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Columbia University Press Ivy ComptonBurnett Columbia Essays on Modern
Book SynopsisFrom the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In The Two Sign Painters, TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. His Son's Big Doll introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in Xiaoqi's Cap a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl.Huang's characters -- generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty -- come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.Trade Review"The literary master whom Huang seems most to resemble is Anton Chekhov. Huang portrays his characters with the same kind of compassionate objectivity, gentle humor, and sharp poignancy. His style is pithy, direct and clear... the clash between traditional ways and urban exigencies, the desire to fit in, the need to save face and the difficulty of making a living without losing one's self-respect are problems these characters confront every day, problems that will strike a chord with readers everywhere." -- Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review (Best Books of 2001) "The nine original stories... and Howard Goldblatt's sensitive translations of them are now poignant classics that do credit to David Der-wei Wang's new Modern Chinese Literature form Taiwan series... Huang's fertile imagination moves amid squatters, grotesques, misfits, oddballs -- people with lifestyles characteristic of a poor, developing country prematurely unsettled by urbanization, world politics, and globalization... The characters'guilt, despair, and defiant pride are universal, generally revealed in subtle but startling ways." -- World Literature TodayTable of ContentsTranslator's Note Preface Bibliographic Note The Fish The Drowning of an Old Cat His Son's Big Doll The Gong Ringworms The Taste of Apples Xiaoqi's Cap The Two Sign Painters Sayonara * Zaijian
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Columbia University Press Christopher Isherwood Myth AntiMyth Myth and
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Columbia University Press The Dialogic and Difference AnOther Woman in
Book SynopsisThis juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ
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Columbia University Press Gore Vidal Writer Against the Grain
Book SynopsisThis collection of critical essays attempts to construct a comprehensive portrait of Vidal's writings and to determine why his work has been underestimated. It includes an interview with Vidal in which he discusses his career and his troubled relationship with literary reviewers.Table of ContentsGore Vidal: A Chronology of His Works1. Jay Parini--Gore Vidal: The Writer and His Critics 2. Italo Calvino--Imagining Vidal 3. David Price--Williwaw: Gore Vidal's First Novel 4. Claude J. Summers--The City and the Pillar as Gay Fiction 5. Bernard F. Dick--Gore Vidal: The Entertainer 6. Robert F. Kiernan--The Vidalian Manner: The Judgement of Paris, Two Sisters, Kalki 7. Alan Cheuse--A Note on Vidal's Messiah 8. Heather Neilson--The Fiction of History in Gore Vidal's Messiah 9. Ray Lewis White--Vidal as Playwright: In Gentlest Heresy 10. William H. Pritchard--Vidal's Satiric Voices 11. Samuel F. Pickering--Living Appropriately: Vidal and the Essay 12. Robert Boyers--On Gore Vidal: Wit and the Work of Criticism 13. Thomas M. Disch--Vidal as Essayist: The Man Who Has Everything 14. Stephen Spender--Gore Vidal: Private Eye 15. Catharine R. Stimpson--My O My O Myra 16. James Tatum--The Romanitas of Gore Vidal 17. Harold Bloom--The Central Man: On Gore Vidal's Lincoln 18. Richard Poirier--Vidal's Empire 19. Louis Auchincloss--Babylon Revisited 20. Donald E. Pease--America and the Vidal Chronicles 21. Jay Parini--An Interview with Gore VidalNotes Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Acting Gay
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a series of close readings of the central works of gay male drama, as written by American and English playwrights. The plays discussed reflect the transformation of gay men in 20th-century British and American societies.
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Columbia University Press Elizabeth Bishop the Biography of a Poetry Paper
Book SynopsisThis study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries, previously unpublished work and early drafts. It focuses on the poet's 20-year residence in Brazil, and attempts to provide a new understanding of Bishop's treatment of love, sex and gender.Table of ContentsIn the footsteps of Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil; the body's roses; time's Andromedas; the mappings of "North and South"; Miss Bishop and Miss Moore; skunk and armadillo; Brazilian choices; the gallery of her glance; "Geography III"; last poems.
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Columbia University Press Time and Sense
Book SynopsisNot only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Companion to the TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisThis resource provides information on a popular literary genre - the 20th-century American short story. It contains articles on stories that share a particular theme, and over 100 pieces on individual writers and their work. There are also articles on promising new writers entering the scene.Trade ReviewAn eminently useful work. While there are other books on short stories and on the authors included here, this new resource is unusually well done... The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story is essential for academic libraries and is highly recommended for public and school libraries. -- Neal Wyatt Library Journal The Columbia Companion offers deeper coverage of American short stories... [this] would be an asset to library collections at the high-school and college levels. Booklist Particularly useful because it includes contemporary authors who are difficult to find... The writing is uniformly excellent, and the efficient index includes authors, story titles, book titles, and subjects. -- J. E. Sheets Choice Here are the categories of a postcanonical era with a vengeance: not just stories with a thematic cycle but also those written by African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano-Latinos, lesbians and gays, Native Americans, non-English speakers, members of the working class, people concerned with the Holocaust, and even those with ecological interests. American Literary Scholarship Each entry presents a critique of at least two of an author's stories, a biliography of the story collections, and recommendations for more sustained critiques of the author's work. American Literature This reference will be well-used by high school students seeking resources for the ubiquitous literary 'term paper.' And in so doing, they may begin to develop a 'sense of what makes a writer unique.' -- Virginia Wallace ALA BibliographyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Thematic Essays The American Short Story Cycle The American Short Story, 1807-1900 The African American Short Story The Asian American Short Story The Chicano-Latino Short Story The Ecological Short Story Lesbian and Gay Short Stories The Native American Short Story Non-English American Short Stories The American Working-Class Short Story American Short Stories of the Holocaust Part II. Individual Writers and Their Work Alice Adams (1926-1999) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) James Baldwin (1924-1987) John Barth (1930- ) Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) Rick Bass (1959- ) Richard Bausch (1945- ) Charles Baxter (1947- ) Ann Beattie (1947- ) Saul Bellow (1915- ) Gina Berriault (1926- ) Doris Betts (1932- ) Paul Bowles (1910-1999) Kay Boyle (1902-1992) Ray Bradbury (1920- ) Kate Braverman (1950- ) Larry Brown (1951- ) Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) Hortense Calisher (1911- ) Truman Capote (1924-1984) Raymond Carver (1938-1988) Willa Cather (1873-1947) John Cheever (1912-1982) Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- ) Robert Coover (1932- ) Lydia Davis (1947- ) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- ) Andre Dubus (1936-1999) Deborah Eisenberg (1946- ) Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) George P. Elliott (1918-1980) John Fante (1909-1983) James T. Farrell (1904-1979) William Faulkner (1897-1962) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Richard Ford (1944- ) Mary Gaitskill (1954- ) William H. Gass (1924- ) Ellen Gilchrist (1935- ) Herbert Gold (1924- ) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Amy Hempel (1951- ) Mary Hood (1946- ) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) Ring Lardner (1885-1933) David Leavitt (1961- ) Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ) Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1944- ) Jack London (1876-1916) David Wong Louie (1954- ) Norman Mailer (1923- ) Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) Bobbie Anne Mason (1940- ) Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) Elizabeth McCracken (1966- ) Carson McCullers (1917-1967) Thomas McGuane (1939- ) James Alan McPherson (1943- ) Nicholasa Mohr (1938- ) Lorrie Moore (1957- ) Toshio Mori (1910-1980) Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) Tim O'Brien (1946- ) Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) John O'Hara (1905-1970) Tillie Olsen (1913?- ) Simon Ortiz (1941- ) Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) Grace Paley (1922- ) Americo Paredes (1915-1999) Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- ) Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910) E. Annie Proulx (1935- ) Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952- ) Philip Roth (1933- ) Damon Runyon (1880-1946) J. D. Salinger (1919- ) Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) William Saroyan (1908-1981) Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) Jean Stafford (1915-1979) Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Elizabeth Tallent (1954- ) Peter Taylor (1917-1994) James Thurber (1894-1961) John Updike (1932- ) Helena Maria Viramontes (1954- ) Anna Lee Walters (1946- ) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953- ) Eudora Welty (1909- ) Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Joy Williams (1944- ) Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Tobias Wolff (1945- ) Richard Wright (1908-1960) Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ) Anzia Yezierska (1881-1970) Index
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Columbia University Press Twenty Questions
Book SynopsisOne of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical--and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere.Trade ReviewNo American poet critic... has written such beautiful prose or wielded such manifold and supple terms of analysis. McClatchy analyzes poetry as only a poet could, with an insider's knowledge of the craft-and of the terror of the blank page. Los Angeles Times The full force of [McClatchy's] probing intelligence and emotional insight catches us up with infectious gusto... T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Allen Tate, Howard Nemerov, Louise Bogan, and Randall Jarrell all commaded adminration for their essays and their verse. McClatchy belongs in this select company, and his skills in one mode complement his gifts in the other. The New Leader In this time of literary 'scattering,'when many poets admire and practice techniques of fragmentation, McClatchy's voice resounds with urbanity, clarity, deadly wit. The power of this civil tongue is classical, expository, the voice of the integrated psyche. San Francisco Chronicle It's no surprise to find in Twenty Questions qualities that have always distinguished J.D. McClatchy's work: sparkling intelligence; learning; an informed immersion in the poetry of our time... In a noble tradition of the essay, he chooses to write about the writers who interest him, personally, not always part of the familiar academic canon... A generous, bracing collection. -- Robert Pinsky Charming, genial, but altogether accomplished. -- Kate Fullbrook Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsReading Dreaming My Fountain Pen Commonplaces Twenty Questions Reading Pope Aspects of "Battle-Piece" Woman in White Wildness Asking for Ceremony At Her Other Desk Laughter in the Soul Songs of a Curmudgeon The Exile's Song Chiselled Breath Sitting Here Strangely on Top of the Sunlight The Lost Upland Encountering the Sublime Braving the Elements Masters The Art of Poetry
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern
Book SynopsisThis guide to the literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945 includes an overview of literary themes and trends in historical context; a chronology of major political events; an A-Z section of articles on the most important and influential 700 writers; and an index.Trade ReviewA great new research tool... Segel lays out the striking complexity of the region's intellectual life and the lives and work of its writers. In his brilliant introduction, he contributes a magnificently comprehensive, 34-page review article on the region's intellectual life since the war and its history, politics, peoples, and cultures, as well as its literatures... Highly recommended. Library Journal (*Starred Review) Assembled by an eminently qualified expert on the literatures of Eastern Europe, this prodigious compilation... provides historical, political, and literary context for the period... [N]o single work in English is nearly so comprehensive. Choice This superb guide to authors and their works fills a much-needed gap in reference works on literature. -- Terri Tickle Miller American Reference Books Annual No such handy, erudite guide to the postwar literary traditions of these thirteen nations was available until now...This is an excellent, much-needed reference work, which should be found within reach of every scholar of Eastern European literature... Surely, higher praise for a book cannot be conceived than this, that its only 'flaw' is that it leaves the reader yearning for more of the same? -- Halina Stephan Polish Review A timely resource that provides a wide range of information on almost 700 authors from Albania, the former East Germany, Serbia, Slovenia and others, filling what would seem to be a considerable gap. Booklist It is, of course, thrilling when a senior scholar of Harold Segel's distinction undertakes such tasks. It means that the priorities and emphases in all parts of the book will cohere...Segal has wisely resolved that key to putting a new area on the inner map of American readers is to provide a face, a life, and further reading. -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Comparative Literature Undoubtedly, Segal'sThe Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 is an invaluable reference. -- Eileen Krajewski Text and Presentation The Columbia Guide conveys this encyclopedic breadth in distilled, ready reference form... serves scholars, teachers, students and librarians alike. -- Michael Biggins American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsPreface Chronology of Major Political Events, 1944-2001 Journals, Newspapers, and Other Periodical Literature Note on Orthography, Transliteration, and Titles Introduction: The Literature of Eastern Europe from 1945 to the Present Authors A-Z Selected Bibliography Author Index
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Columbia University Press Dawn to the West A History of Japanese Literature
Book SynopsisThis is the third book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature. The Columbia paperback edition, with Donald Keene's new preface, includes an introduction, an appendix, glossary, index, and a selected list of translations into English.Trade ReviewThe publication of Dawn to the West... will do even more to establish modern Japanese literature as one of the major literatures of the world... Here, for the first time, in two monumental volumes, are Mr. Keene's readable, yet thoroughly scholarly, essays on virtually all aspects of modern Japan's major creative writing. The first volume of Dawn to the West, which is devoted to fiction, contains complete studies of all the important Japanese writers since the Meiji Restoration in 1868, both those widely read in the West and others less well known. New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the Columbia Edition Preface Introduction 1 The Coming of the Enlightenment 2 Writing in Chinese of the Meiji Era 3 The Age of Translation 4 The Meiji Political Novel 5 Tshubouchi Shoyo and Futabatei Shimei 6 Koyo and the Ken'yusha 7 Koda Rohan 8 Higuchi Ichiyo 9 Kitamura Tokoku and Romanticism 10 Izumi Kyoka 11 Naturalism 12 Natsume Soseki 13 Mori Ogai 14 Nagai Kafu 15 The Shirakaba School 16 The "I Novel" 17 Akutagawa Ryunosuke 18 Proletarian Literature of the 1920s 19 Modernism and Foreign Influences 20 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro 21 Kawabata Yasunari 22 Tenko Literature: The Writings of Ex-Communists 23 War Literature 24 Postwar Literature 25 Dazai Osamu and the Burai-ha 26 The Revival of Writing by Women 27 Mishima Yukio Appendix Glossary Selected List of Translations into English Index
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Columbia University Press The Lost Suitcase Reflections on the Literary
Book SynopsisRuminates on the life of the writer and the significance of language as art. This title takes as its central conceit a famous anecdote about Ernest Hemingway's early work: Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, going by train from their apartment in Paris to visit him in Switzerland, brought along, at his request, a suitcase full of his work-in-progress.Trade ReviewDelbanco has a fine intellect and a sharp pen, and he wields both with precision... The essays contain gems of wisdom and lovely turns of phrase. -- Helen Fremont Harvard Review #21, Fall 2001 Engaging... [The Lost Suitcaseis] distinguished by its technical virtuosity, self-reflexive perspective and an improvisational modus operandi. -- Andy Brumer The New York Times Book Review The lesson in the multiplying possibilities of fiction and the endless process of producing drafts is a useful one. Publisher's WeeklyTable of Contents1. Travel, Art, and Death 2. Judgment 3. Rumford: His Book 4. Telephone 5. The Lost Suitcase: A Novella 6. Letter to a Young Fiction Writer 7. A Prayer for the Daughters 8. Less and More 9. Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
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Columbia University Press Gay Fiction Speaks
Book SynopsisA collection of in-depth analytical interviews with twelve of the best-known gay novelists writing in English today, including Armistead Maupin, David Leavitt, Alan Garganus, and others.Trade ReviewA meaty compendium of worthwhile thoughts and ideas to mull over. The interviewer and the authors have collaborated to bring forth a wealth of colorful authorial confessions, personal and historical anecdotes, prescriptions for a host of the world's ills, and takes on the intersections of life and fiction. The Gay & Lesbian Review Delightful and illuminating interviews... I closed this book feeling wiser and more informed about gay literature and the craft of writing in general. -- Martin Wilson Lambda Book Report Culled from incisive interviews, Canning strives for in-depth dialogues with scintillating results. He's captured the genius and energy of our finest generation of gay writers and its impact on today's reader. Brimming with vitality, attitude, individuality and innovation, this anthology of interviews uncovers the stories behind your favorite creative players. Genre The pleasure of the interviews comes from Canning's ability to prompt quirky and ingenious responses from his subjects... as a whole, the book illustrates how these serious artists negotiate the cultural minefields of literary and identity politics in a marketplace that both values and devalues them as 'gay.' Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsForeword by David Bergman Introduction James Purdy John Rechy Edmund White Andrew Holleran Armistead Maupin Felice Picano Allan Gurganus Ethan Mordden Dennis Cooper Alan Hollinghurst David Leavitt Patrick Gale
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Columbia University Press Reforming Fictions
Book SynopsisA fresh, multicultural reading of the work of women writers of the Progressive era that places their fiction in the context of their reform journalism and political activism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. "Her Rightful Place in the New Scheme of Things": Native American Women's Journalism in the Dawes Era 2. "'Wantin' to Wear th' Breeches and Boss th' Hull Shebang'": Reservations and Romance in Mourning Dove's 3. "The Democracy for Which We Have Paid": Jessie Fauset and World War I Controversies in the African American Press 4. "An 'Honest-to-God' American": Patriotism, Foreignness, and Domesticity in Jessie Fauset's Fiction 5. "Why Should You Ask for Ease?": Jewish Women's Journalism in the English-Language Press 6. "Mingling with Her People in Their Ghetto": Immigrant Aid and the New Woman in Jewish Women's Fiction Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in
Book SynopsisChallenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. This book begins with a chronology of key historical events and an overview of the emergence and transformation of literary culture in the region.Trade ReviewAn invaluable resource for literary research and scholarship on East Africa. -- James Ogude African Studies Review This guide offers valuable information... Recommended. Choice A welcome addition to the study of anglophone African literature and should not be missing from African Studies and Literature Libraries. -- Christine Matzke, Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berlin Research in African Literatures Should be included in the reference collection of all institutes of higher education... A must for serious researchers. -- Valentine K. Muyumba American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chronology of Major Political Events Introduction: East African Literature in English from 1945 to the Present Authors and Topics Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to Japanese fiction. This book profiles five writers Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Ko bo, and Shiba Ryo taro. It also describes the author's personal encounters with them with autobiographical observations and his literary and cultural analysis.Trade Review[Keene] draws on his personal experience and deep knowledge of Japanese literature to paint biographical sketches which he illuminates with quotations from English translations of their representative novels and with a critical analysis of their writings. -- Hugh Cortazzi The Japan Society This book is [Keene's] latest accomplishment that... tells about [his] participation in the cultural life of modern Japan as well as the story of the five modern Japanese novelists. And thatis what makes this book most appealing to general readers and experts alike. -- Guohe Zheng Journal of Asian Studies Charming, personal, humorous... recommended. Library Journal Keene ably speculates on Mishima's spectacular suicide, makes a full-dress biography of the contrarian Abe seem absolutely necessary, and suggests how to increase American appreciation of Shiba. BooklistTable of ContentsTanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) Abe Kobo (1924-1993) Shiba Ryotaro (1923-1996) Supplemental Readings
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Columbia University Press Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to Japanese fiction. This book profiles the writers Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Ko bo, and Shiba Ryo taro. It also describes the author's personal encounters with thesm and his literary and cultural analysis.Trade Review[Keene] draws on his personal experience and deep knowledge of Japanese literature to paint biographical sketches which he illuminates with quotations from English translations of their representative novels and with a critical analysis of their writings. -- Hugh Cortazzi The Japan Society This book is [Keene's] latest accomplishment that... tells about [his] participation in the cultural life of modern Japan as well as the story of the five modern Japanese novelists. And thatis what makes this book most appealing to general readers and experts alike. -- Guohe Zheng Journal of Asian Studies Charming, personal, humorous... recommended. Library Journal Keene ably speculates on Mishima's spectacular suicide, makes a full-dress biography of the contrarian Abe seem absolutely necessary, and suggests how to increase American appreciation of Shiba. BooklistTable of ContentsTanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) Abe Kobo (1924-1993) Shiba Ryotaro (1923-1996) Supplemental Readings
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in
Book SynopsisComposed by a premier scholar of African literature, this volume is a comprehensive guide to the literary traditions of Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria, five distinct countries bound by their experience with colonialism. Oyekan Owomoyela begins with an overview of the authors, texts, and historical events that have shaped the development of postwar Anglophone literatures in this region, exploring shifts in theme and the role of foreign sponsorship and illuminating recent debates regarding the language, identity, gender, and social commitments of various authors and their works. His introduction concludes with a bibliography of key critical texts. The second half of the volume is an alphabetical tour of writers, publications, concepts, genres, movements, and institutions, with suggested readings for further research. Entries focus primarily on fiction but also touch on drama and poetry. Featured authors include Chris Abani, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, CypTrade ReviewShould be included in the reference collection of all institutes of higher education... A must for serious researchers. -- Valentine K. Muyumba American Reference Books Annual Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPart 1. The Literary and Cultural Content of West African Literature in English Part 2. West African Literature A-Z Part 3. Writers and Selected Works Index
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Columbia University Press Colette
Book SynopsisThe third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius,Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight.Trade ReviewThis scholarly biography, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Colette's death, is not a scandal sheet but a psychoanalysis of Colette in which Kristeva uses psycholinguistics to explore the author's work and life... Recommended for academic libraries. Library Journal Persuasive and entertaining. As an account of how Colette's writing works through vivid and sexualized metaphor, it's quite superb... Kristeva and Colette are a brilliant coupling. The Times (London) part psychoanalysis, part apologia--all based in love. -- Julia Balen Women's Review of Books A major study on a figure who remains one of France's most underrated writers. -- Julien Bisson France Today This is a wonderful book by one of the finest minds of our time. -- Michael Payne Daily Item
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature
Book SynopsisColumbia's guides to postwar African literature paint a portrait of the continent's literary traditions. This volume examines the growth of modern literature in the three postcolonial nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. It tracks the multiple political and economic pressures that shaped Central African writing since the end of World War II.Trade ReviewKnowledgeably compiled by Adrian Roscoe... [It's] so useful with its wealth of background information: Literary, historical, cultural and political. -- Martin Rubin Washington Times An extremely valuable record of literary achievement... Highly recommended. CHOICE Any library that covers African studies or comparative literature will be well-advised to invest in this one. -- Bob Duckett Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chronology of Major Political Events, 1944-2006 Part I. History and Politics 1. Empire and Colonialism 2. British Imperialism 3. Legitimizing Empire 4. The British in Africa 5. Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia 6. White Rhodesia 7. Historiography and Literature 8. Independence Part II. Genres 9. Verse 10. Prose 11. Drama 12. Children's Literature 13. White Rhodesian Poetry 14. White Rhodesian Fiction Part III. Authors and Works, A-Z Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe latest addition to Columbia's impressive series of guides to African literatures since 1945. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Chronology South African Literature in English Since 1945: Long Walk to Ordinariness Authors A-Z Writers Before 1945 Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Violet Hour
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Columbia University Press Writing Women in Modern China
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisCovering a range of countries - Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine - this title presents history of Eastern European literature.Trade ReviewAn excellent resource for Slavic literature scholars and librarians alike. -- Terri Tickle Miller American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. World War II in the Literatures of Eastern Europe 2. Postwar Colonialism, by Communist Style 3. In the Aftermath of the Great Dictator's Death 4. Fleeing the System: Literature and Emigration 5. Internal Exile and the Literature of Escape 6. Writers Behind Bars: Eastern European Prison Literature, by 1945-1990 7. The Reform Imperative in Eastern Europe: From Solidarity to Postmodernism 8. Eastern European Women Poets of the 1980s and 1990s 9. The House of Cards Collapses: The Literary Fallout of the Yugoslav Crises of the 1990s 10. Glimpses of the Other World: America Through Eastern European Eyes 11. The Postcolonial Literary Scene in Eastern Europe Since 1991 Notes Further Reading Index
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Columbia University Press Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avantgarde
Book SynopsisTraces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. This book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, "The Voyage Out", through her last, "Between the Acts".Trade ReviewIn this brilliant, indeed indispensable, study, Froula (Northwestern Univ.) places Woolf's major works in the context of Bloomsbury as a modernist movement...Essential. Choice Froula pursues her task passionately in a book which is energetic and likeable. -- Jim Stewart Times Literary Supplement Christine Froula's Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde is a timely and valuable contribution to Woolf studies emphasizing Woolf's relation to the political, aesthetic, and feminine milieu of her own era and beyond. -- Vera Neverow Modernism / Modernity Provocative... intensely optimistic... Impressive body of work on Woolf and modernism... Provides a fresh and challenging set of readings. -- Helen Southworth Virginia Woolf Miscellany Froula's book brims with fresh historical and political insights... [Her] book is crucial. -- Julia Keller Chicago Tribune This major new book is a significant and substantial addition to [Froula's] contribution to Woolf studies. -- Janfarie Skinner Virginia Woolf Bulletin Froula's fascinating new book... makes a timely contribution to modernist scholarship. -- Jane Garrity Woolf Studies Annual What a pleasure to read Froula's smart, wide-ranging, and often exquisite book. -- Jessica Berman Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature We can be grateful to Christine Froula for this most stimulating study which significantly broadens the scope of Woolf's work. -- Christine Reynier In-betweenTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface 1. Civilization and "my civilisation": Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde 2. Rachel's Great War: Civilization, Sacrifice, and the Enlightenment of Women in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out 3. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room 4. Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning 5. Picture the World: The Quest for the Thing Itself in To the Lighthouse 6. A Fin in a Waste of Waters: Women, Genius, Freedom in Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and The Waves 7. The Sexual Life of Women: Experimental Genres, Experimental Publics from The Pargiters to The Years 8. St. Virginia's Epistle to an English Gentleman: Sex, Violence, and the Public Sphere in Three Guineas 9. The Play in the Sky of the Mind: Between the Acts of Civilization's Masterplot Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Cosmopolitan Style
Book SynopsisFocusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies.Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice A valuable book... Walkowitz deserves our praise for her openness, her ambition, and her willingness to take on so demanding a critical task. -- Dominic Manganiello James Joyce Literary supplement creative and refreshing -- April Bullock Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History My own work on cosmopolitan fiction will be enriched by this ambitious book, as will the work of other critics in modernist studies, globalization studies, and feminist studies who study the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, private and international experience, modernism and immigration, and feeling and critique. Comparative Literature Shrewdly conceived, well-informed, and well-executed... this book is an impressive debut that imaginatively realigns and redefines those essentially contested terms: modernism and the cosmopolitan. Comparative Literature Studies [Walkowitz] proposes that discomfort is the only objective left for art that understands itself as such. This stance makes her work stand out in a field of modernist studies that currently abounds with talk of transnational affiliation and the global reach of early twentieth-century fiction. Novel Cosmopolitan Style convinces with its assertion that contemporary cosmopolitanism - both fictive and theoretical - owes a good deal to modernist texts, and with its vision of the ways modernist style disrupts standard, homogenized forms of national belonging. Twentieth-Century LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Critical Cosmopolitanism and Modernist Narrative Part 1. Cosmopolitan Modernism 1. Conrad's Naturalness 2. Joyce's Triviality 3. Woolf's Evasion Part 2. Modernist Cosmopolitanism 4. Ishiguro's Treason 5. Rushdie's Mix-Up 6. Sebald's Vertigo Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sirens of the Western Shore
Book SynopsisIntroduces the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language.Trade Review[An] insightful, carefully researched study... Highly recommended. Choice Richly textured... cogently argued, lucidly written, and offers the reader insights on both theoretical and biographical levels. -- Nanette Gottlieb Monumenta Nipponica Sirens of the Western Shore takes a fresh and detailed look at the topic of vernacular style in Meiji literature. -- Sarah Frederick Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One Foreign Letters, the Vernacular, and Meiji Schoolgirls 1. Translation as Origin and the Originality of Translation 2. Meiji Schoolgirls in and as Language Part Two Tayama Katai and the Siren of Vernacular Letters 3. Portrait of the Naturalist as a Young Exote 4. Literary Desire and the Exotic Language of Love: From "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi 5. Haunting the Laboratory of Vernacular Style: The Sirens of "Shojobyo" and Futon Part Three Staging the New Woman: The Spectacular Embodiment of "Nature" in Translation 6. Setting the Stage for Translation 7. Gender Drag, Culture Drag, and Female Interiority Final Reflections: Gender, Cultural Hierarchy, and Literary Style Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sirens of the Western Shore
Book SynopsisTrade Review[An] insightful, carefully researched study... Highly recommended. Choice Richly textured... cogently argued, lucidly written, and offers the reader insights on both theoretical and biographical levels. -- Nanette Gottlieb Monumenta Nipponica Sirens of the Western Shore takes a fresh and detailed look at the topic of vernacular style in Meiji literature. -- Sarah Frederick Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One Foreign Letters, the Vernacular, and Meiji Schoolgirls 1. Translation as Origin and the Originality of Translation 2. Meiji Schoolgirls in and as Language Part Two Tayama Katai and the Siren of Vernacular Letters 3. Portrait of the Naturalist as a Young Exote 4. Literary Desire and the Exotic Language of Love: From "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi 5. Haunting the Laboratory of Vernacular Style: The Sirens of "Shojobyo" and Futon Part Three Staging the New Woman: The Spectacular Embodiment of "Nature" in Translation 6. Setting the Stage for Translation 7. Gender Drag, Culture Drag, and Female Interiority Final Reflections: Gender, Cultural Hierarchy, and Literary Style Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Albert Camus the Algerian
Book SynopsisPresents a reading of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays. This work focuses on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the cycle of terrorism and counter terrorism that characterized the Algerian War.Trade ReviewCarroll's outstanding study is both a scholarly and an engaging reading of this appealing French-Algerian thinker. Library Journal [A] timely study of Camus' writings. -- Lewis Jones Financial Times Weekend Magazine [Carroll's] re-reading of Camus is not only insightful and provocative, but also reminds us of the enduring relevance of Camus's voice. -- Susan Tarrow Modern & Contemporary France An exceptional book. -- Ralph Schoolcraft III South Central Review Carroll's study will surely become the definitive work on Camus for years to come. -- Janice Gross French ReviewTable of ContentsPreface. A Voice from the Past Acknowledgments Introduction. "The Algerian" in Camus 1. The Place of the Other 2. Colonial Borders 3. Exile 4. Justice or Death? 5. Terror 6. Anguish 7. Last Words Conclusion. Terrorism and Torture: From Algeria to Iraq Notes Index
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Columbia University Press A History of Pain
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTwentieth-century China had more than its share of pain, and Michael Berry unfolds the layers of its meanings in diverse contexts and several media. He shows how the pain of groups relates to identity, morality, politics, and to the meaning of 'history' and 'literature.' No serious student of modern China will want to miss his erudite survey. -- Perry Link, professor of East Asian studies, Princeton University Beautifully written, this book is 'educational' in the very best sense... Essential. Choice The book is significant for its extensive survey of the discourse of trauma. JumpCutTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Prelude: A History of Pain Part I: Centripetal Trauma 1. Musha 1930 2. Nanjing 1937 3. Taipei 1947 Part II: Centrifugal Trauma 4. Yunnan 1968 5. Beijing 1989 Coda: Hong Kong 1997 Bibliography Filmography Index
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Columbia University Press A History of Pain
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTwentieth-century China had more than its share of pain, and Michael Berry unfolds the layers of its meanings in diverse contexts and several media. He shows how the pain of groups relates to identity, morality, politics, and to the meaning of 'history' and 'literature.' No serious student of modern China will want to miss his erudite survey. -- Perry Link, professor of East Asian studies, Princeton University Beautifully written, this book is 'educational' in the very best sense... Essential. Choice The book is significant for its extensive survey of the discourse of trauma. JumpCutTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Prelude: A History of Pain Part I: Centripetal Trauma 1. Musha 1930 2. Nanjing 1937 3. Taipei 1947 Part II: Centrifugal Trauma 4. Yunnan 1968 5. Beijing 1989 Coda: Hong Kong 1997 Bibliography Filmography Index
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Columbia University Press Our Savage Art
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThere is a grain of truth in almost everything [Logan] writes. -- Jordan Davis Times Literary Supplement Logan's prose is polished, witty, authoritative, and courageous... Highly recommended. Choice The latest installment in William Logan's prolonged and rambunctious assault on the state of American poetry. -- Mark Ford New York Times Book Review One of the wittiest and most astute poet-critics of our-or any-generation... A work of devilish wit, arrogance, insight, and intellect.The Dark Horse -- Rory Waterman The Dark Horse Who's the Best Poetry Critic in America? His name I can mention. William Logan. -- James Wolcott Arguably the most industrious and notorious poet-critic to brandish that hyphen like a knife between his teeth since his acknowledged master Randall Jarrell... He often comes off as nothing so much as the Dirty Harry of the poetry beat. -- David Barber, New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments The Bowl of Diogenes; or, The End of Criticism Verse Chronicle: Out on the Lawn Verse Chronicle: Stouthearted Men The Most Contemptible Moth: Lowell in Letters Forward Into the Past: Reading the New Critics Verse Chronicle: One If by Land Verse Chronicle: The Great American Desert The State with the Prettiest Name Elizabeth Bishop Unfinished Elizabeth Bishop's Sullen Art Verse Chronicle: Jumping the Shark Verse Chronicle: Victoria's Secret Attack of the Anthologists The Lost World of Lawrence Durrell Hart Crane Overboard On Reviewing Hart Crane The Endless Ocean of Derek Walcott The Civil Power of Geoffrey Hill Verse Chronicle: God's Chatter Verse Chronicle: Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Luff Pynchon in the Poetic Back to the Future (Thomas Pynchon ) Verse Chronicle: The World Is Too Much with Us Verse Chronicle: Valentine's Day Massacre The Forgotten Masterpiece of John Townsend Trowbridge Frost at Midnight Interview by Garrick Davis Permissions Books Under Review Index of Authors Reviewed
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Columbia University Press Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReading these learned and accessible essays, one is struck anew by Scott Donaldson's kinship with the authors he studies. From these great prose stylists, he inherits a gift for crisp, clear prose, wry humor, and an unerring eye for the telling anecdote. Few match either Donaldson's broad knowledge of his subjects or the affable critical clarity he brings to his readings of their lives and texts. -- Jennie Kassanoff, Barnard College What a pleasure it is to have Scott Donaldson's clear-eyed, insightful, and above all gracefully written essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway available in one volume. His many years as a careful and attentive reader, his knowledge of the relevant scholarship, and his command of unpublished manuscripts and letters are apparent on every page. -- Jackson R. Bryer, University of Maryland Well-researched and masterfully written. Library Journal Two very influential American writers are made more approachable through the means of brilliant biography. -- Bill O'Donovan Virginia Gazette Splendid, erudite. Los Angeles Times Provides an essential collection of essays for easy reference. Hemingway Review Donaldson's work is impeccably researched and continually relevant to the critical conversations that swirl through Fitzgerald/Hemingway studies. -- Michael D. Dubose F. Scott Fitzgerald Review As evidenced by Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days, Donaldson continues to show himself as a beacon in American literary scholarship, a major voice with 'an awareness of the interconnectedness between biography and criticism.' -- Joseph Fruscione American Literary ScholarshipTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: The Search for Home 1. St. Paul Boy 2. Fitzgerald's Romance with the South Part Two: Love, Money, and Class 3. This Side of Paradise: Fitzgerald's Coming of Age Novel 4. Possessions in The Great Gatsby: Reading Gatsby Closely 5. The Trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby Closely 6. Money and Marriage in Fitzgerald's Stories 7. A Short History of Tender Is the Night Part Three: Fitzgerald and His Times 8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction 9. The Crisis of "The Crack-Up" 10. Fitzgerald's Political Development Part Four: Requiem 11. A Death in Hollywood: F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered Part Five: Getting Started 12. Hemingway of The Star Part Six: The Craftsman at Work 13. "A Very Short Story" as Therapy 14. Preparing for the End of "A Canary for One" 15. The Averted Gaze in Hemingway's Fiction Part Seven: The Two Great Novels 16. Hemingway's Morality of Compensation 17. Humor as a Measure of Character 18. A Farewell to Arms as Love Story 19. Frederic's Escape and the Pose of Passivity Part Eight: Censorship 20. Censorship and A Farewell to Arms 21. Protecting the Troops from Hemingway: An Episode in Censorship Part Nine: Literature and Politics 22. The Last Great Cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War Writing Part Ten: Last Things 23. Hemingway and Suicide 24. Hemingway and Fame Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReading these learned and accessible essays, one is struck anew by Scott Donaldson's kinship with the authors he studies. From these great prose stylists, he inherits a gift for crisp, clear prose, wry humor, and an unerring eye for the telling anecdote. Few match either Donaldson's broad knowledge of his subjects or the affable critical clarity he brings to his readings of their lives and texts. -- Jennie Kassanoff, Barnard College What a pleasure it is to have Scott Donaldson's clear-eyed, insightful, and above all gracefully written essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway available in one volume. His many years as a careful and attentive reader, his knowledge of the relevant scholarship, and his command of unpublished manuscripts and letters are apparent on every page. -- Jackson R. Bryer, University of Maryland Well-researched and masterfully written. Library Journal Two very influential American writers are made more approachable through the means of brilliant biography. -- Bill O'Donovan Virginia Gazette Splendid, erudite. Los Angeles Times Provides an essential collection of essays for easy reference. Hemingway Review Donaldson's work is impeccably researched and continually relevant to the critical conversations that swirl through Fitzgerald/Hemingway studies. -- Michael D. Dubose F. Scott Fitzgerald Review As evidenced by Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days, Donaldson continues to show himself as a beacon in American literary scholarship, a major voice with 'an awareness of the interconnectedness between biography and criticism.' -- Joseph Fruscione American Literary ScholarshipTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: The Search for Home 1. St. Paul Boy 2. Fitzgerald's Romance with the South Part Two: Love, Money, and Class 3. This Side of Paradise: Fitzgerald's Coming of Age Novel 4. Possessions in The Great Gatsby: Reading Gatsby Closely 5. The Trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby Closely 6. Money and Marriage in Fitzgerald's Stories 7. A Short History of Tender Is the Night Part Three: Fitzgerald and His Times 8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction 9. The Crisis of "The Crack-Up" 10. Fitzgerald's Political Development Part Four: Requiem 11. A Death in Hollywood: F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered Part Five: Getting Started 12. Hemingway of The Star Part Six: The Craftsman at Work 13. "A Very Short Story" as Therapy 14. Preparing for the End of "A Canary for One" 15. The Averted Gaze in Hemingway's Fiction Part Seven: The Two Great Novels 16. Hemingway's Morality of Compensation 17. Humor as a Measure of Character 18. A Farewell to Arms as Love Story 19. Frederic's Escape and the Pose of Passivity Part Eight: Censorship 20. Censorship and A Farewell to Arms 21. Protecting the Troops from Hemingway: An Episode in Censorship Part Nine: Literature and Politics 22. The Last Great Cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War Writing Part Ten: Last Things 23. Hemingway and Suicide 24. Hemingway and Fame Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Scandal of Susan Sontag
Book SynopsisTrade Review[The Scandal of Susan Sontag] yields new insights on a most complex sensibility... with sophisticated admiration... [and] the requisite doses of wit. Publishers Weekly An exhilarating read that succeeds in constructing a complex and multi-faceted portrait of the woman and her ideas, which remain as vital and thought-provoking as ever.The West AustralianThe West Australian The West Australian The Scandal of Susan Sontag offers revealing insights into the work of one of America's most famous and provocative intellectuals -- Charles Green The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review
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Columbia University Press Out of the Blue
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Columbia University Press Modernist Commitments
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Columbia University Press Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisWinner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf’s relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester weaves a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.Trade ReviewVirginia Woolf was the object of considerable mystery. Viviane Forrester not only tells us about this mystery but clarifies it. At the beginning, the biographer announces that she will shatter equivocal and false portraits. She does precisely that. The result marks a decisive break in the knowledge we thought we had of this English writer. Forrester crosses the threshold of truth. Without reproving those who wrote before her, knowing what was said and how, Forrester provides a staggering analysis of the youth, marriage, work, and world of Woolf. She tracks, close up, the internal defense mechanisms and means of protection that veil the truth. In a style as poetic as the novelist/poetess deserves, Forrester throws light on the life and the death, Woolf's two tragedies, and reveals the price of her scintillating work. -- Alice Ferney Le Figaro Over the years, Viviane Forrester has read and annotated all the journals of Woolf, the five volumes of her correspondence, including, among other things, the letters from her father, Leslie Stephen, and those from her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom Virginia idolized and envied her entire life. Such a considerable quantity of fragments of a vast, complex mosaic, assembled here by the biographer, provides a new vision of Woolf. We discover her close up, fleeing, uncatchable, by turn fragile, ferocious, resplendent, or perverse... In a lively and limpid style, Forrester attacks first the myths that have calcified around Woolf. First among them, that of her 'madness.' Under the sharp pen of Forrester, therefore, Virginia is not mad, nor is she a martyr. -- Lila Azam Zanganeh LE MONDE An engrossing, intimate, and deeply empathetic portrayal of a brilliant and enigmatic woman. Kirkus Reviews Nimbly moving from one fragmentary impression to another, Forrester challenges the idea (proposed by Woolf's nephew, Quentin Bell, in his biography of her) that Woolf was afflicted with mental illness and suicidal impulses when she was a teenager. Instead, Forrester offers the portrait of a woman who strove to strip away any illusions and capture the rhythms of reality in her writings. Publishers Weekly Intriguing... Illuminating... Readers interested in Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury circle, and early twentieth-century modernist writers will require this biography. Library Journal [A] brilliant, provocative biography. -- Jocelyn McClurg USA Today [Virginia Woolf: A Portrait] offers unexpected insights and useful challenges to settled ideas about Woolf, her friendships, her marriage, and her imagination. -- Anne Fernald Open Letters Monthly A provocative portrait, richly woven with Woolf's distinctive voice and Forrester's faithful echo. -- Maureen McCarthy Star TribuneTable of ContentsPart 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Abbreviations Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press What Matters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA window onto how spirituality has functioned as a social category that bestows value on even 'secular' objects, What Matters? brilliantly demystifies spirituality without banishing spirits. With an embarrassment of riches at hand, including paranormal shadows in 'real' science, turns to 'tribalism' in psytrance festivals, and 'spiritual' motivations within secular humanitarianism, these essays are an original foray into how spirituality is used to account for contemporary human experience, with piety and irony in play. -- Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, author of Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity ...a helpful classroom resource. -- Ryan Harper Sociology of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Things of Value From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds: Nineteenth-Century Psychologists and the Unfinished Subjugation of Superstition and Irrationality Religious and Secular, "Spiritual" and "Physical" in Ghana Volunteer Experience Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life Homeschooling the Enchanted Child: Ambivalent Attachments in the Domestic Southwest Mind Matters: Esalen's Sursem Group and the Ethnography of Consciousness Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press What Matters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA window onto how spirituality has functioned as a social category that bestows value on even 'secular' objects, What Matters? brilliantly demystifies spirituality without banishing spirits. With an embarrassment of riches at hand, including paranormal shadows in 'real' science, turns to 'tribalism' in psytrance festivals, and 'spiritual' motivations within secular humanitarianism, these essays are an original foray into how spirituality is used to account for contemporary human experience, with piety and irony in play. -- Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, author of Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity ...a helpful classroom resource. -- Ryan Harper Sociology of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Things of Value From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds: Nineteenth-Century Psychologists and the Unfinished Subjugation of Superstition and Irrationality Religious and Secular, "Spiritual" and "Physical" in Ghana Volunteer Experience Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life Homeschooling the Enchanted Child: Ambivalent Attachments in the Domestic Southwest Mind Matters: Esalen's Sursem Group and the Ethnography of Consciousness Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. First Experiments Fiction Mori Ogai "The Dancing Girl" Poetry Ochiai Naobumi "Song of the Faithful Daughter Shiragiku" Shimazaki Toson "The Fox's Trick" "First Love" Takeshima Hagoromo "The Maiden Called Love" 2. Beginnings Fiction Izumi Kyoka "The Holy Man of Mount Koya" Kunikida Doppo "Meat and Potatoes" Masamune Hakucho "The Clay Doll" Nagai Kafu "The Mediterranean in Twilight" Ozaki Koyo The Gold Demon Poetry in the International Style Kodama Kagai "The Suicide of an Unemployed Person" Ishikawa Takuboku "Better than Crying" "Do Not Get Up" "A Spoonful of Cocoa" "After Endless Discussions" Kitahara Hakushu "Anesthesia of Red Flowers" "Spider Lilies" "Kiss" Takamura Kotaro "Bear Fur" "A Steak Platter" Kinoshita Mokutaro "Nagasaki Style" "Gold Leaf Brandy" Yosano Akiko "Beloved, You Must Not Die" "In the First Person" "A Certain Country" "From Paris on a Postcard" "The Heart of a Thirtyish Woman" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kanshi Tanka and Haiku Ishikawa Takuboku Masaoka Shiki Tanka Haiku Yosano Akiko "The Dancing Girl" "Spring Thaw" Essays Natsume Soseki "The Civilization of Modern- Day Japan" "My Individualism" 3. The Interwar Years Fiction Akutagawa Ryunosuke "The Nose" "The Christ of Nanking" Edogawa Ranpo "The Human Chair" Hori Tatsuo The Wind Has Risen Inagaki Taruho One-Thousand-and-One-Second Stories Kawabata Yasunari "The Dancing Girl of Izu" Page of Madness Kuroshima Denji "A Flock of Circling Crows" Origuchi Shinobu Writings from the Dead Shiga Naoya "The Paper Door" Tanizaki Jun'ichiro "The Two Acolytes" Uchida Hyakken "Realm of the Dead" "Triumphant March into Port Arthur" Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain" Hagiwara Sakutaro "On a Trip" "Bamboo" "Sickly Face at the Bottom of the Ground" "The One Who's in Love with Love" "The Army" "The Corpse of a Cat" Miyazawa Kenji "Spring & Asura" "November 3rd" Nishiwaki Junzaburo Seven Poems from Ambarvalia No Traveler Returns Kitasono Katsue "Collection of White Poems" "Vin du masque" "Words" Two Poems "Almost Midwinter" Kitasono's First Letter to Ezra Pound Nakano Shigeharu "Imperial Hotel" "Song" "Paul Claudel" "Train" "The Rate of Exchange" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kitahara Hakushu Okamoto Kanoko Saito Mokichi Sugita Hisajo Taneda Santoka Drama Kishida Kunio The Swing Essay Kobayashi Hideo "Literature of the Lost Home" 4. The War Years Fiction Dazai Osamu "December 8th" Ishikawa Tatsuzo Soldiers Alive Ooka Shohei Taken Captive Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "The Elephant's Piggy Bank" "The Final Battle for the Ryukyu Islands" Kusano Shinpei "Mount Fuji" Oguma Hideo "Long, Long Autumn Nights" Poetry in Traditional Forms Toki Zenmaro "Evidence" Essays Kobayashi Hideo "On Impermanence" Sakaguchi Ango "A Personal View of Japa nese Culture" 5. Early Postwar Literature, 1945 to 1970 Fiction Abe Kobo "The Red Cocoon" Ariyoshi Sawako "The Village of Eguchi" Enchi Fumiko "Skeletons of Men" Endo Shusaku "Mothers" Hayashi Fumiko "Blindfold Phoenix" Hirabayashi Taiko "Demon Goddess" Hotta Yoshie "The Old Man" Ibuse Masuji "Old Ushitora" Inoue Yasushi "The Rhododendrons of Hira" Kanai Mieko "Homecoming" Kojima Nobuo "The Smile" Kono Taeko "Final Moments" Mishima Yukio "Patriotism" Noma Hiroshi "A Red Moon in Her Face" Takeda Taijun "The Misshapen Ones" Yasuoka Shotaro "Prized Possessions" Poetry in the International Style Ayukawa Nobuo "In Saigon" "The End of the Night" "War time Buddy" Ishigaki Rin "Roof" "Shijimi Clams" "Life" Katagiri Yuzuru "Christmas, 1960, Japan" "Why Security Treaty?" "Turn Back the Clock" Shiraishi Kazuko "The Phallus" Takamura Kotaro "End of the War" "My Poetry" Tanikawa Shuntaro "Growth" "Drizzle" Tomioka Taeko "between-" "Still Life" Yoshioka Minoru "Still Life" "The Past" Poetry in Traditional Forms Baba Akiko Kaneko Tota Nakajo Fumiko Drama Betsuyaku Minoru The Little Match Girl Kinoshita Junji Twilight Crane Essay Kawabata Yasunari "Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself" 6. Toward a Contemporary Literature, 1971 to the Present Fiction Furui Yoshikichi "Ravine" Hirano Keiichiro "Clear Water" Hoshi Shin'ichi "He-y, Come on Ou-t!" Kaiko Takeshi "The Crushed Pellet" Murakami Haruki "Firefly" Nakagami Kenji "The Wind and the Light" Ogawa Yoko "The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain" Shima Tsuyoshi "Bones" Shimizu Yoshinori "Jack and Betty Forever" Takahashi Takako "Invalid" Tawada Yoko "Where Eu rope Begins" Tsushima Yuko "That One Glimmering Point of Light" Yoshimoto Banana "Newlywed" Poetry in the International Style Ito Hiromi "Underground" "Glen Gould Goldberg" "Sexual Life of Savages" Shinkawa Kazue "The Door" "When the water called me..." Poetry in Traditional Forms Tawara Machi Drama Inoue Hisashi Makeup Kara Juro The 24:53 Train Bound for "Tower" Is Waiting in Front of That Doughnut Shop in Takebaya Essay Oe Kenzaburo "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself" Bibliography
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. First Experiments Fiction Mori Ogai "The Dancing Girl" Poetry Ochiai Naobumi "Song of the Faithful Daughter Shiragiku" Shimazaki Toson "The Fox's Trick" "First Love" Takeshima Hagoromo "The Maiden Called Love" 2. Beginnings Fiction Izumi Kyoka "The Holy Man of Mount Koya" Kunikida Doppo "Meat and Potatoes" Masamune Hakucho "The Clay Doll" Nagai Kafu "The Mediterranean in Twilight" Ozaki Koyo The Gold Demon Poetry in the International Style Kodama Kagai "The Suicide of an Unemployed Person" Ishikawa Takuboku "Better than Crying" "Do Not Get Up" "A Spoonful of Cocoa" "After Endless Discussions" Kitahara Hakushu "Anesthesia of Red Flowers" "Spider Lilies" "Kiss" Takamura Kotaro "Bear Fur" "A Steak Platter" Kinoshita Mokutaro "Nagasaki Style" "Gold Leaf Brandy" Yosano Akiko "Beloved, You Must Not Die" "In the First Person" "A Certain Country" "From Paris on a Postcard" "The Heart of a Thirtyish Woman" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kanshi Tanka and Haiku Ishikawa Takuboku Masaoka Shiki Tanka Haiku Yosano Akiko "The Dancing Girl" "Spring Thaw" Essays Natsume Soseki "The Civilization of Modern- Day Japan" "My Individualism" 3. The Interwar Years Fiction Akutagawa Ryunosuke "The Nose" "The Christ of Nanking" Edogawa Ranpo "The Human Chair" Hori Tatsuo The Wind Has Risen Inagaki Taruho One-Thousand-and-One-Second Stories Kawabata Yasunari "The Dancing Girl of Izu" Page of Madness Kuroshima Denji "A Flock of Circling Crows" Origuchi Shinobu Writings from the Dead Shiga Naoya "The Paper Door" Tanizaki Jun'ichiro "The Two Acolytes" Uchida Hyakken "Realm of the Dead" "Triumphant March into Port Arthur" Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain" Hagiwara Sakutaro "On a Trip" "Bamboo" "Sickly Face at the Bottom of the Ground" "The One Who's in Love with Love" "The Army" "The Corpse of a Cat" Miyazawa Kenji "Spring & Asura" "November 3rd" Nishiwaki Junzaburo Seven Poems from Ambarvalia No Traveler Returns Kitasono Katsue "Collection of White Poems" "Vin du masque" "Words" Two Poems "Almost Midwinter" Kitasono's First Letter to Ezra Pound Nakano Shigeharu "Imperial Hotel" "Song" "Paul Claudel" "Train" "The Rate of Exchange" Poetry in Traditional Forms Kitahara Hakushu Okamoto Kanoko Saito Mokichi Sugita Hisajo Taneda Santoka Drama Kishida Kunio The Swing Essay Kobayashi Hideo "Literature of the Lost Home" 4. The War Years Fiction Dazai Osamu "December 8th" Ishikawa Tatsuzo Soldiers Alive Ooka Shohei Taken Captive Poetry in the International Style Takamura Kotaro "The Elephant's Piggy Bank" "The Final Battle for the Ryukyu Islands" Kusano Shinpei "Mount Fuji" Oguma Hideo "Long, Long Autumn Nights" Poetry in Traditional Forms Toki Zenmaro "Evidence" Essays Kobayashi Hideo "On Impermanence" Sakaguchi Ango "A Personal View of Japa nese Culture" 5. Early Postwar Literature, 1945 to 1970 Fiction Abe Kobo "The Red Cocoon" Ariyoshi Sawako "The Village of Eguchi" Enchi Fumiko "Skeletons of Men" Endo Shusaku "Mothers" Hayashi Fumiko "Blindfold Phoenix" Hirabayashi Taiko "Demon Goddess" Hotta Yoshie "The Old Man" Ibuse Masuji "Old Ushitora" Inoue Yasushi "The Rhododendrons of Hira" Kanai Mieko "Homecoming" Kojima Nobuo "The Smile" Kono Taeko "Final Moments" Mishima Yukio "Patriotism" Noma Hiroshi "A Red Moon in Her Face" Takeda Taijun "The Misshapen Ones" Yasuoka Shotaro "Prized Possessions" Poetry in the International Style Ayukawa Nobuo "In Saigon" "The End of the Night" "War time Buddy" Ishigaki Rin "Roof" "Shijimi Clams" "Life" Katagiri Yuzuru "Christmas, 1960, Japan" "Why Security Treaty?" "Turn Back the Clock" Shiraishi Kazuko "The Phallus" Takamura Kotaro "End of the War" "My Poetry" Tanikawa Shuntaro "Growth" "Drizzle" Tomioka Taeko "between-" "Still Life" Yoshioka Minoru "Still Life" "The Past" Poetry in Traditional Forms Baba Akiko Kaneko Tota Nakajo Fumiko Drama Betsuyaku Minoru The Little Match Girl Kinoshita Junji Twilight Crane Essay Kawabata Yasunari "Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself" 6. Toward a Contemporary Literature, 1971 to the Present Fiction Furui Yoshikichi "Ravine" Hirano Keiichiro "Clear Water" Hoshi Shin'ichi "He-y, Come on Ou-t!" Kaiko Takeshi "The Crushed Pellet" Murakami Haruki "Firefly" Nakagami Kenji "The Wind and the Light" Ogawa Yoko "The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain" Shima Tsuyoshi "Bones" Shimizu Yoshinori "Jack and Betty Forever" Takahashi Takako "Invalid" Tawada Yoko "Where Eu rope Begins" Tsushima Yuko "That One Glimmering Point of Light" Yoshimoto Banana "Newlywed" Poetry in the International Style Ito Hiromi "Underground" "Glen Gould Goldberg" "Sexual Life of Savages" Shinkawa Kazue "The Door" "When the water called me..." Poetry in Traditional Forms Tawara Machi Drama Inoue Hisashi Makeup Kara Juro The 24:53 Train Bound for "Tower" Is Waiting in Front of That Doughnut Shop in Takebaya Essay Oe Kenzaburo "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself" Bibliography
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Columbia University Press Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
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Columbia University Press Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTheodore Hughes's ambitious new study shows us how Korea's colonial past persisted beyond its 'liberation.' Taking up literature, film, and art, he traces a modern history of the senses, mapping the production, reproduction, and contestation of a new culture of visibility (and invisibility) in the decades before and after 1945. Sophisticated and engaging, Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea is a milestone in the study of East Asian modernity. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago, author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop Step by step Theodore Hughes will convince you the visual/verbal relationship that developed in the Korean colonial period has everything to do with the very foundations and logics of the postcolonial, Cold War South Korean developmental state, regime, and aesthetic. In so doing, he profoundly disrupts received histories of 'Korean' literature and received approaches to canonical literary and film texts. It is not an exaggeration to say that with Hughes, you will simply 'see' Korea differently. This is a must read for all those interested in the Koreas, the Cold War, and non-Western modernities at large. -- Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois Theodore Hughes's book breaks new ground in the study of postliberation South Korean literary and visual culture. His insightful and nuanced readings of the inextricable links between 'the colonial modern' and South Korea's Cold War modernity are essential contributions to Korean studies scholarship in any language. -- Kyeong-Hee Choi, University of Chicago Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea deftly navigates various transitional historical moments, such as Korea's liberation, the outbreak of the Korean War, and the rise of a feverish anticommunist campaign in South Korea, while addressing the works of both canonical and often overlooked writers in Korean literature from the 1920s to 1970s. All in all, this is a masterful survey and analysis of twentieth-century Korean literary and visual culture that will bring an exciting new perspective to the field. -- Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Santa Barbara Head and shoulders above its competition. -- Kyu Hyun Kim Cross Currents Hughes delivers a postcolonial study of Korea's modern literary and cinematic history that no East Asian collection can be without... Highly recommended. Choice ...this work opens new doors for interpreting the subtle,and often overlooked, ways in which the Cold War was fought within the cultural field in East Asia. -- Christopher Grieve H-War Riveting... [Hughes's book] is a sophisticated, rich, and tantalizing study that should appeal not only to literature and film scholars, but to historians in general... This book should be compulsory reading not only for those with an interest in Korean culture studies, but also for Korean history majors. Journal of Asian Studies A welcome and thoughtful study. Journal of Cold War Studies A welcome contribution to the understanding of South Korea's Cold War culture. -- Seijin Chang The Review of Korean StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Visuality and the Colonial Modern: The Technics of Proletarian Culture 2. Visible and Invisible States: Liberation 3. Ambivalent Anticommunism: The Politics of Despair and the Erotics of Language 4. Development as Devolution: Overcoming Communism and the "Land of Excrement" Incident 5. Return to the Colonial Present: Translation Postscript Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sinophone Studies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA valuable sourcebook introducing fundamental ideas and major intellectuals in this field... Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: What Is Sinophone Studies? Shu-mei Shih I. Issues and Controversies introduction by Chien-hsin Tsai 1. Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production (2007) Shu-mei Shih 2. On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem (1998) Rey Chow 3. Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm (1998) Ien Ang 4. Sinophone/Chinese: "The South Where Language Is Lost" and Reinvented (1998) Kim Chew Ng 5. Post-Loyalism (2007) David Der-wei Wang 6. Exiled to English Ha Jin II. Discrepant Perspectives introduction by Brian Bernards 7. Chineseness: The Dilemmas of Place and Practice (1999) Gungwu Wang 8. Cultural China: The Periphery as Center (1991) Wei-ming Tu 9. On the Margins of the Chinese Discourse (1991) Leo Ou-fan Lee 10. The Structure of Dual Domination: Toward a Paradigm for the Study of the Chinese Diaspora in the United States (1995) Ling-chi Wang III. Sites and Articulations introduction by Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai * Sinophone Hong Kong 11. Intra-Local and Inter-Local Sinophone: Rhizomatic Politics of Hong Kong Writers Saisai and Wong Bik-wan Mirana May Szeto 12. Things * Sinophone Taiwan 13. Taiwan Fiction Under Japanese Colonial Rule 14. Sinophone Indigenous Literature of Taiwan: History and Tradition Hsinya Huang 15. Writing Beyond Boudoirs: Sinophone Literature by Female Writers in Contemporary Taiwan Pei-Yin Lin 16. Of Guest and Host: Zhong Lihe * Sinophone Tibetan 17. On the Margins of Tibetanness: Three Decades of Sinophone Tibetan Literature Patricia Schiaffini 18. Danger in the Voice: Alai and the Sinophone Carlos Rojas * Sinophone Malaysian and Singaporean 19. Sinophone Malaysian Literature: An Overview Kim Tong Tee 20. Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun's Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture E. K. Tan 21. Plantation and Rainforest: Chang Kuei-hsing and a South Seas Discourse of Coloniality and Nature Brian Bernards * Sinophone New Zealand 22. Inverted Islands: Sinophone New Zealand Literature Jacob Edmond * Sinophone Manchu 23. Beneath Two Red Banners: Lao She as a Manchu Writer in Modern China Carles Prado-Fonts * Sinophone French 24. Found in Translation: Gao Xingjian's Multimedial Sinophone Andrea Bachner * Sinophone American 25. Generational Effects in Racialization: Representations of African Americans in Sinophone Chinese American Literature Sau-ling Wong 26. At the Threshold of the Gold Mountain: Reading Angel Island Poetry Te-hsing Shan 27. The Chinese Immigrant as a Global Figure in Lin Yutang's Novels Shuang Shen * Sinophone Latin American and Caribbean 28. Latin America and the Caribbean in a Sinophone Studies Reader? Ignacio Lopez-Calvo Glossary of Sinitic Terms Index, by ii
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Columbia University Press In the Company of Strangers
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMcCrea's work, original, well considered and detailed, offers fresh insight into vital, complex texts and brings queer theory usefully into contemporary debate when reconsidering such influential works. -- Eibhear Walshe Irish Times Elegant... I recommend In the Company of Strangers both for its clarity, readability, and sophistication and for bringing to bear on Victorian texts important new insights from the burgeoning field of queer narratology. Victorian Studies In the company of Strangers is an excellent book... McCrea's study is a must-read for those interested in narratology, Victorian and modernist prose fiction, queer theory, and the works of the novelists, including Joyce, under consideration, which are treated with sensitivity and intelligence. James Joyce QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. Queer Expectations 2. Holmes at Home Part II Introduction 3. Family and Form in Ulysses 4. Proust's Farewell to the Family Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Stalking Nabokov
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA readable collection on one of the 20th century's greatest writers, this will be enjoyed by Nabokov fans and students of 20th century literature. Library Journal Boyd's graceful style and passionate advocacy achieves the goal of the best literary criticism: it compels us to pick up Nabokov and read, or read again, the work of a master. Publishers Weekly In Stalking Nabokov Boyd attempts something fairly ambitious: he takes the titanic Nabokov and seeks to revise him upwards. As Boyd sees it, he is not only the greatest novelist of the century; he is also a considerable poet, an important scientist, a controversially original translator, a fearless and liberating critic, a learned psychologist... Vera [Nabokov] soon came to value him and to trust him; and we should follow her lead... Professor Boyd, as the author of books on evolution and cognition, is well equipped to give us a real sense of Nabokov's scientific weight... The long and fervent essay in Stalking Nabokov [on the poem] "Pale Fire," compel us to reexamine the poem as an autonomous whole. And the exercise is epiphanic. "Pale Fire" glows with fresh pathos and vibrancy-and so does Pale Fire. For the first time we see the poem in all its innocence, and register the vandalism of Kinbote's desperate travesty. // So at last the true dimensions of Pale Fire are more clearly revealed to us... On the timbre of Nabokov's artistic spirit Boyd is fundamentally right-headed. -- Martin Amis Times Literary Supplement Advances a consistent and intriguing reading of [Nabokov's] work... a powerful corrective to a prevailing view of Nabokov. -- Larry Hardesty Boston Globe Essential for everyone interested in the Russian master. Booklist Boyd's deft analysis of the novels is superb... genuinely exhilarating... Brian Boyd is not only Nabokov's biographer but also his pre-eminent critic. This is a valuable and delightful collection of essays on one of the twentieth century's most significant novelists. -- Paul Morgan Australian Book Review There is plenty of sensible and revealing stuff here. New Yorker Absolutely fascinating... Uniquely compelling... This is Boyd at his best. -- Eric Naiman San Francisco Chronicle There is much here that will inform, enliven, and enlighten the work of one of the greatest novelists of his century. New York Times Book Review Required reading for serious students of Nabokov. Choice Boyd is always a pleasure to read...and this collection does not disappoint. -- Stephen H. Blackwell Slavic Review Ambitious... Fervent... Epiphanic. -- Martin Amis Times Literary Supplement Substantial... Impressive... Enlightening... Best of all, his enthusiasm for Nabokov's verbal pyrotechnics, for his comically deluded heroes pursuing elusive objects of desire, for the ability to depict life itself, joyously 'swarming with inexhaustible diversity and delight,' sends you back to read the books... of one of literature's great masters. -- David Eggleton The Listener Boyd's sophisticated use of texts and contexts, close readings informed by archival materials and decades of experience, and wonderful writing style mean that all Nabokov scholars and fans will enjoy. -- Jason Merrill The Russian Review Boyd is, without a doubt, an incredibly exacting and rigorous scholar - his tireless research and collection of a vast array of materials is something which coming generations of academics will continue to be grateful for. -- U.H. Dematagoda Slavonic and East European ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Nabokov: The Writer's Life and the Life Writer 1. A Centennial Toast 2. A Biographer's Life 3. Who Is "My Nabokov"? Nabokov's Manuscripts and Books 4. The Nabokov Biography and the Nabokov Archive 5. From the Nabokov Archive: Nabokov's Literary Legacy Nabokov's Metaphysics 6. Retrospects and Prospect/s 7. Nabokov's Afterlife Nabokov's Butterflies 8. Nabokov, Literature, Lepidoptera 9. Netting Nabokov: Review of Dieter E. Zimmer, A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths Nabokov as Psychologist 10. The Psychological Work of Fictional Play Nabokov and the Origins and Ends of Stories 11. Stacks of Stories, Stories of Stacks Nabokov as Writer 12. Nabokov's Humor 13. Nabokov as Storyteller 14. Nabokov's Transition from Russian to English: Repudiation or Evolution? Nabokov and Others 15. Nabokov, Pushkin, Shakespeare: Genius, Generosity, and Gratitude in The Gift and Pale Fire 16. Nabokov as Verse Translator: Introduction to Verses and Versions 17. Tolstoy and Nabokov 18. Nabokov and Machado de Assis Nabokov Works 19. Speak, Memory : The Life and the Art 20. Speak, Memory : Nabokov, Mother, and Lovers: The Weave of the Magic Carpet (1999) 21. Lolita : Scene and Unseen 22. Even Homais Nods: Nabokov's Fallibility; Or, How to Revise Lolita 23. Literature, Pattern, Lolita; Or, Art, Literature, Science 24. "Pale Fire": Poem and Pattern 25. Ada : The Bog and the Garden; Or, Straw, Fluff, and Peat: Sources and Places in Ada 26. A Book Burner Recants: The Original of Laura Notes Bibliography Index
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