Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition Goethe
Book SynopsisThis work explores the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), the poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis also played a central part in his vision, being precursors in the proto-Symbolist pantheon.
£39.38
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Sensual Philosophy James Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism
Book SynopsisPlacing the texts of James Joyce in the context of the medieval mystical tradition that had interested and influenced him since his schooldays, this text also identifies the origins of modernist aesthetics in medieval forms of representation.Trade ReviewHighly original and extremely rewarding. Essential for coming to a clearer sense of the forces informing Joyce's imaginative efforts."—Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University
£23.60
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Illumination and Night Glare The Unfinished
Book SynopsisDictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and love of life of their author.Trade ReviewThis autobiography was a heroic last-ditch effort. - Atlantic Monthly ""An extraordinary document. Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, it exposes the doubleness of [Carson] McCullers's life.... A rich mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers, and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and sheer love of life of their author." - Richard Gray, Times Literary Supplement.
£18.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Living at the Edge A Biography of D.H. Lawrence
Book SynopsisThis double biography explores Lawrence and von Richthofen's collision with an industrial world they hated and chronicles their stormy marriage. The strong sexual vitality that inspired Lawrence's art brought both joy and anguish to his marriage.
£26.06
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Isaac Bashevis Singer A Life
Book SynopsisIsaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life.Trade Review"Hadda [gives] us unique, exciting insights into Singer's creative process." - Leonard Nimoy; "The iridescent charm of Isaac Bashevis Singer is such as to give the slip to the very letters of the alphabet, but Janet Hadda has out-tricked the Yiddish trickster in this brief but wonderfully alive-and-kicking biography. The story she tells will entertain, appall, and fascinate." - Jack Miles, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography
£16.96
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Kafka and Cultural Zionism Dates in Palestine
Book SynopsisPresents an illumination of the individual Jewish identity of the major modernist German author - Kafka. Through an examination of Kafka's life, his influences, and his writings, this work makes a case for Kafka's interest in Zionism and demonstrates the presence of Jewish themes and motifs in Kafka's literary works.Trade ReviewFor some years now, Iris Bruce has been regarded by specialists as one of the very best Kafka scholars, admired for the meticulous scholarship of her articles and essays and her indefatigable archival work. Her special field of interest has been the Jewish and Hebrew background of Kafka's writings; and now the fruits of her decade-long immersion are at hand in a lucidly written study - detailed, engaging, comprehensive, up-to-date. It will be indispensable reading for lovers of Kafka, who will be fascinated by the full spectrum of Kafka's involvement in the cultural Zionism of his day. Until now, many of Kafka's mentions of Jewish themes, long suppressed in German editions of his journals and correspondence, have not been properly studied. Bruce's achievement makes it possible for the first time to appreciate in full the elegance of Kafka's literary transformation of this cultural stock. - Stanley Corngold, professor of German and comparative literature, Princeton University ""Focusing on cultural Zionism in Prague (and the rest of German-speaking Europe) during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bruce makes a compelling case that Kafka was one of the proto-cultural Zionists and quickly identified with the moment once it was established."" - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, author of Franz Kafka, A Biography
£48.75
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia The Case of Mikhail Artsybashevs Sanin
Book SynopsisBanned shortly after its publication in 1907, the Russian novel ""Sanin"" scandalized readers with the sexual exploits of its eponymous hero. This book offers an analysis of the scandal's coverage in the provincial press and the reactions of young people who appealed to their peers to resist the novel's nihilistic message.Trade ReviewWith meticulous scholarship and reasoned arguments, Otto Boele crafts a compelling tale about the realities, the legend, and the memory of a celebrated cultural moment in Russian life under the tsars. - Richard Stites, author of Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900 ""An original, stimulating, and needed book, based on a rich array of archival and published sources. Situating his work at the nexus of regulation, poetics, rumor, and literary history, Boele carefully examines an important work of literature and its impact on the cultural mythology of its age."" - Eric Naiman, author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology ""An admirable blend of history and literature, showing how the two complement each other."" - Louise McReynolds, author of Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era
£22.46
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Stalin in Russian Satire 19171991
Book SynopsisIlluminates the efforts of Russian satirists in exorcising the ghost of Stalin. Examining works from the 1917 Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book reveals how satirical treatments of Stalin often emphasize his otherness, distancing him from Russian culture.Trade ReviewRyan is unique in her focus on the methods and devices used for satiric distortion of Stalin's image. This angle allows her to examine Soviet/Russian national complexes rather than Stalin as a historical figure. - Mark Lipovetsky, author of Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos
£22.46
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Readers Guide to Andrei Belys Petersburg
Book SynopsisAndrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. This volume summarises the intellectual and artistic contexts that informed Petersburg's creation and reception, and reviews the interpretive possibilities contained in the novel.Trade ReviewThe fifteen distinguished contributors do more than elucidate a world-class novel. They provide capsule courses on a spectrum of topics that mattered deeply to Andrei Bely but are obscure to many readers today: anthroposophy, neoKantianism, 'life-creation,' racial thinking, political terrorism. A path-breaking literary portal." - Caryl Emerson, Princeton University"Succeeds in making a challenging modernist novel more accessible to nonspecialists. Students and fans of Bely's work at every level will appreciate this fine and informative critical companion to Petersburg." - Emily Johnson, author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself"A timely and useful guide for those reading and teaching Bely's brilliant modernist novel. This volume makes Bely's fascinating masterpiece more accessible to those outside Russian studies." - ChoiceTable of Contents Introduction Leonid Livak On Translating Petersburg, John Elsworth Part One. The Intellectual Context Revolutionary Terrorism and Provocation in Petersburg, Lynn E. Patyk Petersburg and Modern Occultism, Maria Carlson Petersburg and Russian Nietzscheanism, Edith W. Clowes Neo-Kantianism in Petersburg, Timothy Langen Petersburg and the Philosophy of Henri Bergson, Hilary Fink Petersburg and the New Science of Psychology, Judith Wermuth-Atkinson Petersburg and Contemporary Racial Thought, Henrietta Mondry Petersburg as Apocalyptic Fiction, David M. Bethea Part Two. The Aesthetic Context Petersburg and Music in Modernist Theory and Literature, Steven Cassedy Theatricality and Life-Creation in Russian Modernist Culture and in Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Colleen McQuillen Petersburg and Modernist Painting with Words, Olga Matich Petersburg and Urbanism in the Modernist Novel, Taras Koznarsky Petersburg and the Problem of Consciousness in Modernist Fiction, Violeta Sotirova Aids for Reading and Studying Petersburg An Annotated Synopsis, Leonid Livak Recommended Critical Literature in English Index
£18.80
Yale University Press Above the Battlefield
Book SynopsisThe early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. This book explores the role of artists and writers in the formation of a modern, secular peace movement in Britain, and the impact of ideas about 'positive peace' on their artistic practice.Trade Review“Lavishly illustrated . . . written in a lively style . . . Ms. Brockington deftly focuses on an important yet often neglected facet of Modernism.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal -- William Anthony Hay * Wall Street Journal *"Photos, rarely reproduced art, and thorough documentation of sources demonstrate considerable archival sleuthing."—Russell T. Clement, Library Journal -- Russell T. Clement * Library Journal *
£33.25
Yale University Press True Friendship
Book SynopsisLooks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound.Trade Review"'This is a profoundly rewarding book about poetry for the non-academic reader; hardly surprising when the author is the most brilliant reader of poetry of his generation.' (Harry Eyres, Financial Times) 'True Friendship... like all of Rick's books, is a book to be grateful for.' (London Review of Books) 'This is a fascinating, challenging, demanding, intently interior, almost forensic work... for those to whom poetry is more a way of life than a lifestyle, the real deal.' (Gerald Dawe, Irish Times)"
£26.00
Yale University Press The Literary Churchill
Book SynopsisA transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricably linked to his life as a statesman This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and on the decisions he made throughout his political life. Rose provides in this expansive literary biography an analysis of Churchill's writings and their reception (he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and was a best-selling author), and a chronicle of his dealings with publishers, editors, literary agents, and censors. The book also identifies an array of authors who shaped Churchill's own writings and politics: George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, and many more. Rose investigates the effect of ChuTrade Review“An interesting and at times surprising account of Churchill's tastes as a reader . . . [Rose] is a very good stylist. He is also formidably knowledgeable, and many of his nuggets will be new even to Churchill junkies.”—Ben Downing, Wall Street Journal“Immensely enjoyable . . . marvelous . . . This gracefully written book is an original and textured study of Churchill’s imagination.” —Michael F. Bishop, Washington Post“A most wonderful book for Churchill admirers . . . fascinating . . . the book sparkles and is the best I have ever read on the man.”—Tom Perkins, Wall Street Journal, “Books of the Year”'One of the most remarkable books ever written about Winston Churchill.'—Piers Brendon, Literary Review‘Jonathan Rose. . .has shown how Churchill excelled in the application of language to the exercise of power and concludes that he 'modelled his politics on literature.' The proof is abundant and well presented in this excellent, thorough and enjoyable biography that adds a fresh and fascinating dimension to a great statesman.’—Lawrence James, The Times‘This is no incidental postscript to the hundreds of volumes already published about Churchill, but a painstaking study building a formidable case for taking him seriously not just in political history but in literary history too. . .Rose made his reputation as the historian of the working-class autodidacts in Britain. Now he has consolidated it by writing about an upper-class autodidact, whose intellectual life he captures well.’ —Peter Clark. The Financial Times‘[Rose] assembles a mass of fascinating information about Churchill’s writings, readings, and politicking, much of it until now available only in the archives at Churchill College.’—Cita Stelzer, TLS‘Rose hopes to be breaking new ground in the multitude of books on Churchill and provides us with another highly readable account of the man in the course. Bugger Boris, read Rose.’—Stewart Rayment, InterLib.‘The result of Rose’s careful scholarship is an absorbing account of the complicated overlap between aesthetics and politics. Churchill emerges as a figure largely unable to separate his reading, writing, political decisions and political self-presentation, such that, to use Rose’s closing words, Churchill’s life ‘demonstrates that literature matters, more than we think, in more ways than we imagine.’’—Neil E. Hultgren, British Studies. ‘Incredibly enough, considering the vast existing literature on Churchill, a sufficient number of aspects of his life remain unexplored to enable a gifted author like Professor Rose to present us with this suberb hefty volume.’—Antoine Capet, Cercles. ‘After the millions of words that have been written about Winston Churchill, Jonathan Rose still finds a new angle from which to approach him.’—Alaistair Mabbott, Glasgow Herald, ‘Painstakingly researched and immensely readable, this in-depth study offers a new perspective on a complex personality and national hero, drawing a picture of a man whose sense of the dramatic changed the course of history.’—Good Book Guide. The 2016 New Jersey Committee for the Humanities Book Award in the scholarly humanities non-fiction cateogry.'Lucid, insightful, and authoritative, The Literary Churchill reveals in rich detail how a great political life was shaped by a love of books, a theatrical flair and a brilliant talent for turning a phrase. Unlike many politicians then or now, Churchill believed that literature mattered, and as this book demonstrates convincingly, his deep commitment to the world of the imagination influenced his career at every important turn.' - Michael Shelden, author of Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill'One of the most remarkable books ever written about Winston Churchill.'—Piers Brendon, Literary Review -- Piers Brendon * Literary Review *
£23.75
Yale University Press The Fine Art of Literary FistFighting How a
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£16.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK Salman Rushdie and the Third World Myths of the Nation
Book SynopsisThe dialectic between national literary production and the rise of a group of writers with cosmopolitan sympathies is the aim of this book, concentrating on Rushdie's novels and journalism.
£42.74
WW Norton & Co Learning to Fly A Writers Memoir
Book SynopsisA literary testament showing how Mary Lee Settle's great novels followed the map of her remarkable life.
£18.99
WW Norton & Co Wilde in America
Book SynopsisThe story of Oscar Wilde's 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous.Trade Review"...impeccably-researched and absorbing chronicle..." -- The Independent"...fascinating study...Not many biographers will have sifted through the archives of the St Louis Post Dispatch for February 1882, for example, yet Friedman yields interesting facts and figures about the itinerary." -- Roger Lewis, Book of the Week - The Times"...engrossing, entertaining gem of a book..." -- The Tablet"...thoughtful and engaging…" -- The Sunday Telegraph
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Bellows People
Book SynopsisA leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art.Trade Review"... a breezy, highly readable and often entertaining study of some important figures in the author’s life..." -- Jay Parini - Literary Review"The book [Bellow's People] also makes one want to rediscover Bellow’s characters in all their Dickensian, tragi-comic brilliance, and read again his sentences, which shine with a rare intensity." -- The National
£32.85
WW Norton & Co Pablo Neruda
Book SynopsisNobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda wrote often about the natural world and the beloved objects he surrounded himself with.
£25.19
WW Norton & Co Townie
Book Synopsis"Dubus relives, absent self-pity or blame, a life shaped by bouts of violence and flurries of tenderness." —Vanity FairTrade Review"Townie is a better, harder book than anything [Dubus III] has yet written; it pays off on every bet that’s been placed on him." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"Harrowing and strange and beautiful…This book marks an important moment in the growing body of Dubus’s work." -- Bret Lott - Boston Globe"As a memoir, and as a family story, Townie is beautiful and almost perfectly executed. As a meditation on violence, from an author who once embraced it, it is shocking, necessary and indispensable." -- Michael Schaub - NPR"This haunting memoir is as explosive as a Muhammad Ali prize fight, as vivid as a Basquiat canvas…This wrenching story can only strengthen the reputation of Andre Dubus III. From father to son, the torch has passed." -- Dan Cryer - San Francisco Chronicle"A stormy and courageous memoir." -- Kate Bittman - The New Yorker"[Dubus III] is such a solid writer, he redeems the genre. He shows that truth can be as honest as fiction." -- Mark Lindquist - Seattle Times"Dubus has an eye for searing detail that is unequaled so far this century…and he employs that here to maximum effect." -- Joy Tipping - Dallas Morning News"The best first-person account of an author’s life I have ever read. The violence that is described is the kind that is with us every day, whether we recognize it or not. The characters are wonderful and compassionately drawn. I sincerely believe Andre Dubus may be the best writer in America. His talent is enormous. No one who reads this book will ever forget it." -- James Lee Burke"Whatever it cost Dubus to bare his soul and write this brutally honest and life-affirming memoir, it is an extraordinary gift to his readers." -- Wally Lamb"I’ve never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than Townie. It’s a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much revered father. You’ll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward. You may not view the world in quite the same way either." -- Richard Russo
£16.14
WW Norton & Co Upstairs at the Strand
Book SynopsisRevelatory conversations between renowned writers at New York City’s legendary bookshop.
£12.34
WW Norton & Co In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
Book SynopsisLively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature and events from a masterful critic and master teacher (Walton Myumba, Boston Globe)
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd After the Fall
Book SynopsisAfter the Fall A common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that everything has changed. After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature reveals the widespread belief among novelists, dramatists, and poets as well as the American public at large that in the post-9/11 world they are all somehow living after the fall. He carefully considers how many writers, faced with what they see as the end of their world, have retreated into the seductive pieties of home, hearth, and family; and how their works are informed by the equally seductive myth of American exceptionalism. As a counterbalance, Gray also discusses in depth the many writings that get it right transnational and genuinely crossbred works that resist the oppTrade Review“There an amazing richness of the material Richard Gray covers in. . . After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11After the Fall is skillfully structured and convincingly argued.” (Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 1 October 2014) "Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 January 2012)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 After the Fall 1 2 Imagining Disaster 21 3 Imagining Crisis 51 4 Imagining the Transnational 85 5 Imagining the Crisis in Drama and Poetry 145 Works Cited 193 Index 211
£28.45
John Wiley & Sons Inc A Companion to Modernist Poetry
Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry provides readers with detailed discussions of individual poets, schools and movements within modernist poetry, and the cultural and historical context of the modernist period.Trade Review“This Companionis thoroughly recommended for university libraries supporting degree programmes in English literature or American literature and public libraries seeking contemporary scholarship to augment their poetry collections.” (Reference Reviews, 1 September 2015)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 David E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald 1 Rhythm, Form, and Diction in Modernist Poetry 4 Michael H. Whitworth Part I Influences and Institutions 21 2 Urbanism 23 Julia E. Daniel 3 The Visual Arts 34 Leonard Diepeveen 4 Music 47 Brad Bucknell 5 Fiction 58 John Xiros Cooper 6 Science and Technology 69 Katy Price 7 Popular Culture 81 Michael Coyle 8 Religion: Orthodoxies and Alternatives 95 Lara Vetter 9 Politics 107 Sascha Bru 10 War and Empire 119 Vincent Sherry 11 Psychology and Sexuality 132 Gabrielle McIntire 12 Symbolism and Decadence 144 Barry J. Faulk 13 The European Avant-Garde 157 Michael Levenson 14 Little Magazines 172 Suzanne W. Churchill 15 Modernist Criticism 185 Chris Baldick Part II Groups and Groupings 197 16 The Georgian Poets and the Genteel Tradition 199 Meredith Martin and Erin Kappeler 17 The New Poetry 209 John Timberman Newcomb 18 Poetry of the Great War 222 Eve C. Sorum 19 The Harlem Renaissance 234 Karen Jackson Ford 20 The Fugitives 246 Gail McDonald 21 Modernist Women Poets 256 Miranda Hickman 22 Left Poetry 267 Walter Kalaidjian 23 Objectivism 281 Stephen Cope 24 World Modernist Poetry in English 296 Omaar Hena 25 Modernism: The Next Generation 310 Susan Rosenbaum Part III Poets 323 26 Thomas Hardy 325 Tim Armstrong 27 W. B. Yeats 335 Steven Matthews 28 Gertrude Stein 348 Susan Holbrook 29 Robert Frost 358 Robert Faggen 30 Wallace Stevens 367 Malcolm Woodland 31 Mina Loy 380 Cristanne Miller 32 William Carlos Williams 389 Christopher MacGowan 33 D. H. Lawrence 402 Holly A. Laird 34 Ezra Pound 412 Rebecca Beasley 35 H.D. 425 Helen Sword 36 Marianne Moore 438 Robin G. Schulze 37 T. S. Eliot 450 Anthony Cuda 38 Claude McKay 464 William J. Maxwell 39 Edna St. Vincent Millay 474 Melissa Bradshaw 40 Hugh MacDiarmid 484 Margery Palmer McCulloch 41 E. E. Cummings 494 Michael Webster 42 David Jones 505 Thomas Dilworth 43 Melvin Tolson 515 Kathy Lou Schultz 44 Hart Crane 526 Sunny Stalter-Pace 45 Langston Hughes 536 David E. Chinitz 46 W. H. Auden 551 Stan Smith Conclusion: Modernist Poetry Today 563 47 Contemporary Critical Trends 565 Matthew Hofer Index 578
£128.66
LUP - University of Michigan Press A Story Tellers Story
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Winesburg, Ohio, an autobiography of Midwestern life and culture by one of the leading figures of 20th-century American letters.Trade ReviewThe American Portrait of the Artist. - Charles Baxter ""Probably unequaled... for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of conviction.... A book which should be read by every intelligent American."", - The New York Times ""The pilgrim's progress of a man at once a genuine artist... and a small-town, pool-playing, story-telling Midwesterner."" - Sinclair Lewis ""In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America."" - The Nation ""The voice of the soliloquist... amplifies the drama of A Story Teller's Story, as does the persistent theme of escape, from an America of fact and factories, marketing and manufacturing, to the borderless Ohio's of imagination and creation. Part manifesto, part reverie, part romance, it is full of scene-sets, stage directions, vignettes, and 'moments'. An Epilogue replays what seems a never-ending struggle in the writer's life between 'the fanciful' and 'the physical', between the work one does for a living and the work one does to be alive...."" - From the introduction by Thomas Lynch
£16.95
The University of Michigan Press Midnights Diaspora
Book SynopsisA collection of essays and interviews that brings together a group of critics and commentators, including Rushdie himself, to explore the political and cultural contexts of Salman Rushdie's novels. It is suitable for those who are interested in Rushdie's work and the many pressing cultural and political issues it raises.Trade ReviewThis collection engages with the larger context of Rushdie's work to reflect on the urgent issues raised by Rushdie's novels and their afterlives. The essays are first-rate, achieving accessibility without sacrificing rigor and depth and bringing a variety of disciplinary perspectives to offer a fresh understanding of Rushdie's writings. This is rare. - Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Tactics of the Human
Book SynopsisExamines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction.
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Fanfiction Reader Folk Tales for the Digital
Book SynopsisShowcases the extent to which the archetypical storytelling exemplified by fanfiction has continuities with older forms: the communal tale-telling cultures of the past and the remix cultures of the present have much in common. Short stories that draw on franchises such as Star Trek are accompanied by short contextual and analytical essays.Trade ReviewAs someone who has taught fanfiction for years, I can say that for instructors who do not wish to deal with the thorny issues of internet fanfiction ‘in the wild’ but want to give students the opportunity to discuss and learn from it, this volume will be a boon."" - Anne Jamison, Associate Professor of Literature, University of Utah""The Fanfiction Reader is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching fan studies. This book offers students a much-needed cohesive and contextualized selection of fanfiction stories and a starting point to broach conversations about the ethics of analyzing fic in light of its growing visibility in digital culture."" - Suzanne Scott, Assistant Professor of Media Studies. University of Texas–Austin
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Paris and the Art of Transposition
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of interwar Paris, this book uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art.Trade ReviewParis and the Art of Transposition is a must-have reference for anyone working in the fields of France and China, regardless of the medium of the objects one studies. Chau’s writing is clear and accessible, while intelligent and sophisticated." - Michelle Bloom, University of California, Riverside"The scholarship of Paris and the Art of Transposition is excellent and the research highly original. The theme of “transposition” makes this book interesting methodologically and provides a new perspective to look at art and literature of this period." - Kuiyi Shen, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents List of Illustrations Timeline of Historical Periods Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Chang Yu and the Pose Chapter 3: Fu Lei the Critic Chapter 4: Li Jinfa and the Muse Chapter 5: Xu Xu and the Artist’s Studio Chapter 6: Speculating Pan Yuliang Conclusion: Challenging the Universality of Paris Bibliography
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Claims for Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review“I earnestly recommend [it] to everyone who is serious about poetry today… The Editor, Donald Hall, one of the most sensitive chroniclers and curators of modern poetry, has gathered statements on poetry and poetics from a wide range of our most highly regarded living poets.” – Judson Jerome, Writer’s Digest
£21.80
The University of Michigan Press Living Off the Country
Book SynopsisWhen he was a homesteader in Alaska, poet John Haines moved away from language and institutions to an older and simpler existence. In solitude, listening to his own voice, the events of his life reached into the past and the future.'
£20.85
LUP - University of Michigan Press Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art
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£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Sound and Form in Modern Poetry
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£27.50
The University of Michigan Press Tom Stoppard in Conversation
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£27.50
The University of Michigan Press Robert Lowells Life and Work
£16.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Spiral of Memory
Book SynopsisIntimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press All the Rage
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£17.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Tony Kushner in Conversation
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£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Crossing Unmarked Snow
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£16.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Poetry of Everyday Life
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Ezra Pound and China
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£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Coming After
Book SynopsisGathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley. Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets and their allies. The essays are characterized by Notley's strong, compelling voice, which transfixes the reader even in the midst of professional detail.
£17.95
The University of Michigan Press Outside the Lines
Book SynopsisCollects the voices of foremost and emerging gay poets and gathers interviews with some of the most significant figures in contemporary American poetry. This book includes twelve interviews with some of America's best-known and loved poets and also includes a selected bibliography of the works by established poets.
£19.90
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Body of Poetry
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£16.95
The University of Michigan Press Make Us Wave Back
Book SynopsisIncludes essays on an expansive list of subjects, among them the literary correspondence of William Maxwell; the meaning of the author's own role as poet laureate of the state of Maryland; the journals of Louise Bogan, and how they reveal Bogan's struggle with her own personal fears as well as the reconstruction of herself as a writer; and more.
£18.95
The University of Michigan Press Midnights Diaspora
Book SynopsisA collection of interdisciplinary thinkers that provide fresh insights into the complex political and cultural meanings of Salman Rushdie's writing.Trade ReviewThis collection engages with the larger context of Rushdie's work to reflect on the urgent issues raised by Rushdie's novels and their afterlives. The essays are first-rate, achieving accessibility without sacrificing rigor and depth, and bringing a variety of disciplinary perspectives to offer a fresh understanding of Rushdie's writings. This is rare. - Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Fanfiction Reader Folk Tales for the Digital
Book SynopsisShowcases the extent to which the archetypical storytelling exemplified by fanfiction has continuities with older forms: the communal tale-telling cultures of the past and the remix cultures of the present have much in common. Short stories that draw on franchises such as Star Trek are accompanied by short contextual and analytical essays.Trade ReviewAs someone who has taught fanfiction for years, I can say that for instructors who do not wish to deal with the thorny issues of internet fanfiction ‘in the wild’ but want to give students the opportunity to discuss and learn from it, this volume will be a boon."" - Anne Jamison, Associate Professor of Literature, University of Utah""The Fanfiction Reader is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching fan studies. This book offers students a much-needed cohesive and contextualized selection of fanfiction stories and a starting point to broach conversations about the ethics of analyzing fic in light of its growing visibility in digital culture."" - Suzanne Scott, Assistant Professor of Media Studies. University of Texas–Austin
£60.95
The University of Michigan Press The Rise of the African Novel
Book SynopsisSituates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.
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The University of Michigan Press Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by
Book SynopsisForegrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminating the contemporary world while also contributing to its reshaping as they reflect, rethink, and reimagine it through their work for the stage.Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Critical Visions Penny Farfan I. Replaying the Canon 1. Feminist Adaptations / Adaptations of Feminism: Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad Penny Farfan 2. Indigenizing the Colonial Narrative: Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife Denise Varney 3. Does Revenge Fall Softly? YaËl Farber’s Molora Catherine Cole 4. Indecent Collaborations and / in Queer Time(s) Katie N. Johnson and Sara L. Warner II. Representing Histories 5. The Bloodstained Distance: Adrienne Kennedy’s He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box Alisa Solomon 6. Unmaking a Devil’s Bargain: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars and the Idea of America Soyica Diggs Colbert and Robert J. Patterson 7. “A Change Is Gonna Come?” Protest and Racial Progress in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye Lynette Goddard 8. Maternal Agency and Reproductive Justice in Lisa Loomer’s Roe Sharon L. Green III. Staging Lives 9. The Mythic Migrant, the Witnessing Self: HÉlÈne Cixous and Le Dernier CaravansÉrail: OdyssÉes Emine Fisek 10. Exceptional Embodiment in Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy Ryan Claycomb 11. Acting and Reenacting the Malvinas/Falklands War in Lola Arias’s Minefield/Campo minado Paola S. HernÁndez 12. Fun Home: Lesbian Feminism Meets Broadway Musical Theatre Stacy Wolf IV. Re-imagining Family 13. A ‘rock inside the flesh’: Motherwork in Marie Clements’s The Unnatural and Accidental Women Karen Bamford and Sheila Rabillard 14. Quiara Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful and the Dramaturgy of Free Jazz Natalie Alvarez and Jimena Ortuzar 15. British Muslim Feminism and the Marriage Trap: Alia Bano’s Shades Meenakshi Ponnuswami 16. Lesbian Interspecies Performance: Holly Hughes’s The Dog and Pony Show (bring your own pony) Kim Marra V. Navigating Communities 17. Bread of Life: Whiti Hereaka’s Rewena Diana Looser 18. Transcultural Memory and Food in Julia Cho’s Aubergine Esther Kim Lee 19. Truth and Absurdity on the London Stage: Liwaa Yazji’s Goats and its Audiences Margaret Litvin with Liwaa Yazji 20. “I Will Tend Your Garden”: The Terms of Proximity in Grace PassÔ’s Por Elise Honey Crawford VI. Articulating Intersections 21. Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root: Intersectionality and the Jena Six Juliet Guzzetta 22. Economic Disenfranchisement and Gender Inequality in Emma Dante’s mPalermu Francesca Spedalieri 23. The Magic of Change: Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s The World of Extreme Happiness Xing Fan 24. “But nostalgia’s a disease”: Viewing Lynn Nottage’s Sweat in the Age of Trump Courtney Elkin Mohler VII. New World Order(s) 25. Miss Piggy the Seer in the Land of Trump’s Blind: Elfriede Jelinek’s On the Royal Road: The Burgher King Sue-Ellen Case 26. Has She “Escaped Alone” to Tell Us? Caryl Churchill: ‘Messenger’ for the Twenty-First Century Rosemary Malague 27. Climate Change and the Capitalocene in Colleen Murphy’s The Breathing Hole Wendy Arons 28. The Ghosts of Greenham Common in Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children Lesley Ferris Afterwords: Emerging Currents: Fighting on Two Fronts Lesley Ferris Notes on Contributors
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