Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Oxford University Press Camera Works
Book SynopsisCamera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its most concentrated form, but even for aesthetically unadventurous writers they constituted an element of modern experience that could hardly be ignored.Camera Works thus traces some of the more utopian projects of transatlantic avant-garde, including the Readie machine of Bob Brown, which was to turn stories and poems into strips of linguistic film. The influence of photography and film on the avant-garde is traced from the early days of Camera Work, through the enthusiasm of Eugene Jolas and the contributors to his magazine transition, to the Trade Review"Photography, Michael North argues in this exciting and profoundly original study, has for too long been understood as just another medium, with its particular possibilities and conventions--a medium, moreover, that provides for 'realistic' representation. But understood properly in its mode and function, photography emerges as itself a kind of modern writing, its inherent mediation itself determining how we view the world in words. In a series of provocative and groundbreaking chapters, ranging from Stieglitz's Camera Works and the Readies of Bob Brown to the novels of Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, and Hemingway, North shows that recorded mediation, in its aesthetic, social, and cultural effects, is at the very core of the literature we call Modernist."--Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University"Camera Works offers vivid new takes on literary Modernism, showing how the evolving technologies of photography and film exerted a profound and often problematic influence on the writings of the period. North's readings of even the most familiar modernist texts offer a range of excitingly unfamiliar perspectives."--Peter Nicholls, University of SussexTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mechanical Recording and the Modern Arts ; Part One: The Logocinema of the Little Magazines ; Chapter 1 Camera Work: The Hieroglyphics of the New Photography ; Chapter 2 transition: The Movies, the Readies, and the Revolution of the Word ; Chapter 3 Close Up: International Modernisms Struggle with Sound ; Part Two: Spectatorship, Media Relations, and Modern American Fiction ; Chapter 4 F. Scott Fitzgeralds Spectroscopic Fiction ; Chapter 5 An Eyeminded People: Spectatorship in Dos Passos U.S.A. ; Chapter 6 Du Bois, Johnson, and the Recordings of Race ; Chapter 7 Ernest Hemingways Media Relations ; Conclusion
£24.69
Oxford University Press Imagining New York City
Book SynopsisUsing examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the place and significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces - such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, the book also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of urban challenges facing the city, such as post-disaster recovery, the renewal of urban infrastructure, and the remaking of public space.Trade ReviewAn evocative and insightful reading of "this endlessly mutable city". * PD Smith, The Guardian *New York City is the most overly analyzed, overly discussed city on the globe. Yet Lindner has something fresh and significant to say ... This intellectually challenging book is also extremely readable, an outcome rare in academic writing. Highly recommended. * G. R. Butters Jr., CHOICE *This wonderfully rich and engaging book focuses on a transformative period in New York City's history to explore how and why it has so thoroughly captured modern urban imaginations. * David Pinder, author of Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism *An exciting and compelling book, Imagining New York City provides a major contribution to the study of cultural Modernism and urban visual culture. With a richly drawn narrative and a deft interweaving of texts and images, this is clearly a first class writer at work. * Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School and President of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History *Drawing on a rich array of literary, visual, and urbanistic materials, Christoph Lindner offers an intellectually playful, theoretically incisive guide to the cultural history of modern New York. Taking us up skylines and down sidewalks, Lindner makes it clear that imagining New York has been a crucial way of understanding urban modernity. * David Scobey, author of Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape *worthwhile and insightful reading for anyone interested in New York City or cultural representations of urban spaces, in general. * Nico Völker, Kult_online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Archive City ; Changing New York ; Modern City, Urban Imaginary ; Skylines and Sidewalks ; After City ; Part 1 - Skylines ; New York Vertical ; The City from Above ; Requiem for the Twin Towers ; Building the Skyline: A Brief Architectural History ; Text and the City ; New York Dreamscapes ; Fantasy Island ; After-Images of New York ; Revisioning the Skyscraper ; Cinema and the Vertical City ; The City from Greenwich Village ; Metrotopia ; The Empty City ; New York Undead ; Part 2 - Sidewalks ; New York Horizontal ; Sidewalks and Public Space ; A Short History of the Grid ; Street-Walking ; Broadway Promenade ; Manhattan Flaneuse ; Blase Metropolitan Attitude ; City of Slums ; Sidewalks and Fear ; Tales of the Tenement ; New York Underground ; Elevated City ; High Line, Lowline ; Subway City ; Underground Fantasies ; Slow Street ; Afterword ; Bibliography
£34.67
Oxford University Press Inc Dancing with Iris
Book SynopsisIris Marion Young was a world-renowned feminist moral and political philosopher whose many books and articles spanned more than three decades. She explored issues of social justice and oppression theory, the phenomenology of women''s bodies, deliberative democracy and questions of terrorism, violence, international law and the role of the national security state. Her works have been of great interest to those both in the analytic and Continental philosophical tradition, and her roots range from critical theory (Habermas and Marcuse), and phenomenology (Beauvoir and Merleau Ponty) to poststructural psychoanalytic feminism (Kristeva and Ingaray). This anthology of writings aims to carry on the fruitful lines of thought she created and contains works by both well-known and younger authors who explore and engage critically with aspects of her work. The essays include personal remembrances as well as a last interview with Young about her work. The essays are organized into topic areas that Trade ReviewThis is a useful, informative collection of critical reflections on Iris Marion Young's substantial contribution to feminist, social, and political philosophy. It might do well as a supplemental text in a graduate seminar on the work of Young and other feminist and political philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Review *As the legitimacy of politicians and political institutions comes into sharper focus in an era of global austerity unmatched in living memory, for me it is Iris Young's resolute grounding in everyday struggles, her concepts of differentiated solidarity and social connection that can give a theoretical underpinning for new and more empowering social practices - a place where sociology surely should always be. * Sociology *The use of 'Dancing' in the title of this collection signals that it is above all a celebratory engagement with the work and the life of Iris Young. It also playfully points in the direction of arguably the most unusual and least familiar themes in Young's thinking explored in the book: the aesthetic dimension to be found not only in her work on embodiment (sketched out in the essays by Foster and Mann) but also in the implications of her account of structural inequality for understanding the role of aesthetic discomfort and disdain in anti-immigration sentiment (broached by Martínez). * Elizabeth Spelman, Ethics *Table of ContentsI. HOMAGE TO IRIS MARION YOUNG ; II. EMBODIMENT, PHENOMENOLOGY AND GENDER ; III. THEORIZING THE STATE: METHOD, VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE ; IV. JUSTICE: ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY ; V. JUSTICE: DEMOCRACY AND INCLUSION
£37.52
Oxford University Press At the Violet Hour
Book SynopsisAt the Violet Hour argues that the literature of the early twentieth-century in England and Ireland was deeply organized around a reckoning with grievous violence, imagined as intimate, direct, and often transformative. The book aims to excavate and amplify a consistent feature of this literature, which is that its central operations (formal as well as thematic) emerge specifically in reference to violence. At the Violet Hour offers a variety of new terms and paradigms for reading violence in literary works, most centrally the concepts it names enchanted and disenchanted violence. In addition to defining key aspects of literary violence in the period, including the notion of violet hour, the book explores three major historical episodes: dynamite violence and anarchism in the nineteenth century, which provided a vibrant, new consciousness about explosion, sensationalism, and the limits of political meaning in the act of violence; the turbulent events consuming Ireland in the first thirTrade ReviewCole's close readings of violence in the work of some of the major modernists are superb. * Lauren Arrington, The Times Literary Supplement *At the Violet Hour is also striking in terms of what it leaves out: a full-scale exploration of the Great War, arguably the defining event in the concatenation of modernism and violence. * Paul Sheehan, Review of English Studies *Cole's well-written, formidably researched book is a treasure trove of incisive readings that will surely become a classic ... Highly recommended. * D. Stuber, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1 ; Enchanted and Disenchanted Violence ; Chapter 2 ; Dynamite Violence: From Melodrama to Menace ; Chapter 3 ; Cyclical Violence: The Irish Insurrection and the Limits of Enchantment ; Chapter 4 ; Patterns of Violence: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s ; Conclusion ; Index
£87.40
Clarendon Press The Poems of A. E. Housman Oxford English Texts
Book SynopsisFeatures poetry that reveals the shaping processes of the author's poetic thought. This work also contains commentary that traces the range of echoes and allusions - Biblical, Classical, and contemporary, as well as providing information on persons, places, and historical context, the dating of poems, and his linguistic usage.Trade Reviewediting Housman's poetry is one of the tetchiest of challenges in English literary scholarship ... In his new Oxford edition of The Poems of A. E. Housman Archie Burnett looks to have triumphed. Here are 600 pages of minutely detailed scholarship. True evaluation of this edition will take as many years as its compilation, but I believe even Housman would have saluted its erudition. * Jim McCue, The Times *... an impressive work of scholarship, meticulous in its research, clear in its presentation, thoughtful in it arguments and evaluations - and not without touches of dry humour./ ... a wonderful scholarly enterprise./ Like it or not, we are going to have to change our views of some of the poems Housman wrote, as we seem now to have them in a form nearer to what he probably intended;/ Archie Burnett has fulfilled his editor's duty superbly;/ Alan Holden (journal not named)Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Introduction - Arrangement of the Poems; MSS, Printed Editions, and the Choice of Copy-Text; Copy-Text Conventions; The Textual Apparatus; Symbols Used; Dates of Composition; Commentary ; THE TEXTS: A Shropshire Lad; Last Poems; More Poems; Additional Poems; Translations; Notebook Fragments; Light Verse and Juvenilia; Latin Verse ; Accidental Variants ; Commentary ; Index of Titles and First Lines
£290.00
Clarendon Press An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Book SynopsisThis is a fully revised edition of Roger Beaton''s 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period, seen as a whole, and including developments up until the present day. The book highlights those writers and works which have enjoyed critical or popular acclaim, and emphasizes the relationships which link one work with another and with its historical context. It moves from the varying responses to European Romanticism which defined Greek literature in the nineteenth century, culminating in the work of Palamas and Cavafy in the first decades of this century, to the Modernist influenced work of the years from the 1920s to 1945. A post-war reaction against Modernism was followed by growing experimentation, and the book deals in detail with this most productive of periods in modern Greek literature. No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all quotations are givTrade ReviewA must for all Modern Greek collections of academic and general libraries. * Choice *Table of ContentsHow to Use this Book ; Introduction ; 1. Literature for a New Nation: 1821-1881 ; 2. National Expansion and its Limits: From 'Great Idea' to Aftermath of Disaster: 1881-1928 ; 3. In Search of a New National Identity: 1929-1949 ; 4. The Aftermath of War and Civil War: 1949-1967 ; 5. From Military Dictatorship towards International Integration: 1967-1992 ; 6. Literature and Language: The 'Language Question' ; Guide to Bibliography in English ; Guide to Translations ; References ; Index of Greek Titles ; General Index
£110.00
Oxford University Press Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing Cesaire Glissant Conde
Book SynopsisThis book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently to francophone literature. Jeannie Suk investigates how the literature of Martinique and Guadeloupe provides a kaleidescopic view of the paradoxes at the heart of postcoloniality. Through subtle and provocative readings of Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, she illuminates how the development of French Caribbean literature and debates about négritude, antillanité, and creolité contribute to theories of in-betweenness and incompleteness central to postcolonial modes. In each chapter, lively and detailed analyses of literary and critical texts reveal connections between key thematic, conceptual, rhetorical, and psychic issues that form the interface of Caribbean and postcolonial concerns. The first part paves theoretical ground, fTrade Review... engages adroitly with the relations between theory, fiction and politics, showing how they have taken quite a distinctive shape in Caribbean culture. * Journal of Romance Studies *... offers an important and original contribution to the study of French Antillean literature ... Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and compellingly argued, it places this literature within the context of deconstructive, poststructuralist thought with ease and sophistication, while offering substantive close-readings of canonical texts that markedly extend our awareness of the subtle workings of these materials. * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *This book is an important addition to the growing field of Caribbean studies, and underlines the truth that much of the most impressive work in this domain is being done in English. * Modern Language Review *Postcolonial Paradoxes should be welcomed as an important contemporary assessment of key figures within Antillean writing. * Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings *Table of ContentsPOSTCOLONIALITY, ALLEGORY, AND THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
£175.00
Clarendon Press In Solitude for Company W. H. Auden After 1940 Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism 3 Auden Studies
Book SynopsisConcentrating on Auden's post-1940 writings and his letters, essays and lectures, this study demonstrates the scope of his intellect and includes some of his unpublished prose. Leading scholars and literary critics contribute discussions regarding key aspects of the later career of this major poet.
£225.00
Oxford University Press, USA The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume 5 19221923 Mansfield Collected Letters Series
Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield's letters are as finely written as her stories and prized by ordinary readers as much as by literary critics and feminists. The fifth and final volume of this celebrated edition reveals Mansfield's courage, wit, independence, and honesty in the final year of her life.Trade ReviewThis fifth volume of the Collected Letters brings a satisfying completeness * Stephen Barkway, Virginia Woolf Bulletin *Its completion is a triumphant achievement... The editors' labours throughout have been meticulous yet unobtrusive * Trev Broughton, Times Literary Supplement *Top of my wishlist... plangent, wishful and determined even at the end with O'Sullivan's learned and sensitive introduction. * Kirsty Gunn, The Scotsman Books of the Year *...her last year has never appeared as vibrant as in this elegantly produced and unobtrusively edited volume, filled with previously unknown material. * Christopher Hawtree, Telegraph on Saturday *The editors deserve our gratitude for publishing these letters * A. Banerjee, English Studies *Table of ContentsTHE LETTERS
£150.00
Clarendon Press A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisA survey of Arabic literature since the mid-19th century, examining the attempts made by Arab authors to define their cultural identity and meet the needs of the modern world by adapting the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, as well as their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.Trade ReviewBadawi's work is a good proof that modern Arabic literature has come into its own, and that it is now making a contribution to world literature. Times Higher Education Supplement'A History of Modern Arabic Literature ... breaks new ground and fills a real need. It is organized in a very clear and systematic fashion.' Issa Peters, World Literature Today, Winter 1994 Issue'this relatively compact edition would be ideal for a student home for the holidays' Brian Fannin, The Washington TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction: a new conception of Arabic literature. Part 1 Poetry: Neoclassical and Romantic; the modernists. Part 2 The novel and the short story: the pioneers; Naguib Mahfouz and other Egyptians; other Arab writers and further developments in the short story. Part 3 Drama: early developments; the period of maturity.
£195.00
Oxford University Press Ezra Pound Poet Volume III The Tragic Years
Book SynopsisThe third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed biography examines Pound's final years, which saw much personal tragedy for Pound at a tragic point in World history.Trade ReviewMoody explains and elucidates Pounds massive poetic output at length... subtitled The Tragic Years 19391972. It gives a detailed and moving account of the second half his life, which was indeed tragic. * A. Banerjee (Kobe Jogakuin University), The Journal *It's almost a day-to-day account of the life of this prolific and erudite writer and scholar. As such, it illuminates and validates the poetry. * David Crook, Bookwitty *A landmark three volume biography...David Moody's life of Ezra Pound is complete, and a splendid work it is. * Denis Donoghue, Irish Times *magisterial... a masterful biography, as meticulous as it is broad-ranging. * Eric Ormsby, New Criterion *The third volume is a magnificent conclusion to a magisterial biography and it's hard to imagine a better researched account of Pound's life and work emerging for generations to come. * Sean Sheehan, Irish Left Review *With this final volume, aptly subtitled "The Tragic Years," Mr. Moody [ -- a sympathetic and indeed exemplary biographer-- ] has written as wonderfully comprehensive and comprehending a biography as anyone interested in Pound-for or against-will want to have. * Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal *A landmark three volume biography / David Moody's life of Ezra Pound is complete, and a splendid work it is * Irish Times *Ezra Pound: Poet will surely stand for a long time as one of the great literary biographies; it is inconceivable to imagine that any other life of its subject will be necessary into the far future. * Bruce Whiteman, Hudson Review *a brilliant performance... Moody's is by far the best researched, keenly judged, and in every sense comprehensive life of Pound we are ever likely to get. Altogether it is a crowning achievement for a very distinguished critic and scholar. * Alec Marsh, Make It New *attention to nuance characterises Moody's general approach to writing Pound's life... [and] extends to readings of Pound's poetry... His monumental biography is... judicious and scrupulous * Matthew Creasey, PN Review *The final volume of A. David Moody's monumental biography may well be the most absorbing. Here, in vivid detail, Moody tells the painful story ... much new or previously unknown archival material ... the most authoritative biography to date. * Marjorie Perloff, Times Literary Supplement *David Moody's magnificent accomplishment commands respect. His scholarship and criticism are exhaustive and these three volumes will be indispenable to all future Ezra Pound research. * Tim Redman, Literary Review *It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive or impressive biography of Pound will ever be written. * Publishers Weekly *The third volume is a magnificent conclusion to a magisterial biography and it's hard to imagine a better researched account of Pound's life and work emerging for generations to come. * Irish Left Review *Moody has succeeded in bringing Pound to life and highlighting the vitality of his poetry. He gives modern readers an understanding of just how brilliant the dangerous, deluded, and fascinating Ezra Pound was. * Spiked *It is a monumental feat of scholarship, and one which must surely be seen as an exemplar of modern critical biography. * Shiny New Books *Table of ContentsPART ONE: 1939 - 1945IllustrationsPrefaceChronology1: Between Paradise & Propaganda, 1939-402: A Dutifully Dissident Exile, 19413: In a Web of Contradictions: 1942-34: 'To Dream the Republic': 1943-45: For the Resurrection of Italy: 1944-5PART TWO: 19456: Talking to the FBI7: A Prisoner in the Eyes of Others8: 'In the Mind Indestructible': The Pisan CantosPART THREE9: American JusticePART FOUR: ST ELIZABETHS 1946 - 195810: A Year in the Hell Hole11: Resilience: 1947-5012: The Life of the Mind: 1950-513: 'Indictment Dismissed': 1956-814: Clearing OutPART FIVE: 1958-197215: A Final Testament: 1958-916: 'You Find Me In Fragments': 1959-6217: His Sickness & His Wealth: 1962-418: Afterlife of the Poet: 1965-72APPENDIXThe Settlement of the EstateAbbreviationsNotesAcknowledgementsIndex
£21.37
Oxford University Press, USA Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity
Book SynopsisSince the middle of the eighteenth century, the classical world has been seen as foundational and exemplary to Western civilization. However, the Greeks never invaded and colonised western and northern Europe the way the Romans did, and, conversely, Greece was a difficult place to reach for modern travellers well into the nineteenth century. Inevitably, therefore, the links with ancient Greece were a product of the imagination: an exemplary civilization, in its politics, arts, and culture. There was one problem, however: the Greeks, it seemed, enjoyed pederastic relations. And not only this: one of Athens'' most famous teachers, Socrates, was attracted to boys. Daniel Orrells offers a fresh, original examination of how modern thinkers in Germany and Britain, who were so invested in a model of history that directly traced the European present back to an ancient Greek past, negotiated the tricky issue of ancient Greek pederasty.Trade ReviewOrrells skilfully offers an overview of his period as well as close analysis of well-chosen examples ... the book is intelligently shaped by an understanding that in confronting what Platonic pedastry meant to its modern readers, we raise large issues concerning interactions between past and present. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity provides an in-depth look at the debate over ancient Greece's most controversial legacy. * Charles Green, Gay & Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Paiderastia and the Contexts of German Historicism ; 2. Translating the Love of Philosophy: Jowett and Pater on Plato ; 3. The Bewildering Case of John Addington Symonds ; 4. Trying Greek Love: Oscar Wilde and E. M. Forster's Maurice ; 5. Freud and the History of Masculinity: Between Oedipus and Narcissus ; Conclusion: The Truth of Eros and the Eros for Truth
£128.25
Oxford University Press Simone de Beauvoir 2e C
Book SynopsisIn Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the twentieth century. Blending biography with literary criticism, feminist theory, and historical and social analysis, this book provides a completely original analysis of Beauvoir''s education and formation as an intellectual.In The Second Sex, Beauvoir shows that we constantly make something of what the world tries to make of us. By reconstructing the social and political world in which Beauvoir became the author of The Second Sex, and by showing how Beauvoir reacted to the pressures of that world, Moi applies Beauvoir''s ideas to Beauvoir''s own life. Ranging from an investigation of French educational institutions to reflections on the relationship between freedom and flirtation, this book uncovers the conflicts and difficulties of an intellectual woman in the middle of the twentieth century. Trade Reviewa landmark study on Simone de Beauvoir...a pivotal work for study of Beauvoir's autobiographical oeuvre * Susan Bainbridge, Modern and Contemporary France *Moi's brilliant analysis of her subject is de Beauvoir criticism at its very best, demonstrating that the richly stimulating text of Simone de Beauvoir deserves to be widely and well read. * Ursula Tidd, THES *Table of ContentsPART I ; PART II ; PART III
£91.20
Oxford University Press Simone de Beauvoir
Book SynopsisIn Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the twentieth century. Blending biography with literary criticism, feminist theory, and historical and social analysis, this book provides a completely original analysis of Beauvoir''s education and formation as an intellectual.In The Second Sex, Beauvoir shows that we constantly make something of what the world tries to make of us. By reconstructing the social and political world in which Beauvoir became the author of The Second Sex, and by showing how Beauvoir reacted to the pressures of that world, Moi applies Beauvoir''s ideas to Beauvoir''s own life. Ranging from an investigation of French educational institutions to reflections on the relationship between freedom and flirtation, this book uncovers the conflicts and difficulties of an intellectual woman in the middle of the twentieth century. Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This book makes us discover a Beauvoir analysed with sympathy but without complaisance. A worthy Beauvoir emerges: not the super-woman one so often hears about, but a complex, suffering woman who finds it hard to be different except in her jealousy and sorrow. But, what strength and what courage! She opened the way, and this book does her justice. * Julia Kristeva *Sympathetic and critical, Moi's impassioned study never loses sight of the difficulty of Beauvoir's intellectual and personal journey through her life, it will send its readers back to Beauvoir's writings with a new sense of political necessity and possibility for women. * Professor Jacqueline Rose, University of London *a landmark study on Simone de Beauvoir...a pivotal work for study of Beauvoir's autobiographical oeuvre * Susan Bainbridge, Modern and Contemporary France *Moi's brilliant analysis of her subject is de Beauvoir criticism at its very best, demonstrating that the richly stimulating text of Simone de Beauvoir deserves to be widely and well read. * Ursula Tidd, THES *Table of ContentsPART I ; PART II ; PART III
£33.24
Oxford University Press Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Book SynopsisColonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has itself played a crucial part in founding and shaping this rapidly expanding field. The author, an internationally renowned postcolonial critic, provides a broad contextualizing narrative about the evolution of colonial and postcolonial writing in English. Illuminating close readings of texts by a wide variety of writers - from Kipling and Conrad through to Kincaid, from Ngugi to Noonuccal and Naipaul - explicate key theoretical terms such as ''subaltern'', ''colonial resistance'', ''writing back'', and ''hybridity''. This revised edition includes new critiques of postcolonial women''s writing, an expanded and fully annotated bibliography, and a new chapter and conclusion on postcolonialism exploring keynote debates in the field relatinTrade ReviewReview from previous edition I imagine the book will continue to be an important resource for many years. * Durrant *One of the best introductions to colonialism and literature I have ever read...I urge Oxford University Press to produce a second edition of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature....As a literary history of postcolonialism, it has no equal. * Zwicker *A well-organized, accessible, and tightly-constructed text that reads very well and gives one both coverage and a sense of historical depth. * Ghosh *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Imperialism and Textuality ; 2. Colonialist Concerns ; 3. The Stirrings of New Nationalism ; 4. Metropolitans and Mimics ; 5. Independence ; 6. Postcolonialism ; 7. Transitional futures: the postcolonial book and the global world ; Chronology of key events and publications ; Notes ; Further reading ; Index
£35.99
Oxford University Press, USA Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science
Book SynopsisThese essays and poems show that poetry and science are both forms of discovery. Though they can disagree, what is most provocative and exciting is just how often poets and scientists agree. Contributors include bestselling psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and poets Paul Muldoon and Simon Armitage.Trade ReviewEngaging essays studded with wit and humor an entertaining and illuminating volume. * Diane Ackerman, Science *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Rampage, or Science in Poetry ; As Above ; Poetry and Virtual Realities ; Grimoire ; Spirit Machines: The Human and the Computational ; Biology ; Testament and Confessions of an Informationist ; The Working Self ; A Science of Belonging: Poetry as Ecology ; Steinar undir Steinahlithum ; Modelling the Universe: Poetry, Science, and the Art of Metaphor ; Circadian ; Astronomy and Poetry ; A Fistful of Foraminifera ; The Act of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Poetry of Jorie Graham and Leslie Scalapino ; Once I Looked into Your Eyes ; The Art of Wit and the Cambridge Science Park ; The Organ Bath ; Contemporary Psychology and Contemporary Poetry: Perspectives on Mood Disorders ; Afterword
£65.55
Oxford University Press The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s
Book Synopsis''Middlebrow'' has always been a dirty word, used disparagingly since its coinage in the mid-1920s for the sort of literature thought to be too easy, insular and smug. Yet it was middlebrow fiction - largely written and read by women - that absolutely dominated the publishing market in the four decades from the 1920s to the 1950s. Neglected by subsequent critical fashion in favour of the work of literary elites, this literature has only recently begun to be reassessed. Aiming to rehabilitate the feminine middlebrow, Nicola Humble argues that the novels of writers such as Rosamund Lehmann, Elizabeth Taylor, Stella Gibbons, Nancy Mitford, and a host of others less well known, played a powerful role in establishing and consolidating, but also in resisting, new class and gender identities in this period of volatile change for both women and the middle classes. The work of over thirty novelists is covered, read alongside other discourses as diverse as cookery books, child-care manuals, and Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Accessible, informative and entertainingly written. * Laura Jane Macbeth, The Independent Weekend Review *A fascinating study of literary culture, which offers many intriguing tasters of the novels themselves. The bizarre characters and scenarios, and the conscious ironies of some of these "good bad books" leave one curious to read more. * Clare Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. 'Books Do Furnish a Room': Readers and Reading ; 2. 'Not Our Sort': The Re-Formation of Middle-Class Identities ; 3. Imagining the Home ; 4. The Eccentric Family ; 5. A Crisis of Gender? ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
£59.85
Oxford University Press Unseasonable Youth
Book SynopsisUnseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot, but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self, nation, and empire. The intertwined tropes of frozen youth and uneven development, as motifs of failed progress, play a crucial role in the emergence of dilatory modernist style and in the reimagination of colonial space at the fin-de-siècle. The genre-bending logic of uneven development - never wholly absent from the coming-of-age novel -- takes on a new and more intense form in modernism as it fixes its broken allegory to the problem of colonial develoTrade ReviewThe power of Esty's text to rewire one's thinking is most evident in the fact that such quibbles arise only once one has accepted his ambitious reframing of the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century novelistic tradition. ... This is a major rereading of the modernist novel. Its analysis will be unavoidable for future critics of the period. * Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Esty's extensive secondary references, awareness of critical trends, and what the series editors right call his 'admirable stylistic panache' are all impressive. Recommended.?CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents ; Series Editors' Foreword ; Chapter one: Introduction ; Scattered Souls: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity ; After the Novel of Progress ; Kipling's Imperial Time ; Genre, History, and the Trope of Youth ; Modernist Subjectivity and the World-System ; Chapter two ; "National-Historical Time" from Goethe to George Eliot ; Infinite Development vs. National Form ; Nationhood and Adulthood in The Mill on the Floss ; After Eliot: Aging Forms and Globalized Provinces ; Chapter three ; Youth/Death: Schreiner and Conrad in the Contact Zone ; Outpost Without Progress: Schreiner's Story of An African Farm ; "A free and wandering tale": Conrad's Lord Jim ; Chapter four ; Souls of Men under Capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the Anti-Novel ; "Unripe Time": Dorian Gray and Metropolitan Youth ; Commerce and Decay in Tono-Bungay ; Chapter five ; Tropics of Youth in Woolf and Joyce ; The "weight of the world": Woolf's Colonial Adolescence ; "Elfin Preludes": Joyce's Adolescent Colony ; Chapter six ; Virgins of Empire: The Antidevelopmental Plot in Rhys and Bowen ; Gender and Colonialism in the Modernist Semi-Periphery ; Endlessly Devolving: Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark ; Querying Innocence: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September ; Chapter seven: Conclusion ; Alternative Modernity and Autonomous Youth After 1945 ; Works Cited ; Index
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Oxford University Press Stories about Stories
Book SynopsisMyth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an argument about its nature and importance. Specific chapters cover the origins of fantasy in the Romantic search for localized myths, fantasy versions of the Modernist turn toward the primitive, the post-Tolkienian exploration of world mythologies, post-colonial reactions to the exploitation of indigenous sacred narratives by Western writers, fantasies based in Christian belief alongside fundamentalist attempts to stamp out the form, and the emergence of ever-more sophisticated structures such as metafiction through which to explore mythic constructions of reality.Trade ReviewI highly recommend Brian Attebery's new book. It's a scholarly work, but it reads with bright clarity as takes us back and forth between fantasy and myth, showing not only the connections, but also how the best of fantasy is a roadmap that can return the reader to its source material. * Fantasy and Science Fiction *Brian Attebery is the most readable, the most knowledgeable, and the least quarrelsome of critics. Stories about Stories adds new vistas of understanding to his unsurpassed survey of imaginative literature. * Ursula K. Le Guin *Brian Attebery hits the mother lode in this brilliant archaeology of fantasy and myth. The closest thing to a definitive guide for what C.S. Lewis called 'lies breathed through silver,' Stories about Stories enables us to understand the higher truths of narratives that walk a tightrope between sacred and profane, faith and skepticism, poetry and prose. * Maria Tatar, author of Enchanted Hunters *With radiant clarity, Brian Attebery's Stories about Stories examines what happens when we 'imagine our way into the realms of mastery and wonder' by considering the performative and contextualizing nature of narrative. It is a brilliant book by one of the fantastic's most informed, most penetrating, and wisest critics, who understands that the subjectivity of fictive knowledge is the engine behind its energy and fascination. * Peter Straub *Stories about Stories is the best analysis we yet possess of mythopoesis. Attebery's work mediates powerfully between the creative appropriations of myth in modern fantasy, a story known to many, and the less well-known stories of the scholarly rediscovery of myth, and the tenuous survival of oral narrative and myth in living context. * Tom Shippey, the author of The Road to Middle Earth *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Fantasy as a Route to Myth ; Taxonomic Interlude: A Note on Genres ; Chapter 2: Make It Old: The Other Mythic Method ; Chapter 3: Silver Lies and Spinning Wheels: Christian Myth in MacDonald and Lewis ; Chapter 4: Romance and Formula, Myth and Memorate ; Chapter 5: Expanding the Territory: Colonial Fantasy ; Chapter 6: Angels, Fantasy, and Belief ; Literalist Interlude: Burning Harry Potter ; Chapter 7: The Postcolonial Fantastic ; Chapter 8: Coyote's Eyes: Situated Fantasy ; Works Cited
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Oxford University Press, USA Making History New
Book SynopsisMaking History New explores how several British modernists applied the experimental methods of literary modernism to the writing of narrative history and historical novels. The historical novel is usually assumed to be only a concern of either nineteenth century realism or postmodernism, but the historical works of Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Rebecca West evidence a modernist obsession with historical narrative. Works like Nostromo, Parade''s End and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon utilized literary techniques we have come to associate with modernism-fragmentation, subjectivity, nonlinearity-in their effort to narrate the past, but unlike many of their contemporaries they never jettisoned narrative as the primary means for textual engagements with the historical past. Such a divisioning between narrative and non-narrative modes of writing history also mark the field of historiography in the wake of the Holocaust, with poststructural challenges to narrative history compelling many hisTrade ReviewMaking History New is entirely successful in challenging the claim that modernism is anti-historical ... [and] opens up an original - and potentially significant - field of research in modernist studies. * Kate Symondson, Times Literary Supplement *Making History New challenges the claim that literary modernism abandoned history. With close attention to historical narratives by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Rebecca West, Seamus O'Malley rediscovers the historiographical significance of modernist experimentation. Reading the three authors as an exemplary constellation of modernists, Making History New illuminates a deeply historical turn at the heart of high modernism and invites a re-evaluation of the field of modernist studies. O'Malley simultaneously brings historiography to bear on literary modernism and makes modernist narrative newly relevant to debates about how history is made, written, and read. * Christopher GoGwilt, author of The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya *Seamus O'Malley's discovery of a modernist historiography complicates and clarifies the relationship between modernism and history; leads to convincing new readings of well-known and more obscure works of fiction; and suggests ways in which historians today can learn from modernist innovations to create new historical forms. Making History New is a refreshingly innovative reassessment of literary modernism. * Louise Blakeney Williams, author of Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past *Making History New is a compelling and erudite contribution to modernist studies that advances our knowledge of the field and the three canonical authors * Conrad, Ford, Westat its heart. O'Malley's command of his sources is magisterial; he presents a truly interdisciplinary approach to this complex and sophisticated topic.Bernard Schweitzer, author of Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism *Making History New offers a bold and original challenge to the received idea of modernism as anti-historical. O'Malley makes a powerful case for an engagement with the experience and representation of history as being constitutive of modernism, from the early modernist historiographic fictions of Conrad and Ford, through the novels of the First World War, to West's reflections on the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials. His subtle readings illuminate the richness of modernism's meditations on the nature and the problematics of the historical. * Max Saunders, author of Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter One: Joseph Conrad and the Necessity of History in Nostromo ; Chapter Two: Rewriting and Repetition in The Good Soldier ; Chapter Three: Returning, Remembering, and Forgetting in The Return of the Soldier ; Chapter Four: The Rememoration of Some Do Not... (Parade's End, Vol. 1) ; Chapter Five: The Impossible Necessity of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ; Conclusion: History after the Holocaust ; Works Cited ; Notes
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Oxford University Press Inc The Classical Tradition
Book SynopsisA monumental work of literary scholarship, reissued with a legacy-establishing foreword by Harold Bloom.Trade Review"Solidly grounded and solidly built...[Highet] deals with every period, every movement, every individual, and every separate work as an interesting special case for which he tries to find the special explanation."--The New Yorker "An excellent outline...[an] intelligent, erudite, perceptive interpretation...a book for the times."--The Nation "It is Highet's appreciate of good literature...which gives a special charm to his book...[It] will be read with gratitude by many."--Times Literary Supplement "Having reread Gilbert Highet's The Classical Tradition, I am once again under its spell. The book, like Curtius' European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, is a monument to a certain moment of mid-20th-century classicism, deeply humane, fundamentally conservative, committed to putting back together what seemed like the shattered pieces of Western civilization in the wake of Nazi barbarism. It is its vast scope, its capacious overview, that gives it its power."--Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "More than sixty years after Gilbert Highet's book first appeared, it remains the best single guide to the whole afterlife of Greek and Latin literature. The Classical Tradition does full justice to the complexity of this millenial story: Highet shows us both how ancient books shaped later readers, and how medieval and modern writers used classical elements to build their own, distinctive literatures. Learned, epigrammatic, and humanely opinionated, Highet's book is as readable as it is comprehensive."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsForeword ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The Dark Ages: English Literature ; Chapter 3: The Middle Ages: French Literature ; Chapter 4: Dante and Pagan Antiquity ; Chapter 5: Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer ; Chapter 6: The Renaissance: Translation ; Chapter 7: The Renaissance: Drama ; Chapter 8: The Renaissance: Epic ; Chapter 9: The Renaissance: Pastoral and Romance ; Chapter 10: Rabelais and Montaigne ; Chapter 11: Shakespeare ; Chapter 12: The Renaissance and Afterwards: Lyric Poetry ; Chapter 13: Transition ; Chapter 14: The Battle of the Books ; Chapter 15: A Note on Baroque
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Oxford University Press Grief of Influence
Book SynopsisThroughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath''s and Hughes''s marriage, few have undertaken a systematic intertextual analysis of the poets'' work. The Grief of Influence reappraises this extraordinary literary partnership, and shows that the aesthetic and ideological similarities that provided a foundation for Plath''s and Hughes''s creative marriage - such as their mutual fascination with D. H. Lawrence and motifs of violence and war - intensified their artistic rivalry. Through close readings of both poets'' work and analysis of new archival sources, Clark reveals for the first time how extensively Plath borrowed from Hughes and Hughes borrowed from Plath. She also explores the transatlantic dynamics of Plath''s and Hughes''s ''colonial'' marriage within the context of the 1950s Anglo-American poetryTrade ReviewHeather Clark has given the story a new twist ... chapters on Hughes and the late Plath are excellently done. They document vividly and with scholarly authority how creatively involved the couple were with each other. * John Xiros Cooper, Notes and Queries *The range of Clark's comparative approach is impressive... Clark writes with admirable clarity and perspicacity, and offers a study that is both broad and deep; it is testament to the poise, grace, and generosity of this book that it might work as an introduction to Plath and Hughes's work for an undergraduate or a careful refinement of an ongoing debate. * William May, English *Clark's lucid and meticulous project traces the poets' careers through a series of shared concerns ... before exploring the way they continually 'remade' each other throughout the careers, and posthumously. ... The range of Clark's comparative approach is impressive here ... Clark writes with admirable clarity and perspicacity, and offers a study that is both broad and deep; it is a testament to the poise, grace, and generosity of this book that it might work as an introduction to Plath and Hughes's work for an undergraduate or a careful refinement of an ongoing debate. * William May, English *a significant book ... Clark not only clarifies the troubled relationship between Hughes and Plath, but also advances our ideas about how to understand literary influence, especially among artistic couples ... appreciated by students of Hughes and Plath, who will gain myriad new insights about the two. * Diederik Oostdijk, English Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. Affinities and Assimilations ; 2. Secret Anxieties ; 3. The Other Two ; 4. Colonial Contexts ; 5. The Early Dialogue ; 6. Disarming the Enemy ; 7. Tracking the Thought-Fox ; 8. Hughes's Plath ; 9. Crow and Counter-revision ; 10. The Old Factory Demolished: Wodwo to Moortown ; 11. Fixed Stars: Birthday Letters ; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxford University Press, USA The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry
Book SynopsisThirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the United States and continental Europe.The Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in toto, a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates, and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an important point of reference for decades to come.Trade Review...Kendall has assembled a wide range of fresh and important critical persepctives of a remarkably high quality. * Tom Walker The Cambridge Quarterly *Kendall has assembled a wide range of fresh and important critical perspectives of a remarkably high quality. * Tom Walker, Cambridge Quarterly *If a definitive edition of Great War poetry criticism were possible, then this would be it... a vast scholarly effort... a large and rich achievement, with an infectious quality of 'browsability'... it addresses an academic need ambitiously and comprehensively. * James Bridges, Ivor Gurney Society Journal *...the real quality of most of the essays. Again and again they are illuminating, thoughtful, and challenging. The array of contributors that Kendall has assembled is stellar, and the result a fine collection, one that will reward turning to again and again. * Janis P. Stout, Review of English Studies *...for the non-specialist, this Handbook acts as a master-class in the reading and understanding of the works considered, whether familiar or not. For the specialists, it promises a never-ending source for debate... For once I have to agree with the publisher's claim that this Handbook 'is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and forthose interested in wider debates about modern poetry.' I should add that it provides much of value to the non-academic also. * David Page, Kipling Journal *rich and wide-ranging... a thorough, inclusive, and invaluable guide to the field, combining accessible and informative overviews with the original and insightful research. * Jo Gill, Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsBEGINNINGS ; THE GREAT WAR ; ENTRE DEUX GUERRES ; THE SECOND WORLD WAR ; CONTINUITIES IN MODERN WAR POETRY ; 'POST-WAR' POETRY ; NORTHERN IRELAND
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Oxford University Press Self Impression
Book SynopsisI am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.'' Paul Valéry, Moi.Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late nineteenth century and uses the term ''autobiografiction'' - discovered in a surprisingly early essay of 1906 - to provide a fresh perspective on turn-of-the-century literature, and to propose a radically new literary history of Modernism. Saunders offers a taxonomy of the extraordinary variety of experiments with life-writing, demonstrating how they arose in the nineteenth century as the pressures of secularization and psychological theory disturbed the categories of biography and autobiography, in works by authors such as Pater, Ruskin, Proust, ''Mark Rutherford'', George Gissing, and A. C. Benson. He goes on to look at writers experimenting further with autobiografiction as Impressionism turns into Modernism, juxtaposing detailed and vivacious readings of key Modernist texts by Joyce, Stein, Pound, and Woolf, with explorations of the work of other authors - including H. G. Wells, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Wyndham Lewis - whose experiments with life-writing forms are no less striking. The book concludes with a consideration of the afterlife of these fascinating experiments in the postmodern literature of Nabokov, Lessing, and Byatt.Self Impression sheds light on a number of significant but under-theorized issues; the meanings of ''autobiographical'', the generic implications of literary autobiography, and the intriguing relation between autobiography and fiction in the period.Trade Reviewvery wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating ... Conspicuous in its originality ... an outstanding contribution * The Pater Newsletter *Saunders's account ... is the most important recent contribution to the genealogy of modern literature ... The paradoxy of autobiografiction never disorients him; rather, it inspires plentiful pithy wisdom in a book that seems to end every paragraph aphoristically. Theory and history, history and form get their due recognition, and the book as a whole is an apt and exciting tribute to its subject, capable of everything necessary to prove that life-writing has meant everything to literary modernity. * Jesse Matz, Modern Language Quarterly *fascinating study * William Baker, Years Work in English Studies *Overall, this is a hugely impressive enterprise, in which Saunders wears his formidable erudition and theoretical expertise gracefully and wittily. * Andrew Radford, Years Work in English Studies *It is likely to become a major critical resource, not just for research on early twentieth-century life-writing, but also as part of the ongoing revision of the whole century's literary history. * Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement *a remarkable book, in its length, its historical range (Pater to Byatt) and its fluid genre crossings... Saunders explores the relationship of autobiography to fiction in general, the relationship of the synthetic category 'autobiografiction' to modernism, and by so doing gives us an unusually unified account of modernism... The sheer weight of research and knowledge is astonishing and lightly, even conversationally, worn; Saunders seems to have read every fiction, auto-fiction and pseudo-fiction from the last 150 years... Too many excellent features of this magisterial book can be mentioned only in passing * Review of English Studies *Saunders can rearrange the familiar landmarks of modernist prehistory to fit an entire tradition of imaginary autobiography that has been occluded or marginalised by the grand narrative of modernisms impersonality... its new readings of well-known authors and works are dazzling; its new scholarship on unknown or little-known authors and works is fascinating. It revitalises the old literary-historical category of the transition (that is, from Victorian to modern, 1880-1920) * Australian Book Review *Saunders' mode of presentation is very precise and sharp... a very important book for the discussion of the relationship between Modernism and Life-Writing. * Yata Keiji, Virginia Woolf Review *A breathtakingly comprehensive study... Self Impression is an important book that will inspire further work on life-writing in the modern period... Recent publications provide other examples of books that call out for the application of Saunders's approach. The first volume of the complete and authoritative edition of the Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published... Once again, we are in the realm of autobiografiction that Saunders has so brilliantly mapped out. * English Literature in Transition *compendious in the best sense of the term... Saunders's knowledge of, and ability to critique with extraordinary critical sensitivity, the wide swathes of European literature is remarkable. Even more impressive is his handling of the intricate filaments which bind these texts together, which make them constantly mutually allusive. This makes for a constant fascination... It is a measure of the depth of thinking in this book that the complexities of autobiographical modes and the relevance of the category of impressionism, while compelling in themselves, tend to recede and to be replaced by larger questions. Who am I when I write? Who am I when I read? What is it like to be 'carried away' by a book?... These are questions which, as Saunders delicately puts it, have been raised in one form or another by de Man, Hartman, Derrida; but here they receive a rare depth and range of articulation which puts flesh on the bones of abstract argument * David Punter, Modern Language Review *Self Impression remains a remarkable achievement, laying the foundation for future studies of life-writing genres and their relationship to fiction; it provides us with the critical tools and methodologies that will diversify our understanding of life-writing genres and their evolving place in literary history.' * Journal of Victorian Culture *wide-ranging and consequential new account of British literature from 1870 to 1930 ... In modernism, as Saunders demonstrates in impressive detail, we may find an astonishing variety of experimental interactions between biography, autobiography, fiction, and criticism ... With this vast body of evidence, quoted generously and treated expertly, Saunders makes a compelling case for reading modernism as a discourse of im/personality. [One of] two exceedingly good books - stimulating in their arguments, rich in attention to literary and scholarly detail, and engagingly written. * Adam Parkes, Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsPART I: MODERN IRONISATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN-DE-SIECLE PRECURSORS; PART II: MODERNIST AUTO/BIOGRAFICTION; CONCLUSION
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Oxford University Press, USA Mignons Afterlives Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisBy tracing the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe''s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Terence Cave explores a phenomenal success story in the history of literature and music, and more broadly of cultural history. Mignon steps out of the shadow of its protagonist Wilhelm and fashions a destiny of her own: she becomes the object of an obsessive interest that reached its peak in the later nineteenth century but continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century. Mignon reappears - often as a character bearing a different name but sharing an unmistakable family resemblance with her - in a wide range of different literary works from Goethe himself via the German Romantic Novel, Mme de Staël, George Sand, Nerval and Baudelaire, Walter Scott and George Eliot to Gerhart Hauptmann and Angela Carter. Her songs, set by dozens of composers from Reichardt and Beethoven to Wolf, reverberated through the drawing-rooms and concert-halls of nineteenth-century Europe. She is the heroine of the most popular French opera of the late nineteenth century, and she has featured in a number of films. She is fascinating because she is poised on the threshold between childhood and adolescence, aphasia and expressive power, words and music; she is a wanderer who has lost her home, an exile who has been abducted and abused; and the many stories in which her life is reenacted provide a litmus test for key cultural values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Trade Reviewdelightfully informative, leisurely, and sophisticated ... the scope of the investigation is impressively broad * David Baguley, French Studies *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION
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Oxford University Press G. K. Chesterton
Book SynopsisG. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the innovative novel, The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, and above all Newman. Chesterton''s achievement as one of the great English literary critics has not hitherto been fully recognized, perhaps because his best literary criticism is of prose rather than poetry. Ian Ker remedies this neglect, paying particular attention to Chesterton''s writings on the Victorians, especially Dickens. As a social and political thinker, Chesterton is contrasted here with contemporary intellectuals like Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in his championing of democracy and the masses. Pre-eminently a controversialist, as revealed in his prolific journalistic output, heTrade ReviewIan Kers magisterial new biographical of Chesterto nwill now do for Chesterton what his definitive biography of Newman did for hima major literary achievement. Nobody who has any interest in Chesterton can afford to be without Ian Kers book * William Oddie, The Catholic Herald *This masterly biography has the potential to help establish Chesterton in what Ker regards as his rightful place as a major English author * Susan Elkin, The Independent on Sunday24/04/2011 *Ian Kers tremendous biography is an incitement to read Chesterton a fresh[it] confirms him as a great thinker * Christopher Howse, The Tablet *A discriminating portrait that does welcome justice to the full richness of [Chestertons] hitherto undervalued work the need for a proper critical biography has long been acknowledged and Ker has supplied itfor any true understanding of the scope of Chestertons achievement Kers biography will be indispensable. * Edward Short, The Weekly Standard *A brilliant towering biography * Gary Day, The Times Higher Educational Supplement *Chesterton finally gets the big book he deserves a monumental study * Gerald J. Russello, The National Catholic Register *Heroically researched.. an impressive book that conveys a powerful sense of [Chestertons] personality * Dj Taylor, The Independent *magisterial a splendid book * James E. Peson Jr., Touchstone *This full-length scholarly biography will be indispensable for decades * Richard Harries, The Church Times *Professor Ker's spirited and double-barreled attempt at a rehabilitation of his cherished subject is enjoyable in its own right, and takes in such matters as Chesterton's dialectical genius for paradox, the authority of the Father Brown stories in the detective genre, and the salience of Charles Dickens in the English canonical one * Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic *Magnificent * Irish Catholic *Detailed and compelling * Chronicle of Higher Education *... comprehensive biolography ... * The Lutheran *Spirited and ... enjoyable * The Atlantic *[This] terrific new biography.... gives us a portrait of the man in the full.... Any biography of this size is bound to have some elements of dry, encyclopedic chronology; but in Ker's book, they are far more the exception than the rule. On just about every page, one will find extended quotes from Chesterton, of the kind that display his personality and overall joie de vivre. The author made me rediscover my early love of Chesterton and his perspective on the world, and for that I am deeply grateful * Michael Potemra, National Review Online *Ian Ker provides an account of the thought of Chesterton that surpasses, in its comprehensiveness, anything that has been previously written about him * Bernard Manzo, Times Literary Supplement *Handles a complex subject with admirable lucidity. Mastering Chesterton's output is a heroic feat in itself * Peter Washington, Literary Review *Full of colossal wit, wisdom, and common sense...that is this magnificent book * Catholic Times *There are many fine things in Kers biography. Surely the best is found in his constant stress on the link between the comic and the serious in Chesterton. * Ralph C Wood, Seven *This is a brilliant biography for a brilliant man. * Times Higher Education *Rewarding biography * Tribune *Superb...absorbing * Piers Paul Read, Standpoint *Reveals valuable new information * The Times *Magisterial * Matthew D'Ancona, Sunday Telegraph *[A] masterful biography. Ker... has now become the most important source we have for understanding the master of paradox [Chesterton]... Ker's biography is essential, a labor of love to be sure * America *A big man, physically and intellectually, British Catholic author Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) finally gets the big book he deserves.... a monumental study * National Catholic Register *Ker is supremely capable of locating Chesterton's thought amid that of his contemporaries as well as evaluating it critically. . . . What his biography adds is a judicious critical eye that will help make the case that Chesterton is bigger than the keepers of culture have allowed * National Review *There are some genuinely good books on Chesterton. . . But the need for a proper critical biography has long been acknowledged, and Ker has supplied it. Now, and for the foreseeable future, for any true understanding of the scope of G.K. Chesterton's achievement, which captures not only the sage but the good, gentle, generous man, Ker's biography will be indispensable. * The Weekly Standard *For the sheer life-affirming, joyful Chesterton constantly bursts through the relentless narrative and there is much to discover as well as much to enjoy in the corpulence of this book * Recusant History *Ker's biography is indispensable for anyone who admires Chesterton's work and is interested in his life. * Commonweal *This biography is a necessity for any student of Chesterton * Towers *Ker has produced one of those rare biographies that is full of detailed information and personal anecdotes while never losing the author's original goal. We cannot recommend this volume too highly * The Master's Seminary Journal *Make the case that Chesterton is bigger than the keepers of culture have allowed * National Review *Table of Contents1. The Early Years ; 2. Publishing and Engagement ; 3. Marriage and Fame ; 4. Controversy ; 5. Dickens ; 6. Orthodoxy ; 7. Shaw and Beaconsfield ; 8. Father Brown and the Marconi Scandal ; 9. The Victorian Compromise and Illness ; 10. War and Travel ; 11. America and Conversation ; 12. The Everlasting Man ; 13. Distributism and Apologetics ; 14. Rome and America Again ; 15. The Last Years
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Oxford University Press Self Impression
Book SynopsisI am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.'' Paul Valéry, Moi.Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late nineteenth century and uses the term ''autobiografiction'' - discovered in a surprisingly early essay of 1906 - to provide a fresh perspective on turn-of-the-century literature, and to propose a radically new literary history of Modernism. Saunders offers a taxonomy of the extraordinary variety of experiments with life-writing, demonstrating how they arose in the nineteenth centTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Saunders's account ... is the most important recent contribution to the genealogy of modern literature ... The paradoxy of autobiografiction never disorients him; rather, it inspires plentiful pithy wisdom in a book that seems to end every paragraph aphoristically. Theory and history, history and form get their due recognition, and the book as a whole is an apt and exciting tribute to its subject, capable of everything necessary to prove that life-writing has meant everything to literary modernity. * Jesse Matz, Modern Language Quarterly *Review from previous edition It is likely to become a major critical resource, not just for research on early twentieth-century life-writing, but also as part of the ongoing revision of the whole century's literary history. * Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement *very wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating ... Conspicuous in its originality ... an outstanding contribution * The Pater Newsletter *a remarkable book, in its length, its historical range (Pater to Byatt) and its fluid genre crossings... Saunders explores the relationship of autobiography to fiction in general, the relationship of the synthetic category 'autobiografiction' to modernism, and by so doing gives us an unusually unified account of modernism... The sheer weight of research and knowledge is astonishing and lightly, even conversationally, worn; Saunders seems to have read every fiction, auto-fiction and pseudo-fiction from the last 150 years... Too many excellent features of this magisterial book can be mentioned only in passing * Review of English Studies *Saunders can rearrange the familiar landmarks of modernist prehistory to fit an entire tradition of imaginary autobiography that has been occluded or marginalised by the grand narrative of modernisms impersonality... its new readings of well-known authors and works are dazzling; its new scholarship on unknown or little-known authors and works is fascinating. It revitalises the old literary-historical category of the transition (that is, from Victorian to modern, 1880-1920) * Australian Book Review *Saunders' mode of presentation is very precise and sharp... a very important book for the discussion of the relationship between Modernism and Life-Writing. * Yata Keiji, Virginia Woolf Review *A breathtakingly comprehensive study... Self Impression is an important book that will inspire further work on life-writing in the modern period... Recent publications provide other examples of books that call out for the application of Saunders's approach. The first volume of the complete and authoritative edition of the Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published... Once again, we are in the realm of autobiografiction that Saunders has so brilliantly mapped out. * English Literature in Transition *compendious in the best sense of the term... Saunders's knowledge of, and ability to critique with extraordinary critical sensitivity, the wide swathes of European literature is remarkable. Even more impressive is his handling of the intricate filaments which bind these texts together, which make them constantly mutually allusive. This makes for a constant fascination... It is a measure of the depth of thinking in this book that the complexities of autobiographical modes and the relevance of the category of impressionism, while compelling in themselves, tend to recede and to be replaced by larger questions. Who am I when I write? Who am I when I read? What is it like to be 'carried away' by a book?... These are questions which, as Saunders delicately puts it, have been raised in one form or another by de Man, Hartman, Derrida; but here they receive a rare depth and range of articulation which puts flesh on the bones of abstract argument * David Punter, Modern *wide-ranging and consequential new account of British literature from 1870 to 1930 ... In modernism, as Saunders demonstrates in impressive detail, we may find an astonishing variety of experimental interactions between biography, autobiography, fiction, and criticism ... With this vast body of evidence, quoted generously and treated expertly, Saunders makes a compelling case for reading modernism as a discourse of im/personality. [One of] two exceedingly good books - stimulating in their arguments, rich in attention to literary and scholarly detail, and engagingly written. * Adam Parkes, Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsPART I: MODERN IRONISATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN-DE-SIECLE PRECURSORS; PART II: MODERNIST AUTO/BIOGRAFICTION; CONCLUSION
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Oxford University Press, USA Russia in Britain 18801940
Book SynopsisRussia in Britain offers the first comprehensive account of the breadth and depth of the British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture, tracing its transformative effect on British intellectual life from the 1880s, the decade which saw the first sustained interest in Russian literature, to 1940, the eve of the Soviet Union''s entry into the Second World War. By focusing on the role played by institutions, disciplines and groups, libraries, periodicals, government agencies, concert halls, publishing houses, theatres, and film societies, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to highlight the role of a small number of individuals, notably Sergei Diaghilev, Constance Garnett, Theodore Komisarjevsky, Katherine Mansfield, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf. Drawing on recent research and newly available archives, Russia in Britain shifts attention from individual figures to the networks within which they operated,Table of ContentsIntroduction ; "For God, for Tsar, and for Fatherland!" Russians on the British Stage from Napoleon to the Great War ; Oscar Wilde's Vera; or The Nihilists ; Britain and the International Tolstoyan Movement ; The Free Russian Library in London, 1898-1917 ; 'Avert Your Eyes and Hold Your Noses': Non-Chekhovian Russian and Soviet Drama on the British Stage, 1900-1940 ; Tsar's Hall: Russian Music in London, 1895-1926 ; Le Sacre du printemps in London: The Politics of Embodied Freedom in Early Modern Dance and Suffragette Protest ; Russian Aesthetics in Britain: Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm' ; Reading Russian: Russian Studies and the Literary Canon ; The Translation of Soviet Literature: John Rodker and PresLit ; Russia and the British Intellectuals: The Significance of the Stalin-Wells Talk ; British Film Culture and Soviet Cinema ; Soviet Films and British intelligence in the 1930s: The Case of Kino Films and MI5 ; Afterword: A Time and a Place for Everything: On Russia, Britain, and Being Modern
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Oxford University Press Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake
Book SynopsisThis book is a critical introduction to Finnegans Wake and its genesis. As well as offering a survey of critical, scholarly and theoretical approaches to Joyce''s masterpiece, it analyses in detail the compositional development of certain key passages which describe the artist (Shem) and his project; the river-mother (ALP) and her ''first kiss''; the Oedipal shooting of the universal father (HCE) by the priestly son (Shaun); and the bewitching and curious daughter (Issy). The analyses demonstrate ''genetic'' ways of reading the text which illustrate its immense range and playfulness and how these qualities were generated in composition. As well as opening up the densely detailed textuality of the Wake in all its multiplicity, Fordham argues for a relation between the way the text was formed and key aspects of its thematic content: an uprising of particularity and detail against universality, absolutes and generality. The proliferation of individuated textual details overwhelm any unitaTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Sophisticated, erudite, and elegant... it is clear that we have here one of those landmark works on Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Among its many accomplishments Fordham's book demonstrates to a wide audience the procedure and potential productivity of genetic criticism and shows how this approach both stimulates and authorizes new ways of reading the Wake. The readings themselves are a marvelously layered consideration of words, sentences, and passages that illuminate how meaning becomes enlarged, complicated, shifted by revision. At the same time Fordham tracks a complex and fascinating thesis with theoretical implications. A brilliant job and lots of fun to boot. * Margot Norris, The James Joyce Literary Supplement *Fordham's book is one of the most engaging and original studies of Finnegans Wake to appear in a very long time...Fordham has done Joyce's readers a great service by opening up this Pandora's box of inquiry. * Jed Deppman, Review of English Studies *Fordham provides readings of Joyce's language with an improvisational air that belies the sheer erudition informing his writing. Like the Wake itself, there are flashes of insight and brilliance. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Wonderful. It does the most difficult thing - it renders the book more interesting without making it (or Joyce) sound too coherent. It has been really illuminating for me, a great pleasure to read. * Adam Phillips, General Editor of the Penguin Freud *Certainly one of the best books on the Wake yet published, Lots of Fun is no heavy-handed guidebook or querimonious, would-be summary, but something far more enjoyable and useful: an attempt to experience the Wake on and with its own terms. * Tim Conley, James Joyce Quarterly *A brilliant study of Joyce's drafting of Finnegans Wake, interesting for its own sake and offering an illuminating approach to reading the text. One of the best books on the Wake to have appeared in the last decade or two, it will appeal to all students of Joyce's work. The introduction will be valuable for those who are new to the Wake, but those who know it well will also find Finn Fordham's able survey extremely useful. * Derek Attridge *excellent introduction...a commendably open and fluid approach...organically amenable to Joyce's own theory and practice of composition...the principles of genetic criticism are ably demonstrated here, and the value of this method is vouchsafed by Fordham's energetic and scholarly analysis...Fordham [proposes] the idea of character function...a subtle and supple approach, which stays faithful to the linguistic ebb and flow of Joyce's tragicomic heteroglossia. Thanks to the sterling work of Finn Fordham...Finnegans Wake is a garden in which a few more of us may play. * Keith Hopper, Notes and Queries, vol.56, no. 2, 303-6. *Finn Fordham has given us an important and major new study of Finnegans Wake, one that investigates the book with unparalleld intensity and in a brilliantly unique way. Among its many other accomplishments, Fordham's work contributes powerfully to the renewed upsurge of interest in what Helen Vendler has called "the art of close reading", offering its reader both a compelling defence of the practice and a brilliant exemplification of its exercise. Finn Fordham is a great and electrifying reader. No one else reads the Wake with quite the same kind of depth or intensity...This is a book that should appeal to and reward both the seasoned reader of the Wake and the novice... Its genetic exegeses are mind-widening and fun... [It] is a powerful and thought-provoking new study, one that will stimulate and reward any interested reader of the book. This is first-rate and important work. * John Bishop, James Joyce Broadsheet *Table of ContentsPART I; PART II; PART III; PART IV
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Oxford University Press When Did Indians Become Straight
Book SynopsisWhen Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between sexual mores and shifting forms of Native American self-representation. It offers a cultural and literary history that stretches from the early-nineteenth century to the early-twenty-first century, demonstrating how Euramerican and Native writers have drawn on discourses of sexuality in portraying Native peoples and their sovereignty.Trade ReviewWhen did Indians become straight? When we started pretending to be, with and without the help of those who would straighten us. Let's stop pretending or let's get crooked and pretend something better. Let's read Mark Rifkin's book that combines the best of historical inquiry, literary/theoretical analysis, and thinking outside straight lines in ways that confront us with the power of deviant views of familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts and policies. * Craig Womack, author of Drowning in Fire *A fabulously original work! Two of America's leading authorities on Black Language and Culture draw on their expertise and extensive scholarship to profoundly reshape the national conversation on race by languaging it. In complicating compliments about President Obama's "articulateness," they brilliantly analyze his artful use of language and America's response to it as a springboard to consider larger, thought-provoking questions about language, education, power and what Toni Morrison has referred to as "the cruel fallout of racism." Few sociolinguists tackle these complex issues with as much insight, sophistication, and downright directness as Alim and Smitherman. As they firmly conclude, it's time to change the game - and this book does just that. * John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University, and co-author of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English *In asking 'When did Indians become straight?', Mark Rifkin isn't simply being provocative: he's setting the critical foundation for what is undoubtedly the most incisive, well-researched, respectful, and thoroughly engaging study of sexuality and gender in American Indian literature, and one of the best works of criticism in the field in recent years. * Daniel Heath Justice, Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto *The ideas contained in Rifkin's book are fresh, provocative, and vital to understanding the American past, present and future. * LeftEyeOnBooks.com *When Did Indians Become Straight? is a groundbreaking study of the uses of the native in the making of critical theory and national belonging. * Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies, Columbia University *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
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Oxford University Press T. S. Eliot
Book SynopsisThe twentieth century''s most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer-forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. In this compelling exploration, prize-winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of Eliot''s full corpus. He illuminates a paradoxical Eliot--an exacting anti-romantic realist, skeptical of the emotions, yet incessantly troubled by the fear of emotional failure--through close readings of his poetry, with extended analyses of Eliot''s two master works--The Waste Land and Four Quartets. Raine also examines Eliot''s criticism--including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative, dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination, and his biography, crafting a book that provides a concise introduction for beginners and a provocative set of arguments for Eliot admirers.Trade ReviewThe book is excellent on the influence on Eliot of Jules Laforge, and has a poet's astute ear for the stray effects of sound and syntax. * Terry Eagleton, Prospect *The most attractive quality of Raine's mind, in this book, is its vivacity, its enthusiasm, its racy pleasure in turning aside to compare a detail in Eliot with something in Nabokov, Kundera or Lawrence. * Denis Donoghue, London Review of Books *a fabulous stimulating book, which marries old-fashioned literary criticism to pleasingly off-beam cultural allusions. * Ian Thomson, The Spectator *This book is an ingenious and convincing demonstration that Eliot is still the Old Possum: lying unassertively low, but anxiously aware that the disinterment of the buried life is an undeniable imperative. But most importantly, it shows perceptively why Eliot's poems work with their unique compulsiveness. * Bernard O'Donoghue, Literary Review *(Eliot's) existence is in his published work. This explains the strategy of Raine's short monograph - an intensely argued reading of the words on the published page. The exercise is done brilliantly. A poet himself, Raine is hyper alert to nuance. He has a sensitivity to literary echo rivalling that of the greatest living reader of Eliot, Christopher Ricks. * John Sutherland, Financial Times *There are authors who one would rather read about than read. T.S Eliot is not one of them, yet there is both pleasure and profit to be got from Craig Raine's new study of the poet. * John Bayley, Times Literary Supplement *Do we need another book about him? The answer, given Craig Raine's T.S. Eliot, is a strong 'Yes'. * Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times (Culture) *a sensitive, wide-ranging and stimulating piece of literary criticism * Sunday Telegraph *This is a thoughtful book on a thorny subject. * John Montague, Irish Times (Dublin) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Preface ; Introduction: Eliot and the Buried Life ; Chapter 1: The Failure to Live ; Chapter 2: Eliot as Classicist ; Chapter 3: The Waste Land ; Chapter 4: Four Quartets ; Chapter 5: The Drama ; Chapter 6: The Criticism ; Appendix 1: Eliot and Anti-Semitism ; Appendix 2: Two Free Translations by Craig Raine of 'Lune de Miel' and 'Dans le Restaurant' ; Appendix 3: An Eliot Chronology ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Works of Alain Locke
Book SynopsisThis book features a comprehensive collection of essays by Alain Locke (1885-1954), the most formidable African American public intellectual of his generation. It is by far the largest collection of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that spanned forty years. The range of the work covers an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy, literary criticism, art and music criticism, value theory, race, politics, and multiculturalism. His inquisitive mind, his refined taste and his pragmatic temperament brought him renown as the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance. But his contributions to many fields extended well beyond that remarkable period, to the very beginning of the civil rights movement. Locke''s standing among today''s readers will be secured through this presentation of his skillful writing and impressive thought. By virtue of his learning and his commitment to intellectual excellence, Locke can now be seen in the sweep of American culture. Here he can take his rigTrade ReviewMolesworth has compiled fascinating essays on art, aesthetics, race, and democracy written by Locke well before and after, not just during, his so-called deanship of the New Negro Renaissance in the 1920s. Anyone interested in Locke and his place in American intellectual history should read this book. * Gene Jarrett, author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature *Table of ContentsForeword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; Introduction ; Note on the Text and Acknowledgments ; I. Literature ; 1. On Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905) ; 2."The Romantic Movement As Expressed by John Keats" (1907) ; 3. "Emile Verhaeren" (1917) ; 4. "Colonial Literature of France" (1923) ; 5. "The Younger Literary Movement" (1923); co authored with Du Bois ; 6. Review of Countee Cullen's Color (1926) ; 7. Review of Langston Hughes The Weary Blues (1926) ; 8. Review of Langston Hughes' Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927) ; 9. "The Poetry of Negro Life" (Preface to Four Negro Poets, 1926) ; 10. "American Literary Tradition and the Negro"(1926) ; 11. Review of FIRE!!(1927) ; 12. "Message of the Negro Poets"(1927) ; 13. Foreword to Georgia Douglas Johnson's An Autumn Love Cycle (1928) ; 14 ."Both Sides of the Color Line" (Review of W. Thurman and J. Fauset (1929) ; 15. "Negro Minority in American Literature"(1946) ; II. Art, Drama and Music ; 1. "Steps Toward the Negro Theatre" (1922) ; 2. "A Note on African Art" (1924) ; 3. "The Negro Spirituals" (1925) ; 4. "More of the Negro in Art" (1925) ; 5. "The Negro and the American Stage" (1926) ; 6. "Drama of Negro Life" (1926) ; 7. "The Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection" (1927) ; 8. "The American Negro as Artist" (1931) ; 9. "Toward a Critique of Negro Music"(1934) ; 10. Excerpt from The Negro and His Music (1936) ; 11. Excerpt from Negro Art: Past and Present (1936) ; 12. "Negro Music Goes to Par" (1939) ; 13. "Broadway and Negro Drama" (1941) ; III. Esthetics ; 1. "Impressions of Luxor"(1923) ; 2. "Internationalism: Friend or Foe? (1925) ; 3. "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925) ; 4. "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" (1925) ; 5. "African Art: Classic Style" (1935) ; 6. "Negro in American Culture"(1929) ; 7. "Our Little Renaissance" (1927) ; 8. "Beauty Instead of Ashes" (1928) ; 9. "Art or Propaganda?" (1928) ; 10. "Beauty and the Provinces" (1929) ; 11. "Spiritual Truancy" (1928, on Claude McKay) ; 12. "Propaganda - or Poetry?" (1936) ; 13. "The Negro's Contribution to American Culture" (1939) ; IV. Race ; 1."Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations" (1915) ; 2. "Apropos of Africa" (1924) ; 3. "The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture" (1924) ; 4. "The Problem of Race Classification" (1923) ; 5. "Should the Negro be Encouraged to Cultural Equality" (1927) ; 6. "Contribution of Race to Culture" (1930) ; 7. "Slavery in the Modern Manner"(1931) ; 8. "Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane" (1936) ; 9. Foreword to Frederick Douglass's Life and Times(1940) ; 10. "Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary" (1944) ; 11. "The Negro in the Three Americas" (1944) ; A SPECIAL SECTION: ; When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Cultural Contacts (1942): Interchapters, written by Locke. ; V. Value and Culture ; 1. "Oxford by A Negro Student" (1909) ; 2."The American Temperament" (1911) ; 3. "The Ethics of Culture" (1923) ; 4. "The New Negro" (1925) ; 5. "Values and Imperatives" (1935) ; 6. "Value" (1935) ; 7. "A Functional View of Value Ultimates"(1945) ; 8. "Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension of Culture" (1950) ; 9. "Frontiers of Culture" (1950) ; 10. "Values That Matter" (Review of Perry, 1954) ; 11. "Freud and Scientific Morality" (n.d.) ; VI. Democracy ; 1. "The Mandate System: A New Code of Empire"(1927) ; 2. "The Negro Vote and the New Deal" (1936) ; 3. "Ballad for Democracy" (1940) ; 4. "Color: Unfinished Business of Democracy" (1942) ; 5. "Democracy Faces a World Order" (1942) ; 6. "Cultural Relativism and Ideological Peace"(1942) ; 7. "Moral Imperatives for World Order" (1944) ; 8. Review of Du Bois's Color and Democracy (1945) ; 9. "Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy" (1946) ; 10. "Pluralism and Ideological Peace"(1947) ; Index
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Oxford University Press Goddess of the Market
Book SynopsisWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand''s private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand''s journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought. Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand''s work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand''s Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968. One of the Denver Post''s Great Reads of 2009 One of Bloomberg News''s Top Nonfiction Books of 2009 Excellent. --Time magazine A terrific book--a serious consideration of Rand''s ideas, and her role in the conservative movement of the past three quarters of a century. --The American Thinker A wonderful book: beautifully written, completely balanced, extensively researched. The match between author and subject is so perfect that one might believe that the author was chosen by the gods to write this book. She has sympathy and affection for her subject but treats her as a human being, with no attempt to cover up the foibles. --Mises Economics BlogTrade ReviewBurns has crafted a superb biography that traces her influence, places Rand in historical context, avoids both condemnation and hagiography, and undercuts the view, fostered by Rand herself, that she was a self-created genius. * Lewis A. Erenberg, Journal of Historical Biography *a well researched and readable account of Objectivist philosophy, Rand's life and accounts of the sometimes misanthropic personalities if not the philosophy involved. * Martin Jenkins, Chartist *Burns contributes so much to understanding the philosophies behind Rand's literature, libertarian thinking, and the philosophical underpinnings of the American right, that this book is sure to be of interest to many. * John Krueckeberg, Literature & History *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Part I. The Education of Ayn Rand, 1905-1943 ; Ch. 1. From Russia to Roosevelt ; Ch. 2. Individualists of the World, Unite! ; Ch. 3. A New Credo of Freedom ; Part II. From Novelist to Philosopher, 1944-1957 ; Ch. 4. The Real Root of Evil ; Ch. 5. A Round Universe ; Part III. Who Is John Galt? 1957-1968 ; Ch. 6. Big Sister is Watching You ; Ch. 7. Radicals for Capitalism ; Ch. 8. Love is Exception Making ; Part IV. Legacies ; Ch. 9. It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand ; Epilogue Ayn Rand in American Memory ; Notes ; Essay on Sources ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction attempts to descry the historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic formation, it examines SF''s many lines of cross-pollination with technocultural realities since its inception in the nineteenth century, showing how SF''s unique history and subcultural identity has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology. The volume consists of four broadly themed sections, each divided into eleven chapters. Section I, Science Fiction as Genre, considers the internal history of SF literature, examining its characteristic aesthetic and ideological modalities, its animating social and commercial institutions, and its relationship to other fantastic genres. Section II, Science Fiction as Medium, presents a more diverse and ramified understanding of what constitutes the field as a mode of artistic and pop-cultural expression, canvassTable of ContentsContributors ; Introduction ; Part I. Science Fiction as Genre ; 1. "Extrapolation and Speculation" ; Brooks Landon ; 2. "Aesthetics" ; Peter Stockwell ; 3. "Histories" ; Arthur B. Evans ; 4. "Literary Movements" ; Gary K. Wolfe ; 5. "Fandom" ; Farah Mendlesohn ; 6. "The Marketplace" ; Gary Westfahl ; 7. "Pulp Science Fiction" ; Jess Nevins ; 8. "Literary Science Fiction" ; Joan Gordon ; 9. "Slipstream" ; Victoria de Zwaan ; 10. "The Fantastic" ; Brian Attebery ; 11. "Genre vs. Mode" ; Veronica Hollinger ; Part II. Science Fiction as Medium ; 12. "Film" ; Mark Bould ; 13. "Radio and Television" ; J.P. Telotte ; 14. "Animation" ; Paul Wells ; 15. "Art and Illustration" ; Jerome Winter ; 16. "Comics" ; Corey Creekmur ; 17. "Video Games" ; Pawe? Frelik ; 18. "Digital Arts and Hypertext" ; James Tobias ; 19. "Music" ; John Cline ; 20. "Performance Art" ; Steve Dixon ; 21. "Architecture" ; Nic Clear ; 22. "Theme Parks" ; Leonie Cooper ; Part III. Science Fiction as Culture ; 23. "The Culture of Science" ; Sherryl Vint ; 24. "Automation" ; Roger Luckhurst ; 25. "Military Culture" ; Steffen Hantke ; 26. "Atomic Culture and the Space Race" ; David Seed ; 27. "UFOs, Scientology, and Other SF Religions" ; Gregory L. Reece ; 28. "Advertising and Design" ; Jonathan M. Woodham ; 29. "Countercultures" ; Rob Latham ; 30. "Sexuality" ; Patricia Melzer ; 31. "Body Modification" ; Ross Farnell ; 32. "Cyberculture" ; Thomas Foster ; 33. "Retrofuturism and Steampunk" ; Elizabeth Guffey and Kate C. Lemay ; Part IV. Science Fiction as Worldview ; 34. "The Enlightenment" ; Adam Roberts ; 35. "The Gothic" ; William Hughes ; 36. "Darwinism" ; Patrick B. Sharp ; 37. "Colonialism and Postcolonialism" ; John Rieder ; 38. "Pseudoscience" ; Anthony Enns ; 39. "Futurology" ; Andrew M. Butler ; 40. "Posthumanism" ; Colin Milburn ; 41. "Feminism" ; Lisa Yaszek ; 42. "Libertarianism and Anarchism" ; Neil Easterbrook ; 43. "Afrofuturism" ; De Witt Douglas Kilgore ; 44. "Utopianism" ; Phillip E. Wegner
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Oxford University Press Marcel Proust
Book SynopsisLeo Bersani is an eminent literary critic whose influential work spans half a century. His vast, in many ways unclassifiable, oeuvre has traversed and blurred the boundaries of the disciplines of modern French literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, art history, film theory, philosophical aesthetics, and masculinity studies and sexuality studies. Oxford University Press published Bersani''s first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print. This new edition comes in response to a recent renewal of interest among philosophers of literature, among others, and features a new preface from the author.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Chapter One ; Fantasies of the Self and the World ; I. "Je n'etais plus qu'un coeur qui battait" ; II. Self-effacement and self-projection ; III. The vulnerable self and its many deaths ; Chapter Two ; The Anguish and Inspiration of Jealousy ; I. The mystery of other people's desires ; II. Jealousy and the tortured imagination ; III. Strategies to immobilize the "etres de fuite," and "les joies de la solitude" ; IV. From the lover's anguish to the novelist's possessions ; Chapter Three ; The Language of Love ; I. The loved one's absence from the lover's desires ; II. The self as an "appareil vide": a critique of psychological analysis ; III. The "notes fondamentales" from the perspective of memory: psychological analysis reinstated ; IV. The monologue of love as a dialogue ; V. The merging of fantasy and realism ; Chapter Four ; Social Contexts: Observation and Invention ; I. The aristocracy's glamor ; II. Society as a work of art: the poetry of the past ; III. Reflections of Marcel's psychology in the social world ; IV. "Le royaume du neant" ; V. Variety of characterization and the general laws ; VI. Marcel the character and Proust the author ; Chapter Five ; Marcel's Vocation ; I. The artist and the "residu reel" of personality ; II. Involuntary memory and the work of art ; III. The "accent" of individuality in literary style ; IV. Metaphor: "les surfaces sont devenues reflechissantes" ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press Digital Modernism
Book SynopsisDigital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy. Exemplary cases show electronic literature looking back to modernism for inspiration and source material (in content, form, and ideology) through which to critique contemporary culture. In so doing, this literature renews and reframes, rather than rejects, a literary tradition that it also reconfigures to center around media. To support her argument, Pressman pairs modernist works by Pound, Joyce, and Bob Brown, with major digital works like William Poundstone''s Project for the Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit] (2005), Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries''s Dakota, and Judd Morrissey''s The Jew''s Daughter. With each pairing, she demonstrates how the modernist moveTrade ReviewDigital Modernisms not only exposes the self-consciousness of media on both twentieth-century and digital modernist texts, but demonstrates how close study of electronic literature can provide a framework for those seeking to reflect on older "reading technologies". * Stephanie Boland, Times Literary Supplement *Jessica Pressman's Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media is an impressive accomplishment. * Emily Christina Murphy, SHARP News *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1 - Close Reading: Marshall McLuhan, From Modernism to Media Studies ; Chapter 2 - Reading Machines: Machine Poetry and Excavatory Reading in William Poundstone's Electronic Literature and Bob Brown's Readies ; Chapter 3 - Speed Reading: Super-Position and Simultaneity in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota and Ezra Pound's Cantos ; Chapter 4 - Reading the Database: Narrative, Database, and Stream of Consciousness ; Chapter 5 - Reading Code: The Hallucination of Universal Language from Modernism to Cyberspace ; Coda - Rereading: Digital Modernism in Print, Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions
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Oxford University Press American Modernism and Depression Documentary
Book SynopsisAmerican Modernism and Depression Documentary surveys the uneven terrain of American modernity through the lens of the documentary book. Jeff Allred argues that photo-texts of the 1930s stage a set of mediations between rural hinterlands and metropolitan areas, between elite producers of culture and the forgotten man of Depression-era culture, between a myth of consensual national unity and various competing ethnic and regional collectivities. In light of the complexity this entails, this study takes issue with a critical tradition that has painted the ^documentary expression of the 1930s as a simplistic and propagandistic divergence from literary modernism. Allred situates these texts, and the documentary modernism they represent, as a central part of American modernism and response to American modernity, as he looks at the impoverished sharecroppers depcited in the groundbreaking Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the disenfranchised African Americans in Richard Wright''s polemical 12 MilTrade ReviewAllred's work is well supported by detailed analysis of Depression-era photos and text. Recommended. * Choice *Rather than a critique of a genre, we are presented with a redefinition of form, content, and, most importantly, the daunting import that expressive creativity exercised during a major historical period in the making of America. We are persuaded that what we have critically encoded as 'them' or 'they' turns out to be, definitively, 'we' or 'us.' Old distinctions between the masses and the rest of us are eradicated. Allred's reading of Richard Wright and the 'knot' of race is brilliant. * Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University *Allred's book offers an impressive new take on the Depression-era documentary that dispenses with the sentimentality and commitment to realism that surrounds much criticism of this genre. More significantly, he offers a way to read documentary not as an interruption of modernist experimentation, but as an integral part of it. * Susan Hegeman, University of Florida *American Modernism and Depression Documentary is a stirring investigation of the 'aesthetics of interruption' of 1930s-era documentary books. In sparkling, incisive, and lapidary prose, Jeff Allred luminously navigates the fissure between modernism and documentary forms, eloquently accentuating the tension between the photographic image and the surrounding text in the framework of the politics and culture of the Great Depression. * Alan Wald, University of Michigan *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction: Plausible Fictions of the Real ; Chapter One: From <"Culture>" to <"Cultural Work>": Literature and Labor Between the Wars ; Chapter Two: The Road to Somewhere: Locating Knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You Have Seen Their Faces (1937) ; Chapter Three: Moving Violations: Stasis and Mobility in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) ; Chapter Four: From Eye to We: Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices, Documentary, and Pedagogy ; Chapter Five: <"We Americans>": Henry Luce, Life, and the Mind-Guided Camera ; Epilogue: Depression Documentary and the Knot of History ; Works Cited ; Index
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Vintage Publishing Eliot After The Waste Land
Book SynopsisRobert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including two major biographies of T.S. Eliot: Young Eliot and Eliot After The Waste Land. Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Trade ReviewExcellent... Full of voices, friendships and conflicts, Crawford's book is rich and dense as Christmas cake... [An] outstanding biography. -- Sean O'Brien * Daily Telegraph, *5-star review* *Astonishing... This book is properly complex, both in terms of the art and the life. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *Crawford's work is impeccable... [A] magisterial account... the tender, elegiac final notes of this book are...striking. -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *Excellent... Nothing is simple within this hefty, detailed narrative and Crawford remains impeccably fair... [an] absorbing biography. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail, *Book of the Week* *A thorough, solid sequel to Crawford's much-praised Young Eliot... This biography...is going to play a large part in any future assessment of Eliot. -- Philip Hensher * Spectator *
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Transnational Beat Generation
Book SynopsisThis collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.Trade Review'The Transnational Beat Generation explores the global dimensions of Beat literature in a series of solidly researched essays about the world-wide influence of major and minor Beat authors during the second half of the twentieth century. This book will stimulate thought and provoke controversy as certainly as it will enlarge our frame of reference for Beat writing. It makes the case not only that Beat writers created literature that inspired resistance movements throughout the world, but also that they continue to represent the spirit of freedom to young readers everywhere.' Ann Charters, emeritus professor of American literature, University of Connecticut and editor of The Penguin Beat Reader and The Penguin Sixties Reader 'The Beat Generation has often been presented as quintessentially American despite its critique of American culture and politics. This collection brings new light to this avant-garde movement by re-examining the international aspects of its roots as well as later reverberations. With historical documentation and literary analysis these essays demonstrate convincingly that much of what we now associate with global postmodernism was already evident in the work of a more widely dispersed Beat Generation.' - Robin Lydenberg, Boston College 'In essays that range around the world and across cultures, The Transnational Beat Generation has marked out a rich field that makes a natural fit for artists who above all else lived and wrote beyond borders; this book will open up Beat Studies and point it in new, uncharted directions.' - Oliver Harris, president of the European Beat Studies NetworkTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Beat; N.M.Grace & J.Skerl PART I: TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS William S. Burroughs and U.S. Empire; A.Hibbard Jack Kerouac and the Nomadic Cartographies of Exile; H.Melehy Beat Transnationalism Under Gender: Bonnie Bremser's Troia; R.Johnson The Beat Manifesto: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Worlded Circuits of African-American Beat Surrealism; J.Fazzino The Beat Fairy Tale and Transnational Spectacle Culture: Diane di Prima and William S. Burroughs; N.M.Grace Two Takes on Japan: Joanne Kyger's Japan and India Journals and Philip Whalen's Scenes of Life at the Capital; J.Falk 'If All the Writers of the World Get Together': Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Literary Solidarity in Sandinista Nicaragua; M.Hardesty PART II: INTERVIEW WITH ANNE WALDMAN PART III: GLOBAL CIRCULATION 'They . . . took their time over the coming': The British/Beat 1955-65; R.J.Ellis Beating them to it? The Vienna Group and the Beat Generation; J.van der Bent Prague Connection; J.Rauvolf Cain's Book and the Mark of Exile: Alexander Trocchi as Transnational Beat; F.Paton Greece and the Beat Generation: the Case of Lefteris Poulios; C.Gair & K.Georganta Japan Beat: Nanao Sakaki; A.R.Lee
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Reading T.S. Eliot Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding
Book SynopsisThis book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.Trade Review"Reading T.S. Eliot is original - part creative, part scholarly - and, perhaps most importantly, human." - Tod Marshall, Professor of English, Gonzaga University, USATable of ContentsThe Critic as Medium Incarnation and the Art of Difficulty "Necessarye Coniunction": Eliot's Intra-textual Words What Manner of Thing? On Pattern, Design, and Form Learning to Read the World Rhyming, or Two Wor(l)ds Much Like Each Other The Rose, the Fire, and Love, or God Devised the Torment, Preventing Us Everywhere "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood" and Purgation or Purification Not Coterminous but One
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Palgrave Macmillan The Literary Tourist
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Introduction: Readers and Places PART I: PLACING THE AUTHOR An Anthology of Corpses Cradles of Genius Homes and Haunts PART II: LOCATING THE FICTIVE Ladies and Lakes Literary Geographies Epilogue: Enchanted Places and Never-Never Lands IndexTrade Review'absorbing, well-researched and informative' - The Yorkshire Post 'pioneering work...an exceptionally accessible and entertaining work of scholarship' - Samantha Matthews, TLS 'Watson has produced a book likely to interest readers in both the literary and tourist domains, and a study worth putting on the shelves of academic and public libraries.' - Stuart Hannabuss, Library Review 'She [Watson] writes from an agreeably personal standpoint, having undertaken a good deal of such touring on her own account.' - Michael Irwin, The Thomas Hardy Journal 'Combining exemplary historical scholarship with considerable critical and theoretical sophistication, she [Watson] offers sensitive readings on the one hand of the texts and literary careers that have brought about significant forms of literary tourism, and on the other, of the literary-touristic experience itself...this is an impressive study that will prove useful not just to specialists in tourism and travel writing, but to all scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture.' Carl Thompson, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Readers and Places PART I: PLACING THE AUTHOR An Anthology of Corpses Cradles of Genius Homes and Haunts PART II: LOCATING THE FICTIVE Ladies and Lakes Literary Geographies Epilogue: Enchanted Places and Never-Never Lands Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK machinicmodernism
Book SynopsisHow can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection of philosophy and key literary works uses their radical concepts to draw a dynamic map of modernism that explores the confrontation of each writer with the non-human machine age of the early twentieth-century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Towards a Literary Critical Machine The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow Ulysses : The Hyperconscious Machinic Text Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence's Later Works Orlando and The Waves : Machinic Triumph of Form Conclusion Notes Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Thomas Hardy and Desire Conceptions of the Self
Book SynopsisDrawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.Trade Review"Jane Thomas has provided us with the most thoroughgoing study of Hardy and desire since J. Hillis Miller's four decades ago, and offers a wonderfully panoramic approach to the subject. Thomas uses Lacan, Butler and other thinkers, always in an approachable manner, to meditate on the fleeting, obscure and unstable nature of desire in Hardy's texts, extracting a surprising range of reference - from the impossibility of nostalgia to the sharpness of desire across class divisions; from the pleasures of cross-dressing to Sapphic desire seen as a kind of utopian space. The study ranges with assurance across Hardy's corpus, and is illuminating on both the major and minor novels and the poetry." Professor Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ''Thomas's finely articulated chapters serves to take the argument forward, with exemplary attention to textual evidence and an impressive grasp of ideas . . . this is a book which makes a notable contribution to Hardy studies and one whose argument will doubtless generate further fruitful debate.'' Hardy Journal "In offering a persuasive analysis of Hardy's art as an exercise and expression of (often frustrated or foiled) desire, Jane Thomas has made an outstanding contribution to Hardy studies." J. B. Bullen, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Hardy and Desire House and Home: Nostalgic Desire and the Locus of the Self Desire, Female Amity and 'Sapphic Space' Sexual Desire and the Lure' of the Erotic Poor Men and Ladies: Aspirational Desire As You Like It: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Expression of Desire Art, Aesthetics and Masculine Desire 'Scanned Across the Dark Space':Poetry, Desire and Aesthetic Fulfilment Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Modernism and Perversion Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature 18501930
Book SynopsisCharting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: THE PERVERSIONS IN SEXOLOGY The Birth of a Science: From Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing The French Scene: Degeneration Theory and the Invention of Fetishism Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence The Golden Age of Sexology in Germany: Activism, Institutionalization and the Anthropological Turn Freud, Literature and the Perversification of Mankind PART II: THE PERVERSIONS IN MODERNIST LITERATURE Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the Degenerate Sublime Anal Sex: D.H. Lawrence and the Back Door to Transcendence Sadism: Marcel Proust and the Banality of Evil Masochism: Franz Kafka and the Eroticization of Suffering Fetishism: Georges Bataille and Sexual-Textual Transgression Conclusion Bibliography
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Palgrave Macmillan Holocaust Impiety in Literature Popular Music and Film
Book SynopsisIntroduction PART I: POETRY Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965) and Other Poems W. D. Snodgrass, The Fuehrer Bunker (1995) PART II: POPULAR MUSIC American Punk: Ramones, Ramones (1976) English Punk: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks , Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979) Post-Punk: Joy Division, Closer (1980) Post-Punk Rock: Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible (1994) PART III: FILM Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) IndexTrade Review"'Holocaust piety' is the urge to be silenced by the genocide, to mystify it. In contrast, Boswell, one of a new generation of Holocaust scholars, writes about how the Holocaust has been used (and possibly misused) in culture from avant-garde poetry to the Ramones and Joy Division to Quentin Tarantino. These insightful 'impieties' tell us about the Holocaust and ourselves." -Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, Times Higher Education 'This book is highly recommended for those interested in the most recent developments in the discussion about Holocaust representability. The thesis of Holocaust impiety proposed by Boswell brings an important contribution to the field of Holocaust memory and representation, and situates this author within a new generation of scholars who are unafraid to pose challenging and worthwhile questions.' - Diana Popescu, University of Southampton, Journal of History and CulturesTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: POETRY Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965) and Other Poems W. D. Snodgrass, The Fuehrer Bunker (1995) PART II: POPULAR MUSIC American Punk: Ramones, Ramones (1976) English Punk: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks , Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979) Post-Punk: Joy Division, Closer (1980) Post-Punk Rock: Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible (1994) PART III: FILM Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace At the Mercy of the Public
Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form.Trade Review'This important new study on Katherine Mansfield, although of interest to the widely-read Mansfield scholar, will also have broad appeal to the non-specialist, offering an excellent introduction aided by its chronological ordering to Mansfield's life and short story output.' - Gerri Kimber, Associate Lecturer, Open University, UK 'An important contribution to modernist periodical studies and Mansfield studies, this book breaks new ground in its comprehensive analysis of Mansfield's career as a professional writer' - Lee Garver, Modernism/Modernity '..an engaging book for both modernist studies and the deservedly growing field of Mansfield studies it offers new material and fresh thematic lenses through which to challenge and refine critical trajectories within this dynamic field' -Alice Staveley, The Review of English Studies '...a fine, sensible and sensitive book that, like its subject, will be essential reading for scholars of modernism but also an engaging account for general readers' - Angela Smith, Journal of New Zealand Literature '...an important contribution not only to Mansfield studies but also to modernist studies more generally' - Carey Snyder, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies '...shrewd in documenting Mansfield's involvement with and contributions to periodicals' - Aaron Jaffe, The Year's Work in English Studies '...a fine example of how a single-author study can put the expanded accessibility of modernist periodicals and little magazines to good use' - Alissa G. Karl, Katherine Mansfield StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: 'Principles as light as my purse' 'Too sharply modelled': Mansfield and the New Age 1910-1911 'An editorial dogfight': Murry, Rhythm and the Blue Review 1912-1913 'A sort of authority': from Signature to the Hogarth Press 1915-1918 'A writer first': Je ne parle pas français, the Athenaeum, and Bliss 1919-1920 'At the mercy of the public': the London Mercury, the Sphere and The Garden Party 1921-1922 Afterword: 'Boiling Katherine's Bones' Notes Appendix: Major periodical publications (1910-1922) Bibliography Index
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