Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Edinburgh University Press Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial
Book SynopsisExplores a wide range of writers through the lens of postcolonial theory, focusing on themes of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identity.Trade ReviewGraham MacPhee brilliantly follows the historical tracks of empire into the heartlands of post-war British literature, an area often assumed to be relatively untouched by colonial impacts and their contingent modernist entanglements. This timely and necessary study lays bare how colonial cultural legacies are everywhere palpable within this landscape. -- Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh
Book SynopsisThe Companion provides a thorough, up-to-date and critical evaluation of Welsh's work.Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; A Brief Biography; Introduction, Berthold Schoene; 1. Welsh and Tradition, Alice Ferrebe; 2. Welsh's Novels, Matt McGuire; 3. Welsh's Shorter Fiction , David Borthwick; 4. Trainspotting, the Film, Duncan Petrie; 5. Welsh and Gender, Carole Jones; 6. Welsh, Drugs and Subculture, Berthold Schoene; 7. Welsh and the Theatre, Adrienne Scullion; 8. Welsh and Identity Politics, Gavin Miller; 9. Welsh and Edinburgh, Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd; 10. Welsh in Translation, Katherine Ashley; Notes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Darwins Bards
Book SynopsisDarwin's Bards is a comprehensive study of how poets have responded to the ideas of Charles Darwin.Trade ReviewJohn Holmes's coverage of the relationship between science and poetry in Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution is remarkably complete. He has a scientist's grasp of evolutionary theory and a thorough understanding of the controversies the theory has engendered. He also understands the difficulty many have had in finding meaning in an existence framed by Darwinism. Holmes's investigation of how poetry addresses these problems is unique, and he is correct in thinking that, "poems can even change how we think about Darwinism itself." Evolutionary science provides many of the details for understanding why the world is the way it is, but we need "Darwin's Bards" to help us interpret these details, incorporate them into our collective consciousness, and fully understand what it means to live in a Darwinian world. -- Douglas Shedd, Thoresen Professor of Biology, Randolph College Darwin's Bards is a bracing, original and exciting contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the cultural impact of Darwinism; indeed, John Holmes is to be commended for writing an exhilarating and genuinely interdisciplinary study with revealing insights on every page. -- Roger Ebbatson The Thomas Hardy Journal Darwin's Bards affords subtle, precise, sharp-eyed readings of verse by such well-known Victorian poets as Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, Swinburne and Hardy, as well as more recent poems by the likes of Ted Hughes, Philip Appleman and Thom Gunn. Each of these poets, Holmes argues, grapples with the fundamental, largely unchanging challenges posed by Darwinian evolution, with the book's chapters each focusing on topics including theology, death and immortality, humanity's cosmic insignificance and relationship with other animals, and sex and reproduction! the detailed analysis of verse that deals with these issues often yields fresh insights that will be of interest to more historically minded critics. -- Gowan Dawson, University of Leicester British Journal for the History of Science Darwin's Bards is a welcome study. Holmes has selected a bold and expansive topic, one that needed the careful attention that he has shown it ... No doubt we will hear more about Darwin among the poets (it is to be hoped that we do), and Holmes will have provided this narrative with a fitting point of origin. -- Jason David Hall, University of Exeter The British Society for Literature and Science 'Rich and meticulous analyses ... Darwin's Bards is important not only because it engages oft-overlooked evolutionary poetry, but because its critical discussions provide us with a heretofore missing link in Darwinian literary criticism; in so doing, they give us new views of our Darwinian realities.' -- Janine Rogers, Mount Allison University Review of English Studies Poetry makes evolution conceivable, letting the ear and the imagination know that which the mind struggles to grasp. With its fine ear for poetry's engagement with the science of its age, Darwin's Bards contributes to this work, encouraging an alertness to and enjoyment of the poetry of evolution. -- Anna Barton, University of Sheffield Tennyson Research Bulletin
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Edinburgh University Press The Cosmopolitan Novel
Book SynopsisThis highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community.Table of ContentsIntroduction; I. IMAGINING COSMOPOLITICS: 1. Families against the world: Ian McEwan; 2. James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads; II. TOUR DU MONDE: 3. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think; III. CREATING THE WORLD: 4. Global noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru; 5. Suburban worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor; Coda: the cosmopolitan imagination; Bibliography.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Henry Miller and How He Got That Way
Book SynopsisBrings Henry Miller back to the critical attention that his work deserves as well as making an original contribution to literary discussion on intertextuality.Trade ReviewBooks may be, as Miller said, "as much a part of life as trees, stars or dung," but he also said 90% of them "could be thrown on the junk heap." As for the 10% which contributed to the often overlooked intelligence of his seemingly pornographic, idiosyncratic prose, Katy Masuga's much-needed study discretely shows why, and how, with suggestive attention to the writer writing about writing itself. -- Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities University of Washington Henry Miller, although he read widely, selectively and in some ways eccentrically, was a totally instinctive writer, whose novels as well as his other writings were based on observation and personal experience rather than ideas or influences. Katy Masuga's study of Miller is a brave endeavour to bind him to his reading, and she finds surprising and original sides to his work that have not been noticed before, giving him a sophistication buried underneath the surface of his work, that might have surprised even the author himself. Anybody looking for the depths in Henry Miller's novels that he sought in his reading will find it here. -- John Calder, publisher and bookseller Books may be, as Miller said, "as much a part of life as trees, stars or dung," but he also said 90% of them "could be thrown on the junk heap." As for the 10% which contributed to the often overlooked intelligence of his seemingly pornographic, idiosyncratic prose, Katy Masuga's much-needed study discretely shows why, and how, with suggestive attention to the writer writing about writing itself. Henry Miller, although he read widely, selectively and in some ways eccentrically, was a totally instinctive writer, whose novels as well as his other writings were based on observation and personal experience rather than ideas or influences. Katy Masuga's study of Miller is a brave endeavour to bind him to his reading, and she finds surprising and original sides to his work that have not been noticed before, giving him a sophistication buried underneath the surface of his work, that might have surprised even the author himself. Anybody looking for the depths in Henry Miller's novels that he sought in his reading will find it here.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Leaves of Letters // Walt Whitman; 2. The Dream of a Ridiculous Writer // Fyodor Dostoevsky; 3. Through the Jabber // Lewis Carroll; 4. The Drunken Inkwell // Arthur Rimbaud; 5. In Search of Lost Allusion // Marcel Proust; 6. Writers and Lovers // D. H. Lawrence; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
Book SynopsisAlthough Sufi characters - saints, dervishes, wanderers - occur regularly in modern Arabic literature, a select group of novelists seeks to interrogate Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Tahar Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas''adi and Tayeb Salih we see a strong intertextual relationship with the Sufi masters of the past, including Al-Hallaj, Ibn Arabi, Al-Niffari and Al-Suhrawardi. This relationship becomes a means of interrogating the limits of the creative self, individuality, rationality and the manifold possibilities offered by literature, seeking in a dialogue with the mystical heritage a way of preserving a self under siege from the overwhelming forces of oppression and reaction that have characterized the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press DeMented Particulars
Book SynopsisDemented Particulars offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy. The book includes an extensive Introduction, which outlines the compositional and publishing history of the novel, the critical debate, an account of Beckett's reading that went into the book, and a sophisticated discussion of the 'Cartesian catastrophe' at the heart of this comic cosmos. There is also an extensive bibliography of works pertinent to Murphy, and a thematic Index. The main thrust of the book concerns the page by page annotations of the novel itself, with close reference to the range of Beckett's reading (literary, philosophical, theological, biographical and other) that went into the making of this encyclopedic work. The importance of the study lies not simply in the discovery of many new facts, but equally in the assessment of how these laid the foundations for so much of Beckett's later work. The book pays tribute to the astounding range of Beckett's reading in the 1930
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Edinburgh University Press Obscure Locks Simple Keys
Book SynopsisObscure Locks offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's most enigmatic novel, Watt. It provides a page by page account of the demented details (literary, philosophical, theological, biographical and other) that went into the making of this encyclopaedic novel.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Book SynopsisThe only full-length companion available to this distinctive and challenging Scottish poet By using previously uncollected creative and discursive writings, this international group of contributors presents a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship. They bring fresh insights to major poems such as A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, To Circumjack Cencrastus and In Memoriam James Joyce, and offer new political, ecological and science-based readings in relation to MacDiarmid''s work from the 1930s. They also discuss his experimental short fiction in Annals of the Five Senses, the autobiographical Lucky Poet, and a representative selection of his essays and journalism. They assess MacDiarmid''s legacy and reputation in Scotland and beyond, placing his poetry within the context of international modernism.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Editions and Abbreviations; Introduction, Scott Lyall and Margery Palmer McCulloch; 1. MacDiarmid and International Modernism, Roderick Watson; 2. MacDiarmid's Language, Dorian Grieve; 3. C. M. Grieve / Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist, Alan Riach; 4. Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus, Margery Palmer McCulloch and Kirsten Matthews; 5. MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment, Scott Lyall; 6. MacDiarmid and Ecology, Louisa Gairn; 7.The Use of Science in MacDiarmid's Later Poetry, Michael H. Whitworth; 8. Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation, Carla Sassi; 9. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible Persona, David Goldie; 10. Transatlantic MacDiarmid, Jeffrey Skoblow; 11. MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation, Margery Palmer McCulloch; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Book SynopsisThis book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Editions and Abbreviations; Introduction, Scott Lyall and Margery Palmer McCulloch; 1. MacDiarmid and International Modernism, Roderick Watson; 2. MacDiarmid's Language, Dorian Grieve; 3. C. M. Grieve / Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist, Alan Riach; 4. Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus, Margery Palmer McCulloch and Kirsten Matthews; 5. MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment, Scott Lyall; 6. MacDiarmid and Ecology, Louisa Gairn; 7.The Use of Science in MacDiarmid's Later Poetry, Michael H. Whitworth; 8. Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation, Carla Sassi; 9. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible Persona, David Goldie; 10. Transatlantic MacDiarmid, Jeffrey Skoblow; 11. MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation, Margery Palmer McCulloch; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.
£76.00
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject
Book SynopsisThis classic study, now made available again to readers, shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Feminism and Modernism in Woolf; 2. Jacob's Room; 3. Mrs. Dalloway; 4. To the Lighthouse; 5. Orlando; 6. The Waves; Conclusion: A New Subjectivity; Notes; Index.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf Fashion and Literary Modernity
Book SynopsisNewly available in paperback, this study places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930sTrade ReviewKoppen's work sets out an elegant and complex argument ! Highly innovative, wide-ranging, meticulously written and carefully argued. Routledge ABES Koppen's work sets out an elegant and complex argument ! Highly innovative, wide-ranging, meticulously written and carefully argued.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Modern Clothes-Consciousness; 2. From Symbolism in Loose Robes to the Figure of the Androgyne; 3. Fashion and Literary Modernity; 4. Modernism Against Fashion; 5. Civilised Minds, Fashioned Bodies, and the Nude Future; 6. Hats and Veils: Texere in the Age of Rupture; Bibliography; Index.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Archipelagic Modernism
Book SynopsisExamines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies, and ecologies. This book questions established terms such as 'Modernism' or 'the Angry Young Men' and explores new terms such as 'critical realism' and literary developments such as 'the Scottish New Wave'.
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Edinburgh University Press PostWar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for study have been produced in, and are substantially about, life in exile. They therefore deal not only with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) but with one of its crucial and long-standing by-products: expatriation. Syrine Hout shows how these texts characterise a distinctly new literary and cultural trend and have founded an Anglophone Lebanese diasporic literature.The authors discussed in the book are Rabih Alameddine, Tony Hanania, Rawi Hage, Nada Awar Jarra, Patricia Sarrafian Ward and Nathalie Ab-Ezzi. In her exploration of their writings Hout teases out the different meanings and reformulations of home, be it Lebanon as a nation, a house, a host country, an irretrievable pre-war childhood, a state of in-between dwelling, a portable state of mind, and/or a utopian ideal.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction
Book SynopsisProvides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks.Table of ContentsPart I: American Jewish Fiction; 1. Pioneering Women Writers and the Deghettoisation of Early American Jewish Fiction; Lori Harrison-Kahan; 2. Sensibilities of Estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow; Catherine Morley; 3. The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction; Victoria Aarons; 4. 'Are you kidding me?': Black Humour in the Work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield, and Bruce Jay Friedman; David Gooblar; 5. American Jewish Life Writing, Illness, and the Ethics of Innovation; Aimee Pozorski; 6. From Feminist to Housewife and Back Again: Orthodoxy and Modernity in American Jewish Women's Writing; Rachel Harris; 7. Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Anglophone Emigre Jewish Writers from the USSR; Sasha Senderovich; 8. History on a Personal Note: Postwar American Jewish Short Stories; David Brauner; 9. Disappointed Believers? The Jewish Question Mark in Eisner's 'A Contract with God'; Sarah Lightman; 10. The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction; Jennifer Lemberg; 11. Representing the Holocaust in Third-Generation American Jewish Writers; Monica Osborne; 12. Marginal Writers; or, Jews Who Aren't; Debra Shostak; Part II: British Jewish Fiction; 13. The Postwar 'New Wave' of British Jewish Writing; Efraim Sicher; 14. Jewish Emigre and Refugee Writers in Britain; David Herman; 15. Jewish Exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons; Phyllis Lassner; 16. Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jew-ish: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary British Jewish Literature; Ruth Gilbert; 17. Life Writing and the East End; Devorah Baum; 18. 'Almost too good to be true': Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Pre-Lebanon; Axel Stahler; 19. The Writing on the Wall: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Post-Lebanon; Axel Stahler; 20. British Jewish Holocaust Fiction; Sue Vice; 21. Reading Matters: 'Marginal' British Jewish Writers; Beate Neumeier; Part III: International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction; 22. Jewish Writing in Canada; Ira Nadel; 23. South African Jewish Writers; Linda Weinhouse; 24. Repairing Cracked Heirlooms: South African Jewish Literary Memory of Lithuania and Latvia; Claudia B. Braude; 25. Australian Jewish Fiction: A Bibliographical Survey; Serge Liberman; 26. 'Migrant' Jewish Writers in the Anglophone Diaspora; Sandra Singer; 27. Jewish Novels of the Spanish Civil War; Emily Robins Sharpe; 28. Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors, and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie; Shaul Bassi.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism
Book SynopsisExplores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality, affect, and subjectivity to produce a series of lively and compelling readings of the major works of the period's most 'famous unknown'.Trade ReviewA thorough and engaged analysis of the entirety of Barnes' oeuvre and the trajectory of her long writing career. -- Dr Joanne Winning, Birkbeck College, University of London Julie Taylor offers a sophisticated, revisionary interpretation of Djuna Barnes' major writings and, at the same time, a substantial intervention into the theory of modernism and modernist-oriented literary criticism more generally. -- Professor Tyrus Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz A thorough and engaged analysis of the entirety of Barnes' oeuvre and the trajectory of her long writing career. Julie Taylor offers a sophisticated, revisionary interpretation of Djuna Barnes' major writings and, at the same time, a substantial intervention into the theory of modernism and modernist-oriented literary criticism more generally.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction, Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds: Traumatic Modernism?; 1. 'The excellent arrangement of catastrophe': Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon; 2. Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism, and Ryder; 3. 'The infected carrier of the past': Nightwood, Shame, and Modernism; 4. 'That magic reiteration': Ladies Almanack and Happiness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Leonard and Virginia Woolf The Hogarth Press and
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Edinburgh University Press ReImagining the Dark Continent in Fin de Siècle
Book SynopsisMaps the fin de siecle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language
Book SynopsisIn the context of the significant struggles with 'fundamentalisms', media consolidation, and the stifling of dissent, the author's close readings of Woolf's writings focus on their relevance to our political situation.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Don Paterson
Book SynopsisThe first book-length critical study of the contemporary British poet, Don PatersonEight essays by leading literary critics and writers explore the social, historical and personal dimensions of Paterson''s poetry and prose. Situating his work in dialogue with the classical, medieval, early modern, modernist and contemporary voices that inform it, the book considers Paterson as a figure actively negotiating his place within literary history and theory, as well as confronting that history with humour and directness.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Crisis and the US AvantGarde
Book SynopsisFocusses on a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. The author explores the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had with power politics, social organization and cultural movements. It provides detailed readings of major poets.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in
Book SynopsisThe novel is a largely imported European genre, coming relatively late to the history of Arab letters. It should therefore perhaps come as no surprise that the first novel to have been written by an Arab was written in English (Ameen Rihani''s The Book of Khalid, 1911). However, subsequent years saw the flourishing of, first, Arabic novels, then the Francophone Arab novel. Only in the last two decades has the Anglophone Arab novel experienced a second coming, and it is this re-emergence of literary activity that is the focus of this collection.Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo Arab literature to critical debate, the Companion presents a range of critical responses and pedagogical approaches to the Anglo Arab novel. It offers both classroom-friendly essays and critically sophisticated analyses, bringing together original critical studies of the major Anglo Arab novelists from established and emerging scholars in the field.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors; Introduction: The Intellectual History and Contemporary Significance of the Arab Novel in English, Nouri Gana; Part I: Constellations: Modernity, Empire and Postcoloniality; 1. The Rise of the Arab American Novel: Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid, Wail S. Hassan; 2. Beyond Orientalism: Khalid, the Secular City, and the Transcultural Self, Geoffrey Nash; 3. The Incestuous (Post) Colonial: Soueif's Map of Love and the Second Birth of the Egyptian Novel in English, Shaden M. Tageldin; 4. Drinking, Gambling and Making Merry: Waguih Ghali's Search for Cosmopolitan Agency, Deborah A. Starr; 5. Mobile Belonging? The Global 'Given' in the Work of Etel Adnan, Mary N. Layoun; 6. Burning, Memory and Postcolonial Agency in Laila Lalami's Hope and other Dangerous Pursuits, Ahmed Idrissi Alami; 7. Zenga Zenga and Bunga Bunga: The Novels of Hisham Matar and a Critique of Gadhafi's Libya, Christopher Micklethwait; Part II: Force-fields: Ethnic Ties and Transnational Solidarities; 8. In Search of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent, Nouri Gana; 9. Europe and Its Others: The Novels of Jamal Mahjoub, Jopi Nyman; 10. Space, Embodiment, Identity and Resistance in the Novels of Fadia Faqir, Lindsey Moore; 11. The Arab Canadian Novel and the Rise of Rawi Hage, F. Elizabeth Dahab; 12. The Arab Australian Novel: Situating Diasporic and Multicultural Literature, Saadi Nikro; 13. Identity, Transformation and the Anglophone Arab Novel, Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward; 14. Rabih Alameddine's I, the Divine: A Druze Novel as World Literature?, Michelle Hartman; Part III: Prospects/Challenges: Authority, Pedagogy and the Market Industry; 15. Invisible Ethnic: Mona Simpson and the Space of the Ethnic Literature Market, Mara Naaman; 16. The Challenges of Orientalism: Teaching about Islam and Masculinity in Leila Aboulela's The Translator, Brendan Smyth; 17. Teaching from Cover to Cover: Arab Women's Novels in the Classroom, Heather Hoyt; 18. Perils and Pitfalls of Marketing the Arab Novel in English, Samia Serageldin; Bibliography; Index.
£126.00
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in
Book SynopsisThe novel is a largely imported European genre, coming relatively late to the history of Arab letters. It should therefore perhaps come as no surprise that the first novel to have been written by an Arab was written in English (Ameen Rihani''s The Book of Khalid, 1911). However, subsequent years saw the flourishing of, first, Arabic novels, then the Francophone Arab novel. Only in the last two decades has the Anglophone Arab novel experienced a second coming, and it is this re-emergence of literary activity that is the focus of this collection.Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo Arab literature to critical debate, the Companion presents a range of critical responses and pedagogical approaches to the Anglo Arab novel. It offers both classroom-friendly essays and critically sophisticated analyses, bringing together original critical studies of the major Anglo Arab novelists from established and emerging scholars in the field.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Wyndham Lewis
Book SynopsisFeatures works of Wyndham Lewis as writer, novelist, and critic. This guide explains about the role of his work in the formation, development, and criticism of modernism. It offers a biographical overview.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Poetics of Impersonality
Book SynopsisExamines T S Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what the author calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. In this title, she shows that Eliot's and Pound's attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise.Trade Review"'Maud Ellmann's book is vivid and original. The author is very intelligent and has done her reading with resourcefulness and penetration.'- Frank Kermode"
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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisReconsiders Virginia Woolf's work for the 21st century focusing on coevolution, duality and contradiction. This book explores multiple meanings related to the conjoined, fused, connected, and evolving nature of Woolf studies. It extends existing critical work that considers a multiplicity of constructions of 'Virginia Woolf'.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as 'metafiction', as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration.
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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolfs Essayism
Book SynopsisExplores the way Virginia Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. This book includes revisionary accounts of A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), and new readings of Woolf's major and less well-known novels, including The Pargiters, her failed 'essay-novel'.
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Edinburgh University Press War and the Mind
Book Synopsis9780748694266.
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Edinburgh University Press A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, 'A Thousand Plateaus'. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.
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Edinburgh University Press Rudyard Kiplings Fiction
Book SynopsisProvides an reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. This book examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On Sibling Love Queer Attachment and American
Book SynopsisSibling bonds, both literal and figurative, have had a crucial role in American writings of queer desire and identity. In nuanced and original readings, Denis Flannery demonstrates the centrality of fraternal and sororal love to queer strands of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from the elemental wildnesses of Moby-Dick to David Fincher''s postmodern cinema; from the brutal and comic decorum of Henry James''s major fiction to the elegiac memoir-writing of Jamaica Kincaid. Questions driving Flannery''s exploration of sibling relations: How do we characterize the relationship between sibling love, queer possibility and the formal intensities of American writing? Why do so many American texts rely on the presence of sibling love to articulate queer desire? Why is brotherhood invoked as a positive value in announcements of United States national aspirations but used repeatedly and ominously in that nation''s texts to herald a fall? Written with lyrical clarity and verve, On Sibling Trade Review'To bring siblings to gay attachments and queer theory to sibling relationships is inspirational. Each informs and shapes the other in Flannery's brilliant and innovative re-reading of American writing and culture'. Juliet Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface. Part 1: Introduction; The monkey-rope; The appalling Mrs Luna: sibling love, queer attachment and Henry James's The Bostonians. Part 2: Cinematic siblings: Paris is Burning; Wolf-trapping: Cormac McCarthy, sibling love and the lupine queer; Sibling love, queer attachment, a fear of falling: David Fincher's The Game; Jamaica Kincaid and Chuck Palahniuk: AIDS, resurrection and recognition; Works cited; Index.
£39.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Literature Politics and Culture in Postwar
Book SynopsisOffers an account of political change since 1945, and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. This book looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance.Trade Review"'this book is astonishingly refreshing...Sinfield has done many things here, but one outstanding achievement of his new work is to help any student looking into contextual literary study that 'background' is often a bundle of multiple sources of textual meanings. Any superficial look into it is dangerous.' The Lecturer 'A remarkable account' Fredric Jameson"Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on notes; A new introduction - Ideology and Commitment: A Personal; Account; Foreword to the Second Edition; The Politics and Cultures of discord (1997); 1. Introduction; 2. War stories; 3. Literature and cultural production; 4. Class/culture/welfare; 5. Queers, treachery and the literary establishment; 6. Freedom and the Cold War; 7. Cultural plunder and the savage within; 8. Making a scene; 9. Reinventing Modernism; 10. Women writing: Sylvia Plath; 11. The rise of Left-culturism; 12. Intellectuals and workers; 13. The ways we live now; List of books and articles cited; Indexes.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Caryl Churchills Top Girls Modern Theatre Guides
Book SynopsisProvides a critical introduction to Caryl Churchill's play "Top Girls", giving students an overview of the background and context for the play; detailed analysis of the its structure, style and characters; a practical analysis of key production issues and choices; and, an overview of the performance history focusing on key productions.Trade Review"A comprehensive and insightful approach...Tycer's commentary and analysis; reception and production histories, and practical ideas for understanding the play combine to persuade and to explicate Top Girls as 'still without significant equal in the feminist or mainstream canons'" - Professor Elaine Aston, Lancaster University, UKBriefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1 ‘The book provides intelligent readings of key scenes from the play and useful cultural and political background, as well as the changing critical views that this landmark play has elicited during a period of over twenty years'Table of ContentsSeries Preface; 1. Background; 2. Top Girls: analysis and commentary; 3. Production analysis; 4. Performance History; 5. Workshopping Top Girls; Conclusion; Timeline; Further Reading; References; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studies on the History of Late Antique and
Book SynopsisGathered together here are the fruits of 60 years of research by the late Sir Laurence Kirwan into the history and archaeology of the mid 1st millennium AD in the Middle Nile Valley, papers previously scattered through a wide range of publications. Kirwan''s fieldwork in the region, undertaken between 1929 and 1936, kindled a life-long interest in the transition from the pagan Kushite kingdom to the medieval Nubian states of Nobadia, Makuria and Alodia (Alwa) and of their conversion to Christianity in the 6th century AD. The 25 studies, one published here for the first time, were often of seminal importance when they first appeared, the author being exemplary in his use of the written sources to elucidate the archaeological data. As the preface by the editors shows, the views expressed remain fundamental to modern scholarship, offering valuable insights into this still relatively obscure period of transition from the ancient to the medieval world.Trade Review’In addition to rescuing the researcher seeking help from Sir Laurence's fine scholarship, succinct style, and keen mind from some bibliographical frustration, the editors have provided useful indexes that link all of the papers together. All of these features make this volume a valuable instrument for those interested in the events of the first millennium A.D. in Nubia and the Red Sea region.’ Journal of Near Eastern StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: Post-Meroitic Nubia - a reappraisal; Nubia - an African frontier zone; Rome beyond the southern Egyptian frontier; The international position of Sudan in Roman and medieval times; Greek and Roman expeditions to the Southern Sudan; The decline and fall of Meroe; An Ethiopian-Sudanese frontier zone in ancient history; The ’Christian topography’ and the Kingdom of Axum; A survey of Nubian origins; The problem of the Nubian X-Group; Comments on the origins and history of the Nobatae of Procopius; The early history of the Blemmyes; Tanqasi and the Noba; Aksum, Meroe, and the Ballana civilisation; The X-Group problem; A contemporary account of the conversion of the Sudan to Christianity; Christianity and the Kur’án; Prelude to Nubian Christianity; The nature of Nubian Christianity; Some thoughts on the conversion of Nubia to Christianity; The birth of Christian Nubia: some archaeological problems; Christianity in the Central Sudan: the Byzantine mission and Nubian Alwa; Notes on the topography of the Christian Nubian kingdoms; The emergence of the United Kingdom of Nubia; Studies in the later history of Nubia; Indexes.
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Saqi Books Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisCovers the entire history of modern Arabic literature from the late-19th century to the end of the 1980s, with examples drawn from countries as diverse as Egypt and Kuwait. Although the main accent is on the prose of Egypt and the countries of the Mashreq, North African literature is also included.
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Saqi Books Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisIntroduces the work of twenty-nine authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. This title provides a framework for Arab writing, locating it alongside contemporary world literature. It states that Arabic literature reflects the Western postmodern condition without denying its own traditions.Trade Review'The coverage of the region is admirable in terms of both geographical spread and literary genre - This collection of articles, carefully grouped around specific themes and the authors who invoke them, is an important contribution to the study of modern Arabic literature.' Roger Allen The breadth of this book is matched by its depth and erudition, and its balance of theory and close-reading of key texts which is thoroughly researched and resonate in detail, is admirable. It is an immensely valuable book, extraordinarily intelligent in its conception and design.' Sabry Hafez 'Providing illuminating scholarly references and critical insights, the essays themselves are at once academic and accessible - especially interesting for their attention to both well-known and less familiar Arab authors.' Summing up: Recommended. B. Harlow, University of Texas at Austin. CHOICE March 2011 'Barbara Winckler's study of The Stone of Laughter makes it clear that the themes chosen by the editors as distinctive of Arab postmodernism - the redefinition of the relationship between memory and identity, the relevance of 'interstices' as privileged spaces of literary production, the new awareness of gender as a cultural construction - often intersect in the writing of contemporary Arab authors. The reader's experience of the usefulness of the perspective suggested by these themes confirms the validity of the editors' choice and the critical relevance of the book as an important tool for understanding the new aesthetics of Arabic literature.' Lorenza Casini, Middle Eastern Literatures
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Rivers Oram Press Feminism and Poetry Language Experience Identity
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Africa World Press The Dance Of Death
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Africa World Press Emerging Perspectives On Ama Ata Aidoo
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Rowman & Littlefield The Minds Landscape William Bronk and
Book SynopsisIn the latter half of the 20th century, poet William Bronk (1918-1999) was a significant voice in the American literary landscape. This book attempts to present a perspective of 20th century literary history and interrogates the ideational, poetic, and cultural shifts as seen through the lens of Bronk's life as a writer.
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Bogle-l'Ouverture Press Ltd In the Trickster Tradition The Novels of Andrew
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Five Leaves Publications The Radical Twenties Aspects of Writing Politics
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Five Leaves Publications The Radical Twenties Aspects of Writing Politics
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McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. A Sacred Quest The Life and Writings of Mary
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McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. Mary Butts Scenes from the Life
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The Lilliput Press Ltd The Figure in the Cave And Other Essays
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