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Columbia University Press Flexible India
Book SynopsisShameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.Trade ReviewShameem Black’s Flexible India provides an important new perspective on the complex politics of yoga in contemporary India. In a style that is lucid, incisive, and critically insightful, her analysis sheds light on how the practice of yoga, and claims to authority over its historical representation, are riven with contradictions that reinforce inequities and injustices. At the same time, yoga’s flexible multivocality animates the possibility of practice that transcends entrenched forms of exclusion, exploitation, and alienation. With deep empathy and critical reasoning, Black shows how the rigidity of India’s twenty-first-century modernity can be understood in terms that work out the tensions of nationalism and the contortions of neoliberalism. -- Joseph S. Alter, author of Yoga in Modern IndiaShameem Black invites us to reassess the idea of ‘yoga’ in the popular cultural imaginary. Her timely, thoughtful, and erudite study tackles notions of cultural appropriation, social inequality, and political critique, channeled through a wonderfully blended academic and creative endeavor. -- E. Dawson Varughese, author of author of Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in EnglishBlack’s richly textured analysis takes us on a journey across disciplines, genres, and lenses, highlighting crucial questions surrounding the meaning, value, and practice of yoga, all the while gloriously centering its messy multiplicity and internal contradictions. An ambitious, skillfully written book—and a truly edifying, rewarding read. -- Farah Godrej, author of Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral StateFlexible India is a stirringly intimate portrait of both the beauty and the vicissitudes of global yoga. Black expertly unfurls the complex ethical debates of modern yoga without relinquishing its generative possibilities for hope, imagination, and flexibility. A must read. -- Amanda Lucia, author of White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational FestivalsFlexible India offers a powerful panorama of the paradoxes and transformative potential of yoga. Never reductive, Shameem Black lays bare painful contradictions in sensitive and compassionate prose. She interrogates power imbalances, cultural appropriation, and the possibility of positive transformation through yoga with integrity and bravery. -- Suzanne Newcombe, author of Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating YogisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationPrologue: The Bracelet1. Setting Up: Yoga’s Flexible Forms2. Conducting Mass Practice: India’s Vision for Yoga3. Aligning Both Hands: Yoga in Indian Fiction4. Assuming Corpse Pose: Yoga in U.S. Popular Culture5. Bending Over Backward: Yoga’s Precarious Work6. Framing New Parts: Yoga Through Diasporic Critique7. Lying Out: Spectral YogaEpilogue: The MoonNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Turn the World Upside Down
Book SynopsisImani D. Owens recasts Black creators’ relationship to folk culture, emphasizing their formal and stylistic innovations and experiments in self-invention that reach beyond the local to the world.Trade ReviewTurn the World Upside Down profoundly recreates the literary and cultural history of Black diasporic modernism. Working across national and linguistic borders, the book brings a richly comparative method to texts too often siloed in disciplinary and area studies scholarship, from works by U.S. literary icons like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to less-studied figures like the Cuban performer Eusebia Cosme. Imani D. Owens’s ‘critical return to folk culture’ will forever change how readers approach the beautiful ‘unruliness’ and asymmetry of Black cultural expression. -- Sonya Posmentier, author of Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black LiteratureOriginal and compelling, Turn the World Upside Down invests in and expands Black diaspora studies, displays stunning archival research, and highlights heretofore unseen connections and underread texts next to highly known figures in the field. -- Samantha Pinto, author of Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women's Celebrity and the Afterlives of RightsTurn the World Upside Down is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on early twentieth-century Black folk culture in the Americas. This truly innovative and complex study ranges across linguistic and national boundaries and represents a major contribution to the fields of African diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, and American studies -- Aaron Kamugisha, author of Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual TraditionThoughtfully written and creatively argued, Turn the World Upside Down is both fascinating and timely. Imani Owens innovatively theorizes the idea of folk culture to bring new insights to the field by helping us to rethink our understanding of “folk culture” and its manifold functions in African diasporic cultures. In fact, Owens performs a disruption of her own by bringing together US empire studies and New Southern Studies to offer a multilingual, comparative, transnational analysis that enriches and deepens our readings of African diasporic literatures and cultures. -- Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, author of Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsProloguePart I. Writing the Crossroads1. Georgia Dusk and Panama Gold: Jean Toomer, Eric Walrond, and the “Death” of Folk Culture2. Compelling Insinuation and the Uses of Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Price-Mars, and the U.S. Occupation of HaitiPart II. Performing the Archive3. “Cuban Evening”: The Poetics of Translation in the Work of Eusebia Cosme, Nicolás Guillén, and Langston Hughes4. Reinterpreting Folk Culture at the “End of the World”: Sylvia Wynter’s Dance and Radio DramaCoda: Toward an Ontological SovereigntyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Afterlives of Letters
Book SynopsisSatoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms.Trade ReviewAfterlives of Letters dismantles modern literature's self-mythologization as a break with the past by showing that East Asian authors created modern literature through conscious engagement with the literary heritage of classical Chinese. -- Christopher L. Hill, author of Figures of The World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational FormIn this impressively multilingual and theoretically sophisticated analysis, Hashimoto reexamines claims that modern East Asian literature was either a radical departure from preceding classical traditions or was directly grounded on those same national traditions. Instead, Hashimoto contends that this literature was haunted by its classical legacies while also being thoroughly transnational in its contemporary incarnations. -- Carlos Rojas, author of Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern ChinaExpansive in scope and meticulous in detail, Afterlives of Letters revises the established view that modern literature emerged in East Asia as a thorough break with the region’s shared cultural past. It liberates the founding fathers of “national literatures” in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan from their imposed canonicity, and enlivens transregional and transtemporal aspects of their writerly practices. -- Youngju Ryu, author of Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s KoreaBy reuse, repetition, and parody, the authors in Satoru Hashimoto’s wide-ranging, meticulous, and original study made Asian modernity out of the ruins of their classical culture, as they dared to imagine freedom from old-style and new-style empires. Literary history in its complexity here illuminates the needs of the present. -- Haun Saussy, author of The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual AsiaPutting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean authors in transnational dialogue, Satoru Hashimoto brilliantly delineates how East Asian writers grappled with Western modernity while forging their own modernity from local traditions. -- Ban Wang, author of At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical EcologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsConventionsIntroductionPart I: A Multilayered Contact Space in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia1. Literature’s Search for Itself: Liang Qichao and Meiji Political Fiction2. Literature and Life in Exile: Sin Ch’aeho’s Engagement with Liang Qichao’s WorkPart II: Reforming Language and Redefining “Literature”3. Parody and Repetition: Rereading the Works of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi Kwangsu4. History as Rewriting: The Historical Fiction of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi KwangsuPart III: Japan’s Imperial Mimicry and Its Critique5. Archaeology of Resistance: Zhou Zuoren’s Cultural Criticism in Wartime East Asia6. Transnational Allegory: Intertextualizing Lu Xun in Late Colonial Korean, Taiwanese, and Manchukuo LiteraturesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£105.30
Columbia University Press Afterlives of Letters
Book SynopsisSatoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms.Trade ReviewAfterlives of Letters dismantles modern literature's self-mythologization as a break with the past by showing that East Asian authors created modern literature through conscious engagement with the literary heritage of classical Chinese. -- Christopher L. Hill, author of Figures of The World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational FormIn this impressively multilingual and theoretically sophisticated analysis, Hashimoto reexamines claims that modern East Asian literature was either a radical departure from preceding classical traditions or was directly grounded on those same national traditions. Instead, Hashimoto contends that this literature was haunted by its classical legacies while also being thoroughly transnational in its contemporary incarnations. -- Carlos Rojas, author of Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern ChinaExpansive in scope and meticulous in detail, Afterlives of Letters revises the established view that modern literature emerged in East Asia as a thorough break with the region’s shared cultural past. It liberates the founding fathers of “national literatures” in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan from their imposed canonicity, and enlivens transregional and transtemporal aspects of their writerly practices. -- Youngju Ryu, author of Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s KoreaBy reuse, repetition, and parody, the authors in Satoru Hashimoto’s wide-ranging, meticulous, and original study made Asian modernity out of the ruins of their classical culture, as they dared to imagine freedom from old-style and new-style empires. Literary history in its complexity here illuminates the needs of the present. -- Haun Saussy, author of The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual AsiaPutting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean authors in transnational dialogue, Satoru Hashimoto brilliantly delineates how East Asian writers grappled with Western modernity while forging their own modernity from local traditions. -- Ban Wang, author of At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical EcologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsConventionsIntroductionPart I: A Multilayered Contact Space in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia1. Literature’s Search for Itself: Liang Qichao and Meiji Political Fiction2. Literature and Life in Exile: Sin Ch’aeho’s Engagement with Liang Qichao’s WorkPart II: Reforming Language and Redefining “Literature”3. Parody and Repetition: Rereading the Works of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi Kwangsu4. History as Rewriting: The Historical Fiction of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi KwangsuPart III: Japan’s Imperial Mimicry and Its Critique5. Archaeology of Resistance: Zhou Zuoren’s Cultural Criticism in Wartime East Asia6. Transnational Allegory: Intertextualizing Lu Xun in Late Colonial Korean, Taiwanese, and Manchukuo LiteraturesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Moments for Nothing
Book SynopsisGabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with Beckett to explore how his work speaks to our current existential anxieties and fears.Trade ReviewAs a guide to Beckett’s work, Moments for Nothing is indispensable, but it is also much more than this. Mixing literary criticism with memoir and a compelling account of personal loss and mourning, this is a book unlike any other. What holds together its various elements is a moving and generous tribute to the transformative experience of reading—in which an impassioned love of Beckett’s writing gives shape and meaning to a scholarly life. -- Peter Boxall, author of The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial LifeWith passion and deep erudition, Gabriele Schwab situates Samuel Beckett in our “end times” of pandemic and climate catastrophe. Here we encounter afresh the writer’s desolate landscapes, dark wit, and ghostly whispers. Here we gratefully consume, alongside his lonely characters, a typically Beckettian meal of despair and hope. -- Elin Diamond, author of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and TheatreMoments for Nothing provides perfect readings of Beckett’s prose and plays. Schwab blends elegantly personal reminiscences, psychoanalytical analyses, and philosophical approaches that she distills to demonstrate the relevance of Beckett for our times of angst, pandemics, catastrophe, and looming extinction. Like Beckett’s texts, her book nevertheless uplifts. -- Jean-Michel Rabaté, author of Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the HumanTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Moments for Nothing: Endgame and Its Discontents2. The Transitional Space Between Life and Death: “The Calmative,” Molloy, and Malone Dies3. End Times of Subjectivity: The Unnamable4. “Laughing wildly inmidst severest woe”: Happy Days and the Last Humans5. Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: The Lost Ones Coda: Breath and the Vicissitudes of AnimationNotesBibliographyIndex
£87.20
Columbia University Press Asian American Fiction After 1965
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Columbia University Press The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of Simone Weil's most dedicatedand at points surprisingliterary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant.
£25.20
Columbia University Press Psychic Empire
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Columbia University Press Psychic Empire
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Columbia University Press Writing in Red
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Columbia University Press Writing in Red
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Columbia University Press V. S. Naipauls Journeys
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Columbia University Press Poetry in General
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University of Illinois Press Postmodern American Literature and Its Other
Book SynopsisRedefining postmodern American literature to include the voices of women and nonwhite writersTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010. “Bringing to the discussion the work of such authors as Rikki Ducornet and Ishmael Reed, Hogue creates an intriguing discussion that informs the scholarly debate regarding postmodernism. Highly recommended.”--Choice“In Postmodern American Literature and Its Other, W. Lawrence Hogue presents the most extended critique of contemporary American literature’s blind spots published to date. Few critics before Hogue have taken such a nuanced approach to the best work of Pynchon, Auster, Ducornet, Acker, Reed, and Vizenor; perhaps none have addressed the degree to which these authors remain within or work against the narrowest precepts of the Enlightenment. Hogue’s model of a “planetary postmodernism” that places the Others--people of color, women, syncretic religions--at the center of literature offers a way forward into new epistemological possibilities. This book will challenge our conversations about American literature for years to come.”--Darryl Dickson-Carr, author of The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction“W. Lawrence Hogue opens up the postmodern canon--he makes the authors he criticizes more intriguing to read and study, and he gives multicultural and women authors their rightful place in postmodern American literature. Intriguing and thought-provoking.”--Jane Davis, author of The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study of African American LiteratureTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv 1. Postmodern American Literature and Its Other: The Euro-American Male, Woman, the African American, the American Indian, the Poor, and the Global Periphery 1 2. The Privileged, Sovereign, Euro-American (Male), Post/Modern Subject and Its Construction of the Other: Thomas Pynchon's V. and Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy 42 3. Constructing Woman as Subject: Rikki Ducornet's The Jade Cabinet and Kathy Acker's Pussy, King of the Pirates 94 4. Signifying Planetary Postmodernity: Ischmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus 143 5. Conclusion 189 Notes 193 Works Cited 199 Index 209
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University of Illinois Press James Baldwin and the 1980s
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Among the most valuable contributions of Vogel's book is an entire chapter devoted to Baldwin's as yet unpublished play, The Welcome Table. . . . Vogel's adept interpretation of the play . . . is among the strongest works on late Baldwin now in print." --Journal of American History"Vogel help[s] us to 'catch up' to Baldwin by freeing us from previous misconceptions of the important work he did in his late career." --African American Review "Clearly and concisely written with a snap in his prose. No one has focused on this era and its unique importance in the way Joseph Vogel has done."--Ed Pavlic, author of Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners "In his incisively reasoned and beautifully written volume, James Baldwin and The 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era, Joseph Vogel picks up on Baldwin's theme of digging through the rubble and, in doing so, unearths new pieces of Baldwin's late years." --Black Perspectives"A stand-out in recent African American history and literary studies, certainly worth the time of anyone interested in Baldwin or modern America." —Robert Greene II, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Review (online)"While scholars have started to chip away at the critical consensus that James Baldwin lost his way as a writer after the mid-1960s, very few critics have paid attention to the last decade of the writer's work. As Vogel argues in this insightful and elegantly written book, Baldwin remained a vital force in American letters."--Douglas Field, author of All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin
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University of Illinois Press Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 "A deeply persentist examination of a rich, dynamic 1970s." --Journal of American History"A deeply presentist examination of a rich, dynamic 1970s." --Journal of American History"Deeply informed and persuasively argued, this wide-ranging yet cohesive collection of original essays illuminates the inter-workings of black activism and expressive culture in and beyond the 1970s. With its rigorous historical contextualization and compelling commentary on how the 1970s anticipated and influenced our own moment, Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights is sure to become an invaluable resource for contemporary scholars working in the fields of African American literature and print culture; film studies; popular culture; feminist history and theory; and trauma and memory studies."--Aida Levy-Hussen, author of How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation"The essays gathered here speak to one another in remarkable ways, both because of the authors' commitment to the material and the editor's guidance. This volume is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities and influences of African American culture in the 1970s." --Choice"A harmoniously blended symphony in the interests of Black folks, culture, and justice." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"This wide-ranging collection of essays on literature, feminism, performance, publishing, Black Power, and the afterlife of slavery brings depth and texture to our studies of the post-civil rights era. As Black artists and activists mounted calls to liberation in the 1970s, they also faced a mushrooming carceral industry, white supremacist violence, and the rise of neoliberalism. This urgent and refreshing text returns our attention to that volatile decade and to the ways cultural production provided the vital means for engaging with and reimagining the world."--Erica R. Edwards, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
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University of Illinois Press Roger Zelazny
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Cox consistently brings great critical acumen to bear on his readings, which are sensitively attuned to Zelazny’s specifics but never lose sight of the broader literary context, and he organizes an imposing array of material in insightful and intuitive ways. He captures the excitement of Zelazny’s work, the thrill of its evolution, the astonishing panache of its heights." --Locus"Well-researched, well-organized, and well-written, this is an exemplary entry in the University of Illinois Press's Modern Masters of Science Fiction series, and it deserves the attention of all fans and scholars of Zealzny's work, and of modern sf generally." --Science Fiction Studies"Zelazny fans will enjoy comparing their opinions of various Zelazny titles with Cox’s opinions, and getting tips from Cox on worthy titles they may have overlooked." --Sandusky Register"Roger Zelazny is a thorough and sympathetic review of the life, career, and work of one of the seminal creators in science fiction and fantasy of the last half of the 20th century. It takes into account the prior work of reviewers, critics, and biographers as well as commentary by his peers and fans, from every period of his sadly shortened life and since." --SFRA Review
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University of Illinois Press Julia de Burgos La creaci243n de un 237cono
Book SynopsisTrade Review"En esta magistral investigación, Pérez-Rosario le da vida a una de las artistas más sobresalientes y audaces de la diáspora puertorriqueña del siglo XX. Un libro indispensable que presenta a Julia de Burgos en su extraordinaria plenitud."--Junot DíazTable of ContentsIlustraciones viiAgradecimientos ixIntroducción 11. Escribiendo la nación: feminismo, antiimperialismo y la Generación del 30 152. Nadie es profeta en su tierra: exilio, migración e identidad hemisférica 413. Más allá del mar: el periodismo como práctica cultural y política transnacional en Puerto Rico 624. Legados múltiples: Julia de Burgos y los escritores de la diáspora caribeña 855. Recordando a Julia de Burgos: ícono cultural, comunidad, pertenencia 119Conclusión: crear latinidad 143Notas 149Bibliografía 165Índice 181
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University of Illinois Press Aint I an Anthropologist
Book SynopsisIconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston’s literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to Hurston’s two areas of achievement by examining the critical response to her work across both fields. Drawing on a wide range of readings, Freeman Marshall explores Hurston’s popular appeal as iconography, her elevation into the literary canon, her concurrent marginalization in anthropology despite her significant contributions, and her place within constructions of Black feminist literary traditions. Perceptive and original, Ain’t I an Anthropologist is an overdue reassessment of Zora Neale Hurston’s place in American cultural and intellectual life.Trade Review"As the public, scholars, writers, and creatives continue to engage with Hurston through ongoing book releases, studies, documentaries, and festivals, Freeman Marshall’s work provides an important intervention that calls us to think about how we reconstruct and deploy Hurston as not only a talented storyteller and incisive ethnographer but also a consummate intellectual." --Another Chicago"Freeman Marshall makes clear that Hurston’s reputation as an anthropologist has been undermined by the glamour of her rediscovery and subsequent literary 'canonization' . . . . Freeman Marshall also compellingly argues that 'Hurston’s anthropological work has not been more fully recognized within the field of anthropology in part due to the marginalization of American folklore and in, in particular, African American folklore within the discipline.' Hopefully, with this new study, Hurston’s contributions to anthropology will finally be recognized." --Southern Review of Books"Doomed to obscurity, Zora Neale Hurston was then resurrected as a 'founding mother' of Black literature and folklore. Yet her pioneering work in African diaspora ethnography and anthropology, especially her work in Haiti, remains little-known. . . . Marshall concludes that Hurston’s refusal to be defined as 'tragically colored' formed her genius as she 'embraces . . . the right to feel and be herself, idiosyncratic and sometimes puzzling, like any member of the human race.'" --Booklist starred review"An insightful read about how academic obscurity can pigeonhole the legacy of Black women thinkers. Hurston’s fascination, esteem, and passion to capture, preserve and return to the African diaspora their new world folk traditions used academic methods and Africana means to share our interior selves. . . . Freeman Marshall contends that 'contextualization and a commitment to interdisciplinarity remain central' to excavating Hurston. This excavation serves as a prism through which collective literary and cultural works can contribute to transformative ways of reading and understanding the hybrid Black feminist agency and legacy crafted by Zora Neale Hurston by her people for her people and humanity writ large." --Black Perspectives"A fascinating examination into the work of Zora Neale Hurston as an anthropologist, which has been all but forgotten, especially in comparison to her work as a writer and cultural icon. " --Ms. Magazine“Jennifer Freeman Marshall combines razor sharp analysis and clear prose that compel the reader to think carefully and critically about why Zora Neale Hurston is lionized in literature and marginalized in anthropology. Like a quilt, Freeman Marshall’s book has a strong frame, an aesthetically pleasing design, and an impeccable yet creative logic.”--Lee D. Baker, author of Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture"Freeman Marshall unfolds a Hurston whose anthropological work contributed to her ramified sense of difference and variegation in the lived world. Hurston emerges as situated simultaneously in her selfhood and her experience as a Black woman. As an anthropologist, Hurston tells stories that are 'multiple and ... grounded by ... diverse communities.’ Recommended." --Choice"Undoubtedly, Ain't I an Anthropologist should be essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, as well as African American literature and folklore studies. With its careful and exhaustive documentation of the Black feminist literary and anthropological scholarship on Hurston's oeuvre, this book is both an archive and a treasure trove of information about Zora Neale Hurston that teaches us how to approach her work in new ways." --American AnthropologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: “Twice as Much Praise or Twice as Much Blame” On Firsts, Foremothers, and “The Walker Effect” Signifying “Texts”: The Race for Hurston Deconstructing an Icon: Tradition and Authority “Ain’t I an Anthropologist?” Mules and Men: “Negro folklore [. . .] is still in the making” The author arrives at no conclusion”? Reading Tell My Horse Notes Works CitedIndex
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University of Illinois Press Becoming Ray Bradbury
Book SynopsisChronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theatre.Trade Review"Particularly strong in detailing Bradbury’s friendships, influences, and professional relationships and endeavors." --Orbit"Every page is packed with fascinating material about one of this country’s most beloved writers."--The Washington Post, Michael Dirda "A very Bradburyian biography."--SFRA Review "Eller's work is thorough and enlightening on the subject of one of science fiction's greatest minds. Highly recommended not just for Bradbury fans but for all students of science fiction."--Library Journal"A treasury of otherwise unavailable information. . . . Fans of Bradbury will find this book a fascinating and revealing look into his life and work."--Science Fiction Studies"Jonathan R. Eller traces a wide variety of influences on Ray Bradbury's work, offering a detailed literary and cultural genealogy. Utterly compelling, this book contains a substantial amount of new material that will be invaluable for future scholars of Bradbury's work." --Gary K. Wolfe, author of Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature"A richly contextualized interpretation of Ray Bradbury's personal experience, his intellectual and artistic life, and the cultural milieu in which his gifts developed. Becoming Ray Bradbury will be the definitive account of Bradbury's development as a writer." --David Mogen, author of Wilderness Visions: The Western Theme in Science Fiction Literature"In great and always fascinating detail, Eller chronicles the journey Bradbury took from his youth to his early middle years. . . . [A] fine and important book."--Neworld Review "Eller shows how Bradbury found his vocation in a private world of mimeographed fanzines and couch-surfing, of transcontinental trips to the very first SF conventions, of the intense rivalries and controversies of a small enclosed world. . . . Eller’s excellent account makes clear that one of the reasons why Bradbury came to seem an important new voice is that he was never as naive a writer as literary patrons such as Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley may have assumed.”Times Literary Supplement "A stunningly good examination of what in Ray's life turned him into the unique, individual writer he became."--Huffington Post "Eller must surely be the preeminent biographer of Ray Bradbury."--Choice "As perhaps the most knowledgeable scholar of Bradbury's body of work, Eller offers an in-depth study of his subject's early life, laying out his development from pulp publications toward The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). . . . A fitting tribute to the impact that Ray Bradbury has had for his readers. Becoming Ray Bradbury reminds fans and scholars alike of the need to revisit our well-worn copies of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and the countless short stores that introduced so many of us to the realm of the fantastic."--Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts "Articulate and engaging, astonishingly rich in detail, and demonstrating exemplary research and scholarship, Becoming Ray Bradbury will be regarded as the most authoritative biography of Bradbury's life and work for many years."--Peter Stockwell, author of Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading
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University of Illinois Press Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
Book SynopsisAn expansive introduction to Chicago's great cultural explosionTrade Review"A nicely crafted book that makes an important contribution to both the historiography of the Illinois Territory and the War of 1812."--Journal of Illinois History"An important reference work that will stimulate further research on this fascinating and influential literary movement."--Journal of the Illinois Historical Society"Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of the black Chicago Renaissance. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"A most important reference book on a subject that is sure to get increasing attention for years to come. The volume will serve as a foundational source of information and perspective on the major figures of the Black Chicago Renaissance."--Amritjit Singh, coeditor of The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader"A genuinely useful reference and inspirational sourcebook. Tracy's selection of Chicago-connected writers intelligently guides us through the understudied territory of 'post-Harlem' African American literature."--William J. Maxwell, editor of Claude McKay's Complete Poems"Rigorously challenges still-common perceptions of the Harlem Renaissance as the defining moment of African American literary production. . . . A foundational work."--Journal of Illinois History"The authors written about here across some 30 essays and literary biographies led fascinating lives, and the essays serve as windows into a bygone era. . . . 4 stars."--Time Out Chicago"A vigorous and seminal reassessment of an essential chapter in American culture."--Booklist "If Tracy's intention in pulling together the contributions to this thorough book is to enlighten readers about this outstanding group of artists and this period in our country's cultural history, he has succeeded remarkably. . . . A superb introduction to the Black Chicago Renaissance."--Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Robert S. Abbott; William A. Attaway; Claude A. Barnett; Henry Lowington Blakely, II; Aldon Bland; Edward Bland; Marita Bonner; Gwendolyn Brooks; Frank London Brown; Alice Browning; Dan Burley; Margaret Danner; Frank Marshall Davis; Richard Durham; Lorraine Hansberry; Fenton Johnson; John Johnson; Marian Minus; Willard Motley; Gordon Parks; John Sengstacke; Margaret Walker
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University of Illinois Press Julia de Burgos
Book SynopsisTrade Review"En esta magistral investigación, Pérez-Rosario le da vida a una de las artistas más sobresalientes y audaces de la diáspora puertorriqueña del siglo XX. Un libro indispensable que presenta a Julia de Burgos en su extraordinaria plenitud."--Junot DíazTable of ContentsIlustraciones viiAgradecimientos ixIntroducción 11. Escribiendo la nación: feminismo, antiimperialismo y la Generación del 30 152. Nadie es profeta en su tierra: exilio, migración e identidad hemisférica 413. Más allá del mar: el periodismo como práctica cultural y política transnacional en Puerto Rico 624. Legados múltiples: Julia de Burgos y los escritores de la diáspora caribeña 855. Recordando a Julia de Burgos: ícono cultural, comunidad, pertenencia 119Conclusión: crear latinidad 143Notas 149Bibliografía 165Índice 181
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Indiana University Press Contemporary African American Literature The
Book SynopsisMakes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studiesTrade ReviewHighly recommended. * Choice *[This book describes] a fruitful tension that brings scholars of major reputation together with newly emerging critics to explore the full range of literary activities that have flourished in the post-Civil Rights era. Notable are such popular influences as hip-hop music and Oprah Winfrey's Book Club . . . * AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP 2013 *Table of ContentsForeword Mat Johnson, University of HoustonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State UniversityI. Politics of Publishing, Pedagogy, and Readership1. The Point of Entanglement: Modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love Houston A. Baker, Jr., Vanderbilt University2. The Historical Burden that Only Oprah Can Bear: African American Satirists and the State of the Literature Darryl Dickson-Carr, Southern Methodist University3. Black is Gold: African American Literature, Literacy, and Pedagogical Legacies Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas 4. Hip Hop Fiction (feat. Women Writers); or, Other Things Hip Hop Music Has Taught Black Fiction Eve Dunbar, Vassar College 5. Street Literature and the Mode of Spectacular Writing: Popular Fiction between Sensationalism, Education, Politics and Entertainment Kristina Graaff, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of BerlinII. Alternative Genealogies6. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slave: Visual Artistry as Agency in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery Evie Shockley, Rutgers University 7. Variations on the Theme: Black Family, Nationhood, Lesbianism and Sadomasochistic Desire in Marci Blackman's Po Man's Child Carmen Phelps, University of Toledo8. Bad-Brother-Man: Black Folk Figure Narratives in Comics James Braxton Peterson, Bucknell UniversityIII. Beyond Authenticity9. Sampling the Sonics of Sex (Funk) in Paul Beatty's Slumberland L. H. Stallings, Indiana University 10. Urkel No More? Black Geeks in Contemporary Black Literature Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University 11. The Crisis of Authenticity in Contemporary African American Literature Richard Schur, Drury University 12. Someday We'll All Be Free: Contemporary Fiction and the Post-Oppression Narrative Martha Southgate, Brooklyn Novelist IV. Pedagogical Approaches and Implications 13. Untangling History, Dismantling Fear: Teaching Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta Trudier Harris, UNC-Chapel Hill, Emerita 14. Reading Kyle Baker's Nat Turner with a Group of Collegiate Black Men Howard Rambsy II, Southern Illinois University15. Toward the Theoretical Practice of Conceptual Liberation: Using An Africana Studies Approach to Reading African American Literary Texts Greg Carr, Howard University and Dana Williams, Howard University Afterword Alice Randall, Vanderbilt NovelistAnnotated Bibliography Pia Deas, Lincoln University and David Green, St. Johns UniversityIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press David Bergelsons Strange New World Untimeliness
Book SynopsisDavid Bergelson's Strange New World explores the work of one of the most highly regarded Yiddish writers of the 20th and his untimely world of characters who live ahead and behind the times in the Eastern European shtetl.Trade Review"Harriet Murav treats Bergelson with the care and sincerity that literary critics have shown other important writers. This is a masterpiece of literary scholarship that will be sure to transform not only how people read Bergelson and who chooses to read Bergelson, but how readers engage with the entire concept of modernism itself."—David Shneer, author of Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroductionPart I: Postscripts and DeparturesChapter 1: Congealed TimeChapter 2: The AftereffectChapter 3: Taking LeavePart II: Bodies, Things, and MachinesChapter 4: The GlitchChapter 5: Delay, Desire, and VisualityPart III: A Strange New WorldChapter 6: Judgment Deferred Chapter 7: The Execution of JudgmentPart IV: Time Cannot Be MistakenChapter 8: Socialism's Frozen TimeChapter 9: The Gift of TimeConclusionBibliographyIndex
£70.55
Indiana University Press David Bergelsons Strange New World
Book SynopsisDavid Bergelson's Strange New World explores the work of one of the most highly regarded Yiddish writers of the 20th and his untimely world of characters who live ahead and behind the times in the Eastern European shtetl.Trade Review"Harriet Murav treats Bergelson with the care and sincerity that literary critics have shown other important writers. This is a masterpiece of literary scholarship that will be sure to transform not only how people read Bergelson and who chooses to read Bergelson, but how readers engage with the entire concept of modernism itself."—David Shneer, author of Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroductionPart I: Postscripts and DeparturesChapter 1: Congealed TimeChapter 2: The AftereffectChapter 3: Taking LeavePart II: Bodies, Things, and MachinesChapter 4: The GlitchChapter 5: Delay, Desire, and VisualityPart III: A Strange New WorldChapter 6: Judgment Deferred Chapter 7: The Execution of JudgmentPart IV: Time Cannot Be MistakenChapter 8: Socialism's Frozen TimeChapter 9: The Gift of TimeConclusionBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Indiana University Press Generation Stalin
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an outstanding work of intellectual history. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Generation Stalin offers a pathbreaking new perspective on an under-examined (or until now misexamined) convergence of twentieth-century French culture and politics. * H-France *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Henri Barbusse and Stalin's Official Biography2. Romain Rolland and the Politics of Terror3. Paul Eluard and Stalin's 70th Birthday4. Louis Aragon and the Great Patriotic WarConclusionWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps
Book SynopsisDevoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other.Trade ReviewThis is a welcome new approach to camp testimony, and many such comparative accounts will surely follow. * Times Higher Education *For many scholars already ensconced in the field of camp literature, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps may serve as a platform from which to reconsider stale assumptions and definitions. For a great many future scholars, it will be a launching pad. -- Benjamin Paloff * Antisemitism Studies *Toker writes with erudition, nuance, and complexity that few other scholars could match on this topic. -- Katherine R. Jolluck * The Russian Review *Toker expands our understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Soviet Gulag with this expansive and engaging study. -- Julie Draskoczy Zigoris * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsInter-Contextuality: Introduction1. The Gulag and Nazi Camps: From Improvisation to Stability2. Two Strands of Concentration Camp Literature: A Brief History of an Entanglement 3. The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga 4. Forced Labor 5. The Drowned and the Reprieved 6. On the Way to Resistance7. Faith 8. Endgames 9. Survivor GuiltConcluding ReflectionsWorks CitedIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
Book SynopsisIn Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I.Trade ReviewYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is full of sharp insights and bold statements, which at times can raise incidental doubts in the reader's mind. Caplan's book is a work of creative critical research on modern Yiddish literature, particularly well-suited to the contemporary historical moment. * Forward Magazine *Caplan [is] mindful of and likely alarmed by the parallels between the 2020s and the 1920s, and rightly draw our attention to works of art and literature that might help us navigate our own troubled era. * LA Review of Books *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic, rich, and deeply earnest study of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and literary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane * AJS Review *Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic,rich, and deeply earnest stu y of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and lit rary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane - The University of ChicagoYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. In lively and often memorable prose, Caplan analyzes "the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture, concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, taken in comparison with corresponding figures working in German-language literature, critical theory, journalism, and film. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Weimar and NowSpectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism1. A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union—and Berlin2. At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin StoriesMelancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and the Performance of Self in Yiddish and German Modernism3. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, The Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories4. Harold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist CareerApocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism5. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe6. Moyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere)Conclusion: Origin Is the GoalBibliographyIndex
£67.15
Indiana University Press Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
Book SynopsisIn Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I.Trade ReviewYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is full of sharp insights and bold statements, which at times can raise incidental doubts in the reader's mind. Caplan's book is a work of creative critical research on modern Yiddish literature, particularly well-suited to the contemporary historical moment. * Forward Magazine *Caplan [is] mindful of and likely alarmed by the parallels between the 2020s and the 1920s, and rightly draw our attention to works of art and literature that might help us navigate our own troubled era. * LA Review of Books *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic, rich, and deeply earnest study of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and literary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane * AJS Review *Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Caplan's work is a sprawling, at times idiosyncratic,rich, and deeply earnest stu y of modernist aesthetics and the political, social, artistic, and lit rary contexts that inform them from the vantage points of center and periphery. -- Jessica Kirzane - The University of ChicagoYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin is a remarkable work of critical imagination that stages a conversation between Yiddish and German modernism. In lively and often memorable prose, Caplan analyzes "the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture, concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, taken in comparison with corresponding figures working in German-language literature, critical theory, journalism, and film. -- Matthew Johnson * German Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Weimar and NowSpectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism1. A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union—and Berlin2. At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin StoriesMelancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and the Performance of Self in Yiddish and German Modernism3. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, The Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories4. Harold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist CareerApocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism5. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe6. Moyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere)Conclusion: Origin Is the GoalBibliographyIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Making German Jewish Literature Anew
Book SynopsisInMaking German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garlofftraces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anewis structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literature several decades after the Holocaust. Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers fresh interpretations of second-generation authors such as Maxim Biller, Doron Rabinovici, and Barbara Honigmann as well as of third-generation authors, many of whom come from Eastern European and/or mixed-religion bacTrade Review"Garloff's new study shows how wrong we were to think of German Jewish literature has having reached its apex in prewar 'assimilation' or in postwar thematization of the Holocaust. On the contrary, German Jewish literary output has remained breathtakingly prolific and complexly heterogeneous; it is treated here—in Making German Jewish Literature Anew—with particular insight, precision, and candor."—William Collins Donahue, Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of European Studies, University of Notre Dame"Garloff's Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers an insightful analysis of the growing corpus of contemporary German Jewish literature, including by writers who arrived from the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War. The book's key strength is its focus on how writers are both shaping a new canon and at the same time reflecting on the possibilities and potentialities of German Jewish literature, and indeed Jewish literature more generally. This is a volume of insightful and incisive readings of literary texts, supported by an original and highly productive theoretical framework."—Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds"This discussion of German Jewish writing from 1989 to the present is firmly embedded in current literary and theoretical debates and takes them further in compelling ways, urging the reader to think anew. Structured around the three gestures of 'performing authorship', 'remaking memory' and 'claiming places' – all central to the project of a literature that is always 'made anew' –, this book provides a rich and important contribution to current research into the hybrid, heterogeneous and dynamic character of Jewish writing in German."—Godela Weiss-Sussex, King's College Cambridge"Brilliant and riveting at every turn, Making German Jewish Literature Anew opens up entirely new vistas for understanding the evolving literary forms, paratextual shifts, and transcultural significance of multifaceted Jewish writing in Germany and Austria today. Katja Garloff's luminous study of "founding gestures" in this contemporary connection sparkles with countless conceptual insights for the broader humanities too. Anyone interested in thoughtfully revelatory approaches to literature, diversity, migration, comparison, similarity, difference, authorship, memory, place-claiming, innovation, and even literary tradition itself will be well served to read this remarkably refreshing book."—Leslie A. Adelson, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies, Cornell University"Making German Jewish Literature Anew probes the complexity of Jewishness, identity, culture, and ethnicity in post-1989 Jewish writing in Germany. Katja Garloff's thoughtful and trenchant work invites us to reflect on the reconfigurations of Jewishness in Germany today and the very category of Jewish literature itself. This is a brilliant work that opens up new spaces for thinking about the mechanisms of Jewish history and literature in a post-migrant Germany."—Leslie Morris, Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Performing Authorship1. Authorial Self-Fashioning in Second-Generation Writers: Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann2. Playing with Paratext: Benjamin Stein's Die LeinwandPart II: Remaking Memory3. Memory and Mobility: The Novels of Doron Rabinovici4. Memory and Similarity: Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht EstherPart III: Claiming Places5. Returning: Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann6. Transitioning: Migration Narratives in Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich7. Arriving: Arrival Stories in Lena Gorelik, Dmitrij Kapitelman, and Jan HimmelfarbConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press The Keeper of the Bees
Book SynopsisSet in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism. In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.
£16.14
Indiana University Press A History of Modern Chinese Fiction Third Edition
Book SynopsisRepublication of the pioneering classic study of modern Chinese fiction.Trade Review"The great virtue of this book is that it provides a practical acquaintance with the writing itself by means of copious passages of translation from representative novels." - New York Times Book Review "C. T. Hsia's book is by now an acknowledged classic. It truly opened up a new field and prepared the way for generations of American scholars to do research. We are all in his debt." - Leo Lee
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Indiana University Press Cynthia Ozicks Comic Art
Book SynopsisSheds light on the works of Cynthia Ozick, one of America's foremost writers. Arguing that Ozick's fiction is a form of comedy, this title interweaves religion and literature, and illuminates the complex relationship between the comic and the sacred. It explores Ozick's art in works such as "Trust", "The Cannibal Galaxy", and "The Pagan Rabbi".Trade Review"In presenting Ozick as a 'comedian of ideas', Sarah Blacher Cohen has raised the study of Ozick to a new level." Alan L. Berger "[Cohen] understands Ozick's hybrid conception of human nature, her realization that the secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow and that the ironic mode ... is the best way of telling the truth." Daniel Walden "Cohen has succeeded in showing a fusion of Ozick's writing as sacred and comic. Defining humor broadly, Cohen persuasively argues that levity and liturgy are natural companions, enriching each other, especially in the creative imagination of Cynthia Ozick." Midstream " ... a thoughtful introduction to a monumental though underrated writer." SHOFAR "This study is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarly criticism of Ozick and focuses on her comedic style." Choice "Cohen has written an important ... book, one that celebrates Ozick's 'liturgical laughter', emphasizing on every occasion the connection between the comic and the sacred. It is a connection we should be reminded of often." Belles Lettres "Cohen's readings of these stories reveal their many levels and meanings in a language as acute and perceptive as that of Ozick herself." St. Louis Post-Dispatch MagazineTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTSI. Introduction: Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art of Truth-TellingII. Trust: Comedy of Manners and MoralsIII. Envy; or Yiddish in AMerica: Elegy, Satire, and CelebrationIV. The Pagan Rabbi, Levitation, and Usurpation: Wry Jokes on RealismV. The Puttermesser Stories: Feminist FolliesVI. The Cannibal Galaxy: From Caustic Humor to Midrashic LaughterVII. The Messiah of Stockholm and the Cackle of SatireVIII. The Shawl: The Tragicomedy of Revolt and SurvivalIX. Conclusion: From Low to High ComedySELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
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University of Notre Dame Press Flannery OConnors Sacramental Art
Book SynopsisThe writings and life of Flannery O'Connor (19251964) have enjoyed considerable attention both from admirers of her work and from scholars. In this distinctive book, Susan Srigley charts new ground in revealing how O'Connor's ethics are inextricably linked to her role as a storyteller, and how her moral vision is expressed through the dramatic narrative of her fiction. Srigley elucidates O''Connor''s sacramental vision by showing how it is embodied morally within her fiction as an ethic of responsibility. In developing this argument Srigley offers a detailed analysis of the Thomistic sources for O'Connor's understanding of theology and art. Srigley contends that O'Connor's ethical vision of responsibility opens a fruitful path for understanding her religious ideas as they are expressed in the lives and loves of her fictional characters. O'Connor's characters show that responsibility is a living moral action not an abstract code of behavior. For O'Connor, ethical choices are nTrade Review“For once, the book-cover blurbs are right. Susan Srigley has produced that rarest of phenomena: an original and originating reading of the fiction of Flannery O’Connor. . . . What is remarkable about Susan Srigley’s new study is that she keeps her focus on her larger thesis. That thesis does provide a new trail in the ever-extending forest of interpretation of O’Connor. With scrupulous analysis, Srigley reveals once again another triumph of O’Connor’s art that has become, by 2006, international.” —Flannery O’Connor Review"Srigley's Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art offers further persuasive arguments for recognizing O'Connor's spiritual aims in her fiction as necessary for a comprehensive appreciation of her work. In particular, Srigley offers a clear, penetrating analysis of the influence of Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Maritain on O'Connor's writing. [T]he moral vision and ethic of responsibility that Srigley discerns in O'Connor's fiction—neither of which absolutely require a belief in Christ—effectively opens the possibility for O'Connor's fiction to be understood by an audience whom O'Connor could not count on sharing her theological assumptions." —Religion & Literature“People have misunderstood O'Connor and her fictional characters too, and Srigley facilitates a better understanding of what they mean, and how.” —Review for Religious“Srigley . . . focuses not on the premises by which we view O'Connor's characters, but on the extensions of their characterizations as recipients of grace: she believes that makes them accountable for an ‘ethic of responsibility,’ an enactment of compassionate love in the world, and she thus provides us a new measure for evaluating ‘the moral dimension’ of O'Connor's art.” —Christianity and Literature". . . Srigley's book offers something new and useful to the field." —Journal of Religion & Society"Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art breaks significant new ground, exploring the ethical implications of O'Connor's sacramental view of reality. As a theologian who has used Flannery O'Connor's fiction in teaching undergraduates and graduate students for over a decade, I applaud Srigley's approach to 'ethics as fiction' and look forward to more of her provocative and intelligent interpretations of Flannery O'Connor." —America" . . . sophisticated reconciliations of O'Connor's artistry and her Catholic religious intentions . . . Srigley's book . . . puts to rest any notion that Flannery O'Connor can be regarded as just another of the 20th century's secular specialists in the grotesque. Anyone seriously interested in her well-deserved place in America's literary pantheon should take a look . . . " —Wilson Quarterly". . . but the sacramentality of O'Connor's work is undeniable, and Srigley presents the evidence clearly. To her credit, she reminds the readers of O'Connor's own advice on interpreting literature: 'When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell him to read the story.' For what it is about, read O'Connor. Read Srigley for her thoughts on how to do ethics." —Religious Studies Review"Susan Srigley mounts an able defense of Flannery O'Connor's orthodoxy against critics who have argued that her use of the 'grotesque' was more Manichean than Catholic—i.e., that she divided matter from spirit. On the contrary, Srigley replies in Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art, the author used the grotesque to hold a mirror up to modern times." —New Oxford Review“O'Connor's fiction is at once dogmatic and realistic. Only a critic with Srigley's theological and literary abilities can lead us happily to stand in that tension and make deep sense out of what it shows us about ourselves and God.” —Anglican Theological Review
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University of Notre Dame Press Laureates and Heretics
Book SynopsisRobert Archambeau examines the influence of the poet and critic Yvor Winters on his final generation of graduate students at Stanford in the early 1960s: Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, James McMichael, John Matthias, and John Peck. Archambeau divides the poets into two groups, laureates and heretics. Hass and Pinsky, each of whom served multiple terms as United Sates Poet Laureate, achieved both popular recognition and institutional renown. In contrast, the poetic accomplishments of Matthias, McMichael, and Peck (and to some extent Winters himself), the heretics, have not resulted in wide readership or institutional canonization. Archambeau begins with the context of the modernist poetics Winters first espoused and then rejected. The story that follows--of how his five most prominent students accepted, rejected, or transformed Winters''s poetics, and how these poets went on to greater or lesser degrees of success in the field of late twentieth-century lettersilluminates the cultTrade Review"I know of no other study of twentieth-century American poetry that so carefully and interestingly treats the works and careers of a single figure (Yvor Winters) and five of his students. The varying critical and public fates of Winters and the poets who worked under him make a fascinating study, even gesturing toward a global history of postwar American poetry." —Mark Scroggins, Florida Atlantic University“This book is about the complexities of the relation between Yvor Winters and five former students as those complexities emerge in the poems themselves. Within these terms, it is exemplary because, unlike most critics and reviewers, Archambeau is not out to polemically endorse any specific position Winters himself took; he is as interested in departures from Winters’ orthodoxy as in adherence; he is an extraordinarily sensitive reader of a considerable range of poetry.” —Evan Watkins, University of California, Davis“Archambeau’s unique study will please—perhaps fascinate—those with a serious interest in US poetry. . . . Archambeau taps deep into the traditions of poetry in English, revealing his knowledge of the many schools and tendencies that developed in Winters’s lifetime and about previous critical work. The chapters on Winters’s literary offspring provide worthy introductions, but his book is ultimately a meditation on taste and the vicissitudes of literary fame.” —Choice". . . a compelling meditation on the mechanics of canonization. Building on the work of David Kellogg, Alan Golding, and Jed Rasula, the study focuses on the institutional and social dynamics that produce different levels of popular and critical success among authors active during the same time period. . . . The field needs more books like Laureates and Heretics." —Contemporary Literature
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University of Notre Dame Press Private Histories
Book SynopsisPrivate Histories is a complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century. Ron Ebest offers a fresh perspective on familiar novelists, dramatists, and poets, introduces readers to a number of important writers who are often overlooked, and reveals rarely considered aspects of Irish-American social history.Ebest analyzes themes of particular importance to early twentieth-century Irish Americanssuch as religion, marriage, family, eceonomic hardship, social status, and educationin the writings of well-known authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O'Neill. He also explores these issues in the works of lesser known authors such as the Vanity Fair satirist Anne O'Hagan, labor activist and novelist Jim Tully, muckraking journalist Clara Laughlin, and the mystery writer John T. McIntyre.Ebest's highly readable style makes Private Histories an excellent book for undergraduate and graduate courses on Irish-AmerTrade Review“Ebest's extraordinarily broad review of Irish American writing and scholarship is accompanied by insightful analysis and nuanced observations. Undoubtedly, Private Histories will interest the general reader and prove useful in undergraduate and graduate courses in Irish American literature and history.” —Journal of American Ethnic History"Ebest . . . explores religion, family, marriage and more in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, James T. Farrell and Eugene O'Neill. It is in the work of lesser known authors (such as Anne O'Hagan, Jim Tully, Clara Laughlin and John T. McIntyre) that Ebest perhaps makes his most interesting contribution." —Irish America“Often amusing, always articulate and intelligent, this period study certainly leaves its audience with an awareness of and appreciation for the transformative and formative years in Irish-American literature as well as its place in the evolving canon.” —Irish Literary Supplement"This well-researched and erudite study belongs on the short list of essential books on Irish-American culture in the twentieth-century." —New Hibernia Review“ . . . a critical literary history that compares the literary representation of Irish American life in the early decades of the 20th century with the historical context . . . [T]he study is particularly valuable for its recovery of a host of historically significant but forgotten Irish American writers of the period-Jim Tully, Ellen Glasgow, Kate Jordan, Donn Byrne, Anne O'Hagan, and George Kelly, to name a few . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice“Ebest’s superb interdisciplinary study, Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900–1935, follows in the tradition of Charles Fanning’s landmark studies of this genre in the nineteenth century and advances our knowledge of this literature. Private Histories is both a definitive survey of Irish American writing in the pre-depression era as well as a major historiographical assessment of the role of this writing in shaping what is known about Irish America in those years.” —History: Reviews of New Books
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University of Notre Dame Press Private Histories
Book SynopsisPrivate Histories is a complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century. Ron Ebest offers a fresh perspective on familiar novelists, dramatists, and poets, introduces readers to a number of important writers who are often overlooked, and reveals rarely considered aspects of Irish-American social history.Ebest analyzes themes of particular importance to early twentieth-century Irish Americanssuch as religion, marriage, family, eceonomic hardship, social status, and educationin the writings of well-known authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O'Neill. He also explores these issues in the works of lesser known authors such as the Vanity Fair satirist Anne O'Hagan, labor activist and novelist Jim Tully, muckraking journalist Clara Laughlin, and the mystery writer John T. McIntyre.Ebest's highly readable style makes Private Histories an excellent book for undergraduate and graduate courses on Irish-AmerTrade Review“Ebest's extraordinarily broad review of Irish American writing and scholarship is accompanied by insightful analysis and nuanced observations. Undoubtedly, Private Histories will interest the general reader and prove useful in undergraduate and graduate courses in Irish American literature and history.” —Journal of American Ethnic History"Ebest . . . explores religion, family, marriage and more in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, James T. Farrell and Eugene O'Neill. It is in the work of lesser known authors (such as Anne O'Hagan, Jim Tully, Clara Laughlin and John T. McIntyre) that Ebest perhaps makes his most interesting contribution." —Irish America“Often amusing, always articulate and intelligent, this period study certainly leaves its audience with an awareness of and appreciation for the transformative and formative years in Irish-American literature as well as its place in the evolving canon.” —Irish Literary Supplement"This well-researched and erudite study belongs on the short list of essential books on Irish-American culture in the twentieth-century." —New Hibernia Review“ . . . a critical literary history that compares the literary representation of Irish American life in the early decades of the 20th century with the historical context . . . [T]he study is particularly valuable for its recovery of a host of historically significant but forgotten Irish American writers of the period-Jim Tully, Ellen Glasgow, Kate Jordan, Donn Byrne, Anne O'Hagan, and George Kelly, to name a few . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice“Ebest’s superb interdisciplinary study, Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900–1935, follows in the tradition of Charles Fanning’s landmark studies of this genre in the nineteenth century and advances our knowledge of this literature. Private Histories is both a definitive survey of Irish American writing in the pre-depression era as well as a major historiographical assessment of the role of this writing in shaping what is known about Irish America in those years.” —History: Reviews of New Books
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University of Notre Dame Press Between Two Millstones Book 1
Book SynopsisThe first of a two-volume memoir, Between Two Millstones, Book 1 explores Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s exile from the Soviet Union and struggles to find a home in the West.Trade Review"Between Two Millstones is the name of the autobiography that picks up where The Oak and the Calf left off. . . . Published in Russian periodicals in the late 1990s and now translated into English, the book charts a striking transformation in how Western readers saw Solzhenitsyn, and how he, in turn, saw himself." —National Review“. . . we must be grateful for these sketches and the insight into the times that they offer, as well as the all-too-rare and occasional glimpses of the lovable man behind the publicly impenetrable mask.” —Chronicles“Solzhenitsyn remained a Russian patriot. His literary mission was the restoration of his homeland to a condition of liberty and flourishing that Leninist-Stalinism destroyed. This is the ultimate truth of the recently released English edition of Book 1 of Between Two Millstones, which is Solzhenitsyn’s account of his forced exile in the West in 1974.” —Law & Liberty“We can be thankful to the University of Notre Dame Press for publishing, late last year, Between Two Millstones, Book I: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978, translated by Peter Constantine and with an introduction by the Solzhenitsyn scholar Daniel J. Mahoney. . . . Between Two Millstones is an entirely different category. While March 1917 is a crucial episode in the work that Solzhenitsyn relentlessly devoted himself to for decades of research and writing, the former is much more causal—not a journal, precisely, but full of incident.” —First Things“[Solzhenitsyn] is a writer with a necessarily solitary occupation, yet he is put upon by outside forces that feel to him as inexorable as Soviet oppression. . . . This will be enjoyed by serious readers of this author.” —San Francisco Book Review“Constantine’s formidable translation of the first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s memoir is a birth-centennial tribute to the great Russian writer. . . . This memoir is a timely and propitious antidote to the current perplexing world situation, which is marked by the rise of neo-Nazism, international wars, criminal activities on the part of governments, and callous disregard for the law and constitutional traditions.” —Choice“Between Two Milestones is a testament not only to the courage and clear-sightedness of Solzhenitsyn but also to the evils of the Soviet Union and the pathologies that still plague the West. . . . Insightful, surprisingly humorous at places, and always focused on those things that make life work living—family, God, culture, and one’s own country—Between Two Milestones illuminates the struggles one faces when living in the West and what one can make of it in this free but empty civilization.” —Voegelin View“[Solzhenitsyn] was a polymath, an able scientist, and mathematician who devoured literature in many languages. . . . For readers who seek to understand one of the pivotal geniuses of the 20th century, Between Two Millstones is a treasure.” —Claremont Review of Books"An engaging tale of Solzhenitsyn's initial exposure to Western ways." —Rain Taxi"Here we meet Solzhenitsyn the writer, a man searching for a quiet place to gather his thoughts, refine them, and put them on paper. . . . In this book above all others, perhaps, Solzhenitsyn shows how he subtly shifted the emphasis of Russian Orthodox Christianity toward a path of greater sobriety." —Society
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University of Notre Dame Press Solzhenitsyn and American Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Solzhenitsyn and American Culture is a superb and coherent collection of essays.” —Lee Congdon, author of The Young Lukács"Readers will be reminded of his courageous witness, but they will also discern more clearly Solzhenitsyn’s integral relation to Russian literary culture and to writers from the West with whom he bore deep affinities. Solzhenitsyn remains a prophetic intelligence for our time." —Paul J. Contino, co-editor of Bakhtin and Religion"In reading Solzhenitsyn and American Culture, the mind is enlightened and honed, the will steeled, and our capacity for admiration exercised and nourished. Thanks to the editors and contributors to this volume, they continue to be Solzhenitsyn’s gifts to his American readers." —Paul Seaton, St. Mary's Seminary and University"Solzhenitsyn and American Culture will deepen Solzhenitsyn's writings in America, which is sorely needed in our country that has ceased to see the purpose and is increasingly willingly to live by lies. We need the wisdom of Solzhenitsyn's reflections on tyranny, so that we can ascend with him to the true heights of man's greatness, which is only found, as he knew, in our Lord." —Richard M. Reinsch II, founding editor of Law and Liberty"The editors have cast their net wide, so that it will be useful both to those who have read little of Solzhenitsyn (yet are looking for points of entry and orientation before plunging in) and for longtime students of his work—not only scholars (though there is plenty here for them to chew on), but also those blessed souls who read widely on their own dime." —First Things“[W]ith the end of the Cold War, many journalists, academics, and intellectuals concluded that Solzhenitsyn was no longer relevant. This collection of essays strongly corrects this notion by shedding valuable light on the ‘oft-neglected merits of Solzhenitsyn’s work.’ Most importantly, it aims to consider the continuing relevance of Solzhenitsyn to American culture and politics.” —VoeglinView“The contributors to this volume embrace Solzhenitsyn’s claim about art’s power to communicate ‘the experiences of [an] entire nation to another nation.’ Not only do they showcase ways in which Russian literature has already instructed Americans . . . but they encourage a new generation of American readers to turn to Russian writers for penetration and inspiration. Foremost among these writers, of course, is Solzhenitsyn.” —Law and Liberty"Solzhenitsyn and American Culture could serve as an introduction to the writer’s literary work, as a kind of traveler’s guide read before vacation. Or it could be a valuable addition to the nightstand of anyone interested in deepening their knowledge of Solzhenitsyn. The book’s ultimate significance, however, is spiritual. In following Solzhenitsyn’s intellectual footsteps, in taking up his preoccupations with ideology, art, morality, and meaning, the book makes Solzhenitsyn himself into a passageway through which we glimpse the universal. " —Washington Examiner“Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture should serve as a reminder to those of us in the West that civilization is fragile, that democracy and liberty are forever under attack, that visions of earthly utopias are mirages of danger . . .” —New York Journal of Books"A new essay collection, 'Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West,' illuminates how the vaunted Russian writer's warnings about secularism and progressivism are as prescient and insightful as ever." —The Federalist"The book amply demonstrates why Solzhenitsyn remains important to the American conversation in the twenty-first century." —Perspectives on Political Science"The lesson that students should draw from the study of Solzhenitsyn’s works, and his great soul, is to resist the temptation of thinking that the demonic forces of famine, imprisonment, and mass murder in Russia could never happen in America or in the West." —Religion and Liberty"The 21 essays contained in Solzhenitsyn and American Culture engage many dimensions of Solzhenitsyn's project in ways that illuminate his ongoing relevance for discerning the task of how to live with virtue and integrity in the cultural setting of contemporary America." —Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity"This book can be of interest to readers who are familiar with Solzhenitsyn’s work and would like to know more about his impact on Western culture; it can also be of interest to readers who are not familiar with Solzhenitsyn and would like a reason to read him." —The Imaginative ConservativeTable of ContentsForeword by John Wilson Acknowledgments Introduction: Missing the Deep Roots and Rich Soul by David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson Part 1. Solzhenitsyn and Russian Culture 1. The Universal Russian Soul by Nathan Nielson 2. The New Middle Ages by Eugene Vodolazkin 3. The Age of Concentration by Eugene Vodolazkin 4. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Solzhenitsyn by David P. Deavel Part 2. Solzhenitsyn and Orthodoxy 5. Art and History in Solzhenitsyn’s The Red Wheel by David Walsh 6. The YMCA Press, Russian Orthodoxy, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Matthew Lee Miller 7. The Distinctively Orthodox Character of Solzhenitsyn’s Literary Imagination by Ralph C. Wood 8. How Fiction Defeats Lies: A Faithful Reading of Solzhenitsyn’s In the First Circle by Jessica Hooten Wilson Part 3. Solzhenitsyn and the Writers 9. Solzhenitsyn’s Cathedrals by Gary Saul Morson 10. The Literature of Dissent in the Soviet Union by Edward E. Ericson Jr. 11. The Example of Prussian Nights by Micah Mattix 12. Kindred Spirits: Solzhenitsyn’s Western Literary Confréres by Joseph Pearce Part 4. Solzhenitsyn and the Politicians 13. Inferno Dialogues: Why Americans Should Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s In the First Circle by James F. Pontuso 14. Judging Communism and All Its Works: Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago Reconsidered by Daniel J. Mahoney 15. The Rage of Freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1983 Templeton Prize Address by William Jason Wallace 16. What Americans Today Can Learn from the Russian Past: Lessons from Turgenev and Dostoevsky for American Hillbillies by Lee Trepanier Part 5. Beyond Solzhenitsyn: Russian Writers and American Readers 17. City of Expiations: Ivan Karamazov and Orthodox Political Theology by Peter Leithart 18. Russia and the Mission of African American Literature by Dale E. Peterson 19. The Price of Restoration: Flannery O’Connor and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Realists by Julianna Leachman 20. Wisdom from Russia in the Thinking of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton by Walter G. Moss 21. Totalitarian Physics and Moral Threshing by Jacob Howland Contributors Index
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Pennsylvania State University Press Literary Obscenities U.S. Case Law and Naturalism
Book SynopsisExamines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word's power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.Trade Review“A profound reassessment not only of American censorship issues, Literary Obscenities joins the current rethinking of modernist studies, particularly in terms of the paperback revolution and its long-term cultural impact. This welcome addition to the ongoing discourse in legal studies, book history, cultural studies, and the philosophy of modernism is cause for celebration. Bachman’s well-researched, acutely insightful, accessibly written study will take its place alongside Marjorie Heins’s Not in Front of the Children as a staple in university courses.”—S. E. Gontarski,author of Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze“Provides a historical framework and literary context for perhaps better understanding modern, printed-words-only obscenity prosecutions and why they are now so rare.”—Clay Calvert Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books“[Bachman] offers a historical perspective on modernism and literary naturalism and shrewdly covers the relationship between what is on the page and how readers respond to it.”—D. C. Greenwood ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Getting Off the Page2. How to Misbehave as aBehaviorist (if You’re Wyndham Lewis)3. Erskine Caldwell, Smut, and the Paperbacking of Obscenity4. Sin, Sex, and Segregation in Lillian Smith’s Silent SouthConclusion: Off the PageNotesBibliographyIndex
£30.56
Penn State University Press Religion Around Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the religious contexts of Virginia Woolf’s life and work, her religious practices, her ideas about God, and the new forms of community she imagined.Trade Review“[Paulsell’s] is a meditative, ‘slow-reading’ approach that enables readers to investigate Woolf’s works with restored appreciation for religious language and resonances. It builds into a dazzling survey of religion around Woolf which makes the history of ideas exciting—and revelatory.”—Matthew Macer-Wright Virginia Woolf Bulletin“Stephanie Paulsell takes our appreciation of Virginia Woolf’s religious sensibilities to a new level. An important read for Woolf scholars, this book also demonstrates her significance for anyone interested in the spiritual value of literature.”—Jane de Gay,author of Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture“Religion Around Virginia Woolf will inspire poets, novelists, theologians, scholars—anyone who has ever wondered about the origins of Virginia Woolf's genius. Stephanie Paulsell's brilliant and impassioned study uncovers the ways in which Woolf's life—and especially her life as a reader—shaped her writing about the hidden connections among humans, the making of art, and her notions of the divine. In brilliant, lucid prose, Paulsell's insights and close readings describe the ‘fresh chapels’ where we might find new forms of devotion. This is a book I'm recommending to all the serious readers and writers I know.”—René Steinke,author of Friendswood“Stephanie Paulsell has written a landmark book on Virginia Woolf. It is revelatory. She has dared to name what we all have intuited: Woolf is not just a literary writer with a politics of her own, but she is also a spiritual writer who touches the ineffable, so we can touch it too. With uncommon insight and brilliant scholarship, Paulsell illuminates and elucidates Woolf’s prose for what it is: sacred text. I now want to reread everything Virginia Woolf has written as if I were on a pilgrimage with fresh eyes.”—Terry Tempest Williams,author of When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice“Paulsell offers valuable context and thoughts for further exploration.”—W. T. Martin Choice“From this well-researched book, readers will take away a new understanding of how religion works in and ‘around’ literature and a deeper appreciation of Virginia Woolf’s religious contribution, despite her professed atheism, to secular modernity and literary modernism.”—Emily Griesinger Woolf Studies Annual“Religion Around Virginia Woolf is a thoughtful and thorough addition to the growing Religion Around series. Impeccably researched and fresh, it is a provocative and fascinating read. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and including many lyrical passages from Woolf’s own writing, Paulsell accomplishes a difficult task for the scholar: she increases both one’s understanding and one’s love and appreciation for Woolf’s work.”—Grace Perry McCright Christianity and Literature
£68.36
Pennsylvania State University Press Misfit Modernism Queer Forms of Double Exile in
Book SynopsisRevisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores examples drawn from the cultural groupings of the New Negro movement, Parisian expatriates in the 1920s, and the queer expatriate scene in Los Angeles before Stonewall. Trade Review“González’s work to break down the divide between queer-of-color critique and antisocial queer approaches is well overdue and should make further antisocial queer-of-color analyses available. It’s also clear that turning to a category like that of the misfit could relieve queerness of the impossible demand to be about all forms of marginality.”—Ben Nichols American Literary History“Misfit Modernism tends to the ‘misfit’ structures of feeling of intersectional modernist authors before the full efflorescence of identity politics. In the process, it puts antisociality, negative affect, and arrested agency on the map for queer of color critique. In a series of brilliant and sensitive ‘immanent readings,’ González demonstrates how such negative affects respond to the dilemma of the misfit’s ‘double exile’—a sense of nonconformity and unbelonging with dominant and minoritarian cultures alike.”—Kadji Amin,author of Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History“This wide-ranging book celebrating some of modernism’s most perplexing and pleasurable misfits stages an original conversation between the new modernist studies, queer-of-color critique, theories of intersectionality, and narratology. It pushes the growing field of queer modernist studies in new and exciting directions.”—Benjamin Bateman,author of The Modernist Art of Queer SurvivalTable of ContentsPreface: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century NovelAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Modernist Misfit; Antisocial and Intersectional1. Methodology: Immanent Reading2. Narrating the Psychology of a “Despised Mulatto” in Larsen’s Quicksand3. Affective Realism: Feeling like a “Total Misfit” in Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry4. Narrating the Mood of the Underdog in Rhys’s Quartet5. Isherwood’s Impersonality: “Nonconformist” Queer Relationality in A Single ManCoda: Two Forms of Feeling like a MisfitNotesBibliographyIndex
£76.46
Pennsylvania State University Press Under the Literary Microscope Science and Society
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres. Trade Review“By examining the creative space opened up by science novels, the book helps, in turn, to open up and establish an interdisciplinary space. Under the Literary Microscope is both an introduction and a valuable contribution to the study of the relationship between science, society and fiction.”—Peter Broks Public Understanding of Science“This lively collection is valuable for its placement of literary criticism alongside scholarship on public engagement with science. It grants to authors a more nuanced understanding of the various dimensions of scientific personnel and practice than critics have previously acknowledged, and it offers such texts as spaces where the reading public can engage with questions concerning the nature of science.”—Charlotte Sleigh,author of Literature and Science
£75.56
Pennsylvania State University Press New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisSeen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of women's humor in modern America, who used satire, irony, and wit as indirect forms of social protest. This book focuses on the women who stood on the periphery of predominantly male New York intellectual circles in the twentieth century. Sabrina Fuchs Abrams argues that the advent of modernism, the women's suffrage movement, the emergence of the New Woman and the New Negro Woman, and the growth of urban centers in the 1920s and '30s gave rise to a new voice of women's humor, one that was at once defiant and conflicted in defining female identity and the underlying assumptions about gender roles in American society. Her study gives special attention to the contributions of the satirists Edna St. Vincent Millay (pseudonym Nancy Boyd), Tess Slesinger, Dorothy Parker, Jessie RedmTrade Review“This book never flattens out its subject to construct a single, monolithic New York or gendered ‘type’ of wit. All these writers are represented as complex individuals, whose comedy came in many varieties and served diverse functions, reflecting the creators' identities and the concerns of their different communities. Fuchs Abrams's admiration for these women, with their groundbreaking approaches to urban style and humor, is evident throughout. She does a superb job of making readers share it.”—Margaret D. Stetz,Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware“Fuchs Abrams makes a critical and overdue intervention in comedy studies with this book. Through personal accounts, criticism, biography, and textual analysis, she gives texture to our understanding of these six women, their impetus for writing, and the response in their own time. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century offers us a persuasive argument for how the legacy of these sardonic writers continues to influence satire, and especially satire written by women, today.”—Danielle Fuentes Morgan,author of Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Female Satirist in the City1. Nancy Boyd and the Greenwich Village Bohemians: The Secret, Subversive Humor of Edna St. Vincent Millay2. Dorothy Parker and the “Vicious Circle”: Satire of Modern Love and New York Society3. Tess Slesinger, the Menorah Journal Group, and the Feminist Socialist Satire of 1930s America4. Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Radical and Gender Politics of Humor5. Dawn Powell and the Lafayette Circle: Satirist of Greenwich Village Bohemia and Modern, Midtown Publishing Culture6. Mary McCarthy and the Partisan Review Crowd: Satire and the Modern Bitch IntellectualEpilogue: Fighting Funny; Postfeminism, Postracialism, and the Fumorist of the FutureNotesBibliography
£84.96
University of Texas Press Cormac McCarthys House
Book SynopsisNovelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is interpreted.As a visual artist, Josyph wrestles with the challenge of rendering McCarthy’s former home in El Paso as a symbol of a great writer’s workshop. As an actor and filmmaker, he analyzes the high art of Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited and No Country for Old Men. Invoking the recent suicide of a troubled friend, he grapples with the issue of “our brother’s keeper” in The Crossing and The Sunset Limited. But for Josyph, reading the finest prose-poet of our day is a project into which he invites many voices, and his investigations include a talk with Mark Morrow aTrade Review…for experienced practitioners and well-read fans it unlocks dynamic, disparate terrain. An engaging addition to the ongoing McCarthy conversation, the book is surprising and unique in the best possible ways. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of Contents Illustrations Part One: Excursions and Exchanges Judging Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West by Its Cover A Walk with Wesley Morgan through Suttree's Knoxville Believing in The Sunset Limited: A Talk with Tom Cornford on Directing McCarthy "Now Let's Talk about The Crossing": An Exchange with Marty Priola Part Two: The Author as Visual Motif Cormac McCarthy's House: A Memoir Chapter One: Resolution 158 Chapter Two: Finding the Where Chapter Three: Collaborating with God Chapter Four: Because the Easel Rocks Chapter Five: San Jacinto Plaza Chapter Six: Cormac McCarthy's House Epilogue: Two Hemingways Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments Index
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University of Washington Press Agnons Moonstruck Lovers
Book SynopsisExplores the response of Israel's Nobel laureate S Y Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. This book recasts Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the history of biblical exegesis.Trade Review"In her vital contribution to Agnon studies, Ilana Pardes delivers a richly multifaceted exploration…[that]will be valuable reading for any dedicated student of modern Hebrew literature and culture. Its impact on Agnon scholarship will surely be significant and lasting." -- Ramen Omer-Sherman * Hebrew Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock 2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism 3. Rechnitz’s Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed 4. The Biblical Ethnographies of “Edo and Enam” and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue Forevermore Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£29.66
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Critical Romance Critic as Reader Writer
Book SynopsisAn analysis of literary criticism that explores the origins of modern criticism in Romanticism and discusses work by Wordsworth, Derrida, Foucault and de Man. The book argues that there is a complex interplay between concepts of subjectivity and linguistic choices.
£999.99
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin American Fiction in the Cold War
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the relationship between US political and social thought and literary consciousness in the early post-war years in which the author analyzes the efforts by writers to reshape their ""old"" liberalism into a ""new"" sceptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil.
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