Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads Under Western Eyes 12 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Concordances to Conrads The Mirror of the Sea and The Inheritors 13 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads The Rover 16 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads Nostromo 15 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads Romance 17 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Concordance to Conrads The Rescue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Joseph Conrad An Annotated Bibliography 19 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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WW Norton & Co Ethan Frome
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.
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WW Norton & Co The Autobiography of an ExColored Man
Book SynopsisThe Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition.
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Taylor & Francis Der Besuch der alten Dame
Book SynopsisThe full German text of DÃrrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Witch in History Early Modern and
Book SynopsisIn this study, Diane Purkiss investigates the diverse interpretations and meanings attributed to the figure of the witch. The areas she considers include Canonical literature, visual arts, fairy tales, folklore, real-life witch stories, pornography and sado-masochism, film, and the stage.Trade Review'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 The Histories of Witchcraft; Chapter 1 A Holocaust of One’s Own; Chapter 2 At Play in the Fields of the Past; Chapter 3 The Witch in the Hands of Historians; Part 2 Early Modern Women’s Stories of Witchcraft; Chapter 4 The House, the Body, the Child; Chapter 5 No Limit; Chapter 6 Self-Fashioning by Women; Part 3 Witches on Stage; Chapter 7 Elizabethan Stagings; Chapter 8 The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue; Chapter 9 Testimony and Truth; Chapter 10 The Witch on the Margins of ‘race’; Conclusion;
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Taylor & Francis William Faulkner Collected Critical Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ernest Hemingway Collected Critical Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd John Dos Passos Collected Critical Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Crime Fiction by Scaggs John Author ON
Book SynopsisProvides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.Trade Review'Crime Fiction presents a digestible yet highly informative and intricate analysis of the genre. It is a valuable resourse for mystery and detective aficionados in addition to scholars' - Amy C. Branman,In-betweenTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A Chronology of Crime: Early Crime Narratives Crime Stories as Cautionary Tales Crime Fiction and Policing The Golden Age to the Present Chapter 2. Mystery and Detective Fiction: Retracing the Steps The Origins of Mystery Fiction Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the Amateur Detective Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo Settings and Sub-Genres Chapter 3. The Hard-boiled Mode: Murder for a Reason Origins and Development A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero Last Chances and New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier Mean Streets and Rat's Alleys: Modernity and the City Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode Chapter 4. The Police Procedural: Thin Blue Lines Fiction as Ideological State Apparatus Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the Procedural Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural, Social Placebo The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance Arrested Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural Chapter 5. The Crime Thriller: Outlining the Crime Thriller The Noir Thriller The Anti-Conspiracy Thriller 6. Historical Crime Fiction: Writing History and Interpreting the Past Crime, History and Realism The Case of the Name of the Rose Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel
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Taylor & Francis Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things
Book SynopsisOn publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion.This guide to Royâs ground-breaking novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The God of Small Things a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new essays and reprinted critical essays by Padmini Mongia, Aijaz Ahmad, Brinda Bose, Anna Clarke, Ãmilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas and Alex Tickell on The God of Small Things, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, conTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Text and Contexts The Text. The Author. Cultural Contexts. Literary and Cinematic Contexts. Chronology Part 2: Critical History Part 3: Critical Readings Postcolonial Cultural Studies: The Making and Marketing of Arundhati Roy by Padmini Mongia. Marxist Criticism: Reading Arundhati Roy Politically by Aijaz Ahmad. Gender, Sexuality and Politics: In Desire and in Death: Eroticism as Politics in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things by Brinda Bose. Language: Language, Hybridity and Dialogism in The God of Small Things by Anna Clarke. Narrative and Structure: The Structures of Memory by Émilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas. Genre and Performance: The Epic Side of Truth: Storytelling and Performance in The God of Small Things Alex Tickell Part 4: Further Reading and Web Resources
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Taylor & Francis SuzanLori Parks in Person
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory.Suzan-Lori Parks in Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work by major directors and critics, including Liz Diamond, Richard Foreman, Bonnie Metzgar and Beth Schachter. These contributions combine to honor the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama, and explore her ideas about theater, history, race, and gender.Material from a wide range of sources chronologically charts Parksâs career from the 1990s to the present. This is a major collection with immediate relevance to students of American/African-American theater, literature and culture. Parksâs engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the book esTrade Review'Will definitely fill a wide and gaping lacuna in this field of theatre scholarship.' - Dr Alison Forsythe, University of Aberystwyth, UK'This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in American Drama.' - Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College, UK'This collection will serve as a very helpful co-text for readers of Parks’s notoriously “difficult” plays, as it gives background and context, as well as possible readings of some of the more cryptic lines and figures.' - Deborah Thompson, Colorado State University, Modern Drama'Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries is an essential addition to dramatic literary scholarship, in that it provides a textured, critical--if penultimate--interactive means through which to meet Parks, as a dramatist, a thinker, and as a person whose work continues to probe human relations historically and presently, thoughtfully and dynamically.' - Jaye Austin Williams, California State University, Long Beach, Text & Presentation 'In total, Suzan-Lori Parks in Person is an engaging work that offers insights into the playwright's mind and work, from her undergraduate thesis to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog and her international project 365 Days/365Plays. Kolin and Young provide texts that explore not only how she works but also how she develops seeds of ideas into fully realized productions.' - Valerie M. Joyce, Villanova University, Comparative DramaTable of ContentsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsWatch Me Work: Reflections on Suzan-Lori Parks and Her Canon PART I: Interviews Theater’s Vibrant New Voice (1992)Patti HartiganIs Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks the Voice of the Future? (1993)Erika MunkSuzan-Lori Parks (1994)Han OngAlien Nation (1994)Michele PearceMaking History (1996)Tom SellarFor Posterior’s Sake (1996)Una ChaudhuriAdrienne Kennedy (1996)Suzan-Lori Parks Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (1996)Shelby Jiggetts Love and War Seen in Black and White (1997)Ronni GordonSuzan-Lori Parks (1999)David SavranAn Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks at Cal Arts (2000)Lisa CollettaA Better Mirror (2000)Kathy SovaMythology, History, Family, Performance (2001)Rick DesRochersA Moment with…Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright (2003)John MarshallInterview with Suzan-Lori Parks and Bonnie Metzgar (2006)Joseph RoachIt’s an Oberammergau Thing (2007)Kevin J. Wetmore An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (2010) Shawn-Marie GarrettConversation with Suzan-Lori Parks (2011)Dave Steakley PART II: CommentariesRemarks on Parks I (2004)Jonathan Kalb, Robert Brustein, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Mark Robinson, Alisa SolomonRemarks on Parks II (2004)Jonathan Kalb, Richard Foreman, Liz Diamond, Leah C. Gardiner, Bill WaltersThe Birth of The Death of the Last Black Man: Recollections of the First Staging (2013)Beth SchachterAn Interview with Liz Diamond (2013)Philip C. KolinBonnie Metzgar on Suzan-Lori Parks (2013)Harvey Young
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Taylor & Francis Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
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The University of Michigan Press The Rise of the African Novel
Book SynopsisSituates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.
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University of California Press Masking Selves Making Subjects
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University of California Press Joyce in Nighttown
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University of California Press The Novel of August Strindberg
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Cambridge University Press New Essays on the Crying of Lot 49
Book SynopsisIn the introduction to this collection of essays, the editor discusses the background and critical reception of The Crying of Lot 49. Further essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical and scientific contexts.Table of ContentsSeries editor's preface; 1. Introduction Patrick O'Donnell; 2. Borges and Pynchon: the tenuous symmetries of art Debra A. Castillo; 3. Toward the schizo-text: paranoia as semiotic regime in The Crying of Lot John Johnston; 4. 'Hushing sick transmissions': disrupting story in The Crying of Lot Bernard Duyfhuizen; 5. 'A metaphor of od knew how many parts': the engine that drives The Crying of Lot N. Katherine Hayles; 6. A re-cognition of her errand into the wilderness Pierre-Yves Petillon; Selected bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Book SynopsisSince Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.Trade Review'Given that genre is really a construction of critics, librarians and booksellers, designed to place books in a way that they can be more easily found by consumers, and that fantasy literature is less easy to define than, say, crime fiction, this companion has a large field to cover and does an admirable job of presenting a good overview of the many authors who fit into this [particular] niche.' Stuart Bentley, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Part I. Histories: 1. Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany Gary K. Wolfe; 2. Gothic and horror fiction Adam Roberts; 3. American fantasy, 1820–1950 Paul Kincaid; 4. The development of children's fantasy Maria Nikolajeva; 5. Tolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of genre fantasy Edward James; Part II. Ways of Reading: 6. Structuralism Brian Attebery; 7. Psychoanalysis Andrew M. Butler; 8. Political readings Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; 9. Modernism and postmodernism Jim Casey; 10. Thematic criticism Farah Mendlesohn; 11. The languages of the fantastic Greer Gilman; 12. Reading the fantasy series Kari Maund; 13. Reading the slipstream Gregory Frost; Part III. Clusters: 14. Magical realism Sharon Sieber; 15. Writers of colour Nnedi Okorafor; 16. Quest fantasies W. A. Senior; 17. Urban fantasy Alexander C. Irvine; 18. Dark fantasy and paranormal romance Roz Kaveney; 19. Modern children's fantasy Catherine Butler; 20. Historical fantasy Veronica Schanoes; 21. Fantasies of history and religion Graham Sleight.
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Cambridge University Press David Mamet and American Macho
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to C S Lewis
Book SynopsisA distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children's literature, C. S. Lewis is a controversial and enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate, fifty years after his death. This Companion is a comprehensive single-volume study written by an international team of scholars to survey Lewis's career as a literary historian, popular theologian, and creative writer. Twenty-one expert voices from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and Wheaton College, among many other places of learning, analyze Lewis's work from theological, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Some chapters consider his professional contribution to fields such as critical theory and intellectual history, while others assess his views on issues including moral knowledge, gender, prayer, war, love, suffering, and Scripture. The final chapters investigate his work as a writer of fiction and poetry. Original in its approach and unique inTrade Review'This volume has much to offer the general reader who wants to move on from the more popular aspects of Lewis' work … challenges and provokes in a way which takes into consideration the complexity and sheer scale of the man and the work.' Christian Librarian'… a book full of hidden treasures - of particular interest is the section devoted to Lewis's literary scholarship … It should also be of interest to those who are just curious about Lewis - or, for that matter, about literary criticism, theology, philosophy and creative writing.' Theology'the editors have assembled a constellation of top Lewis scholars and distinguished academics to survey the full range of Lewis's talents and achievements. it is a welcome and overdue book.' Mythlore'A truly wonderful collection … Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.' M. E. DiPaolo, Choice'The contributions, which are well written and often incisive, offer a variety of views and interpretations and in so doing illustrate the continuing appeal and importance of Lewis.' Contemporary Review'[This book is] erudite, substantial … edited by two meticulous and accomplished scholars, Robert MacSwain, Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics at the University of the South, and Michael Ward, author of the well-regarded Planet Narnia and [The] Narnia Code. The Companion, as its name bespeaks, should help us - and it does - penetrate further up and further into the ongoing legacy of Lewis … The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis succeeds in its purpose, scope, and coverage as a winsome, informative, and informed volume to accompany novice and veteran readers of Lewis in their pursuit of his insight and its source. Essays that both instruct and delight in Lewis studies are few; we can be grateful that under one cover, MacSwain and Ward have gathered so many.' Bruce L. Edwards, VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review'… succeeds in conveying the richness and complexity of Lewis' thought with an appropriately commendable depth, clarity, and imagination.' Jason Wardley, The Expository TimesTable of Contents1. Introduction Robert MacSwain; Part I. Scholar: 2. Literary critic John V. Fleming; 3. Literary theorist Stephen Logan; 4. Intellectual historian Dennis Danielson; 5. Classicist Mark Edwards; Part II. Thinker: 6. On Scripture Kevin J. Vanhoozer; 7. On theology Paul S. Fiddes; 8. On naturalism Charles Taliaferro; 9. On moral knowledge Gilbert Meilaender; 10. On discernment Joseph P. Cassidy; 11. On love Caroline J. Simon; 12. On gender Ann Loades; 13. On power Judith Wolfe; 14. On violence Stanley Hauerwas; 15. On suffering Michael Ward; Part III. Writer: 16. The Pilgrim's Regress and Surprised by Joy David Jasper; 17. The Ransom Trilogy T. A. Shippey; 18. The Great Divorce Jerry L. Walls; 19. The Chronicles of Narnia Alan Jacobs; 20. Till We Have Faces Peter J. Schakel; 21. Poet Malcolm Guite; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Book SynopsisFantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).Trade Review'Given that genre is really a construction of critics, librarians and booksellers, designed to place books in a way that they can be more easily found by consumers, and that fantasy literature is less easy to define than, say, crime fiction, this companion has a large field to cover and does an admirable job of presenting a good overview of the many authors who fit into this [particular] niche.' Stuart Bentley, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Part I. Histories: 1. Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany Gary K. Wolfe; 2. Gothic and horror fiction Adam Roberts; 3. American fantasy, 1820–1950 Paul Kincaid; 4. The development of children's fantasy Maria Nikolajeva; 5. Tolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of genre fantasy Edward James; Part II. Ways of Reading: 6. Structuralism Brian Attebery; 7. Psychoanalysis Andrew M. Butler; 8. Political readings Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; 9. Modernism and postmodernism Jim Casey; 10. Thematic criticism Farah Mendlesohn; 11. The languages of the fantastic Greer Gilman; 12. Reading the fantasy series Kari Maund; 13. Reading the slipstream Gregory Frost; Part III. Clusters: 14. Magical realism Sharon Sieber; 15. Writers of colour Nnedi Okorafor; 16. Quest fantasies W. A. Senior; 17. Urban fantasy Alexander C. Irvine; 18. Dark fantasy and paranormal romance Roz Kaveney; 19. Modern children's fantasy Catherine Butler; 20. Historical fantasy Veronica Schanoes; 21. Fantasies of history and religion Graham Sleight.
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Cambridge University Press TwentiethCentury Poetry and the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisThe emergence of photography and film in the twentieth century helped to create a shift from a culture of words to a culture of images. Since then, the question of how literature engages the visual arts has become a key question for literary studies. This extended treatment of the poetic representation of visual art examines a wide range of figures, from W. B. Yeats and Marianne Moore to Anne Sexton and Ted Hughes. Elegantly and persuasively written, the study also contains a rich sample of images that allows readers to see the same works these poets were addressing. By investigating the complex, changing relations between twentieth-century poetry, visual art and audience, it considers the way in which poetic responses to visual art place the lyric firmly within the social world. For those interested in the interplay between poetry and visual art, this will be essential reading.Trade Review'It is because Bergmann Loizeaux widens the scope of poets' involvement with visual arts considerably and because she suggests the many sophisticated ways in which poets connect with others through their ekphrastic poetry that Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts will be read and studied avidly in the coming decade.' English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: the engaging eye: ekphrasis in twentieth-century poetry; 1. Private lives in public places: Yeats and Durcan in Dublin's galleries; 2. Bystanding in Auden's 'Musée'; 3. Women looking: the feminist ekphrasis of Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich; 4. Ekphrasis in conversation: Anne Sexton and W. D. Snodgrass on Van Gogh; 5. Ekphrasis in collaboration: Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin's Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama; 6. Ekphrasis in the book: Rita Dove's African American museum.
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Harvard University Press Origin of the German Trauerspiel
Book SynopsisFocusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity, bespeaking a haunted, bedeviled world of mutability and eternal transience. In this rigorous elegant translation, history as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal.
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Princeton University Press Autobiographical Statements in TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisThe fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literature from various critical perspectives. They will whet the appetite of readers interested in penetrating beyond the canonical texts of Russian literature. The introduction focuses on the central issues andTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION. Diversity of Discourse: Autobiographical Statements in Theory and Praxis, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. Rozanov and Autobiography: The Case of Vasily Vasilievich, pg. 36*CHAPTER 2. Alexey Remizov's Later Autobiographical Prose, pg. 52*CHAPTER 3. Andrey Bely's Memories of Fiction, pg. 66*CHAPTER 4. Autobiography and History: Osip Mandelstam's Noise of Time, pg. 99*CHAPTER 5. Boris Pasternak's Safe Conduct, pg. 114*CHAPTER 6. The Imagination of Failure: Fiction and Autobiography in the Work of Yury Olesha, pg. 123*CHAPTER 9 Yury Trifonov's The House on the Embankment. Fiction or Autobiography?, pg. 172*CHAPTER 10. The Rhetoric of Nadezhda Mandelstam's Hope Against Hope, pg. 193*CHAPTER 11. Lydia Ginzburg and the Fluidity of Genre, pg. 207*CHAPTER 12. Roman Jakobson: The Autobiography of a Scholar, pg. 217*CHAPTER 13. In Search of the Right Milieu: Eduard Limonov's Kharkov Cycle, pg. 227*CHAPTER 14. Literary Selves: The Tertz-Sinyavsky Dialogue, pg. 238*Select Bibliography, pg. 261*Index, pg. 279*Studies of the Harriman Institute, pg. 288
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Liverpool University Press Carol Ann Duffy
Book SynopsisThis study looks at Duffy’s work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection.Trade Reviewa valuable introduction to the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy' Years Work in English Studies
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Liverpool University Press Jack London
Book SynopsisThis study explores how Jack London’s Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America’s most dynamic 20th-century writers.Trade Review'"Multum in Parvo" would be an appropriate title for this review. Seldom have I read a scholarly book that provided so much useful content in so few pages... Jack London has finally achieved recognition in his own country as a major author for all literary sseasons.'Earle Labor, Western American Literature
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Edinburgh University Press Fictions of India
Book SynopsisFictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce.Trade ReviewThe years most satisfying study of representations of India in the novel is Peter Morey's Fictions of India: Narrative and Power. The years most satisfying study of representations of India in the novel is Peter Morey's Fictions of India: Narrative and Power.
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Vintage Publishing Letters to Felice
Book SynopsisKafka''s letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they were twice engaged to be married. This complex relationship, which coincided with a period of great productivity for Kafka, gave him both hope and strength, but gradually disllusionment and the onset of illness drove them apart. These letters remain as a monument to the inner life of a creative artist.
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Taylor & Francis Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame AngloAmerican
Book SynopsisFocusing on the UK and US, the author offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued the playwrights in translation. She shows how the choices made by the translators and stagers of Fo and Rame's political theatre reveal attitudes toward foreign cultures and theatre generally and Italy in particular.Trade Review'The excellent discussion of American productions raise issues which transcend all geographical limitations, and these pages will be of value to anyone interested in questions of translation/adaptation, and of the risks inherent in altering dialogue, character, setting, or plot, even if the intention is to make the play more relevant to spectators.' Translation and LiteratureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Transposing theatre across cultures; Staging political theatre; Fo and Rame on the British stage; Fo and Rame on the American stage; Fo and Rame's theatre today; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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University of Nebraska Press Hotel Splendid
Book SynopsisOffers three tales that features a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which now threatens to destroy her. This title presents personal images of utopia, the importance of heritage, and the necessity of burying the dead to approach the future.Trade Review"In Hôtel Splendid, the youngest of three sisters cares for her two ailing siblings and fights to save the decrepit family hotel from total decay as it sinks slowly into a swamp. . . . Jordan Stump's excellent translation successfully captures the haunting, impressionistic nature of Redonnet's prose. Her deceptively simple style, with its short sentences and minimalist vocabulary, evokes fleeting moods and situations and gives [her] novels a poetic, musical quality. Strangely moving in its simplicity, her work is to be highly recommended to all those who appreciate the soothing effects of fairy tales and legends."—Review of Contemporary Fiction"Like traveling a very long, very dark tunnel into a blinding bright beautiful light."—Kirkus"Marie Redonnet's 1986 classic reveals a world that is as resplendent as it is disturbed, one where to succumb to impermanence proves more worthwhile than to resist."—Tricia Viveros, transitbooks.org
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Louisiana State University Press Modernism and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisFocusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particularly in relation to issues of ideology, spatiality, and violence. His analysis explores a selection of works published between 1904 and 1941.
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Northwestern University Press Unorthodox Beauty
Book SynopsisUnorthodox Beauty shows how Russian poets of the early twentieth century consciously adapted Russian Orthodox culture in order to create a distinctly religious modernism. Martha M. F. Kelly contends that, beyond mere themes, these writersdeveloped an entire poetics that drew on liturgical tradition. Specifically, Russian Orthodoxy held out the possibility of unifying spirit and matter, as well as a host of other dichotomiessubject and object, empirical and irrational, noumena and phenomena. The artist could produce a work of transformative and regenerative power. Using a range of crossdisciplinary tools, Kelly reads key works by Blok, Kuzmin, Akhmatova, and Pasternak in ways that illustrate how profoundly religious traditions and ideas shaped Russian modernist literature.
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Northwestern University Press D. H. Lawrence
Book SynopsisExamines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrence's major works through a literary device that the author coins the constitutive symbol. Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views.
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Northwestern University Press The Hygienic Apparatus
Book SynopsisTraces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction, the book explores cinema's material contexts alongside its representations of housework, urban space, traffic, pollution, disability, aging, and labour.Trade Review“This study brilliantly unpacks the imbrications between early German cinema and a pervasive concern with hygiene, understood as a set of ideas and techniques for managing the interactions between bodies and environments. Dobryden shows how hygienic thinking impacted not only filmic representations and the development of distinct genres, but also the understanding of cinema more broadly: its spaces of production and reception, its technological development, and its power to bolster or disrupt the disciplinary regimes of industrial capitalism.”—Michael Cowan, author of Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film—Advertising—Modernity“The Hygienic Apparatus beautifully weaves together two aspects of German modernity that are usually considered separately: the simultaneously unfolding trajectories of hygienic discourse and of cinema during the early decades of the twentieth century. It demonstrates on the one hand how nonfiction films on topics as diverse as the design of urban and domestic space, the perils of big city traffic, and sexual and reproductive life helped define a new hygienic imaginary, and on the other hand how feature films forged a counter-hygienic alternative to the powerfully normative schemas that emerged from the modern obsession with efficiency, order and health.” —Andreas Killen, author of Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany“In this superb reconsideration of Weimar cinema, Paul Dobryden places film at the heart of a struggle for environmental and hygienic control that is at once fascinating and unnervingly timely. Connecting architecture and infrastructure, biopolitics and disability, and both canonical and forgotten figures of early German cinema, The Hygienic Apparatus offers a model of how capacious cultural film histories should be written and important lessons for scholars of German history and the environmental humanities.” —Brian R. Jacobson, author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic SpaceTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Hygiene, Cinema, and German Modernity 1. The Hygienic Dispositif: Health and the Movie Theater Environment 2. Hygienic Modernization: Visions of Environmental Order in the Weimar Kulturfilm 3. Matter Out of Place: Pollution and Distraction in F.W. Murnau's Faust 4. Bodies Out of Place: Images of Disability and Aging 5. Landscapes of Exploitation: Environmental Disorder and Late Weimar Oppositional Filmmaking Afterword: Hygiene and Media, Then and Now Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Shaw and Feminisms
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University Press of Kentucky Divided Fictions Fanny Burney and Feminine
Book SynopsisIn this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist from private to public terms, but also reveals in Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity."
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Wayne State University Press Dear Chester Dear John Letters Between Chester
Book SynopsisChester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves.Trade Review"Reading these letters, one is delighted to be in the company of two friends who truly like each other. One also feels the passionate excitement and richness of their intellect and creativity, their anger and joy. But most of all one learns what it is like in the 20th century to be an African-American writer in America and Europe." - Clarence Major, professor of English at the University of California-Davis and author of Dirty Bird Blues"
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The University of Alabama Press Tender Is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgeralds
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest nature in prose. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions, and influences Fitzgerald explores in Tender Is the Night define key components in his affective life that evolved into a powerful aesthetic, which underwrote his stature as a major novelist. In Tender Is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities, Messenger traces the roots of Fitzgerald's writing career to the deaths of his two infant sisters, a few months before his own birth. It was their loss, Fitzgerald wrote, that made him a writer. Messenger highlights how the loss of his siblings powerfully molded his writer's relation to maternal nurturing and sympathy as well as shaped the homosocial intimations visible in the care-giving protagonist of Tender Is the Night, psychi
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The University of Alabama Press Cather Among the Moderns
Book SynopsisWilla Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.Trade ReviewCather Among the Moderns is a major contribution to the field of Cather scholarship. It will immediately be a touchstone for anyone working on Cather; with its groundbreaking study of the relationships between Cather and a range of other authors and their works, from Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost, it will also serve as a wonderful resource for future studies. Further, it helps us understand literary modernism, and modernism itself, in deeper and more nuanced ways."" - Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War and a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather FoundationTable of Contents List of Figures Preface Chapter 1. Becoming Thoroughly Modern Chapter 2. Being Modern in Greenwich Village Chapter 3. Among Women Chapter 4. The Great War and Modern Memories Chapter 5. New York Moderns in New Mexico Chapter 6. Democratic Vistas Chapter 7. Among Critics Chapter 8. Race and ""The Terrible"" Chapter 9. Making It New Notes Bibliography Index
£35.06
Duke University Press Race and the Education of Desire
Book SynopsisWhy is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire.Trade Review“Ann Stoler has given us an ingenious and compelling reading of the apparent absence of race and colonialism in Foucault’s account of modern power. She shows how colonial history remains embedded in the very conceptual categories that order modern bourgeois society in the West. Written with verve, erudition, and a sense of engagement.” --Partha Chatterjee, Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta"Race and the Education of Desire is a tour de force. Stoler has engaged in a productive dialogue with Foucault’s seminal text, and interwoven that dialogue with an illuminating analysis of the concepts and policies of imperial racism. This book should have a major impact on scholarly discussions of modern imperialism and racism."—Talal Asad, Johns Hopkins University"Ann Stoler combines impressive historical and ethnographic scholarship with moral fervor to turn Foucault’s definition of critique as the ‘art of reflective insolence’ back on his own work. A controversial tour de force!"—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley"Stoler does something here that’s incredibly rare: the delineation of a topic that now, in retrospect, appears so obvious and so right that one wonders why it had never been broached systematically before. Students of Foucault, race, empire and its aftermath, gender and sexuality will be quoting from it for years."—Andrew Parker, Amherst College"This is an important book, probably the only reading of Foucault that seriously tracks and takes up his probing, restless and recursive leads. Instead of reducing him to an icon of one or more ideas to be either uncritically embraced or irresponsibly discarded, as others have done, Stoler engages Foucault’s dynamic, nervous, and passionate moves towards focusing the interdependence of ideas and forces."—Doris Sommer, Harvard University
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Fordham University Press The Imperative to Write
Book SynopsisA philosophical analysis of the works of Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett laying stress on the aesthetic notion of the sublime, especially as defined by philosopher Immanuel Kant, and arguing that these authors incorporate sublimity into their writing while also undermining the grandeur this traditionally implies.Trade Review"Jeff Fort writes with energy and verve, ambitiously tackles some formidably difficult works, and treats in this study an extensive and important corpus of some key figures in literary modernism." -- -Alain Toumayan University of Notre Dame "The Imperative to Write examines three formidably difficult and fascinating writers of the last century: Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett. Jeff Fort analyzes the exigency to write in each of the three, and produces a powerful study of these major authors. A 'tour de force' of close reading." -- -Kevin Hart University of Virginia "In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Jeff Fort addresses some of the most enduring and intractable issues affecting modern literature." -- -Leslie Hill University of WarwickTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: "Why Do You Write?"-The Fault of Writing Part I: Kafka 1. Kafka's Teeth: The Literary Gewissenbiss 2. The Ecstasy of Judgment: Ungrasping Justice 3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law: "In the Penal Colony" and The Trial 4. Degradation of the Sublime: "A Hunger Artist" Part II: Blanchot 5. Pointed Instants: Blanchot's Exigencies 6. The Shell and the Mask: L'arret de mort 7. The Dead Look: The Death Mask, the Corpse Image, and the Haunting of Fiction Part III: Beckett 8. Beckett's Voices and the Paradox of Expression Conclusion: Speech Unredeemed-From the Call of Conscience to the Torture of Language Notes Bibliography Index
£40.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Literary Art in Digital Performance Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism Case Studies and Critical Positions
Book SynopsisFrancisco J. Ricardo, Ph.D., is an art theorist and filmmaker born in Cuba in 1962. His work focuses on new media art and artists. Formerly affiliated with the University Professors of Boston University, he is co-founder of the Digital Video Research Archive, and has taught digital media theory in the Digital+Media Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.Trade ReviewHow does each specific application of new technology reflect outward, to the broader dynamics of an electronically networked society? Are we talking about form or experience? Digital art draws upon both visual art and literature to establish a new medium that is simultaneously posited as a breakdown of those very boundaries. What results is often both work and event, realized by the audience in the process of reception. The essays in this timely book explore these ambiguities from multiple perspectives, asserting digital art as a significant paradigm shift, even rupture, yet structurally rooted in earlier traditions. Martha Buskirk, Professor of Art History and Criticism, Montserrat College of ArtLiterary Art in Digital Performance charts an expansive range of human/machine topologies, both local and distributed, while negotiating a highly relevant set of informed perspectives and critical positionings. The ever-expanding contextual potentials of this exciting field are clearly reflected here, pointing to a rich landscape of performative literary domains. This book is a must for those interested in new media/literary critical theory as it relates to a set of unique examples of contemporary media practice. William Seaman, Professor Visual Studies of Duke Univ. and Founding Chairman of Dept. of Digital Media, RISDNew technologies like videogames, interactive installation, digital literature and data visualization are used by artists and writers before critical theory can catch up with them. Now this important collection of essays on how we "read" the new media of the day elucidates the underlying meanings of these media through the lens of contemporary criticism. Each of these insightful essays on a specific work of art is made all the more useful by the discerning post essay conversations Ricardo has with the authors. George Fifield, Founder of the Boston Cyberarts FestivalTable of Contents1. Introduction: Juncture and Form in New Media Criticism, Francisco J. Ricardo; 2. What is and Toward What End do We Read Digital Literature?, Roberto Simanowski.
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