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Northwestern University Press Gertrude Stein The Language That Rises 19231934
Book SynopsisExamining Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, this book asks questions and explores fresh ways of reading Stein. It also examines the process of the making and remaking of Stein's texts as they move from notepad to notebook to manuscript.Trade Review“This book will . . . radically change the way we read Gertrude Stein. It is an extremely scrupulous and brilliantly documented inquiry into the question that has faced every reader of Stein: How does one word lead to the next? I don’t know of any other critical book quite like this one, and I think that it possibly sets a model for genuine literary biography.” ―Peter Quartermain, author of Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe"[Dydo’s] volume is something much more than just the most thorough reading Stein has ever had; it is a vision . . . of Stein herself. Dydo . . . has raised the bar for criticism and biography alike." ―Ron Silliman, Talisman“Perhaps the most comprehensive and surely the most interesting study of Stein’s compositional process yet attempted.”―Frances Richard, Brooklyn Rail
£31.46
Northwestern University Press The Grain of the Voice Interviews 19621980
Book SynopsisBrings together the great majority of Barthes's interviews that originally appeared in French in Le Figaro Littéraire, Cahiers du Cinéma, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere. Barthes replied to questions on the cinema, on his own works, on fashion, writing, and criticism in his unique voice.
£22.46
Northwestern University Press Here Now
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£19.76
New Directions Publishing Corporation Selected Writings Michaux
Book SynopsisA collection from one of the great figures in modern French poetry.Trade Review"Michaux excels in making us feel... the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange things." -- André Gide
£15.19
New Directions Publishing Corporation Selected Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisThe essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.
£12.34
University of Pennsylvania Press The Laws of the Salian Franks
Book SynopsisFollowing the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least Romanized and most Germanic of the three. Unlike Roman law, this code does not emphasize marriage and the family, inheritance, gifts, and contracts; rather, Lex Salica is largely devoted to establishing fixed monetary or other penalties for a wide variety of damaging acts such as killing women and children, striking a man on the head so that the brain shows, or skinning a dead horse without the consent of its owner. An important resource for students and scholars of medieval and legal history, made available once again in Katherine Fischer Drew''s expert translation, the code contains much information on Frankish judicial procedure.Drew has heTrade Review"Makes easily available to legal historians and medievalists alike an important source for social and political no less than legal history." * American Journal of Legal History *
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny
Book SynopsisProvides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love.Trade Review"This book is a pleasure: its matter is essential. . . . The Livre de chevalerie will now assume its rightful, central place in studies of fourteenth-century history and literature and in the history of chivalry." * Speculum *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press The Capture of Constantinople
Book SynopsisThe armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary accounts by secular writers; their perspective is balanced by a document written from a monastic point of view and now available for the first time in English.The Hystoria Constantinopolitana relates the adventures of Martin of Pairis, an abbot of the Cistercian Order who participated in the plunder of the city, as recorded by his monk Gunther. Written to justify the abbot''s pious pilferage of scared relics and his transporting them back to his monastery in Alsace, it is a work of Christian metahistory that shows how the sack of Constantinople fits into God''s plan for humanity, and that deeds done under divine guidance are themselves holy and righteous.The Hystor
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Heliodorus
Book SynopsisUpon a rock sat a maiden of such inexpressible beauty as to be supposed divine. . . . Her head inclined forward without moving, for she was looking fixedly at a young man who lay at her feet. The man was disfigured with wounds, but seemed to rouse himself a little as from a deep sleep, almost of death itself. Pain had clenched his eyes, but the sight of the maiden drew them toward her. He collected his breath, heaved a deep sigh, and murmured faintly. My sweet, said he, are you truly safe, or are you too a casualty of the war?The Romance novel didn''t begin with Kathleen Woodiwiss or even with the Bronte sisters. By the time Heliodorus wrote his Aethiopica—or Ethiopian Romance—in the third century, the genre was already impressively developed. Heliodorus launches his tale of love and the quirks of fate with a bizarre scene of blood, bodies, and booty on an Egyptian beach viewed through the eyes of a band of mystified pirates. The central love-struck c
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Etablissements de Saint Louis
Book SynopsisAs the earliest major monument of the customary law in the region to the south and southwest of the Ile de France, the book known as the Etablissements de Saint Louis greatly amplifies our knowledge of feudal and private law in the French kingdom. Frequently cited by legal historians, it has nonetheless remained inaccessible to readers unable to master its difficult Old French. Now, F. R. P. Akehurst presents the text''s first English translation, making this vital component of the vernacular law of thirteenth century France available to a wide range of scholars.A hybrid text, the Etablissements was probably compiled by a lawyer around the year 1273. The book takes its name from its first part, a set of nine ordinances of Louis IX giving the rules of procedure for the court of the Chatelet in Paris. The second part, made up of one hundred and sixty-six short chapters, is a collection of the customary laws of the Touraine-Anjou region; the thirty-eight chapters of
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida By Avon River
Book SynopsisH.D. called By Avon River “the first book that really made me happy.” In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.’s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that would dominate her later works.Trade ReviewVetter's new introduction, notes, and glossary provide an invaluable guide to the writer's historical and literary references without miring the text in the kind of pedantry and dry intellectualism its author so disliked"". London Times Literary Supplement“Superb. Vetter’s incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women’s late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of personal, national, and nationalist concerns.”—Cynthia Hogue, coeditor of The Sword Went Out to Sea“This edition, with its finely written introduction and meticulous annotation, opens up new understandings of H.D., the major modernist writer, as she meditates, postwar, on the inner life of Shakespeare, the icon of English literature, and on the women missing from his plays. A beautiful and thoughtful book.”—Jane Augustine, editor of The Gift and The Mystery
£999.99
MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer A Thomas More Source Book
Book SynopsisThis title brings together texts by and about Thomas More - poet, scholar, statesman, educational reformer, philospher, historian and saint. The writings focus upon More's views of education, political theory, church-state relations, love and friendship, practical politics and conscience.
£27.96
University of Arizona Press Remedies for a New West
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University of Arizona Press Looking North
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University of Arizona Press Central American Women in Diaspora
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£24.29
University of Minnesota Press Caliban And Other Essays
Book SynopsisRoberto Fernández Retamar--poet, essayist, and professor of philology at the University of Havana--has long served as the Cuban Revolution’s primary cultural and literary voice. An erudite and widely respected hispanist, Retamar is known for his meticulous efforts to dismantle Eurocentric colonial and neocolonial thought. Since its publication in Cuba in 1971, “Caliban'--the first and longest of the five essays in this book--has become a kind of manifesto for Latin American and Caribbean writers; its central figure, the rude savage of Shakespeare’s Tempest, becomes in Retamar’s hands a powerful metaphor of their cultural situation--both its marginality and its revolutionary potential.Retamar finds the literary and historic origins of Caliban in Columbus’s Navigation Log Books, where the Carib Indian becomes a cannibal, a bestial human being situated on the margins of civilization. The concept traveled from Montaigne to Shakespeare, on down
£16.14
University of Minnesota Press I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Book SynopsisFrom the cultural critic Wired called provocative and cuttingly humorous comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of the national psyche and the nethermost regions of the selfthe gothic, the grotesque, and the carnivalesqueMark Dery makes sense of the cultural dynamics of the American madhouse early in the twenty-first century. Here are essays on the pornographic fantasies of Star Trek fans, Facebook as Limbo of the Lost, George W. Bush's fear of his inner queer, the theme-parking of the Holocaust, the homoerotic subtext of the Super Bowl, the hidden agendas of IQ tests, Santa's secret kinship with Satan, the sadism of dentists, Hitler's afterlife on YouTube, the sexual identity of 2001's HAL, the suicide note considered as a literary genre, the surrealist poetry of robot spam, the zombie apocalypse, Lady Gaga, the Church of Euthanasia, toy guns in the dream liveTrade ReviewMark Dery’s cultural criticism is the stuff that nightmares are made of. He’s a witty and brilliant tour guide on an intellectual journey through our darkest desires and strangest inclinations. You can’t look away even if you want to.—Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz, Boing BoingMark Dery is gifted with sanity, humor, learning, and a prose style as keen as a barber’s razor. He applies those qualities to a trustworthy and entertaining analysis of the lunatic fringe, which constitutes an ever-larger portion of the discourse in America today.—Luc SanteDo not turn squeamish from the many considerations of death that lurk within—vampires, tombs, disease, corruption of many varieties. Mark Dery’s restless and stylish essay is concerned with one thing only—what it means to be alive in America.—Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of AmericaThe bebop rhythms of Mark Dery’s prose reflect an intellectual excitement that is rare among contemporary cultural essayists. Reading him is like ingesting a powerful jolt of espresso.—Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare WarsTable of ContentsContentsForeword: I Must Not Read Bad ThoughtsBruce SterlingIntroductionPart I. American Magic, American DreadDead Man Walking: What Do Zombies Mean? Gun Play: An American Tragedy in Three Acts Mysterious Stranger: Grandpa Twain’s Dark Side Aladdin Sane Called. He Wants His Lightning Bolt Back: On Lady Gaga Jocko Homo: How Gay Is the Super Bowl? Wimps, Wussies, and W.: Masculinity, American Style Stardust Memories: How David Bowie Killed the ’60s and Ushered in the ’70s and, for One Brief Shining Moment, Made the Mullet Hip When Animals Attack! An Aesop’s Fable about Anthropomorphism Toe Fou: How I Was Subliminally Seduced by Madonna’s Big Toe Shoah Business The Triumph of the Shill: Fascist Branding Endtime for Hitler: On the Downfall Parodies and the Inglorious Return of Der Führer Part II. Myths of the Near Future: Making Sense of the Digital Age World Wide Wonder Closet: On Blogging (Face)Book of the Dead Straight, Gay, or Binary? HAL Comes out of the Cybernetic Closet Word Salad Surgery: Spam, Deconstructed Slashing the Borg: Resistance Is Fertile Things to Come: Xtreme Kink and the Future of Porn Part III. Tripe Soup for the Soul: Religion and All Its Works and WaysTripe Soup for the Soul: The Daily Affirmation Pontification: On the Death of the Pope The Prophet Margin: Jack Chick’s Comic-Book Apocalypse 2012: Carnival of Bunkum The Vast Santanic Conspiracy Part IV. Anatomy Lesson: The Grotesque, the Gothic, and Other Dark MattersOpen Wide: Dental Horror Gray Matter: The Obscure Pleasures of Medical Libraries Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Severed Head Been There, Pierced That: Apocalypse Culture and the Escalation of Subcultural Hostilities Death to All Humans! The Church of Euthanasia’s Modest Proposal Great Caesar’s Ghost: On the Crypt of the Capuchins Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: On La Specola’s Anatomical Venuses Goodbye, Cruel Words: On the Suicide Note as a Literary Genre Cortex Envy: Bringing Up Baby Einstein AcknowledgmentsNotesPublication History
£15.19
The University of Alabama Press Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture Modern
Book SynopsisNo group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition - specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet forever shaped by those traditions. This title addresses this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry.Trade Review“Some of the key issues for Jewish writers in the 20th century are those of identity and self-representation. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as ‘secular,’ and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. While there is no easy answer for these writers about what it means to be a Jew, in their responses there is a rich sense of how being Jewish reflects on their aesthetics and practices as poets, and how the tradition of the avant-garde informs their identities as Jews. Fragmented identities, irony, skepticism, a sense of self as ‘other’ or ‘outsider,’ distrust of the literal, and belief in a tradition that questions rather than answers are some of the qualities these poets see as common to themselves, the poetry they make, and the tradition they work within.”--Shofar
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press American Examples Volume 1
Book SynopsisFive topically and methodologically diverse scholars vividly reimagine the potential applications of religious history. The chapters of this volume use case studies from America, broadly conceived, to ask larger theoretical questions that are of interest to scholars beyond the subfield of American religious history.Trade Review“Altman and his cohort of early-career scholars ask us to focus on the ‘religion’ in the study of American religion. Each author demonstrates how their research, as an ‘example,’ sheds light not on the particularities of the United States, but rather, the theorization of religion anytime, anywhere. The volume is commendable for its emphasis on process and conversation, as well the vigor with which it invites readers to join a ‘new conversation.’”- Jennifer Graber, author of The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West;“It is rare that I can sit down with an edited volume and find each essay just as stimulating, interesting, and incisive as the one before it, but Altman and the contributors to American Examples have accomplished just that. This is not just a collection considering the many possible forms of the categories ‘American’ and ‘religion’; in a much larger sense, this volume is a guidebook for how scholars across the disciplines can begin to consider the wide-ranging significance of the politics of classification. Altman certainly has, as he puts it, started a ‘new conversation,’ and it is my sincere hope that this conversation will become a central voice in the future of the study of religion.”- Leslie Dorrough Smith, author of Compromising Positions: Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity;“American Examples seeks nothing less than to shake the founding assumptions of American religious history. What happens, these contributors ask, if we approach our archives not with the question of how they fit into a broader historical narrative but ask instead: what does this tell us about ‘religion’ or ‘America’? What does the field look like if we foreground the religious studies focus of J. Z. Smith rather than the normative assumptions of narrative history? This volume offers a timely, provocative contribution to the field and will be sure to inspire debate!”- Anthony Petro, author of After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Written in the Sky
Book SynopsisDeeply personal essays that interrogate the legacy of racial tension in the South.Trade Review“Taking a cue from James Baldwin, who found the innocence of privileged white Americans appalling, Patricia Foster has recounted her own trajectory from clueless small-town Southern girl to a hard-won loss of innocence about the reality of racism, in this stunningly written, unique and vital memoir.” —Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
£19.76
LUP - University of Georgia Press Maps to Anywhere
Book SynopsisWriting on subjects ranging from his family to the origin of the barbershop, Cooper digs into the surface of the Southern California landscape observing the collision of the American dream with the realities of everyday life, in an attempt to make sense of contemporary America.
£27.92
LUP - University of Georgia Press Mobile Home
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£26.19
LUP - University of Georgia Press Stargazing in the Atomic Age Essays
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Anne Goldman interweaves personal and intellectual history in essays that cast new light on these figures and their virtuosic thinking.
£999.99
LUP - University of Georgia Press Mountain Madness Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan
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£28.79
Ohio University Press Native Life in South Africa
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1916 and one of South Africa’s great political books, Native Life in South Africa was first and foremost a response to the Native’s Land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his generation.
£26.09
Duke University Press The Barbara Johnson Reader
Book SynopsisOffers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers.Trade Review“Johnson’s real gift was to tackle the ‘dead white males’ of the canon and re-read them, looking for the women, ever alert to what she called ‘muteness envy’ in canonical poetry. She directed her attention to popular works, too, to films such as Thelma and Louise and The Piano, happy to bring Keats into the discussion as she did so. Such essays stress critical and creative vitality in the midst of death, and are still life-giving today, still radical, angry and passionate, yet always disciplined. Johnson asks acute questions, inserts the personal into her academic essays, and gives us new ideas about ‘how to read.’” -- Lesley McDowell * TLS *“Reading these essays, one finds them as sprightly, brilliant, and revelatory as ever. Johnson’s style—famous for the clarity that paradoxically masks and illuminates the argumentative complexity of the writing—is brisk, orderly, and economical. … Perhaps this is the moment to return to the intellectual upheaval of deconstruction, that almost forgotten art of reading and rereading. There is no better place to begin rereading than right here, with Barbara Johnson’s own startling and writerly prose.” -- Judith Brown * Modernism/modernity *“Essays on abortion, corporate personhood, and many other still contemporary issues show that, for Johnson, deconstruction was always deeply intertwined with lived political reality, and many of the best essays in the collection bridge the gap between readings of poems and analysis of life in various forms of political relation, often in the context of the surprising strangeness of the textual or human encounter. For Johnson, ‘the undecidable is the political. There is politics precisely because there is undecidability. And there is also poetry’ (p.227). The forms of her own essays, intriguing in the turns they take, the conclusions they draw, and the interpretations they bring forth from the texts they examine, highlight and perform this causal relationship in consistently insightful and surprising ways.” * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Editors' Preface xi Personhood and Other Objects: The Figural Dispute with Philosophy / Judith Butler xvii Barbara Johnson by Barbara Johnson xxvii Part I. Reading Theory as Literature, Literature as Theory 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZac 3 2. Translator's Introduction to Dissemination (abridged) 14 3. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew 26 4. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden 36 5. Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language 44 6. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida 57 Part II. Race, Sexuality, Gender 7. Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice: A Geneaology of Afro-American Poetry 101 8. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God 108 9. Moses and Intertextuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible 126 10. Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula,
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University of Pittsburgh Press Authentic Writing Composition Literacy and Culture
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£48.19
Fordham University Press Dante For the New Millennium
Book SynopsisThe twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The fruit of an historic conference called by the Dante Society of America, the essays confront a range of important questions. What theories, methods, and issues are unique to Dante scholarship? How are they changing? What is the essence of the distinctive American Dante tradition? Whyand howdo we read Dante in today's global, postmodern culture? From John Ahern on the first copies of the Commedia to Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff on Dante after modernism, the essays shed brilliant new light on Dante's texts, his world, and what we make of his legacy. The contributors: John Ahern, H. Wayne Storey, Guglielmo Gorni, Teodolinda Barolini, Gary P. Cestaro, Lino Pertile, F. Regina Psaki, Steven Botterill, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Alison Cornish, Robert M. Durling, Manuele Gragnolati, GTrade Review"These scholars stand as staunch supporters of the constant need to re-evaluate Dante's medieval texts to discover what new word he has for readers that now live in a postmodern context." -- -Jessica Raymond Christianity & Literature "All in all, though, Dante for the New Millennium represents a major achievement. Thematically diverse yet tightly organized, finely edited, oriented both toward past approaches and future directions of research in the field, with-judiciously-separate bibliographies for each section, and a fine general index...the volume richly illustrates the thematic, methodological, and critical diversity of contemporary Anglo-American Dante studies." -- -Simon Gilson Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
£31.50
Fordham University Press Their Other Side
Book SynopsisHelen Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed by Italy's mythic appeal. Unlike Barolini herself, they were not daughters of the great Italian diaspora. Rather, they were drawn to an idea of "Italy" and its gifts-in whose welcome a new self could be created. Or discovered.Trade Review"Offers Italy as a metaphor for transformation..." -Offbeat Travel "Anyone who has felt Italy's special magnetism will treasure Helen Barolini's portraits of six American women whose lives it changed. In telling their stories, she includes her own experiences working and living in Italy over half a century, all in fascinating detail. " -- -Betty Boyd Caroli author of The Roosevelt Women "... With skill, wit, and bite ... a kind of artful memoir... Recommended." -Choice "...profiles six gifted women who were transformed by Italy's mythic appeal." -Publishers Weekly "An acclaimed Italian-American author, Barolini was determined to search for other American women writers who had the courage to look beyond the boundaries of their ordinary lives." -Feile-Festa "Barolini confidently engages past and present Dickinson scholars in an essay that reflects her wide reading but remains jargon free, personal, and a delight to read." -Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin "With her splendidly interesting and well-written book of essays, Helen Barolini proves fully that Italy was not only a man's dream, but also hers, and the dream of great or liberated women of America who found in her the emotional articulacy or artistic perspicuity that they had longed for." -The Montserrat Review "Helen Barolini masterfully weaves biographies of six American women seduced by Italy." -- -Alice Leccese Powers editor of Italy in Mind
£21.59
Fordham University Press Intimacy and Italian Migration Gender and
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of essays that adds a dimension to our understanding of nation-building through its examination of the role of intimate cultural processes. In this book, the editors and contributors share with previous works on the Italian diaspora a keen interest in the imagining of nations across national borders.Trade Review"A multitude of eminently accessible, albeit primarily scholarly, perspectives under the umbrella of the concept of family and the role of women." -- -Maria Enrico Borough of Manhattan Community College "An invitation to the interpretive community of scholars of the Italian diaspora to engage, once and for all, in a discussion that is analytical to the core ... A mosaic of impressive intellectual exercises." -- -Anthony Tamburri Queens College "From Mazzini the asexual republican leader to Rudolph Valentino, Latin lover incarnate, and from kitchens to bedrooms, Intimacy and Italian Migration re-questions the ways in which national identities are constructed-from abroad and from the home. This innovative collection of articles compares everything from the Italian mother in Australia, Ireland, and Germany, to the 'translocal' practices of Italian emigrant families. Its strength lies in addressing both stereotypes and experience in the gendered construction of Italian identity around the world." -- -Nancy L. Green co-editor, with Francois Weil of Citizenship and Those Who Leave "... A solid collection of articles that break new ground. In contrast to traditional studies, this volume focuses on the translocal and transnational aspects of migration and places specific emphasis on how factors such as gender, questions of identity and the policies of nation-states affect, and are affected by, the everyday thoughts, decisions and life experiences of individuals." -Anthropological Forum From Italy as nation some 26 million migrant men and women left since 1870 to create in gendered lives many Italies across the globe. The paradigmatic essays in this volume analyze how they, with their children and grandchildren, defined translocal and transcultural intimate spheres and redefined processual belongings in highly personal and often contested family arenas. The authors offer fascinating perspectives on the lifetime trajectories of women and men in local-global-national communities. No future research on nations and societies may do less than this path-breaking synthesis edited by the top scholars in the field." -- -Dirk Hoerder Arizona State University
£66.60
Fordham University Press Intimacy and Italian Migration
Book SynopsisWhy do so many people around the world associate people with origins in Italy with family life, romantic love and the pleasures of eating? This title focuses on the intimate relations in the construction of national identities among international migrants.Trade Review"A multitude of eminently accessible, albeit primarily scholarly, perspectives under the umbrella of the concept of family and the role of women." -- -Maria Enrico Borough of Manhattan Community College "An invitation to the interpretive community of scholars of the Italian diaspora to engage, once and for all, in a discussion that is analytical to the core ... A mosaic of impressive intellectual exercises." -- -Anthony Tamburri Queens College "From Mazzini the asexual republican leader to Rudolph Valentino, Latin lover incarnate, and from kitchens to bedrooms, Intimacy and Italian Migration re-questions the ways in which national identities are constructed-from abroad and from the home. This innovative collection of articles compares everything from the Italian mother in Australia, Ireland, and Germany, to the 'translocal' practices of Italian emigrant families. Its strength lies in addressing both stereotypes and experience in the gendered construction of Italian identity around the world." -- -Nancy L. Green co-editor, with Francois Weil of Citizenship and Those Who Leave "... A solid collection of articles that break new ground. In contrast to traditional studies, this volume focuses on the translocal and transnational aspects of migration and places specific emphasis on how factors such as gender, questions of identity and the policies of nation-states affect, and are affected by, the everyday thoughts, decisions and life experiences of individuals." -Anthropological Forum From Italy as nation some 26 million migrant men and women left since 1870 to create in gendered lives many Italies across the globe. The paradigmatic essays in this volume analyze how they, with their children and grandchildren, defined translocal and transcultural intimate spheres and redefined processual belongings in highly personal and often contested family arenas. The authors offer fascinating perspectives on the lifetime trajectories of women and men in local-global-national communities. No future research on nations and societies may do less than this path-breaking synthesis edited by the top scholars in the field." -- -Dirk Hoerder Arizona State University
£27.90
Fordham University Press Responses to Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review"In addition to knowing his way around texts and ideas, Frank stresses human relationships as these are played out in intersecting careers and influential friendships... The life of literature is a continuing series of such dialogues between the living and the dead. This wise and generous book, culminating and recapitulating Frank's career, invites us to participate in the conversation and helps equip us with the knowledge to do so." -Times Literary Supplement "Joseph Frank has long enjoyed the status of an icon within literary study--first, through his epic five-volume study of Dostoevsky and, second, through his role as a public intellectual. The distinguished and often provocative essays in Responses to Modernity give ample testimony to this second role, in which, writing with his customary clarity and grace, he takes up such topics as the nature of literary realism and the temptation of Fascism for some famous intellectuals." -- -Herbert Lindenberger Stanford University "Joseph Frank, noted for his monumental biography of Dostoyevsky, is a critic of great cultural breadth, securely grounded in philosophy and in the literatures of America, Europe, and Russia. Responses to Modernity shows him at his best. What it does especially well is survey the intellectual life of France and Germany before and after World War II in the brilliant works that emerged from Europe's dark night, in the patter of ideological barkers inviting young minds to part the curtain and enter their tents, in the story of those who fought shy of radical creeds and of those who couldn't resist the lure of primitivism." -- -Fredrick Brown Professor Emeritus, University of Stony Brook, SUNY
£40.50
University of Hawai'i Press Stories for Saturday Twentiethcentury Chinese
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the 20th century, many Chinese lost themselves in tales of scandal, romance and martial gallantry - standard reading for city dwellers craving escape. The stories selected and translated here are a record of what urban life was like, as well as what readers wished it to be.
£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press Sweat and Salt Water
Book SynopsisFeatures a selection of Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa's scholarly and creative contributions captured in print over a professional career cut short at the height of her productivity. The collection honours her legacy in various scholarly fields, including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, literary studies, security studies, and gender studies.
£60.00
University of Hawai'i Press Sweat and Salt Water
Book SynopsisFeatures a selection of Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa's scholarly and creative contributions captured in print over a professional career cut short at the height of her productivity. The collection honours her legacy in various scholarly fields, including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, literary studies, security studies, and gender studies.
£22.36
University of Missouri Press Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 8 Later
Book SynopsisThe Collected Works of Langston Hughes is a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential African American authors. This volume contains the later of his Simple stories.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Early
Book SynopsisTexts expressing concerns and priorities of the church during the reign of Charles I.`Sets a standard of excellence which will gain the society a high reputation... Documents which have for much too long been inaccessible to ecclesiastical and social historians, and which they cannot afford to ignore.' JOURNAL OFECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY `An important sourcebook for research about early seventeenth-century religious and social history.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [Following on from the highly-praised first volume of visitation articles, covering the years 1603-25] This selection of articles and injunctions issued by archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, and other ecclesiastical ordinaries in the early Stuart church concentrates on the church of Charles I, from his accession in 1625 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. The volume traces the impact of Laudian reforms as well as the defensive reaction of the Church hierarchy in 1641-2. The range of churchmanship included is broad, stretchingfrom the articles and injunctions of Laudian enthusiasts such as bishops Wren and Montagu to those issued by Calvinist episcopalians such as Hall and Thornborough. The introduction places these texts in their historical and historiographical contexts, and an appendix lists all surviving sets of visitation articles for the years 1603-1642. The volume will be a valuable work of reference for anyone interested in the government and ideals of the early Stuartchurch.Dr KENNETH FINCHAMis Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent at Canterbury.Trade ReviewSets a standard of excellence which will gain the society a high reputation... Documents which have for much too long been inaccessible to ecclesiastical and social historians, and which they cannot afford to ignore. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY An important sourcebook for research about early seventeenth-century religious and social history. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT An impressive and valuable collection of records for the early Stuart church. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
Book SynopsisFrom Elizabeth I's refoundation of the collegiate church to reforms and improvements attempted and achieved in the early years of James I's reign.The completion of Dr Knighton's edition of the first chapter minute book of Westminster Abbey records in detail Elizabeth I's refoundation of the collegiate church, including regulatio for preaching, the school and the library; the chapter's own housing is a continuing issue. Predominantly, however, the acts document the chapter's estate management: lease particulars shed light on the population of early modern Westminster and London. Favours sought by queen and courtiers are recorded, the exercise of the dean and chapter's ecclesiastical patronage is registered. At the end of the period the abbey was home to some of the most eminent churchmen and scholars of the day, Andrewes, Bancroft, Camden and Hakluyt among them. Reforms and improvements attempted and achieved in the early years of James I's reign conclude the volume. Index to both vols.CHARLES KNIGHTON gained his Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge.Trade ReviewReclaim[s] from archival obscurity illuminating fragments of Tudor England's institutional fabric. SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL ...distingushed by the meticulous editing for which Charles Knighton is famous. His numerous and thorough footnotes incorporate the results of much patient detective work [and] the study of an immense range of primary and secondary sources... The magnificent index enhances the usefulness of these volumes not only as a major source for the history of an exceptional institution, but also as a substantial topographical and biographical database. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
Book SynopsisFirst volume in the new Westminster Abbey Record Series, covering changes in Abbey ritual during the Reformation.This book is the first volume in a new venture, the Westminster Abbey Record Series, which aims to publish documents, calendars, lists and indexes from the Abbey's large and continuous archive of over a thousand years, making itscontents available both to scholars and to a wider interested public. This edition of the earliest Chapter Act Book of the Dean and Chapter is an essential source for the impact of the Reformation at Westminster. The years covered in this volume show the business of setting up a reformed cathedral; the administration of the Abbey's large estate is also well illustrated, including the relations with the powerful courtiers and politicians who were among the Abbey's tenants. Dr CHARLES KNIGHTON gained his Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge.Trade ReviewThe post-Reformation history of the abbey has been seriously neglected... [this] edition is therefore to be greatly welcomed... a firm and indispensable foundation upon which further and more wide-ranging research can build. [see also vol 2 - EHR] * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY [see also vol 2 - EHR] *Table of ContentsPart 1 The Chapter and its Acts: general; Westminster Abbey - constitutional changes 1540-1560; the first chapter meetings; time and place of meetings; signatures. Part 2 The manuscript and the edition: description of the manuscript; previous treatments; conspectus of present edition; editorial conventions. Part 3 Survey of contents: principal entries; deans and canons; discipline; fabric; liturgy; state occasions; burials; school; library and muniments. Part 4 Text - miscellaneous preliminary matter; Acts 1543-1556; material outside the main sequence of Acts. Part 5 Maps - Westminster Abbey and its surroundings, St Martin-le-Grand.
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Liverpool University Press Hellenica Oxyrhynchia
Book SynopsisThe Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, substantial fragments of history by an anonymous 4th century writer, cover the years 410 BC and 396 BC a period which is at the heart of most students' study of Greek history.Table of Contents List of Maps Preface INTRODUCTION: A: The Papyri B: Work on Hellenica Oxyrhynchia C: Background to the periods covered D: The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia as literature The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia: Cairo Fragments Florence Fragments London Fragments COMMENTARY
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Liverpool University Press Four Dialogues Consolatio ad Helviam De
Book SynopsisThe Dialogues were an important medium for the spreading of Greek philosophical theories to the Roman world and to subsequent ages. This selection is of complete, not excerpted, dialogues.Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION BIBLIOGRAPHY FOUR DIALOGUES: De Vita Beata De Tranquillitate Animi De Constantia Sapientis Ad Helviam Matrem de Consolatione APPARATUS CRITICUS COMMENTARY INDEX
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Liverpool University Press Life of Themistocles Classical Texts Aris
Book SynopsisThe commentary in this edition of one of Plutarchs Lives concentrates on the historical aspects of the work and includes much detailed comparison of Plutarch's narrative with those of other sources such as Herodotos, Thucydides, Diodorus and Cornelius Nepos. Greek text with facing translation.Table of Contents 1. This edition 2. Plutarch 3. The Parallel Lives 4. The Lives and literature 5. The Lives and history 6. Plutarch's Themistocles 7. Plutarch's sources for the Themistocles 8. This text; Bibliography Parellel Greek text and English translation Commentary Index
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Liverpool University Press Medea Classical Texts Aris Phillips Classical
Book SynopsisA new edition of the Latin text, with a facing English prose translation, of one of Rome's most notorious and ferocious plays.Trade ReviewHs Medea is a very important addition to Senecan scholarship, both for the quality of the translation and commentary it provides, and for the comprehensive and engaging introduction. Indeed, this must count as one of the very best overall introductions to Senecan tragedy in general, rich in information and judicious in assessment, but also fully attuned to the complexities of Senecas literary ambitions. On the vexed question of recitation vs. performance H rightly reminds us that Seneca and his contemporaries were quite likely to regard all tragedies 'as in principle suitable for stage performance' (p.10). The section on the relationship between philosophical doctrine and tragic writing is especially forceful and convincing. H prints his own text alongside an essential but useful apparatus; he offers a close, readable translation, not without considerable charm especially in the lyric passages. The commentary is as full and detailed as its scale allows. It will be read with great profit not just by students of any age and experience, but also by scholars and specialist, who will be delighted by the many shrewd observations it contains on intertextual models, metre and its stylistic effect, characterization, and connections with Senecas prosework. It is to be hoped that the availability of such an excellent edition will widen the readership of Senecas tragedies among students.'Table of Contents Preface INTRODUCTION 1. The author 2. The development of tragedy 3. Seneca and the myth of Medea 4. Seneca's Medea 5. The Medea as literature 6. Seneca's Medea and the question of staging 7. The Manuscript tradtion TEXT AND TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Tacitus Germania Aris Phillips Classical Texts
Book SynopsisIn the Germania Tacitus provides the most-detailed extant account of the German peoples in Antiquity. This edition is one of two which claim to be the first in English for over sixty years. It contains both text and translation and a brief commentary, with an appendix of illustrations of Domitianic coins.Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Tacitus' life and work 2. The Germany 3. Rome's relations with Germans up to the time of Tacitus 4. The Germany's afterlife 5. Language and style 6. Select grammatical and rhetorical terms 7. Text and translation 8. Map - Germany in the time of Tacitus Text and translation Commentary Appendixes I: The Roman emperors and their reigns II: The disposition of the German Legions III: Coin illustrations Abbreviations and bibliography Index of proper Latin names.
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Liverpool University Press Wealth The Comedies of Aristophanes Vol. 11
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of Aristophanes' last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious and imaginative hero finds a miraculous remedy for the all-too-real ills of the contemporary world in this case the concentration of wealth in the hands of those who don't deserve it at the expense of ...Trade ReviewWith this welcome volume on Wealth, a neglected play, Sommerstein has now (almost) brought his series of editions of Aristophanes extant comedies to a successful conclusion. ... Sommerstein has packed a lot into a small package and made this comedy accessible to both seasoned scholar and Greekless novice.'Table of ContentsPreface; References and abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; Parallel Greek Text and English Translation; Commentary; Addenda to previous volumes.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Mutants
Book SynopsisToby Litt is best known for his hip-lit fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always taken an unusual, hybrid form. In Mutants, he applies his restless creativity to nonfiction. The book brings together twenty-six essays on a range of diverse topics, including writers and writing, and the technological world that informs and underpins it. Each essay is marked by Litt's distinct voice, heedless of formal conventions and driven by a curiosity and a determination to give even the shortest piece enough conceptual heft to make it come alive. Taken as a whole, these pieces unexpectedly cohere into a manifesto of sorts, for a weirder, wilder, more willful fiction. Praise for Toby LittA genuinely individual talent with a positive relish for dealing with the contemporary aspects of the modern world.ScotsmanToby Litt is awfully goodhe gives something new every time he writes.Muriel SparkHe has invented a fresh, contemporary styleit will
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean
Book SynopsisDrawing upon literary, historical, and visual evidence, this collection of interdisciplinary essays examines how the Mediterranean shaped practices of gender in the premodern era. This volume bridges the gap between gender studies and Mediterranean studies, which have a natural fit with each other in their interest on defining identity carefully through connectivity and attentiveness to cultural hegemonies. The essays in this volume build off of this double approach to offer a unique contribution to the field, and use gender to understand the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean to understand premodern gender. Whereas other volumes have examined gender in the premodern period or premodern Mediterranean Studies, to date no other volume has sought to explore the intersection of the two. The interdisciplinary nature of the essays will make them useful to both scholars and teachers, for they will combine theory and practice in a length that makes them easily accessible to advanced studenTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean Megan Moore 2. Ambrose, Augustine, Perpetua: Defining Gender across the Mediterranean Margaret Cotter-Lynch 3. Visions, Female Sexuality, and Spiritual Leadership in Byzantine Ascetic Literature of the Sixth and Seventh Centuries Bronwen Neil 4. Bearers of Islam: Muslim Women between Assimilation and Resistance in Christian Sicily Sarah Davis-Secord 5. Gender and the Poetics of God’s Alterity in Andalusi Mysticism Anna Akasoy 6. Navigating Gender in the Mediterranean: Exploring Hybrid Identities in Aucassin et Nicolete Meriem Pagès 7. Gender and Authority: The Particularities of Female Rule in the Premodern Mediterranean Elena Woodacre 8 Religious Patronage in Byzantium: The Case of Komnenian Imperial Women Vassiliki Dimitropoulou 9. Jewish Women and Performance in Early Modern Mantua Erith Jaffe-Berg 10. The Politics of Mediterranean Marriage in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton Kat Lecky
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Decameron A Critical Lexicon Lessico Critico
Book SynopsisWhen originally published in 1995, the volume represented a major, new departure from the normal sort of scholarship on Boccaccio's masterpiece, and its unique approach and contents are still valid and valuable today. The seventeen original essays in the volume focus on providing a comprehensive view of the Decameron through the analysis of particular aspects, particular problem areas in the reading and interpretation of the work. Each essay offers a critical window on a defined topic (indicated by the headwords), and, when taken together, these individual essays intersect with, supplement, and reinforce one another, thus emphasizing the harmonious nature of the work as a whole and the importance of examining it through a variety of lenses. The newness of the volume also consists in its introduction of innovative exegetical approaches and the identification of previously unidentified sources and influences. While not providing an orderly reading of the Decameron as a more traditional sTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition —by Christopher Kleinhenz Foreword —by Pier Massimo Forni and Renzo Bragantini 1. Architecture —by Franco Fido 2. Author / Narrators —by Michelangelo Picone 3. Action —by Eduardo Saccone 4. Communication —by Francesco Bruni 5. Dialogue —by Renzo Bragantini 6. Philogyny / Misogyny —by Claude Cazalé Bérard 7. Sources —by Costanzo Di Girolamo and Charmaine Lee 8. Irony / Parody —by Carlo Delcorno 9. Language —by Alfredo Stussi 10. Memory —by Giuseppe Velli 11. Morals —by Victoria Kirkham 12. Representation —by Giancarlo Mazzacurati 13. Reality / Truth —by Pier Massimo Forni 14. Rhetoric —by Andrea Battistini 15. Laughter —by Giulio Savelli 16. The Sacred —by Paolo Valesio 17. On the History of the Text of the Decameron —by Vittore Branca With an Update on the History of the Text —by Renzo Bragantini 18. Boccaccio and the Decameron in North-American Criticism —by Christopher Kleinhenz Works Cited
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