Essays Books
The University of Chicago Press Portraits A Gallery of Intellectuals
Book SynopsisRanging widely across many disciplines, this collection of essays includes an affectionate treatment of Leo Szilard, an analysis of the educational philosophy of Robert Maynard Hutchins, an account of the Polish emigre Leopold Labedz's resistance to communism, and an essay on Nirad Chaudhuri.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press What Is What Was
Book SynopsisWhat is what was combines Richard Stern's fiction and non-fiction work into one miscellany. His essays include philosophy, criticism, reportage and autobiography, all worked within the theme of actuality made and remade in description.Trade Review"Stern's skill gives vitality to everything he treats." - Edmund White, Los Angeles Times "Stern is incapable of writing an unconsidered, lazy, or hackneyed line." - Peter Straub, New Statesman "His control is extraordinary, his fastball is devastating, nobody walks, nobody steals a base." - Saul Bellow "Stern is a fine novelist and more than a little bit of the classical model of the American crackpot. In his essays he is doing all kinds of interesting things, often most seriously when he is most off the wall. And best of all, he knows what he's doing, and if you will listen, he will tell you, too.... You would be right to read him as you read Montaigne." - George Garrett, Sewanee Review
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Smoking Book
Book SynopsisThe Smoking Book is built on the foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
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£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Peloponnesian War Thucydides Emersion
Book SynopsisRecounts the ancient war between Athens and Sparta in the translation by the seventeenth century British philosopher.
£21.60
The University of Chicago Press The Girl in the Window and Other True Tales An
Book SynopsisTrade Review“For journalism students and other aspiring writers of nonfiction, it’s a treasure trove of inside advice, woven around 24 articles written during the 23 years she has been on the staff of the Tampa Bay Times. For anyone who loves the craft of writing and the magic of story, the anthology is a feast.” * Tampa Bay Times *"Tampa Bay Times reporter DeGregory debuts with a perceptive collection of 24 of her most popular pieces for the Times, each enhanced with commentary and annotations explaining how she reported them. . . . The entries testify to the rich panorama of human experience and the writing guidance is a boon. Aspiring journalists will want to check this out. " * Publishers Weekly *“I have been studying (and teaching) DeGregory’s stories for years. There is no one like her. In addition to being a showcase of her best work, this book is full of practical advice about how she’s able to pull off what seems impossible, over and over.” * Christopher Goffard, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times *“DeGregory performs magic in this beautiful, heartfelt book of stories—and then teaches you how she did it. This is a book for anyone who loves reading, writing, or both.” * Mike Wilson, deputy sports editor for the New York Times *“I was barely a third of the way through ‘The Girl in the Window’ and Other True Tales and ready to swear on my stack of AP Stylebooks that I had never read a better collection of great journalism. And that’s only half of what this anthology by Tampa Bay Times writer Lane DeGregory is. The other half comprises annotations alongside each story by the Pulitzer winner (for the title story) about the insights, decisions, roadblocks, asides, and changes in direction that occurred to her along the way. . . . While it’s great reading for reporters and writers . . . it would be interesting to anyone who wants a view of what ‘the media’—when it means ‘journalism’—is doing.” * Press Club of Southwest Florida *Table of ContentsForeword by Beth Macy Introduction Part 1. Short Stories 1. Talk to Strangers Diving Headlong into Sunny Eden: A Young Couple Flees Winter 2. Get a Life Zeke the Labrador: An Intuitive Dog Saves His Owner 3. Explore Rituals Finding the Right Words: A Boy Buys His First Valentine Spotlight: Finding Ideas 4. Wonder, Who Would Ever? Meet the “THE” Guy: Flag-Bearer of the Rodeo 5. Establish Intimacy A Brothers’ Bond: Autism Ties Twins Together 6. Don’t Judge The Truth Is Flexible: Learning How to Panhandle from the Pros 7. CAST Around Gone in a Flash: A Garbage Truck Driver Walks into a Bar 8. Unravel the Mystery A Message from Roger: Long Ago, a Boy Put a Note in a Bottle 9. Carve Out the Elephant Davion’s Prayer: A Teenage Orphan Goes to Church to Find a Family Part 2. On Assignment 10. Explore News Briefs The Saint and the Sacrifice: She Was Devoted to Her Sister but Wanted Her Life Back 11. Ignore Important People Stormy Daniels: The President’s Porn Star 12. Find a Guide Pulse Nightclub: Aftermath of the Orlando Shooting Tests a Young Man’s Courage 13. Listen to the Quiet The Storm Chaser: Riding out a Hurricane with the Weatherman 14. Wait for It Fast-Forward: IndyCar Champion’s Widow Faces a Dilemma with Their Young Sons Spotlight: Reporting 15. Go Back The Long Fall of Phoebe Jonchuck: Her Dad Threw Her off a Bridge into Tampa Bay 16. Find the Helpers Twelve Hours in an Intensive Care Unit: During the Pandemic Part 3. Narratives 17. Make a Difference The Girl in the Window: Can Love and a New Family Save a Feral Child? 18. Inhabit Their Heads Every Day Is Payday: His First Real Check 19. Braid Narratives The Last House in Rosewood: No One Asked the Owner about Her Story Spotlight: Writing and Editing 20. Follow the Story A Walk in the Woods: Miss Teen America Finds Freedom, for a Day 21. Find the Bruise on the Apple The Old Daredevil: Evel Knievel Comes Back to Earth 22. Use Their Voices The Swan Project: For Troubled Girls, Etiquette Classes Open Another World 23. Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Mr. Newton: A 99-Year-Old Man Still Sweeps a Seafood Factory 24. Get Personal I Brake for Bobo: A Boy Loses His Stuffed ElephantAcknowledgments
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Boggs A Comedy of Values
Book SynopsisThis work chronicles the antics of J.S.G. Boggs, a young artist whose consuming passion is money, or more precisely value. What Boggs likes to do is to draw money - paper notes in the denominations of currencies from all over the world - and then to go out and try to spend those drawings.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto
Book SynopsisAndrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. This book includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key theoretical underpinnings of his thought.Trade Review"This massive, handsomely designed, and copiously illustrated volume is the best possible introduction to Zanzotto's work, giving as it does an excellent impression of the scale of his achievement." - Choice "Now, in this book, American readers can get a just sense of Zanzotto's true range and extraordinary originality." - Eric Ormsby, New York Sun "What I love here is the sense of a voice directly speaking. Throughout these translations, indeed from early to late, the great achievement seems to be the way they achieve a sense of urgent address." - Eamon Grennan, American Poet"
£42.75
McGill-Queen's University Press Recognition and Revelation Short Nonfiction
Book SynopsisMargaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. This is a critical edition of over fifty essays about Canada and its land, peoples, politics, and literature, spanning her writing career from the 1960s to the 1980s.Trade Review"In collecting all these essays, Stovel provides a sweeping and comprehensive look at an iconic Canadian writer which hasn't been previously available." David Staines, University of Ottawa"We have long needed such an edition of Laurence's uncollected essays and speeches, to make this important aspect of her oeuvre available to both scholars and the general public. Selecting among all these for a single volume is a daunting project, which Nora Foster Stovel has judiciously accomplished." Carol Beran, Saint Mary's College of California"Throughout the collection, Laurence's wry sense of humour, moral compass, and eye for the ridiculous and the subtly moving shine through. For anyone who loves her fiction, these writings will complement and deepen their relationship to one of our most important Canadian authors." Montreal Review of Books
£32.40
John Wiley & Sons Place Matters Critical Topographies in Word and
Book SynopsisBordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.Trade Review“No other volume offers such a resonant dialogue of media, academic inquiry, and artwork. Productively framed by the notion of critical topography, Place Matters is both creative and analytical, wide-ranging but focused. It presents the state of the art in spatial studies and speaks urgently to current political concerns.” Ina Habermann, University of Basel and author of Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness
£105.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Place Matters
Book SynopsisBordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.Trade Review“No other volume offers such a resonant dialogue of media, academic inquiry, and artwork. Productively framed by the notion of critical topography, Place Matters is both creative and analytical, wide-ranging but focused. It presents the state of the art in spatial studies and speaks urgently to current political concerns.” Ina Habermann, University of Basel and author of Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness
£40.50
Columbia University Press The Classical Papers of Gilbert Highet
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£90.40
Columbia University Press An Extraordinary Woman Selected Writings of
Book SynopsisCollects letters, novellas, essays, criticism, and a play by a leading intellectual of the Romantic period.
£80.00
Columbia University Press Writing AIDS Gay Literature Language Analysis
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility.Table of ContentsSUZANNE POIRIER, On Writing AIDS; LEE EDELMAN, The Mirror and the Tank - AIDS, Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Activism; MICHAEL S. SHERRY, The Language of War in AIDS Discourse; SANDER L. GILMAN, Plague in Germany, 1939/1989 - Cultural Images of Race, Space, and Disease; EMILY APTER, Fantom Images - Herve Guibert and the Writing of "sida" in France; RICHARD DELLAMORA, Apocalyptic Utterance in Edmund White's "An Oracle"; PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER, Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson; PETER M. BOWEN, AIDS 101; PAULA A. TREICHLER, AIDS Narratives on Television - Whose Story?; JOHN M. CLUM, "And Once I Had It All" - AIDS Narratives and Memories Of An American Dream; JAMES W. JONES, Refusing the Name - The Absence of AIDS in Recent American Gay Male Fiction; JOSEPH CADY, Immersive and Counter-Immersive Writing About AIDS - The Achievement of Paul Monette's "Love Alone"; JAMES MILLER, Dante on Fire Island - Reinventing Heaven in the AIDS Elegy; Timothy F. MURPHY, Testimony; FRANKLIN BROOKS AND TIMOTHY F. MURPHY, Annotated Bibliography of AIDS Literature, 1982-91.
£69.00
Columbia University Press The Papers of Alexander Hamilton Additional
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£100.00
Columbia University Press Master Tungs Western Chamber Romance Tung
Book SynopsisThis twelfth century masterpiece comprises 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller. It is an elaboration of the T'ang dynasty love story, The Story of Ying-ying, by Yuan Chen (779-831).
£29.75
Columbia University Press The Birth of Reason and Other Essays
Book SynopsisA collection of recent essays from the American philosopher and Chair of the Santayana Society. The subjects discussed include the philosophy of travel, the politics of religion, friendship, appearance and reality, and the false steps of philosophy.
£22.50
Columbia University Press The Original Analects Sayings of Confucius His
Book SynopsisThis translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context.Trade ReviewThe Original Analects is a remarkable book that ranks among the most significant and impressive works on Chinese thought ever published in English. Journal of Asian Studies With the publication of this translation, scholars now have a fully developed interpretation of a single text with which to test the Brooks' hypotheses. Undoubtedly we have not heard the last or even the definitive word on dating texts in early China. But the Brooks should be credited with pushing the field one great step further along in its development. Pacific Affairs The most exciting study of the Lun yu yet published in a Western language. Its potential implications are monumental, ranging from a rewriting of our understanding of early Confucianism and the nature of intellectual transmission in early China. Chinese Review International Its insightful readings and interpretive strategies stand to enrich our overall understanding of the Analects and its traditions. -- Lisa Raphals International Studies in PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction The Original Analects (LY) Confucius Himself LY 4 The Early Circle LY 5 / LY 6 The Dzvngd Transformation LY 7 LY 8 LY 9 The Kung Transition LY 10 LY 11 LY 3 THe Hundred Schools LY 12 LY 13 LY 2 The Last Debates LY 14 LY 15 A Private Interlude LY 1 LY 16 Return to Court LY 17 LY 18 The Conquest of Lu LY 19 LY 20 Appendices 1: The Accretion Theory of the Analects 2: Developmental Patterns in the Analects 3: A Window on the Hundred Schools 4: Confucius and His Circle 5: A reading of LY 1-4 in Text Order Apparatus Works Cited Romanization Equivalence Table Interpolations Finding List Index Afterword
£28.80
Columbia University Press I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation and
Book SynopsisThis text presents over 1000 Oscar Wilde quotations on subjects from absinthe to Zola. In addition, it includes selections from Wilde's personal letters remarking on his life and on the human condition, and aims to capture the witticisms at which Wilde excelled.
£29.75
Columbia University Press When in Doubt Tell the Truth And Other from Mark Twain
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£27.00
Columbia University Press Copyright Law Symposium
Book SynopsisThis volume collates the prizewinning essays in the 1990 and 1991 ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition in copyright law.
£96.80
Columbia University Press Anywhere out of the World Essays on Travel
Book SynopsisWeaves varied reflections to reveal an understanding of the relationships among literature, the past, and the world around us. Describing trips to such diverse destinations as Namibia; Afghanistan; Bellagio, Italy; and the Bellagio in Las Vegas, this book conveys the apprehension of visiting new places.Trade ReviewA guide bleu for the literary armchair. Kirkus These essays combine Delbanco's personal reflections with his well-informed grasp of literary tradition, which results in compelling meditations on the shifting nature of travel writing, death and loss in both literature and life. Library Journal His stories are rich in insight, making even a momentary perusal of Anywhere Out of the World worthwhile. -- Nick Owchar Los Angeles Times Delbanco's "Letter from Namibia" is as compelling and original a piece of travel writing as one is likely to find, paying meticulous attention to both physical surroundings and human companions. -- Wayne Hoffman Washington Post The outstanding piece in the collection, 'Letter from Namibia', reveals a novelist's eye for detail. -- Eric J. Iannelli Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIn Praise of Imitation The Dead An Old Man Mad About Writing Anywhere Out of the World Letter from Namibia Northern Lights On Daniel Martin Strange Type In Defense of Quotation
£29.75
Columbia University Press The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of 20th-century writing from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Containing stories from the colonial period in Taiwan, literature by Tibetan authors, samplings from the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution, and others, this book gives an introduction to Chinese society and culture.Trade ReviewPerhaps no one could be better suited to expanding the canonical limits than Lau and Goldblatt... this volume, with its Columbia label, its editors' stature, and its certifiable claim to be the first comprehensive anthology of its kind, cannot but achieve an instant authority. Voice Literary Supplement All the important modern writers are included... the overall quality of this volume is very high, making it easy to recommend this book for anyone interested in modern China and its development. New Asia Review This anthology is a great introduction to some of the very best in Chinese language fiction, poetry, and essays. -- Terry Hong The Bloomsbury Review This work is likely to remain the definitive survey for its field. Choice
£999.99
Columbia University Press Humans Beasts and Ghosts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewQian is both funny and clever throughout Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts, and this volume serves as a good introduction to an author that is well worth knowing. -- M.A. Orthofer The Complete Review Excellently translated and well prepared with an introduction and endnote annotations, this volume of Qian's early short works is not only accessible to the general reader but should be read by all serious scholars of modern Chinese literature. -- Yu Liu, Niagara County Community College The European Legacy A valuable addition to the works of Chinese literature translated into English. -- Eileen J. Cheng China Review InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost Author's Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost Written in the Margins of Life Dedication Acknowledgments Preface The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu Windows On Happiness On Laughter Eating Reading Aesop's Fables On Moral Instruction A Prejudice Explaining Literary Blindness On Writers Notes Human, Beast, Ghost First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition God's Dream Cat Inspiration Souvenir Notes Editions Further Reading in English Translators
£25.20
Columbia University Press We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
Book SynopsisThis collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite—or maybe because of—the world's disheartening realities.Trade ReviewThis book shows that Hazzard is a fierce defender of the humanistic belief in the efficacy of literature (especially poetry) and art to illuminate the truth and to provide meaningful insight into the mystery of human existence. -- Michael Collier, author of An Individual History Hazzard's essays are full of crystalline turns of phrase and aphoristic expressions of her core humanist principles-as well as of revealing, often fascinating, political contradictions. Scholars and students of Hazzard will strike gold. -- Claire Seiler, Dickinson College A rich, urbane, insightful collection. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In these essays there is a lovely sense of witnessing a brilliant and judicious mind at work. Shirley Hazzard has a way of finding the right phrase, and capturing a tone and a rhythm, that offer a sort of sensuous pleasure to the reader. She cares passionately about writing, the life of the mind, and also the public realm. As in her novels, her essays display the quality of her sympathy, her ability to make distinctions as well as connections, and her acute analysis. She is an inspiring presence in our literary lives, and having these essays is both a gift and a revelation. -- Colm Toibin Hazzard employs language like a knife, with precision and incisiveness... What comes through most clearly is Hazzard's delight in the English language and its capacity for expression and communication. Publishers Weekly An elegant and cultured collection. -- Andy Miller The Spectator We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think manages the difficult task of making old-school, mid-century liberal humanism feel alive, urgent and necessary once again. -- Geordie Williamson The Australian Breathtaking and challenging. -- Sarah Murdoch The Toronto Star Absorbing... Illuminating... Throughout this brief, captivating collection, which also includes essays on literature, history, and travel, Hazzard is articulate and humane. -- Rona Cran Times Literary Supplement Her fiction, with its stylistic elegance and intellectual verve, is quite enough to warrant our admiration. Los Angeles Review of Books From We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think, Shirley Hazzard emerges, to paraphrase Olubas, as eloquent, thoughtful, civil, and intellectually generous. -- Brian Matthews Australian Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Shirley Hazzard-Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta Olubas Part I. Through Literature Itself We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think The Lonely Word Part II. The Expressive Word A Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The Public Image Review of Jean Rhys, Quartet The Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di Napoli The New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm Ordinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent Women Translating Proust Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zelide Introduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in Solitude William Maxwell Part III. Public Themes The Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate "Gulag" and the Men of Peace The United Nations: Where Governments Go to Church The League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So Useless UNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest Debacle A Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear Age Part IV. The Great Occasion Canton More Far Papyrology at Naples The Tuscan in Each of Us Part V. Last Words 2003 National Book Award Acceptance The New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012 Notes Index
£18.04
Columbia University Press Sunset
Book SynopsisCh’ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished writers of modern Korea yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style.Trade ReviewSunset offers a wonderful introduction to the wide variety of writing being published in colonial and postcolonial Korea, all through the lens of the writer Ch'ae Manshik. Ch'ae is best known and loved today for his novels, but here we rediscover him as a man of many talents, whose work managed to cross the lines between popular style and social critique with great success. -- Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea Sunset embraces the sheer diversity of this major author's oeuvre without shying away from critical questions raised by his literary practice and politics in both the colonial and post-liberation contexts. Spanning genres and literary modes, the volume mirrors the imaginative scope and intertextuality of Ch'ae's writing and will be of great interest in the classroom and for the general reader of modern literature alike. This is a welcome addition to the expanding catalogue of Korean literature in translation. -- Christopher P. Hanscom, author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea Sunset is a seminal work of translation for researchers, teachers, and students who are interested in modern Korean literature. Not only does it introduce English-language readers to an excellent selection of texts that illuminate the complexity and significance of the writings of Ch'ae, one of the most important modern Korean writers, it also sets an example for ensuing endeavors to showcase individual writers of the Korean language. -- Serk-Bae Suh, author of Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s A remarkable, indispensable addition to the growing English-language canon of modern Korean literature, masterfully selected and translated. Eighteen works by a virtuoso writer of satire give us extraordinary insight into various aspects of the Korean peninsula's modernity, through Ch'ae's signature style: darkly humorous and penetrating critique of all things and every viewpoint. -- Jin-kyung Lee, author of Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work and Migrant Labor in South KoreaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Sunset 2. In Three Directions 3. Ungrateful Wretch 4. Skewered Beef 5. Egg on My Face 6. A Writing Worm's Life 7. Travel Sketches 8. Challenges Facing Today's Writers 9. Yujong and I 10. Whatever Possessed Me? A Play in One Act 11. Juvesenility 12. A Man Called Hungbo 13. My "Flower and Soldier" 14. The Grasshopper, the Kingfisher, and the Ant 15. A Three-Way Conversation on Kungmin Literature 16. Mister Pang 17. Blind Man Shim: A Play in Three Acts 18. Angel for a Day
£79.20
Columbia University Press Sunset
Book SynopsisCh’ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished writers of modern Korea yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style.Trade ReviewSunset offers a wonderful introduction to the wide variety of writing being published in colonial and postcolonial Korea, all through the lens of the writer Ch'ae Manshik. Ch'ae is best known and loved today for his novels, but here we rediscover him as a man of many talents, whose work managed to cross the lines between popular style and social critique with great success. -- Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea Sunset embraces the sheer diversity of this major author's oeuvre without shying away from critical questions raised by his literary practice and politics in both the colonial and post-liberation contexts. Spanning genres and literary modes, the volume mirrors the imaginative scope and intertextuality of Ch'ae's writing and will be of great interest in the classroom and for the general reader of modern literature alike. This is a welcome addition to the expanding catalogue of Korean literature in translation. -- Christopher P. Hanscom, author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea Sunset is a seminal work of translation for researchers, teachers, and students who are interested in modern Korean literature. Not only does it introduce English-language readers to an excellent selection of texts that illuminate the complexity and significance of the writings of Ch'ae, one of the most important modern Korean writers, it also sets an example for ensuing endeavors to showcase individual writers of the Korean language. -- Serk-Bae Suh, author of Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s A remarkable, indispensable addition to the growing English-language canon of modern Korean literature, masterfully selected and translated. Eighteen works by a virtuoso writer of satire give us extraordinary insight into various aspects of the Korean peninsula's modernity, through Ch'ae's signature style: darkly humorous and penetrating critique of all things and every viewpoint. -- Jin-kyung Lee, author of Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work and Migrant Labor in South KoreaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Sunset 2. In Three Directions 3. Ungrateful Wretch 4. Skewered Beef 5. Egg on My Face 6. A Writing Worm's Life 7. Travel Sketches 8. Challenges Facing Today's Writers 9. Yujong and I 10. Whatever Possessed Me? A Play in One Act 11. Juvesenility 12. A Man Called Hungbo 13. My "Flower and Soldier" 14. The Grasshopper, the Kingfisher, and the Ant 15. A Three-Way Conversation on Kungmin Literature 16. Mister Pang 17. Blind Man Shim: A Play in Three Acts 18. Angel for a Day
£25.20
Columbia University Press Think in Public A Public Books Reader Public
Book SynopsisThink in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today's leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change.Trade ReviewThis timely, innovative, and important collection represents the best of public scholarship. The stunning essays in this volume demonstrate the significance of Public Books as a crucial online space for anyone committed to engaging ideas that shape the world in which we live. The sheer brilliance and vitality of this digital platform boldly shine through every page of this book. -- Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for FreedomAn astonishing collection. Eloquent, expansive, provocative, and essential. -- Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorThis book is a call to arms. We must tear down the ivory tower, discard attachments to credentials and prestige, and share ideas across borders, disciplines, and party lines. Think in Public does just this, engaging readers in conversations between today’s top scholars, the works that inspire them, and the watershed issues of our day. -- Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on CampusThat splendid cover image underlines the fact that this book is meant for everyone, not just residents of ivory towers. * Toronto Star *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin ZaloomPart I. Ask in PublicOn Accelerationism, by Fred TurnerJustice for Data Janitors, by Lilly IraniAnthropocene and Empire, by Stacey BalkanChanging Climates of History, by J. R. McNeillThe Year of Black Memoir, by Imani PerryPop Justice, by Frances Negrón-MuntanerA Black Power Method, by N. D. B. ConnollySoft Atheism, by Matthew EngelkeWhere Do Morals Come From?, by Philip GorskiThe Alchemy of Finance, by Kim Phillips-FeinHow Gentrifiers Gentrify, by Max HolleranSyria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”, by Najwa al-QattanThe Mortal Marx, by Jeremy AdelmanWho Segregated America?, by Destin JenkinsThe Invention of the “White Working Class”, by Andrew J. PerrinGoing Deep: Baseball and Philosophy, by Kieran SetiyaThe World Silicon Valley Made, by Shannon MatternPart II. Think in PublicJill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview, by B. R. CohenJames Baldwin’s Istanbul, by Suzy HansenWhen Stuart Hall Was White, by James VernonAn Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French , by Salamishah TilletBlack Intellectuals and White Audiences, by Matthew ClairCan There Be a Feminist World?, by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakThe Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by John PlotzThinking Critically About Critical Thinking, by Christopher SchabergIf You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley, by Eli RosenblattTranslating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin, by Rebecca L. WalkowitzMy Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila LimingStop Defending the Humanities, by Simon DuringPainting While Shackled to a Floor, by Nicole R. FleetwoodPart III. Read in PublicTo Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante, by Rebecca FalkoffWhat Global English Means for World Literature, by Haruo ShiraneThe Stranger’s Voice, by Karl Ashoka BrittoCan’t Stop Screaming, by Judith ButlerThe Model-Minority Bubble, by Joseph Jonghyun JeonFree Is and Free Ain’t, by Salamishah TilletThe Mixed-Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg, by Marah GubarIn the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism, by Anne E. FernaldAfrofuturism: Everything and Nothing, by Namwali SerpellChick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde, by Tess McNultyFeeling Like the Internet, by Mark McGurl The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction, by Nicholas DamesKafka: The Impossible Biography, by Jan MieszkowskiShirley Jackson’s Two Worlds, by Karen DunakReading to Children to Save Ourselves, by Daegan MillerList of Contributors
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Columbia University Press Think in Public A Public Books Reader Public
Book SynopsisThink in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today's leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change.Trade ReviewThis timely, innovative, and important collection represents the best of public scholarship. The stunning essays in this volume demonstrate the significance of Public Books as a crucial online space for anyone committed to engaging ideas that shape the world in which we live. The sheer brilliance and vitality of this digital platform boldly shine through every page of this book. -- Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for FreedomAn astonishing collection. Eloquent, expansive, provocative, and essential. -- Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorThis book is a call to arms. We must tear down the ivory tower, discard attachments to credentials and prestige, and share ideas across borders, disciplines, and party lines. Think in Public does just this, engaging readers in conversations between today’s top scholars, the works that inspire them, and the watershed issues of our day. -- Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on CampusThat splendid cover image underlines the fact that this book is meant for everyone, not just residents of ivory towers. * Toronto Star *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin ZaloomPart I. Ask in PublicOn Accelerationism, by Fred TurnerJustice for Data Janitors, by Lilly IraniAnthropocene and Empire, by Stacey BalkanChanging Climates of History, by J. R. McNeillThe Year of Black Memoir, by Imani PerryPop Justice, by Frances Negrón-MuntanerA Black Power Method, by N. D. B. ConnollySoft Atheism, by Matthew EngelkeWhere Do Morals Come From?, by Philip GorskiThe Alchemy of Finance, by Kim Phillips-FeinHow Gentrifiers Gentrify, by Max HolleranSyria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”, by Najwa al-QattanThe Mortal Marx, by Jeremy AdelmanWho Segregated America?, by Destin JenkinsThe Invention of the “White Working Class”, by Andrew J. PerrinGoing Deep: Baseball and Philosophy, by Kieran SetiyaThe World Silicon Valley Made, by Shannon MatternPart II. Think in PublicJill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview, by B. R. CohenJames Baldwin’s Istanbul, by Suzy HansenWhen Stuart Hall Was White, by James VernonAn Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French , by Salamishah TilletBlack Intellectuals and White Audiences, by Matthew ClairCan There Be a Feminist World?, by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakThe Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by John PlotzThinking Critically About Critical Thinking, by Christopher SchabergIf You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley, by Eli RosenblattTranslating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin, by Rebecca L. WalkowitzMy Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila LimingStop Defending the Humanities, by Simon DuringPainting While Shackled to a Floor, by Nicole R. FleetwoodPart III. Read in PublicTo Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante, by Rebecca FalkoffWhat Global English Means for World Literature, by Haruo ShiraneThe Stranger’s Voice, by Karl Ashoka BrittoCan’t Stop Screaming, by Judith ButlerThe Model-Minority Bubble, by Joseph Jonghyun JeonFree Is and Free Ain’t, by Salamishah TilletThe Mixed-Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg, by Marah GubarIn the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism, by Anne E. FernaldAfrofuturism: Everything and Nothing, by Namwali SerpellChick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde, by Tess McNultyFeeling Like the Internet, by Mark McGurl The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction, by Nicholas DamesKafka: The Impossible Biography, by Jan MieszkowskiShirley Jackson’s Two Worlds, by Karen DunakReading to Children to Save Ourselves, by Daegan MillerList of Contributors
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Columbia University Press Countries That Dont Exist
Book SynopsisAlmost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. Countries That Don’t Exist showcases a selection of Krzhizhanovsky’s exceptional nonfiction, which spans a dizzying range of genres and voices.Trade Review[A] thought-provoking collection. . . . With a playful blend of logic and fantasy, Krzhizhanovsky’s works defamiliarize everyday concepts. Readers interested in the crossover between art and philosophy will be rewarded. * Publishers Weekly *The book gives a fair sampling of Krzhizhanovsky’s unique approach to literature, which is fractional, hyperbolic, and dramatically metaphysical . . . [These essays] exhibit an intelligence rarely seen in the history of Russian literature, as Krzhizhanovsky seems to be addressing the future generation rather than his Soviet contemporaries. We’re lucky to have intercepted this signal one hundred years later. -- Feng Dong * Critical Inquiry *One more bit of evidence that the Russian Library is one of the best innovations in the publishing world in recent years. -- Steve Dodson * Languagehat *Intriguing variety from a fascinating writer. -- Michael Orthofer * The Complete Review *The amount of care which has gone into the presentation of the book is impressive, with a marvellous array of translators featured . . . This volume is a real triumph. -- Karen Langley * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *Krzhizhanovsky is one of the greatest Russian writers of the last century. -- Robert Chandler, Financial TimesKrzhizhanovsky is often compared to Borges, Swift, Poe, Gogol, Kafka, and Beckett, yet his fiction relies on its own special mixture of heresy and logic. -- Natasha Randall, BookforumOffers persuasive evidence of Krzhizhanovsky’s erudition, wit, and style . . . It will delight Krzhizhanovsky fans, making him available for teaching, for discussion with colleagues who do not read Russian, and for quality citation in one’s own projects. This collection of non-fiction is a credit to everyone involved. -- Sibelan Forrester * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsEditors' PrefaceIntroduction: Restoring the Balance1. Love as a Method of Cognition2. Idea and Word3. Argo and Ergo4. A Philosopheme of the Theater (Excerpt)5. A Collection of Seconds6. The Poetics of Titles7. Countries That Don’t Exist8. Edgar Allan Poe: Ninety Years After His Death9. Shaw and the Bookshelf (Abridged)10. The Dramaturgy of the Chessboard11. Moscow in the First Years of the War: Physiological Sketches (Excerpts)12. A History of Unwritten Literature: A Prospectus13. A History of Hyperbole14. Writer’s NotebooksNotesContributors
£48.29
Columbia University Press Countries That Dont Exist
Book SynopsisAlmost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. Countries That Don’t Exist showcases a selection of Krzhizhanovsky’s exceptional nonfiction, which spans a dizzying range of genres and voices.Trade Review[A] thought-provoking collection. . . . With a playful blend of logic and fantasy, Krzhizhanovsky’s works defamiliarize everyday concepts. Readers interested in the crossover between art and philosophy will be rewarded. * Publishers Weekly *The book gives a fair sampling of Krzhizhanovsky’s unique approach to literature, which is fractional, hyperbolic, and dramatically metaphysical . . . [These essays] exhibit an intelligence rarely seen in the history of Russian literature, as Krzhizhanovsky seems to be addressing the future generation rather than his Soviet contemporaries. We’re lucky to have intercepted this signal one hundred years later. -- Feng Dong * Critical Inquiry *One more bit of evidence that the Russian Library is one of the best innovations in the publishing world in recent years. -- Steve Dodson * Languagehat *Intriguing variety from a fascinating writer. -- Michael Orthofer * The Complete Review *The amount of care which has gone into the presentation of the book is impressive, with a marvellous array of translators featured . . . This volume is a real triumph. -- Karen Langley * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *Krzhizhanovsky is one of the greatest Russian writers of the last century. -- Robert Chandler, Financial TimesKrzhizhanovsky is often compared to Borges, Swift, Poe, Gogol, Kafka, and Beckett, yet his fiction relies on its own special mixture of heresy and logic. -- Natasha Randall, BookforumOffers persuasive evidence of Krzhizhanovsky’s erudition, wit, and style . . . It will delight Krzhizhanovsky fans, making him available for teaching, for discussion with colleagues who do not read Russian, and for quality citation in one’s own projects. This collection of non-fiction is a credit to everyone involved. -- Sibelan Forrester * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsEditors' PrefaceIntroduction: Restoring the Balance1. Love as a Method of Cognition2. Idea and Word3. Argo and Ergo4. A Philosopheme of the Theater (Excerpt)5. A Collection of Seconds6. The Poetics of Titles7. Countries That Don’t Exist8. Edgar Allan Poe: Ninety Years After His Death9. Shaw and the Bookshelf (Abridged)10. The Dramaturgy of the Chessboard11. Moscow in the First Years of the War: Physiological Sketches (Excerpts)12. A History of Unwritten Literature: A Prospectus13. A History of Hyperbole14. Writer’s NotebooksNotesContributors
£15.29
University of Illinois Press The UberReader
Book SynopsisA sampling of the best of Ronell, focusing on her essays and talks. This work presents an introduction to Ronell's oeuvre. It includes at least one selection from each of her books, two classic selections from a collection of her early essays, interviews, and essays.Trade Review"Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era...Zeugmatically yoking the slang of pop culture with philosophical analysis, forcing the confrontation of high literature and technology or drug culture, Avital Ronell produces sentences that startle, irritate, illuminate. At once hilarious and refractory, her books are like no others." Jonathan Culler, Diacritics
£23.39
University of Illinois Press Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Volume 5
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sure to interest readers as much as the original series and is highly recommended for public as well as academic libraries." --Library Journal"Sizzling with essays, testimonies, and writings about individuals and events that affected conflict outcomes of the Civil War. . . . This rich compilation was gathered from original articles published immediately following the war. Far from dry, these are lively and obscure accounts." --Foreword Magazine
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MO - University of Illinois Press Pulling the Right Threads The Ethnographic Life
Book SynopsisCrucial insights into effective ethnographic research Trade Review“A celebration (and defence) of ethnography as the essence of anthropology. . . . This volume certainly speaks to a monumental ‘legacy.’”--Anthropological Forum"Debate in anthropology over the role of ethnographic research and writing has been fierce over the past two decades, calling into question the legitimacy of anthropological reportage and its representation of exotic (and not so exotic) societies. This collection, by examining the life work of an outstanding contemporary ethnographer and the legacy that she has created through the work of those she has trained, renews this lively debate. The contributors are unanimous in their commitment to the ethnographic enterprise and clear in their confrontation with those who decry it. This book will stir the best kind of anthropological argument, and that is in and of itself a significant contribution."--David Counts, professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, and adjunct professor of anthropology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 LAURA ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI1. An Ethnographic Life 27 JEANETTE DICKERSON-PUTMAN 2. Pulling the Right Thread 44 MICHELE DOMINY 3. It's Not about Women Only 56 LAURA ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI 4. "Every Action Is a Human Interaction" 77 MIRIAM KAHN 5. Remember Malinowski's Canoe and Luk Luk Gen 92 PAMELA SHEFFIELD ROSI 6. Ethics of Attention 110 DEBORAH BIRD ROSE 7. The Squabbling Stops When Everybody Wins 123 MICHAEL D. LIEBER 8. From Pig Lunch to Praxis 137 JOY A. BILHARZ 9. Separation and Support, Conflict and Romance in the Relations between Sikaiana Men and Women 149 WILLIAM W. DONNER 10. Indigenous Religion in an Intercultural Space 168 ERIC VENBRUX 11. Food and Ghosts: Dance in the Context of Baining Life 187 JANE FAJANS Conclusion: What Is Ethnography? Is It Real? 209 JANE C. GOODALE References 227 Contributors 247 Index 253
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Indiana University Press Earth Works Selected Essays
Book SynopsisReflections on nature, life, family, and place by one of America's leading essayistsTrade Review[The essays in Earth Works are . . . a rich mix of beautifully crafted and progressive pieces that engage the reader in a long conversation. They are best read slowly, providing time to consider Sanders' propositions, his keen insight and lessons, his critical questioning. * Terrain.org *It's hard to think of a writer today who is better at finding and expressing the profound nature discovered in such simple gifts as a shared meal or a walk in the woods. * indianalivinggreen.com *Nature, in all of its manifestations—physical, spiritual, geographical—runs through everything that Sanders writes and supplies the materials for much of his vivid and compelling imagery, as well as his inpiration and concern. * Bloom *[T]he essays of Earth Works are full of energy, hope and life. * Englewood Review of Books *By turns somber and snap-out-of-it buoyant, these elegant artifacts of restless inquiry cover subjects as intimate as the author's sexual awakening and his father's alcoholism, as broad as the origins of the universe and the disarray of contemporary hyper-urban society. * The Indianapolis Star *In language that's patient, probing and precise, Sanders . . . has, over the past 30 years or so, built a body of work articulating what it means to live during this time on planet Earth and, particularly, that part of the planet called the American Midwest. * NUVO *Collectively, these essays invite the reader to gaze more clearly at the world outside his own window—a reminder, as Sanders puts it, that all there is to see 'can be seen from anywhere in the universe, if you know how to look . . . ' * Barnes & Noble Review *Among the thirty essays it contains, Earth Works offers a thought-provoking mix of old and new. The nine new pieces included in the back of Earth Works . . . are themselves worth the sticker price. * The Fourth River *Table of ContentsPrefaceThe Singular First PersonAt Play in the Paradise of BombsThe Men We Carry in Our MindsDoing Time in the Thirteenth ChairThe Inheritance of ToolsUnder the InfluenceLooking at WomenReasons of the BodyAfter the FloodHouse and HomeStaying PutWaylandLetter to a ReaderBuckeyeThe Common LifeVoyageursMountain MusicWildnessBeautySilenceThe Force of SpiritThe Uses of MuscleA Private History of AweA Road into Chaos and Old NightWords Addressed to Our Condition ExactlyHonoring the OrdinarySpeaking for the LandThe Mystique of MoneyBuffalo EddyMind in the ForestNotes and Acknowledgements
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Indiana University Press An Indiana Christmas
Book SynopsisBenefits from being the first collection of Indiana Christmas stories Includes contributions from Indiana's most famous writers, including James Whitcomb Riley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jean Shepard Features an excerpt from the story that the film "A Christmas Story" was based on Features poetry, plays, short stories, and letters Takes a nostalgic look at a Hoosier ChristmasTrade ReviewIndiana's deep literary heritage is celebrated in a new anthology with a seasonal theme. . . . In all this collection covers a variety of emotions and literary styles. All are crisply written, and most are just a few pages, which makes this book admirable Advent reading, covering just one or two entries a day during the holiday season. -- Rich Gotshall * Daily Journal, Franklin, IN *Bryan Furuness delivers three dozen views of An Indiana Christmas in this new compendium of stories, poems, essays, bits of thought, personal scenes enlarged and condensed, poignant moments crystalized and timelessness upended, all spinning from that whirl on a plastic chair Barbara Shoup relates in the opening offering. . . . An Indiana Christmas invites us inside ourselves: our motivations, our challenges, our ability to connect with the call to care about this planet—our home universally in need of repair. -- Rita Kohn * Nuvo *Table of ContentsPrefaceEarthbound / Barbara ShoupWinter Scene, Past Midnight / Matthew BrennanThe Fable of the Cut-up Who Came Very Near Losing His Ticket, But Who Turned Defeat into Victory / George AdeMaking Pierogi on Christmas Eve / Karen KovacikKeeping Christmas Our Way / Gene Stratton-PorterDigging and Grousing / Ernie PyleThe farm wife finds grace in her empty barn / Shari WagnerThe farm wife makes her Christmas list / Shari WagnerIndiana Winter / Susan NeveilleHome for the Holidays / Liz WhiteacreA Reversible Santa Claus / Meredith NicholsonTwo Pieces / Ambrose BierceShepherds, Why This Jubilee? / Bryan FurunessPictures from a Clapboard House / Jessamyn WestToo Cold / Jayne MarekWinter Runes / Jayne MarekTrifles / Lori Rader-DayDecember Barns of Darkness / George KalamarasIn Sunset and Moonlight, What Gathered Our Thoughts Was the Adhesive Dark / George KalamarasNanny Anne and the Christmas Story / Karen Joy FowlerBlessed rancor of music / Curtis L. CrislerWealth / Scott Russell SandersThe Christmas Long Ago / James Whitcomb RileyA Feel in the Christmas Air / James Whitcomb RileyA Song for Christmas / James Whitcomb RileyBaby Alive / Melissa FraterrigoSanta Claus, Indiana/ Bryan FurunessHoward Garfield, Balladeer / Edward PorterThe Five Little Sykeses, from Mr. Bingle / George Barr McCutcheonThe Schneebrunzer / Norbert KrapfThe Myth of the Perfect Christmas Photo Family / Kelsey TimmermanTreasure! / Eliza Tudorfrom "December" in Abe Martin's Almanack / Frank McKinney HubbardBeasley's Christmas Party / Booth Tarkingtonfrom In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash / Jean Parker Shepherd Jr.While Mortals Sleep / Kurt Vonnegut
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Indiana University Press The Epic of Askia Mohammed
Book SynopsisA newly translated epic about the premier leader of the Songhay Empire.Table of ContentsPrefaceGenealogy of the Askias according to 'The Epic of Askia Mohammed'IntroductionThe EpicAnnotationsBibliographyIndex
£10.99
MIT Press Ltd Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House Writings
Book SynopsisChosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook entries, drawings, and descriptions of projects that map Viola's personal course through the readings, observations, experiments, and associations that form the groundwork for his art. Each work illustrated is accompanied by a description by the artist, as well as comments on the work's origins from the artist's notebooks.For the last 25 years, Viola has used innovative multimedia technologies to explore the phenomena of sense perception as a language of the body and avenue to self-knowledge, integrating many disciplines and philosophies to reveal contemporary art's relevance to the modern world. His views have deep roots in mysticism, poetry, philosophy, Eastern art, shamanism, Chinese Taoism, Sufism, and Zen Buddhism. Viola's c
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University of Notre Dame Press A Legend of Holy Women
Book SynopsisSheila Delany''s spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham''s Legendys of Hooly Wummen (14431447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose, A Legend of Holy Women contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history. As Delany writes in her comprehensive introduction, Bokenham gives us not only an all-female hagiographyan authorial decision significant in its own rightbut a gallery of powerful, articulate women who are indubitably worthy to do God's work. Some of them are well-educated, some give sound political advice to a monarch, some preach, converting hundreds and thousands to Christianity, some walk on water or perform resurrection. Nor are they pacifists; on the contrary, they call for divinely inflicted vengeance and approve violence in their cause. Delany argues that GeoTrade Review"We must be grateful to Ms. Delany for the assiduity of her well-researched and perceptive study of the life and works of this little known clerical poet." -- Times Literary Supplement
£21.84
University of Notre Dame Press Longing For Home
Book SynopsisThe authors of The Longing for Home explore the notion that home is both a place and a condition of the spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home which beckons even as it lies beyond the human grasp. Essays by Elie Wiesel, Werner Gundersheimer, and Frederick Buechner complete part one. Part two focuses on philosophical explorations of the meaning of home.Trade Review“Rouner introduces the volume with a masterful attempt to bring together and summarize the themes and issues that emerge from the contributions of these distinguished essayists.” —Journal of Religion“This volume continues the practice of earlier volumes in this series: illuminating issues routinely overlooked by professional philosophers and religious thinkers. In this collection, the editor gathers together the reflections of a distinguished group of thinkers on the multilayered meanings of home. The selections are eclectic and as wide-ranging as the nuance inherent in the subject, but something provocative should be available to any reader.” —Religious Studies Review
£999.99
University of Notre Dame Press Because You Have To
Book SynopsisFrank reveals what life as a writer and member of the intellectual world has taught her through original essays.Trade Review"Wittily, elegantly, disputatiously, passionately, Joan Frank lays bare the paradox-ridden psychology of the artistic vocation. She has a wised-up and intimate knowledge of the writing life's curriculum: doubt, fear, anticipation, rejection, recovery. Here is a writer speaking from the heart. Because You Have To delivers hard-won recognitions with an almost disconcerting fluency." —David Huddle, author of La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl and Nothing Can Make Me Do This"Reading this book made me feel good about being a writer. There is no glorification of the art here; there is good sense and a talent for describing the paradoxes inherent in the writing life. Frank’s book is an unsentimental, refreshing tribute to the trials and to the happy satisfaction of making sentences that come out right, one after another, until by golly you have written a book. Because you had to.” —San Francisco Chronicle"The struggle to write becomes the struggle to wrest clear-headedness from the anxious bread-and-butter strivings and obligations that demand our attention throughout the day. As the author of three novels . . ., two short story collections, and an earlier volume of essays, Joan Frank is one of the clearest-headed writers working. Because You Have To shows us how she gets the work done." —Bob Wake, coffeespew.org"Joan Frank puts the fruits of her prolific writing career onto the page in her latest work, Because You Have To: A Writing Life . . . The Santa Rosa-based writer has produced two short story collections—including In Envy Country, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Fiction—and three novels. In this writing memoir, Frank tackles the topics of rejection ('Rejection, then, is like the wake of a boat: proof of motion'), the dubious benefit of travel to the imagination, the art of writing character, envy, and 'death' of the book as we know it. Frank's sentences are highly stylized and don't shy away from making intellectual demands. . . . [I]t's an essay collection that's sure to inspire picking up the pen and writing with the same fervor, wisdom, and dedication as its author." —Bohemian.com“In her new book . . . Frank gives readers a sense of what it is really like to be a serious writer . . . . It is a slim book (just 200 pages), and an absorbing one. Anyone who is a writer or who wants to be one, as well as anyone who loves reading, will enjoy and learn from this book.” —StephanieVandickReads“Frank has two books out this year, one, a short novel of friendship and long marriage (Make It Stay) and, the other, a book of both instruction and inspiration for how to endure a long career as a writer (Because You Have To). The usual Frank frankness enlivens both volumes, along with prose that can be, simultaneously, lyrical and biting. The novel and the nonfiction book are charming examples of an author who can both show and tell.” —Notre Dame Review“[Frank] offers non-nostalgic yet intimate insights into her writing life—not for conventional pedagogy, but to share tools about a journey that brings thoughts, stories, ideas, and feelings communicative to a world out there through pen and paper.” —Cerise Press“This isn’t a Dummies guide or a ‘Secrets to Success’ book; it’s more like therapy for those who wield a pen or a keyboard to survive. . . This is for the minds that cannot turn off, with moleskin journals of caffeine-fueled rants and burning forearms from pen-scrawled manifestos in flipbook notepads. This is for writers.” —North Bay Bohemian"On every page of these stunning essays, Frank lays bare the hardest truths of being a writer, and on every page she confesses her hopeless, passionate love for the pursuit. The artist’s conundrum has rarely been so eloquently voiced. Part erudite treatise, part love letter, Because You Have To is certain to find myriad ardent admirers of its own." — Robin Black, author of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This"Once in a blue moon a book on writing comes along that reads as though it's speaking directly to you. Because You Have To is just that: an honest and wise and brave account of what it means to be a writer in this odd new century. I recommend to you this rare thing, a book packed full of useful information that is also a work of art." —John McNally, author of After the Workshop
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University of Notre Dame Press The Stroke of a Pen
Book SynopsisFor over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and translating them into songs at once familiar and surprising. In his poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, Hazo, in a style that is unmistakably his own, extols the wonderment and discovery that emerge in the act of writing, in the movement toward wisdom that results from the expression of feeling. The Stroke of a Pen is a collection of the occasional essays on a variety of subjects, from the relationship between poetry and public speech, to the pursuit of the literary life, to reading within a cultural context governed by power relations. Two essays focus on religion and literature, and the final five include a literary travel essay on Provence, a counterpointing one on the virtues of not traveling but remaining home, a lighter essay that extends the discussion of home to houses, a memory piece on the actor Gregory Peck, and aTrade Review"In this wonderful collection of essays, Hazo displays the breadth of his intellectual curiosity in prose that is highly lyrical: he explores the relationship between belief and the life of a literary critic, the role of faith and university education, the art of writing and the power of imagination, and even the joys of retirement! It is a very good read." —Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president, University of Notre Dame"The Stroke of a Pen will interest poets, writers, literary scholars, and critics, as well as broadly educated readers, who judge the balkanized, theory-and-jargon-driven engagement of literature to have lost track of the aesthetic dimension essential for the full appreciation of literature and life. By contrast, Samuel Hazo's book affirms the necessary depth of the aesthetic impulse in the deep sources of the human quest after meaning." —Daniel Tobin, Emerson College"Samuel Hazo's The Stroke of a Pen offers a grand tour from classroom to classics, from the hazards of household plumbing to the pleasures of Provence. He remarks that 'the chief value of travel for me is the deeper appreciation it gives me of home,' yet reading these elegant essays leaves the reader with what Hazo realized away from home: 'a different sense of your very self—a more resonant one, as if you've suddenly been underlined for emphasis.'" —George Dennis O'Brien, president emeritus, University of Rochester"It will surprise no one familiar with Samuel Hazo’s strong poetry that his prose is, as this collection of essays demonstrates, incisive, insightful, and at times intense. His love of words permeates every page." —William J. Byron, S.J., St. Joseph’s University"Professor Hazo, the first State Poet of Pennsylvania and a distinguished author, combines literature and life across 10 individual essays split into two distinctly contrasting parts. . . . With a balance of literary theory and philosophical allusion, Hazo produces an Ezra Pound-influenced conviction that powerful literature will endure, despite fiscal policy undermining education (essentially committing cultural suicide). . . . With such penmanship, Hazo is a rare breed: timeless in his approach to poetry and prose, dutifully acknowledging contemporaries and colleagues, and unreserved in his erudite pursuits." —Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews“The Stroke of a Pen is an inspiring read for anyone with even a casual interest in the arts. It may give . . . emerging poets . . . a stronger sense of purpose and responsibility. If nothing else it should provide all readers with renewed assurance in the value of artistic undertaking.” —Ploughshares Literary Magazine Blog
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University of Notre Dame Press Black Domers
Book SynopsisBlack Domers tells the compelling story of racial integration at the University of Notre Dame in the postWorld War II era. In a series of seventy-five essays, beginning with the first African-American to graduate from Notre Dame in 1947 to a member of the class of 2017 who also served as student body president, we can trace the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the African-American experience at Notre Dame through seven decades.Don Wycliff and David Krashna's book is a revised edition of a 2014 publication. With a few exceptions, the stories of these graduates are told in their own words, in the form of essays on their experiences at Notre Dame. The range of these experiences is broad; joys and opportunities, but also hardships and obstacles, are recounted. Notable among several themes emerging from these essays is the importance of leadership from the top in successfully bringing African-Americans into the student body and enabling them to become fully accepted, fTrade Review“Black Domers is a remarkable read. Through the editors’ masterful balance of narrative depth and historical breadth, readers witness the trials, tribulations, brilliance, and resilience of black students at Notre Dame over the past seven decades. Reading this book left me emotional at times. Still, I remained inspired, with a resolute sense of pride in walking the campus where these trailblazers broke down barriers. Black Domers serves not only as a testament of how far we have come, but as a charge to continue the important work of ensuring that the experiences of every member of the Notre Dame family are consistent and reflect well on Our Lady.” —Eric Love, director of staff diversity and inclusion, University of Notre Dame“Some stories need to be lived in order to be told truthfully, truly and fully. But even an African-American student would be unable to tell the story of being black at Notre Dame because there is no single story, no singular experience, no one person who can speak for all who have come here from so many places, families, and personal histories. It would take a book to explain. And one with many voices. Now we have that book.” —Kerry McPhee Temple, editor, Notre Dame Magazine"Black Domers provides evidence that determined, hardworking, intellectually gifted, and average African-American students can succeed in academically demanding, predominantly white academic institutions committed to their success. The testimonies of these African-American graduates, 'the Black Domers' of Notre Dame, give witness to how they grew 'in wisdom, age, and grace' as they formed community, embraced redemptive suffering, and worked with other members of the Notre Dame community to create a diverse and inclusive community of activists whose scholarship and skills could contribute to the transformation of the world using the transformation of the university as a prototype." —Jamie T. Phelps, OP, instructor at St. Ambrose and St. Thomas the Apostle parishes, Chicago“In a series of 75 essays, beginning with the first African-American to graduate from Notre Dame in 1947 to a member of the class of 2017 who also served as student body president, the book traces the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the African-American experience at Notre Dame through seven decades.” —South Bend Tribune“I believe that there is tremendous value in capturing these narratives, not only in terms of the individual stories but also in terms of what they reflect when taken as a whole. This book makes an invaluable contribution to the history of Notre Dame as well as affirmative action, Catholic history, black Catholic history, and ethnic history in the age of civil rights.” —Ann Firth, chief of staff to the president, University of Notre Dame
£20.69
University of Notre Dame Press Acts of Recognition
Book SynopsisActs of Recognition examines the moral significance and conversations between the past and the present and the individual and the social in medieval literature.Trade Review"This is a collection of essays published over the last twenty-seven years by an outstanding medievalist, one who has been exceptionally influential on medieval studies and whose work continues to be of the greatest importance. Patterson's collection is informed by a fascination with the ways in which the past inhabits the present. This collection of essays provide us with an eloquent, forceful demonstration of the hermeneutic potentials of liberal humanism in a committedly historicist mode. It will provide a timely, welcome, and stimulating challenge to the field." —David Aers, Duke University"Acts of Recognition offers us Lee Patterson at his best, as we've come to know his scholarship over the decades. Fearless, wide-ranging, and startling in the acuity of its insights, the volume reminds us why there is always something to learn from this superb thinker, whatever your critical approach or field. From the famous opening chapter on historical criticism to the luminous meditation on St. Francis that creates the book's 'sense of an ending,' Patterson brilliantly shows us how the past continues part of us, always, and why it is not a foreign country, but our home." —Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin"This is a collection of essays that Lee Patterson has written over the past thirty years, and it is very welcome. Though he calls them 'Essays on Medieval Culture,' the theme is now, as it ever was, the relation of literature to history, not so much of literary texts to individual events in history, which is the character of the 'old' historicism, as the nature of literature as an embodiment, mediator, and exploration of the deeper political, social, and economic movements of history." —Journal of English and Germanic Philology“ . . . the essays reflect Patterson’s diverse scholarly concerns and eclectic literary critical interests. Discussions range across historical debates between Exegeticism and New Criticism, pedagogy, and more traditional modes of literary and historical criticism, while subjects under consideration extend from Virgil and Boethius, to Beowulf, the works of Chaucer and his near-contemporaries, and beyond to Milton and A. E. W. Mason’s The Four Feathers (1902)". —Parergon". . . this volume compacts a mighty intelligence, a formidably well-stocked mind, and the arrestingly trenchant voice of a very great critic." —Speculum“In bringing together a selection of previously published work, this recent collection of essays by Lee Patterson offers both a snapshot of a field-shaping career and a reminder of the continued power of the historicist practices that Patterson so eloquently and forcefully championed.” —Modern Philology
£87.55
University of Notre Dame Press The Stroke of a Pen
Book SynopsisEssays examine the relationship between poetry and public speech, the pursuit of the literary life, to reading within a cultural context governed by power relations.Trade Review"In this wonderful collection of essays, Hazo displays the breadth of his intellectual curiosity in prose that is highly lyrical: he explores the relationship between belief and the life of a literary critic, the role of faith and university education, the art of writing and the power of imagination, and even the joys of retirement! It is a very good read." —Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president, University of Notre Dame"The Stroke of a Pen will interest poets, writers, literary scholars, and critics, as well as broadly educated readers, who judge the balkanized, theory-and-jargon-driven engagement of literature to have lost track of the aesthetic dimension essential for the full appreciation of literature and life. By contrast, Samuel Hazo's book affirms the necessary depth of the aesthetic impulse in the deep sources of the human quest after meaning." —Daniel Tobin, Emerson College"Samuel Hazo's The Stroke of a Pen offers a grand tour from classroom to classics, from the hazards of household plumbing to the pleasures of Provence. He remarks that 'the chief value of travel for me is the deeper appreciation it gives me of home,' yet reading these elegant essays leaves the reader with what Hazo realized away from home: 'a different sense of your very self—a more resonant one, as if you've suddenly been underlined for emphasis.'" —George Dennis O'Brien, president emeritus, University of Rochester"It will surprise no one familiar with Samuel Hazo’s strong poetry that his prose is, as this collection of essays demonstrates, incisive, insightful, and at times intense. His love of words permeates every page." —William J. Byron, S.J., St. Joseph’s University"Professor Hazo, the first State Poet of Pennsylvania and a distinguished author, combines literature and life across 10 individual essays split into two distinctly contrasting parts. . . . With a balance of literary theory and philosophical allusion, Hazo produces an Ezra Pound-influenced conviction that powerful literature will endure, despite fiscal policy undermining education (essentially committing cultural suicide). . . . With such penmanship, Hazo is a rare breed: timeless in his approach to poetry and prose, dutifully acknowledging contemporaries and colleagues, and unreserved in his erudite pursuits." —Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews“The Stroke of a Pen is an inspiring read for anyone with even a casual interest in the arts. It may give . . . emerging poets . . . a stronger sense of purpose and responsibility. If nothing else it should provide all readers with renewed assurance in the value of artistic undertaking.” —Ploughshares Literary Magazine Blog
£55.80
University of Notre Dame Press Walls
Book SynopsisWalls: Essays, 1985-1990, Kenneth McClane''s first book of autobiographical essays (originally published in 1991), is closely related to his second collection, Color, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009. Walls is a powerful and deeply moving meditation on relationships. It begins with an essay on the death of McClane''s brother, Paul, which changed everything. Time, my work, everything found a new calculus. His brother''s life and death are present in some way in all the essays that follow A Death in the Family, as McClane tells us about giving a poetry reading in a maximum-security prison; his experience of being one of the first two African American students to attend America''s oldest private school; teaching creative writing; his sister, Adrienne; a divestment protest at Cornell; and his encounters with James Baldwin. McClane has written a new preface to this paperback edition of Walls, in which he reminds us that we are inevitablyTrade Review“The author of six collections of poems, McClane (Cornell) ventures into new literary territory with his first collection of essays, Walls. Although McClane’s introduction confesses to considerable trepidation about writing in this genre, readers will be richly rewarded by the quality of his prose. The cornerstone of this collection is McClane’s first essay, a poignant and powerful meditation on the death of his alcoholic brother. The elegiac tone he establishes here shapes the mood of the entire collection. From this vantage point, McClane writes eloquently about the experience of being both African American and middle-class in contemporary America. Whether he is exploring the sensations of giving a poetry reading to inmates at Auburn, or describing a Unity Day fiasco in Connecticut, or recounting the terrible condition of his brain-damaged sister, McClane writes with elegance, insight, and passion. In his explorations of the dilemmas of race and class against the backdrop of the American academy, McClane’s essays break new ground in the tradition of African American personal narratives. Highly recommended for all collections.” —Choice"In this absorbing collection of essays originally published in 1991, Cornell literature professor McClane muses deeply on issues of identity, race, family, and academia. . . . Walls is a heady volume; McClane is foremost a poet, and his essays carry the reverberant weight of poetry, demanding a careful read. Moreover, he peppers his prose with esoteric references to James Baldwin, Chekhov, Kafka, and others, lending these essays an academic air. He claims that the loss of his brother to alcoholism pervades each tale, yet the pieces on his mentally-disabled sister or his difficult time at Collegiate carry equal emotional weight." —PW Annex Reviews“Kenneth McClane’s Walls is a collection of exquisitely crafted autobiographical essays that rivals the most profound nonfictional writings of James Baldwin in its skillful investigation of the hidden recesses of the always-throbbing black American soul. Indeed, Walls is a beautifully calibrated exploration of the challenges faced by a courageously self-aware—and refreshingly self-revealing—black intellectual whose journey to and in the American mainstream is both menacing and exhilarating.” —Michael Awkward, University of Michigan“Walls reminds us of the differences that set us apart, dividing our world into good kids and troublemakers, winners and losers, the beautiful and the damned. The anodyne for exile in these essays is McClane’s common but by no means commonplace lexicon, at once evocative and spare, that leads us to painful but honest connection and the luminous possibility of empathy.” —William L. Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£52.70
University of Texas Press West of 98
Book SynopsisThe first collection of its kind in scope and ambition, this volume brings together the most prominent western writers of the current generation to create new visions of the American West—“the West that is still becoming.”Trade ReviewOne of the glories of this book is that it is host to 67 writers...Voices and viewpoints are left out, but that does not diminish the value and pleasure of West of 98. * Bloomsbury Review *Table of Contents Introduction by Lynn Stegner Louise Erdrich, Big Grass Larry Woiwode, Wealth of the West Larry Watson, Whose West? Which West? West of What? Dan O'Brien, Viewed from Ground Level Kent Meyers, Naked Time Ron Hansen, Why the West? Jonis Agee, The Fence Antonya Nelson, Two or Three Places Rick Bass, The Light at the Bottom of the Mind Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Points Jim Barnes, Between the Sans Bois and the Kiamichi Larry McMurtry, Excerpt from Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen Susanna Sonnenberg, Slurry, Drainage, Frontage Road Jim Harrison, Geopiety River Sequence I–VII Gary Ferguson, Wolf and Coyote and Kumbaya Judy Blunt, What We Leave Ed Kemmick, Reading Montana Dan Aadland, Ranching in Suburbia Russell Rowland, Chasing the Lamb Annick Smith, The Summer of Now John Clayton, The Native Home of Governors on Horseback Willard Wyman, The Way Home Melissa Kwasny, The Imaginary Book of Cave Paintings Walter Kirn, Livingston Blows William Kittredge, Where Should We Be? Alyson Hagy, Self-Portrait as the Strong and Silent Type Kenneth Lincoln, Blood West Lee Ann Roripaugh, Motherlands and Mother Tongues: Five Reflections on Language and Landscape C. J. Box, Blame It on Rancho Deluxe Teresa Jordan, The Conceit of Girls Beth Loffreda, Pinus Contorta Gretel Ehrlich, Where the Burn Meets the Dead Stephen Graham Jones, Two Illustrations of the West, the first being second-hand, the second first Laura Pritchett, Cowboy Up, Cupcake? No Thanks Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Fatal West Page Lambert, A Shape-Shifting Land Tom Miller, Moving West, Writing East Gary Nabhan, Tasting a Sense of Place in the Arid West Denise Chávez, Entre Mundos/Between Worlds David Lee, Matins in the Cathedral of Wind Kim Barnes, On Language: A Short Meditation Ron Carlson, Utah Cabin Under Heaven, July 3 Debra Gwartney, Plucked from the Grave Robert Wrigley, Two Poems Progress County Stephen Trimble, Tumbling Toward the Sea Terry Tempest Williams, Friendship Amy Irvine, Red Jim Hepworth, Growing Up Western Charles Bowden, No Direction Home Sally Denton, Beyond This Place There Be Dragons Douglas Unger, City of Nomads, City of Second Chances Ursula K. Le Guin, Places Names John Daniel, East to the West David Guterson, Three Poems Closed Mill Neighbors White Firs Craig Lesley, Celilo Falls Barry Lopez, A Dark Light in the West: Racism and Reconciliation David Mas Masumoto, Dirty Stories Gary Snyder, Two Poems: The Black-tailed Hare Covers the Ground Louis B. Jones, "It's Like They Tilted the Whole Country East-to-West. And Everything that Wasn't Tied-Down Slid" Peter Fish, Star Struck Maxine Hong Kingston, Dias de los Muertos Harold Gilliam, The San Francisco Psyche Jane Hirshfield, Three Poems The Supple Deer Building and Earthquake The Dark Hour Greg Sarris, Maria Evangeliste Kris Saknussemm, Headed Page Stegner, The Sense of No Place Biographies
£27.90
University of Washington Press Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Book SynopsisJust as a basket's purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket.Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers, including Stephen Graham Jones, Deborah Miranda, Terese Marie Mailhot, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, and Kim TallBear. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together, they offer responses to broader qTrade Review"In this anthology, shape matters. It turns the essay into a resistant form, pushing against the myth of the ‘disappearing Native’ and asserting a new narrative, one that isn’t subject to colonizing. . . . Shapes of Native Nonfiction is full of cognitive and emotional work. It turns the essay into something alive and breathing." * Cincinnati Review *"The medium is the message in this formally daring anthology of essays from Native writers, organized into basket-weaving themes such as ‘coiling’ and ‘plaiting.’ In these 27 essays by writers hailing from multiple tribal nations, some established and some newcomers, the Native experience is interrogated, elucidated, and celebrated." * Esquire *"It’s not hard to imagine this work as a staple of creative writing course syllabi for years to come. A must for any library." * Library Journal *"In gathering contemporary Native nonfiction, this book elucidates the roots of the form-conscious essay and brings together the exciting current work of Native writers. In a sweeping decolonizing gesture, this anthology challenges the nonfiction canon as it’s been taught and creates a porous new space in its place." * Essay Daily *"Shapes of Native Nonfiction is. . . an accessible, engaging book, both for those who have read widely on the subject and for those seeking a place to begin." * New York Journal of Books *"The volume seems to be the work of a master weaver expertly managing the warp and weft of the threads—everything in its place, everything serving its purpose. These vibrant essays and writings acknowledge the wounds of the past but are not confined or defined by them. Rather, the contributors, who include Siku Allooloo, Natanya Ann Pulley, Ernestine Hayes, Chip Livingston, and Michael Wasson, narrate a living, dynamic future." * Choice *"This new collection of essays from established and emerging contemporary Indigenous writers is stunning both in depth and scope. . . . The collection, expertly curated and structured by writer and Cowlitz Indian Tribe member Elissa Washuta (whose incredible essay Apocalypse Logic also appears here) and literary scholar Theresa Warburton, shines in every piece and in its existence as a whole. . . . In these pages, storytelling is a way of developing new Native nonfiction literary possibility." * Literary Hub *"Shapes of Native Nonfiction introduces the reader to a unique collection of voices, telling stories that shift from lost to living language, from history to lived experience. These shifts create new shapes for Indigenous writers to inhabit, explore and share. In this anthology, that shaping makes for a powerful read, and an absolutely necessary one." * High Country News *"A veritable feast of First Nations and Native American writers that readers may otherwise never have discovered." * World Literature Today (WLT) *"In this far-ranging collection of essays, Indigenous writers explore family, home, landscape, identity, trauma, history, and memory. Some of the essays are about writing itself. Others tell stories about particular experiences or moments. Still others are more outwardly focused, exploring art, culture, and politics. Part of what makes this book so unique is the various innovative forms the essays take." * Book Riot *
£110.48
