ELT & Literary Studies Books
Vintage Publishing Gift Songs
Book SynopsisJohn Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.Trade ReviewIf genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music -- Adam Thorpe * Observer *I love the way John Burnside looks at the world. He doesn't just look: he watches. He sees into secret spaces that lie somewhere between the hidden and the revealed... [He] crafts a poetry as precise in its detail, as subtle in its perceptions, as respectful in its attentions as the blade of a brain surgeon's scalpel -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston * The Times *A stunningly good writer of poetry and fiction -- Christina Patterson * Independent *The new appearance of a collection of John Burnside's poems is now an event... His has become a voice we rely on; he is a shaman-cum-seer who finds a lucid magic in the ordinary, a life of implication in passing moments, an X-ray truth, an inner light in our daily lives -- Tom Adair * Scotland on Sunday *Burnside has a stillness and emotional restraint, a respect for the observer and observed alike which is serious, exemplary and rare * Times Literary Supplement *
£11.40
Vintage Publishing The Asylum Dance
Book SynopsisJohn Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.Trade ReviewIf genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music -- Adam Thorpe * Observer *A poet of rare and extraordinary talent -- Michael Bracewell * Independent *Lyrical beauty, emotional charge and unforced clarity of form... His poems are acts of revelation * Scotsman *Burnside has a stillness and emotional restraint, a respect for the observer and observed alike which is serious, exemplary and rare * Times Literary Supplement *Burnside's vision is of another, sacred, fragile world that co-exists with our own dailiness: his gift is the ability, through poems of a rare and exquisite precision of language, to let his reader glimpse it -- Elizabeth Burns * Scotsman *
£11.70
Vintage Publishing Walking Papers
Book SynopsisIf life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one''s breast-pocket amongst one''s effects. And Thomas Lynch, the celebrated poet-undertaker is our guide through a world that''s painfully aware of its own mortality; as he says in the powerfully moving title poem: ''Listen - /something''s going to get you in the end./The numbers are fairly convincing on this,/hovering, as they do, around a hundred/percent. We die. And more''s the pity.''In this, his fourth collection of poems - his first in the new century - Lynch attends to the flora and fauna and fellow pilgrims: dead poets and living masters, a former president and his factotums, a sin-eater and inseminator. Faux-bardic and mock-epic, deft at lament and lampoon, accusation and dispensation, fete and feint, Lynch''s poems are powerful medicines, tonics for the long haul and home-going.Trade ReviewAn artist of great gifts, musically elevating and directing the speaking voice towards a startling power, moving through the accumulation of detail to give a visionary account of the ordinary life, doing justice to its terror and comedy. If it remains the poet's task to say things on behalf of everybody, Lynch shows how it should be done -- Sean O'BrienA poet of great gifts, a humorous visionary * Guardian *Like his admired Theodore Roethke, Lynch hails from Michigan - and like Roethke he can fashion long, singing lines unafraid of the old, elemental resonances of stars, roses, angels and the Latin mysteries of his Catholic childhood * Observer *Tragic, cryptic, compassionate and amusing, Lynch's poetry moves in a superb rhythm through the commonplace and the extraordinary * GQ *A fine and accomplished poet * Financial Times *
£11.40
Vintage Publishing Black Cat Bone
Book SynopsisJohn Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.Trade ReviewThe unmistakable work of a master -- Bernard O’Donoghue * Times Literary Supplement *A tour de force of liminal expression... Burnside is not a wispily ethereal poet. A stretch of country crossed during the hunt is captured in oils, not in thin watercolours...poignantly luminous...[an] engrossing collection -- M. Wynn Thomas * Guardian *Black Cat Bone is a deserving winner of this year's Forward Prize for best collection. John Burnside's twelfth volume adds to and deepens a body of poetry that is already exceptionally significant - and utterly recognisable. A musician and chromaticist, he's a poet whose rapt, floating verse conjures up effects of great beauty in both the ear and the imagination -- Fiona Sampson * Independent *A haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory, human longing and loneliness. In an exceptional year, it is an outstanding book, one which the judges felt grew with every reading -- Gillian Clarke, chair of the T.S. Eliot PrizeOne of the most gifted poets writing today -- Paul Batchelor * Times Literary Supplement *
£11.70
Vintage Publishing Eliot After The Waste Land
Book SynopsisRobert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including two major biographies of T.S. Eliot: Young Eliot and Eliot After The Waste Land. Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Trade ReviewExcellent... Full of voices, friendships and conflicts, Crawford's book is rich and dense as Christmas cake... [An] outstanding biography. -- Sean O'Brien * Daily Telegraph, *5-star review* *Astonishing... This book is properly complex, both in terms of the art and the life. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *Crawford's work is impeccable... [A] magisterial account... the tender, elegiac final notes of this book are...striking. -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *Excellent... Nothing is simple within this hefty, detailed narrative and Crawford remains impeccably fair... [an] absorbing biography. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail, *Book of the Week* *A thorough, solid sequel to Crawford's much-praised Young Eliot... This biography...is going to play a large part in any future assessment of Eliot. -- Philip Hensher * Spectator *
£22.50
Vintage Publishing Philip Roth
Book Synopsis''Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping'' SUNDAY TIMES''Utterly engrossing'' EVENING STANDARD''Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive'' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth''s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the post-war literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain. Bailey examines Roth''s rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John Updike and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid love lifeTrade ReviewSuperlative... Bailey's account is definitive and genuinely gripping to boot... He leads us lucidly through a dense palimpsest of overlapping drafts, fictional identities, literary feuds and women. -- Claire Lowdon * Sunday Times *Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... It is hard to imagine a book that will come up with a more definitive series of answers than this one. -- Tim Adams * Observer *[A] monumental and engrossing book... Bailey brings new information and a fresh perspective... No other biographer will have known Roth so well. -- Elaine Showalter * Times Literary Supplement *Bailey's utterly engrossing biography ... shows Roth led a life just as strange and intense as his fictionalised alter egos. -- Tomiwa Owolade * Evening Standard *It's a miracle that he has published so lucid a book just three years after Roth's death - and one so packed with good anecdotes and jokes... It's an achievement for Bailey to have gained as much distance as he has. -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *Philip Roth, for all his flaws, for all that I know his legacy will continue to be judged in judgmental times and found wanting, deserves this riveting, serious and deeply intelligent biography. -- David Baddiel * Spectator *The 19th-century novel lives on. Its name today is Biography; its nature is that of Dostoyevskian magnitude. And Blake Bailey's comprehensive life of Philip Roth - to tell it outright - is a narrative masterwork.' -- Cynthia Ozick * New York Times Book Review *Unassailable as to fact... clear-eyed... quickly moving... Philip Roth seems as brightly peopled as a Victorian novel. ... What [Bailey] does superbly... is chart Roth's sexual and emotional life, and map its effects on his work. -- Michael Gorra * New York Review of Books *[A] terrific new biography... Bailey handles...difficult passages with real skill. -- Benjamin Markovits * Daily Telegraph *A colourful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph. -- Alexander C Kafka * Independent *
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisA stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of Woolf's novels and essays. In addition to transforming our understanding of Woolf, this book radically expands our understanding of the historicity and contingent construction of psychoanalytic theory and our vision of the potential of psychoanalytic feminism.Nancy J. Chodorow, University of California at Berkeley Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis brings Woolf's extraordinary craftsmanship back into view; the book combines powerful claims about sexual politics and intellectual history with the sort of meticulous, imaginative close reading that leaves us, simply, seeing much more in Woolf's words than we did before. It is the most exciting book on Woolf to come along in some time.Lisa Rud
£21.85
The University of Chicago Press Letting Stories Breathe A SocioNarratology
Book SynopsisStories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them. It uses literary concepts to ask social scientific questions: how do stories make life better, and when do they endanger it?
£19.95
The University of Chicago Press Sideshow U.S.A. Freaks and the American Cultural
Book SynopsisA staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. However, as this book reveals, images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts.
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Continental Divides
Book SynopsisNorth America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. This book studies the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.Trade Review"A powerful work of scholarship, Continental Divides will become a model for reconceiving American literature, culture, and history in a complex international context. Adams's work on North American literature and culture will be highly significant." - Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley"
£81.00
The University of Chicago Press Continental Divides
Book SynopsisNorth America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. This book studies the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.Trade Review"A powerful work of scholarship, Continental Divides will become a model for reconceiving American literature, culture, and history in a complex international context. Adams's work on North American literature and culture will be highly significant." - Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing Dictionary
Book SynopsisAn actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as chanson, phantasime, or quaestor, many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. This book aims to untie those tongues and help anyone speak Shakespeare's language with ease.Trade Review"Gary Logan has given us a pronouncing dictionary for Shakespeare which surpasses anything previously available in both scope and depth. Thoroughly researched and carefully documented, it clearly indicates pronunciations which are conjectural or matters of debate, as well as laying out in detail the standard of pronunciation adopted for the dictionary." (Ellen O'Brien, head of voice and text, Shakespeare Theatre Company)"
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Blood Relations
Book SynopsisDrawing on a variety of cultural materials, this title demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its Christians, The Merchant of Venice reflects Christian anxiety and guilt about its simultaneous dependence on and disavowal of Judaism.Trade Review"This book is well-positioned to be the most important book-length study of The Merchant of Venice in all of the available scholarship. No one today is writing more trenchant criticism than Adelman. Her study of this deeply problematic play is fair and judicious while also passionately involved, learned, and wide-ranging while also attuned to painful moral issues." - David Bevington, University of Chicago"
£40.00
The University of Chicago Press The Oresteia
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£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Isak Dinesen the Engendering of Narrative Women
Book SynopsisAlthough Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex relations of gender, sexuality, and representation in Dinesen's narratives. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist theories, Aiken shows how the form and meaning of Dinesen's texts are affected by her doubled situations as a Dane who wrote in English, a European who lived for many years in Africa, and a woman who wrote under a male pseudonym within a male-centered literary tradition. In a series of readings that range across Dinesen's career, Aiken demonstrates that Dinesen persistently asserted the inseparability of gender and the engendering of narrative. She argues that Dinesen's texts anticipate in remarkable ways some of the most radical insights of contemporary literary theories, particularly those of French feminist criticism. Aiken also offers a major rereading of Out of Africa that both addresses its distinctiveness as a colonialist text and places it within Dinesen's larger oeuvre. In Aiken's account, Dinesen's work emerges as a compelling inquiry into sexual difference and the ways it informs culture, subjectivity, and the language that is their medium. This important book will at last give Isak Dinesen's work the prominence it deserves in literary studies.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Fictions of the Cosmos
Book SynopsisBy examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide.
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Modernism and Music An Anthology of Sources
Book SynopsisThis work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others - all of which combine with Daniel Albright's commentary to place modernist music in the context of a broader intellectual history.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Complete Tragedies Volume 2 Oedipus Hercules Mad
Book SynopsisEdited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE 65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies presents all of his dramas, expertly rendered by preeminent scholars and translators. The first volume contains Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, and Octavia, the last of which was written in emulation of Senecan tragedies and serves as a unique example of political tragedy. This second volume includes Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, and Agamemnon. High standards of accuracy, clarity, and style are maintained throughout the translations, which render Seneca into verse with as close a correspondence, line for line, to the original as possible, and with special attention paid to meter and overall flow. In addition, each tragedy is prefaced by an origina
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press Conversations with Nelson Algren
Book SynopsisIn this collection of conversations, Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humour, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. He discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simon de Beauvoir.
£30.12
The University of Chicago Press A Story Larger than My Own
Book SynopsisIn 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. Lines on a Half-Painted House made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work.Trade Review"A Story Larger than My Own is an essential book, for women writers, for all writers, for readers, for people with mothers, for people who remember their mothers." (Cris Mazza, author of Something Wrong with Her)"
£52.25
The University of Chicago Press A Story Larger than My Own
Book SynopsisIn 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives.Trade Review"A Story Larger than My Own is an essential book, for women writers, for all writers, for readers, for people with mothers, for people who remember their mothers." (Cris Mazza, author of Something Wrong with Her)"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Prosperos Son
Book SynopsisA child is a man in small letter, wrote Bishop John Earle in the seventeenth century. His father hath writ him as his own little story. In this title, the writer acknowledges the author of his story while simultaneously reminding us that we all confront the blank page of life on our own, as authors of our lives.Trade Review"I couldn't put this book down. 'Memoir' doesn't begin to do it justice. Prospero's Son is a beautifully observed and often haunting reflection about how we get here and what we leave behind." -James Shapiro, author of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture.
£86.45
The University of Chicago Press The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press What Is Pastoral
Book SynopsisThis work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Frequently Cited Works Prologue 1: Representative Anecdotes and Ideas of Pastoral 2: Mode and Genre 3: Pastoral Convention 4: Representative Shepherds 5: Pastoral Speakers 6: Pastoral Lyrics and Their Speakers 7: Modern Pastoral Lyricism 8: Pastoral Narration 9: Pastoral Novels Index
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisLiterary scholars often avoid category of aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft. This title reveals that aesthetics formal aspects of literary language that make it senseperceptible are indeed inextricable from ethics in writing of medieval literature.Trade Review"Eleanor Johnson is a kind of literary-critical mechanic, revealing with brilliance and skill how particular formal and rhetorical elements work discretely and together to shape the readerly process - not for its own sake, but for the larger premodern project of personal ethical transformation. The research is first-rate and the arguments are original. The book will have an immediate and lasting effect on the study of medieval literature." (Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia)"
£80.00
University of Chicago Press Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian whose lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative would later become Spain's national epic, The Poem of the Cid.Trade Review"Nadia R. Altschul has been responsible for some of the most searching studies of the links between the European premodern past and the colonial enterprise. In her new book, she turns her attention to the Americas and to the central role of Andres Bello in the formation of Latin American cultural identities. The result is a fundamental rethinking of an apparently authoritative humanism, revealing its Creole status. Beneath Altschul's lucid and precise prose is a passionate intelligence. It will be welcomed not only by students of Spanish-language literatures but also by those in postcolonial studies and transnational American studies." (John M. Ganim, author of Medievalism and Orientalism)"
£50.00
The University of Chicago Press Radical Coherency Selected Essays on Art and
Book SynopsisPresents the essays that range from front-line interventions in debates on poetics to fugitive pieces from the '60s and '70s. From Andy Warhol to Allan Kaprow, Mark Rothko to Ludwig Wittgenstein, this title takes the reader on an idiosyncratic, personal journey through twentieth-century culture.Trade Review"Ever since he began publishing in the mid-sixties, David Antin has been a remarkably interesting and intelligent poet." -New York Times "A decade before he became the seminal 'talk poet' we all know, David Antin was already writing some of the best art criticism in America. In the waning days of Abstract Expressionism, Antin introduced other ways of thinking about art that looked ahead to twenty-first-century modes of conceptualism, performance, and digital poetics. This superb selection from his writings, which brings together essays-some of them already classics-and a number of talk-pieces from the last forty years, is a real treasure." -Marjorie Perloff"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Iris Murdoch the Search for Human Goodness
Book SynopsisComprehensively engaging with Murdoch's work this volume gathers contributions from philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the significance of her ideas for contemporary thought.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Maria Antonaccio, William Schweiker. 1: Iris Murdoch and Moral Philosophy Charles Taylor 2: Love and Vision: Iris Murdoch on Eros and the Individual Martha C. Nussbaum 3: Iris Murdoch and the Many Faces of Platonism David Tracy 4: "We Are Perpetually Moralists": Iris Murdoch, Fact, and Value Cora Diamond 5: Form and Contingency in Iris Murdoch's Ethics Maria Antonaccio 6: The Green Knight and Other Vagaries of the Spirit; or, Tricks and Images for the Human Soul; or, The Uses of Imaginative Literature Elizabeth Dipple 7: On the Loss of Theism Franklin I. Gamwell 8: Murdochian Muddles: Can We Get Through Them If God Does Not Exist? Stanley Hauerwas 9: The Sovereignty of God's Goodness William Schweiker Appendix: Metaphysics and Ethics Iris Murdoch Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness
Book SynopsisComprehensively engaging with Murdoch's work this volume gathers contributions from philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the significance of her ideas for contemporary thought.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Enlightenment Orientalism
Book SynopsisReveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, this title poses a range of questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction.Trade Review"Without question, Enlightenment Orientalism is an illuminating, persuasive, and provocative revaluation of eighteenth-century fiction." (Robert Markley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"
£86.45
The University of Chicago Press Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of
Book SynopsisReveals how "Oriental" tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century.Trade Review"Without question, Enlightenment Orientalism is an illuminating, persuasive, and provocative revaluation of eighteenth-century fiction." (Robert Markley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"
£29.45
The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics
Book Synopsis"The Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel, "the Politics", is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called 'the Philosopher'. This title presents a translation of the Ethics.Trade Review"This translation will easily be the best available English version of the Nicomachean Ethics." (Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College) "The translators have achieved their goal of providing a translation that is very readable while remaining faithful to Aristotle's Greek. This will be a real service to scholars and students." (Gerald Mara, Georgetown University)"
£36.10
The University of Chicago Press J M Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading Literature
Book SynopsisNobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics who have addressed his work have devoted themselves to rendering it more accessible and acceptable, often playing down the features that discomfort and perplex his readers. Yet it is just these features, Derek Attridge argues, that give Coetzee's work its haunting power and offer its greatest rewards. Attridge does justice to this power and these rewards in a study that serves as an introduction for readers new to Coetzee and a stimulus for thought for those who know his work well. Without overlooking the South African dimension of his fiction, Attridge treats Coetzee as a writer who raises questions of central importance to current debates both within literary studies and more widely in the ethical arena. Implicit throughout the book is Attridge's view that literature, more than philosophy, politics, or even religion, does singular justice
£80.00
University of Chicago Press J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading
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£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Our Vampires Ourselves
Book SynopsisWorking with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Nina Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last 200 hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.Table of ContentsLiving with the undead; giving up the ghost - 19th-century vampires; Dracula - a vampire of our own; our vampire, our leader - 20th-century undeaths; grave and gay - Reagan's years.
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Forbidden Journeys Fairy Tales and Fantasies by
Book SynopsisA collection of eleven fairy tales by Victorian women.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Refashioning Fairy Tales The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray Ritchie Beauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray Ritchie The Brown Bull of Norrowa, Maria Louisa Molesworth Amelia and the Dwarfs, Juliana Horathia Ewing Part Two: Subversions Nick, Christina Rossetti Christmas Crackers, Julian Horathia Ewing Behind the White Brick, Frances Hodgson Burnett Melisande, or, Long and Short Division, E. Nesbit Fortunatus Rex & Co., E. Nesbit Part Three: A Fantasy Novel Mopsa the Fairy, Jean Ingelow Part Four: A Trio of Antifantasies Speaking Likenesses, Christina Rossetti Biographical Sketches Further Readings
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Black Studies Rap the Academy Black Literature
Book SynopsisIn this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression--rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Black Studies: A New Story 2: The Black Urban Bear: Rap and the Law 3: Expert Witnesses and the Case of Rap 4: Hybridity, Rap, and Pedagogy for the 1990s: A Black Studies Sounding of Form Afterword Index
£22.00
University of Chicago Press Workings of the Spirit The Poetics of
Book SynopsisTurning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Workings of the Spirit The Poetics of
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£21.85
The University of Chicago Press Greek Tragedies 2
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£38.97
The University of Chicago Press Greek Tragedies 2
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£14.06
University of Chicago Press Greek Tragedies 3
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£38.49
The University of Chicago Press A Mieke Bal Reader
Book SynopsisMieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched. This work reflects the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis, and postmodern theology. This work brings together a collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise.Trade Review"Quoting Caravaggio "Stimulating and intelligently written.... [Quoting Caravaggio] is very interesting to read, and is a useful additional example of contemporary artists' and critics' identification with the Baroque as a world of sensuality in pre-Enlightenment modernity." - Art Book Louise Bourgeois' "Spider" "Bal is exceptionally skilled at close reading, and the subjects she chooses to take on are commensurate in complexity to that skill." - Common Knowledge"
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Loving Yusuf Conceptual Travels from Present to
Book SynopsisSets the Genesis tale to the different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt, and explores how Thomas Mann's retelling in Joseph and His Brothers reworks these versions.Trade Review"By juxtaposing Qur'anic and biblical versions of the same story, Bal asks us to consider more than one way of looking at gender, literature, art, culture, and religious imagination. Her compendious erudition and the ease with which she traverses historical periods, cultural frames, and intellectual and academic discourses are breathtaking." - Esther Fuchs, University of Arizona"
£32.40
The University of Chicago Press Greek Tragedies 3
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£14.06
The University of Chicago Press Signifying God
Book SynopsisIn this text, Sarah Beckwith explores the lavish and complex form of the York Corpus Christi plays. She shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labour, and how theatre and sacrement combined in them to do theological work.
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The University of Chicago Press Alice in Space The Sideways Victorian World of
Book SynopsisIn Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. What is often overlooked, however, is that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual upheaval, as new scientific, linguistic, educational, and mathematical ideas flourished around him, in Oxford, and far beyond. Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy to hidden references. Gillian Beer explores Carroll's work through the speculative gaze of Alice, for whom no authority is unquestioned and everything can speak. Parody and Punch, evolutionary debates, philosophical dialogues, educational works for children, math and logic, manners and rituals, dream theory and childhood studies all fueled the fireworks. While much has been written about Carroll's biography and his influence on ch
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