Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Vanderbilt University Press Mexico from Mestizo to Multicultural National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest
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Vanderbilt University Press Generation X Rocks
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Vanderbilt University Press Generation X Rocks
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Vanderbilt University Press A Stranger in My Own Land
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Vanderbilt University Press The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa
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Vanderbilt University Press Enduring Postwar
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Vanderbilt University Press Enduring Postwar Yasuoka Shtar and Literary Memory in Japan
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Vanderbilt University Press Writing Revolution in Latin America From Mart to Garca Mrquez to Bolao
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Vanderbilt University Press Writing Revolution in Latin America
Book SynopsisIn the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. This volume is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm.Trade ReviewDe Castro introduces original topics such as LGBTQ and Revolution, and women writers such as Guelfenbein. This is a scholarly accomplishment, a groundbreaking work that is well written and researched, a model for arduous and significant contributions to the Latin American studies field, an original way to study the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with an original approach to the concept of insurgency. Indeed, the book is a benign revolt that will contribute greatly to this arena of inquiry."—Martín Camps, University of the Pacific "De Castro combines a superb command of the broad sweep of Latin American cultural and political history with a detailed knowledge of specific texts and the critical debates surrounding them. This book is an impressive achievement."—Maarten van Delden, UCLA
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The Merlin Press Ltd Essays on Thomas Mann
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ngugi wa Thiongo
Book SynopsisExtensive use has been made of Ngugi's Detained: A Writer's Prison DiaryThis interpretation of the work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o discusses his philosophy, writing style, social and political focus, and ultimate vision and aspirations. Each work of fiction is examined in depth, and there is an evaluation of Ngugi's standing as a writer and social figure. Separate chapters cover each of Ngugi's novels, from The River Between and Weep Not, Child to Matigari , as well as his drama and short stories. There is alsoan examination of his social commentaries in the popular press, to which the early formation of his ideological position can be traced. Kenya: EAEPTrade Review... the most useful general introduction to Ngugi's work currently available. - -- Patrick Williams * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *... with cross-references to the context that has shaped (and, some claim, been shaped by) his writing for over three decades. - -- Diane Schwerdt * AFSAAP *Table of ContentsCareer; points of departure; the novels - "The River Between", "Weep Not, Child", "A Grain of Wheat", "Petals of Blood", "Devil on the Cross", "Matigari"; plays, short stories and non-fiction - the short stories, the plays, the social and literary criticism; conclusions - style, literature and society.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Collaboration and Resistance Reviewed Writers and la Mode Retro in PostGaullist France v 7 Berg French Studies
Book SynopsisAlan Morris Senior Lecturer in French,University of StrathclydeTable of ContentsLa mode retro - new myths for old; the heritage 1940-1969; the mechanisms of demythification; why a mode retro?; first among orphans; Pascal Jardin, Marie Chaix and Evelyne Le Garrec; Patrick Modiano.
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O'Brien Press Ltd Oliver St John Gogarty A Poet and His Times
Book SynopsisAn insightful biography of one of Ireland's most exuberent characters: the inspiration for buck Mulligan in Ulysses, a senator, playwright, champion athlete and surgeon, Gogarty was called 'one of the greatest lyric poets of the age' by Yeats.Trade Review'a delight to read' -- Sunday Times'the only book I've stayed up all night to read' -- John Ford, Film Director
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with John Steinbeck
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Thornton Wilder
Book SynopsisKnown today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America's leading men of letters.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Derek Walcott
Book SynopsisThe lively interviews in this collection reveal Derek Walcott's generous and brilliant intelligence as well as his strong, forthright opinions. He discusses the craft of poetry, the status of contemporary poetry and drama, his founding of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and his views on a number of influential writers.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Max Brand Western Giant The Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Landscape of Fear Stephen Kings American Gothic
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA great read, insightful and intelligent.... Tony has helped me improve my reputation from ink-stained wretch popular novelist to ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight. - Stephen King
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HarperCollins Publishers Human Wishes American Poetry Series
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HarperCollins Selected Writings of Jean Genet Ecco Companions
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ECCO Press Worshipful Company of Fletchers Poems
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HARPERCOLLINS Facing the River New Poems Paper
Book SynopsisA poet of immense moral authority, Milosz writes with the amazing clarity that issues from a precise vision. In these later poems, the poems of older age, he takes a long look back at the catastrophic upheavals of the 20th century; yet despite the soberness of his themes, he writes with the lightness of touch found only in the great masters.
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WW Norton & Co The Iron Clew a Leonidas Witherall Mystery
Book SynopsisLeonidas Witherall, Phoebe Atwood Taylor's other detective, inhabits a suburb of Boston named Dalton. One of its most colorful residents, he is the proprietor of a prestigious boys' school and instantly recognizable by all as William Shakespeare's remarkable look-alike. Few people, however, know him as Morgatroyd Jones, author of the popular and flamboyant Lieutenant Haseltine adventure novels. But like his own fictional hero, Witherall's outrageous escapades mix slapstick and suspense like no one else's.
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Paupers' Press The Future of the Space Program Large Corporations Society Discussions with 22 ScienceFiction Writers No 1 Great Issues of the Day
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Paupers' Press Interviews with Britains Angry Young Men Kingsley Amis John Braine Bill Hopkins John Wain and Colin Wilson 2 Milford Series
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Poetry in the Wars
Book SynopsisEdna Longley relates contemporary Northern Irish poetry and the poetry of modern warfare to the overall history of 20th century poetry, arguing that the most important poets have stuck quite deliberately to their armoury of difficult traditional forms, adapting and extending them in response to modern wars, conflicts, oppression and injustice.Table of ContentsIntroduction 9 Edward Thomas and Robert Frost 22 'Worn New': Edward Thomas and English Tradition 47 Louis MacNeice: Autumn Journal 78 'Shit or Bust': The Importance of Keith Douglas 94 'Any-angled Light': Philip Larkin and Edward Thomas 113 'Inner Emigre' or 'Artful Voyeur' ? Seamus Heaney's North 140 The Singing Line: Form in Derek Mahon's Poetry 170 Poetry and Politics in Northern Ireland 185 'Varieties of Parable': Louis MacNeice and Paul Muldoon 211 Notes 244 Acknowledgements 259 Index 261
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Shearsman Books With the First Dream of Fire They Hunt the Cold
Book SynopsisThis extraordinary collection brings together the entirety of his work up0 to 2003 that Trevor Joyce wishes to preserve. Joyce is Ireland's most stimulating late-modernist poet, unrepentantly engaging the global modernist tradition at a time when it would seem to many that Irish writers, north or south, prefer to hunker down and be parochial.Trade Review"I find myself almost surprised, after having lived with this book for several months, at how difficult I now find it to think of the landscape of contemporary poetry without this body of work. It is a book that deserves to find a wide and diverse readership." Nate Dorward, Chicago Review) "This book collects work since 1966, but about three-quarters of it consists of poems written in the last seven or so years, witness to a quite remarkable flowering of Joyce's talent. The work is consistently interesting, formally engaging, wide-ranging and risky: altogether an unmissable collection." (Peter Sirr, Poetry Ireland Review) "The later poems in With the first dream of fire are extraordinary ... Joyce's inventiveness, restlessness, range - these qualities in operation and not simply packaged in last year's Christmas wrapping - are simply stunning. The title of this review ['with the fire in him now'] is borrowed from Krapp's Last Tape. 'Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. [Krapp motionless staring before him. The tape runs on in silence.]' Krapp's closing words test an actor's control at the limits of ability; a prick of compromise deflates pretension entirely. Joyce's writing produces that same white sound again and again, which is the highest praise." (J.C.C. Mays, Dublin Review)
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Wildside Press Isaac Asimov No 40 Starmont Readers Guide
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Wildside Press Scaring Us to Death Impact of Stephen King on Popular Culture v 63 Milford Series Popular Writers of Today
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Augur Press Poems of Wartime Years
Book SynopsisFeatures poems, which are thoughts and memories of the periphery rather than the centre of action, and reflections afterwards in subsequent years of World War II, some pertaining to other wars, bearing the stamp of futility, cynicism, sadness and a flicker of hope.
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Hippocampus Press An Epicure in the Terrible A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H P Lovecraft
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B10 Mediaworx Dorian A Peculiar Edition with Annotated Text Scholarship
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B10 Mediaworx Dorian A Peculiar Edition with Annotated Text Scholarship Volume 1 Peculiar Editions
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Universal Books The Theatre of Wole Soyinka
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Cambridge University Press Latinx Literature in Transition 19922020 Volume 3
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Legare Street Press America and the Young Intellectual
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Twentieth Century Novel
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Twentieth Century Novel
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Adventure or Experience
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Cambridge University Press Ulysses Film and Visual Culture
Book SynopsisAlthough Joyce was losing his sight when he wrote Ulysses, Stephen''s and Bloom''s visual experiences are extraordinarily rich and complex. Absorbing the influences of popular visual attractions such as dioramas, stereoscopes and mutoscopes, their perceptions of Dublin are shaped by what Walter Benjamin calls ''unconscious optics''. Analyzing closely the texture of their impressions and of Joyce''s prismatic narrative styles, Philip Sicker explores the phenomenon of sight from a wide-ranging set of perspectives: eighteenth-century epistemology (Locke and Berkeley), theories of the flaneur (Baudelaire and Benjamin), Italian Futurist art (Marinetti and Boccioni), photography (Barthes and Sontag), and the silent films Joyce watched in Dublin and Trieste. The concept of ''spectacle'' as a mechanically-constructed visual experience informs Sicker''s examination of mediated perception and emerges as a hallmark of modernist culture itself. This study is an important contribution to the growing interest in how deeply the philosophy and science of visual perception influenced modernism.Trade Review'Sicker's book … brings Ulysses alive by examining its particularities and specificities. … His book demonstrates that there is still much fertile and enriching ground to be tilled and planted in our examination of one of the central books of Western literature.' Peter O'Brien, The Fortnightly Review'… Sicker's study is a major advance in the conversation about Ulysses' centrality to the modernist canon …' Keith Williams, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Joyce's spectacles: technologies of sight; 1. Ineluctable visuality: Stephen's ways of seeing; 2. 'Caught in this burning scene': Stephen in the gaze of others; 3. Snapshots from the pavement: Bloom as modernist flaneur; 4. Painting motion: 'wandering rocks' as futurist narrative; 5. 'Alone in the hiding twilight': Bloom's cinematic gaze in 'Nausicaa'; 6. Mirages in the lampglow: 'circle' and Melies's dream cinema; 7. Vision conjoined: Stephen and Bloom's intersubjective perception.
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Cambridge University Press Nostromo
Book SynopsisThe newest addition to the widely-acclaimed Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, this edition offers scholars for the first time an authoritative text of Nostromo, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors, and features a thorough introduction and informative textual essay.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.
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Palgrave Macmillan New Formalisms and Literary Theory
Book SynopsisBringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.Trade Review"Following on several prominent interventions announcing the arrival of a New Formalism, this collection takes a catholic view of that movement, emphasizing an aesthetic turn, a return to formalism that cooperates with historical and contextual analysis. It recognizes craft, acknowledging the experience of practitioners. It will be widely assigned and debated." - Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University, USA "This exciting collection of essays and manifesti reminds us of the "form" behind "formalism": that it engages society and history, is realized through process, and depends on transactions across the literary work. New Formalisms and Literary Theory will make you think again about both concepts." - Roland Greene, Stanford University, USATable of Contents Foreword; Heather Dubrow Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. New Formalism(s): A Prologue; Verena Theile PART II: THEORY 2. Toward a New Formalism: The Intrinsic and Related Problems in Criticism and Theory; Fredric V. Bogel 3. Doing Genre; Group Phi PART III: PRACTICE 4. Inventing an Ancestor: The Scholar-Poet and the Sonnet; Edward Brunner 5. From Close Reading to Cross-Reading: Sacco-Vanzetti Poetry and the Politics of New Formalism; Bartholomew Brinkman 6. Re-Reading for Forms in Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy ; Corey McEleney and Jacqueline Wernimont 7. Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave: Vasari's Lives and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship; Harry Berger Jr 8. Form as a Pattern of Thinking: Cognitive Poetics and New Formalism; Karin Kukkonen PART IV: PEDAGOGY 9. Reading Like a Writer: A Creative Writer's Approach to New Formalism; Kelcey Parker 10. Punk Bodies, Jorie Graham, and the Draft Itself: Notes Toward a Lyric Formalism; Cynthia Nichols 10. 'One Another's Hermitage': New Formalist Pedagogy; Linda Tredennick Bibliography Index
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