Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Association for Scottish Literary Studies George Douglas Browns House with the Green
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies George Mackay Browns Greenvoe Scotnotes Study
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Muriel Sparks Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Scotnotes
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Poetry of William Dunbar Scotnotes Study
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Liz Lochheads Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon A
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies 17 Poems of Edwin Morgan A Commentary Asls Audio
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Robert Louis Stevensons Kidnapped Catriona and
Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is one of the most important and influential writers of the modern era, admired and emulated by authors across the world from the 19th century to the present day. He also wrote some of the most original stories, creating iconic characters who have moved beyond the page to become parts of the broader collective culture. Christopher MacLachlan''s SCOTNOTE study guide examines three of Stevenson''s most popular novels. Sometimes dismissed as ''merely'' children''s fiction, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped and its sequel Catriona, feature young protagonists who come of age through their adventures, and who discover that those they look to for help and guidance may be more fallible and unreliable than they had first thought. This guide is suitable for senior school pupils and students at all levels.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Fifteen Poems of Iain Crichton Smith A Commentary
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Ian Rankins Black and Blue Scotnotes Study Guides
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Between the Lines W.D. Snodgrass in Conversation with Philip Hoy
Book SynopsisAn 80 page book, containing a 15,000 word interview, a 20 page comprehensive bibliography, and a representative selection of quotations from the poet''s critics and reviewers.W.D. Snodgrass in Conversation with Philip Hoy is rich in anecdote and memory - of Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, William Empson and others; it is fascinating, too, on Snodgrass''s experience of creative writing classes; it is good on Snodgrass''s own work - especially when he discusses his extraordinary cycle The Fuehrer Bunker - and its reception by readers (and others). There is, in short, much to enjoy and learn from here.Though the questions are asked by Hoy, he also has things to say that aren''t questions addressed to Snodgrass; what is presented is, that is to say, more of a conversation than interviews often are, and seems better for it. The book''s value is increased by the inclusion of what seems to be a pretty thorough bibliography of Snodgrass''s work, and of critical writings on him. Warmly recommended.Glyn Pusglove, The Swansea Review, 1999.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Woman
Book SynopsisAgnes Meadows' reputation as an International performance poet has made her a firm favourite at festivals all over the world, including the Austin International Poetry Festival, Mediterranean Poetry Festival, and Palestinian PEN's International Poetry Festival. Woman is a selection of new poems fused with work from; her two previous books You and Me and Quantum Love; and her CDs Agnes Meadows and Blues Shakin' My Heels.Trade Review"...poetry with its hair down and a wicked glint in its eye" - Jerusalem Times
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Iron Press EuroHaiku A Bilingual Anthology
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Philosophy of Science Fiction
Book SynopsisJames Burton is a research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, Germany. A former Alexander von Humboldt fellow, he has been a lecturer at the universities of Goldsmiths, Kent and Klagenfurt. His interdisciplinary research across philosophy, literature, cultural and media studies, concerns the myriad critical, cultural and ethical relationships between fiction, technology and the posthuman.Trade ReviewBurton’s monograph masterfully recuperates the forgotten or maligned aspects of both Dick’s and Bergson’s works and raises genuinely interesting questions about sf’s capacity to affect, influence, and foster positive change in the world. * Science Fiction Studies *Through a lucid exposition of Bergson and a careful analysis of Dick’s novels, [Burton] convincingly argues for their compatible views of salvation ... [His] study is innovative, elegantly written, and not only will it be of interest for scholars of cultural studies and philosophy, but also for science studies scholars. * Pulse: A History, Sociology and Philosophy of Science Journal *In investigating both the prolific and controversial science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick (1928–82) and Henri Bergson (1851–1941), whom William James deemed an intellectual genius, Burton (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin) takes a bifurcated path. Examining the strange affinity between these two seemingly different thinkers, the author navigates ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of soteriology. Both Dick and Bergson balked at the push toward mechanization, in which destruction of the planet seemed so immanent (as it still does today). Only collaboration between a science fiction writer and a philosopher could lead, Burton argues, to a realistic outlook that sutures contradictory imperatives. Their respective approaches may be said to fuse in fictionalizing/fabulation, which is a powerful tool of mechanization, yet is also capable of implementing a device for its undoing. This reviewer's favorite chapter deals with Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), adapted for the screen as Blade Runner in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott. Here the author covers provocative themes like robot theology, creative destruction, and salvation. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Thinking through the work of Philip K. Dick alongside the philosophy of Henri Bergson is no mere contrivance. By showing how each was writing at the edge of knowledge, both theirs and ours, Burton has fabulated a new thought with truly evental consequences for metafiction, ecology, and theology. * John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Kingston University, UK *In a brilliant act of superimposition, James Burton brings Henri Bergson’s evolutionary mysticism to bear on the divine invasions—in fiction and in life—of S-F writer Philip K. Dick. The vision of “immanent soteriology” that emerges, in which transcendent fictions jam the engines of necessity, not only illuminates the method behind Dick’s madness but reveals the crucial emancipatory role that fabulation can and does play within posthuman thought and religion. With clear thinking and graceful writing, Burton boldly indicates a “perturbation in the reality field” of contemporary materialism. * Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on References Introduction Philosophy and Science Fiction The Edge of the Known The Ethics of Balking Philip K. Dick Studies Note on Terminology: Fabulation Chapter One: Fabulation: Counteracting Reality Mechanization and the War-instinct The Biological Origins of Society Countering the Intellect The Morality of Violence Open Morality and the Misdirection of Mechanism True Mysticism: Immanent Salvation An Incomplete Soteriology Fabulation for the Open Conclusion Chapter Two: Fabulating Salvation in Four Early Novels Solar Lottery The World Jones Made Vulcan’s Hammer Time Out of Joint Conclusion: Super–everyman to Solar Shoe Salesman Chapter Three: The Empire That Never Ended The Open and the Universal The Life-Death Chiasmus The Fictitious Event The Messianic Tension The Remnant and Messianic Time The Magic of Language Sci-fi: the genre of ‘as not’ Conclusion: Gnostic Politics Chapter Four: Objects of Salvation: The Man in the High Castle The Fabulation of History Mechanization and Paralysis Worldly Remains Openings Between Worlds The Tyranny of the Concrete Objects of Salvation Conclusion: Reality Fields Chapter Five: How We Became Post-Android The Mechanization of Pot-healing The Alien God The Saviour in Need Robot Theology Humans: the Cosmic Bourgeoisie Android and Theoid Creative Destruction Conclusion Chapter Six: The Reality of Valis Salvator Salvandus The Believer and the Sceptic The Pharmakonic God Reduplicative Paramnesia (Time Becomes Space) The Fabulative Cure Recursion: Valis as Limitlessly Iterative Soteriology Befriending God Conclusion Epilogue: Soter-ecologies Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Fairy Tale in the Modern Age Andrew Teverson 1. Forms of the Marvelous Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman 2. Adaptation Mayako Murai 3. Gender and Sexuality Jeana Jorgensen 4. Humans and Non-humans: Nature, Anima, Matter Amy Greenhough 5. Monsters and the Monstrous Christa Jones and Claudia Schwabe 6. Spaces: The Magically Real Spaces of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Fairy Tale Sara Upstone 7. Socialization: Traditional Wonder Tales and Other Guides for Growing Up Jill Terry Rudy 8. Power: The Archaeology of a Genre Kimberly J. Lau Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Love and Russian Literature
Book SynopsisRussia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.Trade ReviewTo paraphrase James Joyce, this is a book about how love loves to love Russian love, or how prominent Anglo-American cultural figures in the first half of the 20th century got swept away by human and literary manifestations of “Russianness.” * Galya Diment, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington, USA *Ira Nadel takes readers on a dizzying journey to the mysterious, intoxicating world of love & literature, passion & politics. Embodied in nine paradoxical stories of thinkers, writers, diplomats, fermented with the live yeast of Russian’s catastrophic history, the book plunges you into the thunderstorm atmosphere of a century of upheaval. A fantastic celebration of Modernism’s centennial! * Olga Panova, Lead Research Fellow, Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Magnanimous Despair’ Prelude: Walter Benjamin in Love Ch. 1 Somerset Maugham: ‘Love and Russian Literature’ Ch. 2 H. Bruce Lockhart: Love and Revolution Ch. 3 Jane Harrison: In Love with Language Ch. 4 William Gerhardie: Flattery is Not Enough Interlude: Edmund Wilson: In Love with Lenin/ EdmundWilson Russian Love Ch. 5 H.G. Wells: Triangles Ch. 6 Virginia Woolf: The Sound of Russian Love Postscript: Isaiah Berlin: From the Finland Station Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sappho and Catullus in TwentiethCentury Italian
Book SynopsisGoing beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the present. Sappho's and Catullus' reception has shaped a transnational network of poets and intellectuals, helping to define ideas of origins, gender, sexuality and national identities. This book shows that across time and cultures translations and rewritings of Sappho and Catullus articulate modernist poetics of myth and fragmentation, forms of confessionalism and post-modern pastiche. The inquiry focuses on Italian and North American poetry as two central yet understudied hubs of Sappho's and Catullus' modern reception, also linked by a rich mutual intellectual exchange: key case-studies include Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, H.D., Salvatore Quasimodo, Robert Lowell, Rosita Copioli and Anne Carson, and cover a wide range of unpubliTrade ReviewPiantanida is to be commended on a thoughtful and fascinating study, and her work deserves to be followed and appreciated. * Classics for All *My favourite part of this book comes at the end of an excellent chapter on the Italian poet and translator, Salvatore Quasimodo, where Piantanida recounts Mary Barnard’s encounter with Lirici Greci … Piantanida’s significant achievement is to offer anglophone readers the chance to encounter hugely important literary figures such as Pascoli and Quasimodo, and to remind us of the important status of Italy and its modern and contemporary literature in classical reception studies. * The Classical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Slow Fire 1. Mythical Rewritings 2. Modernist Rites 3. Classical Hermeticism 4. The Self and the Object 5. Body vs Soul 6. Postmodern Sappho and Catullus Epilogue Endnotes List of Manuscripts Audio Visual Material Works Cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat
Book SynopsisEdwidge Danticat's prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside, essays, and writing for children, the Haitian-American writer has throughout her oeuvre tackled important contemporary themes including racism, imperialism, anti-immigrant politics, and sexual violence. With chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars, this is the most up-to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st-century scholarship on Edwidge Danticat's work. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat covers such topics as: The full range of Danticat's writing from her novels and short stories to essays, life writing and writing for children and young adults. Major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives including from establishing fields fields of literaTrade ReviewThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat is a true first. It is a collection of luminous essays written by first-rate international writers and a welcome addition to the existing scholarship on a prolific Haitian American author known for her skill at handling numerous genres. * English Studies *This edited collection is a comprehensive analysis of Danticat’s writing from multi-themes, multi-genres, and multi-dimensions. Through exploring insightful intertexts and situating her work carefully in context, this collection emphasizes Danticat’s significant contribution to Black literature and represents new directions in the study of her works. * Contemporary Women's Writing *The book highlights various points of entry into Danticat’s impressive oeuvre and would be a fantastic component of a course on the author. It should definitely be owned by every academic library. * H-Net Reviews *Edwidge Danticat continues to be a shining light in contemporary literature, her brilliance radiating through and beyond Haitian, Caribbean, and American writing. This exciting new volume will be an essential guide for scholars, students, and general readers. Chapters range through themes as diverse as death, disaster, food, girlhood, creolization, and memory, and together are as rich and diverse as Danticat's own ever-evolving body of work. * Martin Munro, Eminent Scholar and Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, USA *The Handbook to Edwidge Danticat is an extraordinarily rich and varied exploration of the kaleidoscopic arc of Danticat's writings. Its unrivaled comparative and interdisciplinary scope, with pivotal contributions from a broad range of her most insightful and committed readers, as well as the author herself, marks a definitive and essential contribution to our understanding of Edwidge Danticat's lyrical exploration of Haitian cultural and diasporic experience. * Professor Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University, USA *A timely compilation of essays; a beloved talented writer! This amazing combination enriches our libraries but above all our joy in reading and teaching the work of our lovely Edwidge Danticat. Described by many as a Caribbean griot because of her love for stories and their histories, and her ability to tell and write them, the literary world of this major exponent of Caribbean and Black Women's writing in international contexts is brought into our myriad spaces of political and intellectual consciousness. * Carole Boyce-Davies, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies and English Africana Studies, Cornell University, USA *Table of ContentsI. LITERARY BEGINNINGS Editors’ Introduction A Literary Life and Legacy: Danticat’s Writerly Inheritances Jana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USA Nadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA “All Geography Is Within Me”: Writing Beginnings, Life, Death, Freedom, and Salt Edwidge Danticat Interview with Edwidge Danticat Nadège T. Clitandre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA II. ON VIOLENCE AND VIOLATED BODIES: BIOPOLITICS IN DANTICAT’S TEXTS Reconstructive Textual Surgery in Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and The Dew-Breaker Judith Misrahi-Barak, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France “I Might Lose All My Life”: Brother, I’m Dying and (Black) Immigration Discourse in the US Myriam J. A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, USA “Alleys, Capillaries, Thorns”: The Violated Terre-Natale of Ville Rose Jana Evans Braziel, Western College Endowed Professor, Miami University, USA III. ON DEATH AND DYING: NECROPOLITICS IN DANTICAT’S TEXTS Losing Your (M)Other: Danticat’s Narratives of Un/Belonging and Un/Dying Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University, USA Lòt bò dlo: Producing Haitian Spaces of Death and Diaspora in Danticat’s The Dew Breaker Anne Brüske, Heidelberg University, Germany Death and the Maiden: Writing Death in Danticat’s Fiction Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo (PhD), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus IV. TIFI AK FANM, GIRLS AND WOMEN “Somebody, Anybody Sing a Black Girl’s Song…”: Danticat and Haitian Girlhood Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Boston College, USA The Good Daughter: Danticat’s Migrating Memories Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine “I Am the One Telling It”: Resilient Children & Shadow Texts in Danticat’s Picture Books Cara Byrne, Case Western University, USA V. ECRI ANGAJE: POLITICAL WRITING: DANTICAT AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL Haiti Faces Difficult Questions Ten Years After a Devastating Earthquake Edwidge Danticat Create Dangerously: A Poetics of Writing as Memorial Art; The Text as Echo Chamber Anja Bandau, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Haiti’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future: Danticat’s New Yorker Column as Platform for Public Intellectualism Maia Butler, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, USA Megan Feifer, Medaille College VI. FOOD, HAITI, AND HAITIAN CULINARY/LITERARY INHERITANCES Edwidge Danticat's Kitchen History Vale´rie Loichot, Emory University, USA “A People Do Not Throw Their Geniuses Away”: Danticat’s “Kitchen Poet” Literary Antecedents Wilson C. Chen, Benedictine University, USA Scattering and Gathering: Danticat, Food, and (the) Haitian Experience(s) Robyn Cope, Binghamton University, USA VII. THEORETICAL APPROACHES Sea, Stone, Sky, And Cemetery: Vodou’s Divine Nature and Religious Archetypes in Danticat’s Krik? Krak! and After the Dance Kyrah Malika Daniels, Boston College, USA “So Much Had Fallen into The Sea”: An Ecocritical Approach to Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light Kristina Gibby, Utah Valley University, USA “Aha!”: Danticat and Creolization Carine Mardorossian, State University at Buffalo, USA Memory and The Possibilities of the Short Story Sequence in Krik? Krak! W. Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA VIII. HAITI, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AND TRANSNATIONAL HISPANIOLA ‘Neither Strangers Nor Friends’: Transnational Hispaniola and the Uneven Intimacies of The Farming of Bones John D. Ribó, Florida State University, USA “Walk too far in either direction and people speak a different language”: Navigating Hispaniola in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and “Nineteen Thirty-Seven” Ramon Ant. Victoriano-Martinez, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada IX. CRITICAL SOURCES Bibliography of Writings by Edwidge Danticat Bibliography of Literary Criticism on Edwidge Danticat Biographical Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC John Banville and His Precursors
Book SynopsisBringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville's novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry James, to thinkers such as Freud, Heidegger, and Blanchot. Reading the full range of Banville's writings - from his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea to his latest book, Mrs Osmond John Banville and His Precursors reveals the richness of the author's work. In this way, the book also raises questions about the contemporary moment's relationship to a variety of intellectual and cultural traditions - Romanticism, Modernism, existentialism and how the significance of these can be appreciated in new and often surprising ways.Trade ReviewJohn Banville and His Precursors includes a number of intellectual delights. ... [it] is the resounding evidence that reading Banville is a life-long pursuit and delight. * Irish Studies Review *Table of ContentsContributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction – Michael Springer, independent scholar Part one: National and transnational currents 1. John Banville and the idea of the precursor: some meditations – Derek Hand, Dublin City University, Ireland 2. Unknown unity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville – Peter Boxall, University of Sussex, UK Part two: Literary Engagements 3. ‘The vain thing menaced by the touch of the real’: John Banville as a precursor to Henry James – Darren Borg, Los Angeles Pierce College, USA 4. From Isabel Archer to Mrs Osmond: John Banville reinterprets Henry James – Elke D’hoker, University of Leuven, Belgium 5. Afterlives of a supreme fiction: John Banville’s dialogue with Wallace Stevens – Pietra Palazzolo, The Open University, UK 6. Effacing the subject: Banville, Kleist and a world without people – Rebecca Downes, independent scholar 7. The limits of simile: Rilke, Stevens, and Banville’s scepticism – Michael Springer 8. John Banville and Hugo von Hofmannsthal: language, mundane revelation, and profane sacrality – Joakim Wrethed, Stockholm University, Sweden Part three: Philosophical, theoretical, and artistic forebears 9. ‘A fool’s errand’: Blanchot, mourning, and The Sea – Karen McCarthy 10. Reading Banville with Lacan: hysteric aesthetics in The Book of Evidence – Mehdi Ghassemi, University of Lille, France 11. Existential precursors and contemporaries in Banville’s Alex Cleave trilogy – Stephen Butler, Ulster University, Northern Ireland 12. ‘an earthly glow’: Heidegger and the uncanny in Eclipse and The Sea – Michael Springer 13. John Banville’s ekphrastic experiments – Neil Murphy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC J.M. Coetzee and the Archive
Book SynopsisMaking extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and academic, this volume investigates the historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of Coetzee''s oeuvre. Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee''s early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence. Navigating Coetzee's interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice. It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and suggesTrade ReviewJ. M. Coetzee & the Archive is the first edited collection to focus explicitly on Coetzee’s archive. By turns informative, revelatory, thought-provoking, and inspiring, the essays and “conversations” in this volume broach new ways of engaging with Coetzee’s corpus, and contribute to current theoretical debates about “the archival turn” in literary-critical studies. * Carrol Clarkson, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Kai Easton , Marc Farrant & Hermann Wittenberg I. Authorship and Autre-biography 1. Kai Easton (SOAS University of London, UK) – ‘Landmarks: Reading Coetzee’s Maternal Lines’ 2. Shaun Irlam (University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA) – ‘Summertime Sadness: Coetzee, coordinates & negation of the archive’ 3. Valeria Mosca (Independent Scholar) – ‘On the Loss of Fathers and Letters: reading Summertime and The Childhood of Jesus alongside Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever’ II. History, Politics & the Archive 4. Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary University of London, UK) – ‘Writing, Politics, Position: Coetzee and Gordimer in and out of the archive’ 5. Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)– ‘Out of the Dark Chamber: violence, desire and the late apartheid state in the textual history of Waiting for the Barbarians’ III: Archival Methods: Practice, Data, Process 6. Peter Johnston (Cambridge Assessment, UK) - ‘Humming with fear of sincerity and fabulator’: first observations from the Coetzee corpus and the Coetzee bot 7. Michael Green (Northumbria University, UK) – ‘On Reflection: Coetzee, the archive, and practice research’ IV. On Literary Objects: Form and Style in the Archive 8. David Isaacs (Independent Scholar) – ‘Archival Realism: Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace and the realm of revision’ 9. Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia, Cyrpus) – ‘In Pursuit of Style: Coetzee reading Beckett in the archive’ V. Philosophy and the Archive: Between Life and Truth 10. Marc Farrant (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - ‘The Aura of Truth’: Coetzee’s archive, realism, and the question of literary authority’ 11. Richard A. Barney (University of Albany, SUNY, USA) – ‘Coetzee, biopolitics, and the archive of impersonality’ 12. Russell Samolsky (UC Santa Barbara, USA) – ‘Shades of the Archive: J. M. Coetzee, the paradox of poetic sovereignty, and the lives of literary beings’ VI. Conversations with Coetzee 13. Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) – ‘Curating Coetzee: from Austin to Adelaide’ 14. Richard Mosse (Artist, Ireland) – ‘Incoming/Waiting for the Barbarians’ 15. Kai Easton (SOAS, UK) – ’34** South’
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hacking in the Humanities
Book SynopsisAaron Mauro is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Brock University, Canada.Trade ReviewOpen, accessible, engaging, energetic, and enthusing – Hacking in the Humanitiesexplores essential impulses of today’s digital humanities in the context of their intellectual foundations, their current possibilities, and their necessary reflection of and in the human condition. * Ray Siemens, University of Victoria, Canada *Not just a ‘how to’ book, this is a ‘why to do it’ book for anyone who seriously uses digital tools for research. Important for those who analyze how things work in the digital realm, especially for academics in the humanities and social sciences, this book goes way beyond simple rules and delves into the deeper sources, and implications, of digital (in)security. Any careful cyborg (and we are all cyborgs!), needs to read this book. It is a matter of our digital well-being, which is just as important as our biological health. * Chris Hables Gray, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Human Exploits: An Introduction to Hacking and the Humanities 2. “Hack the Planet”: Pop Hackers and the Demands of a Real World Resistance 3. Academic Attack Surfaces: Culture Jamming the Future and XML Bombs 4. Supply Chain Attacks and Knowledge Networks: Network Sovereignty and the Interplanetary Internet 5.Cryptographic Agility and the Right to Privacy: Secret Writing and the Cypherpunks 6. Biohacking and Autonomous Androids: Human Evolution and Biometric Data 7. Gray Hat Humanities: Surveillance Capitalism, Object Oriented Ontology, and Design Fiction Selected Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Art and Science of Making the New Man in
Book SynopsisThe idea that morally, mentally, and physically superior new men' might replace the currently existing mankind has periodically seized the imagination of intellectuals, leaders, and reformers throughout history. This volume offers a multidisciplinary investigation into how the new man' was made in Russia and the early Soviet Union in the first third of the 20th century. The traditional narrative of the Soviet new man' as a creature forged by propaganda is challenged by the strikingly new and varied case studies presented here. The book focuses on the interplay between the rapidly developing experimental life sciences, such as biology, medicine, and psychology, and countless cultural products, ranging from film and fiction, dolls and museum exhibits to pedagogical projects, sculptures, and exemplary agricultural fairs. With contributions from scholars based in the United States, Canada, the UK, Germany and Russia, the picture that emerges is emphatically more complex, contradictory, Trade ReviewKrementsov and Howell have assembled a host of original pieces of research from a range of humanities’ subfields to illuminate the multiplicity of ways in which Russians negotiated, envisioned, and performed the fantasies of humankind’s renovation across the first four decades of the twentieth century. * Andy Byford, Director of Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK *The New Man has long been recognized as a crucial topic by those who study revolutionary Russia, the early Soviet Union, and Stalinism. Its study takes a big step forward in this wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume. Delving into science, philosophy, ideology, education, literature, film, exhibitions, and more, the works gathered here aim to recover actors’ meanings and intent when invoking the New Man in specific contexts. These investigations, taken together, bring us closer to understanding why the New Man became so central to the Soviet century. * Michael David-Fox, Historian of modern Russia and the USSR, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada) Part 1 – Nurturing the New Man 1. Encyclopedic Worldbuilding: Alexander Bogdanov and the Cognitive Creation of the New Man Michael Coates (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 2. ‘The RoadtoLife’: Educating the New Man Lyubov Bugaeva (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) 3. The New Man in the Nursery: Making Soviet Dolls and Regulating Children’s Play in the 1920s and 30s Olga Ilyukha (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Part 2 – Imagining the New Man 4. New Sciences, New Worlds, and ‘New Men’ Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada) 5. Entertaining Sciences, Unlikely Horrors: The Changing Image of Man in Soviet Popular-Scientific Literary Genres Matthias Schwartz (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany) 6. The New Man as a Monster of Eugenic Imagination: The Criminal Brain in Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘Heart of a Dog’ and James Whale’s Frankenstein Irina Golovacheva (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) Part 3 – Displaying the New Man 7. ‘A School of the Peasantry of the Future’: Constructing the Image of a ‘New Peasant’ at the 1923 All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition Olga Elina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) 8. Revolutionary Evolution in Apes and Humans in the 1920s: Sculpture and Constructs of the New Man at the Moscow Darwin Museum Pat Simpson (University of Hertfordshire, UK) 9. A New Man in the Ethnographic Museum: Between the Socialist Content and the National Form Stanislav Petriashin (Russian Museum of Ethnography, Russia) Part 4 – Conclusion The New Man: One Hundred Years Later Yvonne Howell (University of Richmond, USA) List of Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hope Form and Future in the Work of James Joyce
Book SynopsisHope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce's fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours. Rando explores how Joyce's texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He examines how Joyce envisions alternatives to the prevailing conventions of hope throughout his works and, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, develops formal techniques of spatializing hope to contemplate it from all sides. Casting fresh light on the ways in which hope animates key aspects of Joyce's approach to literary content and form, Rando moves beyond the limitations of negative critique and literary historicism to present a Joyce who thinks agilely about the future, politics, and possibility.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Hope and Form in Joyce Chapter One: Without Paralysis: Hope, Hunger, and Spiritual Liberation in Dubliners Chapter Two: The Future of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Künstlerroman and Hope Chapter Three: A Humid Nightblue Dot: The Spatialization of Hope in Ulysses Chapter Four: Daydreams of History and Reincarnation in Finnegans Wake Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Why We Still Need Russian Literature
Book SynopsisFor nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature explores the familiar names of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to connect readers with these experiences. With a lively, jargon-free style and insightful analyses of thought-provoking texts, this concise volume helps you to understand more fully the pleasure to be found in reading, and re-reading. By identifying what readers seek and find in Russian booksfrom aesthetically pleasing descriptions to apt psychological renderingsAngela Brintlinger aims to enhance the gratification of reading, giving armchair travelers an excuse to embark on a series of fascinating journeys. Drawing on BTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1: Introduction: Why we need Russian literature 2: In the beginning there was Pushkin 3: Larger than life: Leo Tolstoy’s world 4: Dostoevsky, amateur psychologist 5: Chekhov and the pleasures of the written word Afterword Appendix: More books to read Works cited and consulted
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Making World English
Book SynopsisUncovering the role of literature, late imperialism, and the rise of new models of internationalism as integral to the invention of Global English, this book focuses on three key figures from the Vocabulary Control Movement - C.K. Ogden, Harold Palmer, and Michael West - who competed for market share for their respective language teaching systems - Basic English, the Palmer Method, and the New Method - through battles over word lists and teaching methods in the 1920s and 30s. Drawing on archives from the Carnegie Corporation and considering language teaching in eight global sites, this book analyzes how a series of conferences in New York and London resolved their conflicts and produced a consolidated, international standard form of English. As a postcolonial approach to the development of the field of English Language Teaching, it reveals how these language debates were proxy battles over an idealized global subject: an urban, secular, consumer moving seamlessly between the tribal andTrade ReviewMaking World English is a bracing study of the deliberate manner in which English became a world language. Michael Malouf goes far beyond critique to reveal the historical debates and policy moves that contributed to Anglophone dominance. With exemplary care and precision, he uncovers the hierarchies embedded in standardized English, tracing them back to the Basic English debates in the interwar years. Malouf challenges Global English as a natural development from the language’s cultural capital by locating its hegemony in the aftereffects of empire. This important book is essential reading for students and scholars of modern linguistics, literary history, and British modernism. * Gauri Viswanathan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA and author of 'Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India' *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Debating English Part One: Managing English Chapter One: Pioneers and Heretics Chapter Two: Vocabulary Control and Colonialism Chapter Three: Literary Simplification and the Global Subject Part Two: Making English Chapter Four: Basic’s Critics and World English Chapter Five: The Carnegie Conference and Its Discontents Conclusion Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Community in Contemporary British Fiction
Book SynopsisExamining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present. Including an extended critical introduction that positions the individual chapters in relation to broader conceptual questions, chapters combine close reading and engagement with the latest theories and concepts to engage with the complex regionalities of the United Kingdom, with representation of writers from all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland. Including specific focus on the most challenging issues for community in the past five years, notably Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis, with a broader understanding of themes of local and national belonging, this book offers detailed discussions of writers including Ali Smith, Niall Griffiths, John McGregor, Max Porter, Amanda CTable of ContentsIntroduction Peter Ely and Sara Upstone, Introduction: ‘Rewriting Community in an Age of Crisis and Nostalgia’. Section One: National Community 1. Robert Eaglestone, ‘“The little links are broke”: Ethnocentrism, Englishness and Loneliness in Contemporary Political Science, Political Theory and Contemporary British Fiction’. 2. Alison Garden, ‘“Our uneasy mixed community”: Cross-community Romance, Magic Realism and Northern Ireland’. 3. Timothy Baker, ‘Incomers and Settlers: Nomadism and Entanglement in Contemporary Scottish Fiction’. Section Two: Speculative Community 4. Peter Ely, ‘Beyond the Multicultural: Queer Community in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet’. 5. Caroline Lusin, ‘Neoliberalism and (Sub)Urban Identities in 21st-Century London Novels’. 6. Devon Campbell-Hall, ‘Writing Othered Asian British Skins: Interrogating Racism in Fictional Asian British Communities’. Section Three: Precarious Community 7. Kristian Shaw, ‘Performing the Nation: A Disunited Kingdom in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England’. 8. Emily Horton, ‘“Why would you play a game like that?”: Community and the Pandemic in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun’. 9. Sara Upstone, ‘Even the Ghosts: Community in the Wake’.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Experimentalists
Book SynopsisThe Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues, is brought together to produce a comprehensive history of this ill-starred group of renegade writers. Whether the bolshie B.S. Johnson, the globetrotting Ann Quin, the cerebral Christine Brooke-Rose, or the omnipresent Anthony Burgess, these writers each brought their own unique contributions to literature at a time uniquely open to their iconoclastic message. The journey connects historical moments from Bletchley Park, to Paris May '68, to terrorist groups of the 1970s. A tale of love, loss, friendship and a shared vision, this book is a fascinating insight into a bold, provocative and influential group of writers whose collective story has gone untold, until now.Trade ReviewA whimsical and witty romp through the writing, lives and turbulent times of British experimental writers of the 1960s. Darlington tells a well-informed and illuminating story that enriches scholarship and engages new readers alike. * Nonia Williams, Lecturer in Literature, University of East Anglia, UK *A truly amazing book! - Philip Tew, Professor Emeritus, Brunel University, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. 1960 and Before 3. 1960 to 1963 4. 1964 to 1965 5. 1966 to 1967 6. 1968 to 1969 7. 1970 to 1972 8. 1973 and After Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Contemporary Fiction Celebrity Culture and the
Book SynopsisCarey Mickalites is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Memphis, USA. He is the author of Modernism and Market Fantasy, as well as a number of articles on modernist and contemporary literature. He regularly teaches courses and seminars on modernism, contemporary British fiction, colonial and postcolonial literature, and literary and cultural theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fictions of Celebrity and the Markets for Modernism Chapter One: Signature to Brand: Martin Amis’s Negotiations with Literary Celebrity Chapter Two: “To invent a literature”: Ian McEwan’s Commercial Modernism Chapter Three: From Modernism to Postcolonial Inc.: Authorizing Salman Rushdie Chapter Four: What the Public Wants: Prize Culture and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Aesthetic of Disillusionment Chapter Five: Zadie Smith, Inauthenticity, and the Ends of Multicultural Modernism Chapter Six: Valuing the Marginal, or, How Eimear McBride and Anna Burns Reframe Irish Modernism Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles
Book SynopsisCaroline Magennis is Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Salford, UK. She is the author of Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel (2010).Trade ReviewThe volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding not only of emergent themes in contemporary writing, but also of how critical writing is a form of engagement. Magennis’s work is an invitation for new voices, critical and creative, and new ways of thinking, and will be enjoyed by many readers. * C21 Literature *I was lucky enough to be an early reader of this book and it brings a radical, humane rush of energy to Northern Irish literary criticism. It’s a privilege to be so closely and sharply read alongside so many contemporary writers. * Lucy Caldwell, novelist and playwright *Magennis has cultivated a vital space and an important feminist methodological framework to inspire the next generation of scholarly thinking about Northern Ireland. The themes of intimacy, affect, and pleasure that structure this text offer a profound rethinking of the study of Northern Ireland, one that addresses the people who live there as subjects with complex needs and desires than simply products of war. Overall, this is a significant and rigorous body of research from an exciting and conscientious voice at the forefront of the field of Northern Irish studies. * Irish University Review *Fascinating and educative. * Bookmunch *Throughout the chapters Magennis’s voice is clear, sharp, passionate and unapologetic, and this becomes more than an academic monograph, but an almost autoethnographic journey to reimagine how we read and understand contemporary Northern Irish fiction. Its honesty and intimacy are engaging, as if Magennis is addressing each of us, regaling the reader with stories and analysis that bring the text to life. That is not to say that this is not a rigorous researched monograph, on the contrary. Magennis’ work is without question detailed, thoughtful and measured. But her writing style is accessible, clear, concise, and retains a sense of personality often missing from so many academic monographs. * Irish Studies Review *Genuinely innovative. This book offers a refreshingly provocative and much needed critical reassessment of hegemonic readings of Northern Irish fiction. It affirms its timeliness by situating the importance of intimacy, the body, and pleasure not only within the specific context of post-Agreement Northern Ireland but also the current COVID-19 pandemic. * Dr Stefanie Lehner, Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature, Queen’s University Belfast, UK *Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Intimate History of Northern Irish Writing 2. Intimacy 3. Pleasure 4. Skin 5. Milkman 6. Open Endings Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Literature and the Telephone
Trade ReviewNot just a book about telephony and literature, but a book about how the telephone has actively contributed to the deconstruction of literature and culture, while steadily working to deconstruct our own lives. Jackson acts as the deft operator of a complex international switchboard, taking us through the developments of this process of deconstruction, by way of an exciting range of texts by twentieth-century and twenty first-century novelists, poets, and theorists. * Nicoletta Asciuto, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, University of York, UK *Jackson connects literature and the telephone in powerful and invigorating ways. Through lucid readings of Frank O’Hara, Tom Raworth, Fady Joudah, Muriel Spark, Ali Smith, Mourid Barghouti and others, we come to see how phones are not just thematically important but how they pervade all of our thinking about the nature of modern literature. Literature and the Telephone is also a special kind of listening book, with a particular ear for questions of responding and responsibility. Jackson never loses sight of the inextricably entangled everyday dimensions of her topic – from the nuclear hotline to the Israeli treatment of Palestinians, from refugee boat deaths to the ecological damage and toxic afterlives of the objects so many of us carry around, mostly without thinking, practically everywhere we go. * Nicholas Royle, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Sussex, UK *Jackson’s elegant study reconceptualizes the relationship between reading, writing, listening and calling, with an awareness of the wider ethical, political and spatial possibilities of the exchange. In the true spirit of pioneering work like Nicholas Royle's Telepathy and Literature and Avital Ronell's Telephone Book, it is a must-read for anyone fascinated by the uncanny ramifications between the literary and the tele-technological. * Laurent Milesi, Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China *Table of ContentsPreface: Hello, yes? Introduction – Switchboard Chapter 1 – Queer Lines: Voice and Desire in E. M. Forster, Dana Spiotta and Haruki Murakami Chapter 2 – Scrambled Messages: Networks of Signification in Patrick Hamilton and Jon McGregor Chapter 3 – Telepoetics: Interference and Errancy in Frank O’Hara, Tom Raworth and Fady Joudah Chapter 4 – Secrets: Call and Response in Muriel Spark Chapter 5 – Listening--In: Reading Surveillance in Graham Greene, Anna Burns and Will Self Chapter 6 – Calling without Calling: Mourid Barghouti, Jacques Derrida and ‘The International Day of Telephones’ Chapter 7 – Distress Calls: New (Im)mobilities in Behrouz Boochani and Asiya Wadud Conclusion – Telefutures: Electronic Waste in Emily St John Mandel and Ling Ma Afterword – The Long Goodbye Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modernists and the Theatre
Book SynopsisJames Moran is Professor of Modern English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. W.B. Yeats: Theatre and Shakespearean Elitism 2. Ezra Pound: Theatre and Anti-Semitism 3. D.H. Lawrence: Theatre and the Working Class 4. James Joyce: Theatre and Sexual/Gender Non-Conformity 5. T.S. Eliot: Theatre and Popularity 6. Virginia Woolf: Theatre and Gender Equality Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Academic Great War Modernists
Book SynopsisTaking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War. A group that Perdita Schaffner described as another Bloomsbury set', the Mecklenburgh Square writers, like the Bloomsbury Group proper, lived in squares' and loved in triangles', in Dorothy Parker's famous formulation. Geographically adjacent, these sets intersected socially and, at points, in their aesthetics: both practiced innovative forms of what may broadly be defined as life writing'. But, demarcating the Mecklenburgh Square writers from the Bloomsbury Set, the former had its origins in the transatlantic avant-garde: Lawrence. H.D., Aldington (and John Cournos) were all associated with Imagism, the poetic movement which instantiated Anglo-American modernism. Considered as a pro-tem colle
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Works of Graham Greene Volume 3
Book SynopsisOver a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work. Featuring new material from the recently expanded Graham Greene archive which will be of particular interest and relevance to Greene scholars, it also covers contents of other archives in the UK and elsewhere in a series of mini-essays.Trade ReviewThis final volume of The Works of Graham Greene is a fitting conclusion to Wise and Hill’s years of research. It will be invaluable to Greene scholars and to anyone writing about modern British literature. * A Sort of Newsletter *Shrewd literary detectives, Jon Wise and Mike Hill have dedicated many years to hunting down the lost publications of Graham Greene. This third volume of their bibliography, featuring the recovery of many works and presenting a series of essays on the writing life of this author, brings to a magnificent conclusion a series for which authors and readers can be immensely grateful. * Richard Greene, Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada *An essential guide for anyone who wants to take Greene more seriously than as an entertainer. * Motonori Sato, Professor of English, Keio University, Japan *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Section 1A: Additional Material relating to Graham Greene’s Published Work Part A: Books by Graham Greene Part B: Contributions by Graham Greene to books Part C: Contributions by Graham Greene to Newspapers, Journals and Magazines Part D: Letters written by Graham Greene Part E: Published Interviews with Graham Greene Part F: Films made of Greene’s Fiction & Films written by Graham Greene Bibliography of Published Works by Graham Greene Section 1B: Part A: New Entries relating to Graham Greene’s Published Work Part B: Contributions by Graham Greene to books Part C: Contributions by Graham Greene to Newspapers, Journals and Magazines Part D: Letters written by Graham Greene Part E: Published Interviews with Graham Greene Bibliography of Published Works by Graham Greene Section 2A: Additional Material relating to Graham Greene’s Unpublished Works & Archival Papers Section 2B: New Entries relating to the Unpublished Works & Archival Material of Graham Greene Part 1: Context & Analysis Archives in the United Kingdom Archive in Sweden Part 2: Listings Archives in the United Kingdom Archives in the United States of America Other Archives Section 3 Essays INDEX
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary
Book SynopsisDr Raphael Kabo is an independent researcher investigating cultural production in, and adjacent to, contemporary global activist movements. He is a co-founder of the anarchist close reading collective 'Beyond Gender' and the research network 'Utopian Acts'.Trade ReviewUtopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature makes a brilliant case for the importance of the utopian imagination in literature and social movements. In readings of contemporary authors like Kim Stanley Robinson, Juliana Spahr, and Mohsin Hamid, Raphael Kabo shows that the dream of a better society isn’t a luxury but a necessity. -- Christian P. Haines, Associate Professor, Penn State University, USATable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One. Redefining Utopia: Utopian critical theory and utopian spatiality Chapter Two. Escaping the Present: Precarity and surplus in a time of crisis Chapter Three. Commons Beyond Capitalism: That Winter the Wolf Came Chapter Four. Utopias Beyond Borders: Exit West Chapter Five. Utopias Beyond Disaster: New York 2140 Chapter Six. Utopias Beyond Death: The Book of Joan and Walkaway Epilogue Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mapping Middleearth
Book SynopsisIn this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien's corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his legendarium. Undertaking a diegetic literary analysis of the maps as examples of Middle-earth's own cultural output, Behrooz reveals a sub-created tradition of cartography that articulates specific power dynamics between mapmaker, map reader, and what is being mapped, as well as the human/nonhuman binary that represents human's control over the natural world.Mapping Middle-earth surveys how Tolkien frames cartography as an inherently political act that embodies a desire for control of that which it maps. In turn, it analyses harmful contemporary engagements with land that i
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Physics and the Modernist AvantGarde
Book SynopsisDeveloping a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York. This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers' thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science's new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein's visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.Trade ReviewIn a book that manages to provide lucid explanations of complex physics concepts, Eames traces a wide range of different paths by which the developments in physics and art in the early twentieth century influenced each other. Filled to the brim with entertaining anecdotes about the various authors and their shocking lives, the text is at its strongest in its ability to highlight the tangential roads of influence between various art movements and developments in physics. * The Modernist Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Poetry and Physics The Age of Revolutions: An Overview of Physics in the Period 1905-1945 Relativity Theory The Emergence of Quanta Visualizing the Atom The Quantum Revolution The New York Avant-Garde Four New York Poets Relative Measure: William Carlos Williams’s Einsteinian Poetics Cubist Poetics in Spring and All (1923) Revising Relativity: The Second Version of ‘St Francis Einstein of the Daffodils’ ‘The only reality that we can know is MEASURE’: Einstein in Paterson Mina Loy’s Energy Physics Parody Physics: Loy’s Futurist Satires Physics without Parody: ‘Parturition’ (1914) Loy’s Atomic Spiritualism The Man of Electric Vitality: Insel (1933-1936) Back to the Bomb: Rethinking Atomic Dissolution the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Physical Systems Dada’s Cult of Indeterminacy Smashing Duchamp’s Glass: The Baroness Against the Dada Scientists Quantum Dissolution in Weimar Berlin ‘Life is science’: Order Through Science in the Baroness’s Later Poetry The Quantum Poetics of Wallace Stevens and Max Planck The Visualizability Question and the Poetic Image The Image in Superposition: Stevens and Surrealism Stevens’s Phantom Problem ‘Invisible or visible or both’: An Abstracted Poetics Conclusion APPENDIX 1 – Parallel Timeline Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Tree Climbing Cure
Book SynopsisOur relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them.Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing.Bringing together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth, folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about women climbing trees. Discussing, among others, the literary works of MaTrade ReviewThe Tree Climbing Cure confirms what many of us knew as children—that there’s something intrinsically good about gazing down at the world from precarious perches in trees. It’s no wonder that there’s abundant literature and art devoted to the tree-climbing (and other ways of being near trees), and Andy Brown deeply examines this aesthetic tradition in his excellent contribution to the current movement of arboreal ecocriticism. -- Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USAIf the art of climbing rock has a long and popular literary and artistic history, why are those who climb trees associated with immaturity and derangement? Who knew that tree climbers, too, have a long and fascinating artistic history which Andy Brown reveals in this remarkable book? Without dodging the difficult questions, Brown carefully considers the wellbeing issues raised by tree climbing arts. And you don’t have to leave the ground to feel the benefits sensitively conveyed by this uplifting book. -- Terry Gifford, author of The Joy of Climbing, Green Voices, Pastoral and Reconnecting With John Muir.Andy Brown's The Tree Climbing Cure is a fascinating study of tree climbers and tree climbing in literature and art as well as in practice across Europe and North America. The book's emphasis on the restorative power of tree climbing is particularly timely. The Tree Climbing Cure will appeal to a range of readers, from scholars and students of ecocriticism and environmental philosophy to anyone who enjoys time among trees. -- Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA, author of 'Ecoambiguity' and 'Global Healing'Table of ContentsIntroduction: #manintree Chapter One: The Science of Nature and Wellbeing Chapter Two: Trees and the Mind Chapter Three: The Climbing Cure Chapter Four: The Family Tree Chapter Five: The Child in the Tree Chapter Six: The Archetypal Tree Chapter Seven: The Visionary Tree Chapter Eight: #womanintree Chapter Nine: ‘Tree Hugger’ Chapter Ten: Enthusiasm & Attitude: recreation, work, folly Conclusion: Descent Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Asian American Literature
Book SynopsisThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field's interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book's Introduction and Conclusion. The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and itTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field Chapter One Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations --Centering Gender --Exploration of Sexuality --Essentialism and Difference --Race and Class Revisited Chapter Two The Necessity and Fiction of “Asian America” --Cultural Nationalism --Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity --Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies --Rethinking Asian American Specificity Chapter Three Intercultural and Generational Concerns --Writing Immigrants --Cultural Translation --Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation --Breaking the Tradition Chapter Four The Transnational Turn --Planetary Presence --The Asia-Pacific Investment --Cautions and Dissonances --Locating the Historical Referent Chapter Five The Social Function of Literature --Cognitive Uses of Language --Community-Based Self-Representation --Controversies --Debating Resistance Chapter Six Aesthetic Form --Form after New Criticism --Legacies and Practices --Reinventing Realist Genres --Poetic and Theatrical Studies Chapter Seven Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization --Reading Formations --Periodization --Methodological Challenge --Post-identity Subjects Chapter Eight Emerging Interests --Food Studies --Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism --Speculative Literature --Digital Humanities and New Media Conclusion Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Comics and Graphic Novels
Book SynopsisProviding an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural. Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.Trade ReviewThe volume provides an excellent resource for anyone interested in this topic, and will doubtless remain so as the field grows further in the coming years. * Modern Language Review *This is a book about how to approach comics that in itself approaches comics with finesse. The different complementary sections draw upon uses of critical theory, historical contextualisation, artists and audiences, and what the comics themselves say, directly as well as implicitly. The work is a masterclass in applied method and will be of use to all who study comics, be it professionally, for the fun of it, or both. * Laurence Grove, Professor of French and Text/Image Studies and Director of the Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Part 1: Approaching Comics Chapter 2: Formalist Approaches Chapter 3: Ideological and Material Approaches Part 2: Histories and Cultures Chapter 4: Early Criticism and Legitimation Chapter 5: Historical Approaches Part 3: Production and Reception Chapter 6: Creators, Imprints and Titles Chapter 7: Audiences and Fan Cultures Part 4: Themes and Genres Chapter 8: Thematic Approaches Chapter 9: Popular Genres Chapter 10: Outside the Mainstream Chapter 11: General Reference Guides and Textbooks Chapter 12: Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Fiction of Margaret Atwood
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her WorkMargaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally diverse and ambitious, and has amassed an enormous body of literary criticism. In this invaluable guide, Fiona Tolan provides a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to Atwood's work. Addressing all of the author's key texts, the book deftly guides the reader through the most characteristic, influential, and insightful critical readings of the last fifty years. It highlights recurring themes in Atwood's work, such as gender, feminism, power and violence, fairy tale and the gothic, environmental destruction, and dystopian futures. This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood.Trade ReviewA valuable and necessary book for students, researchers, and enthusiastic readers of Margaret Atwood’s novels. It offers both a substantial study of her fiction and a comprehensive overview of Atwood criticism up to the present, unequalled in any other publication. Covering all relevant thematic, genre, narrative, and contextual issues, it deftly guides readers through the rich diversity of critical responses to her work. * Coral Howells, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Early Works and Early Reception Chapter 2: A Developing Canon and Developing Themes: Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, and Bodily Harm Chapter 3: ‘Are There Any Questions?’: A Focus on The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 4: Spotty-handed Villainesses: Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride Chapter 5: History, Memory and Recovering the Past Chapter 6: Atwood’s Dystopian Futures: The MaddAddam Trilogy Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Psychoanalytic Memoirs
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom's A Matter of Death and Life. Offering in each chapter a brief character sketch of the memoirist, the book shows how personal writing fits into their other work, often demonstrating the continuities and discontinuities in an author's life as well as discussing each author's contributions to psychoanalysis, whether positive or negative.Trade ReviewWe live in the age of potted celebrity biographies. Each carefully structured to obfuscate rather than reveal. What happens in a world where emotional veracity is central and revealing it is the name of the game. In another brilliant book Jeffrey Berman reads a serious of autobiographies by major psychoanalysts, from Sigmund Freud through Wilfred Bion and Masud Khan to the Sigmund’s recently deceased granddaughter Sophie Freud. Berman reveals that even in such a world, the complexity of imaging one’s own life is devilishly hard work for the author, while Berman makes it easy work for the reader. A must read for all engaged in thinking about what our work reveals, like it or not, about ourselves. * Sander L. Gilman, Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Sigmund Freud: An Autobiographical Study 2. The Wolf-Man: Memoirs 3. Helene Deutsch: Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue 4. Wilhelm Stekel: Autobiography 5. C.G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections 6. Wilfred R. Bion: War Memoirs 1917-1919 7. Marion Milner: On Not Being Able to Paint 8. M. Masud R. Khan: The Long Wait 9. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: Final Analysis 10. F. Robert Rodman: Not Dying 11. Louis Breger: Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting 12. Brenda Webster: The Last Good Freudian 13. Madelon Sprengnether: Crying at the Movies 14. Sophie Freud: Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family Conclusion: Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom: A Matter of Death and Life Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Flann OBrien and the European AvantGarde 193445
Book SynopsisCrossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book rediscovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to synthesise a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.Placing the early work of Flann O'Brien - just as experimental and yet aimed explicitly at achieving a wide readership - into a global context, this book uses the new evidence of his collaborations to refigure O''Brien as a networked writer who drew on experimental techniques to produce new categories of writing with the aim of rethinking Irish culture and delivering a commercially successful project. It reveals a network of Irish cultural production around him that draws on diverse sources such as English comic magazines, Dadaist photomontage, Expressionism and Central European theatre, as well as on well-known writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka. By rethinking Flann O'Brien in this way, the book also rewrites the cultural history of Ireland in the
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book SynopsisBringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jazz Age writer, as well as offering an approachable overview of his background, influences, and cultural context.This comprehensive volume features:- A substantial introduction by the editors and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies- A variety of national and transnational perspectives- Essays which consider Fitzgerald''s work via key contemporary approaches such as race studies, whiteness studies, queer studies, the digital humanities, literary geography, and ecocriticism- New comparative approaches that consider the author in the context of his contemporaries, including writers of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism- An innovative cluster of short essays by practitioners, reflecting on their work with Fitzgerald materialsOffering an indispensable resource for researchers and students alike
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age
Book SynopsisAndrew Teverson is Professor of English and Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Communication at Kingston University, UK
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Edinburgh University Press Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
Book SynopsisAnalyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing
Book SynopsisExplores the diversity of women's work in transatlantic and continental publishing across the twentieth-century
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial
Book SynopsisThe first major overview of British colonial periodicals from the rise of the Empire to decolonisation
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Edinburgh University Press Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction 1865 1930
Book SynopsisTraces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commoditiesTrade Review"By examining the cultural lives of goods such as cotton, coal, fur (and others), Wayne's fascinating study reveals how American writers critiqued U.S. imperial ambitions in the decades after the Civil War. The book makes a significant contribution not only to American literary studies but also to strands of postcolonial and ecocritical scholarship devoted to cultures of extraction, resource narratives and exploitative histories." -Sin ad Moynihan, University of Exeter
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