Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Cambridge University Press Modern British Drama on Screen
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insights into the mutually profitable relationship between the newest performance medium and the most ancient. With each chapter written by an expert in the field, Modern British Drama on Screen focuses on key playwrights of the period including George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maugham, Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward and John Osborne and the most significant British drama of the past century from Pygmalion to The Madness of George III. Most chapters are devoted to single plays and the transformations they underwent in the move from stage to screen. Ideally suited for classroom use, this book offers a semester's worth of introductory material for the study of theater and film in modern Britain, widely acknowledged as a world center of dramatic productions for both the stage and screen.Table of ContentsIntroduction R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray; 1. 'That filth from which the glamour is not even yet departed': adapting Journey's End Lawrence Napper; 2. Playful banter in Shaw's Pygmalion Douglas McFarland; 3. Knowing your place: David Lean's film adaptation of Noel Coward's This Happy Breed Neil Sinyard; 4. The Browning Version revisited Marcia Landy; 5. Screening for serious people a trivial comedy: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Tom Ryall; 6. The British New Wave begins: Richardson's Look Back in Anger Steve Nicholson; 7. The shift from stage to screen: space, performance, and language in The Knack … and How to Get It Christine Geraghty; 8. See-thru desire and the dream of gay marriage: Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane on stage and screen James Campbell; 9. Sleuth on screen: adapting masculinities Monika Pietrzak-Franger; 10. Educating Rita and the Pygmalion effect: gender, class, and adaptation anxiety Cynthia Lucia; 11. The madness of Susan Traherne: adapting Hare's Plenty Tiffany Gilbert; 12. 'A Tom Stoppard film': agency and adaptation in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Elizabeth Rivlin; 13. Rewriting history: Alan Bennett's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner on the adaptations of The Madness of George III and The History Boys Joseph H. O'Mealy; Filmography.
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Cambridge University Press The Lyric Poem
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging study of lyric poetry in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations.Trade Review'… a carefully crafted collection.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction Marion Thain; 1. 'Words for music, perhaps': early modern songs and lyric David Lindley; 2. Neither here nor there: deixis and the sixteenth-century sonnet Heather Dubrow; 3. 'Trewly wrote': manuscript, print and the lyric in the early seventeenth century Thomas Healy; 4. Lyric and the English revolution Nigel Smith; 5. Modulation and expression in the lyric ode, 1660–1750 David Fairer; 6. Eighteenth-century high lyric: William Collins and Christopher Smart Marcus Walsh; 7. The retuning of the sky: Romanticism and lyric David Duff; 8. Victorian lyric pathology and phenomenology Marion Thain; 9. Modernism and the limits of lyric Peter Nicholls; 10. The lyric 'I' in late-twentieth-century English poetry Neil Roberts; 11. No man is an I: recent developments in the lyric Ian Patterson; Afterword Jonathan Culler.
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Cambridge University Press Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry 19662010
Book SynopsisIn this book, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid 1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive picture of the relationship between Northern Irish poetry from the Republic of Ireland since World War II and traces the lineage of lyric practice from a unique historical perspective. At the same time, it recontextualizes late twentieth-century Irish poetry within the long Irish poetic tradition, places Irish writing more accurately within the field of postwar Anglophone poetry and offers a new account of lyric''s critical capacities. Of interest to Irish studies and twentieth-century poetry specialists, this book provides a much-needed guide to some of the most inventive and notable poetry written in the past forty years.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Refashioning Irish poetry, 1966–1974; 2. Triangular Muldoon; 3. McGuckian's histories; 4. Carson's city; 5. Ní Dhomhnaill along the spine; 6. Conclusion: 'recent Irish poetry'.
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Cambridge University Press Modernity and the English Rural Novel
Book SynopsisThis book examines the persistence of the rural tradition in the English novel into the twentieth century. In the shadow of metropolitan literary culture, rural writing can seem to strive for a fantasy version of England with no compelling social or historical relevance. Dominic Head argues that the apparent disconnection is, in itself, a response to modernity rather than a refusal to engage with it, and that the important writers in this tradition have had a significant bearing on the trajectory of English cultural life through the twentieth century. At the heart of the discussion is the English rural regional novel of the 1920s and 1930s, which reveals significant points of overlap with mainstream literary culture and the legacies of modernism. Rural writers refashioned the conventions of the tradition and the effects of literary nostalgia, to produce the swansong of a fading genre with resonances that are still relevant today.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The rural regional novel: the interwar vogue; 2. 'The everlasting land': farming and the novel; 3. Rural primitivism: 'splendour in writing'; 4. 'The vanished world': the appeal of rural nostalgia; 5. 'A tugging at the heart': legacies of the rural tradition; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature
Book SynopsisThis is an illustrated cultural history of the emergence of modern literature in China from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Chinese Republic, the 1930s and the war period, ending in 1949. Wu Fuhui takes an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, drawing in book production, translation, popular and elite texts, international influences and political history. Presented here in English translation for the first time, Wu argues that this was a transformative period in Chinese literature informed both by developments in China''s domestic history and the dynamics of global circulation and encounter.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of maps; List of tables; Introduction to the English edition David Der-wei Wang; Preface; Part I. Promise of New Opportunities: 1. Wangping Street – Fuzhou Road: change of the scene of Chinese literature; 2. Vernacular newspapers and transformation of the written language of literature; 3. Earliest intellectuals with global outlook; 4. The 'new literary style' movement, a political motion in origin; 5. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1903 (an era of literary accumulation); 6. The rising of urban popular novels in an emerging international trading centre; 7. Emerging elites of the south society; 8. From Suzhou and Yangzhou to Shanghai: literature of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Literary School; Part II. The May Fourth Enlightenment Movement: 9. Introduction of spoken drama into China: the earliest theatre performances; 10. Building a bridge to world literature; 11. Incubation of a literary revolution home and abroad; 12. Rise of radicals from the New Youth and Peking University and Conservatives' Counter Claims; 13. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1921 (an era of literary enlightenment); 14. A literary niche created by newspapers, magazines and publishing houses of Beijing and Shanghai; 15. Leading breakthroughs in modern vernacular poetry and short stories; 16. A history of the dissemination and acceptance of 'The True Story of Ah Q'; 17. 'Yu Si', 'casual talks' and vernacular prose style; 18. Discovery of peasants and local colours by earlier native-soil literature; 19. Literary solace for urban citizens; Part III. The Coexistence of Diverse Types of Literature: 20. To the South: the return of literary centre; 21. Popularity, deepening and disputes of the left-wing literature; 22. Novels strongly characteristic of the era; 23. The successive boom of era-specific and individualized literary writings; 24. The graceful beauties of Belles-lettres by Beijing School Authors; 25. The new sensations of Shanghai School in the modern metropolis; 26. The literary horizon of two types of civilian society; 27. The professional theatre spoken drama in its mature stage; 28. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1936 (an era of diversification); 29. Interactions between cinematographic art and literature; 30. Timely and overall embrace of world literature; Part IV. Under the Clouds of War: 31. Forming of multiple literary centres under the clouds of war; 32. Intellectuals' economic conditions and their writing lifestyle; 33. Chongqing: national salvation literature, from boom to split; 34. Yan'an: from the wartime art and literature for the masses to the guiding principle of art and literature for workers, peasants and soldiers; 35. Guilin: the upsurge of theatre and publishing phenomenon of the wartime 'cultural city'; 36. Kunming: reflections on personal experience of the era; 37. Shanghai and others: the pain of homelessness and the roundabout development of urban popular literature; 38. Hong Kong and Taiwan: separation, autonomy and growth of new literature; 39. From peasants to urban citizens: new momentum for the development of popular literature; 40. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1948 (an era of transition); Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A History of NineteenthCentury American Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisA History of Nineteenth-Century American Women''s Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women''s poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts, and methodological approaches. Organized into three chronological sections, the essays examine multiple genres of poetry, consider poems circulated in various manuscript and print venues, and propose alternative ways of narrating literary history. From these essays, a rich story emerges about a diverse poetics that was once immensely popular but has since been forgotten. This History confirms that the field has advanced far beyond the recovery of select individual poets. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and critics of both the literature and the history of this era.Table of ContentsIntroduction: making history: thinking about nineteenth-century American women's poetry Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides; Part I. 1800–40, American Poesis and the National Imaginary: 1. Claiming Lucy Terry Prince: literary history and the problem of early African-American women poets Mary Louise Kete; 2. Before the poetess: women's poetry in the early republic Tamara Harvey; 3. The passion for poetry in Lydia Sigourney and Elizabeth Oakes Smith Kerry Larson; 4. Album verse and the poetics of scribal circulation Michael C. Cohen; 5. Presents of mind: Lydia Sigourney, gift book culture, and the commodification of poetry Elizabeth A. Petrino; 6. The friendship elegy Desirée Henderson; 7. Gendered Atlantic: Lydia Sigourney and Felicia Hemans Gary Kelly; Part II. 1840–65, Unions and Disunion: 8. Women, Transcendentalism, and The Dial: poetry and poetics Michelle Kohler; 9. Poets of the loom, spinners of verse: working-class women's poetry and The Lowell Offering Jennifer Putzi; 10. Women's transatlantic poetic network Páraic Finnerty; 11. Making and unmaking a canon: American women's poetry and the nineteenth-century anthology Alexandra Socarides; 12. 'What witty sally': Phoebe Cary's poetics of parody Faith Barrett; 13. Nineteenth-century American women's poetry of slavery and abolition Eric Gardner; 14. Fever-dreams: antebellum Southern women poets and the Gothic Paula Bennett; 15. The Civil War language of flowers Eliza Richards; 16. Poetry and bohemianism Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley; Part III. 1865–1900, Experiment and Expansion: 17. Women poets and American literary realism Elizabeth Renker; 18. Verse forms Cristanne Miller; 19. Braided relations: towards a history of nineteenth-century American Indian women's poetry Robert Dale Parker; 20. Frances Harper and the poetry of reconstruction Monique-Adelle Callahan; 21. (Hear the bird): Sarah Piatt and the dramatic monologue Jess Roberts; 22. Women writers and the hymn Claudia Stokes; 23. Women poets, child readers Angela Sorby; 24. Emma Lazarus transnational Shira Wolosky; 25. The creation of Emily Dickinson and the study of nineteenth-century American women's poetry Mary Loeffelholz.
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Cambridge University Press Victory
Book SynopsisVictory: An Island Tale is the latest volume in the widely praised The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Like its predecessors, this volume offers scholars an authoritative text, free from the interference of Conrad's typists, compositors and editors; a full scholarly introduction, and textual and explanatory notes.Trade Review'While all of the volumes to appear to date in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad have been a great addition to the scholarly community interested in the works of Conrad, it may be that this edition of Victory is the most valuable book yet produced.' John Peters, English Literature in TransitionTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Victory: An Island Tale; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.
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Cambridge University Press Wallace Stevens in Context
Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, who is generally considered one of the great twentieth-century American poets. In thirty-six short essays, an international team of distinguished scholars have created a comprehensive overview of Stevens'' life and the world of his poetry. Individual chapters relate Stevens to important contexts such as the large Western movements of romanticism and modernism; particular American and European philosophical traditions; contemporary and later poets; the professional realms of law and insurance; the parallel art forms of painting, music, and theater; his publication history, critical reception, and his international reputation. Other chapters address topics of current interest such as war, politics, religion, race and the feminine. Informed by the latest developments in the field, but written in clear, jargon-free prose, Wallace Stevens in Context is an indispensable introduction to tTrade Review'Stevens will never be reduced to context. But in helping us see the ways he interacts with context, and in shifting lenses to gain a prismatic sense of this poet's range and complexity, Stevens in Context is indispensable.' Bonnie Costello, The Wallace Stevens JournalTable of ContentsPart I. Places: 1. Reading, Pennsylvania Paul Mariani; 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts Milton Bates; 3. New York, New York Paul Mariani; 4. Hartford, Connecticut John N. Serio; 5. Florida Mark Scroggins; 6. France Juliette Utard; 7. The Orient Edward Ragg; Part II. Natural Contexts: 8. The seasons George S. Lensing; 9. Landscape Justin Quinn; Part III. Literary Contexts: 10. Romanticism Charles Mahoney; 11. Modernism Langdon Hammer; 12. Poetic contemporaries Lee M. Jenkins; 13. Later poets Al Filreis; 14. Stevens' library Chris Beyers; 15. Stevens' letters, notebooks, and journals Milton Bates; 16. Stevens' essays William Doreski; 17. Periodicals Craig Monk; 18. Critical reception John Timberman Newcomb; 19. International reputation Bart Eeckhout; Part IV. Other Arts: 20. The visual arts Glen MacLeod; 21. Music Lisa Goldfarb; 22. Theater Brenda Murphy; Part V. Intellectual Contexts: 23. American philosophy Rachel Malkin; 24. European philosophy Krzysztof Ziarek; 25. Aesthetics Charles Altieri; 26. Abstraction Edward Ragg; Part VI. Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts: 27. War Charles Berger; 28. Politics Patrick Redding; 29. Religion Tony Sharpe; 30. Race Rachel Galvin; 31. Law Lawrence Joseph; 32. Insurance Jason Puskar; 33. The exotic Stephen Burt; 34. The everyday Andrew Epstein; 35. The (inter)personal Roger Gilbert; 36. The feminine Lisa M. Steinman.
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Cambridge University Press British Literature in Transition 19401960 Postwar
Book SynopsisThe writing of this period offers fresh insight into cultural reconstruction and the difficulty of writing about cataclysmic events. Through a historical approach that re-instates forgotten writers and re-evaluates well-known names, readers will see the period anew. This book will be a key resource for scholars of twentieth-century British literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction Gill Plain; Part I. Aftermath: The Beginning or the End?: Introduction; 1. Slender means: the novel in the age of austerity Marina MacKay; 2. Impossible elegies: poetry in transition 1940–1960 Nigel Alderman; 3. Democracy and decentralisation: the Renaissance of British theatre? Rebecca D'Monté; 4. National transitions: Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland Katie Gramich; 5. Heroes of austerity: genre in transition Gill Plain; 6. Wireless writing, World War II and the West Indian literary imagination James Procter; Part II. The Politics of Transition: Introduction; 7. Narrating transitions to peace: fiction and film after war Mark Rawlinson; 8. Poetry, the early Cold War and the idea of Europe Adam Piette; 9. Horizon, encounter and mid-century geopolitics Thomas S. Davis; 10. Public intellectuals and the politics of literature: the causes and collaborations of J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley Ina Habermann; 11. Prizing the nation: postwar children's fiction Lucy Pearson; 12. Artists of their time: the postwar battle for realism in literature and painting Alice Ferrebe; Part III. Reconfigurations: Introduction; 13. Demob: the postwar origins of the new nature writing Leo Mellor; 14. Old haunts: childhood and home in postwar fiction Victoria Stewart; 15. New uses of literacy: the blank page and writing in the aftermath of war Tracy Hargreaves; 16. The pursuit of love: writing postwar desire Charlotte Charteris; 17. Creating vital theatre: new voices in a time of transition Claire Cochrane; Part IV. No Directions: Introduction; 18. Covert legacies in postwar British fiction James Smith; 19. 'The sights are worse than the journeys': travel writing at the mid-century Petra Rau; 20. The future and the end: imagining catastrophe in mid-century British fiction Allan Hepburn; 21. Exhausted literature: the postwar novel in repose Kate McLoughlin.
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Cambridge University Press British Literature in Transition 19802000
Book SynopsisThe literature of twentieth-century Britain''s final twenty years represents a crash course in transitional history. In the aftermath of the 1970s, the nation''s hopes of becoming more efficient were high, leading to the fundamental domestic shake-up that was Margaret Thatcher''s neoliberal revolution (197990). Following the end of the Cold War, Europe was undergoing radical rejuvenation, while the world as a whole began to thrive on new levels of connectivity and proximity brought through rapid advances in communication technology. Later, in the 1990s, Britons were asked to countenance not only internal devolution, but also the crystallisation of a brand-new European and global order. This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change. It traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends as well as enduring transitional shifts in genre, tone, style and thematic preoccupation.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Transitions: 1. The ends of postmodernism Peter Boxall; 2. Historical fiction and political regeneration Dougal McNeill; 3. Strategies of survival in experimental poetry Luke Roberts; 4. Dramatic evolutions/bodily violations Nadine Holdsworth; 5. No such thing as society: the novel under neoliberalism Eileen Pollard and Berthold Schoene; Part II. Nation: 6. Black British writing: from gulags to ships Henghameh Saroukhani; 7. Working-class writing and the decline of class consciousness Nick Bentley; 8. Northern radical theatre and community performance Phil O'Brien; 9. 'Pit closure as art': poetry from the North of England James Underwood; 10. The road to Tollund: Northern Ireland's literature of transformation Richard Kirkland; 11. Entangled (k)nots: reconceptualizing the nation in Scottish devolution writing Carla Sassi; Part III. Society: 12. Inter-feminism/s: women writing back to the future Diana Wallace; 13. The rise of ladlit and chicklit Imelda Whelehan; 14. 'A gay story, a history': gay male liberation and queer rumination Allan Johnson; 15. 'Searching for something': the post-secular faiths of British fiction Andrew Tate; 16. Dystopia and euphoria: time-space compression and the city Alexander Beaumont; Part IV. Acceleration: 17. Coded networks: literature and the information technology revolution Anna McFarlane; 18. Nature's history: environmentalism and the British nature novel John Parham; 19. Like any other commodity? Literary prize culture, commercialisation, and the rise of a new reading public Caroline Edwards; 20. Making sense of the world: literature and globalisation Philip Leonard.
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Cambridge University Press An Outcast of the Islands
Book SynopsisAn Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad''s second novel, returns to the Malay world of Almayer''s Folly (1895). Focusing on the collapse of Western values and morals in a colonial setting, the novel daringly portrays the power of erotic attraction and exposes the venal ambitions behind small- and large-scale political intrigues. The introduction situates the novel in Conrad''s career as a writer and traces its origins and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus explain the history of the work''s composition and publication, and detail the interventions of Conrad''s compositors and editors. There are notes explaining literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations including pictures of early drafts, and appendixes. This edition presents the novel and its preface in forms more authoritative than any so far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in defective forms since its original publication.Trade Review'… Allan H. Simmons, in his edition of An Outcast of the Islands, clearly and efficiently presents the history of the text, including the likely provenance of the printer's copy of Doubleday's collected edition of 1920.' Dale Kramer, Joseph Conrad TodayTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; An Outcast of the Islands; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.
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Cambridge University Press British Literature in Transition 19601980 Flower Power
Book SynopsisThis volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a diverse range of authors, texts, genres and movements. It considers innovations in form, emergent identities, changes in attitudes, preoccupations and in the mind itself, local and regional developments, and shifts within the oeuvres of individual authors.Table of ContentsPart I. Ventures in Form: 1. Error and experiment in the 1960s British novel Julia Jordan; 2. 'A different inclusiveness': reading poetry from the group to the British poetry revival Hannah Brooks-Motl; 3. 'A revolutionary proposal': Alexander Trocchi, dramaturgies of disruption and situationist genealogies Grant Tyler Peterson; Part II. Emergent Identities: 4. 'Sight, sounds and meaning': voice/print transitions in black British poetry Rachael Gilmour; 5. Fate and freedom in the fiction of the second wave Abigail Rine Favale; 6. Affluence and its discontents: working-class literature of the 1960s and 1970s Katy Shaw; 7. Coming out: the emergence of gay literature Alison Hennegan; Part III. Changing Minds: 8. From countryside to environment: reaching common ground Terry Gifford; 9. Nostalgia and the elegiac mode Marina MacKay; 10. The spiderhood: psychedelic literature, literary psychedelia and the writing of LSD James Riley; 11. 'Little things': writing the sexual revolution Claire O'Callaghan; 12. Inhuman factors: the intelligence of British spy fiction David Pascoe; Part IV. Local and Regional Developments; 13. In and out of the nation: Poetry Wales in the 1960s and 1970s Matthew Jarvis; 14. Performing on the fringe: Basil Bunting and Morden Tower Edward Allen; 15. Rejecting the knitted claymore: the challenge to cultural nationalism in Scottish literary magazines of the 1960s and 1970s Eleanor Bell; 16. Oh so loinerly: geographical transitions and the struggle to belong in Tony Harrison's The Loiners Rory Waterman; 17. The end of 'home': Heaney, Muldoon and the return of the dead Peter Mackay; Part V. Individual Transitions: 18. Iris Murdoch: an anatomy of failure James Clements; 19. Larkin's light Kate McLoughlin; 20. 'Operating on life, not in it': gender and relationships in the plays of Harold Pinter Mark Taylor-Batty; 21. 'The small box': Ted Hughes and the figure of the child S. J. Perry; 22. Caryl Churchill and the vectors of unhappiness Rachel Clements.
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Cambridge University Press Writing and the Modern Stage
Book SynopsisWith a focus on twentieth-century work, this book offers a new understanding of what text can do in theater. Written for scholars and students of modern drama, theater studies, modernist literature, and critical theory, it revises dominant views of Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Theodor Adorno, and contemporary theater artists.Trade Review'In short, the achievement of Jarcho's book is that it is not only a complex and challenging piece of scholarship that probes into the underappreciated potential of theatrical writing, but also serves as an invaluable model for scholars looking to renegotiate the place of theater both beyond and beside drama in the contemporary academy.' Chris Corbo, ASAP/Journal'A review this short cannot do justice to the intricacies of Jarcho's analysis here and throughout Writing and the Modern Stage. Backed by its author's extensive knowledge of drama, performance, and critical theory, Jarcho's book offers a powerful counter-argument to those who see writing as something that theatre overcomes in order to achieve an authentic presentness.' Stanton B. Garner, Jr, Modern Drama'This book is a testament to the importance of scholarly work that not only considers theatre as one of many manifestations in the large bubbling pot of cultural production but also attends to the intricacies of medial specificity.' Eleanor Skimin, Theatre SurveyTable of ContentsPart I. Modernism's Negative Theatrics: 1. Introduction: negative theatrics; 2. 'Something stranger yet': theatrical distractions in Henry James and Gertrude Stein; 3. 'Gesture towards the universe': theater as utopia in Waiting for Godot; Part II. Beyond the Present: Playwrights at the Turn of the Millennium: 4. Introduction: staging writing today; 5. The promise of 'playwriting': Suzan-Lori Parks; 6. 'Small, fierce creatures': Mac Wellman's auratic theater.
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Cambridge University Press American Literature in Transition 19902000
Book SynopsisWritten in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century''s twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging technologies to narrative ends, and by finding new voices that had remained outside that canon for too long. By reading 1990s literature in a sequence of shifting contexts - from independent presses to the AIDS crisis, and from angelology to virtual reality - American Literature in Transition, 19902000 provides the fullest map yet of the changing shape of a rich and diverse decade''s literary production. It offers new perspectives on the period''s well-known landmarks, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, but also overdue recognTable of ContentsPart I. End times: 1. American literature and the Millennium Jeremy Green; 2. Angels, ghosts and post secular visions Brian McHale; 3. Aging novelists and the end of the American century Marshall Boswell; 4. Violence Sean Grattan; 5. The end of the book David Ciccoricco; 6. The end of postmodernism Ralph Clare; Part II. Forms: 7. Enclyclopedic fictions Stephen J. Burn; 8. Historical fiction John N. Duvall; 9. Lyrical thinking in poetry of the '90s Thomas Gardner; 10. Story-cycles Paul March-Russell; 11. Materiality in the late age of print Mary K. Holland; 12. Manifestos Rachel Greenwalk Smith; 13. Revisionary strategies Christian Moraru; Part III. Interconnectivity: 14. Borders and mixed race fictions Aliki Varvogli; 15. Globalization Paul Giles; 16. The two cultures Novel Jon Adams; 17. Ecosystem Heather Houser; 18. Virtual reality Joseph Conte; Part IV. Public and Private Life: 19. Trauma Patrick O'Donnell; 20. Family Kasia Boddy; 21. Aids Lesley Larkin; Part V. Institutions: 22. The university 'after' theory Daniel Punday; 23. Independent presses Jeffrey R. Dileo.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and the Materiality of Texts
Book SynopsisModernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction or made a refuge from social crisis; instead, they reflect colonial and racial anxieties of the period. Rudyard Kipling's fear that he is indistinguishable from empire subjects, J. M. Barrie's object-relations theater of infantile separation, and Virginia Woolf's dismembered anagram self are performed by the physical text and produce a new understanding of textuality. In readings that also include diverse works by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud, this study produces a new reading of modernism's psychological text and of literary constructions of materiality in the period.Table of Contents1. Nonsense and motivation; 2. VSW - anagram body; 3. The erasure of Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein; 4. Barrie's object relations; 5. Late English Empire nonsense; 6. Herriman's black sentence; 7. Afterword - indifference in Freud.
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Cambridge University Press American Literature in Transition 19401950
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remembered more vividly than the American Revolution. American Literature in Transition, 19401950 provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of this period. Essays from scholars in literature, history, art history, ethnic studies, and American studies show how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade: the Second World War, the Cold War, and emerging movements over racial justice, gender and sexuality, labor, and de-colonization. One recurrent motif is the centrality of the political impulse in art and culture. Artists and writers participated widely in left and liberal social movements that fundamentally transformed the terms of social life in the twentieth century, not by advocating specific legislation, but by changing underlying cultural values. This book addresses all the political impulses fueling art and literTable of ContentsPart I. The United States in the World: 1. Why We Fight: contending narratives of the Second World War Christopher Vials; 2. Human rights in American political discourse Glenn Mitoma; 3. Fictions of anti-semitism and the beginning of Holocaust literature Josh Lambert; 4. The fatal machine: the postwar imperial state and the radical novel Benjamin Balthaser; 5. Antifascism as a political grammar and cultural force Christopher Vials; 6. From confession to exposure: transitions in anticommunist literature Alex Goodall; 7. The contested origins of the Atomic Age and the Cold War Christian Appy; Part II. Emergent Publics: 8. Cross currents: WWII and the increasing visibility of race Bill Mullen; 9. Good Asian/bad Asian: Asian American racial formation Floyd Cheung; 10. Social realism, the Ghetto, and African American literature James Smethurst; 11. From factory to home? The crisis in the gendered division of labor Julia L. Mickenberg; 12. Public excursions in fierce truth-telling: literary cultures and homosexuality Aaron Lecklider; 13. Resurgence: conservatives organize against the new deal Kathy Olmsted; Part III. Media and Genre: 14. Late modernisms, latent realisms: the politics of literary interpretation Sarah Ehlers; 15. The city in the literary imagination Sean McCann; 16. Noir and the ebb of radical hope Alan Wald; 17. Narrating the war Philip Beidler; 18. Paperbacks and the literary marketplace Erin Smith; 19. Literary radicals in Radio's public sphere Judith Smith; 20. The state cultural apparatus: federal funding of arts and letters Joan Saab.
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Cambridge University Press The Rover
Book SynopsisSet in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last novel that Conrad completed in his lifetime. A popular success on its publication, it explores, against the backdrop of dramatic political change and the Anglo-French hostilities leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the themes of personal and national identity, loyalty and love. The ''Introduction'' situates the novel in Conrad''s career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and historical references and indicate Conrad''s sources. The essay on the text and the apparatus lay out the history of the work''s composition and publication, detail the interventions in the text by Conrad''s typists, compositors and editors and explain editorial policy. This edition of The Rover, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the novel in a form more authoritative than any so far printed.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; The Rover; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Maps.
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Cambridge University Press American Literature in Transition 20002010
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Transition, 20002010 illuminates the dynamic transformations that occurred in American literary culture during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume is the first major critical collection to address the literature of the 2000s, a decade that saw dramatic changes in digital technology, economics, world affairs, and environmental awareness. Beginning with an introduction that takes stock of the period''s major historical, cultural, and literary movements, the volume features accessible essays on a wide range of topics, including genre fiction, the treatment of social networking in literature, climate change fiction, the ascendency of Amazon and online booksellers, 9/11 literature, finance and literature, and the rise of prestige television. Mapping the literary culture of a decade of promise and threat, American Literature in Transition, 20002010 provides an invaluable resource on twenty-first century American literature for general readers, studTable of ContentsIntroduction Rachel Greenwald Smith; Part I. Formal Transitions: 1. 'Post'-ethnic form Elda María Román; 2. Gender, sexuality, and new queer forms T. Jackie Cuevas; 3. Formally conventional fiction Adam Kelly; 4. Literary genre fiction Andrew Hoberek; 5. New wave fabulism and hybrid science fictions Kate Marshall; 6. The televisual novel Phillip Maciak; Part II. The Return of Authenticity: 7. Neorealist fiction Lee Konstantinou; 8. Memoir Daniel Worden; 9. Historical fiction and the end of history Mitchum Huehls; 10. Literature after 9/11 Georgiana Banita; 11. The neuronovel Stephen J. Burn; Part III. Digital Revolutions: 12. Information Lindsay Thomas; 13. Electronic literature Brian Kim Stefans; 14. Social networks Scott Selisker; 15. Conceptual writing Jennifer Ashton; Part IV. Transnational Currents: 16. Financialization Annie McClanahan; 17. Borders and migrations Emilio Sauri; 18. War on terror Timothy Melley; Part V. The Ecological Turn: 19. New directions in ecocriticism Janet Fiskio and Sophia Bamert; 20. Climate change fiction Matthew Schneider-Mayerson; 21. Ecopoetics Jonathan Skinner; Part VI. Institutional Shifts: 22. Little magazines, blogs, and literary media Evan Kindley; 23. Publishing in the age of Amazon Loren Glass; 24. Creative writing, cultural studies, and the university Eric Bennett; Afterword: the 2000s after 2016 Rachel Greenwald Smith.
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Cambridge University Press American Literature in Transition 19701980
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Transition, 19701980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century''s gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in the era, however - a remarkable omission considering writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Alice Walker, and Octavia E. Butler were active. Over the course of twenty-one essays, contributors explore a range of controversial themes these writers tackled, from 1960s'' nostalgia to feminism and the redefinition of masculinity to sexual liberation and rock ''n'' roll. Other essays address New Journalism, the rise of blockbuster culture, memoir and self-help, and crime fictionTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction: sucking in the '70s Kirk Curnutt; Part I. Themes: 1. In the shadow of the 1960s: 'what do we do now?' Matthew Luter; 2. 'It's not okay with me': the 1970s war against nostalgia Steven Goldleaf; 3. 'We interrupt this program': narratives in conflict in American postmodern literature of the 1970s Eric G. Waggoner; 4. 'All in the family': ancestral voices and ancestral Gods in 1970s multiculturalism Christopher Douglas; 5. 'An element of present danger': jogging, football, and anxieties of vulnerability in 1970s sporting literature Ryan Hediger; 6. 'The zipless fuck is absolutely pure': sexual liberation and 1970s American literature Dale M. Bauer; Part II. Genres and the Business of Literature: 7. Our stories, our selves: memoir and self-help in the 'me decade' Nicole Stamant; 8. '(Not just) knee deep': black writing between soul and the mainstream Michael Hill; 9. Green letters in a decade black with ink: American environmental writing in the 1970s Will Elliott; 10. Future shocks: science fiction transformations in the 1970s Robin A. Roberts; 11. Death wishes: crime literature, violence, and detectives in the American 1970s Linda Wagner-Martin; 12. The Great American Novel in the 1970s Tom Perrin; 13. The bestseller and the blockbuster mentality Philip McGowan; 14. 'Do the hustle': showmanship, publicity, and the changing landscape of literary authority Tom Cerasulo; Part III. Cultural Engagements: 15. First to write: the 1970s and the Vietnamese War Alex Vernon; 16. Nixon burning: the anti-establishment turn in 1970s' American political writing David Seed; 17. The maturation of the new journalism in the 1970s Everette E. Dennis; 18. Rock is dead/long live rock: popular music in 1970s American literature Kirk Curnutt; 19. The confessional turn: masculinity and American literary culture in the 1970s James Penner; 20. The feminist 1970s Sam McBean; 21. Blood on the page: the decade gets its period David Linton; Conclusion: keep on truckin' Kirk Curnutt.
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Cambridge University Press Becketts Art of Salvage
Book SynopsisThis innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett''s work is the first study of the material imagination of any single modern author. Across five decades of aesthetic and formal experimentation in fiction, drama, poetry and film, Beckett made substantial use of only fourteen objects - well-worn not only where they appear within his works but also in terms of their recurrence throughout his creative corpus. In this volume, Bates offers a striking reappraisal of Beckett''s writing, with a focus on the changing functions and impact of this set of objects, and charts, chronologically and across media, the pattern of Beckett''s distinctive authorial procedure. The volume''s identification of the creative praxis that emerges as an ''art of salvage'' offers an integrated way of understanding Beckett''s writing, opens up new approaches to his work, and offers a fresh assessment of his importance and relevance today.Trade Review'… Beckett's art of salvaging, an art which Bates makes a compelling case for as crucial to his creative imagination, in her thorough, nuanced and highly readable monograph.' Liam Harrison, Dublin Review of BooksTable of Contents1. Relics; 2. Heirlooms; 3. Props; 4. Treasure; Conclusion: Beckett's art of salvage.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Irish Modernism
Book SynopsisA History of Irish Modernism examines a wide variety of artworks (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from literature, film, painting, music, radio, and architecture. Each chapter considers a particular aspect of Irish culture and reflects on its contribution to modernism at large. In addition to new research on the Irish Revival and cultural nationalism, which places them squarely in the modernist arena, chapters offer transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives that place Irish cultural production in new contexts. At the same time, the historical standpoint adopted in each chapter enables the contributors to examine how modernist practices developed across geographical and temporal distances. A History of Irish Modernism thus attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns - even as it embodies aesthetic principles that are the hallmark of modernism in Europe, the Americas and beyond.Trade Review'… the editors write that they intend the volume 'to re-examine the dominant narrative of Irish modernism, to feature lesser-known figures and works, and to take into account social and political spheres … in a variety of ways from a variety of perspectives' - a goal they achieve … The collection demonstrates that Irish modernism is distinctly different from and much broader than traditional high modernism … Recommended' C. E. Epple, Choice'… provides a helpful template with which to address the various artists and movements covered in the rest of the book … the book achieves its goal through the course of its twenty three chapters and should be regarded as a serious collection.' Feargal Whelan, Estudios IrlandesesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Irish modernism, from emergence to emergency Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby; Part I. Revivals: 1. Gothic revivals: the Fin De Siècle, Irish modernism, and the heritage of Wilde and Stoker John Paul Riquelme; 2. Standish O'Grady and the historical imagination of Irish modernism Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby; 3. Yeats, the Abbey and theatrical modernism Christopher Morash; 4. J. M. Synge: late Romantic or proto-modernist? Nicholas Grene; 5. Internal others: cultural debate and counter-revival Ronan McDonald; Part II. Revolutions: 6. Naturalism and the literary politics of Irish modernist fiction Simon Joyce; 7. Towards a modernism of the book: from Dun Emer to Shakespeare and Company Clare Hutton; 8. Rebellious devotion: Catholicism and the limits of modernism Michael Cronin; 9. Irish modernism: the European influence Enda Duffy; 10. Yeats and the revolutionary poetics of age Michael Wood; 11. Material modernism: an Irish case, circa 1921 Nicholas Allen; Part III. New States: 12. From Whiteboys to white nationalism: Joyce and Irish populism Joseph Valente; 13. Sean O'Casey's late modernism: gender, race, and disabled bodies on the Irish expressionist stage Paige Reynolds; 14. Feeling disaffection: forms of estrangement in Irish fiction Derek Hand; 15. Atlantic archipelagos: the Irish American ecologies of late modernism John Brannigan; 16. A disruptive modernist: Kate O'Brien and Irish women's writing Gerardine Meaney; 17. After Yeats: local, regional, and transatlantic modernisms Adrienne Leavy; Part IV. Emergenc(i)es: 18. Irish writing and minor language modernism Barry McCrea; 19. Time made audible: Irish stations and radio modernism Damien Keane; 20. 'No Irishness intended': the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Thomas MacGreevy, and Samuel Beckett Luke Gibbons; 21. Was The Bell modernist? Frank Shovlin; 22. Samuel Beckett, late modernism, and the paradox of distance Emilie Morin; 23. 1966: the binary conditions of Irish architectural modernism Ellen Rowley.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
Book SynopsisBest known for his masterpiece Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace''s desire to blend formal innovation and self-reflexivity with the communicative and restorative function of literature resulted in works that appeal as much to a reader''s intellect as they do emotion.As such, few writers in recent memory have quite matched his work''s intense critical and popular impact. The essays in this Companion, written by top Wallace scholars, offer a historical and cultural context for grasping Wallace''s significance, provide rigorous individual readings of each of his major works, whether story collections, non-fiction, or novels, and address the key themes and concerns of these works, including aesthetics, politics, religion and spirituality, race, and post-humanism. This wide-ranging volume is a necessary resource for understanding an author now widely regarded as one of the most influentTable of ContentsPart I. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 1. Slacker redemption: Wallace and generation X Marshall Boswell; 2. Wallace and American literature Andrew Hoberek; 3. Wallace's 'bad influence' Lee Konstantinou; Part II. Early Works, Story Collections, and Non-Fiction: 4. Broom of the System and Girl with Curious Hair Matthew Luter; 5. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Adam Kelly; 6. Oblivion David Hering; 7. Wallace's non-fiction Jeffrey Severs; Part III. The Major Novels: 8. Infinite Jest Mary Holland; 9. 'Palely loitering': on not finishing (in) The Pale King Clare Hayes-Brady; Part IV. Themes and Topics: 10. Wallace's aesthetic Robert L. McLaughlin; 11. Wallace and politics Andrew Warren; 12. Wallace, spirituality, and religion Matthew Mullins; 13. Wallace and race Lucas Thompson; 14. Wallace's geographic metafiction Jurrit Daalder; 15. David (Foster) Wallace and the (world) system Joseph Tabbi.
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Cambridge University Press India Empire and First World War Culture
Book SynopsisBased on ten years of research, Santanu Das''s India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 19141918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds. Around 1.5 million Indians were recruited, of whom over a million served abroad. Das draws on a variety of fresh, unusual sources - objects, images, rumours, streetpamphlets, letters, diaries, sound-recordings, folksongs, testimonies, poetry, essays, and fiction - to produce the first cultural and literary history, moving from recruitment tactics in villages through sepoy traces and feelings in battlefields, hospitals, and POW camps to post-war reflections on Europe and empire. Combining archival excavation in different countries across several continents with investigative readings of Gandhi, Kipling, Iqbal, Naidu, Nazrul, Tagore, and Anand, this imaginative study opens up the worlds of sepoysTrade Review'India, Empire and First World War Culture is an astonishing achievement, an amazing feat of scholarship that unearths an extraordinary range of sources and fragments. Through close and sensitive readings of poems, songs, paintings, photographs and a diverse range of objects, Santanu Das succeeds in unmuting a vast host of voices that have for far too long been silenced or forgotten. Rarely have the skills of the literary critic and historian been as imaginatively fused as in India, Empire and First World War Culture.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement'In Santanu Das's brilliant book, we can feel the real bodies of the men from India mobilised during the Great War through the traces of touch and intimacy they left behind. His beautiful and moving study brings to us what he terms echoes of the Sepoy's heart. To do so, he uses an astonishing array of sources, moving with grace from the textual and the testimonial to the visual, the tactile, and the oral. Here is a book that not only adds substantially to what we know about the 1914–18 conflict, but brings out as well with affection and wit the sheer humanity of these soldiers and the world they left behind.' Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History (Emeritus), Yale University, Connecticut'Das brilliantly combines two approaches - 'a redefinition of the archive' and close, attentive reading … Das proves that detective work pays off but it is how he reads these treasures that is compelling. Thrillingly, this close reading elevates some of Das's protagonists to a form of equality with the traditional First World War canon, to a kind of parity with Owen and Sassoon.' Yasmin Khan, The Times Literary Supplement'In the deluge of books, articles, exhibits, films, and commemorative events during and around the years of the centenary of the Great War, Das's book stands out as one of the most important, exhaustively researched, and exquisitely rendered interventions. It will instantly become, and will remain, a classic in the field of First World War studies. But more, it is an important contribution to the history of modern South Asia, and an inspiring example of how historians may attempt to recover, present, and understand the histories of colonized peoples even in the absence of plentiful sources of the kinds historians usually use to do their work' Richard Fogarty, American Historical Review'Monumental … Those interested in First World War history and literature will find in Das's narrative a beauty and sensitivity, drawing as it does on stories of compassion in the midst of the shelling. Combined with meticulous research and scholarship, it makes this densely printed 417-page book a compelling read.' Shrabani Basu, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online'Remarkable, compendious … Das's capacity to read into the finest interstices of lost, buried, and misplaced war archives mean that his book is already being recognized - and justly so - as one of the most important interventions in both fields that we have yet seen.' Elleke Boehmer, Modern Philology'[A] rewarding [account] of one of the empire's most remarkable institutions …' Ian Jack, The Guardian'Santanu Das's book is remarkable for lacking regional loci - its cosmopolitanism and liberalism in choosing multi-lingual and regional sources is one of its strongest features. The book's signal contribution has been its success in reminding readers that legacies of wars reside in the social and cultural, and not always in the political or constitutional hallways of history … Das has written a book of immense significance … It will encourage the next generation of scholars to abandon the crutches of disciplinary certainties … [for] the promise of a dazzling array of new scholarship that knits visual, textual and literary sources together to produce stirring accounts of past events.' Vipul Dutta, Biblio: A Review of Books'The book is a benchmark in placing the unexamined colonial histories at par with the far better understood cultural historiography of the Western participants. His examination of the use of war memory and commemoration in the recent past is outstanding for the questions it raises … The work is breathtaking in its scope and depth and is an invaluable addition to Indian writings on the war.' Rana Chhina, India Today'A uniquely moving and extremely original study, the book not only provides the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, but also sets a new standard for interdisciplinary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies … Das reveals a more intimate history of experience, thought, and feeling, wherein we can indeed hear, palpably, what he terms the 'echoes of the sepoy's heart.' Nancy Martin, Textual Practice'Magisterial … more than the sheer staggering variety and bewildering richness of the material assembled by Das is the acuity and nuance he brings to his examination of individual objects, which then enables him to make larger arguments about the way in which the First World War operated in and through the bodies, minds, and hearts, of those who took part in it.' Samantak Das, The Telegraph'An immensely powerful book that will be important for years to come.' Douglas Higbee, Modern Fiction Studies'The culmination of more than a decade of research, it is a brilliant work of history and historical recovery, a fresh and provocative study of the wartime experiences of people from undivided India, and the ways those experiences were represented. Andrew T. Jarboe, First World War Studies'Das's magnificent India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs brings together a decade of pioneering research on the Indian involvement in the war.' Vedica Kant, The Indian Quarterly'Santanu Das shows how rich are the rewards for those who dig and delve, who look for meaning in tiny fragments of evidence … Drawing on a decade of such fieldwork, Das has made a forensic examination of hundreds of pieces of evidence - memoirs, letters, photographs, oral testimony, songs, pamphlets, poems, novels … this is his answer to the gap in our understanding … a lesson both in the close reading of sources and in how literary and historical studies can enrich each other.' Suzanne Bardgett, History TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Restless Home Front; 1. The imperial-nationalist self: anti-discrimination, aspiration, and anxiety; 2. Sonorous fields: recruitment, resistance, and recitative in the Punjab; Part II. Race and Representation: 3. Five shades of brown: the sepoy-body in visual culture; 4. Imperial antibiotic: sepoy and the Raj; Part III. The Sepoy Heart: 5. Touching feeling: letters, poems, prayers, and songs of sepoys in Europe 1914–18; 6. 'Their lives have become ours': occupation, captivity, and lateral contact in Mesopotamia 1914–1918; 7. Transnational lives and peripheral visions; Part IV. Literary and Intellectual Cultures: 8. Literary imaginings; 9. The Indian English war novel: Across the Black Waters; 10. Post-war world and 'the future of mankind': Aurobindo, Iqbal, and Tagore.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThis Companion demonstrates the complexity of this formative writer, emphasizing the ways in which Bellow's works speak to the changing conditions of American identity and culture from the post-war period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Saul Bellow remains a defining and influential voice of American culture and thought.Trade Review'A wonderful characteristic of this volume is that one can often 'hear' Bellow himself in dialogue with his critics and readers.' CHOICETable of ContentsChronology; Introduction. Saul Bellow in his times Victoria Aarons; 1. Bellow's early fiction and the making of the Bellovian protagonist Philippe Codde; 2. Seize the Day: Bellow's novel of existential crisis Hilene Flanzbaum; 3. Bellow's breakthrough: The Adventures of Augie March and the novel of voice Steven G. Kellman; 4. Bellow's cityscapes: Chicago and New York Gustavo Sánchez Canales; 5. Bellow and the Holocaust Victoria Aarons; 6. Humboldt's Gift and Bellow's intellectual protagonists S. Lillian Kremer; 7. On being a Jewish writer: Bellow's post-war America and the American Jewish diaspora Alan L. Berger; 8. Bellow and his literary contemporaries Timothy Parrish; 9. Women and gender in Bellow's fiction: Herzog Paule Lévy; 10. Race and cultural politics in Bellow's fiction Martin Urdiales-Shaw; 11. Bellow on Israel: to Jerusalem and back Leona Toker; 12. Bellow's nonfiction: it all adds up Sukhbir Singh; 13. Bellow's short fiction David Brauner; 14. The late Bellow: Ravelstein and the novel of ideas Leah Garrett; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 2 19231925
Book SynopsisThe Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (19231925) illuminates Hemingway''s literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Striving to ''make it new'', he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation. In this period, Hemingway publishes his first three books, including In Our Time (1925), and discovers a lifelong passion for Spain and the bullfight, quickly transforming his experiences into fiction as The Sun Also Rises (1926). The volume features many previously unpublished letters and a humorous sketch 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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Cambridge University Press Becketts Political Imagination
Book SynopsisBeckett''s Political Imagination charts unexplored territory: it investigates how Beckett''s bilingual texts re-imagine political history, and documents the conflicts and controversies through which Beckett''s political consciousness and affirmations were mediated. The book offers a startling account of Beckett''s work, tracing the many political causes that framed his writing, commitments, collaborations and friendships, from the Scottsboro Boys to the Black Panthers, from Irish communism to Spanish republicanism to Algerian nationalism, and from campaigns against Irish and British censorship to anti-Apartheid and international human rights movements. Emilie Morin reveals a very different writer, whose career and work were shaped by a unique exposure to international politics, an unconventional perspective on political action and secretive political engagements. The book will benefit students, researchers and readers who want to think about literary history in different ways and are iTrade Review'This book is a revolution in Beckett studies: one will speak of before and after Emilie Morin. Thanks to her skills at unearthing forgotten archives, a new Beckett emerges, not just a political Beckett, but also a writer whose art, steeped in politics, preoccupied by the burning issues of the moment, never forgets the ethical limits it sets to itself. Here is an indispensable guide for all Beckett lovers.' Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania'It seemed for a long while that a book able to address the difficult question of Beckett's politics would, like Godot, never arrive. Emilie Morin's Beckett's Political Imagination offers a series of finely wrought and formidably well-researched reflections on the ways in which Beckett's work is woven into its rich political contexts. In doing so, it produces a definitive account of the texture and purchase of his political imagination, which will have a transformative impact on our understanding of Beckett's writing.' Peter Boxall, University of Sussex'A work of passion and truth, in which the forms and styles of Beckett's art are unerringly linked to his search for liberation. An audaciously social interpretation of this deeply personal writer.' Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame, Indiana'Rather than re-reading Beckett in conjunction with new theories of literary, political and theatrical import, we are better off exploring how Beckett leads us to an understanding and defiance of the brokenness of humanity and the short-comings of political ideas and contingent processes. Morin is an excellent guide to take us along this path. As she explains at the outset, defining Beckett's politics remains a perilous exercise, but I for one say that it is an exploration well worth undertaking.' David Cowan, Books Ireland (www.booksireland.org)'… the case is built by Morin's patient accumulation of telling details across two-hundred and fifty pages until finally the conclusion seems inescapable: Samuel Beckett was a political animal.' Anthony Roche, Dublin Review of Books'… Morin, in her richly illuminating study, shows more comprehensively than anyone else has the plain untruth of the notion of a Beckett who walked away from any political conversation. … Indeed, Morin's superbly researched book is so convincing in its meticulous recreation of Beckett's political worlds that it raises an entirely new question: why, given all of this immersion in oppression, propaganda, totalitarianism, colonialism, and racism, is Beckett's artistic work not more explicitly engaged?' Fintan O'Toole, The New York Review of Books'This reading of Beckett through political history helps clarify the enduring importance of his work … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' J. S. Baggett, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. False starts: the 'material of experience' and the writing of history; 2. Another war entirely: internationalist politics and the labour of translation; 3. Aftermaths: the 'siege in the room' and the politics of testimony; 4. Turning points: torture, dissent and the Algerian War of Independence; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press American Literature in Transition 19201930
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Transition, 19201930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era''s place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ichiro Takayoshi; Part I. Players: 1. The late Victorians Clare Eby; 2. Middlebrows Joan Shelley Rubin; 3. Innovators 1: poetry Charles Altieri; 4. Innovators 2: Prose Philip Weinstein; 5. The new woman Catherine Keyser; 6. New immigrants Aviva F. Taubenfeld; 7. Radicals Alan Wald; 8. The new negro Ichiro Takayoshi; 9. Americans abroad Craig Monk; 10. Columnists, pundits, humorists Christopher B. Daly; Part II. Influences: 11. The Great War Keith Gandal; 12. Urbanization Sunny Stalter-Pace; 13. Freudianism Eli Zaretsky; 14. Secularization Jason Stevens; 15. Prohibition Kathleen Drowne; 16. European imports Richard Pells; Part III. Intersections: 17. Cinema David Seed; 18. Jazz T. Austin Graham; 19. Stage Cheryl Black; Part IV. Publishing: 20. New publishers Lise Jaillant; 21. Small magazines Greg Barnhisel; 22. Pulp magazines Brooks E. Hefner; 23. Obscenity trials Loren Glass; Echoes of the twenties Sarah Churchwell; Index.
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Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 19001910 Volume 7
Book SynopsisAfrican American Literature in Transition, 19001910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape ''New Negro'' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known textsand original research, offer aradicalre-conceptualization of this critTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of images; Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner; Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts: 1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton; 2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight; 3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond; Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form: 4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi; 5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana; 6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan; Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership: 7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger; 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman; 9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak; Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart; 11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker; 12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong; 13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.
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Cambridge University Press The New Edith Wharton Studies
Book SynopsisThe New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America''s most highly acclaimed, versatile, and prolific writers. The volume addresses themes that have previously been missed or underdeveloped, and examines areas where previous scholarship does not take account of key, contemporary issues: Wharton and ecocriticism, Wharton and queer studies, Wharton and animal studies, Wharton and whiteness, and Wharton and contemporary psychology. Essays explore Wharton''s treatment of the poor in her emerging career, the ways in which French thinkers helped her envision community, the importance of Greece to Wharton, her transnationalism, the ongoing revelations of the author''s archives, and new perspectives on her agency in the literary marketplace. It addresses key themes and examines contemporary issues, while reassessing Edith Wharton''s life and career.Trade Review'… the best of these essays point toward a rejuvenation of the old in ways that allow Wharton fans to gain a deeper understanding of this complex and often misunderstood woman and artist.' S. Batcos, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray; Part I. Self and Composition: 2. Creative process and literary form in Edith Wharton's archive Paul Ohler; 3. Wharton's letters: glimpses of the whole Edith Wharton Julie Olin-Ammentorp; 4. Edith Wharton and the business of the magazine short story Sarah Whitehead; Part II. International Wharton: 5. Edith Wharton's odyssey Myrto Drizou; 6. Edith Wharton's French engagement Virginia Ricard; 7. Edith Wharton and transnationalism Donna Campbell; Part III. Wharton on the Margins: 8. Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives Laura Rattray; 9. Wharton, insurance culture, and pain management Jennifer Travis; 10. Edith Wharton's humanimal pity Shannon Brennan; 11. Edith Wharton and the writing of whiteness Jennifer Haytock; Part IV. Sex and Gender Revisited: 12. Women, art, and the natural world in Edith Wharton's works Gary Totten; 13. Wharton and the romance plot Linda Wagner-Martin; 14. Masculine modernity: fathers, sons, and generational absolution in Wharton's fiction Melanie Dawson; 15. Wharton's wayward girls Meredith Goldsmith.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Beyond the AvantGarde
Book SynopsisCritics have traditionally maintained that capitalism''s resurgence after the Second World War precipitated the transition from modernism to postmodernism. This revisionist account shows that modernism does not simply decline. By foregrounding phenomenological conceptions of bodily experience, Jason M. Baskin reveals modernism''s ongoing vitality. Key postwar writers, critics and philosophers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Ralph Ellison and Raymond Williams, as well as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Theodor Adorno, developed an aesthetics of embodiment that adapted modernism to a new postwar landscape. Working across differences of race, gender, national and intellectual tradition, genre and form, Baskin contends that these authors used ordinary bodily experiences, such as perception, memory and laughter, to imagine modes of common being and purpose that were otherwise unavailable in a postwar society dominated by liberal capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: late modernism and the aesthetics of embodiment; 1. Elizabeth Bishop's rhythmic looking; 2. Ezra Pound's scraps of a self; 3. Ralph Ellison's invisible laughter; 4. Raymond Williams's collaborative labor; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Decadence
Book SynopsisDecadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term ''decadence'' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.Trade Review'This is necessarily a specialist volume but one which eschews jargon. Recommended for students and scholars of the Aesthetic and Decadent Movements and late Victorian culture.' Alexander Adams, alexanderadamsart.wordpress.comTable of Contents1. Nineteenth-Century Decadence and Neoclassical Aesthetics: Androgyny and Collecting Culture Daniel Orrells; 2. British Decadence and Renaissance Italy Hilary Fraser; 3. 'Rather a Delicate Subject': Verlaine, France and British Decadence Matthew Creasy; 4. Fighting Like Cats and Dogs: Decadence and Print Media Nick Freeman; 5. Varieties of Decadent Religion Mark Knight; 6. The New Woman and Decadent Gender Politics Sarah Parker; 7. Decadence, Darwinism, Science and Technological Modernity Will Abberley; 8. Decadence and Politics Matthew Potolsky; 9. Seeds of Discord: Decadent Sexuality and Dissipating Species Dennis Denisoff; 10. Decadent Poetics After Swinburne Catherine Maxwell; 11. Theatre and Decadence Sos Eltis; 12. 'Restless Mystical Ardours': Decadence and Music Emma Sutton; 13. Decadence in Painting Richard A. Kaye; 14. Decadent Poetry and Translation: The Suffusive and the Prosodic Clive Scott; 15. Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence María del Pilar Blanco; 16. Decadent America 1890-1930 Kirsten MacLeod; 17. Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom Kirsten Lodge; 18. A Politics of Modernism in the Poetics of Decadence Vincent Sherry; 19. Camp Modernism and Decadence Kristin Mahoney; 20. Making Decadence New: Carl Van Vechten's Cinematic Fiction Kate Hext; 21. Writing Decadent Lives and Letters Ellen Crowell and Alex Murray; 22. Decadence in the Time of AIDS Allan Kilner-Johnson.
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Cambridge University Press The Great Gatsby
Book SynopsisThis edition presents the manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, the earliest full version of the novel that survives. Study of this manuscript reveals much about the composition of the novel - about the development of its characters and themes and the revision of its language. Fitzgerald reworked the manuscript, putting it through several drafts and continuing to edit until a few weeks before publication. The period of its creation was an amalgamation of his talent, inspiration, and self-discipline which resulted in a masterpiece. An introduction by James L. W. West, III, the general editor of the series, gives the compositional history of the novel; a bibliographical commentary by Don C. Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts at Princeton University Library, describes the manuscript and gives the story of its preservation, acquisition, and restoration. The reading text is presented without emendation and with a minimum of editorial apparatus. This edition will allow critics, Trade Review'Like a jazz album offering multiple takes on a single tune, the value of this edition lies in the access it offers to the creative process. Comparing it to the novel published in April 1925 reveals the decisions Fitzgerald made as he revised his greatest work and supplies fascinating insights into its evolution … Seeing The Great Gatsby as it might have been shows that Fitzgerald's drive for perfection matched that of his beloved hero.' Sarah Graham, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.
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Cambridge University Press Counterfeit Culture
Book SynopsisCounterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. Examining six attempts to forge an American prose epic since 1960, this study goes on to trace a national tradition of inauthenticity, stretching back across four centuries. In works by authors such as Pynchon, Gaddis and Burroughs, the contemporary turn away from truth and authenticity can be seen as a return to an established line of literary tricksters and confidence men, with tropes of fraud and artifice running deep in the American grain. Combining archival work with historically-inflected analysis of literary narrative, this book ranges through questions of identity, technology, history, and music in its engagement. From Marguerite Young''s inquiry into psychological disintegration to William T. Vollmann''s ongoing cycle of false histories, the study introduces a new reading of the American epic.Trade Review'Citing leaders in contemporary postmodern scholarship, and with repeated and acute references to American literary history (particularly Emerson and Melville), Turner (Univ. of Exeter, UK) revisits the complex, multivalenced, postmodernist works of Marguerite Young, William Gaddis, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon … Turner does a good job of situating these authors' works in contemporary scholarship … This is a timely treatment of American postmodernist prose.' C. B. Ewing, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: America and the 'way to the devil'; 1. Marguerite Young's flood of consciousness; 2. William Gaddis and the 'novel-writing-machine' of Andy Warhol; 3. 'Paper reality': William S. Burroughs and the cut-up method; 4. 'Bad history': Thomas Pynchon and the apocryphal epic; 5. 'History shambles on': William T. Vollmann and the Seven Dreams Cycle; Conclusion: 'every story has two tails'; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press D. H. Lawrence In Context
Book SynopsisThis collection of original, concise essays by leading international scholars draws closely on the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence to provide up-to-date insights into the key contexts to the author''s life, career and legacy. It opens with an overview of Lawrence''s life as it is explored in biographies and revealed in his letters and writing, before reassessing his relationship to the contemporary literary marketplace, and his response to - and intervention in - a range of literary/cultural and social/historical contexts. It ends with sections on Lawrence''s changing critical reception and his powerful legacy in the work of later authors and filmmakers. The essays present a detailed and nuanced picture of Lawrence as an enterprising professional author with a truly cosmopolitan outlook who engaged deeply and strongly with his contemporary culture, and with currents of thought across a range of disciplines.Table of ContentsPart I. Life Writing/Writing the Life: 1. Biographies Michael Squires; 2. The letters Keith Cushman; 3. The life in the writing John Worthen; Part II. The Literary Marketplace: 4. Book publishers Joyce Wexler; 5. Journals, magazines, newspapers Annalise Grice; 6. Private publication Andrew Harrison; Part III. Literary and Cultural Contexts: 7. Lawrence and his contemporaries Suzanne Hobson; 8. Literary realism Susan Reid; 9. Modernism Holly A. Laird; 10. The short story Dominic Head; 11. Novellas Bethan Jones; 12. Verse forms Christopher Pollnitz; 13. Theatre James Moran; 14. Travel writing, and writing about place Neil Roberts; 15. Philosophy Michael Bell; 16. Paintings Jack Stewart; Part IV. Social and Historical Contexts: 17. Class Ron Granofsky; 18. Religion Luke Ferretter; 19. Edwardian feminisms and suffragisms Elizabeth M. Fox; 20. Sex, sexuality, sexology Howard J. Booth; 21. The Great War Helen Wussow; 22. Psychoanalysis John Turner; 23. Science and technology Jeff Wallace; 24. Race and cultural difference Judith Ruderman; 25. Ecology Carrie Rohman; 26. Censorship Nancy L. Paxton; Part V. Critical Fortunes: 27. Lawrence and female authors/memoirists Carol Siegel; 28. F. R. Leavis David Ellis; 29. Feminism Marianna Torgovnick; 30. The Cambridge Edition Paul Eggert; 31. Lawrence and theory Garry Watson; Part VI. Creative Legacies: 32. Lawrence's influence on later writers Lee M. Jenkins; 33. Film adaptations Louis K. Greiff.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee
Book SynopsisNobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee''s works. All of Coetzee''s published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed atlength, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence. Confronting Coetzee''s works on the grounds of his practice, the chapters address his craft, his literary relations and horizons, and the relationship between his writings and other arts, disciplines and institutions. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee''s undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power andTable of ContentsIntroduction Jarad Zimbler; Part I. Forms: 1. Composition and craft: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell; 2. Scenes and settings: Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man Meg Samuelson; 3. Stories and narration: In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus Jarad Zimbler; 4. Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus David James; 5. Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime Derek Attridge; Part II. Relations: 6. Translations Jan Steyn; 7. Collaboration and correspondence Rachel Bower; 8. Criticism and scholarship Sue Kossew; 9. Influence and intertextuality Patrick Hayes; 10. Worlds, world-making, and Southern horizons Ben Etherington; Part III. Mediations: 11. Other arts and adaptations Michelle Kelly; 12. Philosophies Anthony Uhlmann; 13. Lives and archives Andrew Dean; 14. Publics and personas Andrew van der Vlies; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Jorge Luis Borges in Context
Book SynopsisJorge Luis Borges (18991986) is Argentina''s most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges'' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges'' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges''s engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the GlobalTrade Review'… this is an excellent, up-to-date study of the masterful Argentine writer.' J. S. Bottaro, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. Borges in context, context in Borges Robin Fiddian; Part I. Self, Family and the Argentine Nation: 1. Borges and the question of Argentine identity Edwin Williamson; 2. Borges and the Banda Oriental Gustavo San Román; 3. Borges in person: family, love, and sex Edwin Williamson; 4. Jorge Luis Borges's fictions and the two world wars Efrain Kristal; 5. Dictatorship and writing (1976–83) Annick Louis; 6. The public author and democracy (1984–86) Annick Louis; 7. Borges and Las Islas Malvinas Ben Bollig; 8. Borges and Sarmiento Sandra Contreras; 9. Borges and the Gauchesque Sarah Roger; 10. Twenties' Buenos Aires Eleni Kefala; 11. Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde Eamon Mccarthy; 12. The Argentine writer and tradition Humberto Nuñez-Faraco; 13. Borges, tangos, and milongas Ana C. Cara; 14. Borges and Bioy Casares Mariela Blanco; 15. Borges and popular culture Phil Swanson; 16. Argentine responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia Niall Geraghty; Part II. The Western Canon, The East, Contexts of Reception: 17. Borges and Cervantes Roberto González Echevarría; 18. Borges's Shakespeare Patricia Novillo-Corvalán; 19. The dialectics of idealism Marina Martin; 20. The English Romantics and Borges Jason Wilson; 21. The early avant garde in Spain Xon de Ros; 22. Borges and James Joyce: makers of labyrinths Patricia Novillo-Corvalán; 23. Borges and Kafka Sarah Roger; 24. Borges and the Bible Lucas Adur; 25. Borges and Judaism Corinna Deppner; 26. Borges and Buddhism Evelyn Fishburn; 27. Borges and Persian literature Shaahin Pishbin; 28. Borges and the 'Boom' Dominic Moran; 29. Argentina and Cuba: the politics of reception Alfredo Alonso Estenoz; 30. Borges and Coetzee Fernando Galván; 31. Borges in Portugal Phillip Rothwell; 32. Borges and Italy Robert Gordon.
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Cambridge University Press The American Scene
Book SynopsisHenry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based on both romantic and practical motives, allowed him to revisit the now-transformed cities of his youth as well as to experience for the first time the country''s southern states. The American Scene is a major work from James'' final, most adventurous creative phase and offers a cultural and social critique of contemporary American society as well as a personal series of ''gathered impressions'', a form of indirect yet sometimes intimate autobiography. This new edition includes detailed explanatory notes, a general introduction, a chronology, an itinerary of James'' journey, a record of textual variants and rare manuscript material, appendices which include the journal James kept, texts for the two lectures he gave, and two additional essays written on his return to England.Trade Review'… Collister's The American Scene is furnished with abundant resources in terms of its critical apparatus and annotations, far outstripping those included in previous editions of the text. These do rigorous work historicising James' text, linking the incidents of the travelogue to the events of James' own journey, offering insight into the relationship between life and art … Of added interest to [the] scholarly community … will be Collister's collations of variants on the basis of the galley proofs for the chapter on 'New England', held today at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale … Collister's introduction is masterful and authoritative, and very useful is his inclusion of an itinerary of James' American journey, as are his appendices … Collister's The American Scene is an excellent edition, which will hopefully provide the text with a new readership.' Giles Whiteley, Notes and Queries'The editor, Peter Collister, an expert on the late James, has done a fine job … Collister's The American Scene is furnished with abundant resources in terms of its critical apparatus and annotations, far outstripping those included in previous editions of the text. These do rigorous work historicising James' text, linking the incidents of the travelogue to the events of James' own journey, offering insight into the relationship between life and art … Collister's introduction is masterful and authoritative, and very useful is his inclusion of an itinerary of James' American journey, as are his appendices … [This] is an excellent edition, which will hopefully provide the text with a new readership.' Giles Whiteley, Notes and Queries'This edition represents a daunting amount of work, and is full of things to be grateful for in coming to terms with this difficult, self-reflexive, controversial book …the core of valuable research here is a serious achievement.' TLS'… this publication abundantly displays the kind of comprehensiveness that we have come to expect from Collister's work.' Michael Anesko, The Henry James Review'Peter Collister's new edition of The American Scene is an indispensable guide to this experimental narrative.' Sarah B. Daugherty, American Literary ScholarshipTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; A note on this edition; Chronology: Henry James' life and writings; James' American itinerary; List of abbreviations; Editor's introduction; The American Scene; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes on textual variants; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 19802020 Volume 6
Book SynopsisIrish Literature in Transition, 19802020elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century''s long turn, covering its significant trends and formations, reassessing its major writers and texts, and providing path-making accounts of its emergent figures. Over the past forty years, life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been transformed by new material conditions in each polity and by ideological shifts in the way people understand themselves and their relation to the world. Amid these remarkable changes, culture on both sides of the border has emerged as a global phenomenon, one that both reflects and intervenes in rapidly changing contemporary conditions. This volume accounts for broad patterns of literary and cultural production in this period anddemonstrates the value of Irish contemporary literature within anglophone and European traditions and as a body of work that has kept its eye trained on the particularities of the island and itsTrade Review'This is an extraordinary achievement, a hugely enjoyable and instructive read. It does not leave Irish Studies as it found it, instead renovating and extending the subject.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'These reckonings acutely register the 'future's productively uncertain relation to the present world', as Falci writes of Boland and Heaney, and establishes the strengths and challenges of Irish Studies within this unpredictable present.' Liam Harisson, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds; Part I. Times: 1. The contemporary conditions of Irish language literature Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh; 2. The cultures of poetry in contemporary Ireland David Lloyd; 3. Troubles literature and the end of the troubles Julia Obert; 4. Contemporary Irish theatre and media Paige Reynolds; 5. Writing childhood: young adult and children's literature Patricia Kennon; Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney Eric Falci; Part II. Spaces: 6. Habitations: space, place, real estate Adam Hanna; 7. Crossings: Northern Irish literature from Good Friday to Brexit Stefanie Lehner; 8. Adaptations: commemoration and contemporary Irish theatre James Moran; 9. Relocations: diaspora, travel, migrancy Ellen McWilliams; 10. Arrivals: inward migration and Irish literature Anne Mulhall; Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel Patrick Lonergan; Part III. Forms of Experience: 11. The Irish realist novel Joe Cleary; 12. Faith, secularism, and sacred institutions Diarmaid Ferriter; 13. Writing the tiger: economics and culture Sarah Townsend; 14. Violence, trauma, recovery Christopher Langlois; 15. Modes of witnessing and Ireland's institutional history Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly and Tom Lane; Coda: Edna O'Brien and Eimear McBride Clair Wills; Part IV. Practices, Institutions, and Audiences: 16. Mediation and translation in Irish language literature Rióna Ní Fhrighil; 17. Irish studies and its discontents Ronan McDonald; 18. Historical transitions in Ireland on screen Barry Monahan; 19. Irish blockbusters and literary stars at the end of the millenium Stephen Watt; 20. Contemporary literature and public value Margaret Kelleher; Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the future present Paige Reynolds.
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Cambridge University Press A History of 1930s British Literature
Book SynopsisThis History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The ''30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a ''low, dishonest decade'', a doomed experiment in combining art and politics, or as a ''late modernist'' afterthought to the intense period of artistic experimentation in the 1920s. By contrast, the contributors to this volume explore the contours of a ''long 1930s'' by repositioning the decade and its characteristic concerns at the heart of twentieth-century literary history. This book expands the range of writers covered, moving beyond a narrow focus on towering canonical figures to draw in a more diverse cast of characters, in terms of race, gender, class, and forms of artistic expression. The book''s four sections emphasize the decade''s characteristic geographical and sexual identities; the new media landscapes and institutional settings its writers operated in; questions of commitment and autonomy; and British writing''s intTrade Review'… a vast compendium edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton, full of penetrating insights into a decade one had previously thought over-explored.' D. J. Taylor, The Times Literary Supplement' …essay after essay shows careful study, archival attention, and a strong editorial hand … the editors have done a fine job of presenting an interesting array of research which certainly does some fine direction pointing for future research.' Matthew Chambers, The Modernist Review'The range, intelligence, originality and scholarship of its essays make this a valuable collection.' Alistair Davies, Textual Practice'The volume supports and extends scholarship that recognizes the decade's connections to as well as departures from modernism, and that seeks to more closely understand the distinctive forms and practices, and broadening networks of writers and professionals in the cultural sphere, that emerged during the thirties … This volume showcases the breadth, diversity and vitality of 1930s cultural texts and producers (stretching the purely literary to other media including music, film, and radio), and offers an invaluable resource for students and scholars.' Naomi Milthorpe, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945'Kohlmann and Taunton have assembled a thrilling collection of essays that provide diverse and distinct entry points into the long, wide, and urgent 1930s.' Michael McCluskey, Modernism/ModernityTable of ContentsIntroduction: the long 1930s Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton; Part I. Mapping a New Decade: Geographies and Identities: 1. Beyond Englishness: the regional and rural novel in the 1930s Kristin Bluemel; 2. Uncanny cities: urban geographies and metropolitan life in the 1930s Emma Zimmerman; 3. The making of the working class: proletarian writing in the 1930s Nick Hubble; 4. Professional women writers Kristin Ewins; 5. Queer communist formations: coterie, counterpublic, cell Glyn Salton-Cox; Part II. Media Histories and the Institutions of Literature: 6. Circulating literature: libraries, bookshops, and book clubs Andrew Thacker; 7. Literature and education in the long 1930s Matthew Taunton; 8. International PEN: writers, free expression, organisations Rachel Potter; 9. The new reading public: modernism, popular literature, and the paperbacks Vike Martina Plock; 10. Debatable ground: journalism, pamphlets, and social critique Peter Marks; 11. 'Hypocrite auditeur, mon semblable, mon frère': literature and the border of the radio public Ian Whittington; 12. Talking films Laura Marcus; 13. Telemediations James Purdon; Part III. Commitment and Autonomy: 14. Ambiguity run riot: film-mindedness in the 1930s avant garde Rod Mengham; 15. 'A vein of insularity': British music in the long 1930s Louise Wiggins; 16. Representing fascism in 1930s literature Tyrus Miller; 17. The documentary impulse Leo Mellor; 18. Religion, modernism and Anglo-agnostics: (un) belief and fiction in the 1930s Suzanne Hobson; 19. The colonial state and transnational welfare during the 1930s Depression Janice Ho; 20. The scientific imagination and the politics of objectivity Boris Jardine; Part IV. The Global 1930s: Conflict and Change: 21. Anglo-Soviet literary relations in the long 1930s John Connor; 22. A declining empire in a rising power: British writers in America Greg Barnhisel; 23. Late modernism and the Spanish Civil War Patricia Rae; 24. Total war Marina MacKay; 25. Colonial intellectuals and the aesthetic Cold War Peter Kalliney; 26. Imperial fictions: writing the end of empire Laura Winkiel.
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Cambridge University Press A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War
Book SynopsisIn the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of non- and anti-Modernist culture was produced, mostly supporting, but also critical of, the US war effort. A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War explores this fraught cultural moment, teasing out the multiple and intricate relationships between an insurgent Modernism, a still-powerful traditional culture, and a variety of cultural and social forces that interacted with and influenced them. Including genre studies, focused analyses of important wartime movements and groups, and broad historical assessments of the significance of the war as prosecuted by the United States on the world stage, this book presents original essays defining the state of scholarship on the American culture of the First World War.Trade Review'… offers a thorough examination of the cultural impact of a war in which the US's role is sometimes given little prominence … this admirable volume … goes beyond the typical Lost Generation roster of Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings et al.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement'Recommended.' T. Bonner Jr., Choice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction. America's Great War at one hundred (and counting) Tim Dayton and Mark W. Van Wienen; Part I. Genre and Medium: 1. Poetry: hegemonic vistas Tim Dayton; 2. Fiction: a war remembered Scott D. Emmert; 3. Film: mostly classical Hollywood cinema goes to war and sometimes brings it home Leslie DeBauche; 4. Drama: from literary fantasy to gritty realism Brenda Murphy; 5. Popular music: tin pan alley as national barometer John Roger Paas; 6. Journalism: adventure and reckoning Joe Hayden; 7. Memoirs: negotiating the great war's social memory Ian Andrew Isherwood; 8. Art and illustration: modes of visual persuasion David M. Lubin; Part II. Settings and Subjects: 9. The peace movement: rapid development, women's leadership, regional diversity Kathleen Brown; 10. Americans in France: women writers and international responsibility Jennifer Haytock; 11. German Americans: dual loyalties and poetic adaptations of 'The watch on the Rhine' Lorie Vanchena; 12. The English in America: cultural propaganda and its agents Alisa Miller; 13. Preparedness: Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, and rookie rhymes Adam Szetela; 14. Propaganda: martialing media Pearl James; 15. Conscientious objectors: conscience, courage, and resistance Scott H. Bennett; 16. Volunteers: ambulance and nursing narratives Hazel Hutchison; 17. African Americans: defining freedom, citizenship, and patriotism Françoise N. Hamlin; 18. In the Midwest: 'Borne back ceaselessly into the past' David Rennie; 19. In the south: three Mississippi writers and the Great War mobilization David A. Davis; 20. Revolution: winning the world, losing the (middle) way Mark W. Van Wienen; 21. Monuments and memorials: memory dissipated Mark Levitch; Part III. Transformations: 22. The nation: forging one, finding many Jonathan Vincent; 23. Free speech: 'clear and present danger' Ernest Freeberg; 24. Labour: from replaceable cogs to corporate citizens Thomas Mackaman; 25. The veteran: parades, bitter homecomings, and fictions of the doughboy's return Steven Trout; 26. The military-industrial complex: practices, precedents, and literary engagements Mark Whalan; 27. The world: race, red-baiting, and the Wilsonian century Alexander Anievas.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee
Book SynopsisNobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee''s works. All of Coetzee''s published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed atlength, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence. Confronting Coetzee''s works on the grounds of his practice, the chapters address his craft, his literary relations and horizons, and the relationship between his writings and other arts, disciplines and institutions. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee''s undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power andTable of ContentsIntroduction Jarad Zimbler; Part I. Forms: 1. Composition and craft: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell; 2. Scenes and settings: Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man Meg Samuelson; 3. Stories and narration: In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus Jarad Zimbler; 4. Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus David James; 5. Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime Derek Attridge; Part II. Relations: 6. Translations Jan Steyn; 7. Collaboration and correspondence Rachel Bower; 8. Criticism and scholarship Sue Kossew; 9. Influence and intertextuality Patrick Hayes; 10. Worlds, world-making, and Southern horizons Ben Etherington; Part III. Mediations: 11. Other arts and adaptations Michelle Kelly; 12. Philosophies Anthony Uhlmann; 13. Lives and archives Andrew Dean; 14. Publics and personas Andrew van der Vlies; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Norman Mailer in Context
Book SynopsisThis volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer''s body of work. It examines important literary, critical, theoretical, cultural, and historical frameworks for Mailer''s writing, highlighting the ways his work reflects the concerns of twentieth and twenty-first century America. This book traces Mailer''s literary influences; his contributions to a variety of literary genres; his participation in the American political sphere; the philosophical, religious, and gendered contexts that shape his work; and the iconic American figures he profiled. The book concludes with reflections on Mailer''s literary and cultural legacy, emphasizing his advocacy for literary freedom and the contemporary resonance of his work.Trade Review'… introduces all facets of Mailer's work and directs interested readers to further resources … the book emphasizes the work over the person, so readers will gain a fresh understanding of Mailer's writing … Recommended.' B. Diemert, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction Maggie McKinley; Part I. Literary Influences: 1. Early influences Raymond M. Vince; 2. Mailer and Hemingway Linda Wagner-Martin; 3. Friendships and Feuds Matthew Hinton; Part II. Form and Genre: 4. New Journalism Jason Mosser; 5. Essays and Columns Enid Stubin; 6. The Novel Peter Balbert; 7. Criticism Phillip Sipiora; 8. Film Justin Bozung; 9. Modernism Jerry Schuchalter; 10. Postmodernism Scott Duguid; Part III. Political Contexts: 11. Marxism and Malaquais David Anshen; 12. JFK and Political Heroism J. Michael Lennon; 13. The Vietnam War Ann Luppi von Mehren; 14. 1968 Political Conventions Robert Francis Saxe; 15. Left Conservatism Kevin M. Schultz; Part IV. Philosophical and Cultural Contexts: 16. Totalitarianism Erin Mercer; 17. The Hipster Raj Chandarlapaty; 18. Manichaeism and Existentialism Victor Peppard; 19. Technology Walter Lewallen; 20. Violence Maggie McKinley; 21. Race Douglas Taylor; 22. Judaism Mashey Bernstein; Part V. Gender and Sexuality: 23. Masculinity Brad Congdon; 24. The Second Wave Feminist Movement Bonnie Culver; 25. Sex and Sexuality Nicole DePolo; Part VI. Profiles and Literary Biographies: 26. Marilyn Monroe Carl Rollyson; 27. Muhammad Ali Ronald K. Fried; 28. Picasso Linda Patterson Miller; 29. The Criminal Mind: Gary Gilmore and Lee Harvey Oswald Mark Olshaker; Part VII. Mailer's Legacy: 30. Literary Activism Heather Braun; 31. Mailer in Translation Jasna Potocnik Topler; 32. Letters John Whalen-Bridge; 33. Mailer Studies in the 21st Century Robert Begiebing; 34. Political Resonance Gerald R. Lucas; Primary Bibliography; Selected Secondary Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of American Modernism
Book SynopsisCovering key forms, media, locations, individuals, and communities, this book addresses both familiar topics and emergent scholarship. Seeing US modernism as fundamentally multiracial, both national and transnational, and steeped in the markets of new mass media, this will be the benchmark volume on US literary modernism for years to come.Table of ContentsPart I. Methodologies: 1. The US and Geomodernism Yogita Goyal; 2. Evading Comstockery: The Provincetown Theater, the Harlem Renaissance, and US Queer Modernism Benjamin Kahan; 3. Our Americas: Locating Modernisms, Dislocating Regionalisms and the Place of Cultures Eric Aronoff; 4. Green Modernism Joshua Schuster; 5. Modernism and the Middlebrow Faye Hammill; 6. 'The Accent of the Future': Ethnic American Modernism Catherine Morley; Part II. Forms, Genre, and Media; 7. New Visual Media Julian Murphet; 8. Midwestern Modernism and the Radio: Eliot, Hughes, Niedecker Tom McEnaney; 9. Modernist Writing and Painting John Fagg; 10. Modern Folk, Modernist Documentary Sonnet Retman; 11. Skyscraper Organizations: Architecture and US Literary Modernism Adrienne Brown; 12. The Jazz Age Jessica Teague; 13. Modernism's Deep Roots: the fin-de-siecle and the Transformation of the American Novel Guy Reynolds; 14. Modernizing the American Short Story Kasia Boddy; 15. Modernist American Long Poems Michael Kindellan; 16. The Modernist Lyric and its Discontents Linda Kinnahan; 17. Anthologies Jeremy Braddock; 18. Fragile Realism: American Drama in the Interwar Period Katherine Biers; 19. Post-WWII Theater and Media: Citation and Improvisation Shonni Enelow; 20. The Limits of an American Modernist Avant-Garde Lisa Siraganian; 21. Magazines Andrew Thacker; 22. The Modernist Presses Lise Jaillant; 23. Literary Criticism Ichiro Takayoshi; 24. Libertad Bajo Palabra: Surrealism in the Americas Jonathan P. Eburne; Part III. Situating US Modernism: A. Situating in History; 25. War Jonathan Vincent; 26. Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State Matthew Stratton; 27. Modernism of the Streets: How the Left Made a Culture from Below Bill V. Mullen; 28. Late Modernism Greg Barnhisel; B. Situating in Geography; 29. Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines: US Modernism in Europe Eric B. White; 30. The American Metropolis Nathaniel Cadle; 31. Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms: Modernism in the Americas Rachel Galvin; 32. Southern Modernism Jon Smith; 33. Transpacific Modernism Josephine Park; C. Situating in Movements and Communities; 34. Indigenous Modernism Melanie Benson Taylor; 35. Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; 36. The New Woman and American Modernism Alex Goody; 37. Celebrity and American Modernism: Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway Karen Leick.
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Cambridge University Press Sound and Literature
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sound, whether understood as noise, music, rhythm, voice or vibration, has long shaped literary cultures and their scholarship. In original chapters written by leading scholars in the field, this book tunes in to the literary text as a site of vocalisation, rhythmics and dissonance, as well as an archive of soundscapes, modes of listening, and sound technologies. Sound and Literature is unique for the breadth and plurality of its approach, and for its interrogation and methodological mapping of the field of literary sound studies.Table of ContentsPart I. Origins: 1. Hearing and the senses Sam Halliday; 2. Fragments on/of voice David Nowell Smith; 3. Sonic forms: Ezra Pound's anti-metronome modernism in context Jason David Hall; 4. Classical music and literature Gemma Moss; 5. Aesthetics, music, noise Brad Bucknell; Part II. Development: 6. Literary soundscapes Helen Groth; 7. Noise James G. Mansell; 8. 'Lost in music': wild notes and organized sound Paul Gilroy; 9. Media history and sound technology Julie Beth Napolin; Part III. Applications: 10. What we talk about when we talk about talking books Edward Allen; 11. Prose sense and its soundings Garrett Stewart; 12. Dissonant prosody A. J. Carruthers; 13. Deafness and sound Rebecca Sanchez; 14. Vibrations Shelley Trower; 15. Feminism and sound Ella Finer; 16. Wireless imaginations Debra Rae Cohen; 17. Attending to theatre sound studies and Complicite's The Encounter Adrian Curtin; 18: Bob Dylan and sound: a tale of the recording era Barry J. Faulk.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan
Book SynopsisThis Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan''s work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan''s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan''s more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 19401980 Volume 5
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the ''Emergency'') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking into account the grip of Irish censorship and cultural nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, these essays identify an Irish literary culture stimulated by international political horizons and fully responsive tochanges in publishing, readership, and education. The book combines valuable cultural surveys with focussed discussions of key literary moments, and of individual authors such as Seán O''Faoláin, Samuel Beckett, Edna O''Brien, and John McGahern.Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'The final essay of the collection, by Shaun Richards, is a very useful overview of the development of critical approaches and practices in the period. Irish Literature in Transition 1940-1980 is an expertly-edited collection of essays. The essays are lucid, insightful and jargon-free. For Irish Studies scholars of this period, it is indispensable.' Eoghan Smith, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Eve Patten; Part I. After the War: Ideologies in Transition: 1. The Second World War and its literary legacies Guy Woodward; 2. Outside the whale: Seán O'Faoláin and the European public intellectual Brad Kent; 3. Irish writers and Europe Aidan O'Malley; 4. Becoming a Republic: Irish writing in transition Nicholas Allen; Part II. Genres in Transition: 5. Intermodernism and the middlebrow in Irish writing John Brannigan; 6. Transitional life writing: Frank O'Connor and the autobiographical tradition Muireann Leech; 7. Somehow it is not the same: Irish theatre and transition Chris Morash; 8. Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien and the literature of absurdity David Wheatley; Part III. Sex, Politics and Literary Protest: 9. Censorship, law and literature Eibhear Walshe; 10. Sex, dissent and Irish fiction: reading John McGahern Frank Shovlin; 11. History, memory and protest in Irish theatre Emilie Pine; 12. Violence, politics and the poetry of the troubles Rosie Lavan; Part IV. Identities and Connections: 13. State, space and experiment in Irish language prose writing Máirín Nic Eoin; 14. Anglo-Ireland: the big house novel in transition Heather Ingman; 15. American-Irish literary relations Ellen McWilliams; 16. 'Home rule in our literature': Irish-British poetic relations Tom Walker; Part V. Retrospective Frameworks: Criticism in Transition: 17. Literary biography in transition Paul Delaney; 18. Publishing, Penguin and Irish writing Paul Rooney; 19. Curriculum to canon: Irish writing and education Margaret Kelleher; 20. Critics, criticism and the formation of an Irish literary canon Shaun Richards.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 18801940 Volume 4
Book SynopsisThe years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory - profoundly impacted Irish and World Literature. Recent research has uncovered new archives of previously neglected texts and authors. Organized according to multiple categories, ranging from single author to genre and theme, this volume allows readers to imagine multiple ways of re-mapping this crucial period. The book incorporates different, even competing, approaches and interpretations to reflect emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship. As ongoing research in the field of Irish studies discovers new materials and critical strategies for interpreting them, our sense of Irish literary history during this period is constantly shifting. This volume seeks to capture the richness and complexity of the years 1880-Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'The overarching achievements of this collection are its extensions of the scope for critical intervention into the years during and immediately succeeding the Revival. The collection also greatly bene!ts from its inclusion of criticism on overlooked writers such as George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, and George Moore alongside regular stalwarts such as Joyce, Yeats, and Bowen. Eclectic, necessarily diverse, and rigorous, Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940 is an important investigation into two periods of distinctive artistic and critical creativity that manages to seamlessly survey the development of cultural discourses and identify the cultural movements that made them possible.' Loic Wright, Irish Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction Marjorie Howes; Part I. Revisionary Foundations: 2. The apotheosis of the vernacular: dialects and the Irish revival Brian Ó'Conchubhair; 3. Origins of modern Irish poetry, 1880–1922 Alex Davis; 4. Theatrical Ireland: new routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre Paige Reynolds; 5. Recovery and the ascendancy novel 1880–1932 Vera Kreilkamp; Part II. Revoutionary Forms: 6. Print culture landscapes 1880–1922 Niall Carson; 7. Revolutionary lives in the rearview mirror: memoir and autobiography Karen Steele; 8. The Hugh Lane controversy and the Irish revival Lucy McDiarmid; 9. New Irish women and new women's writing Tina O'Toole; Part III. Major Figures in Transition: 10. Aging Yeats: from fascism to disability Joseph Valente; 11. 'I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth's novels': gender, power, and the domestic in Lady Gregory's work Lauren Arrington; 12. Synge and disappearing Ireland Gregory Castle; 13. Drumcondra modernism: Joyce's suburban aesthetic Enda Duffy; 14. London Irish: Wilde, Shaw and Yeats Nicholas Grene; Part IV. Aftermaths and Outcomes: 15. Reimagining realism in post-independence Irish writing Mark Quigley; 16. The free state of poetry Lucy Collins; 17. Live wires and dead noise: revolutionary communications Emily C. Bloom; 18. The dead, the undead, and the half-alive: the transition from narrative plot to formal trope in late modern Irish writing Clair Wills; Part V. Frameworks in Transition: 19. Irish literary criticism during the revival Gerry Smyth; 20. Retrospective readings: the rise of global Irish studies Peter Kuch.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
Book SynopsisThe 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s writing has been the subject of competing claims, and therefore this Companion offers the reader an incisive survey covering the decade''s literature and its status in critical debates. Across the chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the decade''s pressing social and political contexts. Through this, the reader will gain new insight into 1930s literary history, and an understanding of many of the critical debates that have marked the study of this unique literary era.Trade Review'Brilliantly conceived, constructed and executed, Smith's collection is an outstanding one.' Alistair Davies, Textual PracticeTable of ContentsIntroduction James Smith; 1. Poetry Janet Montefiore; 2. The literary novel Marina MacKay; 3. Drama Claire Warden; 4. Publishing and periodicals Peter Marks; 5. The middlebrow and popular Isobel Maddison; 6. Modernism Tyrus Miller; 7. Communism and the working class John Connor; 8. Empire Judy Suh; 9. Travel Timothy Youngs; 10. The regional and the rural Kristin Bluemel; 11. The queer 1930s Glyn Salton-Cox; 12. Remembering and imagining war Phyllis Lassner; 13. Fascism and anti-fascism Mia Spiro; 14. Fashioning the 1930s Benjamin Kohlmann.
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