Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Columbia University Press Asian American Fiction After 1965
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Liverpool University Press Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s to the 1970s. Concrete poetry was a literary and artistic style which reactivated early twentieth-century modernist impulses towards the merging of artistic media, while simultaneously speaking to a gamut of contemporary contexts, from post-1945 reconstruction to cybernetics, mass media and the sixties counter-culture. The terms of its development in England and Scotland suggest new ways of mapping ongoing complexities in the relationship between the two national cultures, and of tracing broader sociological and cultural trends in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing especially on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Bob Cobbing, Border Blurs is based on new and extensive archival and primary research, and will fill a vital gap in contemporary understandings of an important but much misunderstood genre: concrete poetry. It will also serve as a vital document for scholars and students of twentieth-century British literature, modern intermedia art and modernism, especially those interested in understanding modernism’s wide geographical spread and late twentieth-century legacies.Trade Review‘This is an excellent, well-researched and up-to-date account of the development of concrete poetry in England and Scotland from the 1950s onwards. It will make an outstanding contribution to knowledge in the related fields of concrete poetry, late modernism, the history of the 1960s counter-culture and the British Poetry Revival.’ Dr Steve Willey, Birkbeck, University of LondonReviews 'Greg Thomas here gives us the first full treatment of English and Scottish concrete poetry. His survey is detailed and comprehensive, and he is especially acute in his treatment of both the interaction of two distinct literary cultures – nationalism and internationalism – and the reciprocity of literature and other media. He thus argues that “classical concrete” was followed by another concrete “more concerned with complicating or undermining linguistic sense, and with instating in language’s place various forms of multi-media communication and expression ...”. A genuinely inventive and valuable book for students and scholars of modernism, intermedia art, and British literature.'Dr Nancy Perloff, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute‘Border Blurs is a welcome and long overdue study of what is a key component of the general turn of British poetry towards what we might loosely describe as modernism and experiment that began in the 1960s and continues to this day. Thomas writes well and clearly… and has done anyone interested in poetry in all its variety an enormous favour. I highly recommend this book.’ Billy Mills, Elliptical MovementsTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Concrete Poetry/ Konkrete Poesie/ Poesia Concreta: The International Scene3. Order and Doubt: Ian Hamilton Finlay4. Off-Concrete: Edwin Morgan5. Apophasis: Dom Sylvester Houédard6. Abstract Concrete: Bob Cobbing7. Concrete Poetry and After: Conclusion
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Edinburgh University Press Commemorative Modernisms
Book SynopsisThis book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.
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Faber & Faber The Waste Land
Book Synopsis** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.A rattling good story' Sunday TelegraphA work of art' Times Literary SupplementThe Waste Land has been called the World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious.In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presentin
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HarperCollins Publishers A Little Princess HarperCollins Childrens
Book SynopsisThis beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf.Sara Crewe's life is almost a fairy tale, and she is the fairy princess in it, happy and rich with a father who loves her dearly. But, in one horrible moment, that is all taken away. Sara is now alone at Miss Minchin's boarding school in London, orphaned and penniless.What she'd once been called in flattery is quickly whispered in mockery: Princess Sara. However, Sara will realise there is more to a princess than gowns and jewels. Even dressed in rags and tatters, she can be a princess inside. Anyone can.From the author of The Secret Garden comes a story brimming with heart and hope, beloved by generations of readers.Complete your library with HarperCollins Children's Classics.
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Edinburgh University Press Literature of the 1990s
Book SynopsisPlacing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the end of Margaret Thatcher and rise of New Labour, this book offers fresh interpretations of mainstream and marginal works from all parts of Britain.
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University of Minnesota Press Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American
Book SynopsisA new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has typically been discussed in a limited, top-down fashion that clusters around powerful men. In Infrastructures of Apocalypse, Jessica Hurley turns this conventional wisdom on its head, offering a new approach that focuses on neglected authors and Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American perspectives. Exchanging the usual white, male “nuclear canon” for authors that include James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ruth Ozeki, Infrastructures of Apocalypse delivers a fresh literary history of post-1945 America that focuses on apocalypse from below. Here Hurley critiques the racialized urban spaces of civil defense and reads nuclear waste as a colonial weapon. Uniting these diverse lines of inquiry is Hurley’s belief that apocalyptic thinking is not the opposite of engagement but rather a productive way of imagining radically new forms of engagement.Infrastructures of Apocalypse offers futurelessness as a place from which we can construct a livable world. It fills a blind spot in scholarship on American literature of the nuclear age, while also offering provocative, surprising new readings of such well-known works as Atlas Shrugged, Infinite Jest, and Angels in America. Infrastructures of Apocalypse is a revelation for readers interested in nuclear issues, decolonial literature, speculative fiction, and American studies.Trade Review"Infrastructures of Apocalypse is a wonderfully rich and first-rate account of the ways in which American literature records and critiques the material impact of the nuclear age. Jessica Hurley's focus on the infrastructure of the nuclear state, rather than on the possibility of totalizing destruction, enables a new understanding of post-45 American culture."—Daniel Grausam, author of On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War"Infrastructures of Apocalypse is an extraordinary book. It demonstrates how postwar American literature documents the ways that nuclear technology becomes national infrastructure, with consequences for how we can understand the distribution of risk and resource in the period. Jessica Hurley’s innovative readings and keen narrative sensibility render infrastructural relations at their most paradoxical and most political. This is an urgent and timely account of how our self-made apocalypses are entangled with long historical processes and what their alternate futures may comprise."—Kate Marshall, author of Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction "Modest and profound."—Jewish Currents "Infrastructures of Apocalypse will instantly take its place in the growing tradition of environmental justice criticism that is carefully attuned to the entangled legacies of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and the environment—and to the potential of radical futureless-ness to enact a more just present."—ISLE "Hurley's writing is lively and consistently hopeful, despite the difficult subject matter she addresses."—Modern Language Review Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: End Times1. White Sovereignty and the Nuclear State2. Civil Defense and Black Apocalypse3. Star Wars, AIDS, and Queer Endings4. Nuclear Waste, Native America, Narrative FormCoda: Nuclear EntanglementsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First
Book SynopsisOffers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two representative stories. Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and author-focused chapters then discuss key developments in the contemporary German-language context, examining performance and performativity, Berlin and crime stories, and the openendness, fragmentation, liminality, and formal experimentations that characterize short stories in the twenty-first century. Together the chapters present the rich field of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering a variety of theoretical approaches to individual stories and collections, as well as exploring connections with storytelling, modernist short prose, and the novella. The volume concludes with a survey of broad trends, and three original translations exemplifying the breadth of contemporary German-language short-story writing.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Translations Introduction to the Contemporary Short Story in German - Andrew Plowman, Lyn Marven, and Kate Roy Chapter 1: Berlin Shorts: The German Capital in the Short Story of the Twenty-First Century - Katharina Gerstenberger Chapter 2: The German Crime Story in the Twenty-First Century - Todd Herzog Chapter 3: Performance, Performativity, and the Contemporary German Kurzgeschichte - Emily Spiers Chapter 4: Cramped Spaces, Creative Bottlenecks: Sudabeh Mohafez's das zehn-zeilen-buch and the Short-Short - Kate Roy Chapter 5: Bodo Kirchhoff's Widerfahrnis: A Novelle for Our Time? - Helmut Schmitz Chapter 6: The Liminal Space of the Short Story: Clemens Meyer's Die Nacht, die Lichter and Die stillen Trabanten - Gillian Pye Chapter 7: Framing the Presence: Judith Hermann's Lettipark - Leonhard Herrmann Chapter 8: Of Unhomed Subjects and Unsettled Voices: Alois Hotschnig's Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht - Heide Kunzelmann Chapter 9: Literary Development and Rewriting Spaces in the "Complete Stories": Peter Stamm's Der Lauf der Dinge - Andrew Plowman Chapter 10: On Disappearing: Reading Ulrike Almut Sandig with Sylvia Bovenschen - Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa Chapter 11: Metamorphic Becomings: Yoko Tawada's Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen - Áine McMurtry Chapter 12: Melinda Nadj Abonji and Jurczok 1001: Performance, Politics, and Poetry - Rafaël Newman and Caroline Wiedmer Chapter 13: Rhizomatic Wanderings: The Writings of Gabriele Petricek - Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger Chapter 14: Trends and Issues in the Contemporary German-Language Short Story - Lyn Marven Appendix: Contemporary German-Language Short Stories in Translation Sudabeh Mohafez, A Short-Short Selection - Translated by Kate Roy Roman Ehrlich, "Engineers of Time" - Translated by Lyn Marven Saša Stanišić, "The Factory" - Translated by Lyn Marven Bibliography of Primary Texts Notes on Contributors
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Edinburgh University Press Time and Tide
Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920-1939) and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers.
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Includes some of Duncan's greatest essays . . . a great help to all readers." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: 1940s 1. An Embryo for God: Tropic of Capricorn 2. The Homosexual in Society 3. What to Do Now 4. Reviewing View, an Attack 5. Poetics of Music: Stravinsky 6. The Poet and Poetry—A Symposium Part II: 1950s 7. Pages from a Notebook 8. From a Notebook 9. Notes on Poetics regarding Olson’s Maximus Part III: 1960s 10. Properties and Our REAL Estate 11. Ideas of the Meaning of Form 12. After For Love 13. Preface: Helen Adam, Ballads 14. Poetry before Language 15. The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound 16. The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante’s Divine Comedy 17. Introduction: William Everson, Single Source 18. Towards an Open Universe 19. The Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in Essential Autobiography 20. A Critical Difference of View 21. Man’s Fulfillment in Order and Strife 22. Jack Spicer, Poet: 1925–1965 Part IV: 1970s 23. Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman 24. Notes on Grossinger’s Solar Journal: Oecological Sections 25. Iconographical Extensions 26. Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art 27. From Notes on the Structure of Rime 28. Preface to a Reading of Passages 1–22 29. Kopóltuš 30. Introduction: Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery 31. An Art of Wondering 32. A Reading of Thirty Things 33. As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years 34. Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit 35. In Introduction: John Taggart, Dodeka Part V: 1980s 36. Preface: Jack Spicer, One Night Stand & Other Poems 37. The Adventure of Whitman’s Line 38. The Self in Postmodern Poetry 39. Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard’s Museum 40. Afterword: Beverly Dahlen, The Egyptian Poems 41. The Delirium of Meaning Appendix: List of Uncollected Essays and Other Prose Notes Works Cited in the Essays Acknowledgments of Permissions Index
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Relentlessly beautiful. . . . Everything seems to be here, laying the groundwork for a major career.” * Publishers Weekly *"Reminds us that [Duncan] wrote some of the most stunningly beautiful lines in postwar American poetry." -- Micah Mattix * Books & Culture *
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Taylor & Francis The Idea of the Postmodern A History
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Johns Hopkins University Press Iliazd
Book SynopsisA captivating portrait of futurist artist Iliazd infused with the reflections of his accidental biographer on the stickiness of the genre. The poet Ilia Zdanevich, known in his professional life as Iliazd, began his career in the pre-Revolutionary artistic circles of Russian futurism. By the end of his life, he was the publisher of deluxe limited edition books in Paris. The recent subject of major exhibitions in Moscow, his native Tbilisi, New York, and other venues, the work of Iliazd has been prized by bibliophiles and collectors for its exquisite book design and innovative typography. Iliazd collaborated with many major figures of modern artPablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ernst, Joán Miro, Natalia Goncharova, and Mikhail Larionov, among others. His 1949 anthology, The Poetry of Unknown Words, was the first international anthology of experimental visual and sound poetry ever published. The list of contributors is a veritable Who's Who of avant-garde writing and visual art. And ITable of ContentsPreface Note on Spelling1. Encountering Iliazd: The Biographical Project2. 1894–1916: Childhood and Formative Years3. 1916–1920: Futurist Poetics4. 1920–1921: Transition: Tbilisi, Constantinople, Paris5. 1921–1926: Paris6. 1927-1946: Family, Fabric, and Fiction7. 1947-1950: Lettrist Provocations and Poetry of Unknown Words (Poésie de Mots Inconnus)8. 1951-1975: The Editions: Collaborations and Projects9. 1971–1972: A Life in Reverse10. A Place in HistoryPostscript: Recovering the Project Appendix. A Note on Recent Scholarship about IliazdNotesBibliographyIndex
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Vintage Publishing The Invention of Angela Carter
Book SynopsisEdmund Gordon writes for a wide variety of publications, including the Guardian, Observer, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and Sunday Times. In 2012 he received a Jerwood Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London, and teaches literature and creative writing at King's College London. This is his first book.Trade ReviewSplendid…this is an exemplary piece of work…which will satisfy readers, and on which further investigation can rest with great confidence that nothing has been concealed and no pathway has been neglected. Everyone should read it. -- Philip Hensher * Spectator *[A] gripping biography, brimming with new material… He has undertaken feats of scholarship and written an admirably clearsighted book… Gordon’s achievement, however, is tremendous. From baroque entanglements of material and controversy, he brings living contours into view… A quarter century on, this new biography should renew our readerly appetites for Carter. -- Alexandra Harris * Financial Times *This fascinating, highly readable biography will be extremely hard to beat. -- Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *[It] glints with well-placed detail and witty apercus, and it pays proper attention to what matters most, Angela Carter’s writing… Let’s hope that this thoughtful and engaging biography will introduce a generation of new readers to her work. -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Literary Review *[An] astute biography… Edmund Gordon has done an industrious and intelligent job. -- DJ Taylor * The Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd Fantastic Four
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A groundbreaking example of comics representation in literature.”—Publishers Weekly“Penguin provides introductory essays; superb analyses by the series editor, Ben Saunders; and extensive bibliographies.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Stories become classics when generations of readers sort through them, talk about them, imitate them, and recommend them. In this case, baby boomers read them when they débuted, Gen X-ers grew up with their sequels, and millennials encountered them through Marvel movies. Each generation of fans—initially fanboys, increasingly fangirls, and these days nonbinary fans, too—found new ways not just to read the comics but to use them. That’s how canons form. Amateurs and professionals, over decades, come to something like consensus about which books matter and why—or else they love to argue about it, and we get to follow the arguments. Canons rise and fall, gain works and lose others, when one generation of people with the power to publish, teach, and edit diverges from the one before ... A top-flight comic by Kirby—or his successor on “Captain America,” Jim Steranko—barely needed words. You could follow the story just by watching the characters act and react. Thankfully, Penguin volumes do justice to these images. They reproduce sixties comics in bright, flat, colorful inks on thick white paper—unlike the dot-based process used on old newsprint, but perhaps truer to their bold, thrill-chasing spirit.”—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker“As before, all three of these volumes re-present Professor Ben Saunders’ learned general series intro which does an excellent job of succinctly explaining the rise of Marvel Comics and the Marvel Method.”—Forces of Geek
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Oxford University Press The Cat and the Masked Woman
Book SynopsisA new translation into English of two works by acclaimed French author Colette: The Cat, a surprising short novel in which the triangular love story involves one non-human protagonist, and The Masked Woman, a collection of 22 short stories that provide a challenging take on gender roles and relationships.
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Oxford University Press The Vagabond
Book Synopsis''Nothing is real except the dance, the light, the freedom, the music.''Colette''s semi-autobiographical novel The Vagabond (1910) follows thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as she embarks on a stage career after a divorce from philandering ex-husband, painter Adolphe Taillandy. Unlike the earlier Claudine series, which began as a collaboration between Colette and her first husband, Colette worked alone on The Vagabond to create a leading lady navigating the Parisian working world on her own terms. The music hall performers are Renée''s familiars and confidants, her fellow vagabonds; for the first time, the reader is offered a look behind the scenes from a woman''s perspective, a view enabled by Colette''s own simultaneous experience as writer and dancer. Unambiguously feminist and unabashedly sensual, The Vagabond established Colette as a serious novelist, showcasing her talent as an observer of the natural world and a painter of the beauty of the human form.Frances Egan''s new translation provides a fresh take on Colette''s voice, offering a highly readable text which pulls readers into Renée''s world, while preserving as much of the original context as possible to bring Paris, the music hall, and its crew of vagabonds, to life. Attention is paid to Colette''s depiction of class, race, and gender. Helen Southworth''s in-depth introduction places the book in the context of Colette''s life, offers background on Belle Epoque theatre and feminisms, and traces its reception and its importance to readers from Colette''s time to our own. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around theglobe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of othervaluable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies forfurther study, and much more.
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Oxford University Press The Magic Mountain
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Penguin Books Ltd Orwell and the Dispossessed
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University of California Press A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Book SynopsisThis supplementary volume attempts to evaluate and simplify Pound's often bewildering work. It contains over 10,000 separate glosses that identify all proper names, literary and historical allusions, with exegeses based upon Pound's original sources.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Cantos 1-16 Cantos 17-30 XI New Cantos Leopoldine Cantos The China Cantos The Adams Cantos The Pisan Cantos Rock-Drill Cantos Thrones The Coke Cantos Drafts and Fragments Bibliography Index to the Cantos Contents Foreign Words and Phrases in Roman Words and Phrases in Greek Chinese Characters
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Faber & Faber Sylvia Plath
Book SynopsisSylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. Tim Kendall seeks to redress the balance in his detailed and dispassionate examination of her poetry. Taking a roughly chronological structure, he traces the unique nature of Plath''s poetic gift, finding - with reference to Letters Home, The Bell Jar, The Journals and the stories and autobiographical reminiscences - an essential unity in her inspiration, tracing the evolution of recurring themes and at the same time exhibiting her accelerated development from the formal restraint of The Colossus through to the ground-breaking techniques of Ariel. He shows that Plath was a poet constantly remaking herself, experimenting with different styles, forms and subject matter.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Vita
Book SynopsisThe Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West.Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. Glendinning documents Vita''s extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband Harold Nicolson, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs.Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman and mother; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book.Trade ReviewWhat each of us would look for in an ideal future biographer is what each of us looks for in an ideal doctor: sympathy, trustfulness and acute powers of diagnosis. All these three qualities are here present. Vita would undoubtedly have shared our approval and gratitude * Sunday Telegraph *A biography that conceals nothing... gives her life in fact the strangeness, subtlety, complexity and ambivalence missing from her fiction * Observer *Surely the definitive biography. -- Harold ActonSuperb... much more than just a record of events but an opening up of understanding and experience -- Fiona McCarthy * The Times *It required both literary skill of the highest order and a rare imaginative compassion to fashion a work of art out of life... superb -- Dervla Murphy * Irish Times *Her modest, masterly, well-written treatment of a subject so absorbing in both intimate detail and public ramification is as good as it could be * Country Life *Again and again, I found myself turning to my battered paperback of Victoria Glendinning's Whitbread prize-winning biography of Sackville-West * Guardian *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction to the New Edition Acknowledgements Family Tree of Sackvilles and Nicolsons Prologue Part I: Knole 1892–1913 Part II: Change and Challenge 1913–21 Part III: Explorations 1921–30 Part IV: Sissinghurst 1930–45 Part V: The Enclave and the Tower 1945–62 Notes and Sources Books by V. Sackville-West Index
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Hodder Education Study and Revise for ASAlevel A Streetcar Named
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQA A, AQA B, Edexcel, WJEC, WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise A Streetcar Named Desire throughout the course.This Study and Revise guide:- Increases students'' knowledge of A Streetcar Named Desire as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners- Develops understanding of characterisation, themes, form, structure and language, equipping students with a rich bank of textual examples to enhance their coursework and exam responses- Builds critical and analytical skills through challenging, thought-provoking que
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Hodder Education Study and Revise for ASAlevel The Handmaids Tale
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQA A, AQA B, OCR, EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise The Handmaid''s Tale throughout the course.This Study and Revise guide:- Increases students'' knowledge of The Handmaid''s Tale as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners- Develops understanding of characterisation, themes, form, structure and language, equipping students with a rich bank of textual examples to enhance their coursework and exam responses- Builds critical and analytical skills through challenging, thought-provoking questions and tasks that
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HarperCollins Publishers Strange Antics A History of Seduction
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Yale University Press The Fine Art of Literary FistFighting
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Extreme States The Evolution of American
Book SynopsisExtreme States traces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.Trade ReviewIs transgression only about breaking the rules, or is it also creative and reconstitutive, part of a perpetual reconfiguration of American culture? Is it about style, or is it about ideas? Coco d’Hont, in her study of American fiction since the 1960s, helps us see transgression as violation, creation, and ideology.—Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham"Transgression as a concept involves so much more than the cliché of that which is outré or titillating, usually understood in sexual or aesthetic terms. At last, with Extreme States, we have a monograph that explores the ways in which the crossing of borders, boundaries, and categories is both central to much recent American fiction, and key to understanding the contemporary American ideological imaginary." —Lisa Downing, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPreface1 Dead in the Water? Reading Transgression as a Central Social Mechanism Moving Beyond Marginality: (Re)defining TransgressionA Perverse Society? Transgression and American CultureThe Body of Work: What Is Transgressive Fiction? A History of Transgression: Case Studies2 Too Much Filth to Handle: Pornography and Capitalism in Hogg Dirt, Sex and Violence: Breaking Through the SurfaceWandering Around the Wasteland: An Alternative AmericaConstructing Mainstream Marginality: Racism, Homophobia and MisogynyThe (S)innocent Child: The Nuclear Family and Morality3 Saving the West: Environmentalism and Conservatism in The Monkey Wrench GangA Modern-Day Thoreau: An Environmentalist History Maintenance through Destruction: Saving the American WestReinventing the Vigilante: Masculinity as Activist VehicleThe West as a Playing Field: Narrative Distortion and Critical Exploration4 A Painful Past: Rememory, Monstrosity and Intersectionality in BelovedA Ghost From the Past: Uncomfortable HistoriesMonsters and Reconstruction: Learning from the PastHalf-formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic IdentitiesUnder Construction: Fluid Freedoms5 The Perfect Neoliberal: The Corporate and the Corporeal in American PsychoConsuming Objects: Commodity Fetishism and the CorporealThe Power of the Corporeal: Corporate InstabilityChasing the Cipher: Bodily Violation as Critical InterrogationReinventing Neoliberalism: Crisis and Regeneration6 Wild Men: Freedom and Masculinity in Fight ClubInfected Masculinity: Reforming Capitalism through the Male BodyInfecting Society: Project Mayhem as Social DiseaseRethinking the Ethics of Physicality: Gender and the Politics of IllnessThe End of Freedom? The Return of the Limit7 "This Is Not an Exit": The (Non) Death of TransgressionFrom Safety Valve to Critical Exploration: Transgressive Fiction as a Fictional LabThe Mind-Body Problem: Connecting Ideology and PhysicalityMoving beyond Boundaries: Transgressive Fiction After the Turn of the CenturyNo Future? The Continued Importance of Transgressive FictionIndex
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling
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Cambridge University Press Flappers and Philosophers
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Cambridge University Press Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9780521170444
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Volume 5 March 1924March 1927
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1 The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad
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Cambridge University Press The Poems 2 Volume Hardback Set
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Cambridge University Press T S Eliot The Contemporary Reviews 14 American Critical Archives Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press Ezra Pound The Contemporary Reviews 18 American Critical Archives Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press The Nets of Modernism Henry James Virginia Woolf James Joyce and Sigmund Freud
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Cambridge University Press The Great Gatsby Variorum Edition
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Cambridge University Press Brian Friel Ireland and The North
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 2 19231925
Book SynopsisThe letters, many previously unpublished, of Volume 2 (1923–1925) follow Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in expatriate Paris and the experiences that forged his earliest works, including the landmark novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). It features a never-before-published short story that was rejected by Vanity Fair.Trade Review'Hemingway did not want his letters published, but this carefully researched scholarly edition does them justice … devotees will find this and future volumes indispensable.' William Gargan, Library Journal'With more than 6,000 letters accounted for so far, the project to publish Ernest Hemingway's correspondence may yet reveal the fullest picture of the twentieth-century icon that we've ever had. The second volume includes merely 242 letters, a majority published for the first time … readers can watch Hemingway invent the foundation of his legacy in bullrings, bars, and his writing solitude.' Steve Paul, Booklist'The letters to Pound - Hemingway's most important mentor in this period - are highlights of this volume. Bawdy, humorous, linguistically playful.' Literary Review'Roughly written as they are these letters show occasional flashes of true Hemingway … It is fascinating to watch the private rehearsal of what would become public performances.' The Daily Telegraph'Warmly unpretentious and frequently playful.' The Spectator'Most enjoyable …' The Tablet'This second volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the years in which he became himself … His style is at once close to and yet unutterably distant from that of his fiction.' The New York Times'The volume's 242 letters, about two-thirds previously unpublished, provide as complete an account of Hemingway's life during the Paris years as one could ask for.' Star Tribune'For those with a passion for American literary history and an interest in the machinery of fame, these letters, ably and helpfully annotated by a team of scholars led by Sandra Spanier of Penn State University, provide an abundance of raw material and a few hours' worth of scintillating reading.' The Kansas City Star'Amusing, moving and perceptive … this essential volume, beautifully presented and annotated with tremendous care and extraordinary attention to detail, offers readers a Hemingway who is both familiar and new.' Times Literary Supplement'The volume itself is beautifully designed and skillfully edited … As a book, it is perfect.' Los Angeles Review of Books'Two thirds of these have never seen the light of day before. A great continuing literary project.' Buffalo News'The register in which Hemingway writes varies greatly, ranging from telegraphic … excited communications with intimates to formal, correct letters to those with whom he has mainly business - literary or financial - relations. All the magnificent apparatus of the first volume …Summing up: essential.' Choice'… this volume will most likely never be superseded. It is crucial contribution to literary history.' Mark Ott, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface Sandra Spanier; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Abbreviations and short titles; Introduction to the volume J. Gerald Kennedy; Chronology; Maps; The letters, 1923–1925; Roster of correspondents; Calendar of letters; Index of recipients; General index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Twentieth Century Paris 19001950 A Literary Guide
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTwentieth Century Paris is stuffed full of fascinating information about the denizens of Paris during the first half of the century [...] also contains a number of illustrations and maps, so it really is the perfect guidebook. * Shiny New Books *a roll call of creativity, based on wide research, with a wealth of anecdote. * The Spectator *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Author’s Note Map of Arrondissements Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Gay Paree 3. Down and Out 4. City of Exiles 5. Flappers and Amazons 6. The Lost Generation 7. Patrons and Artists 8. Conclusion French Expressions Haunts and Locations Chronology Further Reading Index
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Psycho Paths
Book SynopsisThis is a broad overview of the evolving serial killer genre in the two media most responsible for its popularity: literature and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. The author theorizes that the serial killer genre results from a combination of earlier genre depictions of multiple murderers.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume III Cat
Book Synopsis"The Theatre of Tennessee Williams" brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.
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Duke University Press Crossing the Line
Book SynopsisSuitable for the scholars of American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism, this title uses cultural narratives of passing to illuminate both the contradictions of race and the deployment of such contradictions for a variety of needs, interests, and desires.Trade Review“Crossing the Line offers a superbly well-developed analysis of narratives of racial passing and a strategy for engaging such narratives. It will set the standard for subsequent treatments of racial passing.”—Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men“Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, Crossing the Line is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms.”— Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative FormTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues 3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949 4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture 5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity Notes Bibliography Index
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Newest Press Poor Super Man
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Ariadne Press Major Figures of Modern Austrian Literature
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Ariadne Press Major Figures of TurnoftheCentury Austrian
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Ariadne Press CoExistent Contradictions
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