 Part Five. A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social 17. The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read 367 18. Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-Román 384 19. Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar 406 20. Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson 423 Coda 447 A Note / Kathleen Stewart 449 Poisonality / Lauren Berlant 451 Contributors 465 Index 471
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Earth
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a blue marble, a blue pale dot, or, as Chaucer described it, this litel spot of erthe, the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world. Viewing the Earth from space invites a dive into the abyss of scale: how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade Review[An] alchemy of unlikely ideas ... [The authors] reflect on the geological history of the earth and humanity's understanding of it over the millennia. * Sydney Morning Herald *Earth is a magical, unusual, curious book … Cohen and Elkins-Tanton describe it as a “little book about an impossibly large subject.” This subject is made even larger by Cohen and Elkins-Tanton’s forays into discussions of beauty, creativity, and imagination (including my favorite question in the book: “Can you die from an overactive imagination?”) and how they connect to science and ultimately this planet. This makes Earth a book that is, ultimately, a testament to what can be discovered if we are brave enough to combine the unexpected. * PopMatters *Learning from this volume as a reader means … not only to participate in a conversation between specialists from two disciplines, but also to do so across different modes of expression, and experimenting together with the two authors in an innovative and completely unique creative space. Different readers (and reviewers) will learn different things from this handsome (it just about fits in an adult’s hand) and beautifully designed volume … What surprised me was how ‘realistic’ the object lesson became for me as a scholar because of the multiple narrative modes and tones in which it is written. The fragmentary mix of subjective impressions and scientific factoids all of us sedulously collect before we force them into linear narratives are all discernible as patterns in a rich and open ended fabric. * Medievally Speaking *Earth is ambitious, thought-provoking and inspirational, conversationally written between two dissimilar but very complementary viewpoints. In this great age of exoplanetary discovery, it makes me wonder how unique our wonderful home planet really is. * Scott Parazynski, MD, University Explorer and Professor at Arizona State University, USA, and NASA Astronaut (retired) *As much as the mindsets of a distinguished planetary scientist and a medieval studies professor differ, it is what they share in common when thinking about that object so dear to all of us, the Earth, that is so fascinating. What this delightful and informative book ultimately demonstrates is that the humanity of science itself offers untold fuel for the humanities to ponder our existence. The Object of this book, the Earth, is at once more interesting and better off because both of these scholars chose to write about it. * Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist and author of A Universe from Nothing and The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far *Gorgeous … The book’s words and images can’t quite banish scale’s disorienting shifts, but interweaving planet-sized ideas with human words and emotions opens doors … I’m struck not so much by the disparity of [the authors’] fields as their shared curiosity and commitment to generative and generous thinking. * The Bookfish *Table of Contents1. Prologue: Genesis 2. Orbit 3. Ground (Why Earth?) 4. Scale (Barriers to Understanding) 5. Radiance (Earth's beauty) 6. Gravity (Earth's Pull) 7. Interlude: A Hike Around Piestewa Peak 8. Imagination List of Illustrations Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Alarm
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to feel secure, to sleep and to retreat from alertness. Theytake over vigilance on our behalf. From the alarm clock and the air-raid siren to the doorbell and the phone alert, the history of alarms is also the history of work, security, technology and emotion. Alarm responds to culture's most urgent calls to attention by examining all kinds of alarms, from the restless presence of the alarm clock in modernist art to the siren the sound of the police in classic hip hop. More than just bells and whistles, alarms are objects that have defined sleeping and waking, safety and danger, and they have fundamentally shaped our understanding of the mind and its capacity for attention.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay seTrade ReviewBy revealing the uncanny ubiquity of alarms in our daily life, by making us smile about their profound ambivalence, Alice Bennett has written a pleasurable and soothing book. From burglary to belatedness, from house fires to climate change, this exemplary collaboration between literary studies and the social sciences sheds a reflexive, nuanced and joyful light on our darker anxieties. A most accessible, elegant and important lesson in attention ecology. * Yves Citton, Professor in Literature and Media, University Paris 8, France, and author of The Ecology of Attention *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Clock 2. Fire 3. Security 4. Siren 5. Failure, False, Fatigue 6. Future Image Credits Notes Index
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