Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
LUP - University of Michigan Press Playing in the Shadows
Book SynopsisThe Allied Occupation of Japan brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This book considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature.
£65.50
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
£56.95
The University of Michigan Press Supernatural Japan
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The University of Michigan Press The French Joyce
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LUP - University of Michigan Press On William Stafford The Worth of Local Things
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The University of Michigan Press After Brecht
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfter Brecht represents the best and most detailed engagement with the contemporary British theater scene to date." —Stanton B. Garner, Jr."This fine study . . . confronts issues that are important to all students and practitioners of the theater. Sensitive to the uniqueness of each of the playwrights in her study, Reinelt demonstrates that Brechtian theory can be modified in many ways by those who share the belief that 'politics and aesthetics are inseparably linked.'" —Choice
£22.75
LUP - University of Michigan Press Directing Beckett
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The University of Michigan Press The Bamboo Grove
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The University of Michigan Press Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1 The Fact is the Sweetest Dream Darwin, Pragmatism, and Poetic Knowledge 13 Chapter 2 What to Make of a Diminished Thing Birds, Insects, and Downward Comparisons 53 Chapter 3 Play for Mortal Stakes Labor, Community, and Nature's Chaos 101 Chapter 4 Tools and Weapons Man, Technology, and Nature 149 Chapter 5 The Lovely Shall Be Choosers Women, Nature, and Domestic Conflict 187 Chapter 6 Descent into Matter Natural History and the End of Theodicy 245 Epilogue: Choosing Stars and Picking Apples 303 Notes 319 Bibilography 347 Index 359
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Toward a Theater of the Oppressed
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Anna Seghers
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The University of Michigan Press The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Dirty Work Domestic Service in ProgressiveEra
Book SynopsisSheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early 20th century through their representations in literature, including women's magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction.Trade ReviewThe first book to focus on domestic service and all its contradictions in early 20th century American fiction, Dirty Work brings to light an underappreciated element of female-authored realist and modernist texts, namely, that representations of middle-class femininity and domesticity depend upon modern tropes of domestic service . . . A terrific book—innovative, insightful, and accomplished."" - Cynthia J. Davis, University of South Carolina
£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Talking All Morning
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University of California Press The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
Book SynopsisDiscusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, this title examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments INTRODUCTION: THE WRITER'S MARK 1. SISTER CARRIE'S POPULAR ECONOMY 2. DREISER'S FINANCIER: THE MAN OF BUSINESS AS A MAN OF LETTERS 3. ROMANCE AND REAL ESTATE 4. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONTRACT 5. THE GOLD STANDARD AND THE LOGIC OF NATURALISM 6. CORPORATE FICTION 7. ACTION AND ACCIDENT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND WRITING Index
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University of California Press The Flight of the Mind
Book SynopsisA book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Illustrations Introduction 1. "I Owned to Great Egotism": The Neurotic Model in Woolf Criticism 2. "Never Was Anyone So Tossed Up & Down by the Body As I Am": The Symptoms of Manic-Depressive Illness 3. "But What Is the Meaning of 'Explained' It?" Countertransference and Modernism 4. "In Casting Accounts, Never Forget to Begin with the State of the Body": Genetics and the Stephen Family Linc 5. "How Completely He Satisfied Her Is Proved by the Collapse": Emblematic Events in Family History 6. "How Immense Must Be the Force of Life": The Art of Autobiography and Woolf's Bipolar Theory of Being 7. "A Novel Devoted to Influenza": Reading without Resolution in The Voyqge Out 8. "Does Anybody Know Mr. Flanders?" Bipolar Cognition and Syncretistic Vision in Jacob's Room 9. "The Sane & the Insane, Side by Side": The Object-Relations of Self Management in Mrs. Dallollway 10. "It Is Finished": Ambivalence Resolved, Self Restored in To the Liqhthouse 11. "I Do Not Know Altogether Who I Am": The Plurality of lntrasubjective Life in The Waves Epilogue: Science and Subjectivity Afterword, by Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison Appendix: Virginia Woolf's Mood Swing Chart (1895-1941) Notes Works Cited Index
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University of California Press J.M. Coetzee
Book SynopsisThis treatise defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that he absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. It describes the political contexts surrounding his novels.
£22.50
University of California Press Hiroshima Traces
Book SynopsisExplores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories - including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city's tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors' testimonial practices, ethnic Koreans' narratives on Japanese colonialism.Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction Phantasmatic Innocence Tropes of the Nation, Peace, and Humanity On the Politics of Historical Memory PART ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY I. Taming the Memoryscape Remapping History Festivity 2. Memories in Ruins Postnuclear Hyperreal Contemplative Time PART TWO: STORYTELLERS 3· On Testimonial Practices Speaking the Unspeakable Naming the Testimonial Subjects Survivors, Hibakusha, Shogensha: Multiple Subjectivities 4· Mnemonic Detours Narrative Margins and Critical Knowledge Fabulous Memories: The Temporality of the "Never Again" Narratives of and for the Dead PART THREE: MEMORY AND POSITIONALITY 5· Ethnic and Colonial Memories: The Korean Atom Bomb Memorial Contentious Memorial Monument to Homeland Excess of Memory The Absent Majority Memory Matters: "Minzoku" 6. Postwar Peace and the Feminization of Memory Peace, Nation, and the Maternal Feminine Dissidents On Rewriting "Women's" Histories Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£26.10
University of California Press Raymond Chandler Speaking
Book SynopsisA selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story A Couple of Writers and the first chapters of Raymond Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Foreword Chronology 1. CHANDLER ON CHANDLER 2. CHANDLER ON THE MYSTERY NOVEL 3. CHANDLER ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING 4. A Couple of Writers 5. CHANDLER ON THE FILM WORLD AND TELEVISION 6. CHANDLER ON PUBLISHING 7. CHANDLER ON CATS 8. CHANDLER ON FAMOUS CRIMES 9. CHANDLER ON HIS NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND PHILIP MARLOWE 10. The Poodle Springs Story Bibliography prepared by Paul Skenazy Index
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University of California Press Anarchism Is Not Enough
Book SynopsisA manifesto against systematic thinking, this text on literary theory, first published 70 years ago in 1928, is a difficult book by a famously difficult writer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Text Creating Criticism: An Introduction to Anarchism Is Not Enough Laura Riding: A Chronology THE MYTH LANGUAGE AND LAZINESS THIS PHILOSOPHY WHAT IS A POEM? A COMPLICATED PROBLEM ALL LITERATURE MR. DOODLE-DOODLE-DOO AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION THE CORPUS POETRY AND MUSIC POETRY AND PAINTING POETRY AND DREAMS JOCASTA HOW CAME IT ABOUT? HUNGRY TO HEAR IN A CAFE FRAGMENT OF AN UNFINISHED NOVEL WILLIAM AND DAISY: FRAGMENT OF A FINISHED NOVEL AN ANONYMOUS BOOK THE DAMNED THING LETTER OF ABDICATION Notes on the Text Appendix I. Three Commentaries on Anarchism Is Not Enough Appendix II. Author to Critic: Laura (Riding) Jackson on 'Jlnarchism Is Not Enough" Selected Bibliography of Works by Laura Riding Selected Critical Bibliography
£27.00
University of California Press Without Lying Down
Book SynopsisCombines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and the other women who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter - male or female - for almost three decades and wrote almost 200 produced films.
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University of California Press Late Modernism
Book SynopsisA study of early 20th-century literary and artistic culture. The text focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE: THEORIZING LATE MODERNISM 1. Introduction: The Problem of Late Modernism 2. The End of Modernism: Rationalization, Spectacle, and Laughter PART TWO: READING LATE MODERNISM 3. The Self Condemned: Wyndham Lewis 4· Beyond Rescue: Djuna Barnes 5· Improved Out of All Knowledge: Samuel Beckett EPILOGUE 6. More or Less Silent: Mina Loy's Novel Inset Notes Index
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University of California Press The Politics of Home Postcolonial Relocations and
Book SynopsisExamines the changing representations of home in 20th-century English literature. The text argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of home.
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University of California Press Robert Duncan The Ambassador from Venus
Book SynopsisProvides an account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. This title takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets.Trade Review"A comprehensive, well-researched, and beautifully written biography... Jarnot brings Duncan to life as a gay man and a brilliant poet engaged with the cultural and political issues of his time." Publishers Weekly "An edifying study of a poet who did much to inspire the next generation of poets, and it is an entertaining life story. This book should be looked to as a template for other biographies of twentieth-century poets." -- Daniel Coffey Foreword "A chronicle that should be utterly absorbing for anyone interested in twentieth-century American poetry." -- Ray Olson Booklist "Jarnot's biography offers an eloquent testament to an American poet trying to be responsible to the human spirit... It will compel us all to reread Duncan's poetry-breathtaking as it is." -- Seth Lerer San Francisco Chronicle "For many younger readers, the members of the post-World War II 'San Francisco Renaissance,' like their cohorts among the Black Mountain poets, are little more than names... Posterity winnows ruthlessly, and, rightly or not, the American poets of the 1950s, '60s and '70s who seem to be passing into the canon are largely East Coast folk... This makes Lisa Jarnot's biography of Duncan all the more valuable." -- Michael Dirda Washington Post Book World "Jarnot has done her homework, and she gives readers an exhaustive, meticulously detailed account of Duncan's life... Highly recommended." Choice "In organizing a mass of previously unavailable archive material, Jarnot's study will serve as an indispensable reference text-if not the first port of call-for anyone hoping to make headway through the metaphysical tangle of Duncan's oeuvre... Readers of Jarnot's biography will find Duncan's life realized, at last, in all its fictive certainty." -- Stephen Ross Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Jarnot is a sensitive reader of literary history and an admiring but not uncritical biographer. She is also not above serving up the scuttlebutt that we've come, as readers, to expect as our literary-biographical due." -- Robert Baird London Review of Books "Lisa Jarnot's biography of Duncan should only stoke further interest in his work. She avoids the usual two pitfalls-worship and apostasy-by cleaving to a style so clean and free of editorializing or psychologizing that it reads like reportage... The result is a book of just the facts: what, where, when and who. And yet Jarnot, a poet herself, is sensitive to the symbols and cycles that defined Duncan's imaginative life." -- Ange Mlinko The NationTable of ContentsForeword by Michael Davidson Preface Acknowledgments Textual Notes Part One Childhood's Retreat 1 The Antediluvian World 2 Native Son of the Golden West 3 The Architecture 4 A Part in the Fabulous 5 The Wasteland 6 The Fathering Dream Part Two Toward the Shaman 7 The Little Freshman Yes 8 A Company of Women 9 The Dance 10 From Romance to Ritual 11 Queen of the Whores 12 Enlisted 13 Marriage 14 Divorce Part Three The Enamord Mage 15 The End of the War 16 The Round Table 17 The First Poetry Festival 18 The Venice Poem 19 Indian Tales 20 The Song of the Borderguard 21 The Way to Shadow Garden 22 The Workshop 23 Mallorca 24 Caesar's Gate Part Four The Opening of the Field 25 The Meadow 26 New York Interlude 27 The San Francisco Scene 28 Olson, Whitehead, and the Magic Workshop 29 The Maidens 30 Elfmere 31 Night Scenes 32 H.D. 33 Go East 34 Apprehensions Part Five The Nasty Aesthetician 35 The Will 36 The Playhouse 37 The Political Machine 38 Knight Errant 39 The Vancouver Conference 40 Bending the Bow 41 A Night Song 42 Anger 43 The Berkeley Conference 44 The Sixties Part Six Domestic Scenes 45 The Household 46 The Summer of Love 47 Days of Rage 48 Ground-Work 49 Helter Skelter 50 Santa Cruz Propositions 51 The Torn Cloth 52 Despair in Being Tedious 53 The Cult of the Gods 54 Elm Park Road 55 Riverside 56 The Heart of Rime Part Seven Troubadour 57 An Alternate Life 58 Cambridge 59 The Avant-Garde 60 Adam, Eve, and Jahweh 61 San Francisco's Burning 62 At Sea 63 The Cherubim 64 Alaska 65 Enthralled Part Eight The Master of Rime 66 New College 67 Five Songs 68 A Paris Visit 69 Bard 70 The Baptism of the Blood 71 Hekatombe 72 The Year of Duncan 73 The Circulation of the Blood 74 In the Dark Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
Book SynopsisThe author is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, he imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. This title deals with his works.Trade Review"This is an immense, fascinating milestone." The Buffalo NewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology Editors' Introduction Part 1. The Charm, 1945--1952: Burma, New Hampshire, Aix-en-Provence Letter to Genevieve and Helen Creeley 1/20/45 Letter to Genevieve and Helen Creeley 4/13/45 Letter to Genevieve and Helen Creeley 5/10/45 Letter to Genevieve Creeley 5/15/45 Letter to Bob Leed 6/21/48 Letter to Bob Leed [ca. August 1948] Letter to William Carlos Williams 2/11/50 Letter to William Carlos Williams 2/27/50 Letter to Larry Eigner [ca. February 1950] Letter to Ezra Pound 4/14/50 Letter to William Carlos Williams 4/15/50 Letter to Cid Corman [4/23/50] Letter to William Carlos Williams 4/24/50 Letter to Charles Olson 4/24/50 Letter to Charles Olson 4/28/50 Letter to Charles Olson 6/5/50 Letter to Dorothy Pound 6/15/50 Letter to Charles Olson 6/21/50 Letter to Charles Olson [10/18/50] Letter to Charles Olson [11/9/50] Letter to Paul Blackburn [11/29/50] Letter to Charles Olson [12/7/50] Letter to Mitch Goodman [1951] Letter to Denise Levertov and Mitch Goodman 4/18/51 Letter to Denise Levertov 4/22/51 Letter to Paul Blackburn 5/23/51 Letter to William Carlos Williams 6/29/51 Letter to William Carlos Williams 8/1/51 Letter to William Carlos Williams 9/27/51 Letter to Denise Levertov 10/3/51 Letter to Mitch Goodman 10/3/51 Letter to Horace Schwartz [late 1951] Letter to Larry Eigner [undated, 1951] Letter to Rene Laubies [5/25/52] Letter to Paul Blackburn 6/22/52 Letter to William Carlos Williams 6/27/52 Letter to Charles Olson 7/15/52 Letter to Robert Duncan 7/19/52 Part 2. Black Mountain Review, 1953--1956: Majorca, Black Mountain, San Francisco Letter to Paul Blackburn 1/9/53 Letter to Charles Olson 4/8/53 Letter to Charles Olson 7/19/53 Letter to Paul Blackburn 9/17/53 Letter to Jonathan Williams 9/23/53 Letter to Paul Blackburn 10/15/53 Letter to Denise Levertov 2/3/54 Letter to William Carlos Williams 6/6/54 Letter to Kenneth Rexroth 8/14/54 Letter to Kenneth Rexroth 8/19/54 Letter to William Carlos Williams 8/21/54 Letter to Louis Zukofsky 11/10/54 Letter to William Carlos Williams 11/25/54 Letter to William Carlos Williams 12/6/54 Letter to Cid Corman 12/24/54 Letter to William Carlos Williams 1/26/55 Letter to Alexander Trocchi 4/23/55 Letter to Jack Spicer 9/5/55 Letter to Robert Duncan 9/6/55 Letter to Robert Duncan 9/24/55 Letter to William Carlos Williams 10/31/55 Letter to Charles Olson 5/17/56 Letter to Jack Kerouac 5/26/56 Letter to Charles Olson 5/28/56 Part 3. For Love, 1956--1963: New Mexico, Guatemala, Vancouver Letter to Mitch Goodman 7/18/56 Letter to William Carlos Williams 8/8/56 Letter to Allen Ginsberg [9/19/56] Letter to Jack Kerouac 10/11/56 Letter to Mitch Goodman 11/4/56 Letter to William Carlos Williams 1/1/57 Letter to Denise Levertov 1/23/57 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 2/6/57 Letter to Ed Dorn 4/27/57 Postcard to Donald M. Allen [undated, ca. 1958] Letter to Jack Kerouac 1/31/58 Letter to Paul Blackburn 3/8/58 Letter to Denise Levertov 4/22/58 Letter to Denise Levertov and Mitch Goodman 8/13/58 Letter to Ed Dorn 11/16/58 Letter to Robert Duncan 8/20/59 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 9/7/59 Letter to Jack Kerouac 9/28/59 Letter to Robert Duncan [undated, ca. October 1959] Letter to Jack Kerouac 10/20/59 Letter to Genevieve Creeley 10/26/59 Letter to Ed Dorn 10/26/59 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 10/31/59 Letter to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) 11/8/59 Letter to Jerome Rothenberg 12/16/59 Letter to William Carlos Williams 12/24/59 Letter to Charles Olson 12/24/59 Letter to Jonathan Williams 1/5/60 Letter to Ed Dorn 1/9/60 Letter to William Carlos Williams 1/10/60 Letter to Donald M. Allen 1/16/60 Letter to William Carlos Williams 3/16/60 Letter to Louis Zukofsky 3/30/60 Letter to Paul Blackburn 4/24/60 Letter to Ed Dorn 9/14/60 Letter to William Carlos Williams 9/21/60 Letter to Jerome Rothenberg 11/6/60 Letter to Ed Dorn 11/20/60 Letter to William Carlos Williams 12/18/60 Letter to Jerome Rothenberg 12/18/60 Letter to Hugh Kenner 12/18/60 Letter to Paul Blackburn 1/11/61 Letter to Ed Dorn 1/19/61 Letter to Tom Raworth 1/23/61 Letter to Charles Olson 1/29/61 Letter to Louis Zukofsky 3/17/61 Letter to Ed Dorn 3/26/61 Letter to Louis Zukofsky 6/26/61 Letter to Ed and Helene Dorn 10/9/61 Letter to Jack Kerouac 1/19/62 Letter to Charles Olson 4/6/62 Letter to Jack Kerouac 5/30/62 Letter to William Carlos Williams 6/4/62 Letter to Warren Tallman 6/12/62 Letter to Rosmarie Waldrop 8/17/62 Postcard to Jack Kerouac 11/25/62 Part 4. Pieces, 1963--1973: New Mexico, Buffalo, Bolinas Postcard to Warren Tallman 5/7/63 Letter to Paul Blackburn 8/30/63 Letter to Ed Dorn 9/13/63 Letter to Denise Levertov 10/19/63 Letter to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) 10/21/63 Letter to Clark Coolidge 10/26/63 Letter to Alexander Trocchi 11/1/63 Letter to Andrew Crozier 11/15/63 Letter to Denise Levertov 11/16/63 Letter to Tom Raworth 2/7/64 Letter to Stan Brakhage 3/28/64 Telegram to Charles Olson 3/31/64 Letter to Charles Olson 4/1/64 Letter to Alexander Trocchi 7/16/64 Letter to Ed Dorn 7/26/64 Letter to Louis Zukofsky 12/29/64 Letter to Ed Dorn 6/2/65 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 6/2/65 Letter to Tom and Valerie Raworth 6/23/65 Letter to Charles Olson 10/16/65 Letter to Stephen Rodefer 1/11/66 Letter to Charles Olson 1/26/66 Letter to Robert Duncan 4/8/66 Letter to Bela Zempleny, U.S. Department of State 4/8/66 Letter to Charles Olson 5/3/66 Postcard to Robert Duncan 5/6/66 Postcard to Allen Ginsberg 9/10/66 Letter to Charles Olson 9/24/66 Letter to Robert Duncan 3/6/67 Letter to George Oppen 3/19/67 Letter to Robert Duncan 10/26/67 Letter To whom it may concern 11/30/67 Letter to Paul Blackburn 1/15/68 Letter to Louis Zukofsky 9/7/68 Letter to the Albuquerque Journal 9/16/68 Letter to Robert Duncan 02/12/69 Postcard to Gregory Corso 10/21/69 Letter to Charles Olson 1/1/70 Telegram to Hon. Byron McMillan 2/23/70 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 6/20/70 Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 9/3/70 Postcard to Sarah Creeley [9/4/70] Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) [ca. 1970] Letter to Genevieve Creeley 8/29/71 Postcard to Armand Schwerner 10/10/71 Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 11/9/72 Part 5. Echoes, 1973--1989: Buffalo, Maine, Helsinki Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 1/17/73 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 1/28/73 Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 1/29/73 Letter to Kate Creeley 4/26/73 Letter to Ted Berrigan 1/16/74 Letter to Diane Di Prima 3/12/74 Postcard to Barrett Watten 12/13/74 Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 9/29/75 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 11/1/75 Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Power (Helen Creeley) 3/16/76 Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 4/4/76 Postcard to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 4/10/76 Letter to Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins) 4/21/76 Letter to Penelope Highton (Penelope Creeley) 5/24/76 Letter to Penelope Highton (Penelope Creeley) 5/27/76 Letter to Penelope Highton (Penelope Creeley) 5/27/76 Letter to Robert Grenier 7/4/76 Letter to Denise Levertov 11/17/76 Letter to Penelope Highton (Penelope Creeley) 11/21/76 Letter to Robert Grenier 11/24/76 Letter to Robert Duncan 2/2/77 Letter to Robert Grenier 5/17/77 Letter to Charles Bernstein 2/6/79 Letter to George Butterick 4/12/79 Letter to John Taggart 6/12/79 Letter to Robert Duncan 3/15/80 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 6/11/80 Letter to John Taggart 7/3/80 Letter to Stan and Jane Brakhage 10/13/80 Letter to Stan and Jane Brakhage 1/29/81 Postcard to Charles Bernstein 1/30/81 Letter to Charles Bernstein 1/5/82 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 11/14/82 Letter to Robert Duncan 1/18/83 Letter to Alice Notley 7/5/83 Postcard to Ed and Jennifer Dorn 10/9/83 Letter to Denise Levertov 2/1/84 Letter to Robert Duncan 3/22/84 Letter to John Taggart 11/3/84 Postcard to Barrett Watten 11/23/84 Letter to Tom Clark 1/9/85 Letter to Charles Bernstein 9/17/85 Letter to Carl Rakosi 2/16/87 Letter to Tom Clark 2/23/87 Postcard to Leslie Scalapino 3/6/88 Letter to Susan Howe 9/25/88 Letter to Robert Grenier 12/18/88 Letter to Helen [Creeley] and Wayne Power 3/12/89 Letter to Susan Howe 3/24/89 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 4/23/89 Part 6. If I Were Writing This, 1989--2005: Maine, Buffalo, Providence Letter to Robert Grenier 8/10/89 Letter to Paul Auster 8/17/89 Letter to Susan Howe 2/15/90 Letter to Susan Howe 3/17/90 Letter to Charles Bernstein 3/31/90 Fax to Charles Bernstein 8/21/90 Letter to Robert Grenier 6/4/91 Letter to Allen Ginsberg 1/1/92 Fax to Barbara Jellow, University of California Press 3/12/92 Fax to Barbara Jellow, University of California Press 3/16/92 Fax to Tom Thompson, The National Poetry Series 5/18/92 Letter to Warren Tallman 9/25/92 Fax to Allen Ginsberg 6/16/93 Fax to Allen Ginsberg 6/18/93 E-mail to Peter Gizzi 10/12/93 E-mail to Charles Bernstein 3/1/94 Letter to Eric Mottram 3/5/94 Fax to Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi 11/13/94 Letter to Jim Dine 12/12/94 Fax to Elizabeth Fox 1/26/95 Fax to Peter Quartermain/Peter Glassgold [2/24/95] E-mail to Benjamin Friedlander 4/10/95 E-mail to Peter Gizzi and Elizabeth Willis 2/15/96 Letter to Kurt Vonnegut 5/23/96 Letter to Kurt Vonnegut 6/17/96 E-mail to Simon Pettet 10/11/96 E-mail to Tom Raworth [October 1996] Letter to Marjorie Perloff [11/10/96] E-mail to Benjamin Friedlander [4/7/97] E-mail to Benjamin Friedlander [4/19/97] E-mail to Charles Bernstein [April 1997] Letter to Denny Moers 5/31/97 Letter to William Wadsworth, Executive Director, Academy of American Poets 2/21/99 E-mail to Barrett Watten 1/20/00 Letter to Sarah Creeley 8/2/00 Letter to Francesco Clemente 1/31/01 Letter to Joel Kuszai 2/13/01 Letter to Henry Reath, President, Board of Directors of the Academy of American Poets 10/1/01 E-mail to Sarah Creeley 8/18/02 E-mail to Will Creeley 8/21/02 E-mail to UB English Department Listserv 9/19/02 E-mail to Penelope Creeley 10/8/02 E-mail to Barrett Watten 7/9/03 E-mail to Rod Smith 7/17/03 Letter to Carl Rakosi 9/22/03 E-mail to Ammiel Alcalay 12/1/03 E-mail to Angelica Clark 5/17/04 E-mail to Anselm Berrigan 6/17/04 E-mail to Donald Revell 11/6/04 E-mail to Anselm Berrigan 1/4/05 E-mail to Anselm Berrigan 1/5/05 E-mail to Anselm Berrigan 1/6/05 E-mail to Lisa Jarnot 1/16/05 E-mail to Michael Kelleher 3/7/05 Notes Acknowledgment of Permissions Index
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University of California Press Backstory 4
Book SynopsisFeatures several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties.Trade Review"Backstory 4 lives up to the high standards of the previous volumes, providing us with intimate, funny, insightful conversations with the highly articulate and film-literate screenwriters and writer-directors of many of the most memorable American films from the 1970s and 1980s, the era of the movie brats, the cult film, and the blockbuster. Each interview is a revelation. Both the interviewers and the subjects are great company. Editor Patrick McGilligan has done it again." - Matthew Bernstein, editor of Controlling Hollywood"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Robert Benton: The New Traditionalist Interview by Christian Keathley Larry Cohen: Manic Energy Interview by Patrick McGilligan Blake Edwards: Jumping Around Interview by Bill Krohn Walter Hill: Last Man Standing Interview by Patrick McGilligan Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Out of India Interview by Vincent LoBrutto Lawrence Kasdan: A Humanist in Hollywood Interview by Graham Fuller Elmore Leonard: The Hot Kid Interview by Patrick McGilligan Paul Mazursky: A Map of the Heart Interview by Nat Segaloff Nancy Meyers: Late Bloomer Interview by Fred Topel John Milius: The Good Fights Interview by Nat Segaloff Frederic Raphael: Renaissance Man Interview by John Baxter Alvin Sargent: Pursuit and Destination Interview by Patrick McGilligan Donald E. Westlake: The Worst That Could Happen Interview by Patrick McGilligan Bibliographic Notes About the Contributors General Index Index of Films, Plays, and Books
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University of California Press Mary Austin and the American West
Book SynopsisA biography of Mary Austin that explores her life and achievement. It tells the larger story of the importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.Trade Review"This rich, engaging biography explores the complexity of Austin's life in all the detail it so richly deserves." -- Ashley M. Biggers New Mexico Magazine "A much needed reconsideration of the vagabond life and influential achievements of Mary Austin." -- Donna Seaman Booklist "Goodman and Dawson's judicious biography makes a worthy contribution to our understanding of the literary West." -- Peter Richardson Los Angeles Times Book Review "This well-researched book is recommended." -- Erica Swenson Danowitz Library JournalTable of Contentspreface / i x chronology of mary austin's life and work / x i i i 1 / Desert Places: 1868--1892 / 1 2 / Owens Valley: 1892--1900 / 1 4 3 / Independence: 1900--1905 / 4 8 4 / Carmel: 1904--1907 / 6 9 5 / In Italy and England: 1907--1910 / 9 3 6 / New York: 1911--1914 / 1 1 9 7 / The Village: 1914--1920 / 1 4 5 8 / The Call of the West: 1920--1924 / 1 7 2 9 / Santa Fe: 1924--1929 / 1 9 8 10 / Indian Detours and Spanish Arts / 2 1 8 11 / Last Years: 1929--1934 / 2 3 9 12 / The Accounting / 2 6 4 notes / 2 7 3 index / 0 0 0
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University of California Press Crowded by Beauty
Book SynopsisPhilip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. This book deals with his life and work.Trade Review"With this book, Schneider has opened the window on a man who was not originally one of the 'famous Beats' but who may find a posthumous place in the new generation's pantheon." Shambhala Times "An unconventional man deserves an unconventional biography ... A major figure in both American poetry and the growth of Zen Buddhist practice in America, Whalen was brilliant, erudite, humorous, earthy yet chaste, improvident, as lovable to those who knew him as he probably will be, thanks to Schneider, to those who read about him." - STARRED Booklist "If Whalen was a poet's poet, then Schneider's book is a biographer's biography... Schneider, who was ordained as a Zen priest in 1977, writes with verve and precision, and draws creatively on Whalen's unpublished journals and voluminous correspondence. Quotations are woven into the text and make for lively reading." San Francisco Chronicle "The whole book is a must-read." The Allen Ginsberg Project "Not only one of the most keenly observed books on the Beats ever published, but it's also a fascinating exploration of the life and dharma of one of the first American-born Zen teachers." -- Steve Silberman Buddhadharma "One garners from this well written and sensitive biography of a key American author a sense of the energy and openness of the whole Beat and San Francisco Poetry Renaissance of the 1950s to 1970s." -- Larry Smith New York Journal of Books "Crowded by Beauty serves as a reminder that among all the celebrity and cachet of rebelliously prescient intellects, the one most radical in his approach to American poetry has been overlooked." -- Pat Nolan The New Black Bart Poetry Society
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University of California Press Selected Prose Daybooks and Papers
Book SynopsisOffers a selection of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including the essay "The Mind's Own Place" and "Twenty-Six Fragments," which were found on the wall of Oppen's study after his death. This work presents an inspiring portrait of this writer and a testament to the creative process itself.Trade Review"A book that will undoubtedly deepen readers' experience and understanding of Oppen, and broaden the scope of Oppen scholarship." -- Joseph Bradshaw Rain Taxi Review Of Books "Carefully transcribed and annotated... Cope's book is well organized and makes an admirably clear text for readers." Times Literary Supplement (TLS)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Textual Apparatus PROSE Three Poets The Mind's Own Place A Review of David Antin's Definitions On Armand Schwerner A Note on Tom McGrath etc. A Letter Untitled: " ... will" Non-Resistance, etc. Or: Of the Guiltless Statement on Poetics DAYBOOKS I II:I II:II II:III II:IV II:V III IV:I IV:II V v TWENTY-SIX FRAGMENTS List of Abbreviations Notes Index
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University of California Press Syncopations
Book SynopsisA collection of profiles and essays, which proffers observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. It considers writers associated with the New Yorker magazine, including John Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen.Trade Review"'Syncopations' should interest any observer of postwar American letters." -- Sam Munson New York Times Book Review "[Campbell's] best pieces deftly and economically capture the essence of their subjects, measuring the particular 'syncopations' that distinguish their work." -- Bharat Tandon Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "The object is neither to titillate nor to shock - though certain of Mr. Campbell's profiles do both - but to illumine. And this they accomplish splendidly." -- Eric Ormsby New York SunTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments PART I NEW YORK NEW YORKERS 1. Sunshine and Shadows: AProfile of John Updike 2. Updike's Village Sex 3. William Maxwell's Lives 4. Notes from a Small Island: AProfile of Shirley Hazzard 5. Love, Truman: Capote's Letters and Stories 6. Franzen, Oprah, and High Art 7. Drawing Pains: A Profile of Art Spiegelman 8. Listening in the Dark: AProfile of William Styron PART II THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE 9. I Heard It through the Grapevine: James Baldwin and the FBI 10. The Island Affair: Richard Wright's Unpublished Last Novel 11. The Man Who Cried: John A. Williams 12. All That Jive: Stanley Crouch 13. Love Lost: Toni Morrison 14. The Rhetoric of Rage: AProfile of Amiri Baraka PART III SYNCOPATIONS 15. High Peak Haikus: AProfile of Gary Snyder 16. Between Moving Air and Moving Ocean: Thom Gunn and Gary Snyder 17. Was That a Real Poem?: Robert Creeley 18. Fifty Years of "Howl" 19. Personal/Political: AProfile of Edmund White 20. To Beat the Bible: AProfile of J. P. Donleavy 21. The Making of a Monster: Alexander Trocchi 22. Travels with RLS Coda: Boswell and Mrs. Miller; A Memoir of Two Tongues
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisA volume that collects poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan. Including "Letters: Poems 1953-1956", it thoroughly documents the first phase of Duncan's distinguished life in writing, making it possible to trace the poet's development as he approaches the brilliant work of his middle period.Trade Review"Relentlessly beautiful... Everything seems to be here, laying the groundwork for a major career." Publishers Weekly "Reminds us that [Duncan] wrote some of the most stunningly beautiful lines in postwar American poetry." -- Micah Mattix Books & Culture
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisRanging in original publication dates between 1940 and 1985, this title features forty-one titles that reveal a great deal about Duncan's life in poetry - including his impressions of poets whose work he admires, both contemporaries and precursors.Trade Review"Includes some of Duncan's greatest essays ... a great help to all readers." CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: 1940s 1. An Embryo for God: Tropic of Capricorn 2. The Homosexual in Society 3. What to Do Now 4. Reviewing View, an Attack 5. Poetics of Music: Stravinsky 6. The Poet and Poetry--A Symposium Part II: 1950s 7. Pages from a Notebook 8. From a Notebook 9. Notes on Poetics regarding Olson's Maximus Part III: 1960s 10. Properties and Our REAL Estate 11. Ideas of the Meaning of Form 12. After For Love 13. Preface: Helen Adam, Ballads 14. Poetry before Language 15. The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound 16. The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante's Divine Comedy 17. Introduction: William Everson, Single Source 18. Towards an Open Universe 19. The Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in Essential Autobiography 20. A Critical Difference of View 21. Man's Fulfillment in Order and Strife 22. Jack Spicer, Poet: 1925--1965 Part IV: 1970s 23. Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman 24. Notes on Grossinger's Solar Journal: Oecological Sections 25. Iconographical Extensions 26. Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art 27. From Notes on the Structure of Rime 28. Preface to a Reading of Passages 1--22 29. Kopoltus 30. Introduction: Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery 31. An Art of Wondering 32. A Reading of Thirty Things 33. As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years 34. Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit 35. In Introduction: John Taggart, Dodeka Part V: 1980s 36. Preface: Jack Spicer, One Night Stand & Other Poems 37. The Adventure of Whitman's Line 38. The Self in Postmodern Poetry 39. Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard's Museum 40. Afterword: Beverly Dahlen, The Egyptian Poems 41. The Delirium of Meaning Appendix: List of Uncollected Essays and Other Prose Notes Works Cited in the Essays Acknowledgments of Permissions Index
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University of California Press Vietnamese Colonial Republican
Book SynopsisOffers a study of Vietnam's greatest and controversial 20th century writer who died tragically in 1939 at the age of 28.Trade Review"Timely, meticulous, and three-dimensional analysis." -- Nguyen Thi Dieu American Historical Review "Peter Zinoman has written a splendid and thought-provoking biography ... It breaks new ground in its focus on Vietnam's urban political culture." -- Eric T. Jennings SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast AsiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sources of Vu Trong Phung's Colonial Republicanism 2. Capitalism and Social Reform 3. The Question of Communism 4. The Crisis of Vietnamese Sexuality 5. Banning Vu Trong Phung Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press I Too Have Some Dreams
Book SynopsisExplores the work of N M Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolonial South Asia.Trade Review"I Too Have Some Dreams comes alive, offering engaging insights... Through A. Sean Pue's discussion of verbal choices ... we come to understand a little more about [N.M. Rashed's] work." -- Adeline Clements TLSTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction 1. Embodiment 2. Position Without Identity 3. Allegory and Collectivity 4. Temporality Conclusion: Hasan the Potter Appendix: Poems in Transliteration and Translation Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Letters from Langston
Book SynopsisLangston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. This title collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized world - one without hunger, war, racism, and more.Trade Review"The letters are held together by well-researched notes on black intellectuals' battles for racial and economic justice, and they paint a vivid picture of the poet's exuberant mind... Letters from Langston gives an excellet account of the racial and political challenges faced by this extraordinary writer." -- Rosemary Booth The Gay & Lesbian ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Robin D. G. Kelley Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet, the Crawfords, and the Pattersons PART ONE: THE TUMULTUOUS 1930S 1 * Wither White Philanthropy-Thank You and God for "The Weary Blues": October 1930-January 1932 2 * Moscow Bound in Black and White: March 1932-February 1933 3 * Horror in Scottsboro, Alabama, and War in Spain: May 1933-November 1937 4 * A People's Theatre in Harlem and Black Anti-Fascism on the Rise: January 1938-December 1939 PART TWO: THE FAR-REACHING 1940S 5 * Early Political Repression: January 1940- November 1941 6 * World War II and Black Radical Organizing: June 1942-July 1944 7 * Ebb and Flow-To Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Back: July 1946- November 1949 PART THREE: THE FEARSOME 1950S AND THE PROMISING 1960S 8 * McCarthyism at Home, Independence Movements Abroad: July 1950-December 1959 9 * Civil Rights, Black Arts, and the People's Poet: February 1961-August 1966 Glossary Personae Index
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University of California Press Mean Girl
Book SynopsisAstute.New York Times Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump.Mean Girlfollows Rand's trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand's philosophy of selfishness,Mean Girlilluminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.Trade Review“Lisa Duggan gets it exactly right . . . when she writes that Rand's ‘particular gift was not for philosophical elaboration, but for stark condensation and aphorism. She deployed this gift to create a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.’" * Times Higher Education *"[Duggan] is sharp, engaging, and funny when writing about Rand, whose magnetism, determination, grandiosity, desperation, and galloping narcissism Duggan captures beautifully." * New York Review of Books *"The therapeutic value of Duggan’s book goes well beyond freeing me from shame for my teen-age lack of literary taste and political discernment; it also provides an explanation for our current cultural and political moment. . . . Duggan’s book sums up Rand’s life and philosophy in under ninety pages." -- Masha Gessen * The New Yorker *“‘A history of the influence of Ayn Rand and her particular brand of narcissistic amorality, and an argument that her novels function now as ‘conversion machines for our contemporary culture of greed.’ Exhibit A: Paul Ryan.” * LitHub *"Duggan’s skills as a cultural historian and her sharp-witted socio-political commentary fuse seamlessly together in this short yet fascinating book that is a necessary read for students of culture and politics, but also activists and organisers who feel the deep disillusionment of what seems like a never-ending neoliberal era." * LSE Review of Books *“Lisa Duggan gets it exactly right in Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed when she writes that Rand's ‘particular gift was not for philosophical elaboration, but for stark condensation and aphorism. She deployed this gift to create a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.’" * Inside Higher Education *“Duggan goes beyond the more standard biographical accounts of Rand and gets to the bottom of her novels and how they set a disturbing tone for global capitalism. Further, Duggan explains the mischaracterizations of Rand in modern memory, and provides expert analysis of current affairs in helping readers to contextualize the actual historical Rand and her likely political endorsements as well as her most reactionary views.” * Truthout *“Cultural historian Lisa Duggan has written a small, perfect book which accomplishes so much in only a few pages, with irony and wit, humor and insight. . . . The book is fun, funny and in only 116 pages explains so much about not only its subject but of our neoliberal or reactionary culture of greed and its obstinate commitment to economic fantasy.” * KPFK/Bibliocracy *“Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don’t have to read Rand’s work yourself.” * The Dig *"The power of Duggan’s book seems that maybe in unmasking Rand’s philosophical legitimacy and hold on the right removes a central prop and leaves the right ever more naked.” * The Baffler *Table of ContentsOverview Preface Introduction. “What Is Good for Me Is Right” 1. “Proud Woman Conqueror” 2. “Individualists of the World Unite!” 3. “Would You Cut the Bible?” 4. “I Found a Flaw”Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Faulkners People A Complete Guide and Index to
Book SynopsisFaulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in identifying and interrelating the more than 1,200 characters in Faulkner's novels, short stories, and sketches. The book will help even experienced readers make their way through the labyrinth of Faulkner's style and plots and distinguish the interconnections between all of Faulkner's writings. The guide is constructed as follows: The novels from Soldiers' Pay (1926) to The Reivers (1962) are listed by title in the order of their publication. Under each title, all of the named characters who appear or are mentioned in the work are listed alphabetically, together with the number of every page on which the character's name occurs. A concise account of the actions of each character is given, together with a description of that character's salient personality features. The name under which a character is listed in the guide is often supplied in brackets when a nickname, maiden name, or other variant is used in the sketches. Major characters in each novel are indicated by boldface type. Immediately following the section devoted to the novels appear the named characters in all of Faulkner's short stories and sketches, which are also treated in the order of their publication. Carryover characters who are handled inconsistently by Faulkner are marked with an asterisk and treated further by the authors in the appendix. The authors have also included genealogical charts of the Sartoris, Burden, and McCaslin-Beauchamp-Edmonds families, as well as a map of Yoknapatawpha County. Finally, an alphabetically arranged master index of characters lists every work in which their names occur. Specific bibliographical information concerning editions is given, together with other editions, American and British, with the same pagination. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
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University of California Press The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
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University of California Press Time in Literature
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University of California Press Ghostlier Demarcations
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University of California Press Postwar British Fiction
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
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Wiley-Blackwell Life of Celine
Book SynopsisThis biography explores the controversial life and work of 20th-century French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine, through the places and times in which he lived and in which he grounded his fiction. It also sheds light on crucial areas of French cultural, social, and political history.Trade Review"Throughout his excellent, comprehensively documented critical biography, the best yet available in English, Hewitt contextualises his subject expertly." Times Higher Education Supplement "Taking advantage of recent biographies written in French and of newly available materials, Hewitt skilfully uses - and, at time, abuses - the available sources. At its best, Hewitt's clear and understandable prose takes the reader inside Céline's novel. He points out what to look for, explains what is important, and makes interesting connections." Choice "Very elegantly written book, which is also an intriguing presentation of French social and political life in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the first two-thirds of the twentieth." MLRTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. 1. A Parisian Childhood. 2. National Service: The Army and the Colonies. 3. The Student of Medicine. 4. The League of Nations. 5. Clichy and Montmartre. 6. Voyage au bout de la nuit. 7. The 'House of Literature'. 8. 1936. 9. Anti-Semitism. 10. Phoney War. 11. The Occupation. 12. Exile. 13. Meudon. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd PostColonial Literatures in English
Book Synopsis* Guides the reader through historical, linguistic and theoretical issues. * Avoids jargon and generalization. * Offers detailed case studies of literary texts by a wide range of writers. * Provides a clear and provocative account.Trade Review"Would be particularly suitable as the basis for an undergarduate course."Contemporary South Asia "Offers a clear survey of the development of the field, and a vigorous engagement with early scholars and more recent theorists". Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introducing the Post-Colonial. Part I: Studying Post-Colonial Literatures: . 2. History. 3. Language. 4. Theory. Part II: Case Studies:. 5. Indo-Anglian Fiction. 6. Caribbean and Black British Poetry. 7. South African Literature in the Interregnum. 8. After Post-Colonialism?. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gothic and Gender
Book SynopsisGothic novels tell stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. This book offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic narratives from a feminist perspective.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Patriarchal Narratives in the Work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Sophia Lee. 2 The Aesthetic of the Sublime in the Work of Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, and Charles Maturin. 3 Rethinking the Sublime in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe. 4 From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Godwin and Wollstonecraft. 5 Uncanny Monsters in the Work of Mary Shelley, John Polidori, and James Malcolm Rymer. 6 Confronting the Uncanny in the Brontës. 7 The “Unhomely” Nation of Gothic Narratives: Charlotte Smith, Charles Brockden Brown, and Matthew Lewis. 8 Feminist, Postmodern, Postcolonial: Margaret Atwood and Ann-Marie Macdonald Respond to the Gothic. Coda: Criticism of the Gothic. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd About Michael Baxandall
Book SynopsisA distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location in the development of a new art history, and its influence on the broader languages and theories of contemporary cultural theory.Table of Contents1. Patterns in the Shadows: Attention in/to the Writings of Michael Baxandall: Michael Anne Holly (University of Rochester). 2. Aspects of the Critical Reception and Intellectual History of Baxandall's Concept of the Period Eye: Alland Langdale (University of British Columbia). 3. Limewood, Chiromancy and Narratives of Making. Writing about the Materials and Processes of Sculpture: Malcolm Baker (Victoria and Albert Museum). 4. Michael Baxandall and the Shadows in Plato's Cave: Alex Potts (University of Reading). 5. Last Words (Rilke, Wittgenstein)(Duchamp): Molly Nesbit (Vassar University). 6. Women under the Gaze, a Renaissance Genealogy: Paolo Berdini (Stanford University). 7. A Baxandall Bibliography: Allan Langdale (University of California at Santa Barbara).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Critical Guide to Twentiethcentury Women
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of fiction from the English-speaking world, this text includes: the influence of early psychological writings on fiction; fiction from the rich post-war period; post-structuralist theory; postmodernism and magic realism; and feminist theory.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Alphabetical Table of Authors. Part I: New Forms of Realism and the Rise of Early Modernism, 1895-1925:. 1. The Influence of Psychological Writings on Literature. 2. Introduction to Novelists, 1825-1925. 3. Entries. Sarah Orne Jewett. Kate Chopin. Mary Wilkins Freeman. Olive Schreiner. Vernon Lee. Barbara Baynton. George Egerton. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Edith Wharton. May Sinclair. Henry Handel Richardson. Willa Cather. Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Catherine Carswell. Miles Franklin. Radclyffe Hall. Rose Macaulay. Susam Glaspell. Katharine Susannah Prichard. Anna Yezierska. Hilda Doolittle (HD). Katherine Mansfield. Rebecca West. Part II: High Modernism, Other Experiments and the Continuing Development of the Socio-Moral Novel, 1918-1925:. 4. Modernism and Stream of Consciousness Fiction. 5. Introduction to Novelists. 6. Entries. Mary Ellen Glasgow. Julia M. Peterkin. Jesse Fauset. Pauline Smith. Frances Newman. Virginia Woolf. Ivy Compton-Burnett. Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Katharine Anne Porter. Jean Rhys. Zora Neale Hurston. Djuna Barnes. Dorothy Parker. Sylvia Townsend Warner. Jean Devanny. Marjorie Barnard. Kate O'Brien. Winifred Holtby. Elizabeth Bowen. Zelda Fitzgerald. Eleanor Dark. Rosamund Lehman. Stevie Smith. Christina Stead. Kay Boyle. Anais Nin. Molly Keane (M. J. Farrell). Part III: Neo-realism, the Post-War Novel, and Early Post-Modernist Innovations, 1944-1975:. 7. The New International Literatures in English. 8. Introduction to Novelists, 1944-1975. 9. Entries: Anna Kavan. Jessamyn West. Martha Gellhorn. Ann Petry. Eudora Welty. Marguerite Young. Hortense Calisher. Kylie Tennant. Tillie Olsen. Barbara Pym. Elizabeth Smart. Jean Stafford. Margaret Walker. Elizabeth Hardwick. Jane Bowles. Leonora Carrington. Carson McCullers. Muriel Spark. Doris Lessing. Iris Murdoch. Elizabeth Spencer. Mavis Gallant. Nadine Gordimer. Janet Frame. Kamal Markhandaya. Flannery O'Connor. Margaret Laurence. Harper Lee. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Edna O'Brien. Susan Sontag. Ann Quin. Part IV: Further Internationalism, Diversification, and Experimentation, 1970-1995:. 10. Post Structuralist Theory and Fiction. 11. Introduction to Novelists, 1970-1995. 12. Entries. Meridel Le Sueur. Grace Paley. Elizabeth Jolley. Alison Lurie. Christine Brooke-Rose. Anita Brookner. Jane Gardam. Cynthia Ozick. Paule Marshall. Ursula Le Guin. Jennifer Johnston. Toni Cade Bambara. Shirley Hazzard. Toni Morrison. Alice Munro. Fay Weldon. Alice Thomas Ellis. Eva Figes. Miriam Masoli. Antonia Byatt. Anita Desai. Patricia Grace. Bessie Head. Joanna Russ. Emma Tennant. Sashi Deshpande. Margaret Atwood. Margaret Drabble. Angela Carter. Rachell Ingalls. Maxine Hong Kingston. Bobbie Anne Mason. Susan Kenney. Anne Tyler. Ama Ata Aidoo. Rose Tremain. Buchi Emecheta. Alice Walker. Kathy Acker. Keri Hulme. Leslie Marmon Silko. Gayl Jones. Jamaica Kincaid. Michele Roberts. Gloria Naylor. Jayne Anne Phillips. Amy Tan. Louise Erdrich. Jeannette Winterson. A. L. Kennedy. Part V: Theory, Further Reading and Research:. 13. Feminist Theory and Writing. 14. More Women Writers Worldwide. 15. Selected Research Resources for the Twentieth Century Novel by Women. Bibliography. General Works and Criticism. Anthologies. Secondary Criticism on Individual Women Authors (Alphabetical Listing by women writer's name). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd TwentiethCentury British and Irish Poetry
Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century.Trade Review“The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposed tasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justified if one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarily at giving a student audience food for thought, Helen Goethals.” (Cercles, 2012) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma 11 Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen Thomas Hardy 11 Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism 17 Peter Howarth Edward Thomas 30 Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas 33 Andrew Motion Wilfred Owen 37 Extract from Poetry of Mourning 41 Jahan Ramazani 2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart 57 W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence W. B. Yeats 57 Extract from Our Secret Discipline 63 Helen Vendler T. S. Eliot 71 Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices 77 Calvin Bedient D. H. Lawrence 83 Extract from ‘Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers’ 87 Tom Paulin 3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires 94 W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender W. H. Auden 94 Extract from ‘The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden’ 98 Michael O’Neill Louis MacNeice 108 Extract from Louis MacNeice 112 Peter McDonald Stephen Spender 120 Extracts from The Ironic Harvest 123 Geoffrey Thurley 4 Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric 129 Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas Keith Douglas 130 Extract from ‘I in Another Place’ 133 Geoffrey Hill Dylan Thomas 141 Extract from The Romantic Survival 144 John Bayley 5 Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night 149 Philip Larkin and the Movement Philip Larkin 149 Extract from Out of Reach 154 Andrew Swarbrick The Movement 162 Extract from The Movement 166 Blake Morrison 6 Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth 178 Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill Ted Hughes 179 Extract from ‘Ted Hughes: The Double Voice’ 182 Margaret Dickie Sylvia Plath 187 Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning 191 Christina Britzolakis Geoffrey Hill 200 Extract from ‘History to the Defeated’ 203 Alan Robinson 7 Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices 214 Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting 214 Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence 218 M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall Stevie Smith 230 Extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry 232 Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle Tony Harrison 234 Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison 237 Luke Spencer 8 Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition 245 Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon Seamus Heaney 245 Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 250 Neil Corcoran Derek Mahon 259 Extract from Poetry in the Wars 263 Edna Longley Afterword 267 Recommended Reading 272 Index 290
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd 21stCentury Modernism
Book SynopsisArgues that it is only at the turn of the 21st century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - were learned. This book offers readings of T S Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov. It examines various related poetic concerns.Trade Review"Perloff's newest work offers refreshingly frank, controversial, and even inspiring ideas ... Perloff's readings refuse to reaffirm orthodoxies, presenting innovative perspectives on poets, early modernism and its relation to the current scene. Far from being a reactionary call to return to the past, Perloff's work envisions a bold continuation of modernism's earlier revolutionary impulses. 21st-Century Modernism is vital and necessary reading for anyone interested in the history of modern poetry and where it is going." PN Review "The book commands respect, [...], not only for its energy and the precision of its readings, but for its refusal to surrender powers of arbitration from the artist to the teacher or theorist." Times Literary Supplement "The heart of [Perloff's] book is her enthusiasm - a well-researched and carefully argued enthusiasm" The Virginia Quarterly ReviewTable of ContentsList of Plates. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Avant-Garde Eliot. 2 Gertrude Stein’s Differential Syntx. 3 The Conceptual Poetics of Marcel Duchamp. 4 Khlebnikov’s Soundscapes: Letter, Number, and the Poetics of Zaum. 5 “Modernism” at the Millennium. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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