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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia African Impressions
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that African elites successfully projected expressions of their sovereignty, wealth, right to power, geopolitical clout, and religious exceptionalism into Europe long before Europeans entered sub-Saharan Africa.
£26.06
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Epic of Cuba Libre The Mamb237 Mythopoetics
Book SynopsisThe mambi is the foremost icon of Cuba’s past and present. Scrutinizing how this figure has been aesthetically rendered in literature, historiography, cinema, and monuments, Eric Morales-Franceschini teases out the emancipatory promises that the story of Cuba Libre came to embody in the twentieth-century popular imagination.
£26.96
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Driven to the Field Sharecropping and Southern
Book SynopsisTraces the culture of sharecropping - crucial to understanding life in the southern United States - from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture.
£67.15
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Driven to the Field
Book SynopsisTraces the culture of sharecropping - crucial to understanding life in the southern United States - from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture.
£27.16
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden Anne Spencers Ecopoetics
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£21.56
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Narrative and Its Nonevents The Unwritten Plots
Book SynopsisA book about what does not happen in the Victorian novel. The description may sound absurd, yet consideration of alternatives to a given state of affairs is crucial to our understanding of a novel. Glatt demonstrates the Victorian novel is characterized by a proliferation of possibilities.Trade Review"Counterfactuals have been of increasing interest to literary critics, and Narrative and Its Nonevents will thicken and enrich the conversation about them. Timely and lucidly phrased and organized, this book is also witty—occasionally it made me laugh out loud. Most important, it shows that Glatt is an acute critic, with a narratological argument that leads to fresh commentary on classic texts. In stylish prose, this book makes substantial theoretical and critical contributions to its field."- Andrew H. Miller, Johns Hopkins University, author of The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
£29.66
Wayne State University Press 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on
Book SynopsisAgainst the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures.
£37.46
Wayne State University Press 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on
Book SynopsisAgainst the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures.
£74.25
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The New Country Stories from the Yiddish about
Book SynopsisAn abridged version of a collection originally published in 1961, the 42 stories here are written by Jewish writers of the 20th century, including Sholem Aleichem, Abraham Raisin and Joseph Opotashu. They offer a testament to the mother tongue through the trials of Americanization.
£20.66
John Wiley & Sons Reading Roddy Doyle
Book SynopsisIn this anaysis of Roddy Doyle's first five novels, Caramine White argues that while Doyle is undoubtedly one of the most popular contemporary novelists, he also needs to be seen as a serious and gifted writer.
£14.20
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Irish Orientalism A Literary and Intellectual
Book SynopsisCenturies before W.B. Yeats wove Indian, Japanese and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage.Trade ReviewA fascinating read, inaugurating its subject with style and substance and opening a whole new critical conversation. A fascinating study of the parallels between Orientalism and Celticism. Original, provocative, and compelling. Its central thesis—that a tradition of Irish contact. . . . existed with Asia and North . . . is startling. The author's exhaustive research is evident and his manner of presentation . . . engages the reader.
£35.06
John Wiley & Sons Catholic Emancipations Irish Fiction from Thomas
Book SynopsisTracing the history of the Catholic-authored novel in nineteenth-century Ireland, this work offers a tour of Ireland's literary landscape from its early origins during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s to the transformative zenith brought on by James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922.Trade ReviewLucid, bold, and unfailingly incisive, Catholic Emancipations will be recognized as an over-arching vision of Irish culture by a radical critic of immense subtlety and imaginative power." - Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland
£15.26
John Wiley & Sons Abundance from the Desert
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry. Covering the period roughly of 500-1250 CE, this volume features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres.Trade ReviewEven for more advanced students and scholars, the poems juxtaposed to the historical context offer a useful framework for thinking about poetry and history together over a wide range of space and time. This innovative work should provoke much discussion among Arabic and Middle Eastern literature scholars. Provides readable and sensible essays on the poems, giving ample and illuminating attention to their backgrounds One of the most important books to have been written in the field in a very long time. . . . Farrin is not only a conscientious scholar, but also a very refined and sensitive literary critic.
£41.36
MP-SYR Syracuse University P American Writers in Istanbul
Book SynopsisLooking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, this title broadens the possible ways of thinking about Istanbul - a complex, idiosyncratic city of the world.Trade ReviewFor centuries the western gaze has distorted Istanbul, revealing more about the beholder than the city beheld. In this important and long overdue study about eight canonical American writers writing from or about Istanbul, Fortuny offers a brilliant analysis of the varied but quintessentially North American preoccupations they bring to bear as they struggle to make sense of a culture and a history that remains, for the most part, beyond their ken.
£26.06
Syracuse University Press Abundance from the Desert
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500 to 1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres. The poems are presented chronologically, each situated within a specific historical and literary context.
£18.86
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Benjamin Fondanes Ulysses
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Arabs and the Art of Storytelling A Strange
Book SynopsisRevisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. Kilito brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala' refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as fossilized and untouchable cultural treasures.
£15.26
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Trauma and Recovery in the TwentyFirstCentury
Book SynopsisConsiders the ways in which the Irish canon not only represents an ongoing awareness of trauma as a literary and cultural force, but also how this representation has shifted since the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsCreditsIntroduction1. "My Memory Gropes in Search of Details"2. "A Whole Fucking Country--Drowning in Shame"3. "Surmises Held Up against the Truth"4. "Stories Are a Different Kind of True"5. "Nothing is Entirely by Itself"6. Trauma, Recovery, and Intertextual Redemption in Colm Toibin's Nora WebsterNotesWorks CitedIndex
£16.46
University of Arizona Press Bodies at War
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University of Arizona Press Colonial Legacies in Chicanao Literature and Culture Looking Through the Kaleidoscope
£28.46
University of Arizona Press Navigating CHamoru Poetry
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University of Arizona Press La Plonqui
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University of Arizona Press La Plonqui
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University of Arizona Press Chicana Portraits
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£80.25
The University of Alabama Press Jazz in the Time of the Novel the Temporal
Book SynopsisJazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture's understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices. Bruce Barnhart, in Jazz in the Time of the Novel, shows that American culture of the first three decades of the twentieth century was shaped by the kindred rhythms and movements of two particular art forms: jazz and fiction. At the beginning of the twentieth century, widespread changes in America's social, demographic, and economic norms threatened longstanding faith in a unified and inevitable movement towards a better future. As Barnhart shows both jazz and novels of the period address these temporal uncertainties, inserting themselves into arguments about the proper unfolding of an affirmative American future. Barnhart proposes that these two aesthetic forms can be viewed as co-participants in an ongoing discussion about the way in which the
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The University of Alabama Press Edith Wharton in Context
Book SynopsisTintner provides a detailed analysis of the complex interplay between Wharton and James?how they influenced each other and how some of their writings operate as homages or personal jokes. So deeply was James in Wharton's confidence, Tintner argues, that he provided her with source models for a number of her characters. In addition, Wharton found in his fiction structures for her own, especially forThe Age of Innocence. Tintner also brings her considerable knowledge of art history to bear in her study of art allusions in Wharton's work. Wharton's response both to the Italian painters active before Raphael and to the English Pre-Raphaelites of a generation before her own is analyzed here in three essays. These pieces demonstrate Wharton's sensibility to changes in art tastes and collecting, the inheritance of Rossetti's revolutionary paintings in the unfinished novel,The Buccaneers, and the importance of home inThe Glimpses of the Moon, as demonstrated by Wharton's use of Tiepolo'sTrade ReviewAdeline Tintner, the author of eight books on Henry James, has drawn on her formidable knowledge to place Edith Wharton in many different literary contexts. Sixteen of the 29 essays in her book examine the affinities and literary debts linking Wharton and writer of her era. Tintner’s book is certain to lead even the most widely read scholar to new facts and more detailed knowledge of Wharton’s literary relationships.” Edith Wharton Review| In an age of academic obfuscation, master scholar Adeline Tintner not only presents clear ideas but also augments them with welcome background.” Helen Killoran, Ohio University at Lancaster |Every library and every lover of Wharton will have to have this rich new resource. Adeline Tintner’s work is always impeccably researched, vastly informative, and bears the stamp of Tintner’s invariable scholarly integrity.” Krisin Lauer, FordhamUniversity
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones Ecocriticism and
Book SynopsisChronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II - creatures intimately linked to damaged habitats that rise from the muck, not to destroy the world, but to save it. The book asks what happens to these landscapes after the madness and destruction. What monsters and magic surface then?
£23.36
University of Alabama Press Ecosublime
Book SynopsisProbes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. In each instance, Lee Rozelle finds evidence that the ‘ecosublime’ profoundly reflects spiritual and political responses to the natural world, America’s increasingly anti-ecological trajectory, and the ascendance of a post-natural landscape.Trade ReviewEcosublime is a genuinely engaging and provocative demonstration of contemporary ecocritical practice, pushing the edges of the discipline in a variety of exciting ways. . . . Rather than arguing simply that certain contemporary authors such as Wendell Berry and Barry Lopez are extending the classical tradition of the sublime aesthetic in their recent environmental fiction and poetry, Rozelle shows how the particular forms of awe and horror that accompany the ecosublime force the human subject into radical new psychological and political stances and may serve to force not only literary characters but real-world authors and audiences to rethink their lives and their relation to the Earth."—Scott Slovic, editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment"In this brief but intriguing eco-critical analysis, Rozelle (Univ. of Montevallo) focuses on a variety of works, ranging from 19th-century writers (Edgar Allan Poe, Isabelle Bird) to postmodern and millennial work including the television series Twin Peaks and the Unabomber Manifesto. Rozelle begins by defining the 'ecosublime,' which he says derives from a Kantian, rather than a Burkean, understanding of the awe and terror inspired by contact with nature. The ecosublime is a balance between apprehension of uncertainty and comprehension of potential environmental unity. Tracing the experience of the ecosublime through increasingly technological, depletionist, and globally aware time periods, the author illustrates the ways in which experiences in a rapidly changing world lead characters either to a spiritual or political awakening concerning the fragility of the world, or to terror and fragmentation. Rozelle is interested in creating criticism that leads beyond deep understanding all the way to advocacy. Experiencing the ecosublime, he argues, has the potential to lead the reader through intellectual enlightenment to direct action--action that is necessary if one wishes to save the world from acts of ecocide, including strip mining, overdevelopment, and toxic spills. Recommended."—CHOICE
£30.56
UNIV OF ALABAMA PR Anything but Novel
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study in English to analyse post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes.Trade ReviewThere is a timeliness to this study given the current events taking place in each of the four countries under consideration and perhaps a sense that the post-utopianism of previous decades is giving way to a renewed and sustained critique of neoliberalism." - Jason A. Bartles, author of Arteletra: The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed “This topic is of importance to the field because there has been a strong utopian impulse in Latin American fiction throughout the 20th century as well as a tradition of historical fiction. Explaining the trend . . . is valuable because it broadens the concept of historical fiction beyond previous scholarly frameworks. Moreover, given that her analysis is firmly rooted in the historical and socio-political circumstances from which these texts emerge, it affords a deeper understanding of how this recent variant of the historical novel critiques the pernicious effects of neoliberalism in Latin American societies.”—Adrian Kane, author of Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926–1936)
£26.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press Forms of Contention Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition
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£117.40
LUP - University of Georgia Press The American Adrenaline Narrative
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£117.40
LUP - University of Georgia Press The American Adrenaline Narrative
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Forms of Contention Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition
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£37.46
University of Pittsburgh Press AntiLiterature The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina Illuminations
Book SynopsisAnti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by literature. Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Shellhorse reveals literature's power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political and cultural conditions.
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press In Search of the Sacred Book
Book SynopsisStudies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. This book departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence.Trade ReviewWe have read the Latin American novel as reconfigurations of history, ethnological recoveries, and political interventions, but we neglected to look at the powerful undercurrents of belief, faith, and epiphanic vision that are a true dimension of their inner creativity. González and his book of revelations discover that poetic knowledge has shaped their storytelling with epiphanies and transfiguration. Nothing of the human experience was estranged to these fictions, not even religion."" - Julio Ortega, Brown University""González, one of his generation’s most accomplished scholars of Spanish American Literature, offers a remarkable, erudite, and imaginative re-reading of the region’s modern fiction, with the compelling argument that, culminating with the Boom, the novel aspired to a reader experience comparable to effects generated by what many cultures regard as ‘sacred texts,’ only to critique and dismantle these aspirations in the late twentieth century and new millennium."" - Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press New World Postcolonial
Book SynopsisThe first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period.Trade ReviewFuerst's book on Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries is an important contribution to postcolonial studies. Garcilaso's masterpiece on Inca history and Spanish conquest is given a new twist by examining it from the perspective of political theory. For the first time a monograph is dedicated to study Garcilaso as a political thinker exposing ideas from the European Renaissance as well as Andean thinking."" - Christian Fernandez, Louisiana State University
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press Once and Future Muse The The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P Espaillat Latinx and Latin American Profiles
Book SynopsisThe Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades later when she reclaimed her former prestige with a series of award-winning poetry collections. The authors define Espaillat's place in American letters with attention to her formalist aesthetics, Hispanic Caribbean immigrant background, poetic community building, bilingual ethos, and domestically minded woman-of-color feminism. Addressing the temporality of her oeuvreher publishing before and after the splitting of American literature into distinct ethnic segmentsthis work also highlights the demands that the social transformations of the 1960s plaTrade ReviewThere is no way to understand the great new wave of Hispanic poetry without recognizing the singular achievement of Rhina P. Espaillat. Her understated, compressed, and classical poems upend all the Anglo clichés about Latino poetry. Her lyrics are as cool as a Chet Baker solo and just as deeply felt. Uninsistent and self-assured, Espaillat is the urbane voice of the new Latino poetry."" - Dana Gioia""This comprehensive volume makes a place for Espaillat as a major poet through a range of identities: a woman, a Latina, an immigrant, a bilingual speaker, a mother, and a wife, but most particularly as a formalist. That so many groups make a claim to her speaks to her enduring appeal."" - Kim Bridgford
£37.00
University of Pittsburgh Press Translational Turn A
Book SynopsisA new reading of U.S. Latinx literature in translation.
£39.17
University of Pittsburgh Press Healing Memories
Book SynopsisHow literature challenges the historical methodologies that have silenced the American experience of Puerto Rican women.
£30.88
University of Hawai'i Press Rewriting Revolution
Book SynopsisNorth Korea is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a ""rogue"" nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights. Even the North's literary output is stigmatized and dismissed. Immanuel Kim's book confronts these stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal.
£54.00
University of Missouri Press Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
Book SynopsisOne of America's leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane combine analyses of both women to explore their collaborative process and how their books reflect the authors' view of place, time, and culture, expanding the critical discussion of Wilder and Lane beyond the Little house.
£25.60
University of Missouri Press From Little Houses to Little Women
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University of Missouri Press The Pull of Politics
Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success. All three were involved with the Left, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen examines their motives for involvement with the Left; their novels’ political themes; and why they separated from the Left.Trade ReviewThese three writers are at last placed side by side, revealing how close their mindsets were, yet how different each was from the other. A significant contribution to American literary criticism."" - Earle Bryant, editor of Byline, Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses""Cohen does an admirable job of explicating how these authors responded to the rise of the Popular Front and other leftist movements: Steinbeck’s concern with homegrown fascism, Hemingway's involvement in Loyalist Spain, and Wright's belief that racism reflected fascist impulses."" - Gary Holcomb, co-editor of Hemingway and the Black Renaissance
£54.10
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Fictions of Western American Domesticity Indian
Book SynopsisProvides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. The Literature of Modern American Domesticity Chapter One. Delegating Domesticity: White Women Writers and the New American Housekeepers Chapter Two. Dialoging Domesticity: Resisting and Assimilating "The American Lady" in Early Mexican American Women's Writing Chapter Three. Regulating Domesticity: Carlisle School's Publications and Children's Books for "American Princesses" Chapter Four. Practicing Domesticity: From Domestic Outing Programs to Sovereign Domesticity Epilogue. Fashioning Femininity: "Types of American Girls," "Types of Indian Girls," and the "Wrong Kind of (Mexican) Woman" Appendix. Advertisements for and Reviews of Evelyn Hunt Raymond Novels Notes Bibliography Index
£26.96
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico El feliz ingenio neomexicano Felipe M. Chac243n
Book SynopsisA bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacon, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesia y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author. Journalist and author Felipe M. Chacon, part of a distinguished and active family of nuevomexicano authors, published the book in 1924.Trade ReviewEl feliz ingenio neomexicano is an important and beautiful recovery not only of one man's captivating literary contribution, but also of its significance within the pivotal time and tumultuous world of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US Southwest."—Anita Huizar-Hernández, author of Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West"This book shines a light on the fascinating life and literary works of Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, a fearless journalist and poet writing at the crossroads between tradition and modernity, local and global politics, and Spanish and English languages."—John M. Nieto-Phillips, author of The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930sTable of Contents List of Poems and Prose Acknowledgments Felipe Maximiliano Chacón: A Literary Genealogy A. Gabriel Meléndez Poetics and Their Politics in the Lyric Work of Felipe M. Chacón Anna M. Nogar Notes to the Spanish and English Editions of Poesía y prosa Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez Spanish Transcription of Poesía y prosa English Translation of Poesía y prosa Appendix
£30.56
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Readers Advisory Guide to Nonfiction
Book SynopsisNavigating what at she calls the ""extravagantly rich world of nonfiction,"" the author builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports.
£43.16
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Readers Advisory Guide to Historical Fiction
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John Wiley & Sons The Readers Advisory Guide to Graphic Novels
Book SynopsisThe first edition of this readers’ advisory represented a pioneering effort to provide help and encouragement to librarians diving into this exciting format. Goldsmith has updated her guide to encompass a bounty of new titles, authors, and styles, ensuring its continued usefulness as a tool for both RA and collection development.
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