Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
The University of Chicago Press The Social Construction of American Realism
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£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Demons of the Night Tales of the Fantastic
Book SynopsisA compilation of 19th-century French haunting tales. Featuring such authors as Balzac, Merimee, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers some of the more memorable stories in the genre.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press The Burdens of Intimacy Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The PreRaphaelites and Their Circle Phoenix Book
Book SynopsisThis useful volume presents the major works of the five leading Pre-Raphaelite poets. Foremost in the collection, and included in their entirety are D. G. Rossetti's The House of Life, C. G. Rossetti's Monna Innominata, William Morris's Defence of Guenevere, Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, and Meredith's Modern Love. Complementing these major poems is a fine, generous selection of the poets' shorter pieces that are typical of their work as a whole. For this second edition, Cecil Lang has substituted two early Swinburne poems, The Leper and Anactoria, for Fitzgerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. These poems, which the editor describes as shocking, show a new aspect of Swinburne not discussed previously. Lang's Introduction describes briefly the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, discusses each of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, both individually and in relation to the others, and grapples with the questions of definition of Pre-Raphaelitism and the similarities between its paintin
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The University of Chicago Press Into the Light of Things The Art of the
Book SynopsisThis revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art to the work of Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought to be a contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I: The End of Art? II: The Status of the Art Object Relative to Mere Real Things Before 1800 III: Confronting the Art Object: The Simple Produce of the Common Day A: William Wordsworth: The Simple Produce of the Common Day B: Thomas Carlyle: Natural Supernaturalism C: John Ruskin IV: Leaving the Raft Behind: John Cage A: Recontextualizing Cage: Industrial Supernaturalism, Suzukian Zen, and the Buddha's Raft B: The Simple Produce Changes: The Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Natural Supernaturalism C: On the Buddha's Raft D: The Ultimate Object E: Ecology: 24'00" Epilogue Notes Index
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Realistic Imagination English Fiction from
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£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Darwin and the Novelists Patterns of Science in
Book SynopsisLevine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose." Frank M. Turner, "Nineteenth-Century Literature." "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject." Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Stendhal Fiction and the Themes of Freedom
Book SynopsisVictor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal is a writer of extraordinary insight into psychology and the many shades of individual and political liberty. Brombert has spent a lifetime reading and teaching Stendhal and here, by focusing on the seemingly contradictory themes of inner freedom and outer constraint within Stendhal's writings, he offers a revealing analysis of both his work and his life. For Brombert, Stendhal's work is deeply personal; elsewhere, he has written about the myriad connections between Stendhal's ironic inquiries into identity and his own boyhood in France on the brink of World War II. Proceeding via careful and nuanced readings of passages from Stendhal's fiction and autobiography, Brombert pays particular attention
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The University of Chicago Press Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book SynopsisElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was the first major woman poet in the English literary tradition. Her significance has been obscured in this century by her erasure from most literary histories and her exclusion from academic anthologies. Dorothy Mermin's critical and biographical study argues for Barrett Browning's originative role in both the Victorian poetic tradition and the development of women's literature. Barrett Browning's place at the wellhead of a new female tradition remains the single most important fact about her in terms of literary history, and it was central to her self-consciousness as a poet. Mermin's study shows that Barrett Browning's anomalous situation was constantly present to her imagination and that questions of gender shaped almost everything she wrote. Mermin argues that Barrett Browning's poetry covertly inspects and dismantles the barriers set in her path by gender and that in her major worksSonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, her best political
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Romantic Ideology A Critical Investigation
Book SynopsisClaiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideologyby an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representationsJerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the subject that calls for a radically revisionary reading of Romanticism. In the course of his study, McGann analyzes both the predominant theories of Romanticism (those deriving from Coleridge, Hegel, and Heine) and the products of its major English practitioners. Words worth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron are considered in greatest depth, but the entire movement is subjected to a searching critique. Arguing that poetry is produced and reproduced within concrete historical contexts and that criticism must take these contexts into account, McGann shows how the ideologies embodied in Romantic poetry and theory have shaped and distorted contemporary critical activities.
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The University of Chicago Press Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. This title introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process; and, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers.Trade Review"Balm for the loneliness and torment of the ethnographic writer, this manual by one of the most distinguished offers the user a personal writer's workshop, at once charming, therapeutic, and practical. The author's mother, her most astute reader, asks: 'A lot of people have no problem writing. The bigger thing I'd like to know is, do you have any thoughts on how to put all the different little bits together?' With the help of Anton Chekhov, her muse and obsession, Narayan does." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Manly Love Romantic Friendship in American
Book SynopsisExamining the novels and short stories of Victorian America, this book uncovers the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men. It offers a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century America's attitudes toward love, friendship, marriage, and sex.Trade Review"Nissen has trumped nearly every other scholar in recapturing and elucidating some fundamental patterns of American Victorian culture. His engaging, even suspenseful, book transported me into those times more fully than anything I know from outside the period itself, such that his insights attain an emotional as well as intellectual force." - John W. Crowley, University of Alabama"
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Some Words of Jane Austen
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The University of Chicago Press Wordsworths Fun
Book SynopsisThe next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage.... He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like. These words from William Hazlitt present a Wordsworth who differs from the one we know--and as Matthew Bevis argues in his radical new reading of the poet, a Wordsworth who owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy. Wordsworth's Fun takes us on a journey through the poet's debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reading and reworking of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. Bevis travels many untrodden ways, examining the relationship between Wordsworth's metrical practice and his interest in laughing gas, his fascination with pantomime, his investment in the figure of the fool, and his response to discussions about the value of play. Intrepid, immersive, and entertaining, Wordsworth'sFun no
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Daily Sherlock Holmes
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£14.00
The University of Chicago Press Dreaming in Books The Making of the
Book SynopsisExamining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, this book tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. It shows how many pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Music and Trance A Theory of the Relations
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Precarious Partners
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£74.10
The University of Chicago Press Precarious Partners Horses and Their Humans in
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£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Poetry of Mourning The Modern Elegy from Hardy
Book SynopsisThrough readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? This work traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in culture. It draws on readings from the ancient Greeks to the postmoderns to explain how poetry creates meaning between persons.
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The University of Chicago Press Networks of Improvement
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Richly archival and powerful in its conceptions, Mee’s Networks of Improvement boldly goes where few literary historians have been before, into the heartlands of industrializing Britain for a magisterially orchestrated and methodologically groundbreaking study. Mee has given us a picture of British intellectual and social relationships that will stand unmatched for a long time to come.” * Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University *“Mee offers a sophisticated account of reading as a social practice central to the circulation of knowledge, both grand and granular, responsive to large questions with local particularities. Networks of Improvement is comprehensive, clearly written, and carefully organized.” * Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Networks and Institutions 1 Power, Knowledge, and Literature 2 The Collision of Mind with Mind: Manchester and Newcastle, 1781–1823 3 Improvement Redux: Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield, 1812–32 Part Two: Bodies and Machines 4 Three Physicians around Manchester 5 Hannah Greg’s Domestic Mission 6 An Inventive Age 7 Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press Realism After the Individual
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The University of Chicago Press One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine A
Book SynopsisProvides a representation of French poet Paul Verlaine's oeuvre. This selection includes a number of Verlaine's early works; poems from his middle period, which reflect his on-again, off-again conversion to Catholicism; and poems from his late period, when he fell prey to poverty and disease.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Tolstoys Major Fiction
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The University of Chicago Press Secret Leaves The Novels of Walter Scott Chicago
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The University of Chicago Press Bleak Liberalism
Book SynopsisWhy is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on realistic conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallow. Bleak Liberalism makes the case for a renewed understanding of the liberal tradition, showing that it is much more attuned to the complexity of political life than conventional accounts have acknowledged. Anderson examines canonical works of high realism, political novels from England and the United States, and modernist works to argue that liberalism has engaged sober and even stark views of historical development, political dynamics, and human and social psychology. From Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Hard Times to E. M. Forster's Howards End to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, this literature demonstrates that liberalism has inventive ways of balancing sociological critique and moral aspiration. A deft blend of intellectual histo
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The University of Chicago Press Dark Voices W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the intellectual formation of W.E.B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of The Souls of Black Folk. It offers a reading of his work from this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward 2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James "Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization 3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk 4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self United Selves and United States: Hegel in America "The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth" The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson 5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination Missing the End: Toward Revolution 6: Conclusion Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois's "A Vacation Unique" Notes Bibliography Index
£30.00
John Wiley & Sons Canada to Ireland
Book SynopsisCanada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900. The book demonstrates that Canadian cultural nationalism left its mark on both countries. Contemporary decolonization movements in Canada and cultural exchanges between Ireland and Indigenous peoples make this a timely study.Trade Review“With exemplary scholarship, [Michele Holmgren] provides a highly informed analysis of the kinds of engaging materials that the likes of Thomas D’Arcy McGee recommended to Canadian writers as the fittest subjects for the inspiration of Canadian readers. After reading Holmgren’s extensive survey and study of our Irish-Canadian heritage, one would not be amiss in viewing Canada articulating its nascent national self in the titular terms of Norman Levine’s memoir: [Ireland] Made Me. This reviewer is convinced of Holmgren’s thesis by the evidence marshalled and by her painstaking argument.” Gerald Lynch, University of Toronto Quarterly
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press A. Mary F. Robinson Victorian Poet and Modern
Book SynopsisThis critical biography of A. Mary F. Robinson traces her unorthodox journey through the literary circles of London and Paris as a writer of poetry and prose, a leading member of the Anglo-French community, and a significant contributor to the cultural and literary shift from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism.Trade Review"This book offers an organic approach to A. Mary F. Robinson, which is a major achievement in itself, given the considerable complexities of her life and work. Patricia Rigg's capacious and fascinating account will place Robinson prominently in late Victorian and early twentieth-century literary studies." Alison Chapman, University of Victoria and author of Networking the Nation: British and American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840–1870"This is the most comprehensive study to date on A. Mary F. Robinson. Patricia Rigg should be congratulated for her painstaking, thorough research, which gathers previously unavailable archival material. Rigg gives attention to Robinson's complete oeuvre in both English and French, offering much new material on her work in French especially, for a richer sense of Robinson's full career." Emily Harrington, University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse
£30.88
Columbia University Press Commissioned Spirits
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Columbia University Press Scenes of Seduction
Book SynopsisThis study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France.
£95.00
Columbia University Press Old Taoist The Life Art and Poetry of Kodôjin
Book SynopsisIn the literary and artistic milieu of early modern Japan the Chinese and Japanese arts flourished side by side. Kodojin, the Old Taoist (1865-1944), was the last of these great poet-painters in Japan. This book brings together 150 of Kodojin's Chinese poems (introduced and translated by Jonathan Chaves).Trade Review"The story of Addiss's patient unearthing of this unusual life and work, very nearly lost to history, itself makes a gripping narrative, and is a triumph of modern scholarship." - David Pollack, University of Rochester "This richly informative volume bring the reclusive painter-poet to life." - Karen M. Gerhart, Northern Arizona UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Kodojin's Life and Art 2. Kodojin's Japanese Poetry 3. Kodojin and the T'ao Ch'ien Tradition in Kanshi Poetry, by Jonathan Chaves 4. Kodojin's Chinese Poetry, translated by Jonathan Chaves 5. A Note on Kodojin and the Art and Literature of His Period, by J. Thomas Rimer Epilogue Notes Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Sirens of the Western Shore
Book SynopsisIntroduces the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language.Trade Review[An] insightful, carefully researched study... Highly recommended. Choice Richly textured... cogently argued, lucidly written, and offers the reader insights on both theoretical and biographical levels. -- Nanette Gottlieb Monumenta Nipponica Sirens of the Western Shore takes a fresh and detailed look at the topic of vernacular style in Meiji literature. -- Sarah Frederick Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One Foreign Letters, the Vernacular, and Meiji Schoolgirls 1. Translation as Origin and the Originality of Translation 2. Meiji Schoolgirls in and as Language Part Two Tayama Katai and the Siren of Vernacular Letters 3. Portrait of the Naturalist as a Young Exote 4. Literary Desire and the Exotic Language of Love: From "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi 5. Haunting the Laboratory of Vernacular Style: The Sirens of "Shojobyo" and Futon Part Three Staging the New Woman: The Spectacular Embodiment of "Nature" in Translation 6. Setting the Stage for Translation 7. Gender Drag, Culture Drag, and Female Interiority Final Reflections: Gender, Cultural Hierarchy, and Literary Style Notes Bibliography Index
£83.60
Columbia University Press Sirens of the Western Shore
Book SynopsisTrade Review[An] insightful, carefully researched study... Highly recommended. Choice Richly textured... cogently argued, lucidly written, and offers the reader insights on both theoretical and biographical levels. -- Nanette Gottlieb Monumenta Nipponica Sirens of the Western Shore takes a fresh and detailed look at the topic of vernacular style in Meiji literature. -- Sarah Frederick Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One Foreign Letters, the Vernacular, and Meiji Schoolgirls 1. Translation as Origin and the Originality of Translation 2. Meiji Schoolgirls in and as Language Part Two Tayama Katai and the Siren of Vernacular Letters 3. Portrait of the Naturalist as a Young Exote 4. Literary Desire and the Exotic Language of Love: From "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi 5. Haunting the Laboratory of Vernacular Style: The Sirens of "Shojobyo" and Futon Part Three Staging the New Woman: The Spectacular Embodiment of "Nature" in Translation 6. Setting the Stage for Translation 7. Gender Drag, Culture Drag, and Female Interiority Final Reflections: Gender, Cultural Hierarchy, and Literary Style Notes Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Why Jane Austen
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBrownstein has written a delectable hybrid of biographical and cultural criticism, struck with brilliant splashes of memoir. On reading, you feel as if you just finished Pride and Prejudice, you Skype a brainy friend who knows Austen inside out-the conversation is so delicious, you'll whip through Persuasion just so you can talk to her tomorrow! Why Jane Austen? Why the movies, miniseries, museums, sequels, novelizations, prequels, criticisms and zombies? Read this book and you'll know. Then put it on the shelf next to those six novels, even richer now for this lady's attentions. -- Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter This vital handbook for Janeites is both a store house of diverting facts and a history of literary obsession, gracefully steering the reader through a maelstrom of conflicting views on Jane Austen's life and times. A fascinating account of how Austen has been glorified yet exploited by film and television over the decades--so Mr. Darcy lives forever to woo Elizabeth, whether wearing the face of yesterday's Laurence Olivier or today's Colin Firth. -- Fay Weldon, author of Chalcot Present Why Jane Austen? is a warmhearted, personal, and humane meditation on Austen and Austenolatry. It is also, in the tradition of Becoming a Heroine, smart, witty, eloquent, and joyfully wide-ranging, a mixture of anecdote, cultural criticism, biography, literary history, and close reading. By bringing serious literary thought to a wider audience, this book is accessible to anyone acquainted with Austen's novels. It performs one of the most important services of humanistic scholarship. -- William Deresiewicz, author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter Rachel M. Brownstein's smart and often charming book reengages and reinvigorates Lionel Trilling's question, 'why we read Jane Austen'--a matter that Austen scholars know is of cultural as well as personal import. Brownstein writes with the assurance and comfort of a senior scholar surveying the terrain. She is opinionated in the best sense, but she also writes from a place of considerable and valuable self-consciousness. Parts of her book serve as memoir: of her life as a teacher, as a scholar asked in public and private social encounters to serve as representative and explainer of Austen the cultural icon, as a reader whose contexts for Austen have changed with changing geography and social meanings. It is one of Brownstein's contentions that, reading Austen and seeking her, we find ourselves. -- Mary Ann O'Farrell, Texas A&M University, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush This book will delight devoted readers and students of Jane Austen and may inspire readers who have disliked Austen in the past. Library Journal Along the way, the reader, too, may discover in Brownstein's book what the author discovers in Austen: a means of transporting ourselves to a more gracious and better-ordered world. -- Melinda Bargreen Seattle Times An intriguing discussion of one of history's literary giantesses. The Midwest Book Review ...her brilliant critical insights and comprehensive survey of Austen studies - including its excesses - merit a wide readership. -- Elsa Solender JASNA News ...the hours spent reading this book are as enjoyable as conversing with a perceptive and sympathetic friend, and as a rewarding as being guided by a superb teacher. JASNA News (second review by Maggie Lane)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Why We Read Jane Austen 2. Looking for Jane 3. Neighbors 4. Authors 5. Why We Reread Jane Austen Afterwords Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. First Experiments Fiction Mori Ogai "The Dancing Girl" Poetry Ochiai Naobumi "Song of the Faithful Daughter Shiragiku" Shimazaki Toson "The Fox's Trick" "First Love" Takeshima Hagoromo "The Maiden Called Love" 2. Beginnings Fiction Izumi Kyoka "The Holy Man of Mount Koya" Kunikida Doppo "Meat and Potatoes" Masamune Hakucho "The Clay Doll" Nagai Kafu "The Mediterranean in Twilight" Ozaki Koyo The Gold Demon Poetry in the International Style Kodama Kagai "The Suicide of an Unemployed Person" Ishikawa Takuboku "Better than Crying" "Do Not Get Up" "A Spoonful of Cocoa" "After Endless Discussions" Kitahara Hakushu "Anesthesia of Red Flowers" "Spider Lilies" "Kiss" Takamura Kotaro "Bear Fur" "A Steak Platter" Kinoshita Mokutaro "Nagasaki Style" "Gold Leaf Brandy" Yosano Akiko "Beloved, You Must Not Die" "In the First Person" "A Certain Country" "From Paris on a Postcard" "The Heart of a Thirtyish Woman" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kanshi Tanka and Haiku Ishikawa Takuboku Masaoka Shiki Tanka Haiku Yosano Akiko "The Dancing Girl" "Spring Thaw" Essays Natsume Soseki "The Civilization of Modern- Day Japan" "My Individualism" 3. The Interwar Years Fiction Akutagawa Ryunosuke "The Nose" "The Christ of Nanking" Edogawa Ranpo "The Human Chair" Hori Tatsuo The Wind Has Risen Inagaki Taruho One-Thousand-and-One-Second Stories Kawabata Yasunari "The Dancing Girl of Izu" Page of Madness Kuroshima Denji "A Flock of Circling Crows" Origuchi Shinobu Writings from the Dead Shiga Naoya "The Paper Door" Tanizaki Jun'ichiro "The Two Acolytes" Uchida Hyakken "Realm of the Dead" "Triumphant March into Port Arthur" Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain" Hagiwara Sakutaro "On a Trip" "Bamboo" "Sickly Face at the Bottom of the Ground" "The One Who's in Love with Love" "The Army" "The Corpse of a Cat" Miyazawa Kenji "Spring & Asura" "November 3rd" Nishiwaki Junzaburo Seven Poems from Ambarvalia No Traveler Returns Kitasono Katsue "Collection of White Poems" "Vin du masque" "Words" Two Poems "Almost Midwinter" Kitasono's First Letter to Ezra Pound Nakano Shigeharu "Imperial Hotel" "Song" "Paul Claudel" "Train" "The Rate of Exchange" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kitahara Hakushu Okamoto Kanoko Saito Mokichi Sugita Hisajo Taneda Santoka Drama Kishida Kunio The Swing Essay Kobayashi Hideo "Literature of the Lost Home" 4. The War Years Fiction Dazai Osamu "December 8th" Ishikawa Tatsuzo Soldiers Alive Ooka Shohei Taken Captive Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "The Elephant's Piggy Bank" "The Final Battle for the Ryukyu Islands" Kusano Shinpei "Mount Fuji" Oguma Hideo "Long, Long Autumn Nights" Poetry in Traditional Forms Toki Zenmaro "Evidence" Essays Kobayashi Hideo "On Impermanence" Sakaguchi Ango "A Personal View of Japa nese Culture" 5. Early Postwar Literature, 1945 to 1970 Fiction Abe Kobo "The Red Cocoon" Ariyoshi Sawako "The Village of Eguchi" Enchi Fumiko "Skeletons of Men" Endo Shusaku "Mothers" Hayashi Fumiko "Blindfold Phoenix" Hirabayashi Taiko "Demon Goddess" Hotta Yoshie "The Old Man" Ibuse Masuji "Old Ushitora" Inoue Yasushi "The Rhododendrons of Hira" Kanai Mieko "Homecoming" Kojima Nobuo "The Smile" Kono Taeko "Final Moments" Mishima Yukio "Patriotism" Noma Hiroshi "A Red Moon in Her Face" Takeda Taijun "The Misshapen Ones" Yasuoka Shotaro "Prized Possessions" Poetry in the International Style Ayukawa Nobuo "In Saigon" "The End of the Night" "War time Buddy" Ishigaki Rin "Roof" "Shijimi Clams" "Life" Katagiri Yuzuru "Christmas, 1960, Japan" "Why Security Treaty?" "Turn Back the Clock" Shiraishi Kazuko "The Phallus" Takamura Kotaro "End of the War" "My Poetry" Tanikawa Shuntaro "Growth" "Drizzle" Tomioka Taeko "between-" "Still Life" Yoshioka Minoru "Still Life" "The Past" Poetry in Traditional Forms Baba Akiko Kaneko Tota Nakajo Fumiko Drama Betsuyaku Minoru The Little Match Girl Kinoshita Junji Twilight Crane Essay Kawabata Yasunari "Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself" 6. Toward a Contemporary Literature, 1971 to the Present Fiction Furui Yoshikichi "Ravine" Hirano Keiichiro "Clear Water" Hoshi Shin'ichi "He-y, Come on Ou-t!" Kaiko Takeshi "The Crushed Pellet" Murakami Haruki "Firefly" Nakagami Kenji "The Wind and the Light" Ogawa Yoko "The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain" Shima Tsuyoshi "Bones" Shimizu Yoshinori "Jack and Betty Forever" Takahashi Takako "Invalid" Tawada Yoko "Where Eu rope Begins" Tsushima Yuko "That One Glimmering Point of Light" Yoshimoto Banana "Newlywed" Poetry in the International Style Ito Hiromi "Underground" "Glen Gould Goldberg" "Sexual Life of Savages" Shinkawa Kazue "The Door" "When the water called me..." Poetry in Traditional Forms Tawara Machi Drama Inoue Hisashi Makeup Kara Juro The 24:53 Train Bound for "Tower" Is Waiting in Front of That Doughnut Shop in Takebaya Essay Oe Kenzaburo "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself" Bibliography
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Columbia University Press The Winter Sun Shines In
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this new biography of Masaoka Shiki, Donald Keene tells Shiki's story with a wonderful blend of brio and depth. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the work delves into hitherto slighted aspects of Shiki's oeuvre and personality. Readers of Japanese and world literature will welcome this book for its rich portrait of one of modern Japan's most important writers. -- Janine Beichman, author of Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works This biography excels. Japan TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Early Years 2. Student Days 3. The Song of the Hototogisu 4. Shiki the Novelist 5. Cathay and the Way Thither 6. Sketches from Life 7. Hototogisu 8. Shiki and the Tanka 9. Shintaishi and Kanshi 10. Random Essays (Zuihitsu), 1 11. Random Essays, 2 12. The Last Days Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Edo Kabuki in Transition From the Worlds of the
Book SynopsisSatoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater and its representations of medieval Japanese tales and tradition, reframing Edo kabuki as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity. Challenging the common understanding of kabuki as subversive, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history.Trade ReviewA sophisticated, entertaining, and well-written contribution to nineteenth-century kabuki studies that both challenges the conventional wisdom of early modern theater scholarship and illuminates the splendid, ghastly world of Japanese horror. -- Keller Kimbrough, author of Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater Satoko Shimazaki's fascinating study of early modern kabuki performance reveals a new kabuki theater to us, not a cultural practice with a relatively stable body of texts at its center but a major site of social and cultural negotiation whose central feature and strength lies in its remarkable variety and adaptability. -- Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine Edo Kabuki in Transition is an extraordinary contribution to the field of kabuki studies, in both the West and Japan. Its unconventional yet comprehensive view of Edo kabuki's evolution, especially its playwriting practices, filtered through the lens of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's 1825 coproduction of his revolutionary ghost play Yotsuya kaidan and the popular history play Chushingura, is original and searching. Satoko Shimazaki's highly readable, marvelously researched study gives us both a penetrating understanding of the fluidity of Edo dramaturgy and an exceptionally thorough examination of the ghost play genre. -- Samuel L. Leiter, author of The Art of Kabuki: Five Famous Plays This fascinating book is a bold revisioning of the development of kabuki theater in Edo (present-day Tokyo)... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note to the Reader Introduction Part I. The Birth of Edo Kabuki 1. Presenting the Past: Edo Kabuki and the Creation of Community Part II. The Beginning of the End of Edo Kabuki: Yotsuya kaidan in 1825 2. Overturning the World: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers and Yotsuya kaidan 3. Shades of Jealousy: The Body of the Female Ghost 4. The End of the World: Figures of the Ubume and the Breakdown of Theater Tradition Part III: The Modern Rebirth of Kabuki 5. Another History: Yotsuya kaidan on Stage and Page Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Plots
Book SynopsisLiterary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative. Through readings of King Lear and Crime and Punishment, Robert L. Belknap explores the spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, arguing that plots teach us novelistic rather than poetic justice.Trade ReviewPlots is an almost perfect book by one of this country's great scholar-teachers on why the literary art of arranging episodes matters to us. Not only luminously smart but also perfectly plotted (Robert L. Belknap's model plot-mongers are Shakespeare and Dostoevsky), each detail of the book's structure, chronological argument, and diction conspire to create that rare work of criticism: a story we cannot put down. -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Plots is a brilliant piece of work, well-written, and insightful-a sheer pleasure to follow. Belknap's definitions of the terms of Russian formalism are clearer than anyone else's, and his sense of what they suggest is richer. -- Gary Morson, Northwestern University Plots has an adamantine quality, as if decades of thought and teaching were being crystallized and enormously compressed... Plots reveals that with Belknap's death, we lost a critic and literary historian of great power and considerable ingenuity. -- Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed You may never look at a story the same way again after reading Robert Belknap's incisively clear and illuminating book, titled simply, Plots. The Fictional 100 A valuable addition to the scholarship on plot and narration ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction, by Robin Feuer Miller Part I. Literary Plots Deserve Still More Study 1. Plots Arrange Literary Experience 2. Plot Summaries Need More Serious Study 3. The Fabula Arranges the Events in the World the Characters Inhabit; the Siuzhet Arranges the Events in the World the Reader Encounters in the Text 4. Authors Can Relate One Incident to Another Only Chronologically, Spatially, Causally, Associatively, or Narratively 5. Plots are Fractal, Formed from Incidents That Are Formed from Smaller, Similarly Shaped Incidents 6. The Best Authorities Consider Plots and Incidents to Be Tripartite, with a Situation, a Need, and an Action 7. But Siuzhets and the Incidents That Form Them Have Two Parts: An Expectation and Its Fulfillment or Frustration Part II. The Plot of King Lear Operates Purposefully But Also Reflects the Creative Process 8. For Integrity of Impact, Stages, Actors, and the Audience Need a Unity of Action 9. Shakespeare Replaced the Greek Unity of Action with a New Thematic Unity Based on Parallelism 10. Shakespeare Uses Conflict, the Righting of Wrongs, the Healing of an Inruption or Disruption, and Other Standard Plotting Devices, But His Recognition Scenes Move Us Most 11. Shakespeare Prepares for His Recognition Scenes with Elaborate Lies 12. In King Lear, Shakespeare Uses Elaborated Lies to Psychologize the Gloucester Subplot 13. Tolstoy and Tate Preferred the Comforting Plots of Lear's Sources to Shakespeare's, But Shakespeare Had Considered That Variant and Rejected It Part III. The Plot of Crime and Punishment Draws Rhetorical and Moral Power from the Nature of Novel Plots and from the European and Russian Tradition Dostoevsky Inherited and Developed 14. European Novelists Elaborated or Assembled Incidents into Plots Long Before Critics Recognized the Sophistication of the New Genre in Plotting Such Subgenres as the Letter Novel and the Detective Novel 15. Dostoevsky Shaped and Was Shaped by the Russian Version of the Nineteenth-Century Novel 16. In Reinventing the Psychological Plot, Dostoevsky Challenged the Current Literary Leaders 17. The Siuzhet of Part 1 of Crime and Punishment Programs the Reader to Read the Rest and to Participate Actively in a Vicious Murder 18. The One-Sidedness of Desire and Violence in Crime and Punishment Is More Peculiar to Dostoevsky's Plotting Than Dostoevshchina 19. Critics Often Attack Crime and Punishment for a Rhetoric That Exploits Causality in Ways They Misunderstand 20. The Epilogue of Crime and Punishment Crystallizes Its Ideological Plot 21. The Plots of Novels Teach Novelistic Justice, Not Poetic Justice Bibliography Index Works by Robert Belknap
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Columbia University Press Critics Coteries and PreRaphaelite Celebrity
Book SynopsisWendy Graham traces the critical discourses that shaped the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s reception and continues to inform responses to them. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, providing a new interpretation of the place of aesthetic counterculture in Victorian England.Trade ReviewThis is a useful survey of high Victorian critical values, and it helps prepare the way for a deeper understanding of Henry James and Oscar Wilde. * Choice *Graham’s strengths are in her meticulous historical illustrations of her theoretical claims. -- Erica Haugtvedt, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota * Clio *The book makes a helpful addition to the growing scholarship on avant-garde celebrities, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the eighteenth century to Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, and Andy Warhol in the twentieth. -- Sharon Marcus * Victorian Studies *Graham’s is a book for which to feel grateful . . . Her determination to write both the homosociality and the (often denied) homoeroticism of the PRB men back into their story, and thus into cultural history, is an admirable animating purpose. That she does this, too, by means of such energetic, idiosyncratic, passionately engagé prose makes her study a most welcome one. -- MARGARET D. STETZ, University of Delaware * English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 *This book should be welcomed by scholars working in Queer and Gender studies, whom it most directly addresses. Victorianists interested in the figure of the celebrity and the role played by periodicals will also value its detailed reception history. Scholars of Pre-Raphaelite art (and to a lesser extent, literature) will find some interesting and provocative claims to ponder. -- Elizabeth Helsinger * Cercles *Wendy Graham writes with engaging clarity and rigor about the curious homoeroticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the volatile sexual politics surrounding the careers of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Simeon Solomon in particular. With her subtle eye for the odd erotic enthusiasm, the conflicted allegiance, and the panicky equivocation, she takes a fresh and judicious look at the abundant mythmaking, journalistic backstabbing, and personal betrayals that attended the myriad Pre-Raphaelite challenges to Victorian conventions. -- Ellis Hanson, Cornell UniversityCritics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity is chock full of insight. Graham wants us to think of Pre-Raphaelitism as not just a, but the crucial movement in the making of modern ideas of celebrity. Her concern is at once with the Pre-Raphaelites, and with the assortments of critical discourse that greeted their onset, shaped their contemporary reception, and continued to guide critical responses to them well after their supersession. She argues that there exists both within the PRB and its reception a persistent homosocial and often homoerotic dynamic, which shapes the ways we think about art movements and their possibilities. This is a distinguished and fascinating work. -- Jonathan Freedman, University of MichiganTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Pre-Raphaelite Vanguard2. Puff, Slash, Burn: Literary Celebrity3. Fortune’s Weal4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Aesthetic Celebrity5. Anonymous Journalism: The Fleshly School Controversy6. Henry James and British AestheticismAfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Columbia University Press Strolls with Pushkin
Book SynopsisAndrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet was meant only to rescue Pushkin. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet.Trade ReviewIn the guise of a spirited, iconoclastic study of the presiding deity of Russian literature, the great Andrei Sinyavsky (writing as his bolder alter ego, Abram Tertz) has composed an ardent and fastidious attack on philistinism in all its forms: literary, psychological, and political. -- Susan Sontag In his alter ego as Tertz, Sinyavsky was the David to every institutional Goliath, picking off the monumental cult of the national poet of the Stalin period and the sentimentalized icon of Russia Abroad. His shock tactics were Pushkinian: irreverent wit, conversational tone, thinking outside the box. And guess what? Pushkin was no saint, but his genius is supremely alive and human in this brilliant appreciation. All readers should find in this spirited classic of literary and cultural criticism, vibrantly translated, expertly introduced and annotated, license to our own individual musings with two great writers and writing. -- Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford This translation of Sinyavsky's subversive text achieves the impossible, shocking, entertaining, and beguiling us into a freer, more lively appreciation of the liberating power of language. -- Cathy Porter, Independent Given its title, Sinyavsky's work is appropriately rambling and easygoing, but also brilliantly iconoclastic about this most iconic of Russian writers. -- Michael Dirda Washington Post Enhancing this accessible translation of a subtle and complex text, Catharine Nepomnyashchy has written a fine introduction to summarize Pushkin's life, works and subsequent cult status. -- Phoebe Taplin Russia Beyond the Headlines A playful appreciation of Pushkin's playfulness. -- Gary Saul Morson New York Review of Books Andrei Sinyavsky/Abram Tertz was one of the most gifted Russian writers of the postwar era. Most of his work is now in print in Russia, but most of the English translations seem to have gone out of print. It will be an excellent thing if Strolls with Pushkin leads us back to him. We need his free and welcoming spirit more than ever. -- Richard Pevear The Hudson ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text
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Columbia University Press Strolls with Pushkin
Book SynopsisAndrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet was meant only to rescue Pushkin. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet.Trade ReviewIn the guise of a spirited, iconoclastic study of the presiding deity of Russian literature, the great Andrei Sinyavsky (writing as his bolder alter ego, Abram Tertz) has composed an ardent and fastidious attack on philistinism in all its forms: literary, psychological, and political. -- Susan Sontag In his alter ego as Tertz, Sinyavsky was the David to every institutional Goliath, picking off the monumental cult of the national poet of the Stalin period and the sentimentalized icon of Russia Abroad. His shock tactics were Pushkinian: irreverent wit, conversational tone, thinking outside the box. And guess what? Pushkin was no saint, but his genius is supremely alive and human in this brilliant appreciation. All readers should find in this spirited classic of literary and cultural criticism, vibrantly translated, expertly introduced and annotated, license to our own individual musings with two great writers and writing. -- Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford This translation of Sinyavsky's subversive text achieves the impossible, shocking, entertaining, and beguiling us into a freer, more lively appreciation of the liberating power of language. -- Cathy Porter, Independent Given its title, Sinyavsky's work is appropriately rambling and easygoing, but also brilliantly iconoclastic about this most iconic of Russian writers. -- Michael Dirda Washington PostTable of ContentsIntroduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text
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Columbia University Press Intransitive Encounter
Book SynopsisNan Z. Da offers an in-depth study of nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. literary interactions that highlights their lack of transpacific interpollination. Intransitive Encounter is an unconventional and theoretically rich reflection on global meetings and imaginings that do not fit the patterns proclaimed by postcolonial and literary studies.Trade ReviewIn this bracingly intelligent and impressively researched study of nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. encounters, Nan Z. Da focuses on transnational exchanges in which not much of anything is exchanged and worlds are not transformed. The result is a transformative book that challenges assumptions about transnationalism and maps out productive new ways of exploring the limits of cultural exchange. -- Robert S. Levine, author of Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary StudiesNan Z. Da has written the first great book on nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. literary relations and a truly great book on the current state of comparative literature. Da's beautiful readings of what she calls the many 'intransitive encounters' between Chinese and American literature demonstrate the ways in which the idea of a global, East-West world literature is a fantasy that obscures the much more interesting differences, failures, and untranslatable moments that have generated a long history of literary criticism. This book should be required reading for students and scholars of American and comparative literature. -- Virginia Jackson, University of California, IrvineIntransitive Encounter offers nothing less than a complete reimagining of the literary encounter. With acuity, archival sensitivity, and analytic insight, Nan Z. Da argues that previous assumptions about transnational literary contact have perpetuated a hermeneutic that crosses out as much as it crosses over—and that what gets crossed out is precisely an opportunity to see the literary as a different kind of encounter. -- R. John Williams, author of The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and WestDa makes a unique contribution to transpacific literary studies and suggests a new approach to transnationalism that is theoretically sophisticated, historically revisionist, and potentially paradigm changing. Intransitive Encounter is a work of great originality, imagination, and erudition. -- Yunte Huang, University of California, Santa BarbaraHighly recommended. * Choice *Intransitive Encounter’s methodological and theoretical contributions will resonate far beyond its field. At the heart of the book and the Sino-U.S. encounters it elucidates are a set of concerns—about the purpose of translation, the limits of cross-cultural communication, the dynamics of literary influence, the materiality and occasionality of literary objects, and what literature can make thinkable or actionable in the world—that are at the center of conversations in modernist studies, comparative literature, cross-cultural communications, and transnational literary studies. * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Intransitivity1. Indifference in the Open: Squandering Washington Irving2. Extreme Reformality: Burning Bridges with Ralph Waldo Emerson3. Incommunicative Exchange: Yung Wing’s Impersonal Schemes4. The Things Things Do Not Have to Say: Longfellow to Dong Xun5. Open Books: Qiu Jin’s Feminist Reading Time6. Harmless Exaggeration: Edith Eaton’s Tweaks and GlitchesEpilogue: Untracking EncounterAppendix 1. A Note on Chinese Language Appearances in the BookAppendix 2. LexiconAppendix 3. Historical Movements, Treaties, Organizations, InstitutionsAppendix 4. List of Chinese Primary SourcesAppendix 5. List of Chinese NamesNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Licentious Fictions
Book SynopsisNineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan.Trade Review[A] bold, ambitious, and deeply researched monograph. -- Timothy J. Van Compernolle, Amherst College * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to better understand the discursive backdrop that shaped how major workswere conceptualized and received across this period through the lens of ninjo. * Journal of Japanese Studies *In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch identifies the emergence of a distinctive literary modernity in nineteenth-century Japan based on the idea that human emotion was politically disruptive and morally dubious. Breaking new ground with his analysis of narrative practices surrounding love and desire, Poch truly shines when he anchors his examination of the Japanese novel in a global history of modernity. -- Paul Schalow, Rutgers UniversityLicentious Fictions is an important work that resituates our perception of Japan’s literary modernity. With a broad sweep that moves from Edo to Meiji and from Chinese antecedents to Western influences, Daniel Poch challenges the long-standing but artificial divide between historical eras and provides a new integrative framework for our understanding of the modern novel in Japan. -- Rebecca Copeland, Washington University in St. LouisLicentious Fictions provides the most compelling account to date of the nineteenth-century Japanese novel as exhibiting a coherent discursive economy that spans the Edo/Meiji divide. It stands out for both the sophistication of its analysis and the impressive scope of primary source material that it covers. It is a groundbreaking work that is sure to make a major impact on the field. -- Peter Flueckiger, Pomona CollegeThe novel has always been about love—its dangerous and disruptive power. Daniel Poch's wide-ranging book explores how Japanese writers and translators attempted to contain, explain, and exploit the problematic power of love in their fiction. -- Gaye Rowley, Waseda UniversityLicentious Fictions presents the most sustained and penetrating exploration of the Japanese novel’s ambitious and problematic engagement with dangerous emotions and desires. Tracing the pervasive anxiety over the social potency of the mass-produced novel, Poch impressively delineates a new genealogy of the modern novel in nineteenth-century Japan. A truly path-breaking book. -- Tomi Suzuki, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Ninjō and the Early-Modern Novel1. From Ninjō to the Ninjōbon: Toward the Licentious Novel2. Questioning the Idealist Novel: Virtue and Desire in Nansō Satomi hakkendenPart II: The Age of Literary Reform3. Translating Love in the Early-Meiji Novel: Ninjōbon and Yomihon in the Age of Enlightenment4. Historicizing Literary Reform: Shōsetsu shinzui, Translation, and the Civilizational Politics of Ninjō5. The Novel’s Failure: Shōyō and the Aporia of Realism and IdealismPart III: Late-Meiji Questionings6. Ninjō and the Late-Meiji Novel: Recontextualizing Sōseki’s Literary ProjectEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Typographic Imagination
Book SynopsisNathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.Trade ReviewNathan Shockey’s study of the typographic imagination in modern Japan reorganizes our sensibilities by seamlessly integrating media studies with modern Japanese literary history and criticism. Its fresh perspective is sure to change the conceptual landscape of Japan specialists, and its rich account of the particularities of modern Japanese print culture will command the attention of media studies scholars as well. -- Indra Levy, Stanford UniversityShockey does an amazing job of chronicling a transformative moment in the history of Japanese literature. Canons were transformed, new classes of readers emerged, and vivacious debates about the meaning and diversity of literature's materiality were produced. This book offers an important addition to the global history of print. -- Andrew Piper, McGill UniversityRich in detail and vast in scope, The Typographic Imagination deftly charts a course through the roiling complexity of print media that collectively generated a typographic effect in the early twentieth century. But the stroke of genius lies in how the perspective of print allows Shockey to overturn our understanding of modernization, highlighting a pulse of nonlinear difference coursing through print media, resurfacing intensified in strange new characters and movements. -- Thomas Lamarre, Duke UniversityShockey’s engaging and erudite study lays out beautifully the complex and changing technological, social, and intellectual landscape that informed Japan’s early modern and modern book worlds. This meticulously researched study expands our understanding of the literary field by interrogating the intersections of script reform, the transition from xylographic to industrial printing, new modes of book classification, and the crucial contributions of leftist movements to literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. -- Ann Sherif, Oberlin College and ConservatoryThe Typographic Imagination is an innovative study whose strengths include scrupulous scholarship, clear prose, and lucid analysis. The book makes a substantial contribution to the field of modern Japanese literary and cultural studies. I recommend it with enthusiasm! -- Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los AngelesWell-researched, subtle, and important. * Journal of Asian Studies *In his fascinating and stimulating book, Nathan Shockey takes us back to the world of late Meiji and Taisho Japan, when the market was awash with new magazines. . . . This is a richly detailed, resourcefully argued, and astonishingly wide-ranging book. * Journal of Japanese Studies *A meticulous work of scholarship, brimming with a wealth of analytical and anecdotal perspectives. * Monumenta Nipponica *Typographic Imagination presents familiar concepts in the information profession alongside new lenses in an intense look into Japan’s history surrounding typography in the late 19th and early 20th century. * RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Romanization and TranslationIntroduction: The World Made TypePart I: The Making of a Modern Media Ecology1. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire2. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity3. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print CityPart II: Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era4. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse5. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism6. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist MovementConclusion: Ends, Echoes, and InversionsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Medical Storyworlds
Book SynopsisElena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the growing field of medical humanities and its applications to Russian literary and cultural studies, Fratto’s book makes striking connections between narratives written a century ago and the most pressing concerns in today’s medical ethics. Engaging, informative, and inspired. -- Julia Vaingurt, coeditor of The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in RussiaMoving fluidly between modern medicine and Russian literature, Fratto explores a vital question: Who authors medical narratives? Focused on questions of plot and agency, her subtle analyses reveal how physicians develop their ideas about disease, entrepreneurs market meanings of health, and patients assert their voices to narrate their own medical storylines. -- David S. Jones, author of Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac CareThis elegant book stages nothing less than a Slavic studies intervention in medical humanities—and vice versa. In the process, Fratto draws myriad revelatory connections between the writings of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov, among others, and such present-day concerns as medical ethics, disability, posthumanism, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In short, Medical Storyworlds is a triumph. -- José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and BeyondAn original and thought-provoking study . . . Fratto’s lively book provides compelling new interpretations of canonical works of Russian literature, and it manages to put the discipline of Slavic Studies into a productive dialogue with contemporary Medical Humanities. * Journal of Medical Humanities *[A] fascinating, very well-written, and timely book. * Modern Language Review *[A] nuanced and richly interdisciplinary study. * The Russian Review *Fratto’s expansive source base, including Russian, French, and Italian texts, along with her command of the theoretical literature, gives us a new platform from which the medical humanities can continue to develop. * Modern Language Quarterly *Fratto’s absorbing, timely study will be invaluable for scholars, the general reader, and anyone who is interested not only in Russian and European literatures, but also, in the nuanced ways medical narratives shape human lives, and vice versa. * Slavic Review *This book will be useful to anyone interested in medical discourse, as well as to students of the medical humanities, a field that reaffirms the need to pay attention to patient narratives, as well as to sickness-related fiction as a whole. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Grand Finale: Death as the Revelatory Ending2. End of Story: Temporality and the Prospect of the Ending in Ivan Ilych, Anna Karenina, and (Potential) Cancer Patients3. Medical Enlightenment in the Early 1920s: Rhetoric and Diffused Authorship in Jules Romains’s Knock and Soviet Public-Health Campaigns4. Time, Agency, and Bodily Glands: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail BulgakovAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Italian Invert
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. This is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography.Trade ReviewA brilliant archival discovery, a triumph of careful scholarship, an unsuspected episode in modern literature, a moving testimony about sex and love, and a fascinating, previously censored chapter in the history of sexuality. Rosenfeld masterfully restores the context in which conscious writing about homosexuality emerged in Europe during the last decades of the nineteenth century. -- David Halperin, W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor, University of MichiganThe contributors to this brilliantly edited and translated text make the queer past come alive. Readers will not only recognize a young man’s struggle with his gender and sexual identities, but also the difficulty he had in telling his own story in a homophobic society. -- Andrew Israel Ross, author of Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century ParisWhether you persist in reading it as a proto-naturalist novel (despite the opinions of the editors of this volume) or treat it as a sociological document, The Italian Invert is a classic text of nineteenth-century sexology the interest of which is by no means limited to French (or Italian) studies. Richly enhanced here with critical notes, this volume makes a revised and expanded version of the primary documents available in English and also adds important essays that situate and enlarge their scope. The text reflects the latest archival discoveries, which include manuscripts and illustrations, as well as new information about the mysterious "Dr. Laupts." Whether one is interested in the history of (homo)sexuality or in literary questions (such as the "queerness" of Zola), this is an indispensable tool that belongs on every researcher's shelf. -- Melanie Hawthorne, Texas A&M UniversityThe 'Italian invert’s confessions' have long been known to historians of sexuality, yet this new edition lends them an authenticity never before enjoyed....The editors have included everything scholars might want to know: abundant annotations, prefaces, commentaries on each recension, and a full index. * European Legacy *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrologue, by Cyrille Zola-PlaceForeword to the French Edition, by Alain PagèsForeword to the American Edition, by Vernon A. RosarioIntroduction: The Ménage-à-Trois of Zola, Saint-Paul, and the Italian “Invert,” by Michael Rosenfeld with Nancy ErberPart I: The Confessions of a Homosexual to Émile ZolaPreface by Émile ZolaThe Novel of an InvertThe Sequel to the Novel of an InvertOther ParticularitiesThe Italian Man’s Family Tree, by Michael RosenfeldPart II: Selected Works by Dr. Georges Saint-PaulDr. Georges Saint-Paul, Man of Science, by Clive ThomsonFirst Edition (1896)In Memoriam: Émile ZolaSecond Edition (1910)Third Edition (1930)AcknowledgmentsBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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