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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study in English of Camus''s life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky''s thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus''s own thinking.Trade Review 'Scholarly and thoughtfully written . . . Davison's book, which also includes a comprehensive bibliography and index, amounts to an invaluable and interesting contribution to Camus studies.' (French Studies, LIV.I, 2000) 'Ray Davison has . . . Produced an important and thought-provoking book. It would be helpful to compare it with P. Dunwoodie's Une histoire ambivalente: le dialogue Camus-Dostoïevski (Nizet, 1996) as Davison himself suggests. The widening and deepening of the notion of influence which both books are concerned with is a very worthwhile development.' (New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 20, Number 2 1999) 'Davison's contextual approach is consistently rich and his ideas are elegantly and powerfully expressed. He engages with other major critics (notably Peter Dunwoodie) and establishes important links between texts.By quoting lavishly from the full range of the author's works, including speeches, letters and diaries (French translations of the original Russian texts are used), Davison allows the reader to follow at close hand the internal dynamics of the relationship…Davison's study…offers the most complete account yet of the Camus-Dostoevsky relationship.' (Journal of European Studies Vol XXVIII 1998) 'Complementing Peter Dunwoodie's recent study, Ray Davison's engaging account of Camus and Dostoevsky constitutes another invaluable contribution to Camus scholarship.' (Modern and Contemporary France, Volume 6, No 4, 1998) 'Through detailed and lucid analysis of Camus's texts, Davison traces the impact that the Russian works had on Camus's intellectual development and highlights his attempts at forging a counter-discourse. . . Readers will welcome the clarity of analysis and exposition of complex ideas in the 'world of ideas and politics' and the flexible chronology which shows Camus engaging with Dostoevsky at different stages as novelist/philosopher of the absurd, as Christian humanist and, finally, as prophet of twentieth-century political nihilism and totalitarianism. Even more welcome, perhaps, is his ability to uncover something of the complex dynamism, the excitement and the frustration in that relation. . . Camus himself claimed that one cannot understand twentieth-century French literature without reference to Dostoevsky, and in tracing the way Camus wrestled with him intellectually, Davison has, perhaps, put in place the final piece of a jigsaw which has exercised critics for fifty years.' (Times Literary Supplement, 10 April 1998) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Camus and Dostoevsky: an Encounter in Profile 2. Dostoevsky and the Absurd Novel 3. Suicide and Logic: Camus's use of Dostoevsky's 'Judgement' and 'Moralite un peu tardive' in Le Mythe de Sisyphe. 4. Camus and Dostoevsky's Revels 5. Freedom and the Man-God: Camus and Kirilov in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 6. Two Tzars of the Absurd: Stavroguine and Ivan in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 7. Ivan and Metaphysical Revolt: the Shadow of the Grand Inquisitor 8. Camus and Les Possedes: Nihilism and Historical Revolt 9. From the Last to the First Man: The Challenge of The Underground Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNorman MacCaig''s poetry is clear and lucid and filled with the shifting light of Edinburgh and Assynt. MacCaig stands in the first rank of twentieth-century poets: Seamus Heaney said of him, He means poetry to me. Roderick Watson''s SCOTNOTE study guide will enhance any student''s enjoyment of MacCaig''s poetry, as well as providing a deeper understanding of the poet''s craft.

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Book SynopsisAfrican American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovation, it considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field. Examining various historical forces shaping the creation of innovative genres, the turn to the afterlife of slavery, the pull toward protest, and the impact of new and expanded geographies and methods, this Companion provides an invaluable point of reference for readers seeking rigorous and cutting-edge analyses of contemporary African American literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction Yogita Goyal; Part I. Histories of the Present: 1. African American Citizenship in the Post-Civil Rights Era Margo Crawford; 2. The Politics of Class Rolland Murray; 3. Rethinking Post-Racialism Aida Levy-Hussen; Part II. African American Genres: 4. Afro-Futurism and the Speculative Turn Madhu Dubey; 5. The Black Lyric Anthony Reed; 6. Neo-Slave Imaginaries Christopher Freeburg; 7. Incarceration and Confinement Literature Patrick Elliott Alexander; 8. Satire, Comedy, and Critique Derek Maus; 9. Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds Aneeka Henderson; Part III. Mapping New Identities and Geographies: 10. Feminist Intersections Sheri Marie Harrison; 11. Queer Bodies in Time GerShun Avilez; 12. Global and Diasporic Worldmaking Nadia Ellis; Part IV. Critical Approaches: 13. African American Soundscapes Shana Redmond; 14. African American Literature and Visual Culture Hayley O'Malley; 15. The Affective Turn Lauren Michele Jackson; 16. Print Culture and Literary Sociology Kinohi Nishikawa; 17. Digital and New Media Cultures of Protest Marisa Parham.

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Book SynopsisThe mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new ideas and practices to increasing numbers of collectors, exhibitions offered opportunities previously unheard of, and scholars worked together to transform how the history of printing was understood. These dramatic changes would have profound consequences for bibliographical study and collecting, accompanied as they were by a proliferation in means of access. Many ideas arising during this time would even continue to exert their influence in the digitised arena of today. This book traces this revolution to its roots in commercial and personal ties between key players in England, France and beyond, illuminating how exhibitions, libraries, booksellers, scholars and popular writers all contributed to the modern world of book studies. For students and researchers, it offers an invaluable means of orientation in a field now once again undergoing deep aTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Re-shaping the world; 3. Books in abundance; 4. Celebrating print: Libraries; 5. Access: National Collections; 6. The British Museum Commission, 1847-50; 7. Libraries in confusion; 8. Collaboration: Trading and Collecting; 9. The trade in second-hand books; 10. Private collectors and the public: Books in Detail; 11. Writing in books; 12. Bookbinding: Books on Show; 13. Reproduction; 14. Exhibitions: Another Generation; 15. Changes in direction; 16. Advice and guidance; 17. Standing back; 18. The next generation; Conclusion; 19. Then and now.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Poor White Southerners in the American Imaginary; 1. Riffraff and Half-Strainers: Charles W. Chesnutt and Regionalism; 2. Slow, Sweating, Stinking Bumpkins: William Faulkner and Modernism; 3. Civil Rights and Uncivil Whites: Flannery O'Connor and Southern Women's Midcentury Writing; 4. Hungry Women and Horny Men: Dorothy Allison, Barbara Robinette Moss, and Grit Lit; Coda.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an entry point for understanding the comprehensive way this uniquely American artistic form has influenced literature, art, film, and other art forms, while also providing a cultural space for political commentary or social critique.Trade Review'In this elegant, bold, ambitious, and much-needed intervention in the standard histories of Jazz, Borshuk brings together an all-star cast of leading scholars on a comprehensive set of topics that together enable us all to make a great leap forward in understanding the music's essential relation to American culture. The book begins with several insightful discussions of the specific aesthetic features that define jazz in the context of improvisation, race, literature, and performance, then situates the music historically in terms of Harlem, Modernism, and the watershed upheaval that peaked in 1968; from there, it connects jazz to American vernacular, the personal style of “cool,” and the music's eventual and always fraught relations with institutions of various kinds, its representation in poetry, autobiography, liner notes, and in the visual realm from cinema to TV to photography. An invaluable resource, a stunning achievement.' T. R. Johnson, Tulane University, Author of New Orleans: A Writer's CityTable of ContentsIntroduction: a brief history of jazz in American culture Michael Borshuk; Part I. Elements of Sound and Style: 1. Improvisation Ajay Heble; 2. Scat and vocalese Chris Tonelli; 3. Jazz as intertextual expression Charles Hersch; 4. How to watch jazz: the importance of performance Michael Borshuk; Part II. Aesthetic Movements: 5. Jazz age Harlem Fiona Ngo; 6. 'Hard Times Don't Worry Me': the blues in Black music and literature in the 1930s Steven Tracy; 7. A fool for beauty: modernism and the racial semiotics of crooning Michael Coyle; 8. Free Jazz, critical performativity, and 1968 Michael Hrebeniak; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 9. Jazz slang, jazz speak Amor Kohli; 10. Jazz cool Joel Dinerstein; 11. The institutionalization of jazz Dale Chapman; 12. Jazz abroad Jurgen Grandt; Part IV. Literary Genres: 13. Orchestrating chaos: othering and the politics of contingency in jazz fiction Herman Beavers; 14. 'Wail, wop': jazz poetry on the page and in performance Jessica Teague; 15. Jazz criticism and liner notes Timothy Gray; 16. Jazz autobiography Daniel Stein; 17. Jazz and the American songbook Katherine Williams; Part V. Images and Screens: 18. 'The Sound I Saw': jazz and visual culture Amy Abugo Ongiri; 19. Love, theft, and transcendence: jazz and narrative cinema Krin Gabbard; 20. Reinstating televisual histories of jazz Nicolas Pillai; 21. Documentary jazz/jazz documentary Will Finch; 22. Two dark rooms: jazz and photography Benjamin Cawthra.

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Book SynopsisIris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist of extraordinary breadth and originality whose work defies simple categorisation. Her philosophical writing engages with an astonishingly wide range of figures, from Plato and Kant to Sartre and Heidegger, and her work increasingly inspires debate in ethics, aesthetics, religion, and literature.The Murdochian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the full span of Murdoch''s philosophical work, comprising 37 specially commissioned chapters written by an international team of leading scholars. Divided into five clear parts, the volume covers the following areas: A guide to Murdoch''s key philosophical texts, including The Sovereignty of Good and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Core themes and concepts in Murdoch''s philosophy, such as love, moral vision, and attention. Murdoch''s engagement with the history of philosophy, including Plato, Kant, Hegel, SimTrade Review'The Murdochian Mind is a whole three-day conference between covers. … The 2022 Iris Murdoch Conference took place while I was working on this review. Interleaved with my reading were emails and social media posts making me feel that, while I am on the other side of the world, the conversations are continuing wherever Murdochians meet, in person, on paper, or online. Books like this one enrich these conversations, and I congratulate Caprioglio Panizza and Hopwood – Silvia and Mark – on the enormous intellectual and organisational feat they have accomplished in bringing this book together.' - Gillian Dooley, Iris Murdoch Review Table of ContentsIntroduction Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood Part 1: Reading Murdoch 1. The Importance of Murdoch`s early encounters with Marcel and Anscombe Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman 2. How to read The Sovereignty of Good Justin Broackes 3. How to read The Fire and the Sun David Robjant 4. How to read Acastos: Murdoch’s Platonic dialogues Hannah Marije Altorf 5. How to read Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals Mark Hopwood 6. How Iris Murdoch can change your life Frances White 7. Murdoch and me: A personal reflection Stanley Hauerwas Part 2: Core themes and concepts 8. Thinking, language, and concepts Niklas Forsberg 9. Inwardness in ethics Sophie Grace Chappell 10. Moral vision Anil Gomes 11. Attention Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 12. Love Christopher Cordner 13. Virtue Maria Silvia Vaccarezza 14. The Good Craig Taylor 15. The ontological argument Nora Hämäläinen 16. Care for the ordinary Sandra Laugier Part 3: Critical encounters 17. Murdoch and Plato Catherine Rowett 18. Murdoch and Kant Melissa Merritt 19. Murdoch and Hegel Gary Browning 20. Murdoch and Heidegger Michelle Mahoney 21. Murdoch and Sartre Alison Scott-Baumann 22. Murdoch and Weil Eva-Maria Düringer 23. Murdoch and Wittgenstein Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen 24. Murdoch and K.E. Løgstrup Robert Stern Part 4: Art, religion, and politics 25. Art, beauty, and morality Chiara Brozzo and Andy Hamilton 26. Is Murdoch a philosophical novelist? Miles Leeson 27. Writing morally Rowan Williams 28. Murdoch and Christianity Elizabeth Burns 29. Murdoch and Buddhism Christopher W. Gowans 30. Murdoch and Jewish thought Victor Jeleniewski Seidler 31. Murdoch and politics Lawrence Blum 32. Murdoch and feminism Lucy Bolton Part 5: Contemporary moral issues 33. Nature and the environment Lucy Oulton 34. Loving attention to animals Tony Milligan 35. Psychiatric ethics Anna Bergqvist 36. Moral injury Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon 37. Civility Megan Jane Laverty. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines Gore Vidalâs lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, it argues that his interaction with antiquity was central to the way in which he viewed himself, his writing, and his world. Divided between the three primary subjects of his writing â sex, politics, and religion â this book traces the lengthy dialogue between Vidal and antiquity over the course of his sixty-year career.Broughall analyses Vidalâs portrayals of the ancient past in novels such as Julian (1964), Creation (1981) and Live from Golgotha (1992). He also shows how classical literature inspired Vidalâs other fiction, such as The City and the Pillar (1948), Myra Breckinridge (1968), and his Narratives of Empire (1967â2000) novels. Beyond his fiction, Broughall examines the ways in which antiquity influenced Vidalâs careers as a playwright, an essayist and a satirist, and evalu

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works. Written when Pinter was only a few plays old, the book draws on several sources, including interviews with Pinter himself, to comment on Pinter's career, his aesthetic and philosophical choices, and his oeuvre as a writer. The section devoted to his individual plays has been arranged in a chronological manner to visually represent the growth of the playwright and the relationship shared between his early and later works. Esslin, known for coining the term theatre of the absurd,' was himself an inspiration to Pinter and hence, the book records an intellectual and creative exchange between the author and his subject. The book will be of interest to students of literature, drama, history as well as to an academically inclined theatre audience.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1971, Ionesco is a study of the plays written by the absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco.

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Book SynopsisReflecting on the clash of civilizations as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the author's interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity. Situated within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be perceived as an essential other, making it highly relevant in the quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing humankind today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points of view, highlighting the significance of difference and the necessity of dialogue, before, ultimately, rethinking the nature of world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a means of reconciliation between cultures. Chinese culture, as a frame of reference endowed with traditions of harmony without homogeneity, may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation and even reconstruct the understaTrade Review"This splendid and deftly translated book gives us a deep understanding of the development of comparative literature as it learned to embrace the many literatures of the world, and it explores the role of Chinese culture in using Taoist insights to illuminate the critical issues of the ever-modernizing twenty-first century. It is sure to become an essential text in this still evolving discipline."Leo Damrosch, Professor of Harvard University"Professor Yue Daiyun is one of the founders and pioneering figures of contemporary Chinese comparative literature. Chinese Thought in a Multi-cultural World is an insightful selection of her essays written at the turn of the century which is characterized by her unique cross-cultural perspective and border-writing style. It has indeed witnessed and promoted the rise of the Chinese School of comparative literature in the international academic community."Wang Ning, Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University"Committed to cross-cultural quest with global vision, Professor Yue Daiyun has made the Chinese voice heard in the globalized, polyphonic world, and contributed enormously to the development of comparative literature in China."Ji Jin, Professor of Soochow University, China Table of Contents1. The Context of the Times: The Clash of Civilizations and the Future 2. The Neo-Humanism for the Twenty-first Century 3. The Transformation of the Post-Modernist Ethos and a New Platform for Literary Studies 4. The American, European, and Chinese Dreams: An Example of Cultural Transformation 5. Thoughts on Comparative Literature and World Literature 6. Interactive Cognition: The Case of Literature-Science Interaction 7. Interactive Cognition and Mutual Interpretation 8. Difference and Dialogue 9. Chinese Culture and the Reconstruction of World Culture 10. The Interpenetration of Sinology and Guoxue 11. The Three Phases of the Development of Comparative Literature 12. “The Death of Comparative Literature” and Its Regeneration 13. The Beginning and Early Development of Comparative Literature in China from 1900 to 1910 14. Where to, Where from, and When: The Quest of Wang Guowei 15. The Enquiries of Lu Xun in His Early Years 16. Zhu Guangqian and His Contribution to Comparative Literature in China

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.

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Book SynopsisInformed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939). It argues that postcards need to be recognized as important early twentieth-century communication technologies and distinctly modernist textualities, composed of multimedia, rectoâverso intertextualities. Moreover, their material limitations encourage users to inscribe messages often in fragmented language forms and innovative cultural shorthands (a.k.a. postcardese). This study redresses the ongoing, widespread scholarly neglect of signifying postcard materialities in modernist studies and the editorial silencing of postcard features in collections of published author correspondence. It also stresses that for these four literary figures of modernism, the material choice of a postcard for communicating is always as much the (meta)message, as any of the signifying materialities they carry uploaded onto their platforming surfaces.

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Book Synopsis(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fictionnuclear holocaust and climate change alikeallows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.

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Book SynopsisWriting in-Between lies at intersections: between theory and praxis; between fiction and non-fiction; between author and reader; between the personal and the political. Beginning with a conceptual glossary that prepares readers for their journey through the book, Dinesh offers two central texts to invite readers to become co-creators. The first, F for _____, is written as an âœacademic novellaâ and culminates with an interactive section that is composed of guided invitations for the reader/co-creator. The second text, Julys, takes the form of a âœdramatic memoirâ and intersperses invitations for readers/co-creators between each of its chapters. Dinesh brings these threads together in an entirely interactive concluding chapter, where her hopes for collaborative meaning making take centre stage. In all of its unique invitations to engage, Dineshâs readers/co-creators can either choose to craft their creations in personal notebooks or blank spaces in this workâs physical copy, or to engage more publicly via virtual forums that can be accessed via QR codes and accompanying links that are scattered throughout the book. Guided by questions about writing can âœdoâ â questions that have shaped Dineshâs work as an artist, scholar, and educator for almost two decades â Writing in Between embodies one central tenet: that the significance of performative writing might be most powerfully experienced through a collaborative process of meaning making between a textâs author and its readers turned co-creators.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance.This comprehensive collection brings together contributions from international scholars who explore Rooneyâs novels through a range of interdisciplinary lenses, including literary studies, gender theory, political analysis, and cultural criticism. The book provides critical insights into Rooneyâs exploration of millennial identity, class dynamics, relationships, and the evolving role of technology in shaping human connections. By situating Rooneyâs work within both the global context and post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, the collection presents a nuanced understanding of her literary impact.The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney is essential reading for academics and students studying contemporary Irish literature. The volume not only highlights the significance of Rooneyâs work in contemporary literature but also expands on its sociopolitical relevance, making it an indispensable resource for understanding her cultural impact.

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Book SynopsisLiterature from the ''political'' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the ''aesthetic'' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British literature. The strains of national break-up, class dissension and political instability provoked a new literary order, and reading across the two decades between the wars exposes the continuing pressure of these transitions. Instead of following familiar markers - 1922, the Crash, the Spanish Civil War - or isolating particular themes from literary study, this collection takes key problems and dilemmas from literature ''in transition'' and reads them across familiar and unfamiliar cultural works and productions, in their rich and contradictory context of publication. Themes such as gender, sexuality, nation and class are thus present throughout these essays. Major writers such as Woolf are reTrade Review'The underlying editorial argument is consistently evident through the book, offering the reader a satisfying sense of congruence and coherence across parts and chapters. The authors also do justice to the aim of the 'British Literature in Transition' series 'to understand literature's role in mediating the developments of the past hundred years … there is much to admire in the way contributors manage to weave together literary works and the social and political histories of the day.' Brian Elliott, Marx and Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill; Part I. After the War: 1. Out of Mrs Colefax's Drawing-Room: poets and poetry between the wars Harry Ricketts; 2. Perverting the postwar: sexuality and state violence in women's literature Layne Parish Craig; 3. Journeys without maps: literature and spiritual experience Lara Vetter; Part II. Literature after Human Nature Changed: 4. Writing the vote: suffrage, gender, and politics Sowon S. Park and Kathryn Laing; 5. Literature and human rights Rachel Potter; 6. Psychoanalysis and modernism John Farrell; Part III. Immense Panoramas of Futility and Anarchy: Writing and Politics: 7. History: the past in transition Gabrielle McIntire; 8. Women's work? Domestic labour and proletarian fiction Charles Ferrall; 9. Ordinary places, intermodern genres: documentary, travel, and literature Kristin Bluemel; 10. Bloomsbury conversations that didn't happen: Indian writing between British modernism and anti-colonialism Snehal Shingavi and Charlotte Nunes; Part IV. The First Break-Up of Britain: 11. Between Holyhead and Kingstown: Anglo-Irish perspectives on the character of British fiction Michael G. Cronin; 12. Cancer of empire: the Glasgow novel between the wars Liam McIlvanney; 13. Lewis Jones and the making of Welsh Identity Shintaro Kono; 14. From Optik to Haptik: Celticism, symbols and stones in the 1930s Peter Mackay; Part V. Transitions High and Low: 15. On the home front: designs for living in British drama between the wars Penny Farfan; 16. Middlemen, middlebrow, broadbrow Nicola Wilson; 17. Detective fiction: resolutions without solutions J. C. Bernthal; 18. British literature in transmission: writing and wireless James Purdon.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot's poetry and drama; explores important contemporary critical issues that were previously untreated, such as the significance of gender and sexuality; and challenges received accounts of his at times controversial critical reception. Complete with a chronology of Eliot's life and work and an up-to-date select bibliography, this authoritative and accessible introduction to Eliot's complete oeuvre will be an essential resource for students.Trade Review'This volume replaces the 1994 Companion, since when much of Eliot's prose, letters and uncollected poems have finally been published, accompanied by (the editor claims in his preface) a 'seismic upheaval in Eliot scholarship and criticism'.' David Geall, Huntington Library Quarterly'Having benefited from current biographical and theoretical advances in scholarship, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot provides an authoritative and coherent overview of Eliot's career as a poet, critic, and dramatist. The essays reassess and reinterpret Eliot's whole oeuvre from fresh angles. Concentrating on fundamental and emerging problems in Eliot studies, this latest Cambridge Companion innovatively sparks inspiration on topics that were not covered in the previous Companion, such as gender and sexuality. Thus, the collection reflects recent shifts in focus and a changing framework for the now thriving field of Eliot studies.' Chen Lin, Journal of Modern LiteratureTable of Contents1. Unravelling Eliot Jason Harding; 2. Eliot: form and allusion Michael O'Neill; 3. Prufrock and Other Observations Anne Stillman; 4. Banishing the backward devils: Eliot's quatrain poems and 'Gerontion' Rick de Villiers; 5. With automatic hand: The Waste Land Lawrence Rainey; 6. 'Let these words answer': Ash-Wednesday and the Ariel poems Sarah Kennedy; 7. Four Quartets Steve Ellis; 8. 'A precise way of thinking and feeling': Eliot and verse drama Anthony Cuda; 9. T. S. Eliot as literary critic Helen Thaventhiran; 10. T. S. Eliot's social criticism John Xiros Cooper; 11. Gender and sexuality Gail McDonald; 12. Eliot's philosophical studies: Bergson, Frazer, Bradley Jewel Spears Brooker; 13. Anglo-Catholic in religion: T. S. Eliot and Christianity Barry Spurr.

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Book SynopsisModernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers'' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology''s crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism''s vision of the novel. To many modernists, both novel and machine increasingly seemed to merge into the experiences of readers or users. But modernists also saw potential for a different understanding of technology - in pre-modern machines, or the technical functioning of technologies stripped of their current social roles. With chapters on Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West, Novel Theory argues that in these alternative visions of technology, modernists found models for how the novel might become an autonomous, intellectual object rather than a familiar experience, and articulated a future for the novel by imagining it as a new kind of machine.Trade Review'… Fielding offers a valuable discussion of modernist theories of the novel that renews ongoing debates over aesthetic divisions between high culture and mass culture, while also showing how these theories are often modulated through discourses of technology. Her knowledge of narrative theory and modernist aesthetics is impressive, and her readings make important contributions to the scholarship on James, Ford, Lewis, and West. Her extensive research also draws attention to figures such as Percy Lubbock and Q. D. Leavis who helped to shape the ways in which modernist novelists thought about form. Fielding's book brings into focus a fascinating debate over the aesthetics and epistemology of the modern novel as a technology for knowing.' Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism/modernity'Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain is an exacting study … Fielding admirably succeeds in carrying her own readers through this patient analysis of the formal strategies and critical theories the four writers (Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West) she analyzes developed to mount a 'resistance to reading'.' Damien Keane, Twentieth-Century Literature'This is the value of Fielding's intervention: it is almost tailor-made for answering [Michaela] Bronstein's call for clear alternatives to the context-based historicist approaches to modernism, even as Fielding is interested in making arguments about changes in literature over time.' Shawna Ross, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Readers and machines in modernist novel theory; 1. Point of view as projector: Henry James, Percy Lubbock, and the modernist management of reading; 2. What carries the novel: Ford Madox Ford, Impressionist connectivity, and the telephone; 3. 'Every age has been 'a machine age'': Wyndham Lewis and the novel's technological temporality; 4. From empathy to the super-cortex: Rebecca West's technics of the novel; Conclusion. Novel theory and technology in late Modernism.

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Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Transition, 19301940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and theoretically advanced account of the Depression era''s key literary events. Many topics of canonical importance, such as protest literature, Hollywood fiction, the culture industry, and populism, receive fresh treatment. The book also covers emerging areas of interest, such as radio drama, bestsellers, religious fiction, internationalism, and middlebrow domestic fiction. Traditionally, scholars have treated each one of these issues in isolation. This volume situates all the significant literary developments of the 1930s within a single and capacious vision that discloses their hidden structural relations - their contradictions, similarities, and reciprocities. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars interested in American literary culture of the 1930s.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ichiro Takayoshi; Part I. Themes: 1. The middle class Amy L. Blair; 2. Romance, marriage, and family Jennifer Haytock; 3. The working class Joseph B. Entin; 4. Sympathy and poverty John Marsh; 5. Black culture at home and abroad Etsuko Taketani; 6. The Southern heritage Michael Kreyling; 7. The literature of social protest in California David Wrobel; 8. Reckoning with Christianity Jason Stevens; 9. Diversity and American letters Yael Schacher; 10. This land is your land Robert B. Westbrook; 11. Look at the world! David Ekbladh and Ichiro Takayoshi; Part II. Formats: 12. Bestsellers David Welky; 13. Radio drama Neil Verma; 14. Crime fiction Charles J. Rzepka; 15. Documentary work Jeff Allred; 16. Modernism Milton A. Cohen; 17. The American stage Mark Fearnow; Part III. Institutions: 18. Federal Writers' Project Jerrold Hirsch; 19. Hollywood William Solomon; 20. Time Inc. Donal Harris; 21. The Communist Party Christopher Phelps; Echoes of the 1930s Morris Dickstein.

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Book SynopsisHailed as ''the father of black literature in the twentieth century'', Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals only that of W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection captures Wright''s immense power, which has made him a beacon for writers across decades, from the civil rights era to today. Individual essays examine Wright''s art as central to his intellectual life and shed new light on his classic texts - Native Son and Black Boy. Other essays turn to his short fiction, and non-fiction as well as his lesser-known work in journalism and poetry, paying particular attention to manuscripts in Wright''s archive - unpublished letters and novels, plans for multivolume works - that allow us to see the depth and expansiveness of his aesthetic and political vision. Exploring how Wright''s expatriation to France facilitated a broadening of this vision, contributors challenge the idea that expatriation led to Wright''s artistic decliTrade Review'This is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Wright (1908–60), especially in that it attempts to revise Wright's literary legacy … All the essays are thoughtful and well researched. Two of the more outstanding submissions are Kathryn Roberts's 'Outside Joke: Humorlessness and Masculinity in Richard Wright' and Ernest Julius Mitchell's 'Tenderness in Early Richard Wright'. These essays reframe Wright's intentions and explode long-held myths of his views on gender and sexuality … Highly Recommended' A. S. Newson-Horst, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Richard Wright's art and politics Glenda R. Carpio; Part I. Native Son in Jim Crow America: 1. The literary ecology of Native Son and Black Boy George Hutchinson; 2. Richard Wright's planned incongruity: Black Boy as modern living Jay Garcia; 3. Marxism, communism, and Richard Wright's depression-era work Nathaniel F. Mills; 4. Rhythms of race in Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home' Robert B. Stepto; 5. Sincere art and honest science: Richard Wright and the Chicago School of Sociology Gene Andrew Jarrett; 6. Outside joke: humorlessness and masculinity in Richard Wright Kathryn S. Roberts; Part II. I Choose Exile: Wright Abroad: 7. Freedom in a godless and unhappy world: Wright as outsider Tommie Shelby; 8. Richard Wright, Paris Noir, and transatlantic networks: a book history perspective Laurence Cossu-Beaumont; 9. Expatriation in Wright's late fiction Alice Mikal Craven; 10. Richard Wright's globalism Nicholas T. Rinehart; 11. Richard Wright's transnationalism and his unwritten Magnus Opus Stephan Kuhl; 12. Tenderness in early Richard Wright Ernest Julius Mitchell.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines women's life writing from the Second World War and the Holocaust. Chapters on army auxiliaries, nurses, refugees, rape victims, and Holocaust survivors allow insights into the nature of complicity itself, the emergence of violence in civil society, and the possibility of social justice.Trade Review'Elisabeth Krimmer's excellent study draws on memoirs and fiction to enrich our understanding of women's widespread involvement in the Third Reich and the Second World War … this comprehensive and thought-provoking study provides new impulses for research into the still undertheorized matter of complicity.' Katherine Stone, The Modern Language Review'Elisabeth Krimmer offers poised readings of a broad range of women's voices to promote a nuanced understanding of the complex relationship of gender, genocide, and female agency. In doing so, she both untangles and complicates narratives about the German past, corrects androcentric views, and brings a welcome and important addition to the field that will be of use to scholars and students in a variety of disciplinary frameworks.' Sandra Alfers, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: gender, war and the Holocaust; 2. Ruptured narratives: German women and Hitler's army; 3. Cropped vision: nursing in the Second World War; 4. Interrupted silences: German victims of rape; 5. Parallel stories: women refugees; 6. A view from the outside in: Jewish women and German complicity; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisRudyard Kipling''s (18651936) work is known and loved the world over by children and adults alike; it has been translated into many languages, and onto the cinema screen. This volume brings together for the first time some 86 uncollected short fictions. Almost all of them will be unfamiliar to readers; some are unrecorded in any bibliography; some are here published for the first time. Most of them come from Kipling''s Indian years and show him experimenting with a great variety of forms and tones. We see the young Kipling enjoying the exercise of his craft; yet the voice that emerges throughout is always unmistakably his own, changing the scene every time the curtain is raised.Trade Review'… brings together for the first time … a single volume [of] some 86 uncollected short fictions by Kipling. Almost all of them will be unfamiliar to readers; some are unrecorded in any bibliography; some are here published for the first time. … The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Prose Fictions is especially recommended to the attention of students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the career and literature of Rudyard Kipling.' Library Bookwatch'The pieces printed here represent work in progress in the making of a great writer, and in at least one of them, genius finds its perfect vehicle.' Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph'… a rare insight into the young Kipling.' The Observer'This fascinating collection lays bare the early development of Kipling's art, before giving us a single, powerful glimpse of where it would take him.' Andrew Glazzard, New Statesman'Only now, thanks to Thomas C. Pinney (a mighty Kiplingologist, editor of his complete correspondence), do we have a definitive list (of Kipling's short fiction), and a whole new book of these early pieces, many of which have never been reprinted before.' Sir Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph'For students of Kipling's writing, this will open a window into the work of a young, but very talented, writer as he rehearses and practices his craft, finding his way as he develops a style that will become distinctly his own.' Rosi Hollinbeck, San Francisco Book Review'A treasure trove for Kipling's fans and for anyone interested in fiction set in India during the British Raj …' Desi News'Pinney's editorial skill and scholarship are everywhere evident in these pages.' Jan Montefiore, The Times Literary Supplement'… this whole volume is a helpful addition to the library of anyone with a serious interest in this prolific and extraordinary writer.' John Batchelor, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; The cause of humanity and other stories; Appendices; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisTed Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Christian faith, revealing his critically-endorsed paganism as profoundly and productively engaged with all the essentials of Christian thought. Hughes''s intense criticism of the Reformation, his interest in restoring the Virgin Mary to her pre-Christian status as divine mother-goddess, his attempts to marry evolutionary science and scripture with a biological interpretation of the fall, his endorsement of the cross as the central symbol of the human condition, and the role of Christ in his myth of Sylvia Plath are among the many topics explored. Along the way, Troupes establishes strong thematic and intertextual links between Hughes and the American Transcendentalist tradition - a tradition which offers moments of vital illumination of Hughes''s religious themes while encouraging a more generous trans-Atlantic appreciation of Hughes''s literaryTrade Review'Ted Hughes and Christianity is a brave, unorthodox and unexpected book - but a very welcome one all the same. Troupes has emphatically made his case that Hughes is a thinker in the Christian tradition - and in his maverick fashion has written a highly entertaining and thought provoking book.'Table of Contents1. The deeper life; 2. The biological fall; 3. The biblical fall; 4. The crucifixion; 5. Puritanism and the goddess; 6. Sacrament and transcendence in River; 7. Sylvia Plath: being Christlike; Afterword. Glimpses.

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Book SynopsisThis book is aimed at undergraduate students, and taught postgraduate students. It gives students a clear, comprehensive and accessible guide to the key concepts shaping the British novel from 1980 to 2018, which is also driven by original research.Table of ContentsIntroduction: framing the present Peter Boxall; Part I. Overview: 1. The 1980s Bridget Chalk; 2. The 1990s Pieter Vermeulen; 3. Post-millennial literature Leigh Wilson; Part II. New Formations: 4. British writing and the limits of the human Gabriele Griffin; 5. Form and fiction, 1980-the present Kevin Brazil; 6. Institutions of fiction Caroline Wintersgill; Part III. Genres and Movements: 7. Late modernism, postmodernism, and after Martin Eve; 8. Experiment and the genre novel Caroline Edwards; 9. Transgression and experimentation: the historical novel Jerome de Groot; 10. Film and fiction from 1980-the present Petra Rau; Part IV. Contexts: 11. The Mid Atlantics Ben Masters; 12. Fiction, religion and freedom of speech, from 'the Rushdie affair' to 7/7 Stephen Morton; 13. Sexual dissidence and British writing Rebecca Pohl; 14. British cosmopolitanism after 1980 Patrick Deer; Conclusion: imagining the future Peter Boxall.

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Book SynopsisThe volume offers a wide-ranging and accessible guide to the work of one of the most highly respected and well-loved novelists writing today. The volume collects essays on a range of topics by leading Ishiguro scholars and exciting emerging voices in Ishiguro criticism.Table of ContentsPart I. Kazuo Ishiguro in the World: 1. Ishiguro and the question of England Andrew Bennett; 2. Ishiguro and Japan: History in An Artist of the Floating World Yoshiki Tajiri; 3. Ishiguro and colonialism Liani Lochner; 4. Immigration and emigration in Ishiguro Jerrine Tan; 5. Ishiguro and translation Rebecca Karni; Part II. Literature, Music, and Film: 6. The Ishiguro archive Vanessa Guignery; 7. The unconsoled of The Unconsoled: Ishiguro and modernism Ulrika Maude; 8. 'A more sophisticated imitation': Ishiguro and the novel Peter Boxall; 9. Ishiguro and genre fiction Doug Battersby; 10. Ishiguro's TV and film scripts Peter Sloane; 11. 'I'm a songwriter at heart, even when I'm writing novels': Ishiguro and music Stephen Benson; Part III. Ethics, Affect, Agency, and Memory: 12. Ethics and agency in Ishiguro's novels Robert Eaglestone; 13. 'Emotional upheaval' in An Artist of the Floating World and The Buried Giant Cynthia F. Wong; 14. Ishiguro and love Laura Colombino; 15. Memory and understanding in Ishiguro Yugin Teo; 16. Ishiguro's irresolution Ivan Stacy.

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Book SynopsisWhen the term ''dinosaur'' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveriesincluding Brontosaurus and Triceratopsproved that these so-called ''terrible lizards'' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s ''dinosaur'' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the Table of Contents1. Reclaiming Authority: Henry Neville Hutchinson, Popular Science, and the Construction of the Dinosaur; 2. Reinventing Wonderland: Jabberwocks, Grotesque Monsters, and Dinosaurian Maladaptation; 3. Rearticulating the Nation: Transatlantic Fiction and the Dinosaurs of Empire; 4.Rediscovering Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modern Romance of Palaeontology

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Book SynopsisThis Element examines Beckett's dissidence in the face of the imperatives of nation, home and the canon, utilising Beckett's work in festival contexts to highlight in the negative the nature of the festival form and to critique the festivalisation of culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Upon Ruinous Foundations; 1. More Ruins: The Festival and the Author's Face; 2. Beckett as Irish Icon: A Genealogy of Festivalisation; 3. Festival Space: Staging the City ; 4. Tourist Epistemologies: The Beckett Bus ; 5. Festival Time: Carnivals of Ruin; Conclusion: Degenerate Gatherings.

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Book SynopsisBridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders. Individual chapters reassess major figures (H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath), alternative modernist poets (Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith), and contemporary poets (Ai, Carol Ann Duffy).Trade Review"Bryant (Univ. of Florida) offers a lively interrogation of 'women's poetry' situated within and outside of constructions of popular, contemporary Western culture. Coalescing the poetry of H.D., Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Carol Ann Duffy with the complexities of a mainstream market comprising domestic advertising, juvenile literature, film, and tabloid journalism, Bryant's provocative work refutes historical conceptions of women's poetry as oppositional to popular culture. Rather, this refreshing fusion of feminist and cultural studies probes the dynamics of women infusing popular culture with poetry written by 'cultural insiders' to chronicle this delicate and complex interplay of popular culture and women's poetry. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE 'Fact: These days, the most exciting academic work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry is being done by women critics and scholars .The most recent example of such scholarship comes from P&PC hero and University of Florida English professor Marsha Bryant. They are studying poetries in the plural (not Poetry) as cultural forces and as ways of thinking linked both to the everyday and the ideal, with sources in mass, popular, and counter cultures, computers and archives, transnational circuits of exchange, and public and political spheres.' - Poetry and Popular Culture 'In her coda, Bryant envisions a new relationship between poetics and cultural studies. She argues that critics should not only analyze the popular contexts that inform women's poetry, but also the early cultural studies texts that 'often articulate a poetics of popular culture.' In each of her chapters, Bryant models the ways that this type of inquiry necessitates the interpretation of a wide range of cultural texts. In its scope and method, Women's Poetry and Popular Culture is a vital contribution to women's poetry studies and postwar poetry studies.' - Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 'Byrant's book ultimately calls for a significant widening of the women's poetry canon broader acceptance of a range of themes by women poets and a more sophisticated set of reading pratices that take into account this writing as not simply oppositional, parodic, or critical . . . At once a monograph and a manifesto, Women's Poetry is irreverent, immensely readable, and, frankly, a lot of fun.' - Twentieth-Century Literature "She [Bryant] effectively illustrates that poetry and popular culture are interconnected and should be studied in relation to one another . . . Bryant's close readings of the poems and strong supporting evidence make it difficult to find a weakness in Women's Poetry and Popular Culture. The book strikes a good balance between formal literary criticism and cultural studies while mostly remaining accessible to readers who may not be familiar with each of the many literary, feminist, and cultural studies theorists with whom Bryant is in conversation." - Women's StudiesTable of ContentsCinemaScope Poetics: H.D., Helen, and Historical Epic Film The Poetry Picture Book: Stevie Smith and Children's Culture Uneasy Alliances: Gwendolyn Brooks, Ebony, and Whiteness Everyday Ariel: Sylvia Plath and the Dream Kitchen Killer Lyrics: Ai, Carol Ann Duffy, and the Media Monologue Key Notes: Manifesto for Women's Poetry Studies

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Book SynopsisThis collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region.Trade Review“This volume eloquently delineates the polyvalent cultural imaginaries of South Asian fiction in English. Scrutinizing the multidimensional ramifications of the region’s contemporary transformations via an eclectic range of national, transregional and cross-border concerns, it crucially expands the disciplinary boundaries of postcolonial studies and world literature.” (Esha Sil, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, July, 2017)“The volume offers genuinely new perspectives on writers, texts and regions that have tended to be overlooked in academic criticism. … This is a timely volume, in fact, which makes an important contribution to the field of South Asian literary studies.” (Wasafiri, Vol. 33 (3), September, 2018)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; Alex Tickell.- PART I: REGIONAL FORMATIONS.- 1. Of Capitalism and Critique: ‘Af-Pak’ Fiction in the Wake of 9/11; Priyamvada Gopal.- 2. ‘An Idea whose Time has Come’: Indian Fiction in English after 1991; Alex Tickell.- 3. English-Language Fiction of Bangladesh; Cara Cilano.- 4. Sri Lankan Fiction in English 1994–2014; Ruvani Ranasinha.- PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS.- 5. Writing the Margins (in English): Notes from some South-Asian Cities; Stuti Khanna.- 6. Occupying Literary and Urban Space: Adiga, Authenticity and the Politics of Socio-economic Critique; Dominic Davies.- 7. Contemporary Indian Commercial Fiction in English; Suman Gupta.- 8. Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial Configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and Crime Writing; E. Dawson Varughese.- 9. Vignettes of Change: A Discussion of Two Indian Graphic Novels; Pooja Sinha.- 10. The New Pastoral: Environmentalism and Conflict in Contemporary Writing from Kashmir; Ananya Jahanara Kabir.- 11. Solidarity, Suffering and ‘Divine Violence’: Fictions of the Naxalite Insurgency; Pavan Kumar Malreddy.- 12. Writing South-Asian Diasporic Identity Anew; Maya Parmar.- 13. Minor Literature and the South-Asian Short Story; Neelam Srivastava.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women’s golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s.Trade Review“The 1920s-40s were a time of great change for woman, politically, socially and career wise, which Hoffman succinctly summarises at the start of her book. … I really enjoyed this book. Hoffman’s readings of texts were consistently detailed and engaging, helping me to look at familiar stories in a new light. I also liked her writing style (a crucial element in a literary criticism book), as she was enjoyable to read and informative … .” (crossexaminingcrime, crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com, July, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1.Change and Anxiety.- 2.‘Everybody Needs an Outlet’.- 3.A Joint Venture?.- 4.Ladies of a Modern World.- 5. Sensational Bodies.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the East).Table of Contents1. The Condition of 'East Asia' Discourse: Thought and Practice of De-homogenization.- 2. Porous Modernity: Overcoming Modernity in the Age of Globalization.- 3. The World of Circulation: The Universality of Literary Value in the Guunmong.- 4. The Literary Value of Sin Ch'ae-ho's Dream Sky: A Marginal Alteration of Dante's Comedy.- 5. National Language Beyond Nation-States: Vernacular Literary Language in Yi Kwang-Su.- 6. Literature as Sensibility to the Other: Dante in Modern Korean Literature.

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Book SynopsisBlack Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, JayneTrade Review'Black Music, Black Poetry makes an important contribution to African American Studies, not least because Gordon Thompson has assembled a group of scholars who actually, truly listen to the music-and whose critical practice therefore exemplifies what interdisciplinarity at its best looks (and sounds) like.' Jürgen E. Grandt, University of North Georgia, USA, author of Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative (2004) ’... these essays provide rich insight into the fascinating subject of jazz, improvisatory music, and poetry, and how their forms and structures enhance each art form. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.’ ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Introduction: lyrical aesthetics in African American poetry, Gordon E. Thompson. Part I Authenticity in Black Music and Poetry: ’Original rags’: African American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry, Ray Sapirstein; Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals, Lauri Ramey; ’Greatest is the song’: blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown, John Edgar Tidwell; ’A real, solid, sane, racial something’: Langston Hughes’s blues poetry, David Chinitz. Part II Jazz: Its Spiritual Lyricism: The funk aesthetic in African American poetry, Tony Bolden; ’Go in the wilderness’: the missionary impulse of Michael Harper’s poetry, Joseph A. Brown. Part III Lyricism and the Sonic Aesthetic: Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit, Christopher Winks; Nathaniel Mackey’s ’Song of the Andoumboulou’: making different music, Scarlett Higgins; Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen’s critical lyricism, Lisa Mansell. Part IV Transformational Lyricism: ’Taking it out!’: Jayne Cortez’s collaborations with the Firespitters, Renee M. Kingan; Pops, pygmies, and Pentecostal fire: Sanders and Thomas’s ’The Creator has a Master Plan’, Michael Coyle; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Brendon Nicholls revisits old issues such as gender and nationalism in African literature with freshness and deploys historical context in his reading of Ngugi's texts with amazing discrimination. His book compels us to look at the politics of translation in African literature with new insights and to see translation as a source of creative energy and agency, rather than the space within which "original" meaning or the autochthon is violated'. James Ogude, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and author of Ngugi’s Novels and African History ’... the book provides readers with a clear grasp of the subject matter... Recommended.’ Choice 'A well-researched and highly theoretical monograph...' Review of English Studies '... very informed and illuminating analysis.' WasafiriTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; A topography of 'woman'; Clitoridectomy and Gikuyu nationalism; The landscape of insurgency; Reading against the grain (of wheat); Paternity, illegitimacy and intertextuality; The neocolony as a prostituted economy; Conclusion - prostituting translation: an ethics of postcolonial reading; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes theTable of ContentsIntroduction: Embarking on a New Investigation Casey A. Cothran and Mercy Cannon Part 1: Disturbing Expectations 1. Troubling Bodies of Evidence: Gender, Detection, and the Problems of Self-Reinvention in Raymond Chandler’s The Lady in the Lake and Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods Andrew M. Hakim 2. The Revelations of the Corpse: Interpreting the Body in the Golden Age Detective Novel Brittain Bright and Rebecca Mills 3. Mapping the Mark: Tattoos, Crime Fiction, and Gendered Cartographies Kate Watson Part 2: Implicating Readers 4. The Transtextuality of James M. Cain’s Snyder-Gray Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and The Cocktail Waitress Jennie MacDonald 5. P.D. James’s Discontinuous Narrative: A Suitable Job for a Reader Janice Marion Shaw 6. Franz Kafka: Before the Fictional Process David Ben-Merre Part 3: Indicting Cultures 7. J.D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity Srividhya Swaminathan 8. Cooking the Books: Metafictional Myth and Ecocritical Magic in "Cozy" Mysteries from Agatha Christie to Contemporary Cooking Sleuths Susan Rowland 9. Romance Narratives, Blackmail, and the Price of Knowledge in the Novels of Raymond Chandler John Scaggs Part 4: Adapting Forms 10. Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap and Tom Stoppard’s Real Inspector Hound: Playing Cat and Mouse with Farce, Parody, and Meta-Theatricality Caroline Marie 11. Beyond the Fog: Inherent Vice and Thomas Pynchon’s Noir Adjustment Eleanor Gold 12. The Mystery of the Missing Formula: Adapting the World’s Most Popular Girl Detective to Multimedia Platforms Beth Walker

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf''s engagement with science. It demonstrates that science is integral to the construction of identity in Woolf''s novels of the 1930s and 1940s, and identifies a little-explored source for Woolf''s scientific knowledge: BBC scientific radio broadcasts. By analyzing this unstudied primary material, it traces the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity and highlights a single concept that is shared across multiple disciplines in the modernist period: the idea that modern science undermined individualized conceptions of the self. It broadens our understanding of the relationship between modernism and radio, modernism and science, and demonstrates the importance of science to Woolf''s later novels.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Schrödinger's Woolf: Quantum physics and identity; 2. 'Unity – dispersity': Neurological communities; 3. 'Our senses have widened': Woolf and radio; 4. Tigers under our hats: Alternative evolutionary identities; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisLiberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology. The book shows how these writers resist the anti-social qualities of this frantic right-wing shift while still performing its essential gesture, the personalization of otherwise irreducible social antagonisms. Thus, we see these writers reinvent political struggles as differences in values and emotions, in fictions that explore non-antagonistic social forms like families, communities and networks. Situating these formally innovative fictions in the context of the controversies that have defined this rightward shift including debates over free trade, welfare reform, and family values Brooks details how American writers and politicians have reinvented liberalism for the age of pro-capitTable of ContentsIntroduction: Try for a moment to feel this; 1. The varieties of American neoliberalism; 2. 'The Family Gone Wrong': experimental literature and conservative politics; 3. Post-political form; 4. 'SUPERNAFTA' vs. 'El Gran Mojado': alternative fictional realities and the fight for free trade; Afterword: Then we came to the end.

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