ELT & Literary Studies Books
The University of Chicago Press Into the Light of Things The Art of the
Book SynopsisThis revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art to the work of Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought to be a contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I: The End of Art? II: The Status of the Art Object Relative to Mere Real Things Before 1800 III: Confronting the Art Object: The Simple Produce of the Common Day A: William Wordsworth: The Simple Produce of the Common Day B: Thomas Carlyle: Natural Supernaturalism C: John Ruskin IV: Leaving the Raft Behind: John Cage A: Recontextualizing Cage: Industrial Supernaturalism, Suzukian Zen, and the Buddha's Raft B: The Simple Produce Changes: The Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Natural Supernaturalism C: On the Buddha's Raft D: The Ultimate Object E: Ecology: 24'00" Epilogue Notes Index
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Paraliterary The Making of Bad Readers in
Book SynopsisLiterature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, good readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tongue-in-cheek term, bad readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, improved, engaged as citizens. How should we think about those readers, and what should we make of the structures, well outside the academy, that generate them? We should, Emre argues, think of such readers not as non-literary but as paraliterary thriving outside the institutions we take as central to the literary world. She traces this phenomenon to the postwar period, when literature played a key role in the rise of American power. At the same time as American universities were producing good readers by the hundreds, many more thousands of bad readers were learning elsewhere to be disciplined public communicators, whether in diplomatic and ambassa
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Realistic Imagination English Fiction from
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£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Darwin and the Novelists Patterns of Science in
Book SynopsisLevine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose." Frank M. Turner, "Nineteenth-Century Literature." "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject." Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania"
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Airs Appearance Literary Atmosphere in British
Book SynopsisThe author enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. In this title, she shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and immaterial worlds.Trade Review"Air's Appearance is witty as well as elegant. The subject is original, the research breathtakingly wide-ranging, and the language lyrically clear. Its suggestiveness alone opens up so many new interpretive possibilities, so many new ways of historical thinking, so many new perceptions of air in text and air around. It makes you think and see differently." (Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia)"
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press The Theatricality of Greek Tradegy Playing Space
Book SynopsisAncient Greek tragedy has been an inspiration to Western culture, but the way it was first performed has long remained in question. In The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy, Graham Ley provides an illuminating discussion of key issues relating to the use of the playing space and the nature of the chorus, offering a distinctive impression of the performance of Greek tragedy in the fifth century BCE.Drawing on evidence from the surviving texts of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Ley explains how scenes with actors were played in the open ground of the orchestra, often considered as exclusively the dancing place of the chorus. In reviewing what is known of the music and dance of Greek antiquity, Ley goes on to show that in the original productions the experience of the chorusexpressed in song and dance and in interaction with the charactersremained a vital characteristic in the performance of tragedy. Combining detailed analysis with broader reflections about the nature of a
£55.89
University of Chicago Press Theorizing Myth Narrative Ideology and
Book SynopsisIn "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others.Table of ContentsPreface I: Mythos among the Greeks 1. The Prehistory of Mythos and Logos 2. From Homer through Plato II: A Modern History of Myth 3. The History of Myth from the Renaissance to the Second World War 4. Sir William's Myth of Origins 5. Nietzsche's "Blond Beast": A Genealogy 6. Dumezil's German War God III: New Directions 7. From the Second World War to the Present (and Possibly a Little Beyond) 8. Plutarch's Sibyl 9. Gautrek's Saga and the Gift Fox 10. Once Again, the Bovine's Lament 11. The Pandits and Mr. Jones Epilogue: Scholarship as Myth Notes Index
£89.52
The University of Chicago Press Theorizing Myth Narrative Ideology and
Book SynopsisIn "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others.Table of ContentsPart 1 Mythos among the Greeks: the prehistory of mythos and logos; from Homer through Plato. Part 2 A modern history of myth: the history of myth from the Renaissance to World War II; Sir William's myth of origins; Nietzsche's "Blond Beast" - a genealogy; Dumezil's German war God. Part 3 New directions: from World War II to the present (and possibly a little beyond); Plutarch's Siby; Gautrek's saga and the gift fox; once again, the Bovine's Lament; the Pandits and Mr Jones; epilogue - scholarship as myth.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Enchanted Islands Picturing the Allure of
Book SynopsisA final book from the late scholar, this one on the idea of the island in the imagination of eighteenth-century France.
£45.60
University of Chicago Press Deep Refrains Music Philosophy and the Ineffable
Book SynopsisWe often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari in order to revisit the age-old question of music's ineffability from a modern perspective. For these nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophers, music's ineffability is a complex phenomenon that engenders an intellectually productive sense of perplexity. Through careful examination of their historical contexts and philosophical orientations, close attention to their use of language, and new interpretations of musical compositions that proved influential for their work, Deep Refrains forges the first panoptic view of their writings on music. Gallope concludes that music's ineffability is neither a conservative phenomenon nor a pious call to silence. Instead, these philosophers ask us to think through the ways in which music's stunning force might address, in an ethical fashion, intricate philosophical questions specific to the modern world.
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Deep Refrains Music Philosophy and the Ineffable
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University of Chicago Press Abandoned Women Poetic Tradition Women in
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£91.34
The University of Chicago Press Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
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£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Once a Peacock Once an Actress TwentyFour Lives
Book SynopsisWritten in Kashmir around 400 CE, Haribhatta's Jatakamala is a remarkable example of classical Sanskrit literature in a mixture of prose and verse that for centuries was known only in its Tibetan translation. But between 1973 and 2004 a large portion of the Sanskrit original was rediscovered in a number of anonymous manuscripts. With this volume Peter Khoroche offers the most complete translation to date, making almost eighty per cent of the work available in English. Haribhatta's Jatakamala is a sophisticated and personal adaptation of popular stories, mostly non-Buddhist in origin, all illustrating the future Buddha's single-minded devotion to the good of all creatures, and his desire, no matter what his incarnation man, woman, peacock, elephant, merchant or king to assist others on the path to nirvana. Haribhatta's insight into human and animal behaviour, his astonishing eye for the details of landscape and his fine descriptive powers together make this a unique record of everyday l
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Freudian Robot
Book SynopsisThe identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.Trade Review"An interesting and significant book. The Freudian Robot is part of a new trend in the humanities that is reinventing comparative studies in light of digital media." - Eugene Thacker, Georgia Institute of Technology"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Local Transcendence Essays on Postmodern
Book SynopsisPostmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. This book takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism and digital information technology.Trade Review"This book is a reflection of and on a nearly twenty-year career. It is as much a work of history as of literary and cultural critique, as much a narrative and a piece of performance art as it is philosophical investigation and Nietzschean genealogy. Alan Liu is sui generis." - Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Local Transcendence Essays on Postmodern
Book SynopsisPostmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. This book takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism and digital information technology.Trade Review"This book is a reflection of and on a nearly twenty-year career. It is as much a work of history as of literary and cultural critique, as much a narrative and a piece of performance art as it is philosophical investigation and Nietzschean genealogy. Alan Liu is sui generis." - Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing
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 title aims to untie those tongues and help those who speak Shakespeare's language with ease.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Resistance to Poetry
Book SynopsisA skilled study in which each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry, showing that the power of language depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means. The author argues that poetry is its own best enemy.Trade Review"An intelligent, elegant and valuable defense of poetry." - John Palattella, Nation "James Longenbach's exhilarating and subtle book makes the eloquent case for the necessary unpopularity of poetry." - Adam Philips, Guardian (UK) "Longenbach's spare method is that of a poet, his careful exposition like that of a poem.... A beautiful little book." - Library Journal "Throughout nine small and expertly constellated essays, Longenbach demonstrates that poems are a form of thinking: a resistance to the clear-cut, uncomplicated thought that tries to pin them down as statements.... A compact and exponentially provocative book." - Brian Phillips, Poetry"
£21.85
The University of Chicago Press The Elephants Teach Creative Writing Since 1880
Book SynopsisAn examination of crucial texts of 18th-century American literature, this book argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Balancing the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture, it uncovers the complex process of articulating a new nation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Logocracy in America 2: "The Affairs of the Revolution Occasion'd the Interruption": Self, Language, and Nation in Franklin's Autobiography 3: "The Very Act of Utterance": Law, Language, and Legitimation in Brown's Wieland 4: "Tongues of People Altercating With One Another": Language, Text and Society in Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry 5: Coda: The Voice of Patrick Henry Index
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Dont Forget to Live
Book SynopsisTrade Review“To read Pierre Hadot sparks enormous joy.” * Charlie Hebdo, on the French edition *“No one is more qualified to describe this spiritual line of descent than Pierre Hadot” * Le Figaro, on the French edition *“A very beautiful book that celebrates action, the duty to serve, and joy.” * Valeurs Actuelles, on the French edition *“This deeply personal work, by one of the greatest of French classical philosophers, featuring one of his major inspirations, the great German author and philosopher Goethe, excellently translated by Michael Chase, might just change your life. It is the culmination of Hadot’s long-term concern with ‘philosophy as a way of life,’ and constitutes a significant expansion and deepening of this theme.” -- John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin“Renowned for reviving the classical idea of philosophy as an art of living, Pierre Hadot combines his expertise in Greco-Roman thought with an extensive study of Goethe to produce a fascinating book, rich in both erudition and relevance for the conduct of life—reinterpreting, with compelling nuance and philosophical sophistication, the deeper, more mindful meaning of the Horatian maxim carpe diem. What you learn from this book can change your life.” -- Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University"Pointing to similarities to the ancient philosophers Goethe knew intimately, Hadot observes that Goethe owes a debt to them but surpasses them in his emphasis on remembering to live a joyfully fulfilling life. Beautifully translated." -- E. G. Wickersham * Choice *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction Preface 1. “The Present Is the Only Goddess I Adore” Faust and Helen The Present, the Trivial, and the Ideal Idyllic Arcadia Unconscious Health or Conquered Serenity? The Philosophical Experience of the Present The Tradition of Ancient Philosophy in Goethe The Present, the Instant, and Being-There in Goethe 2. The View from Above and the Cosmic Journey The Instant and the View from Above The View from Above in Antiquity: Peaks and Flight of the Imagination The Philosophical Meaning of the View from Above among Ancient Philosophers The Medieval and Modern Tradition The Various Forms of the View from Above in Goethe The View from Above after Goethe Aeronauts and Cosmonauts 3. The Wings of Hope: The Urworte Daimôn, Tukhê Daimôn, Tukhê, Eros, Anankê, and Elpis Human Destiny Autobiographical Aspects? The Caduceus Elpis, Hope 4. The Yes to Life and the World Great Is the Joy of Being-There (Freude des Daseins) Greater Still Is the Joy One Feels in Existence Itself (Freude am Dasein) The Yes to Becoming and the Terrifying Goethe and Nietzsche Conclusion Translator’s Note Notes Bibliography Index
£19.00
University of Chicago Press Literal Figures Puritan Allegory and the
Book SynopsisA work on John Bunyan which explores the history and theory of representation inherent in his texts. Beginning with mainstream Puritan responses to a challenge to orthodoxy, the text concludes with an analysis of The Pilgrim's Progress. An analysis of key moments is included.Table of ContentsPreface 1: "Not I, but Christ": The Puritan Self--Escape from Allegory? 2: Allegory versus Typology: The Figural View of History 3: "Which Things Are an Allegory": Being a Son of God 4: Reading the Self: Biblical and Pauline Stories of Identity 5: "Other Mens Words" and "New Birth": Bunyan's Anti-Hermeneutics of Experience 6: Faring Otherwise: Allegory and Experience in The Pilgrim's Progress Notes Index
£49.94
The University of Chicago Press The Economy of Character Novels Market Culture
Book SynopsisAt the start of the 18th century, literary characters referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Recognizing Characters Pt. 1: The Economies of Characteristic Writing 1: Fleshing Out Characters 2: Fictions of Social Circulation, 1742-1782 Pt. 2: Inside Stories 3: "Round" Characters and Romantic-Period Reading Relations 4: Agoraphobia and Interiority in Frances Burney's Fiction 5: Jane Austen and the Social Machine Conclusion: The Real Thing and the "Work" of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Culture Notes Index
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press The Economy of Character Novels Market Culture
Book SynopsisAt the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations.
£28.50
University of Chicago Press The AirLine to Seattle
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£21.60
The University of Chicago Press The Norman Maclean Reader
Book SynopsisIn his 88 years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, which won him enduring fame and critical acclaim. This reader offers an introduction Norman Maclean and provides insight into his life and career.Trade Review"It is an enchanted tale.... I have read the story three times now, and each time it seems fuller." - Roger Sale, New York Review of Books "Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling.... As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway." - Alfred Kazin, Chicago Tribune Book World "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made." - Annie Proulx "His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic." - New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, Best Books of 1992 "Maclean is always with the brave young dead.... They could not have found a storyteller with a better claim to represent their honor.... A great book." - James R. Kincaid, New York Times Book Review"
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press The Norman Maclean Reader
Book SynopsisIn his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim. This reader serves as an introduction for readers new to Maclean, while offering fans fresh insight into his life and career.Trade Review"Smartly edited... the book brings together manuscripts and letters found among Maclean's papers after his death in 1990, as well as hard-to-find essays, lectures, and interviews. Maclean did not draw a distinction between his life and his fiction, and the material in the Reader, much of it available for the first time, burnishes his achievement." (Wall Street Journal) "A solid, satisfying, well-made body of work by a patient craftsman." (Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune)"
£16.15
The University of Chicago Press A River Runs Through It
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£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Scholars Art
Book SynopsisFor Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports.Trade Review"Jerome McGann is an internationally influential critic, with a long career not only of scholarly labor but of setting the agenda for critical adventures, theoretical reflection, and editorial precision, low-tech and hi-tech. The engaging array of informal, essayistic conversations in The Scholar's Art holds interest for everyone, from newcomers to those who have long been following and learning from his work, with illumination and gratitude." - Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University"
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press The Scholars Art Literary Studies in a Managed
Book SynopsisFor Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports.Trade Review"Jerome McGann is an internationally influential critic, with a long career not only of scholarly labor but of setting the agenda for critical adventures, theoretical reflection, and editorial precision, low-tech and hi-tech. The engaging array of informal, essayistic conversations in The Scholar's Art holds interest for everyone, from newcomers to those who have long been following and learning from his work, with illumination and gratitude." - Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object
Book SynopsisIf you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media such as painting, or woodcuts and instead focus on collisions between them, and the new forms and ideas that those collisions generate. Garrett Stewart in Transmedium dubs this new approach Conceptualism 2.0, an allusion in part to the computer images that are so often addressed by these works. A successor to 1960s Conceptualism, which posited that a material medium was unnecessary to the making of art, Conceptualism 2.0 features artworks that are transmedial, that place the aesthetic experience itself deliberately at the boundary between often incommensurable media. The result, Stewart shows, is art whose forced convergences break open new possibilities that are wholly surprising, intellectually enlightening, and often uncanny.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object
Book SynopsisIf you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media such as painting, or woodcuts and instead focus on collisions between them, and the new forms and ideas that those collisions generate. Garrett Stewart in Transmedium dubs this new approach Conceptualism 2.0, an allusion in part to the computer images that are so often addressed by these works. A successor to 1960s Conceptualism, which posited that a material medium was unnecessary to the making of art, Conceptualism 2.0 features artworks that are transmedial, that place the aesthetic experience itself deliberately at the boundary between often incommensurable media. The result, Stewart shows, is art whose forced convergences break open new possibilities that are wholly surprising, intellectually enlightening, and often uncanny.
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press The Resurrection of the Body
Book SynopsisItalian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. This title interprets his final works: the screenplay 'Saint Paul', the scenario for "Porn-Theo-Colossal", and the immense and unfinished novel "Petrolio".Trade Review"This is a book of striking originality - in its approach to Pasolini and in its reconfiguring of his oeuvre in light of Maggi's 'sodomitical' reading of four key late works. It is packed with insights gleaned both from Maggi's detailed and powerfully argued close analyses and from his highly stimulating forays beyond the four core texts." - Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge"
£52.25
University of Chicago Press William Blake the Impossible History of the
Book SynopsisModern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. In this study, however, Makdisi develops a framework for understanding these peculiarities.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press William Blake and the Impossible History of the
Book SynopsisTaking into account Blake's unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order of the old regime.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press The Conquerors Phoenix Fiction
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£25.65
The University of Chicago Press The Politics of Mirth Jonson Herrick Milton
Book SynopsisLeah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquing royal policy. . . . Marcus provocatively links texts not often studied in conjunction with one another, and she provides strong and detailed readings of those texts.Jean E. Howard
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Who Reads Poetry 50 Views from Poetry Magazine
Book SynopsisWho reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, Poetry magazine since 2005 has published a column called The View From Here, which has invited readers from outside the world of poetry to describe what has drawn them to poetry. Over the years, the incredibly diverse set of contributors have included philosophers, journalists, musicians, and artists, as well as doctors and soldiers, an iron-worker, an anthropologist, and an economist. This collection brings together fifty compelling pieces, which are in turns surprising, provocative, touching, and funny. In one essay, musician Neko Case calls poetry a delicate, pretty lady with a candy exoskeleton on the outside of her crepe-paper dress. In another, anthropologist Helen Fisher turns to poetry while researching the effects of love on the brain, As other anthropologists have studied fossils, arrowheads, or pot shards to understand human thought, I studied poetry...I wasn't disappointed: everywhere poets have described the emotional fallout produced by the brain's eruptions. Even film critic Roger Ebert memorized the poetry of e. e. cummings, and the rapper Rhymefest attests here to the self-actualizing power of poems: Words can create worlds, and I've discovered that poetry can not only be read but also lived out. My life is a poem. Music critic Alex Ross tells us that he keeps a paperback of The Palm at the End of the Mind by Wallace Stevens on his desk next to other, more utilitarian books like a German dictionary, a King James Bible, and a Macintosh troubleshooting manual. Who Reads Poetry offers a truly unique and broad selection of perspectives and reflections, proving that poetry can be read by everyone. No matter what you're seeking, you can find it within the lines of a poem.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Queer Forster Worlds of Desire
Book SynopsisA radical revision of gay criticism, focusing on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. This collection of essays situates Forster within the Bloomsbury Group, and examines his relations with major figures such as Henry James, Edward Carpenter and Virginia Woolf.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1: Introduction: Queer, Forster? Robert K. Martin, George Piggford. 2: "Queer Superstitions": Forster, Carpenter, and the Illusion of (Sexual) Identity Gregory W. Bredbeck 3: "Thinking about Homosex" in Forster and James Eric Haralson 4: The Mouse That Roared: Creating a Queer Forster Christopher Reed 5: Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury George Piggford 6: Fratrum Societati: Forster's Apostolic Dedications Joseph Bristow 7: "This is the End of Parsival": The Orphic and the Operatic in The Longest Journey Judith Scherer Herz 8: Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy Re-envisioning Hetero/Homo Relations in Maurice Debrah Raschke 9: Betrayal and Its Consolations in Maurice, "Arthur Snatchfold," and "What Does It Matter? A Morality" Christopher Lane 10: "Contrary to the Prevailing Current"? Homoeroticism and the Voice of Maternal Law in "The Other Boat" Tamera Dorland 11: To Express the Subject of Friendship: Masculine Desire and Colonialism in A Passage to India Charu Malik 12: Colonial Queer Something Yonatan Touval 13: "It Must Have Been the Umbrella": Forster's Queer Begetting Robert K. Martin Works Cited Contributors Index of Forster's Works General Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Queer Forster Worlds of Desire The Chicago Series
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a revision of gay criticism and focuses on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Desiring Arabs
Book SynopsisSexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. This title reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. It assembles a compendium of Arabic writing to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization.Trade Review"A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic.... I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work." - Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report "In Desiring Arabs, Edward Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing.... Massad brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present." - Financial Times"
£44.65
The University of Chicago Press ExtremeOccident French Intellectuals and America
Book SynopsisA systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron.
£81.00
The University of Chicago Press ExtremeOccident French Intellectuals and America
Book SynopsisA systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron.
£30.40
University of Chicago Press Inwardness Theatre in the English Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Introduction: Inwardness and Spectatorship 2: Machiavels and Family Men 3: Heretical Conscience and Theatrical Rhetoric: The Case of Christopher Marlowe 4: Proof and Consequences: Othello and the Crime of Intention 5: Prosecution and Sexual Secrecy: Jonson and Shakespeare 6: A Womb of His Own: Male Renaissance Poets in the Female Body 7: Conclusion Index
£80.00
University of Chicago Press Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Apocryphal Lorca Translation Parody Kitsch
Book SynopsisFederico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) had an enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. This book offers an exploration of the afterlife of this Spanish writer in the poetic culture of the United States.Trade Review"Apocryphal, American Lorca! Inviting us to consider how one culture reads another - how American poets read Spain through Lorca and Lorca through Spain - Jonathan Mayhew has given us an informative, thoughtful, fascinating, and often funny journey through translation, parody, and kitsch. No one could be better qualified to study Lorca's work as 'generative device' in English-language poetry and get at the mystery of how and what a poet can mean in a different cultural context." - Christopher Maurer, editor of Lorca's Collected Poems"
£46.55
University of Chicago Press Telling It Like It Wasnt
Book SynopsisIn Telling It Like It Wasn't, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study.Trade Review"Gallagher's new book is a genuinely original contribution to both the theory (and history) of the novel and the theory of history. Philosophers and historians have been debating the cognitive status of historical narratives for over half a century without taking into account the contributions to theory of narrative made by modern literary scholars. Based on a trove of 'counterfactualist' writings that have been little studied until of late, Gallagher's book sheds new light on the differences between history, myth, fiction, hypotheticals, the historical romance, and fantasy writing. Moreover, her book is mercifully free of jargon, her discussion of 'counterfactual' history is subtle and sophisticated, and her analysis of the relation between fiction and hypothesis convincing."--Hayden White "University Professor of the History of Consciousness, Emeritus, University of California " "At a time when fact itself is under siege, why tarry with thought experiments about pasts that didn't happen? Gallagher's answer is a historicist one: although counterfactual narratives have been with us in many forms since antiquity, their full story has remained untold. Fortunately, we no longer have to live in a timeline where Telling It Like It Wasn't has yet to be written. To read this engrossing book is to be haunted not by lives unled but by previously undermapped regions of history, philosophy, theology, legal reasoning, and literature." --Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form
£29.45
The University of Chicago Press The Light Club On Paul Scheerbarts The Light
Book SynopsisPaul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist. He was fascinated with the potential of glass as a medium for expressionist architecture. This title describes Scheerbart's life, and explains the ways in which 'The Light Club of Batavia' inspired him to produce art of uncommon breadth.
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