Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Irish Academic Press Ltd Reading Pearse Hutchinson From Findrum to
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Reading Medbh McGuckian
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Undoing Time The Life and Work of Samuel Beckett
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Michael Allen Close Readings Essays on Irish
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Liberating Power of Symbols Philosophical Essays
Book Synopsis1. A new collection of philosophical essays by one of the worlda s leading social and political thinkers. 2. Explores the work of important figures in twentieth--century philosophy and theology, such as Karl Jaspers and Gerschom Scholem 3. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of contemporary philosophy and theology.Trade ReviewJürgen Habermas has been awarded the prestigious 'Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels' prize for 2001 'The Liberating Power of Symbols carries on from where Habermas's previous foray into modern European thought, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, left off. If the latter offered a trenchant critique of post-structuralism, the former concentrates on promising departures for contemporary philosophy ... These new books by Habermas will be indispensable for years to come [and will] undoubtedly make provocative reading.' Anthony Elliott, The Australian 'This book is a must read for students interested in the power of symbols and how these can serve as mechanisms of suppression and emancipation. This is also a good book for those interested in the development of Habermas' ideas, as many of the essays and lectures illustrate how he builds and validates his arguments.' MillenniumTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1: The Liberating Power of Symbols: Ernst Cassirer's Humanistic Legacy and the Warburg Library. Chapter 2: The Clash of Beliefs: Karl Jaspers on the Conflict Between Cultures. Chapter 3: Between Traditions: A Laudatio for Georg Henrik von Wright. Chapter 4: Tracing in History the Other of History: On Gershom Scholem's Sabbatai Zwi. Chapter 5: A Master Builder with Hermeneutic Tact: Karl-Otto Apel's Path of Thought. Chapter 6: Israel or Athens: To Whom does Anamnetic Reason Belong? Johann Baptist Metz on Unity Amidst Multicultural Plurality. Chapter 7: Communicative Freedom and Negative Theology: Questions for Michael Theunissen. Chapter 8: The Useful Mole who Ruins the Beautiful Lawn: The Lessing Prize for Alexander Kluge. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mysteries and Conspiracies
Book SynopsisThe detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of causality to explain the social lives of individuals and groups and political science was shifting the problematics of paranoia from the psychic to the social realm and seeking to explain historical events in terms of conspiracy theories. In each instance, social reality was cast into doubt. We owe the project of organizing and unifying this reality for a particular population and territory to the nation-state as it took shape at the end of the nineteenth century. Thus the figure of conspiracy became the focal point for suspicions concerning the exercise of power. Where does power really lie, and who actually holds it? The national authorities that are presumed to be responsible for it, or other agencies actTrade Review“An ambitious investigation of crime fiction and its relation to modern society” Times Higher Education Most of us take for granted the idea that the social world has a front stage made of rules and norms and a backstage of “intrigues,” “invisible plots,” and “hidden intentions.” When did that sense of a reality behind the reality of things develop? In this enigmatic book, Boltanski tracks down this new construction of a paranoid reality through a highly original reading of detective and spy novels, in which he detects the emergence of a sense that a sense that the real reality of things is concealed and malevolent. This book is both singular and provocative and resembles no other work of sociology I have read. It is a mixture of sociology of literature, of meta-sociological theory, sociology of institutions, and, perhaps mostly, sociology of modernity. It will be a needed complement to the classic The Social Construction of Reality. Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword 1. REALITY / versus / Reality 2. The Inquiries of a London Detective 3. The Inquiries of a Paris Policeman 4. Identifying Secret Agents 5. The Endless Inquiries of ‘Paranoids’ 6. Policing Sociological Inquiry Epilogue References Endnotes
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The History Press Ltd The P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany
Book SynopsisWodehouse Miscellany follows the development and progress of his legendary characters, tells us where Wodehouse got his ideas from and demonstrates why his admirers included Bertrand Russell, Berthold Brecht, George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling and the Kaiser.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sadeq Hedayat
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSadeq Hedayat offers the first reliable introduction to an Iranian writer whose genius is as elusive as the gazelle in the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz's poem... Katouzian deftly dispels the legends about Hedayat that have grown up since his death... Katouzian has produced a study which all who want to understand Iran ought to read. This is a Life which inevitably tells more about Iran’s sufferings in the modern world than many other books do. * Peter Avery, Times Literary Supplement *“a skilful and pioneering study of Sadiq Hedayat which builds on previous scholarship.” * Muslim World Book Review *Homa Katouzian has merely reminded us in this revised edition of his already seminal work that he is bar-none the final word on Sadeq Hedayat. This work is a testament to Katouzian’s uncanny ability to synthesize society, literature, politics, and a literary persona in a particularly important century in Iran’s turbulent and experimental history. The unabashedly informed penmanship, invigorated by well-researched scholarship that is devoid of what we see today are flights of pomp and fancy makes this revised, larger edition a celebrated platform upon which studies on Hedayat can be nurtured: mindful of philology, sociology, and culture. Homa Katouzian carefully draws a logical road map of Hedayat’s time and life: from birth to suicide; all awhile surgically keeping the milieu and many of its most pertinent facet’s in a literary persona’s life present in his discourse. The development of the theme in this book leaves no room for confusion in the flow of this book and as such in the way it informs. Kudos to Professor Katouzian as this is simply a masterpiece: New and improved and AGAIN! * Alireza Korangy, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Persian Literature *A must read for anyone who is exploring the field of modern Persian literature, culture, and politics. Katouzian brilliantly and carefully provides a tangible and original framework with which to present an alternative understanding of the life and career of Sadeq Hedayat in the socio-political context of modern Iran. * Fatemeh Shams, University of Pennsylvania, USA *'In this book Homa Katouzian walks the readers, both the experts on Iran and Persian literature and those who might not be familiar with that country and its culture, through the maze of Hedayat’s life and mind via his stories producing the most thorough, well researched, and reader friendly account of Sadeq Hedayat’s life and work.' * M. R. Ghanoonparvar, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition Chapter 1. Hedayat and Modern Persian Literature Chapter 2. Early Years Chapter 3. Hedayat in Europe Chapter 4. Life and Labour in the Golden Era Chapter 5. Iranian Culture and Romantic Nationalism Chapter 6. Iranian Culture and Critical Realism Chapter 7. The Blind Owl: A Critical Exposition Chapter 8. The Origins of The Blind Owl Chapter 9. Hopes and Despairs Chapter 10. Hajjis and Workers Chapter 11. Satire and Depression Chapter 12. The Trial: The Message of Hedayat Chapter 13. The Execution: Hedayat's Suicide Chapter 14. The Legend and the Man Index
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Thomas Nelson Publishers J. R. R. Tolkien
Book SynopsisJ. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings is an easy-to-read biography that provides insight on the popular author’s life and writings. This book answers frequently asked questions that Tolkien fans and followers have.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Existential America
Book SynopsisThe only full-length study of existentialism in America, this highly engaging and original work provides an invaluable guide to the history of American culture since the end of the Second World War.Trade ReviewOne of the great pleasures of reading George Cotkin's brilliant study Existential America is that it explains why existentialism has proved so deeply appealing and enduring in an American context. -- Nick Gillespie Reason Lively and readable... A fine survey of existential 'notions' in America, from the 1600s to the 1970s, when various new forms of French thought became more fashionable. It is quite discerning in the way it separates the various strands of the actual movement known as existentialism and locates its antecedents in various early American authors. -- Jay Parini Guardian 2003 Entertaining, insightful cultural history... Cotkin's welcome addition to this picture [of the history of existentialism] is to recognize, as too few ever have, America's participation in existentialism and special contribution to it. -- Carlin Romano Philadelphia Inquirer 2003 Cotkin excels... in tracing the reception, in these optimistic, practical, can-do United States, of those European ideas and art forms that have mounted a challenge to our received world view. -- Joshua Glenn Washington Post Book World An involving and cogent discussion... Cotkin's intellectual history will engage any American who remembers identifying with Camus's The Stranger as an adolescent, as well as offering students a compelling theory of American culture. Library Journal In Existential America, intellectual historian George Cotkin proves existentialism's relevance by showing that it was never just a fad; existential sensibilities run deep in our history. Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus, who all toured the United States after the war, saw only the country's exterior, its consumerist boosterism. But would it be so surprising if the land of the free were also the land of the searching, the anxious, the alienated? This is, after all, the country of Herman Melville and Edward Hopper... Along the way [Cotkin] drops fascinating anecdotes about how existentialism touched everyone from FDR to MLK, from Whittaker Chambers to Betty Friedan... An engrossing, readable account of a major current in our cultural history. -- Richard Polt Village Voice 2003 A useful reference volume for students of philosophy and American culture. -- Christopher Luna Rain Taxi A timely and compelling account of America's engagement with, and involvement in, what might otherwise be seen as a quintessentially European conversation. -- John Fagg Cercles No other book engages existentialism in America so broadly or seeks to make it so central to American intellectual life. -- Terry A. Cooney American Historical Review 2004 Cotkin... makes the unusual argument that existentialism, despite its reputation as quintessentially French, was an equally American phenomenon... Cotkin does a good job showing how much the French thinkers' ideas resonated among prominent Americans. -- Andy Lamey National Post 2003 Cotkin is at his best in tracing the recognition of the dark side of the human soul that characterizes the best of American literature in Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Dickinson, and others. -- Werner J. Dannhauser Weekly Standard 2003 This sweeping survey traces the genealogy of existential philosophy in the United States. American Literature 2004Table of ContentsContents: AcknowledgementsChapter One Introduction1741-1949 American Existentialists before the Fact Chapter Two The "Drizzly November"of the American Soul1928-1955 Kierkegaardian Moments Chapter Three Kierkegaard Comes to America Chapter Four A Kierkegaardian Age of Anxiety1944-1960 The Era of French Existentialism Chapter Five The Vogue of French Existentialism Chapter Six New York Intellectuals and French Existentialists Chapter Seven The Canon of Existentialism1948-1968 Realizing an Existential Vision Chapter Eight "Cold Rage": Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison Chapter Nine Norman Mailer's Existential Errand Chapter Ten Robert Frank's Existential Vision1960-1993 Postwar Student and Women's Movements Chapter Eleven Camus's Rebels Chapter Twelve Existential Feminists: Simone de Beauvoir and Betty FriedanChapter Thirteen Conclusion: Existentialism Today and TomorrowNotes Essay on Sources Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Death and Afterlife of Achilles
Book SynopsisWith his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero.Trade ReviewBurgess is an established authority on the Homeric and Cyclic epics and the tradition of the Trojan war. His latest study, The Death and Afterlife of Achilles, by no means lessens this reputation... This is a fascinating book, and one worth reading cover to cover... He exhibits an extraordinary depth of understanding of the nature of ancient epic traditions, and many of his ideas are original and innovative. -- Calum Maciver Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009 This is an excellent book, and every chapter is worth reading. The train of thought is always clear, the arguments persuasive, the speculations judicious, and the style lucid. Numerous interesting and original ideas are combine with masterful synthesis of previous work and an extremely orderly presentation of fragmentary and unwieldy material. -- Olga Lavaniouk New England Classical Journal 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote to ReaderList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Early Life of Achilles2. The Death of Achilles3. The Destiny of Achilles in the Iliad4. Intertextuality and Oral Epic5. The Death of Achilles in the Iliad6. Motif Sequences in the Iliad7. Burial and Afterlife of Achilles8. Tomb and Cult of AchillesConclusionAppendix: The Fabula of the Death of AchillesNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Origin Of Middle Ages Pirennes Challenge to
Book SynopsisHis organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.Trade ReviewA fine pick and a vital addition to any literary studies collection. Midwest Book Review 2011Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Myth and ReligionChapter 1. Christian Symbols in Light in AugustChapter 2. Light in August: The Calvinism of William FaulknerChapter 3. The Role of Myth in Absalom, Absalom!Part II: Temporality, History, and TraumaChapter 4. Enigmas of Being in As I Lay DyingChapter 5. "If Was Existed": Faulkner's Prophets and the Patterns of HistoryChapter 6. On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New SouthChapter 7. "So I, who had never had a war . . .": William Faulkner, War, and the Modern ImaginationChapter 8. Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and FaulknerPart III: Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and IdentityChapter 9. Faulkner's Garden: Woman and the Immemorial EarthChapter 10. "The Beautiful One": Caddy Compson as Heroine of The Sound and the FuryChapter 11. Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom!Chapter 12. Linda Snopes Kohl: Faulkner's Radical WomanChapter 13. Faulkner's Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary ReconsideredChapter 14. The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's YoknapatawphaChapter 15. Extremities of the Body: The Anoptic Corporeality of As I Lay DyingPart IV: Modernity and Modernist TechniqueChapter 16. Faulkner's Pylon and the Structure of ModernityChapter 17. Gothicism in Sanctuary: The Black Pall and the Crap TableChapter 18. Faulkner's Storied Novel: Go Down, Moses and the Translation of TimeChapter 19. From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of InterrogationAppendix A. Alternative Grouping of Essays Appendix B. Chronological Listing of All Essays on Faulkner Published in MFSList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Secret Histories Reading TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisAnd discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.Trade ReviewA useful introduction to a broad canon of 20th-century authors, this book touches on important issues in literary-historical scholarship and uses clear, conversational language deliberately devoid of jargon; a distinctive feature of the discussion is Wyatt's pointed use of a first-person personal voice that blends his autobiographical insights with his critical readings... Highly recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsTo the ReaderAcknowledments1. The Body and the Corporation2. Double Consciousness3. Pioneering Women4. Performing Maleness5. Colored Me6. The Rumor of Race7. The Depression8. The Second World War9. Civil Rights10. Love and Separateness11. Revolt and Reaction12. The Postmodern13. Studying War14. Slavery and Memory15. Pa Not Pa16. After InnocenceA Personal NoteNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Ohio University Press Praising It New
Book SynopsisMarked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached frombiographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was thedominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since thattime, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition tothe approach advocated by the New Critics.Trade Review“Given our long-term disregard of the New Criticism, Davis‘s compendium is especially welcome.... Davis provides richly informative, well-argued, and elegantly styled introductions, head-notes, and annotations, as well as discriminating suggestions for further reading.” * Virginia Quarterly Review *“In Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism, Garrick Davis offers poets and students an exceptionally well chosen selection from the theoretical essays of the New Criticism in hopes that it will remain an available influence. They are far more interesting than such essays generally tend to be—a strength of the best of the New Critics and one that will continue to serve them well with both an academic and a general audience.” * Eclectica Magazine *“This anthology is both important and necessary. No other collection gives us such an excellent opportunity to go back to the New Criticism and see it again, as if for the first time.” * Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing *“Just how seriously the New Critics took poetry, and how much subtlety and conviction they brought to reading it, can be seen on every page of Praising It New, an excellent new anthology of the New Criticism edited by Garrick Davis.” * The New York Sun *“It is clear from reading the lapidary works in Praising It New that the New Critics were not stern moralists upholding rigid orthodoxies, as their opponents imply. Like other critics of the period -- not least Trilling and Wilson -- they saw poems and novels opening out into life in all its variety, nuance and incompleteness.” * The Wall Street Journal *“The essays in Praising It New still carry a potent charge for anyone interested in what makes the best poems tick. Davis has performed a service to readers (often in the face of recalcitrant publishers unwilling to make works available for reprint at reasonable rates), and the book will be of particular interest to poets and students of poetry. Whether or not teachers will have the good sense to assign it remains to be seen.”“Davis’s notes are excellent: how charming to be told that, as a young instructor, Jarrell coached the tennis team at Kenyon.” * ZYZZYVASPEAKS blog *
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Henry Holt & Company Inc harborsandhighseas
Book SynopsisThis guide to navigating Patrick O'Brian's well loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with chapters devoted to the final books in the series. It contains maps created exclusively for each of the novels in this world-renowned series.
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Henry Holt & Company Inc A Sea of Words Lexicon and Companion for Patrick
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political events that shaped the period, and detailed explanations of the scientific, medical, and biblical references that appear in the novels of Patrick O'Brian.
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Schocken Books The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem The Remarkable Life
Book SynopsisPart of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature. The creator of a pantheon of characters who have been immortalized in books and plays, he provided readers throughout the world with a fascinating window into the world of Eastern European Jews as they began to confront the forces of cultural, political, and religious modernity that tore through the Russian Empire in the final decades of the nineteenth century. But just as compelling as the fictional lives of Tevye, Golde, Menakhem-Mendl, and Motl was Sholem Aleichem’s own life story. Born Sholem Rabinovich in Ukraine in 1859, he endured an impoverished childhood, married into fabul
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John Wiley & Sons Dario Fo Stage Text and Tradition
Book SynopsisThese essays cover all aspects of Dario Fo: as actor, playwright, performer and songwriter. They also provide historical background to his theatre, as well as in-depth analyses of specific works and the contribution of Franca Rame. Also included is a discussion of Fo's original artwork.Table of ContentsIntroduction - the Poetics of Dario Fo, Joseph Farrell and Antoni Scuderi; An Actor's Theatre, Walter Valeri; The Rhythms of Resurrection - Onstage With Fo, Ron Jenkins; Updating Antiquity, Antonio Scuderi; ""Mistero Buffo"" - Negating Textual Certainty, the Individual and Time, Constantino Maeder; Fo and Ruzzante - Debts and Obligations, Joseph Farrell; ""The Moon is a Light Bulb"" and Other Stories - Fo, the Songwriter, Tony Mitchell; Dario Fo's ""Bourgeois Period"" - Carnival and Criticism, Bent Holm; ""Morte Accidentale"" in English, Jennifer Lorch; ""Parliamo di Donne"" - Feminism and Politics in the Theatre of Franca Rame, Sharon Wood; Tradition, Traditions and Dario Fo, Paolo Puppa; The Actor Who Writes - Dario Fo and the Nobel Prize, Joseph Farrell.
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John Wiley & Sons The View from On the Road The Rhetorical Vision
Book SynopsisThrough careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's ""On the Road"", Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can best be understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles.Trade ReviewIn a book that is both intellectually insightful and a pleasure to read, Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's novel is a vision for living. Written in an age of stability and conformity, On the Road urged its readers to travel freely with only occasional visits to stability. Through Swartz's discussion of deviance, sexuality, and Dean Moriarty, it becomes apparent that Kerouac presaged not only the Beat Generation and the hippies, but also our mobile phone and laptop computer society. For Swartz, it is the experience of a text that changes us, and The View from On the Road: The Rhetorical Vision of Jack Kerouac is a text well worth experiencing. - Craig Allen Smith, Wayne State University; ""Swartz has produced a valuable book.... Somebody stands up and speaks the truth. How wonderful to read this."" - Beat Scene
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Northwestern University Press Opposing Poetries Issues and Institutions Pt 1
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the state of contemporary experimental poetry.Table of ContentsCriticism and the crisis in American poetry; opposing poetry; poetry readings and the contemporary canon; the politics of form and poetry's other subjects - reading contemporary American poetry; experimentation and politics - contemporary poetry as commodity; thinking made in the mouth - the cultural politics of David Antin and Jerome; Rothenberg; anthologies, poetry and postmodernism.
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Northwestern University Press Opposing Poetries Readings Pt 2 Avantgarde and
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the state of contemporary experimental poetry.Table of ContentsOutlaw to classic - the poetry of Charles Berstein and Ron Silliman; language writing, or literary history and the strange case of the two Dr Williamses; a reading of Lyn Hejinian's ""My life""; ""Travelling many direction'd crossings"" - on the poetry of Rachel Blaue DuPleiss; ""Singing into the draft"" - Susan Howe's textual frontiers; partial to error - Joan Retallack's ""Errata suite""; ""To make equality less drab"" - the writing of Bruce Andrews; thinking about it - David Antin's ""Selected poems 1963-1973""; mouth to mouth - Douglas Messerli's ""Maxims from my mother's milk/Hymns to him - a dialogue""; Charles Berstein's ""Dark city"" - Polis, policy and the policing of poetry; atomic epistemology and consituent knowledge - James Sherry's ""Our nuclear heritage""; reading and writing Ron Silliman's ""Demo to ink"".
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Northwestern University Press The Poetic Avantgarde The Groups of Borges Auden
Book SynopsisA literary and cultural study of three diverse manifestations in artistic exploration in the 1920s and 1930s - the groups surrounding Jorge Luis Borges, W.H. Auden, and Andre Breton.
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Northwestern University Press Distance Manipulation The Russian Modernist
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the century, a stream of dramatic works appeared that confused their audiences to an unprecedented degree. Using five early 20th-century Russian plays, this book examines the devices the playwrights used to undercut the theatrical expectations of their audiences.
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Northwestern University Press Poetic Maneuvers Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the
Book SynopsisOne of the most innovative and respected figures of his literary generation in Europe, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has also become a major presence in international debates about literature and social change. This text considers Enzensberger's poetical texts.
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Northwestern University Press Poetic Maneuvers Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the
Book SynopsisOne of the most innovative and respected figures of his literary generation in Europe, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has also become a major presence in international debates about literature and social change. This text considers Enzensberger's poetical texts.
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Northwestern University Press Subject to Delusions Narcissism Modernism Gender
Book SynopsisA figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. Bringing the works of literary modernism and psychoanalysis together this book succeeds in enhancing our sense of both, and in clarifying the complex role of narcissism in our cultural narrative.Table of ContentsPart One: Paradigms of Narcissism; 1. Introduction: Narcissus' Paradox; 2. Reading Freud's ""On Narcissism""; Part Two: Avant-Garde Women; 3. A ""Body"" of Writing: The Voice of Henriette Hardenberg; 4. Between Birth and Death: The Image of the Other in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood; 5. The Violence of Merging: Unica Zurn's Writing (on) the Body; Epilogue; 6. Reconsidering ""Subjectivity"".
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Northwestern University Press Oyvind Fahlstrom The Art of Writing Avantgarde and Modernism Studies
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Northwestern University Press Visions of Violence German Avantgardes After
Book SynopsisNazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against degenerate art, and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant-garde to the brink of extinction. This book looks at how the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the wake of the war.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Visions of Violence; Chapter One: Deaths and Reconfigurations: Avant-Garde Time after Fascism; Chapter Two: Peter Weiss and the Exilic Body; Chapter Three: Nouveau Realismus: The Male Body and the Space of History; Chapter Four: Holocaust Simulations: Evoking Bare Life; Chapter Five: Technologies of Fascism and the Poetics of Silence and Light; Chapter Six: Alexander Kluge's Impossible Film; Chapter Seven: Phantasmagorias of Normalcy: Avant-Gardes after Unification; Index.
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Northwestern University Press Sergei Dovlatov and His Narrative Masks Studies
Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to Sergei Dovlatov (1941-90) that is closely attentive to the details of his life and work, their place in the history of Soviet society and literature, and of emigre culture during this turbulent period.
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Northwestern University Press With or without Reading Postwar German Women
Book SynopsisWith or Without explores the role of German women's poetry in the contemporary literary discourse of the latter half of the twentieth century. Melin highlights the significant role that women played in the shaping of postwar German poetry as a whole and also their deep engagement with the broader issues of modernism, postmodernism, and related discourses about the relationship between individual experience, communal ideals, and interpersonal expression. Melin shows that for German writers poetry became the genre that had the capacity to project subjectivity, voice, and authenticity.
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Northwestern University Press The Inability to Love Jews Gender and America in
Book SynopsisThe Inability to Love borrows its title from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich's 1967 landmark book The Inability to Mourn, which discussed German society's lack of psychological reckoning with the Holocaust. Challenging that notion, Agnes Mueller turns to recently published works by prominent contemporary German, non-Jewish writers to examine whether there has been a thorough engagement with German history and memory. She focuses on literature that invokes Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust. Mueller's aim is to shed light on pressing questions concerning German memories of the past, and on German images of Jews in Germany at a moment that is ideologically and historically fraught.
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Northwestern University Press Being Here Is Glorious
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Northwestern University Press Milosz and the Problem of Evil
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Northwestern University Press Lost in the Shadow of the Word
Book SynopsisScholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the early twentieth century. In this wide-ranging study, Benjamin Paloff contends that writers in Central and Eastern Europe felt this impact quite distinctly from their counterparts in Western Europe.
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Northwestern University Press Media Laboratories Late Modernist Authorship in
Book SynopsisExplores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and '40s. Moving among the authors from Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and among the genres of fiction, the essay, popular journalism, and experimental little magazines, Sarah Ann Wells shows how writers on the periphery of global modernity were fashioning alternative approaches to media.
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Northwestern University Press Lyrical Strategies
Book SynopsisAdvances the highly original idea that not all literary fiction should be read as a novel. In it, Katie Owens-Murphy identifies a prominent type of American novel well suited to the reading methods of lyric poetry and lyric frameworks of structural repetition, rhythm, figurative meaning, dramatic personae, and exclusive address.
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Northwestern University Press Shadows Burning
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Northwestern University Press Shooting the Works On Poetry and Pictures
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Northwestern University Press Triquarterly New Writers
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Northwestern University Press The Inner Adventure Conversations with Louis
Book SynopsisThis work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies of a celebrated writer, one whose work often challenged others because of his brutal honesty and his claim that only experience can be the basis of creativity.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Roots and Branches Poetry
Book SynopsisRoots and Branches, Robert Duncan’s second major book of poetry (first published in 1964) is now reissued.Trade Review"Duncan is...superb." -- Hudson Review
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Book Synopsis“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Back Country
Book Synopsis“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus Reviews
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Opening of the Field Poetry 356 New Directions Paperbook
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Myths Texts New Directions Paperbook
Book SynopsisGary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press. It is now reissued by New Directions in this completely revised format, with an introduction by the author.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation How German is it Wie Deutsch Ist Es A Novel
Book SynopsisUlrich Hargenau testifies against fellow members of a German terrorist group in order to save himself and his wife, Paula, and contemplates the nature of his German heritage.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume VII In
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Selected Poems
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