Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Palgrave Macmillan Reaganism Thatcherism and the Social Novel
Book SynopsisThe social novel is the traditional haunt of the liberal conscience. What does the triumph of the New Right mean for this type of fiction in Britain and the US? Should the liberal left seek consensus or assertion? This book examines these issues, and assesses the state of both nations, as well as that of the contemporary novel.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Reagan, Thatcher and the 1980s Complicity and British Fiction Liberal Guilt and American Fiction The Communitarian Turn Futures and Pasts The Battlefield of the Self Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Narrating the Past
Book SynopsisIn recent years controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative.Trade Review'Alan Robinson's monograph, Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between theories of history and contemporary narrative fiction...In summary, Robinson's book is a theoretically sophisticated engagement with and intervention in the debates of the past forty years or so regarding the relationship between history and fiction. This is framed against innovative and thorough analyses of a selection of representative novels.' - Year's Work in English Studies 'Historical fiction evokes into virtual existence a former possible world, retrieving the past into the present. In explaining how it does this, Robinson argues for a renewed interest and appreciation of the imaginary presence of the past in history and memory and for greater understanding between historians and literary critics. A complex and ambitious scholarly project, Narrating the Past is important reading for cultural historians, historiographers and literary specialists.' - Jane Mattison, English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND FICTION The Narrative Turn in History The Historical Turn in Fiction PART II: ISSUES IN PRACTICE History, Life-Writing and Epistemology National Stories Present Pasts in Neo-Victorian Fiction Gothic Afterlives After the Event Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Modernist Nowheres
Book SynopsisModernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.Trade Review"Modernist Nowheres addresses an enduring and wide-ranging set of canonical modernist writers in Conrad, Lewis, Lawrence, Wells and Ford, and delves into the archives to mobilize less well-known material to support the argument. It is an engaging and provocative contribution to this burgeoning branch of modernist studies." - Andrew Frayn, Ford Madox Ford Society newsletterTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Maps Worth Glancing At Meliorism and Edwardian Modernity Questions of Perfectibility Forlorn Hopes and The English Review Magnetic Cities and Simple Lives Individualism, Happiness, and Labour Vorticism and the Limits of BLAST Satire, Impressionism, and War Idealisms and Contingencies Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past
Book SynopsisThrough a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature.Trade Review'American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past offers a new and thought provoking understanding of how a crucial strain of the American historical novel has developed through the postmodern era.' - Paula Geyh, Associate Professor of English, Yeshiva University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative
Book SynopsisThis book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D''Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, and celebrity.Trade Review'American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative makes an important and timely contribution to criticism through a careful, well-informed exploration of the relationships between authorship and celebrity in the contemporary United States. D'Amore offers shrewd analyses of the contested intersections of privacy and publicity inherent in the life writing of Norman Mailer, John Wideman, and Dave Eggers and in their ascension to iconic status in the literary world.' - William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsNorman Mailer's Existential Autobiography Process and Play in 'Great Time': John Edgar Wideman's Interactive Autobiographical Project 'But Self-Awareness Is Sincerity': Authorship and Exposure, Irony and Earnestness, Dave Eggers and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Palgrave Macmillan Writing London
Book SynopsisFollowing on from Julian Wolfrey''s successful Writing London (1998), this second volume extends Wolfrey''s original argument that a new urban sensibility in the nineteenth century had been developed which established new ways of writing about and responding to the city. Writing London - Volume 2 explores through a range of readings of twentieth-century films and texts the complex relationship between the experience of the city, the pleasures of the urban text and the solitary nature of these pleasures. The book has a broad focus, in part dictated not only by the transformation of literary production in the twentieth-century, but also by the need to respond to the changes in both urban representation and London itself. Writers discussed include Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Maureen Duffy, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock. The volume covers texts from the late nineteenth-century to the end of the twentieth, in a critical reading that incorporates the theoretical insiTrade Review'Julian Wolfreys has no London to offer us, thanks be! He is the most generous and witty writer going, and when he turns to London it is to release us into realms of thinking about representation, history, and narrative tricks. His own tricks are so sweet-hearted he can wind us into the remarkable illusion that we are thinking way beyond ourselves. Like his 'London', we are a set of images looking for something to represent, a materiality trying to find a story, a history that will neither go away nor appear before us directly. I know of no finer way to think or to be than is generated by this book.' - James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California, USA 'In a famous scene of Huysmans's A Rebours, Des Esseintes, bored with Paris in the Winter, decides to take a trip to London. He stops in a British pub next to the station and absorbs himself in the murmur of English voices, eats English fare and drinks English beer. He spends a whole day there and decides that he does not need to board the train and boat-he has felt what London is like-and heads back home. It is a similar experience that Julian Wolfreys' marvellous book forces upon us. Using the various discourses of theory as a contrapuntal backdrop, he weaves in and out of several contemporary novels by Ackroyd, Bowen, Duffy, Sinclair and others, with such mastery that in the end, we know London intimately, with all its disruptive cartographies and postmodern monuments, much better than if we had visited it.' - Jean-Michel Rabaté, Clara M. Clenenden Term Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania 'Writing London - Volume 2: Materiality, Memory, Spectrality is an important book. Wonderfully learned and original, it is a distinguished sequel to Julian Wolfreys's earlier Writing London. This new book demonstrates that twentieth-century writers about London (Elizabeth Bowen, Maureen Duffy, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair, and others) anticipate or coincide with the most advanced insights of modern critical theory in Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Deleuze and Guattari, Samuel Weber, Bernard Steigler, Avital Ronell, Tom Cohen, and many others... This wonderful book is a must read, especially for all those who have themselves, as I have, become haunted by London's calls.' - J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California at Irvine, USA 'a tour de force' - Anne Humphreys, The Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: London Disfigured PART I: STAGES Staging the City: London at the Fin de Siècle & Crises of Representation PART II: CRISES 'That particular psychic London': The Uncanny Example of Elizabeth Bowen The Insatiable Crisis of Memory: Maureen Duffy's Capital PART III: PUNCTUATIONS PART IV: INTERVENTIONS Peter Ackroyd and the 'endless variety' of the 'eternal city': Receiving 'London's haunted past' Sites of Resistance, Sites of Memory: Iain Sinclair's 'delirious fictions' of London PART V: PUNCTUATIONS PART VI: CONSTELLATIONS A Coincidence of Disparate Incidents: London Undone or, Seven Artists in Search of the City Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Theatre of Joseph Conrad
Book SynopsisAlthough the dramatic dimension to Joseph Conrad's fiction is frequently acknowledged, his own experiments in drama have traditionally been marginalized. Furthermore, all of the plays are adaptations and comprise One Day More , based on Tomorrow , Laughing Anne , based on Because of the Dollars, Victory: A Drama and The Secret Agent .Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Texts Introduction: Why Conrad's Plays 'A Jolly Cold World': An Introduction to the Theatre of Joseph Conrad 'A Tragedy in Modern Life': One Day More 'A Grim and Weird Play': Basil Macdonald Hastings's Victory 'A Play of Unbearable Horror': Laughing Anne 'A Most Disturbing Play': The Secret Agent Conclusion: 'A Terribly Searching Thing' Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory
Book SynopsisNationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory.Trade Review'Leonard comprehensively and persuasively once and for all brings back to attention the political force of poststructuralism both before and beyond as well as within post-colonial studies.' - Professor Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Cosmopolitan Locations 'Before, Across and Beyond': Derrida, Without National Community 'New Concepts for Unknown Lands': Deleuze and Guattari's Non-nationalitarianisms 'Atopic and Utopic': Kristeva's Strange Cosmopolitanism 'In the Shadow of Shadows': Spivak, Misreading, the Native Informant 'To Move Through - and Beyond - Theory': Bhabha, Hybridity and Agency Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Expert Modernists Matricide and Modern Culture
Book SynopsisModernist narratives of consciousness and bodies convert the gendered domestic sphere into an aesthetic one that grants cultural reproduction and a modern cultural class the centrality once accorded biological reproduction and the bourgeois household.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Modern Hordes: Women, Modernism, and the Cult of Experts Retailing the Female Intellectual Sacred Cows: Modernism, Woolf, and her Fictive Seraphs Queer Couplings: Forster's Hellenic Pastoralism and Modern Masculinity Putting Rouge on the Corpse: Cosmopolitan Joyce and Modern Culture Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Masculinity in MaleAuthored Fiction 19502000
Book SynopsisTracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analysis of English novels selected for contrasting definitions of the male gender, from the allegedly Angry Young Men to the contemporary confessions of Nick Hornby. The literary period since 1950 is interpreted as one of intense political and stylistic negotiation by male authors with the gendered subject-positions both of fictional characters and those who read about them.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements PART 1: INTRODUCTION Reading: Resisting Resistance Defining Masculinity (/-ies?) The Masculine Self PART 2: THE CONSOLATIONS OF CONFORMITY An Empirical Example (Middle-) Classless Aspirations Addressivity, Anxiety and Influence Good, Clean, Rational Fun 'Part-of-a-spending-spree and good-fun-for-all-concerned The Male Text? PART 3: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY Outside the Hero A Mssculine Philosophy? Choosing to be Born The Essentialist Existentialist The Masculine Gaze PART 4: NON-CONFORMITY AND THE SIXTIES It Came From Inner Space In Sickness, Not in Health Writing the Male Body A Teenage Ball A Rational Rebellion PART 5: CREDIT FOR CONFESSION The Anti-Masculine Text The Women's Decades? Confessional Increments Hitting and Telling Ladlit The Daddy of Ladlit PART 6: CONCLUSIONS - READING TO BELIE THE BINARY Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Representing Scotland in Literature Popular Culture and Iconography
Book SynopsisThis fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities. At the core of the book are discrete literary studies of Scotland and Shakespeare, Walter Scott, R.L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, the modern Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and more recent cultural and literary phenomena. The central theme of literature and popular ''representation'' recontextualises literary analysis in a broader, multi-faceted picture involving all the arts and the changing sense of what ''the popular'' might be in a modern nation. New technologies alter forms of cultural production and the book charts a way through these forms, from oral poetry and song to the novel, and includes studies of paintings, classical music, socialist drama, TV, film and comic books. The international context for mass media cultural production is examined as the story of the intrinsic curiosity of the imagination and the intensely local aspect of Scotland''s cultural self-representation unfolds.Trade Review'This is a remarkable book in its diversity of subjects... but its strength is the provocation of thought in new directions.' - Glasgow Sunday Herald '...as an overview of a wide period, tied together historically and conecptually, it thoroughly justified its wide ambition and should be vital to anyone in Scot Lit.' - Michael Gardiner, Scottish Studies Review '...a thought-provoking discussion of a central issue in post-Union cultural history, that of the conflicting, stereotyped or idealised representation(s) of Scotland's stateless nationhood...The first book-length inquiry on this subject and the most challenging, so far, in terms of both the variety and the number of 'texts' analysed - mainly literary, but also filmic, musical and visual...' - Carla Sassi, Anglistik: International Journal of English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface: The Representation of the People List of Illustrations Acknowledgements PART ONE: THE WORLD OF THINGS UNDONE Introduction: The Terms of the Question Shakespeare and Scotland Foundational Texts of Modern Scottish Literature PART TWO: LOST WORLDS AND DISTANT DRUMS Walter Scott and the Whistler: Tragedy and the Enlightenment Imagination Treasure Island and Time: Childhood, Quickness and Robert Louis Stevenson In Pursuit of Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle, Amos Tutuola and Wilson Harris PART THREE: THE THEATRE OF INFINITY The International Brigade: Modernism and the Scottish Renaissance Nobody's Children: Orphans and Their Ancestors in Popular Scottish Fiction after 1945 It Happened Fast and It Was Dark: Cinema, Theatre, Television, Comic Books Conclusion: The Magnetic North Notes Bibliography Discography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse
Book SynopsisLatin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom.Trade Review"Paper Dolls and Spider Women proposes superbly uncanny readings of some of the most important Latin American texts written in the second half of the 20th century. With admirable energy and deceptive ease, Pat O'Connor sets out to queer these texts, illuminating his readings through well-articulated reflections on psychoanalysis, gender theory, and literary history. He has a gift for discovering unexpected relations among these "narratives of the perverse," for engaging in provocative and fruitful digression, and for establishing off-beat genealogies that, on closer look, appear irrefutable. This is a stunning book, intelligently articulated and beautifully written." -Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities, New York University "Patrick O'Connor's literary history of the perverse repositions Latin American literature of the latter half of the 20th century, most particularly that of the boom, vis-à -vis its treatment of queer desires. The emblematic figure of the spider woman inspires his readings of homosexuality, fetishism, sadism, masochism, transvestitism and other perversions in the works of many of the greatest writers of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Delightfully original, this book is highly recommended to scholars and fans of Latin American literature and queer studies alike." - Robert McKee Irwin, Tulane University "Employing a sensitive understanding - and a critique - of Freudian theory and its derivatives, O'Connor shows us how representations of male deviance - homosexuality, voyeurism, fetishism, sadism, and transvestism - have shaped the trajectory of the Latin American literary canon. At the same time, Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse foregrounds the role of the queer theorist, whose task it is to interpret and to challenge the categories by which we define what is normal or aberrant. Ultimately, O'Connor makes a case for a particular erotics of reading: one that is itself representative of the perverse in its finding pleasure in alternative cultural forms." - Carlos J. Alonso, Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania "Stunning, witty, and elegantly written. O'Connor examines recent Latin American literature and comes up with a timely re-reading of major works. A superb work of scholarship, the book seduces the reader with a sophisticated web of perversions seldom critically examined in Latin American fiction." - Jose Quiroga, Emory University "Sophisticated and original...[O'Connor] shows that, even when some of the authors on whom he focuses have been widely studied in the Latin American and North American academies, their most disturbing aspects have tended to be erased in order to make them fit in a certain representation of what is supposed to be characteristic of Latin American literature." - Reinaldo Laddaga, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsEnter the Spider Woman Lezama Lima's Open Secrets Felisberto's Paper Dolls Fashionable and Unfashionable Perversions on the Latin American Rive Gauche Triple Cross-Dressing in the Boom Conclusions and Epilogue
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Palgrave MacMillan Us New Women Dramatists in America 18901920
Book SynopsisPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). This study rediscovers the lives and notable accomplishments of five prominent, yet historically neglected women dramatists of the Progressive Era: Martha Morton, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Beulah Marie Dix, and Rida Johnson Young.Trade Review"This book provides a detailed account of the lives of five American women playwrights who were highly successful in their times but whose work remains largely unexplored and neglected. It adds an exploration of the area of theatre to our understanding of the opportunities available to the professional woman writer at the time. The greatest strength of the project is in the enormous amount of contemporary material Engle has discovered and drawn on in her accounts. A lucid and engaging study." - Susan Croft, former Senior Curator at the Theater Museum; Author of She Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights "Thorough and carefully documented...Engle places [these women's] dramas in the context of early twentieth-century Broadway theatre, demonstrating how these women fulfilled, perpetuated, and in a few cases transcended audiences' expectations" - Theatre SurveyTable of ContentsThe proliferation of women dramatists during America's Progressive Era Dean of women dramatists, Martha Morton, 1865-1925 : Plays of Martha Morton English-American Success, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, 1858-1934 Plays of Madeleine Lucette Ryley Collaborators extraordinaire, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, 1855-1908, and Beulah Marie Dix, 1875-1970: Plays of Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and Beulah Marie Dix Dramatist, songwriter, and lyricist, Rida Johnson Young, 1875-1926: Plays and musicals of Rida Johnson Young Early feminists: setting examples for future generations
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Whiteness Otherness and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk
Book SynopsisTraber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture.Trade Review"How does the marginalized individual become the national type? Through a series of nuanced readings of key American texts, Daniel Traber expertly traces the ambiguous cultural politics where outlaws confirm mainstream culture, and otherness is re-appropriated and reconfigured as the heart of the national project. A deft and discerning application of recent cultural theory - itself implicated in the romanticization and neutralization of otherness - this book has telling consequences for American and literary studies, as well as for the fields of cultural studies and whiteness studies." - Nick Mansfield, Macquarie University; Author of Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway 'This book makes a very clear, and even relentless, argument about the long history of literatures which present instances of White characters 'evading whiteness' and seeking common ground elsewhere (amongst Native Americans, African Americans, the rural and urban poor, etc.). Not only are some of the largest theoretical names of the last thirty years front and center, but Traber has successfully understood these works to the point where he can offer critiques and new insights of them. I love the reach of this book: each and every chapter has been carefully researched on its own, and made to fit within the parameters of the broader idea. It is as if a hidden America has been revealed in these pages.' - Scott Michaelsen, Michigan State University; Author of The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology 'Through trenchant readings of celebrated American narratives from Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Alex Cox's Repo Man, Traber traces the paradoxical power of liberal individualism, an ideology that celebrates autonomy and individuality even as it serves as the grounds for conformity. Traber shows how writers and thinkers who attempt to dramatize alternatives to individualist ideology often find the ground of resistance shifted out from under them by US culture's uncanny ability to incorporate otherness and marginality. Traber's study offers a cautionary tale to those critics and theorists who would celebrate the power of hybridity and marginality without sufficiently acknowledging the continuing cultural efficacy of individualist modes of thought and representation." - Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University; Author of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal IdeologyTable of ContentsThey're After Us!': Criminality and Hegemony in Huckleberry Finn Stephen Crane and Maggie's White Other One of None: Quasi-Hybridity in The Sun Also Rises Back to the Future: Suttree (and The Pioneers) L.A. Punk's Sub-Urbanism Repo Man, Ambivalence, and the Generic Mediation Whither Agency?
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Arab American Literary Fictions Cultures and Politics
Book SynopsisN.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.Trade Review'Salaita makes an invaluable contribution here, not only to the study of Arab American literature but to the emergence of Arab American studies as a field. Leaping over the glib celebration of hybridity that often passes for critical analysis of ethnic literature, and at the same time skillfully wielding what is useful from theory, Salaita takes a pragmatic, ethical approach to understanding new as well as classic Arab American fiction, in an authorial voice that is congenial, generous and trustworthy.' - Mohja Kahf, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas, USA 'Salaita's Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics is an exceptional blend of personal recollections and observations, literary criticism and narrative history. This intellectually stimulating and absorbing collection is not only an important contribution to better understanding Arab American culture and society, but a vital contribution to Arab American Studies.' - Nathalie Handal, Author of The Lives of Rain and editor of The Poetry of Arab Women 'This is an excellent resource to scholars of Ethnic Studies, American Studies, and Literary Studies who are interested in incorporating Arab American Studies into their courses and departmental agendas. In addition to making a persuasive case for the importance of Arab American literature, Salaita, drawing from his background in Native American Studies, offers a unique and valuable methodological and conceptual approach to Arab American Studies. Salaita is a leading scholar whose work holds tremendous relevance for the future of American Studies.' - Evelyn Alsultany, Assistant Professor, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, USA This book will make an important contribution to the emerging field of Arab American studies. The most valuable aspect of Salaita's study is not necessarily the set of answers that the he provides, but rather the insightful and discerning questions he asks about the feasibility of an Arab American Studies, the role of politics/war in Arab American literature, how to ensure that Arab Americans are not rendered 'perpetually inalterable,' and the existence of deeply entrenched stereotypes of Arabs that allow hoaxes such as Norma Khouri's to succeed. Throughout this book, the writing is original, informative, and graceful. - Susan Muaddi Darraj, Associate Professor at Harford Community College, USA; Author of Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab-American Women on Writing and The Inheritance of ExileTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Searchings of an Arab ex-Student Problems of Inclusion: Arab American Studies and Inalterable States of Being The Internationalization of the Nation: The Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction Honesty Lost: The Strange Circumstances of Love, Death, and Norma Khouri Escaping Inadequate Spaces: Anti-Arab Racism and Liberating Fictions Conclusion: Multicultural and Monocultural Disjunctions
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The LatinoA Canon and the Emergence of PostSixties Literature
Book SynopsisPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.Trade Review"Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado Sáez are to be commended on their compelling study of the complex relationship between the Civil Rights and post-Sixties eras of Latino/a-Caribbean literature, politics, and the market. The consideration of the challenges that face Cuban-Americans in their literary and artistic production is particularly timely, as well as their conception of a space for politically engaged, marketable literature in the twenty-first century. For these reasons, among others, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature is worthy of attention and merits scholarly study." - Camino Real "Especially because of the timeliness of its arguments, but also because of the breadth and depth of its study and argumentation, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature will be an important text for scholars and students of Latino(a) literature. One can already see how Dalleo and Machado Saez's book could well occasion a lively discussion of the next steps in the formation and cultivation of a Latino(a) canon for the twenty-first century." - Latino(a) Research Review "The first book to look seriously at the process by which a panethnic US Latino/a literary canon has been constructed. One of the greatest strengths of The Latino/a Canon is its sustained attention to the market - as constructive of certain modes of reception for these texts, as a force with which the authors themselves must engage, and as it is represented within the texts themselves. As an overview of the field and of the fundamental paradigms that have informed much Latino/a literary scholarship, the introduction is, quite simply, indispensable; it would supply a valuable framework for any course on Latino/a literature. The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature is an important contribution to Latino/a literary studies and will be of enormous value to anyone wishing to attend to the politics and process of canon formation." - MELUS, as reviewed by Marta Caminero-Santangelo. Santagelois Associate Professor of Englishand theauthor of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity and The Madwoman Can't Speak: Or Why Insanity Is Not Subversive. "This timely book challenges the ideological and chronological binaries behind the canon set up by established U.S. Latino/a literary critics. It provokes and exhorts readers to rethink the dualities - resident versus immigrant, oppositional versus mainstream - that imply that Latino/a literature can only be resistant through the anti-colonial discourse of the 60s and 70s. The clear and incisive discussions about canon formation, ideologies and the market are unprecedented and very much needed in the context of globalization." - Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa "Dalleo and Machado Sáez bring the hot topic of Latino/a literature to bear on important questions regarding the future and purpose of literature, arguing in favor of literature and its political place within the social. This is a call to scrutinize the way markets shape readers, including critics. This book will no doubt raise the bar of debates pertaining to the future of literature." - Román de la Campa, author of Cuba on My Mind and Split States and Global Imaginaries "The first book to be published on this subject that carefully examines the making of Latino/a literature in all its elements including the politics of marketing, publishing, and even book reviews. Dalleo and Machado Sáez clearly illustrate the inherent contradictions and tensions that characterize the making of the Latino/a literary canon and will force scholars to reconsider why some authors and not others are incorporated into their research and teaching." - Bridget Kevane, author of Latino Literature in America "Dalleo and Machado Sáez show a welcome sensibility to regional particularities and cultural discreteness in the outline of the social field of their research, attending to the significance of the New York or Miami milieu in determining the place of the works of Puerto Rican, Dominican-American, and Cuban diaspora authors within the larger corpus known as Latino literature. Their intervention enriches the critical discourse around the writings of U.S. Latino/a authors." - Silvio Torres-Saillant, author of The Dominican Americans and An Intellectual History of the Caribbean "Disrupting the binaries that divide Latinos/as and underscoring a critical hybridity, Dalleo and Machado Sáez recognize the heterogeneity of Latinidad and facilitate collective Latino/a mobilization. Dalleo and Machado Sáez move from an idealization of the past to a forward-thinking vision of a present and future influenced by the past." - Latino StudiesTable of ContentsSell Outs? Politics and the Market in Post-Sixties Latino/a Literature Periodizing Latino/a Literature Through Pedro Pietri's Nuyorican Cityscapes Mercado Dreams: The End(s) of Sixties Nostalgia in Contemporary Ghetto Fiction Movin' on Up and Out: Engaging Lowercase Latino/a Conversations with Junot Diaz and Angie Cruz Latino/a Identity and Consumer Citizenship in Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban Wrtiting in a Minor Key: Postcolonial and Post-Civil Rights Histories in the Novels of Julia Alvarez
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction
Book SynopsisThe novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."Trade Review"Aiming to change how we think about the cult of the individual - that is, about what the hero, the anti-hero, and the heroic can mean in the United States of our day - Halldorson is not afraid to tackle big topics (and they don t come much bigger than this). This intellectually daring study combines astute historical contextualizing and canny theoretical re-conceptualizing with brilliant close readings of texts by two major American novelists." - Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto "This book presentsa serious, substantive discussiononBellow and DeLillo and the subject of heroes. Halldorsonoffersperhaps the strongest and most provocative reading of DeLillo s Mao II that I ve encountered. Her assertions that the hero is always and only built upon a fictional narrative, and that the hero depends on the existence of the non-hero, even though there s no place for the non-hero in America, areintriguing andconvincingly supported." - Curtis Yehnert, Western Oregon University "Halldorson s original and innovative construction of a heroics of reading is a valuable contribution to the dramatic revival of the ethical turn in literary and theoretical inquiry. Halldorson is also a masterful reader of community and identity in DeLillo and Bellow, one who is richly attuned to their complex narrative investments." - Thomas Carmichael, University of Western OntarioTable of ContentsDefining the Hero: Form * Defining the American Hero: Story * Henderson the Rain King : The Hero Surrendered * Mr. Sammler's Planet : The Hero Accused * White Noise : The Hero Defended * Mao II : The Hero Returned
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Howard Barker Ecstasy and Death
Book SynopsisBarker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original forms of classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and catastrophic eroticism. This study considers the full range of his theatrical achievements.Trade Review'The range of coverage is a principle strength; the study includes pieces that have been neither produced nor published, thus giving a perspective on the full range of Barker's dramatic writing (the chronology in the appendices is also particularly helpful)... Rabey's book, then, is a welcome addition to the growing body of critical work on one of Britain's most challenging contemporary playwrights.' - Rachel Clements, Royal Holloway, University of London 'Following on from his earlier book...Ecstasy and Death meticulously maps not only Barker's plays and productions of the last twenty years, but also his theoretical and self-conscious performative development as a practitioner...it evolves and offers the reader an insightful distillation of critical approaches via a play-based chronology...Through a careful weaving of chronology and critique, it offers a structured series of provocations that invite the reader to examine the last twenty years of Barker's plays and their production...It's pinpoint focus invites wider moments of reflection and challenges the reader not to fix Barker to one play, one aspect of the work or even one decade, but rather to engagae with Barker over more time and to see his work as an ongoing evolution of language, aesthetics and theory.' - Sarah Goldingay, Studies in Theatre and Performance 'Rabey's criticism in these books offers a meditation, a critical and lyrical vision, not merely of Barker's theatre but of theatre's place in a 21st-century culture' - George Hunka, Superfluities: A JournalTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations and References PART I: A STYLE AND ITS CONTEXTS Gifts of Loss: An Introduction to Barker's Writing and Theatre 'The Ecstasy of Vanishing Meaning': Arguments for a Theatre; Death, The One and The Art of Theatre PART II: PLAYS AND PRODUCTIONS Intimacy with the Unforgivable: The Last Supper, The Early Hours of a Reviled Man, Golgo, Judith, Rome, Ten Dilemmas Cultural Re-Fashionings and Shakespearean Negotiations: Brutopia, Seven Lears, (Uncle) Vanya, Minna Separation, Sacrifice and Sainthood: A Hard Heart, Terrible Mouth, Hated Nightfall, Ego in Arcadia, The Brilliance of the Servant, The Gaoler's Ache, Twelve Encounters with a Prodigy, Ursula Facing the Wound: Wounds to the Face, Und, He Stumbled, House of Correction Infinite Reversibility: All He Fears, The Swing at Night, Albertina, Knowledge and a Girl, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, Animals in Paradise, The Ecstatic Bible, Found in the Ground Wrestling with God: Defilo, All This Joseph, Five Names, N/A (Sad Kissing), Gertrude - The Cry, The Seduction of Almighty God, The Moving and the Still, Two Skulls, Acts (Chapter One) Servitude and Servility: An Eloquence, The Blood of a Wife, A Rich Woman's Poetry, Stalingrad, Thirteen Objects, The Dying of Today, Dead Hands, Christ's Dog The Boundary and Beyond: The Fence, Heroica, Adorations Chapter 1, Dead, Dead and Very Dead, The Road, The House, The Road, Let Me, A Wounded Knife, Lot and his God, The Forty (Few Words), I Saw Myself Inconclusion: Consolations in Extremity: Howard Barker: A Style and its Origins Appendix One: Testimonies by Barker Actors: Julia Tarnoky, Justin Avoth, Edward Petherbridge, Melanie Jessop, Gerrard McArthur Appendix Two: Howard Barker: A Chronology Selected Further Reading Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Beckett Literature and the Ethics of Alterity
Book SynopsisIn Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.Trade Review'The book offers a challenge to the deconstructive readings of Benjaminian translation, an exhaustive account of the ethics of comedy, and an insightful survey and analysis of 'feminine alterities', with useful readings of Irigaray, Cixous, and Kristeva. Weller's performance of the anethical throughout the text produces an argument that will come as a surprise to many Beckett critics - a surprise because it maintains a critical reading that is neatly positioned 'between' the conventional approaches to Beckett and ethics. I strongly recommend this book.' - Professor Richard J. Lane, Malaspina University-College, Canada 'This is an extremely well-researched and thought-out work of Beckett criticism. The chapter organization in which each of the three chosen themes is treated first from a theoretical perspective, followed by specific examples taken from Beckett, is limpid and the argument always clearly signposted. This makes the book accessible even to the reader unfamiliar with the vast array of Western thought Shane Weller summons effortlessly.' - Helen Penet-Astbury, Études irlandaisesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Literature and Alterity PART I: IN OTHER WORDS - ON THE ETHICS OF TRANSLATION Translation and Difference: Dispatching Benjamin Translation and Negation: Beckett and the Bilingual Oeuvre PART II: THE LAUGH OF THE OTHER - ON THE ETHICS OF COMEDY Pratfalls into Alterity: Laughter from Baudelaire to Freud and Beyond Last Laughs: Beckett and the ' risus purus ' PART III: THE DIFFERENCE A WOMAN MAKES - ON THE ETHICS OF GENDER Feminine Alterities: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Studies 'As If the Sex Mattered': Beckett's Degenderations Conclusion: Beckett and the Anethical Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Performing the Body in Irish Theatre
Book SynopsisThis title examines the representation of the body in Irish theatre alongside the specific circumstances within which Irish theatre is performed, incorporating issues of gender and embodiment, and the performance of Irishness and tradition. The author contextualizes the body in Irish theatre, and includes in-depth analysis of five key productions.Trade Review'This book is at the forefront of the emerging field of Irish Performance Studies. While Sweeney offers original readings of some well known and several lesser known texts (such as Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa , Tom MacIntyre's The Great Hunger , David Rudkin's The Saxon Shore and Marina Carr's Low in the Dark ), she emphasizes the complex interweaving of text and performance in the emergence of new Irish theatre practices. She combines detailed analysis of texts and productions with a broad framework of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish theatre. Performing the Body in Irish Theatre re-visions Irish theatre history in its insistence on theatre as an embodied practice, whether in the work of W.B. Yeats or in the choreography of Michael Keegan Dolan.' - Anna McMullan, Chair in Drama, Queen's University Belfast, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Absent Body? Performing Tradition The Inanimate Body: The Great Hunger The Savage Body: The Saxon Shore The Dancing Body: Dancing at Lughnasa The Troubled Body: At the Black Pig's Dyke The Indeterminate Body: Low in the Dark The Present Body? Evolving Tradition Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The 1940s A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Book SynopsisHow did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth BoTrade ReviewThis is an original and very timely contribution to the emergent field of mid-century studies. It offers extended new readings of such indisputably major figures as Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell at the same time as it undertakes some important recoveries of the period’s once-familiar names. This wide-ranging collection will be of interest to any reader hoping to understand better the rich and complex literature of twentieth-century Britain’s most powerfully consequential decade. * Marina MacKay, Professor, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, UK *The 1940s brings together top scholars who illuminate the period’s compelling myths and lost cultures, guiding us from literary lodestars like Elizabeth Bowen, George Orwell, and Graham Greene to such fascinating and neglected subjects as Royal Navy novels, women’s fictions of genteel bohemia, and the exile literature of German and Austrian refugees from National Socialism. * Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English, Monmouth University, USA *Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface Contributors Acknowledgements Critical introduction: Reappraising the 1940s Philip Tew and Glyn White 1 Their finest hour?: A literary history of the 1940s Ashley Maher 2 British Blitz fiction of the 1940s: Another finest hour, myth or propaganda? Philip Tew 3 Genteel Bohemia: Capable women in women’s fiction of the 1940s Deborah Philips 4 The ship and the nation: Royal Navy novels and the people’s war 1939–45 Chris Hopkins 5 Feeling political: Elizabeth Bowen in the 1940s Karen Schaller 6 The life of animals: George Orwell’s fiction in the 1940s Tamás Bényei 7 Masters and servants, class, and the colonies in Graham Greene’s 1940s fiction Rebecca Dyer 8 Purposes of love: Rethinking intimacy in the 1940s Charlotte Charteris 9 No concession to ‘English’ taste? Refugees from National Socialism writing in Britain Andrea Hammel 10 Un-British: The transatlantic crime film connection Glyn White Timeline of Works Timeline of UK events Timeline of international events Biographies of writers Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Superhero Culture Wars
Book SynopsisThe reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged forced diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most recent engagement with progressive politics, Superhero Culture Wars explores how the drive towards greater diversity among its characters and creators has interacted with the company's commercial marketing and its traditional fan base. Along the way the book covers such topics as: Major characters such as Miles Morales's Spider-man, Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, Jane Foster's Thor, Sam Wilson's Captain America and the Secret Empire series' turncoat Captain America Creators such as G. Willow Wilson, Jason Aaron, Nick Spencer and Michael Bendis Marketing, the Marvel Universe, and online fan culture Superhero Culture Wars demonstrates how the marketing of Marvel comics as politically progressive has both indelibly shaped its iTrade ReviewWith its starting point that superhero comics are and have always been political, Superhero Culture Wars is a welcome examination of Marvel’s moves toward diversifying its characters in the 2010s. It illuminates not only the tensions between fans and storytellers, but also the tensions inherent in a company’s neoliberal strategy of marketing its products and itself as progressive in order to increase its profits. -- Carolyn Cocca, author of Eisner Award-winning Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation (Bloomsbury 2016), SUNY College at Old Westbury, USABlatino Spidey. Muslim-American Ms. Marvel. Queer teen Hulk. For some, these and other superhero reincarnations ring the death knell to Western civilization. For others, they reflect a vitally attentive response to today’s social make-up and the spirit of our times. With dazzling scholarly dexterity, Monica Flegel and Judith Leggatt take us on the rollercoaster ride of Marvel Comics: how its socio-politically alert contemporary stories entertain, incite incendiary debate, reveal deep sociopolitical chasms, and act as agents of change. Superhero Culture Wars forcefully reminds: Comics matter! -- Frederick Luis Aldama, Eisner Award winning scholar and Distinguished University Professor, Ohio State University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Mockingbird and Milkshakes: Comicsgate, Identity, and the Politics of Marketing in an Age of Outrage Chapter One: From Stan’s Soapbox to Twitter: Politics and Story-Telling in the Marvel Universe Chapter Two: Diversity Done Right?: Miles Morales and Kamala Khan Chapter Three: “Captain America is Black and Thor is a Woman”: Gender- and Race-Bent Mantle Passing in Marvel’s All-New, All-Different Campaign Chapter Four: Rethinking Secret Empire: Writing and Marketing Political Comics in an Age of Rising Fascism Conclusion: Marvel Legacy and Fresh Start: Selling (and Selling Out) Progressive Politics Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern
Book SynopsisCasey Michael Henry is Carl H. Pforzheimer Postdoctoral Fellow in English at The City College of New York, USA.Trade ReviewThe question of a possible lineage between the work of Burden, Wallace, and Candy Crush is an intriguing and perhaps subver¬sive one to ask. Henry’s eagerness to make these connections speaks to the intellectual daring on display in this book. * Orbit *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Inoperable Machine: A Media History of Late Postmodernism Section One: The Tiny Box Wherein Everything is Solved: New Media Narrative, Communication Technology, and the Conversation Novels of William Gaddis Problems in Two-Dimensions Postmodern Issues / Good Intentions: New Media Art and Method Even Agnostics Have Truth: The Verity of Bill Viola Nauman, Burden, Jokes, and Cruelty Two Sides of a Shadow: Stelarc, Chat Bots, and the Phantom Libido Non-attribution: Corporeal Fluidity in William Gaddis's Conversation Novels Section Two: Grooves on the Feeling Knob: Systematic Transgression in William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho Framing Excess: An Introduction to Systematic Transgression Sensory Movements: William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories, and "Emotional Calculus" Less Sad the Second Time Around: American Psycho and the Selfhood of Repetition Section Three: "Way Closer to the Soul than Mere Tastelessness Can Get": David Foster Wallace and Transcendent Extra-Textuality Unforeseen Ruptures: David Foster Wallace's Big Break, or, The Legacy of Experimentalism "Sudden Awakening to the Fact that the Mischief is Irretrievably Done": Epiphanic Structure in Infinite Jest The Great Beyond: Textual Relationality in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Epilogue References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Material Spirituality in Modernist Womens Writing
Book SynopsisFor Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Brooks, things mobilise creativity, traverse domestic, public and rural spaces and stage the interaction between the sublime and the mundane. Ordinary things are rendered extraordinary by their spiritual or emotional significance, and yet their very ordinariness remains part of their value.This book addresses the intersection of spirituality, things and places both natural and built environments in the work of these four women modernists. From the living pebbles in Mary Butts's memoir to the pencil sought in Woolf's urban pilgrimage in Street Haunting', the Christmas decorations crafted by children in H.D.'s autobiographical novel The Gift and Maud Martha's love of dandelions in Brooks's only novel, things indicate spiritual concerns in these writers' work.Elizabeth Anderson contributes to current debates around materiality, vitalism and post-secularism, attending to both mainstream and heterodox spiritual expressions and connTrade ReviewMaterial Spirituality in Modernist Women's Writing offers a fascinating new approach to the ‘liveliness of things’ in modernist women’s writing. Steering away from the tendency to see objects purely as commodities and women as consumers, Anderson reveals the mystery and wonder that inheres in their alterity and argues that we should read these characteristics as a form of spirituality that bridges the gap between the material and the transcendental, body and soul. Everyday objects come to seem animate, mobile, relational and obdurate—things that are worthy of the attention and care they receive in this book. Material Spirituality is an excellent introduction to the hybrid forms of religosity seen in its subjects and as an original and timely intervention into the study of literary cultures and religion in a secular age. * Dr Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary University of London, UK *From an established scholar of modernism and religion, Material Spirituality productively weds feminist theories of theology and contemporary thinking about the vibrancy and agentive capacities of matter. In her new study of the prose of both well-known and critically neglected twentieth-century women writers, Anderson uncovers a surprising and utterly fascinating view of spirituality as bounded by, and grounded in, the quotidian. * Lara Vetter, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One Threads and Silver Paper: spirituality of gift and process in H.D.’s war writing Chapter Two ‘The Pebbles Were Each One Alive’: Animism and Anglo-Catholicism in Mary Butts’s writing Chapter Three Darkness and Dirt: Virginia Woolf’s material mysticism Chapter Four Radiant Dandelions: Gwendolyn Brooks’s domestic sublime Chapter Five Things in the City Notes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature
Book SynopsisSilvia Anastasijevic is a doctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and a research assistant at the University of Bonn, Germany.Magdalena Pfalzgraf is Junior Professor of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bonn, Germany.Hanna Teichler is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: The mobilizing potential of transcultural World Literature: Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler Foreword: On excentric proximity: Some thoughts for Frank Homi K. Bhabha Part One Theories and concepts 1 'World Literature'? A perspective from the Centre, a perspective from the edge: Michael Chapman 2 Traversal, transversal: A poetics of migrancy: Robert J C. Young 3 On transcultural globalectics: Ngugi meets Schulze-Engler: Tanaka Chidora Part Two Transgressive kinships 4 Not-so-happy families: Durell, Goodall and the myth of Africa: Graham Huggan 5 The 'makings of a diasporic self': Transcultural life writing, diaspora and modernity in Stuart Hall's Familiar Stranger: Katja Sarkowsky 6 Toward re-centring the senescent: Pedagogical possibilities of Anglophone short fiction: Mala Pandurang and Jinal Baxi 7 Notes from a classroom: Teaching Anglophone transculturality amidst environmental devastations: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Michelle Stork Part Three Transversal readings 8 Transculturality and the law: Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider and a river with personhood: Mita Banerjee 9 'Mobility at large': Anglophone travel writing as a medium of transcultural communication in a global context: Nadia Butt 10 The transcultural imaginary: South Asian writing from Aotearoa New Zealand: Janet Wilson 11 Passages to India: Jewish exiles between privilege and persecution Flora Veit-Wild Afterword: 'Objects in the rear-view mirror': Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Methuen Drama Notes from a WorkingClass Playwright
Book SynopsisLeo Butler is an award-winning playwright from Sheffield, UK. His plays have been produced by many of the UK's most important theatres, including the National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, Birmingham Rep, and Royal Shakespeare Company. He has taught and run workshops at major international theatres and cultural centres, including Teatro De La Palabra in Chile; Dot Theatre in Turkey; Studio Emad Eddin in Egypt; National Theatre in Nigeria; Reps Theatre in Zimbabwe; Market Theatre in South Africa; Teatro Britanico in Peru; and Merlin International Theater in Hungary. He has written many celebrated plays about young people, including Made of Stone (Royal Court), Redundant (Royal Court - winner of the George Divine Award), Boy (Almeida) and Decades (Brit School/Bridge Theatre Co.) He has written historical plays such as I'll Be The Devil (RSC) and contemporary dramas such as Lucky Dog (Royal Court), Faces in the Crowd (Royal Court), The Early Bird (Queen's Theatre, Belfast) and All You Need is LSD (Birmingham Rep). He has also adapted classics like Woyzeck (Birmingham Rep), pantomimes and comedies such as Cinderella (Theatre Royal Stratford East), and written musicals such as Alison! The Rock Opera (Royal Court/King's Head). For 10 years, Leo Butler was Writers Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre and helped nurture a new generation of playwriting talent.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hemingway Ecology and Culture
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Edinburgh University Press Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
Book SynopsisAnalyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century
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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolfs Apprenticeship
Book SynopsisProvides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.
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Edinburgh University Press Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature
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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and Capitalism
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Palgrave USA Reading Late Lawrence
Book SynopsisReading Late Lawrence is a study of a number of the neglected fictional works of D. Lawrence's last period: these include Glad Ghosts , Sun, The Lovely Lady, The Blue Moccasins , and the first two revisions of Lady Chatterley's Lover .Table of ContentsPreface In In Love At Home, At Peace: Glad Ghosts Sun and The Virgin and the Gipsy Parkin's Wedding Photograph Strange Women with White Hair: The Lovely Lady, Mother and Daughter, The Blue Moccasins Bibliography of Lawrence's Works Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of American Literature
Book SynopsisA HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1950 TO THE PRESENT Featuring works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and DeLillo, A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works produced in the United States over the last six decades and a fascinating survey of the dramatic changes during America's transition from the innocence of the fifties to the harsh realities of the first decade of the new millennium. Author Linda Wagner-Martin - a highly acclaimed authority on all facets of modern American literature - covers major works of drama, poetry, fiction, non- fiction, memoirs, and popular genres such as science fiction and detective novels. Viewing works produced during this fertile literary period from a wide-ranging perspective, Wagner-Martin considers literature in relation to such issues as the politics of civil rights, feminism, sTrade Review“This commendable handbook should stimulate renewed debate on the canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xi 1 Locating Contemporary Literature 1 American Poetry during the 1950s 13 A. Poems of the Mind and the Body 13 B. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School 19 American Theater during the 1950s 25 American Fiction during the 1950s 28 A. Fiction and the War 28 B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel 32 C. The Novel, Jewish and Southern 38 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change 47 Theater of the 1960s 53 African American Writing in the 1960s 58 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers 69 Feminism 74 3 Conventions and Eruptions 79 Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years 81 Feminist Fictions 90 Postmodern Fictions 101 Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds 112 The New Journalism 123 Theater During the 1970s 129 4 New Ages and Old 139 Memoir: Another New Direction 142 Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style 150 Theater during the 1980s 168 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change 175 Asian American Writing 178 Native American Writing 183 Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina) 189 African American Writing 194 Poetry in the 1980s 203 Fiction in the 1980s 214 6 The 1990s and the Sexual 225 Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues 227 Theater of the 1990s 235 The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 242 Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 250 Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 260 7 The Twenty-First Century 277 The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath 286 Theater 2000–2010 307 Poetry 2000–2010 311 Memoir and Life-Writing 2000–2010 319 Fiction 2000–2010 326 References 353 Index 365
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Johns Hopkins University Press My Silver Planet
Book SynopsisBy exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.Trade ReviewTiffany is persuasive in arguing that the now ubiquitous idea of 'kitsch' originates in poetry, poetic language, and the articulated views of many players in the greater culture... The value of the book lies in application: understanding the origins of poetic 'kitsch' allows one to understand elite culture better and to use that knowledge as a link between elite culture and vernacular culture. Choice My Silver Planet offers a thrilling new way to read poetry from the past two hundred years. -- Mike Chaser Poetry Magazine A strength of Tiffany's book as a whole is that its history of the relationship of lyric poetry and kitsch from graveyard gothic to Pound reveals the pleasures and anxieties of an art forever seeking to justify its artifices in a natural authority, whether in the rhythms of labor, the rhythms of the sexual body, an essentialism of blood or land, or a totalitarian politics. -- John Wilkinson Modern PhilologyTable of Contents1. Arresting PoetryUnpopular PopMissing VersesBogusTwice MadeMass Ornament2. Poetic Diction and the Substance of KitschDreams, Mottos, GossipChatter and VirtuosityPhraseologyMorbid Animation3. MiscreantDoppelgängerSynthetic VernacularsPoetry vs. LiteratureCommonplaceLyric FatalityThieves' Latin4. The Spurious Progeny of Bare NatureBalladry and the Burden of Popular CultureExploded Beings and After-PoetsLive Burial5. IlliteratureRefrainLullaby LogicThe Cult of SimplicityPets, Trifles, ToysGothic Verse and MelodramaSilver Proxy6. Queer IdyllsTopologies of PrivacyReliquesPoetasterKitsch, Camp, and Homo-fascism1800 WordsPoison7. Kitsching the CantosVortex and Cream PuffContrabandThe Kitsch of ApocalypseEpic, Rhapsody, SeizureBad InfinityEthnofascist Souvenirs8. JunkThermofaxDada KitschAfter After-PoetsCoterie and MelodramaThe Metaphysics of Kitsch9. Inventing ClichésPlastic PoetryLiar, LiarAfterwordIn the Poisonous Candy FactoryCounterfeit CapitalNotesIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Historians Heart of Darkness
Book SynopsisFiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad''s Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The phrase heart of darkness has become a term commonly used to conjure an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad''s story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad''s novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural histoTrade Review"This book will be most appreciated in academic libraries, whose readers, whether studying history or literature, will appreciate the interweaving of the two disciplines. Given its rather reasonable price and its readability, other libraries should also consider it if their patrons are interested in British literature or African history." - ARBA"A thoroughly excellent, thoughtfully-produced and rewarding edition of Heart of Darkness." - The Conradian
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John Murray Press Deep Magic Dragons and Talking Mice
Book SynopsisWhat if you could ask C.S. Lewis his thoughts on the questions we all ask ourselves from time to time - questions about friendship, education, suffering, God... and the meaning of life itself?Trade ReviewThis is a splendid book which reminds us of the whole body of thought revealed through Lewis' writing. It may help us see in a new light some of the things we have already read. It may send us back to read again, or for the first time, some of the spiritual classics that other works of C S Lewis have become. McGrath's claim that reading C S Lewis can change your life is no vain boast. Reading McGrath on Lewis could be a similarly momentous act in our journeys of life and faith. * The Methodist Recorder *If McGrath's purpose is to inspire his own readers to delve into Lewis's writings, he certainly achieves that. Highly readable.' * Reflections Magazine *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller
Book SynopsisA Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller''s most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller''s plays: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers want a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Miller''s artistry. A chronology of Miller''s life and work helps to situate his oeuvre in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of his writing, its recurrent themes and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on:Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A chronology of Miller's life and work Introduction 1. Death of Salesman 2. The Crucible 3. A View from the Bridge 4. All My Sons 5. Broken Glass 6. Questions for study 7. Further reading
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modernism in a Global Context
Book SynopsisExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ''global turn'' in contemporary Modernist Studies. Topics covered include: - Transnational exchanges between Western and non-Western literary cultures - Imperialism and the Modernism - Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial literatures - Global literary institutions - from the Little Magazine to the Nobel Prize - Mass media - photography, cinema, and radio broadcasting in the modernist age Exploring the work of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and critics such as Edward Said, Pascale Casanova, Paul Gilroy, and Gayatri Spivak amongst many others, the book also includes a comprehensive annotated guide to further reading and online resources.Trade ReviewThe book, and the series as a whole, is useful for both beginning students and advanced scholars of modernism. It approaches its topic through the critical theories of modernism, grounding it in academia, and provides an extended bibliography of the major critical works. The broad rather than deep approach makes Modernism in a Global Context an excellent beginner’s guide to the movement. * Journal of Modern Literature *In range and scope, this is an ambitious and comprehensive book ... One of its most laudable achievements is achieving such breadth without sacrificing depth, nuance of argument, or readability ... The book is accessible to undergraduates without flattening out complicated questions that will challenge all scholars of modernism ... Modernism in a Global Context provides a thoughtful and compelling view of global modernism at a key moment in this developing field. * Review of English Studies *[T]he ambitious re-mapping of Modernism, especially in the cosmopolitan and postcolonial contexts, provides a fascinating arena for further thought and discussion. * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *In this hearty work, Kalliney (Univ. of Kentucky) examines modernism in the context of 20th- and 21st-century globalism. Taking modernism beyond the shores of Europe and North American, Kalliney offers chapters on media (Marshall McLuhan et al.), cosmopolitanism, cultural Institutions (UNESCO), and imperialism. Of these the last makes the most significant contribution. Here the author tackles such usual suspects as Joseph Conrad and Elizabeth Bowen but also focuses on Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Canadian M. G. Vassanji (who was raised in Tanzania but emigrated to Canada), and others. Particularly interesting is Kalliney's understanding of anticolonial modernism as expansive in nature. For him, the tools of modernism allow for a broad understanding and construction of community, which he argues is “asymmetrical in nature" and crosses temporal and spatial boundaries. This much-needed study allows for ownership of modernism beyond the traditional hegemony. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *A very effective, very accessible and remarkably even-handed survey of the existing, highly complex landscape of new modernist studies. * English Studies *Engagingly written and keenly aware of the enormity of its topic, Kalliney’s book maintains an enviable blend of scholarly rigor and accessible introduction, making it one of the most ideal teaching tools in a series devoted to that audience … Kalliney proceeds to move through a provocative range of examples of how one might conceive of modernism as a global phenomenon while remaining attentive to textual specificity. * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. An Aesthetics of Motion 2. Imperialism 3. Cosmopolitanism 4. Cultural Institutions 5. Media 6. Conclusion 7 Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Contemporary Political Play
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs? Is it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure?The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure examines the politics of contemporary ''political'' drama. It traces the origins of the contemporary British political play to the emergence of the idea of serious drama' in the late 19th century through the work of Bernard Shaw, and argues that a Shavian version of serious drama was inextricably linked to the social and political structures of British society at the time. While political drama is still often thought of as adhering to a Shavian model in which social issues are presented through a dialectical structure, Grochala argues that the different political structures of contemporary Britain give rise to formally inventive dramaturgies that areTrade Review[Grochala's] book is at its most powerful when it engages with such divided selves and spaces, as well as the creative impulses that lie behind them. * Times Literary Supplement *The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure is a valuable resource for students and academics, as well as to new and established playwrights. This book will become a staple in my arsenal as an academic, lecturer and playwright. I found the book so useful that I began using it in my teaching and lectures even before I had finished reading it. * South African Theatre Journal *Table of ContentsContents Forward Introduction 1 – Serious Drama 2 – The Politics of Structure 3 – Time 4 – Space 5 – Plot 6 – Character Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press May Sinclair
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction.
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Edinburgh University Press George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic
Book SynopsisThis timely book places Brown's literary vision in a larger frame of reference beyond Scotland, while identifying the special place Brown occupies as a Scottish Catholic writer.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Retrospective Raj
Book SynopsisExplores the 20th century literary revival of Empire and the post-imperial novel through a critical medical humanities lens.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum 12701370
Book SynopsisMeticulously analysing 15 beautifully decorated Arabic and Persian manuscripts, Cailah Jackson traces the development of calligraphy and illumination in late medieval Anatolia before the rise of the Ottoman Empire.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British
Book SynopsisThis book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press F. Scott Fitzgeralds Short Fiction
Book SynopsisBy exploring Fitzgerald's fascination with the intertwined spheres of dance, music, theatre and film, this book demonstrates how Fitzgerald innovatively imported practices from other popular cultural media into his short stories, showing how jazz age culture served as more than mere period detail in his work.
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Edinburgh University Press TwentyFirst Century Fictions of Terrorism
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press TwentyFirst Century Fictions of Terrorism
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Edinburgh University Press Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place
Book SynopsisThe first book-length literary-geographical study of late modernist poetry.
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