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Book SynopsisShowcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home.Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Jennine Capó Crucet, Reinaldo Arenas, Judith Ortíz Cofer, and many others, this collection of renowned and award-winning contributors includes several who are celebrated in their countries of origin but have not yet been discovered by readers in the United States. The writers in this volume—first- , second- , and third-generation immigrants to Florida from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Perú, Argentina, Chile, and other countries—reflect the diversity of Latinx experiences across the state.Editor Anjanette Delgado characterizes the work in this collection as literature of uprootedness, literatura del desarraigo, a Spanish literary tradition and a term used by Reinaldo Arenas. With the heart-changing, here-and-there perspective of attempting life in environments not their own, these writers portray many different responses to displacement, each occupying their own unique place on what Delgado calls a spectrum of belonging.Together, these writers explore what exactly makes Florida home for those struggling between memory and presence. In these works, as it is for many people seeking to make a new life in the United States, Florida is the place where the uprooted stop to catch their breath long enough to wonder, “What if I stayed? What if here could one day be my home?”Trade Review“Shimmering and sharp, lush with laughter and lament, this multifaceted Latinx love letter to Florida reveals worlds within worlds. It teaches readers ‘how’ for us, in the words of one contributor, ‘it’s possible to dance and cry at the same time.’ Indispensable.”- Joy Castro, author of Island of Bones: Essays;“What a gift this book is, for all of us living the in-between but also for those who want to understand the unseen lesions of uprootedness. From Patricia Engle’s skewering to Achy Obejas’s hilarity to Jaquira Diaz’s punch in the gut to Ana Menendez’s exquisite writing to Carlos Harrison’s spot-on observations to Chantel Acevedo’s and Amina Gautier’s graceful prose to Richard Blanco’s and Mia Leonin’s delicious poetry (and every piece in between): Gracias!”- Ana Veciana-Suarez, author of The Chin Kiss King: A Novel;“The selections in this anthology display a sensitivity to the broader trends and contexts of today’s Latinx short story by focusing on stories that tell of displacement and its aftermath.”- Isabel Alvarez Borland, coeditor of Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities;“In these pages, recent and not-so-recent immigrants sing the praises as well as own up to the agony of conflicting cultural allegiances and inherited memories. A remarkable sample of writing by authors from many countries that drives home the idea of Florida as a distinctive place in the imagination of the Americas.”- Iraida H. López, author of Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora.

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Book SynopsisSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period. Trade Review"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *Table of ContentsContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick WorldRobinson Crusoe’s PrefacePublisher’s Introduction1 Of SOLITUDE2 An Essay upon HONESTY3 of the Immorality of Conversation, and The Vulgar Errors of Behaviour4 An Essay on the present State of Religion in the World5 Of listning to the Voice of Providence6 Of the Proportion between the Christian and Pagan WorldA Vision of the Angelick WorldBibliographic DescriptionsList of Editorial EmendationsSelected BibliographyAbout the EditorsIndex

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including original poetry. Trade Review"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroductionAnthony W. LeeI. Essays on Samuel Johnson and Boswell1. Mirrored Minds—Johnson and ShakespearePhilip Smallwood2. The General and the Particular: Pope, Johnson, and ReynoldsDavid Hopkins3. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual ScholarshipAnthony W. Lee4. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic FailureAdam Rounce5. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the LandAaron Hanlon6. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s friend, the Fighting QuakerRobert G. Walker7. Not "Just a Macheath": Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763Gordon TurnbullII. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture8. English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: The MemoirMartine Brownley9. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?Cedric D. Reverand10. Poetic Performances: Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and “Swift’s Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”John Richetti11. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimization Though ScaleClement Hawes12. Trans-Plant Perspectives: Western Gardens, Eastern ViewsBärbel Czennia13. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: The Seismic English Enlightenment and Enigmatic ExplanationsKevin L. CopeIII. Personal Reminiscences1. Greg Clingham as Teacher and MentorDominic JermeyElaine WoodCaroline FassettJoseph McNicholasMargaret WilliamsErin LabbiePatrick HenryAdam WalkerKang Tchou2. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University PressGary SojkaNina ForsbergDaniel LittleJames RiceJohn Rickard3. Commemoratory Poems“It is rowing without a port.”Notes by Lady Anne Barnard while in South AfricaAntjie KrogFrances TowneKieron WinnAn Ode: Alexander Pope Reciprocally Writes an Encomium for Samuel Johnson, Aided by Greg ClinghamEmily GrosholzMother JohnsonHarry ThomasCodaKate ParkerGreg Clingham’s PublicationsAcknowledgmentsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisSwimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool – is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and romance. For some they are places of hard-core swimming training. This delightful, nostalgic anthology brings together reflections and recollections about the swimming pools of childhood from a range of Australians of diverse ages and backgrounds, well known and not-so-famous – including Trent Dalton, Leah Purcell, Shane Gould, Bryan Brown and Merrick Watts.Evocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, almost 30 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods. Everyone who has ever dived into their local Olympic pool, bush waterhole or saltwater baths will want to submerge themselves in this beautiful book. The Memory Pool is a collection of 28 personal stories that take thereader into the inner worlds of childhood and teenage years at thelocal pool. Story-tellers include Bryan Brown, Trent Dalton, Shane Gould, AshleyHay, Daniel Kowalski, Laurie Lawrence, Leah Purcell, Merrick Wattsand many more from locations all over Australia. Will resonate with readers who remember high-diving, sunburn, wettowels and pine-lime splices Joyful and celebratory but sometimes sad and writers remember thepool as a place of escape from troubled homes It’s like Humans of New York meets Places We Swim, but inbeautifully written words Therese Spruhan has interviewed writers, actors, championswimmers, and everyday pool-goers and chapters are presentedseamlessly in their own words

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Book Synopsis'I know it's a daring suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.'Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political.In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years in the cosmopolitan community of artists on the Greek island of Hydra. Back in Sydney, Clift found her opinions were far more progressive than those of many of her fellow Australians.This new edition of Charmian Clift's essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, are drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wrote through the turbulent and transformative years of the 1960s. In these 'sneaky little revolutions', as Clift once called them, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for an Australian film industry — and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.

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Book Synopsis'Genuine radicalism depends on the provision of hope. It provokes through a scandalous insistence that life can be otherwise, that we aren't doomed to economic and environmental decline, and that the future can exceed than the past.'Jeff Sparrow is one of Australia's leading public intellectuals. From great controversies to the heroes and villains of our time, Provocations raises arguments that matter.History gets made by actions, not by words alone. Yet these pages are filled with the kind of words that inspire action. By showing us that Australia has a history of slavery it needs to reckon with. That amidst the turmoil of catastrophic weather events, Christmas beetles are disappearing as we look the other way. That while war was once an anomaly in a world increasingly devoted to peace, no one believes that anymore.In Provocations, Jeff Sparrow brings together some of his most challenging and continuously relevant work alongside daring new writing.

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Book SynopsisThe image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theoretical frameworks and practices that recognize that the archives are anything but static. Archival deposits are proliferating, and the architects, practitioners, and scholars engaged with them are scarcely able to keep abreast of them. Archives, archival theory, and archival practice are on the move. But what of the archives that were once safely housed and have since been lost, or are under threat? What of the urgency that underscores the appeals made on behalf of these archives? As scholars in this volume argue, archives, their materialization, their preservation, and the research produced about them are moving in a different way: they are involved in an emotionally engaged and charged process, one that acts equally upon archival subjects and those engaged with them. So too do archives at once represent members of various communities and the fields of study drawn to them.Moving Archives grounds itself in the critical trajectory related to what Sara Ahmed calls affective economies to offer fresh insights about the process of archiving and approaching literary materials. These economies are not necessarily determined by ethical impulses, although many scholars have called out for such impulses to underwrite current archival practices; rather, they form the crucial affective contexts for the legitimization of archival caches in the present moment and for future use.Table of Contents Introduction Moving Archives: The Affective Economies and Potentialities of Literary Archival Materials / Linda M. Morra, Bishop's University Chapter One Archive Transfer / Archival Transformation: The Intervening Space Between / Patricia Godbout and Marc André Fortin, Université de Sherbrooke Chapter Two Don't you know that digitization is not enough? Digitization is not enough! Building Accountable Archives and the Digital Dilemma of the Cabaret Commons / T.L. Cowan, University of Toronto Chapter Three Myles na gCopaleen's 'An Scian': A Knife in the Back of Irish Archivists / Joseph LaBine, University of Ottawa Chapter Four Inside the Cover, Outside the Archive: The Dispersal, Loss, and Value of Jane Rule's Personal Library / Linda M. Morra, Bishop's University Chapter Five ""The fearful state of things"": Technologies of Transparency in the Annual Report of the Canada Sunday School Union, 1836-1876 / Erin Kean, University of Ottawa Chapter Six Listening to the Archives of Phyllis Webb / Katherine McLeod, Concordia University Chapter Seven Fresh-Water Archives: Reading Water in Troy Burle Bailey's The Pierre Bonga Loops / Karina Vernon, University of Toronto Chapter Eight Letting Grief Move Me: Thinking Through the Affective Dimensions of Personal Recordkeeping / Jennifer Douglas, University of British Columbia Chapter Nine Reading for Queer Openings: Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah. / Susan Rudy, Queen Mary University of London

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Book SynopsisThe Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art. The death of Leonard Cohen received media attention across the globe, and this international star remains dear to the hearts of many fans. This book examines the diversity of Cohen’s art in the wake of his death, positioning him as a contemporary, multi-media artist whose career was framed by the twentieth-century and neoliberal contexts of its production. The authors borrow the idea of “the contemporary” especially from philosophy and art history, applying it to Cohen for the first time—not only to the drawings that he included in some of his books but also to his songs, poems, and novels. This idea helps us to understand Cohen’s techniques after his postmodern experiments with poems and novels in the 1960s and 1970s. It also helps us to see how his most recent songs, poems, and drawings developed out of that earlier material, including earlier connections to other writers and musicians.Philosophically, “the contemporary” also sounds out the deep feelings that Cohen’s work still generates in readers and listeners. Whether these feelings are spiritual or secular, sincere or ironic, we get them partly from the sense of timeliness and the sense of timelessness in Cohen’s lyrics and images, which speak to our own lives and times, our own struggles and survival. From a set of international collaborators, The Contemporary Leonard Cohen delivers an appreciative but critical examination of one of our dark luminaries.Trade Review“Anyone who walks the streets of Montreal knows just how present Leonard Cohen is. His visage enfolds the city, reminding us about all the ways he transcended politics to seek something spiritual, something aesthetically sustaining. This new collection captures Cohen’s historic cultural impact, but it also defines the myriad ways in which he was always contemporary. Anyone who wants to understand Cohen’s influence and the trajectory of his writing will need this book. Its perceptive introduction helps to frame the evolution of Cohen’s multi-faceted career. It offers a rich conversation among some of the most accomplished critics writing about Cohen today.” —Robert Lecker, McGill University “The Contemporary Leonard Cohen presents readers with a kaleidoscope of perspectives, illuminating the multifaceted richness of Cohen's body of work, from his earliest writings to the posthumously released productions. Ultimately, our own stance as scholars, artists, and fans of Cohen’s texts, in which we are so often directly addressed, is challenged, making this volume relevant not only to those interested in Leonard Cohen but also to anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of artistic communication.” —Francis Mus, Ghent University | University of AntwerpTable of Contents Introduction: The Contemporary Leonard Cohen - Kait Pinder and Joel Deshaye “A Man Must Be Very Alone”: The Contemporary as the Outsider “I Desire Only Your Love by the Telling”: Alienation and Authenticity in “A Ballet of Lepers” and The Favourite Game - Laura Cameron and Claudine Gélinas-Faucher Leonard Cohen, Marianne Ihlen and Hydra’s Summer of Love - Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni Untimely Meditations: Critical History in Flowers for Hitler - Kait Pinder Is It Really Revolting? Towards an Ethics of Loss in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here - Gregory Betts After “THE DACHAU GENERATION”: Contemporaries in Song Fame, Failure, and Redemption: Leonard Cohen and His Contemporaries - Norman Ravvin Gossip, Rumour, and Relationship: Learning Leonard Cohen from Joni Mitchell - Joel Deshaye “I Undid Your Gown”: Rhyming Decorum in the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen - Brian Laidlaw “A Song the People Loved was Written by a Thief”: Cohen’s Songs of Revolt - Patrick Nickleson “Desire the Horse / Depression the Cart”: Feeling Contemporary “I’ve Seen the Future, Baby: It is Murder”: The Apocalypse in Leonard Cohen’s Pop Theology - Christophe Lebold The Humble One: A Polyptych of Self-Portraits in Book of Longing and The Flame - Joan Angel “Memory White from Loss of Guilt”: Guilt and Detachment in the Early Cohen - Brian Trehearne Ways to Say Goodbye: Valedictions in Book of Longing - Paul Robichaud Conclusion: “A Brief Elaboration”: Fan-Scholars and Cohen Studies - Joel Deshaye and Kait Pinder Contributors Kait Pinder, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS Joel Deshaye, Memorial University, St. John's, NFLD Laura Cameron, Toronto, ON Claudine Gélinas-Faucher, Québec City Tanya Dalziell, University of Western Australia, Perth Paul Genoni, Curtin University, Perth Gregory Betts, Brock University, St. Catharine's ON Norman Ravvin, Concordia University, Montréal Patrick Nickleson, Queen's University, Toronto Brian Laidlaw, University of Denver, Boulder Christophe Lebold, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg FR Joan Angel, Independent, Quebec Brian Trehearne, McGill University, Montreal Paul Robichaud, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven

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Book SynopsisUnpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Contributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel’s account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the slow transformation of university libraries, and the stories of the personal libraries of Virginia Woolf, Robert Duncan, Sheila Watson, Al Purdy and others. The book shows how the history of the library is really a history of collection, consolidation, migration, dispersal, and integration, where each story negotiates private and public spaces.Unpacking the Personal Library builds on and interrogates theories and approaches from library and archive studies, the history of the book, reading, authorship and publishing. Collectively, the chapters articulate a critical poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.Trade ReviewUnpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is a seminal, informative, and fascinating work of collective scholarship that will be of immense relevance and interest to authors, publishers, and bibliophiles with respect to the history, diversity, and continuing relevance of libraries. – Midwest Book ReviewTable of Contents Introduction - Private, Public and Personal Libraries In Situ and In Circulation – Jason Camlot Part I: Private Libraries Made Public 1. In Memory of Alexandria – Alberto Manguel 2. William Osler and the Collecting of the Middle Ages – Anna Dysert 3. A Gift to the Nation Worth While”: The Library of William Lyon Mackenzie King – Meaghan Scanlon 4. Personal Libraries of the State – Bart Vautour 5. Remaindering the Difference: Book Collections of Radical Protest Libraries – Sherrin Frances 6. Serious House: On the Future of Library Print Collections – Andrew Stauffer Part II: The Personal Library as a Field of Interpretation 7. The Promise of Paradise: Reading, Researching, and Using the Private Library: Virginia Woolf’s Poetry Library – Emily Kopley 8. Unpacking Duncan’s Books: Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan – James Maynard 9. “Her Books Filed for Divorce”: Embeddedness and the Question of Belonging in Relation to Sheila and Wilfred Watson’s Personal Library – Linda Morra 10. Al Purdy’s Lives and Libraries: A Bibliographical Essay – Nicholas Bradley 11. jwcurry’s Room 3o2 Books: The Small Press Bookstore as Library and Archive – Cameron Anstee Conclusion—Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten CONTRIBUTORS Jason Camlot (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten (Fanshawe College) – Toronto, ON, Canada Alberto Manguel (former Director of the National Library of Argentina) – Bueonos Aires, Argentina, and Ottawa, ON, Canada Anna Dysert (McGIll University) – Montreal, QC, Canada Meaghan Scanlon (Library and Archives Canada) – Ottawa, ON, Canada Bart Vautour (Dalhousie University) – Halifax, NS, Canada Sherrin Frances (Saginaw Valley State University) – University Center, MI, USA Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) – Charolottesville, VA, USA Emily Kopley (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada James Maynard (SUNY, Buffalo) – Buffalo, NY, USA Linda Morra (Bishop’s University) – Montreal, QC, Canada Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria) – Victorian, BC, Canada Cameron Anstee (Independent Scholar) – Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Book SynopsisMost people go through life chasing illusions of success, fame, wealth, happiness, and few things are more painful than the reality-revealing loss of an illusion. But if illusions are negative, why is the opposite, being disillusioned, also negative? In this essay based on his inaugural writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, internationally acclaimed writer Steven Heighton mathematically evaluates the paradox of disillusionment and the negative aspects of hope. Drawing on writers such as Herman Melville, Leonard Cohen, Kate Chopin, and Thich Nhat Hanh, Heighton considers the influence of illusions on creativity, art, and society. This meditation on language and philosophy reveals the virtues of being disillusioned and, perhaps, the path to freedom.

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Book SynopsisDisAppearing offers a relational orientation to disability studies. From encounters with disability and disabled people in educational settings from elementary school to university, in novels and other texts, in hospitals and policing, in dance, on the street, and in community centres, as well as in considerations of injury and healing, and life and death, the chapters in this collection explore a variety of cultural scenes of disability. By doing so, this collection reveals what disability can mean through scenes of its dis/ appearance and demonstrates how to remake these meanings in more life-affirming ways.Encouraging critical engagement with how disability is noticed and lived, the many chapters, as well as poetry, narrative, and a podcast transcript, reveal the meaning of disability appearing and disappearing in everyday life and beyond. Bringing together the work of scholars, artists, and activists, many of whom identify as disabled, DisAppearing encourages students to approach disability differently and to reimagine its appearance in the world.Engaging, political, artistic, and philosophical, this text, with an emphasis on the Canadian context, is an invaluable resource for disability studies students and instructors.Table of Contents Alternative Thematic Table of Contents List of Figures Foreword, by Rod Michalko Introduction Part I: DisAppearing DisAbility: Demonstrations in Theory and Practice Editors' Introduction Chapter 1: Disappearing Promises: The University's Unfortunate Framing of Disability, by Tanya Titchkosky Chapter 2: Nativity, by Hanna Herdegen Chapter 3: Navigating Borderlands: Deaf and Hearing Experiences in Post-Secondary Education, by Sammy Jo Johnson & Sarah Beck Chapter 4: Let Me Hear You Say Black Lives Matter, by Thomas Reid Part II: DisAppearing DisEmbodiment Editors' Introduction Chapter 5: Between Peace and Disturbance: Anorexia, Control, and Embodiment, by Madeleine DeWelles Chapter 6: Disabling Curricular Encounters: The Barriers in Barrier-Free Access, by Maria Karmiris Chapter 7: Ghosts, Mice, and Robots: Disappearing the Autistic Person, by Helen Rottier, Ben Pfingston, & Josh Guberman Chapter 8: Performing Dyslexia in Contemporary Japan, by Satsuki Kawano Chapter 9: Tuning Goes Frig, by Sid Ghosh Part III: DisAppearing Drama Editors' Introduction Chapter 10: Blind Perception: DisAppearing Blindness … with a Twist, by Devon Healey Chapter 11: Embracing the Gesture: A Dance of the Ordinary and its Extra, by Jose Miguel Esteban Chapter 12: Shapeshifting: Navigating the Social Construction of Multiple Disability Identities, by Steve Singer Chapter 13: Charles Darwin and Me/Chronic Illness Dictionary, by Diane Driedger Part IV: DisAppearing Departures, Diagnoses, and Death Editors' Introduction Chapter 14: The Impositions of Forgotten Wor(l)ds: Rehabilitation and Memory Loss, by Lindsay Gravelle Chapter 15: The DisAppearances of Deafness in Early Childhood Diagnostic and Intervention Practices, by Tracey Edelist Chapter 16: Diagnosing Despair: Constructing Experience through Psychiatric Hegemony, by Efrat Gold & Sharry Taylor Chapter 17: An Autist Amongst Exceptionalities, by Joey Tavares Chapter 18: Disappearing Disability: Disability MAiD Invisible, by Nancy Hansen Chapter 19: The Pill Box Shuffle, by Leanne Toshiko Simpson Part V: DisAppearing Dreams Editors' Introduction Chapter 20: The Infinity of the Encounter: Deafness, Disability, Race, and the Sound of Re-Story, by Elaine Cagulada Chapter 21: "Where are the goddamn pens?": And Other Disappearances in Writing Intellectual Disability, by Chelsea Temple Jones Chapter 22: Are You My Homi? Close (Autistic) Encounters of the Third Kind, by Maya Chacaby Chapter 23: Magic Wand, by Lynn Manning Contributor Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisPelong ya Ka, a collection of essays and sketches in Sotho was first published in 1962 in the Bantu Treasury Series Imprint of Witwatersrand University Press. S. Machabe Mofokeng is regarded as one of the greatest essayist and dramatist in Southern Sotho. His first book, Senkatana (a play) was published in 1952.Pelong ya Ka comprises 20 essays which range from meditative, descriptive, and narrative to polemic style, with the tone of voice characterised by melancholy, humour, and satire. The essays span over a wide range of themes, as suggested by their Titles, e.g. Pelo (The heart), Bodutu (‘Solitude’), Death (‘Lefu’), Nako (‘Time’), Pampiri (‘Paper’), Ho kganna mmotokara (‘Driving an automobile’), Sepetlele (‘Hospital’), Lenyalo (‘Matromony’), and Boqheku (‘Old age’). Nhlanhla Maake says of this collection "Mofokeng's essays fuse simplicity with depth.Table of Contents Chapter 1: Pelo Chapter 2: Botho Chapter 3: Bodutu Chapter 4: Lefu Chapter 5: Reisisi Chapter 6: Tsela-tshweu Chapter 7: Phetoho Chapter 8: Nako Chapter 9: Metswalle Chapter 10: Pampiri Chapter 11: Hlahlobo Chapter 12: Noka Chapter 13: Ho kganna motorokara Chapter 14: Lewatle Chapter 15: Sepetlele Chapter 16: Dimela Chapter 17: Tjhelete Chapter 18: Lenyalo Chapter 19: Boqheku Chapter 20: Qetello

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Book SynopsisN. Chabani Manganyi is one of South Africa’s most eminent intellectuals and an astute social and political observer of his time. He has had a distinguished career in psychology, education and in government, and has written widely on subjects relating to ethno-psychiatry, autobiography, black artists and race.Being-Black-in-the-World, one of his first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule, including the Durban strikes of 1973 and the emergence of Black Consciousness. Publication of the book was delayed until the young Manganyi had left the country (to study at Yale University) as his publishers feared that the apartheid censorship board and security forces would prohibit him from leaving the country, and perhaps even incarcerate him, for being a ‘radical revolutionary’. Like Fanon in Black Skins, White Masks, Manganyi expressed the vileness of the racist order and its effect on the human condition.While the essays in this book are clearly situated in the material and social conditions of that time, they also have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary concerns regarding black subjectivity, affectivity and corporeality; the persistence of a racial (and racist) order; and the possibilities of a renewed de-colonial project. Each of these short essays can be read as self-contained reflections on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years. At the same time, Manganyi weaves a tight and interconnected argument that gives the book a quiet cohesiveness. He is a master of understatement, and yet this does not stop him from making incisive political criticisms of black subjugation under apartheid. The essays will reward close study for anyone trying to make sense of black subjectivity and the persistence of white insensitivity to black suffering. Ahead of its time, the ideas in this book are an exemplary demonstration of what a thoroughgoing and rigorous de-colonial critique should entail.Table of Contents Foreword Garth Stevens Introduction Chapter 1 Who Are the Urban Africans? Chapter 2 Black Consciousness Chapter 3 Us and Them Chapter 4 Being-black-in-the-world Chapter 5 Nausea Chapter 6 Reflections of a Black Clinician Chapter 7 The Meaning of Change Chapter 8 Postscriptum African Time Afterword - Njabulo S. Ndebele

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Book SynopsisSindiwe Magona is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller and motivational speaker known mainly for her autobiographies, biographies, novels, short stories, poetry and children’s books. I Write the Yawning Void is a collection of essays that highlight her engagement with writing that span the transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid period and addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging. Magona worked as a teacher, domestic worker and spent two decades working for the United Nations in the United States of America. She has received many awards for her fierce and fearless writing ‘truth to power’. Her written work is often informed by her lived experience of being a black woman resisting subjugation and poverty. These essays bring to life many facets of Magona’s personal history as well as her deepest convictions, her love for her country and despair at the problems that continue to plague it, and her belief in her ability to activate change. They demonstrate Magona’s engaging storytelling and mastery of the essay form which serve as meaningful supplements to her fictional works, while simultaneously offering direct and insightful responses to the conditions that inspired them. Through her essays Magona offers a reimagining of a broken society and the role literature can play in casting new light on old wounds.Table of Contents Editor’s Introduction: I Write the Yawning Void – Renée Schatteman Author’s Introduction: Writing South Africa’s Yawning Void – Sindiwe Magona Part I: Coming to Writing Chapter 1 The Scars of Umlungu Chapter 2 Clawing at Stones Chapter 3 Finding My Way Home Chapter 4 It is in the Blood: Trauma and Memory in the South African Novel Part II: Writing About Pressing Issues Chapter 5 Address at the Funeral of a Young Woman Chapter 6 Do Not Choose Poverty Chapter 7 Cry, the Beloved Language Chapter 8 We Are All Racists! Part III: Writing About My Writing Chapter 9 Why I Wrote My Autobiographies Chapter 10 Why I Wrote Mother to Mother Chapter 11 Why I Wrote Beauty’s Gift Chapter 12 Why I Wrote Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle Chapter 13 Why I Wrote When the Village Sleeps Chapter 14 Why I Write Children’s Stories Conclusion: A Tribute To Those Who Paved The Way: André Brink And Other S/Heroes Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisVade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner's best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare's The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers (Antonioni, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Chinatown) and idiosyncratic reflections on Werner Herzog's Of Walking in Ice and Steely Dan.

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Book SynopsisConstruction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century—whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in the 1940’s, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.Trade ReviewReviews 'In Architextual Authenticity, Jason Herbeck grapples with two keywords central to understandings of Caribbean literature in French, namely ‘identity’ and ‘authenticity’. Focused on a close reading of five core texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti, the study explores the ways in which – in both past and present – issues of Antillean identity have been understood and, most importantly, constructed in the textures of literary creation. Herbeck proposes architextual and architectural readings of the works he has selected, and foregrounds not only the construction of spatiality in these but also their recurrent focus on the generative act of writing. LUP’s Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures series already contains some of the most searching criticism on Caribbean writing in French published in recent years. I am excited that Architextual Authenticity constitutes a genuinely original and significant addition to this important list.'Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool'The approach of rethinking authenticity in relation to the built environment is an innovative one, and the book puts to good use human geography approaches to place as actively constructed in and through human relationships. Some of the close reading of texts in relation to buildings and structure is enlightening, and there is an interesting attempt to understand texts in terms of a wider architecture of both society and intertextuality. The book comes together into an absorbing set of arguments. The close reading of intertextualities in the range of texts was fascinating, and it was very interesting to have this discussion placed in the specific context of Haiti for example, and of the very material dynamics of the relationships between architecture and authenticity in recent events: this gave a pleasingly concrete push to the discussions of socio-political structures, and grounded the succeeding discussion in a genuinely innovative way. I found the book overall a very enjoyable read.' Patricia Noxolo, Caribbean Studies'Jason Herbeck’s impressive monograph broadens the field of literary landscape studies through his focus on manmade structures ... His rigorous analyses of human landscapes in works by Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Daniel Maximin, and Yanick Lahens serve to complement prior scholarship as well as provide new critical perspectives relevant to postcolonial studies across the board ... this is an excellent book whose impact promises to be far reaching.' Allison Connolly, H-France Review'That Architextual Authenticity’s concluding chapters take up narratives about Haiti after the 2010 earthquake underscores the important contribution that this book makes to studies in Caribbean literature and to broader conversations about representation, identity, and the construction of narratives of origin and becoming in the Caribbean.' Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, The Journal of Haitian Studies'An original, insightful contribution to a crowded field of work on French Caribbean literary identity.'Robyn Cope, French Studies‘Architextual Authenticity is a commanding work on French Caribbean criticism. Herbeck’s scholarship is impressive and his close readings, which focus on demonstrating the “architexture” of French Caribbean texts as expression of an authentic Caribbean literary identity, are persuasive.’Marie-Agnès Sourieau, French ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Questioning the Construction of Dogma 1. Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House and the Building Blocks of Literature2. Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Édouard Glissant’s La Lézarde3. Gouverneurs de la… Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Condé’s Traversée de la Mangrove4. Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin’s L’Île et une nuit5. Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens’s Failles and Guillaume et NathalieConclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like HomeBibliography

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Book SynopsisNicholas Hagger's 55 books include innovatory works on literature, history, philosophy and international politics. In his first published literary work he revived the Preface, which had fallen into disuse after Wordsworth and Shelley. He went on to write Prefaces (sometimes called ‘Prologues’, ‘Introductions’ or ‘Introductory Notes’) for all his subsequent books. Collected Prefaces, a collection of 55 Prefaces (excluding the Preface to this book), sets out his thinking and the reader can follow the development of his philosophy of Universalism (of which he is the main exponent), his literary approach (particularly his combination of Romanticism and Classicism which he calls "neo-Baroque") and his metaphysical thinking. His Prefaces can be read as essays, and as in T.S. Eliot’s Selected Essays there is an interaction between adjacent Prefaces that brings an entirely new perspective to Hagger's works. These Prefaces cover an enormous range. Nicholas Hagger is a Renaissance man at home in many disciplines. His Universalism focuses on humankind’s relationship to the whole universe as reflected in seven key disciplines seen as wholes: the whole of literature, history, philosophy and the sciences, mysticism, religion, international politics and statecraft and world culture. Behind all the Prefaces is Hagger’s fundamental perception of the unity of the universe as the One and of humankind’s position in it. These Prefaces complement his Selected Letters, a companion volume also published by O-Books, and contain startling insights that illumine and send readers to the works the Prefaces introduce.

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Book SynopsisEssays in Romanticism, a peer-reviewed journal edited by Alan Vardy, is the official journal of the International Conference on Romanticism, succeeding Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism. Available to purchase as a single issue, EiR continues the tradition of its predecessor in encouraging contributions within an interdisciplinary and comparative framework. More broadly, it welcomes submissions on any aspect of Romanticism, and especially work using emergent or innovative perspectives and approaches.

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Book SynopsisEssays in Romanticism, a peer-reviewed journal edited by Alan Vardy, is the official journal of the International Conference on Romanticism, succeeding Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism. Available to purchase as a single issue, EiR continues the tradition of its predecessor in encouraging contributions within an interdisciplinary and comparative framework. More broadly, it welcomes submissions on any aspect of Romanticism, and especially work using emergent or innovative perspectives and approaches.

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Book SynopsisConstruction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century—whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in the 1940’s, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.Trade ReviewReviews 'In Architextual Authenticity, Jason Herbeck grapples with two keywords central to understandings of Caribbean literature in French, namely ‘identity’ and ‘authenticity’. Focused on a close reading of five core texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti, the study explores the ways in which – in both past and present – issues of Antillean identity have been understood and, most importantly, constructed in the textures of literary creation. Herbeck proposes architextual and architectural readings of the works he has selected, and foregrounds not only the construction of spatiality in these but also their recurrent focus on the generative act of writing. LUP’s Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures series already contains some of the most searching criticism on Caribbean writing in French published in recent years. I am excited that Architextual Authenticity constitutes a genuinely original and significant addition to this important list.'Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool'The approach of rethinking authenticity in relation to the built environment is an innovative one, and the book puts to good use human geography approaches to place as actively constructed in and through human relationships. Some of the close reading of texts in relation to buildings and structure is enlightening, and there is an interesting attempt to understand texts in terms of a wider architecture of both society and intertextuality. The book comes together into an absorbing set of arguments. The close reading of intertextualities in the range of texts was fascinating, and it was very interesting to have this discussion placed in the specific context of Haiti for example, and of the very material dynamics of the relationships between architecture and authenticity in recent events: this gave a pleasingly concrete push to the discussions of socio-political structures, and grounded the succeeding discussion in a genuinely innovative way. I found the book overall a very enjoyable read.' Patricia Noxolo, Caribbean Studies'Jason Herbeck’s impressive monograph broadens the field of literary landscape studies through his focus on manmade structures ... His rigorous analyses of human landscapes in works by Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Daniel Maximin, and Yanick Lahens serve to complement prior scholarship as well as provide new critical perspectives relevant to postcolonial studies across the board ... this is an excellent book whose impact promises to be far reaching.' Allison Connolly, H-France Review'That Architextual Authenticity’s concluding chapters take up narratives about Haiti after the 2010 earthquake underscores the important contribution that this book makes to studies in Caribbean literature and to broader conversations about representation, identity, and the construction of narratives of origin and becoming in the Caribbean.' Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, The Journal of Haitian Studies'An original, insightful contribution to a crowded field of work on French Caribbean literary identity.'Robyn Cope, French Studies‘Architextual Authenticity is a commanding work on French Caribbean criticism. Herbeck’s scholarship is impressive and his close readings, which focus on demonstrating the “architexture” of French Caribbean texts as expression of an authentic Caribbean literary identity, are persuasive.’Marie-Agnès Sourieau, French ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Questioning the Construction of Dogma 1. Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House and the Building Blocks of Literature2. Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Édouard Glissant’s La Lézarde3. Gouverneurs de la… Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Condé’s Traversée de la Mangrove4. Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin’s L’Île et une nuit5. Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens’s Failles and Guillaume et NathalieConclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like HomeBibliography

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Book SynopsisBringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essays covering such topics as the literary representation of tropical storms and hurricanes, the cultural fallout from the Haitian earthquake of 2010, struggles over the rainforest in Guyana, and the role of colonial travel narratives in the reorganization of landscapes. The collection marks an important contribution to the fields of Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism. Through its deployment of the concept of ‘world-ecology’, it offers up a new angle of vision on the interconnections between aesthetics, ecology, and politics. The volume seeks to grasp these categories not as discrete (if overlapping) entities, but rather as differentiated moments within a single historical process. The ‘social’ changes through which the Caribbean has developed have always involved changes in the relationship between humans and the rest of nature; and these changes have long been entangled with the emergence of new kinds of cultural production. The contributors to this collection provide a series of unique insights into the relationship between aesthetic practice and specific ecological processes and pressure-points in the region. More than ever Caribbean writers and artists are engaging explicitly with environmental concerns in their work; this volume responds to that trend by bringing literary and cultural criticism into sustained dialogue with debates around local, national, and regional ecological issues.Trade ReviewReviews 'The Caribbean is outstanding, a tour de force collection of essays that situates the Caribbean’s cultural and colonial histories within a ‘world-ecology’ of power, capital, and nature.'Jason W. Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life, Binghamton University‘This richly informative and multifaceted collection of essays seeks to contribute to the mapping of interdisciplinary directions for postcolonial studies…’Stanka Radović, New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsIntroduction: Critical Environments: World-Ecology, World Literature, and the CaribbeanChris Campbell and Michael NiblettPrologue: The Brutalization of TruthSir Wilson HarrisCatastrophes and Commodity FrontiersChapter One: The Political Ecology of Storms in Caribbean LiteratureSharae DeckardChapter Two: Zombies, Gender and World-Ecology: Gothic Narrative in the Work of Mayra Montero and Ana Lydia VegaGothic Narratives Kerstin OloffChapter Three: Gade nan mizè-a m tonbe: Vodou, the 2010 Earthquake, and Haiti’s Environmental Catastrophe Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Ecological Revolutions and the Nature of KnowledgeChapter Four: ‘The Abstract Globe in One’s Head’: Robert Schomburgk, Wilson Harris, and the Ecology of ModernismMichael NiblettChapter Five: Mining and Mastery: Ethnography and World-Ecology in the work of Charles Barrington BrownChris Campbell Chapter Six: Hegemony in Guyana: REDD-plus and State Control over Indigenous Peoples and ResourcesJanette BulkanEconomies of Extraction: Restructuring and ResistanceChapter Seven: Ecopoetics of Pleasure and Power in Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide RunningMolly NicholsChapter Eight: Jamaica and the Beast: Negril and the Tourist LandscapeBrian HudsonChapter Nine: Ecology, Identity, and Colonialism in Martinique: The Discourse of an Ecological NGO (1980-2011)Malcom FerdinandEpilogue: TingalingOonya KempadooIndex

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Book SynopsisThe project as a whole represents a landmark publication for modernist studies, bringing together, in a ground-breaking format, a number of critical readings of The Cantos by the world’s leading Pound and modernist scholars. In each chapter a contributor approaches either a single Canto or a defined small group of Cantos in isolation, providing a clear, informative, and interpretive ‘reading’ that includes an up-to-date assessment of sources and an idea of recent critical approaches to the work. Most importantly, each essay offers guidance to those wishing to understand the works while contributing to the creation of a new manner of reading The Cantos as a remarkably diverse but coherent work. This first volume illuminates the gestation of the Cantos-technique and includes essays on the most important Cantos and groups of Cantos from the Ur-Cantos (early, discarded versions of the beginning of Pound’s poem), A Draft of XVI Cantos (1924),A Draft of the Cantos 17–27 (1928), and Eleven New Cantos XXXI–XLI, also known as “Jefferson—Nuevo Mundo,” (1934).Trade ReviewReviews'The essays are clearly written and will be helpful both to those making their initial approach to The Cantos and to those who have lived with Pound’s poems for some time.' G. Grieve-Carlson, ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceForewordChapter 1. The Ur Cantos (by Helen Carr)Chapter 2. Canto 1 (by Catherine Paul)Chapter 3. Canto 2 (by Peter Liebregts)Chapter 4. Canto 4 (by Henry Mead)Chapter 5. Canto 5 (by Caterina Ricciardi)Chapter 6. Canto 7 (by Walter Baumann)Chapter 7. Canto 8 (by Anderson Araujo)Chapter 8. Canto 11 (by Ronald Bush)Chapter 9. Canto 12 (by Aaron Jaffe)Chapter 10. Canto 13 (by Alexander Howard)Chapter 11. Cantos 14–15 (by Andrew Thacker)Chapter 12. Canto 17 (by Sean Pryor)Chapter 13. Cantos 18–19 (by Alec Marsh)Chapter 14. Canto 20 (by Rika Mihalka)Chapter 15. Canto 21 (by James Dowthwaite)Chapter 16. Canto 25 (by John Gery)Chapter 17. Canto 26 (by David Barnes)Chapter 18. Canto 29 (by Alex Pestell)Chapter 19. Canto 30 (by LeeAnn Derdeyn and Tim Redman)Chapter 20. Canto 32 (by Eric White)Chapter 21. Canto 35 (by Richard Parker)Chapter 22. Canto 36 (by Mark Byron)Chapter 23. Canto 37 (by Roxana Preda)Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists frame this major writer in an unfamiliar milieu and company: high modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov. Chapter contributors include major scholars in their field, including Melvyn New, Jack Lynch, Thomas M. Curley, Greg Clingham and Clement Hawes. These ground-breaking essays offer a vital and exciting interrogation of Modernism from a wholly fresh perspective.Trade Review'These consistently informative, persuasive, and provocative essays should reshape notions of both literary history and Johnson's place in that history.' Elizabeth Kraft, CHOICE'The most interesting essays are those focused on Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot, those Modernists most explicitly concerned with Johnson [...] and Lee becomes very interesting when he turns his attention to their critical judgments; the two are heretical in the same attractive ways. [...] The literary criticism of Johnson and the Modernists [provide] the most fertile site of future scholarship. [...] The essays in the collection are all intellectually alive and well written [and] may provide a model for a new field of study: not biographies of Johnson the man but histories of Johnson the icon.'Lance Wilcox, The Scriblerian'In addition to Lee’s thoughtful introduction, this collection includes nine chapters that put Johnson into conversation with various authors and aspects of the first sixty years of the twentieth century. [...] Any reader of his fine translatio studii will have a deeper appreciation for what Clingham calls the paradoxical “invisibility” of these master prose stylists.[...] Anthony Lee has done Johnsonian and modernists alike a service in bringing these essays together and to light.'John Sitter, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era'This is prose written in a Johnsonian spirit, even if the style bears few of the master's hallmarks. [...] Each of its nine chapters proposes a sort of conversation between Johnson and other eighteenth-century writers, or between Johnson and a more recent author, or both. The comparison of Woolf with Johnson is perhaps the most fruitful of all the pairings in the volume, [...] partly because her literary-critical, biographical and essayistic career shared so much ground with his.'Freya Johnston, New Rambler

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays surveys gastronomy across global literary modernisms. Modernists explore public and domestic spaces where food and drink are prepared and served, as much as they create them in the modernist imagination through narrative, language, verse, and style. Modernism as a cultural and artistic movement also highlights the historical politics of food and eating. As the chapters in Gastro-Modernism reveal, critical trends in food studies alert us to many social concerns that emerge in the modernist period because of expanding food literacy and culture. The result is that food production, consumption, and scarcity are abiding themes in modernist literature and culture, reflecting tensions amidst colonial, agricultural, and industrial settings. This timely volume ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with food culture known as gastronomy to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.Trade ReviewReviews ‘Contributing to an increasingly expanding field, the essays collected in Gastro-modernism explore the personal, collective, political, historical, and aesthetic role of food in a range of modernist works. Gladwin’s collection constitutes a highly useful and readable resource for students and scholars interested in the insightful, sometimes latent, sometimes overt, but always fascinating intersections and connection between food studies and literary modernist studies.’ Maria Christou, University of Manchester, author of Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth Century Literature‘In Gastro-modernism¸ the landscapes of literary modernism become fascinating foodscapes, compelling us to examine its literary, artistic, and epistemic forms anew. There is a lot on the menu here. The domestic dinner party in Woolf’s writing, the synesthetic pleasures of Joyce’s prose, the starving artist of Mina Loy’s work, and the food memoirs of MFK Fisher are only a few of the many offerings. Importantly for students and scholards of the period, this collection is cognizant of significant developments in food studies relating to eco-modernism, modernist gender studies, and postcolonial-modernism, which inform its wide range of essays. Indeed, Gastro-modernism, itself an important key term that frames the essays, is sure to change the way we approach the field at large.’ Gitanjali Shahani, San Francisco State University, author of Tasting Difference and editor of Food and LiteratureThe emergent modernist food studies which [Gastro-Modernism] represent[s] then is very much of its moment and is a logical next step in our continued critical exploration of the legacy of new modernist studies and its political, cross-cultural, and material turn. Rebecca Bowler, Modernism/modernity‘Collections like Gastro-Modernism and others in the latest boom demonstrate the potential for modernist food studies as they sow generative connections and enrich subfields far more effectively than keeping the same canonical texts and authors in their separate silos.’ Jessica Martell, James Joyce Quarterly Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernism and Gastronomy (Derek Gladwin) Part 1: Culture and Consumption 1. Sweet Bean Jam and Excrement: Food, Humor, and Gender in Osaki Midori’s Writings (Tomoko Aoyama) 2. What Is Eating For?: Food and Function in James Joyce’s Fiction (Gregory Castle) 3. A Woolf at the Table: Virginia Woolf and the Domestic Dinner Party (Lauren Rich) 4. Consuming the Modernist Cookbook: Food Literacy and Culture with Toklas, Dalí, and Marinetti (Derek Gladwin) Part 2: Taste and Disgust 5. Objects of Disgust: A Moveable Feast and the Modernist Anti-Vomitive (Michel Delville and Andrew Norris) 6. “We were very lonely without those berries”: Gastronomic Colonialism in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (Clint Burnham) 7. From “Squalid Food” to “Proper Cuisine”: Food and Fare in Eliot’s Work (Jeremy Diaper) Part 3: Decadence and Absence 8. The Social and Cultural Uses of Food Separation (Peter Childs) 9. Against Culinary Art: Mina Loy and the Modernist Starving Artist (Alys Moody) 10. Cocktails with Noël Coward (Gregory Mackie) 11. Late Modernist Rationing: War, Power, Class (Kelly Sullivan) Part 4: Appetites and Diets 12. “The Raw and the Cooked”: Food and Modernist Poetry (Lee Jenkins) 13. Weight-Loss Regimes as Improvisation in Louis Armstrong’s and Duke Ellington’s Life Writing (Halloran) 14. Kitchen Talk: Marguerite Duras’ Experiments with Culinary Matter (Edwige Crucifix)

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Book Synopsis"It’s probably his age that makes the worrying worse. But he can’t help picking up on every detail that ruins his day, stoking his unease and filling him with fear and shame. After dinner he gathers up the empty wine bottles, shoves them in rubbish bags and drives two kilometres to dump them in a bin. He’s worried about being denounced by that red-haired guy who monitors the parking in his street, the one who’s let his beard grow and calls the girls at the private school bitches and whores. “We should marry them off whether they like it or not, right professor?” Amine does not reply. Amine says nothing." Leïla Slimani This collection brings together three short volumes of work by Goncourt-winning author Leïla Slimani. The stories and essays in The Devil is in the Detail approach questions close to Slimani’s heart: Islam and fundamentalism, the importance of literature, and Paris as a symbol of freedom and tolerance. On Writing is an illuminating dialogue in which Slimani discusses her writing approach and techniques, and My Heroine: Simone Veil is a homage to Veil, a feminist pioneer who fought tirelessly for women’s rights. From everyday restrictions to national tragedies, Slimani grapples with important and eternal issues, and is unafraid to face them head on.Table of ContentsIntroduction“A shared story, full of humanity”: Freedom and commitment in Leïla Slimani’s writingThe Devil is in the DetailThe Devil is in the DetailAn army of pensWaiting for the Messi-ahOne soldier, one citizenOur gods and our homelandsElsewhereOn WritingMy Heroine: Simone Veil

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Book Synopsis"It’s probably his age that makes the worrying worse. But he can’t help picking up on every detail that ruins his day, stoking his unease and filling him with fear and shame. After dinner he gathers up the empty wine bottles, shoves them in rubbish bags and drives two kilometres to dump them in a bin. He’s worried about being denounced by that red-haired guy who monitors the parking in his street, the one who’s let his beard grow and calls the girls at the private school bitches and whores. “We should marry them off whether they like it or not, right professor?” Amine does not reply. Amine says nothing." Leïla Slimani This collection brings together three short volumes of work by Goncourt-winning author Leïla Slimani. The stories and essays in The Devil is in the Detail approach questions close to Slimani’s heart: Islam and fundamentalism, the importance of literature, and Paris as a symbol of freedom and tolerance. On Writing is an illuminating dialogue in which Slimani discusses her writing approach and techniques, and My Heroine: Simone Veil is a homage to Veil, a feminist pioneer who fought tirelessly for women’s rights. From everyday restrictions to national tragedies, Slimani grapples with important and eternal issues, and is unafraid to face them head on.Table of ContentsIntroduction“A shared story, full of humanity”: Freedom and commitment in Leïla Slimani’s writingThe Devil is in the DetailThe Devil is in the DetailAn army of pensWaiting for the Messi-ahOne soldier, one citizenOur gods and our homelandsElsewhereOn WritingMy Heroine: Simone Veil

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Book SynopsisEssays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence. Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading scholars in this field, demonstrate how visual devices like the magic lantern caught the interest of writers and affected their choice of subject and method. The impact of the cinema on the British modernistsis then discussed, and the remaining essays provide detailed case studies on such subjects as Hemingway, Updike, and the depiction of women in contemporary fiction and film.Table of ContentsOptical Recreations and Victorian Literature - John Plunkett The Travelling Lanternist and the Uncommercial Traveller: An Experiment in Correspondences - Grahame Smith British Modernist Encounters with the Cinema - David Seed Killing `The Killers': Hemingway, Hollywood and Death - Oliver Harris Burning Too: Consuming Fahrenheit 451 - Mark Bould Updike's Golden Oldies: Rabbit as Spectacular Man - Judie Newman On Conversation - Carol Watts Transcendence through Violence: Women and the Martial Arts in Recent American Fiction and Film - Deborah L. Madsen

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Book SynopsisNew research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing. This acclaimed study of English medieval manuscripts and early printed books - many items from Professor Takamiya's own collection - quickly sold out in hardcover. The subjects range from Saint Jerome to Tolkien, with particular concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious and historical writings of the late middle ages. There are essays examining the work of early printers such as Caxton and de Worde, and of bibliophiles and antiquarians in modern times. Befitting a tribute to a bibliophile, this volume has been handsomely designed by Lida Kindersley of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge, and is extensively illustrated. The volume as a whole constitutes a substantial body of research on medieval English literature, and early books and manuscripts. Contributors: Richard Barber, Nicolas Barker, Richard Beadle, N.F. Blake, Julia Boffey, Piero Boitani, Derek Brewer, Helen Cooper, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, A.S.G. Edwards, P.J.C. Field, Christopher de Hamel, Ralph Hanna, Lotte Hellinga, Kristian Jensen, Edward Donald Kennedy, Richard A. Linenthal, Jill Mann, Takami Matsuda, David McKitterick, Rosamond McKitterick, Linne R. Mooney, Ruth Morse, Daniel W. Mosser, Tsuyoshi Mukai, Paul Needham, M.B. Parkes, Derek Pearsall, Oliver Pickering, P.R. Robinson, Michael G. Sargent, John Scahill, Kathleen L. Scott, Jeremy J. Smith, Isamu Takahashi, John J. Thompson, Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Yoko Wada, Bonnie Wheeler, Patrick Zutshi.Trade Review[A] beautifully produced and scholarly volume [that] approaches infallibility: not only its recipients but the editors, contributors, and all involved in its preparation and production should feel honoured by it. * THE LIBRARY *Physically splendid [with] an astonishingly large number of plates. A feast of a festschrift, a banquet of a book that should not be missed. * RICARDIAN *Table of ContentsToshiyuki Takamiya in Cambridge - Derek Brewer Takamiya MS 58 and the Transmission of Jerome's Letter Ep. 106 in the Early Middle Ages - Rosamond D McKitterick Phillipps Fragments in Tokyo - Christopher de Hamel A New Dante - Piero Boitani `Seven Sins' and Indulgences Restored: Towards a Reconstruction of London, British Library, MS Harley 913 - Yoko Wada Newly Identified Quotations in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale - Jill Mann Textual Variation and the Alliterative Tradition: Canterbury Tales I.2602-2619, the D Group and Takamiya MS 32 - Helen Cooper Gower in the Delamere Chaucer Manuscript - A S G Edwards Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale - Norman Blake The Organisation of the Latin Apparatus in Gower's Confessio Amantis: The Scribes and their Problems - Derek Pearsall Richard Frampton: A Commercial Scribe c. 1390 - c. 1420 - M B Parkes Takamiya MS 15: Some Liminal Observations - The Holland- Takamiya Manuscript of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ - Michael G Sargent Takamiya MS 60 and the Middle English Text of Bernard of Gordon's De Pronosticis - Linda Ehrsam Voigts The Illustrations of the Takamiya Polychronicon - Kathleen L Scott Hooked-G Scribes and Takamiya Manuscripts [with Daniel W. Mosser] - Linne R Mooney Johannes de Caritate, 'The Privyte Of Privyteis' - Nicolas Barker A `Prik of concience cheyned': the Parish Library of St Margaret's , New Fish Street, London, 1472 - P R Robinson Brotherton Collection MS 18 and its Riddling Middle English Verses - Oliver S Pickering A Pictoral Compendium in British Library MS Additional 37049 - Takami Matsuda Conflations of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost in Manuscript and Print - Julia Boffey A Letter Written by Thomas Betson, Brother of Syon Abbey - A I Doyle The Keio Copy of the Roger of St Albans Chronicle - John Scahill Sir Thomas Malory and the Holy Blood of the Hailes - Richard Barber De Worde and Malory - P J C Field Compositors' Practice: Resetting of Texts in Caxton's Printing- House - Lotte Hellinga The Canterbury Tales and the Rosary: A Mirror of Caxton's Devotions? - Paul Needham The Chronicle of Scotland in a Part and the Chronicle of John Hardyng - Edward Donald Kennedy Marginal glosses in Sir John Cheke's translation of the Bible - Jeremy J Smith Morgan MS M.956 and an Important Early Collector - Martha W Driver An Appropriation of the Book of St Albans by the Gentleman's Academie: Some Bibliographical Considerations - Tsuyoshi Mukai `Whole shyppes full' of Manuscripts: A Sixteenth-Century Vellum Wrapper - Richard Linenthal The Manuscripts of James Cobbes of Bury St Edmunds (c. 1602-1685) - Richard Beadle An Unrecorded London Sale of the Gutenberg Bible - Kristian Jensen Bishop Thomas Percy's Contributions to Langland Scholarship: Two Annotated Piers Plowman Prints in Belfast - John J. Thompson Leaning on Chaucer - Bonnie Wheeler Henry Bradshaw and the Book of Deer - Patrick N R Zutshi Sir Walter Greg and Medieval English Manuscripts: A Note - David McKitterick Lords of the Ring: Tolkein, Beowulf, and the memory of Song - Ruth Morse A Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya - Isamu Takahashi

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a number of John Schad's very best uncollected essays, interleaved with a selection of autobiographical poems and a striking new work that brings together both critical and creative modes of writing. Turns thus plots the intriguing trajectory of Schad's very distinctive work over the last twenty years -- a trajectory that moves from a series of essays that juggle Christian, Marxist and Derridean intuitions, through a radically literary engagement with Deconstruction, to a daringly critical-creative mode of writing. In this exciting new field, as in the more established world of literature and religion, Schad is an idiosyncratic and sometimes audacious pioneer. The book is to be published simultaneously in hardback and paperback to accommodate adoption on critical-creative courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.Trade Review"Schad reads as he dreams, or dreams as he reads." - Derrida TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Disequilibrium of German Identity; An Overview of Holocaust Studies & Its Causes; The Roots: Anti-Semitism or German Theory of Race?; The First Apex: The Problematic Nature of the German National Identity; The Second Apex: Race Theory Re-examined; The Third Apex: German Jewry; The Fateful Triangle: Some Insights for the Future; A Changing Self-Image vis-a-vis the Holocaust; Post-War German Structure, Attitudes & Identity; Conclusion: The Force of Nationality in the Past & in the Future; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a number of John Schad's very best uncollected essays, interleaved with a selection of autobiographical poems and a striking new work that brings together both critical and creative modes of writing. Turns thus plots the intriguing trajectory of Schad's very distinctive work over the last twenty years -- a trajectory that moves from a series of essays that juggle Christian, Marxist and Derridean intuitions, through a radically literary engagement with Deconstruction, to a daringly critical-creative mode of writing. In this exciting new field, as in the more established world of literature and religion, Schad is an idiosyncratic and sometimes audacious pioneer. The book is to be published simultaneously in hardback and paperback to accommodate adoption on critical-creative courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.Trade Review"Schad reads as he dreams, or dreams as he reads." - Derrida TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Disequilibrium of German Identity; An Overview of Holocaust Studies & Its Causes; The Roots: Anti-Semitism or German Theory of Race?; The First Apex: The Problematic Nature of the German National Identity; The Second Apex: Race Theory Re-examined; The Third Apex: German Jewry; The Fateful Triangle: Some Insights for the Future; A Changing Self-Image vis-a-vis the Holocaust; Post-War German Structure, Attitudes & Identity; Conclusion: The Force of Nationality in the Past & in the Future; Index.

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Book SynopsisMany of the ideas that appear in Arnold's Preface of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Analysis of the Preface reveals a poet who found a theoretical basis for poetry (by which he means literature in general) in the dramas of the Greek tragedians, particularly Sophocles: action is stressed as an indispensable ingredient, wholes are preferred to parts, the didactic function of literature is promoted -- in short, the Preface reads like the recipe for a classical tragedy. It is a young poet's attempt to establish criteria for what poetry ought to be. He found the Romantic idiom outworn. Literature was, in Arnold's perception, meant to communicate a message rather than impress by its structure or by formal sophistication. Modern theories of coalescence between content and form were outside the contemporary paradigm. T S Eliot's ambivalent attitude to Arnold -- now reluctantly admiring, now decidedly patronizing -- is puzzling. Eliot never seemed able to liberate himself from the influence of Arnold. What in Arnold's critical oeuvre attracted and at the same time repelled Eliot? That question has led to an in-depth analysis of Arnold as a literary critic. This book begins with an examination of Arnold's letters to Clough, where "it all started" and proceeds with a close reading of the 1853 Preface. A look at some of the later literary essays rounds off the picture of Arnold as a literary critic. This work is the result of Reader and Review comments of the author's well received Eliot's Objective Criticism: Tradition or Individual Talent? "Yet he is in some respects the most satisfactory man of letters of his age." -- T S Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most astonishing set of personal poems ever written, Shakespeare's Sonnets have both delighted and puzzled readers down the ages. Two Loves I Have is a reading of the sequence that brings the four characters involved to life. The 'fair, kind and true' young man to whom the majority of poems are addressed, the woman 'as black as hell, as dark as night' who dominates a part of the narrator's inner landscape against his will, the narrator himself, who at times is unexpectedly wholly at ease with his mistress, but at other times is sunk in a form of self-loathing, and whom nothing on earth will deter in his devotion to the young man ... these three play out a drama as fierce as that in any of the author's plays. And the author himself, at some remove behind the narrator, is the shadowy fourth character. Did he invent the young man and the Dark Lady? Did he adapt an existing situation in his life or indeed record it simply as it was? Whatever the historical fact, which can never be known, the poetic situation is enthralling. Without insisting on any particular view, Two Loves I Have (from sonnet 144) allows the reader a vista of the whole sonnet sequence, and a sense of its shifting currents. J. D. Winter carefully elucidates each individual poem, thus enabling the reader not only to come to terms with their outward meaning but to appreciate the rhetorical flow and the poet's idiosyncratic use of the sonnet-form itself. The sonnet sequence has been a comparatively neglected part of the Shakespearean canon. The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016 is an appropriate time to shed a new light upon the poems.

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together eleven interviews with J Hillis Miller from 1987 to 2014 conducted by distinguished scholars and critics from China, England, Ireland, and the United States. The volume offers the readers a rich gallery of representations and interventions occasioned by a critic whose intellectual and moral presence has been instrumental in the dynamic (re)definitions of the discipline of literary studies for the past five decades. The interviews cover both his life and the development of his thought in poetics and pedagogics, in ethics and politics as well. Reading Inside Out is the perfect companion to Millers many books, a lucid introduction to his thought, and a comprehensive commentary on Millers critical themes.Trade ReviewLiterature has no greater champion than J. Hillis Miller: throughout his long career he has engaged with literary works in all genres from many periods, always with an eye to what makes them both challenging and rewarding, and in doing so he has drawn on the best of the theoretical movements of the past half-century. But his literary studies are only part of a wider concern with the values of institutions and of society more broadly. Covering all these aspects of Millers achievements, this excellent collection of interviews shows him at his searching, wise, and readable best. -- Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York; Fellow, British AcademyRadical, raconteur, reader extraordinaire: so many J. Hillis Millers to enjoy and learn from across many years of his conversations with interested interlocutors. Theres a provocative charm on every page of these interviews, but the changing questions and preoccupations also add up to a rich and lucid history of literary and critical thinking over the past half century. -- Rachel Bowlby, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University College London; Fellow, British Academy

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together eleven interviews with J Hillis Miller from 1987 to 2014 conducted by distinguished scholars and critics from China, England, Ireland, and the United States. The volume offers the readers a rich gallery of representations and interventions occasioned by a critic whose intellectual and moral presence has been instrumental in the dynamic (re)definitions of the discipline of literary studies for the past five decades. The interviews cover both his life and the development of his thought in poetics and pedagogics, in ethics and politics as well. Reading Inside Out is the perfect companion to Millers many books, a lucid introduction to his thought, and a comprehensive commentary on Millers critical themes.Trade ReviewLiterature has no greater champion than J. Hillis Miller: throughout his long career he has engaged with literary works in all genres from many periods, always with an eye to what makes them both challenging and rewarding, and in doing so he has drawn on the best of the theoretical movements of the past half-century. But his literary studies are only part of a wider concern with the values of institutions and of society more broadly. Covering all these aspects of Millers achievements, this excellent collection of interviews shows him at his searching, wise, and readable best. -- Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York; Fellow, British AcademyRadical, raconteur, reader extraordinaire: so many J. Hillis Millers to enjoy and learn from across many years of his conversations with interested interlocutors. Theres a provocative charm on every page of these interviews, but the changing questions and preoccupations also add up to a rich and lucid history of literary and critical thinking over the past half century. -- Rachel Bowlby, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University College London; Fellow, British Academy

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Book SynopsisWhen something called theory first broke onto the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and fields for critical reading: new methods and subjects, and also new words to speak them. The syllabus and the styles would never be the same, and reading was proudly claimed as a mode of social critique. The short pieces brought together in Talking Walking engage with all sorts of arguments then, now and earlier about the uses and history of critical reading -- of literature, and also of other cultural forms. There is much on the changing styles of literary-critical writing, and on the place of particular writers -- Virginia Woolf or Jacques Derrida -- in contemporary critical culture. There are pieces on cliches, on footnotes, on the language of the university job interview, on the use of domesticate as a catch-all negative term. There are also essays on cultural questions informed by critical theory. For instance: why has the topic of walking been such a fruitful thinking theme in literature and philosophy? How does the history of shopping and marketing theory intersect with those of literature and subjectivity? How, in the light of reproductive technologies and new social forms, has becoming a parent turned into a culturally prominent kind of story? These are some of the questions that arise in the interview and essays that make up Rachel Bowlbys book, which derives from several decades of working and writing and talking and walking within the changing contemporary landscape of literary and critical studies. Old and new arrivals into this world will find pleasures of reading and matter for thinking on every page.

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Book SynopsisWEB was the brainchild of Arlen House founder Catherine Rose, who appointed poet Eavan Boland as Creative Director. As an editor at Arlen House from 1978, Boland did much extraordinary work to develop, mentor and promote Irish women writers. The founders of WEB writers’ group initially met at these empowering, transformative workshops hosted by Boland, and they have been meeting continuously for almost forty years, making WEB one of the longest-running writing groups in Ireland. Over the decades, WEB writers and alumni have established highly-successful literary careers, publishing books, having plays and film scripts produced, and winning prestigious literary prizes. This anthology of new poetry, prose and drama, edited by Nessa O’Mahony, is dedicated to the memory of Eavan Boland.

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Book SynopsisThis major collection presents the most important articles and papers tracing the growth and development of Germany = the most powerful economy in Europe = since 1870.It begins with a general overview of German economic development including an exploration of trends, cycles and structural change; the place of the German economy in the world economy and its performance in comparison with other countries; and an investigation of its economic development from a microeconomic perspective, with studies on the rise of German enterprises. It also investigates particular problems of certain periods in German history. Topics covered include: industrialization, growth and the role of agriculture in Imperial Germany; the inflation, hyper-inflation and depression of the inter-war years, the end of the Weimar Republic and the War economy of the Nazi period; and the separate developments of East and West Germany after World War II.Trade Review’In absence of a much-needed modern textbook on the whole period, this volume will be much welcomed by teachers, students, and researchers.’ -- Ludger Lindlar, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Part I: Economic Development in the Long Run: Growth, Structural Changes and Cycles Part II: Germany in the World Economy of the Nineteenth Century Part III: Enterprises in the German Economy Part IV: The Economic History of the German Empire Name Index • Volume II: Part I: The War and Interwar Years Part II: The Post-War Economic Development of West Germany Part III: The Post-War Economic Development of East Germany Name Index

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Book SynopsisP.W.S. Andrews was a pioneer of fieldwork-based analysis of the behaviour of firms and of the normal cost/mark-up approach to pricing in oligopolistic markets, as well as a significant participant in debates about competition policy during the 1950s and 1960s. This important book includes essays and papers which are central to an understanding of Andrews’s work. The Economics of Competitive Enterprise commences with an example of his case study work and continues with chapters on costs and price setting, theories of the firm and competitive analysis, investment behaviour and aspects of competition in retail trade as well as essays on the methodology of industrial economics. Including previously unpublished material, such as a critique of the development of price theory and significant correspondence between Andrews and other leading economists, this volume offers a remarkable insight into the process of economic discourse since 1945. In addition to a full bibliography, the book also includes an extensive introductory essay by Frederic Lee as well as an epilogue by Peter Earl on the legacy of Andrews’s industrial economics.This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in economics departments and business schools, including microeconomic analysts, industrial economists, historians of economic thought and marketing theorists.Table of ContentsReport from the "accountancy" side of the pilot inquiry into the relative efficiency of small and large scale businesses; a reconsideration of the theory of the individual business; industrial analysis in economics - with especial reference to Marshallian doctrine; the legacy of the 1930s in economics; the Netherlands lectures; some aspects of competition in retail trade; competition in retail trade; some aspects of capital development; competition in the modern economy; business profits and the quiet life; industrial economics as a specialist subject; industrial uses of economic theory; epilogue - whatever happened to P.W.S Andrews's industrial economics?, Peter E. Earl.

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Book SynopsisMonetary Theory and Monetary Policy is the second collection of essays by Karl Brunner - one of the most prominent monetary economists of the twentieth century. It demonstrates the importance of economic analysis for the development of appropriate economic policies.The book opens with a preface by Thomas Lys which provides the reader with an account of both Karl Brunner's personal and academic life. This is developed further in an introduction by Allan H. Meltzer, who focuses on Brunner's intellectual development. Issues discussed in this collection include the question of whether monetarism has failed, monetary policy, persistent inflation, deficits and interest rates, high-powered money, the monetary base, the money supply, international monetary order and the question of whether supply-side economics is sufficient for comprehensive policymaking.This selection will be welcomed by academics, students and policymakers interested in monetary economics and the work of Karl Brunner.Trade Review'. . . Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy, containing both fundamental ideas and practical applications in terms of the SOMC position papers, can be highly recommended to any student of monetary economics.' -- Debashis Acharya, Kyklos 'Without exception the papers show a subtle, powerful, and clear economic mind at work. Reading these essays would be of benefit to every economist.'– Geoffrey Wood, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction (A.H. Meltzer) 1. Conversation with a Monetarist 2. Has Monetarism Failed? 3. Monetary Policy and Monetary Order 4. The ‘Four Disciplines’ and the ‘Two Encouragements’: Comments on President Carter’s Anti-inflation Program 5. Selected Shadow Open Market Committee Position Papers, 1979–87 6. The Drift into Persistent Inflation 7. Deficits, Interest Rates, and Monetary Policy 8. Technological Change: Challenge and Consequences 9. Will the Fred ever see its ‘Shadow’? 10. The Disarray in Macroeconomics 11. High-powered Money and the Monetary Base 12. Money Supply 13. The Pragmatic and Intellectual Tradition of Monetary Policymaking and the International Monetary Order 14. Is ‘Supply-side Economics’ Enough? 15. The Case Against Monetary Activism Index

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Book SynopsisThe Lectures to Women given by Alfred Marshall at Cambridge in 1873, which focus on the effects of working conditions on man's character and prospects, are unique in their content and purpose. They offer insight into a radical period in Marshall's life of which relatively little is known.This new critical edition makes the Lectures, which have sometimes been referred to by Marshallian scholars, available to a wider body of historians of economic thought. Based on Mary Paley Marshall's original notes, corrected by Marshall himself, the Lectures are supplemented by Marshall's lecture outlines. Some contemporary and related texts are also published here including a paper on the future of the working classes from the same year and Marshall's exchange of articles with the trade unionist John Holmes in 1874 known as the Bee-Hive debate. A contextualised commentary on the lectures is provided by Rita McWilliams Tullberg, Ernesto Biagini and Tiziano Raffaelli who adopt three lines of enquiry respectively: the lectures as part of the movement for higher education for women in the Victorian era, the lectures as indicative of Marshall's stand vis-a-vis the political-ideological framework of the time and the lectures as an indicator of Marshall's methodological tendencies concerning the study of social phenomena.Trade Review'The book should [therefore] be in every good university library and on the book shelf of all devoted Marshall scholars.' -- Peter Groenewegen, History of Economics Review'All the chapters are well argued by experts in the field, and the book is a valuable addition to the Marshallian literature.'– J.M. Alec Gee, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsContents: Foreword (G. Becattini) 1. The Anglican Ethic and the Spirit of Citizenhsip: The Political and Social Context (E. Biagini) 2. Of Mircoscopes and Telescopes (T. Raffaelli) 3. The Women’s Education Movement at Cambridge (R. McWilliams Tullberg) 4. Lectures to Women 5. Lecture Outlines 6. The Future of the Working Classes 7. The Bee-Hive Debate Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1916, Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa’s most talented early 20th-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje’s pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the discriminatory1913 Natives Land Act. Native Life vividly narrates Plaatje’s investigative journeying into South Africa’s rural heartlands to report on the effects of the Act and his involvement in the deputation to the British imperial government. At the same time it tells the bigger story of the assault on black rights and opportunities in the newly consolidated Union of South Africa – and the resistance to it.Originally published in war-time London, but about South Africa and its place in the world, Native Life travelled far and wide, being distributed in the United States under the auspices of prominent African-American W E B Du Bois. South African editions were to follow only in the late apartheid period and beyond.The aim of this multi-authored volume is to shed new light on how and why Native Life came into being at a critical historical juncture, and to refl ect on how it can be read in relation to South Africa’s heightened challenges today. Crucial areas that come under the spotlight in this collection include land, race, history, mobility, belonging, war, the press, law, literature, language, gender, politics, and the state.Trade Review"This suite of essays focuses on a remarkable individual - but is about so much more than just one man. This is a superb collection of poems, provocations, photos, stories and academic essays - some of which are delightfully at odds with one another." - Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations; List of Illustrations; Foreword - Njabulo Ndebele; Reproduction of Bessie Head's Foreword to Ravan Edition (1982); Poetic Tributes; 'Lefatshe, nkometse' - SeTswana Poem with English translation 'Earth, Swallow Me' (Sabata-mpho Mokae); 'What is in a Name? In Memory of Sol T. Plaatje' (Violet Plaatje, 1933); 'Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T. Plaatje' (James M. Malebaloa, 1933) with English translation from SeTswana (Nhlanhla Maake); Introduction (Editors); Chapter 1: Native Life in South Africa: Writing, Publication, Reception (Brian Willan); Chapter 2: Modernist At Large: The Aesthetics of Native Life in South Africa (Bhekizizwe Peterson); Chapter 3: The Print World of the Press and Native Life in South Africa (Peter Limb); Chapter 4: Going Places - Native Life in South Africa and the Politics of Mobility (Janet Remmington); Chapter 5: Native Life in South Africa and the World at War (Albert Grundlingh); Chapter 6: African Intellectual History, Black Cosmopolitanism and Native Life in South Africa (Khwezi Mkhize); Chapter 7: 'Native Lives' behind Native Life: Intellectual and Political Influences on the Early ANC and Democracy in South Africa (Andre Odendaal); Chapter 8: Whose Past? Native Life in South Africa and Historical Writing (Christopher Saunders); Chapter 9: Women and Society in Native Life in South Africa: Roles and Ruptures (Heather Hughes); Chapter 10: African Progressivism, Land, and Law: Rereading Native Life in South Africa (Keith Breckenridge); Chapter 11: Land Questions: On the Tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje (Jacob Dlamini); Chapter 12: Revisiting the Landscapes of Native Life in South Africa: A Photo Essay (Sean O'Toole); A Contemporary Reimagining 'Ask Those You Meet along the Way' - A Short Story (Sabata-mpho Mokae); Notes on Contributors; Plaatje Resources and Archives; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisGcina Mhlophe is a poet, playwright, performer and storyteller. In this retrospective collection, she shares her personal journey through the social and political landscapes of the 1980s, with its recollected moments of struggle and transformation along the way. Written in a variety of styles and voices, ranging from anecdotal memory to historical moment to folklore tradition, these simply presented poems and stories are by turns funny, touching, chilling, thought-provoking and absorbing. ""Love Child"" is a collection for the new millennium generation. It is valuable not just for the deeply-felt personal and political insights is has to offer, but for the accessible ease with which it manages to capture the seminal moments of black South African history in the preserving amber of the author's personal recollection.

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Book SynopsisNational Jewish Book Awards Winner of Sephardic Studies Award, 2001.The Book of Tahkemoni (The Book of Wisdom or the Heroic) is widely regarded as the crowning jewel of Hebrew maqama literature —rhymed prose interspersed with verse. In its fifty unlinked episodes we repeatedly encounter the somewhat roguish protagonist, Hever the Kenite, often disguised and assuming many and varied roles—teacher, beggar, adventurer, debater, magician, and so on. Whether preaching, spinning history or fantasy, or working a crowd, Hever the Kenite is ever a consummate story-teller and wordsmith enlightening or astounding his listeners. The author, generally considered to be the last major Hebrew poet of Spain, displays great scope, moving from prayers to tales of battlefield carnage, from philosophic reflection to droll satire targeting the pompous, the ignorant, and the mean. The whole is conveyed in a sensuous interweave of rhyme and rhythm, of literal and figurative speech, and copious biblical citations manipulated to serve unusual ends. David Simha Segal's translation captures the drama, wit, and satire of the original in a contemporary English that displays vigour and a sense of fun. Detailed annotations, printed on the same page as the text, identify the numerous allusions. Analyses of each chapter bring the reader more deeply into the text, illuminating plays on words, adroit uses of the frame tale, adaptations of Arabic and Hebrew literary conventions, and other subtleties of the original. A substantial Afterword sums up major features discussed in the analyses, especially the authorial game of hide-and-seek in the characters of the protagonist and the narrator.Trade Review'This new edition and translation is a formidable work of scholarship. In addition to a readable version of a complicated text, Segal offers the reader invaluable editorial help in negotiating these exotic tales; his extensive set of analyses of Alharizi's introduction and the 'fifty Gates' (or sections) could constitute a separate monograph ... A meticulous and accomplished work that will reward the general reader as well as scholars.' - M. Butovsky, Choice'Wonderful.' - Hillel Halkin, Commentary'A text of major importance... this volume belongs in every serious library.' - Stephen D. Benin, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAbbreviations and Conventions Used in the Text Translator's preface The Book of Tahkemoni Introduction Gates 1 Whence this Work Sprung and by Whom it Was Sung 2 Brimstone and Wrath against the Worldly Path 3 The Mystery and History of the Hebrew Song of Spain 4 A Descant on the Flea and the Ant 5 Twelve Poets Sound the Months' Round 6 Of One Too Swiftly Sped to the Marriage Bed 7 Of Battle Lords and Dripping Swords 8 In Praise of a Letter of Praise Read Two Ways 9 Poetic Invention: One and Thirty in Contention 10 Of Rustic Propriety and Winged Piety 11 Of Verbal Show: Using and Refusing the Letter O 12 Of the Ferocity of the Wars of Stint and Generosity 13 Wherein Shall a Man be Whole? A Debate of Body, Mind, and Soul 14 Of a Prayer Beyond Price Hewn from the Mountain of Spice 15 A Prayer Sent where Grace Reposes: A Prayer to Godly Moses 16 Airs of Song's Seven Heirs 17 Rabbanite versus Karaite 18 The Rise and Reign of Monarchs of Song in Hebrew Spain 19 Of a Dispute of Poets Seven: Which Virtue is Dearest in the Eyes of Heaven 20 Of Seven Maidens and their Mendacity 21 Of a Sumptuous Feast and a Bumpkin Fleeced 22 Of Fate's Rack and the Zodiac 23 Of Hever the Kenite's Wretched Hour and Sudden Rise to Wealth and Power 24 Of A Jolly Cantor and Folly Instanter 25 Of a Hid Place and a Champion of the Chase 26 Travels: Kudos and Cavils 27 Of the Cup's Joys and Other Alloys 28 Praise and Pity for David's City 29 Beggars' Arts versus Frozen Hearts 30 Of a Quack and his Bogus Pack 31 Of a Mocking Knight and a Wormwood Cup of Fright 32 Needlepoint: Point-Counterpoint 33 Homily, Hymn, and Homonym 34 Of a Host Bombastic and a Feast Fantastic 35 Of the Grave of Ezra the Blest and Poems Celeste 36 Challenge and Reply: Sweet Words Fly 37 In the Clasp of a Deadly Asp 38 Of Men and Ship in the Storm's Grip 39 The Debate of Day and Night: Whose the Greater Might and Delight 40 The Battle of Sword and Pen for Mastery of Men 41 Badinage: Man and Woman Rage 42 Generosity or Greed-Which the Better Creed or Deed? 43 The Sea Roars its Worth against Proud Earth 44 Life's Laws: Proverbs and Saws 45 Hid Learning: Saws of Men of Discerning 46 Of This and That Community Sung with Impunity 47 Nation Contends with Nation for Rank and Station 48 The Heart's Grief and Relief 49 In Praise of the Fruits of the Garden Trees 50 Varia and Nefaria Analyses Introduction Gates 1-50 Afterword Bibliography Index of Biblical References Index of Persons and Peoples Index of Places General Index

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