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Chelsea House Publishers 1984 George Orwell Blooms Modern Critical
Book SynopsisNineteen Eighty-Four paints the bleak picture of a society in which all information is controlled by the government, also known as Big Brother. This book is suitable for students interested in this dystopian classic, especially those with an eye toward research.
£38.21
Cornell University Press A Nabokov
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MB - Cornell University Press Feminizing the Fetish Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turnofthe Century France
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Cornell University Press Present Past Modernity and the Memory Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental...Trade ReviewThis breathtaking explication of the importance of memory in modernity sets the stage for brilliant readings that analyze a series of canonical works as symptoms of and reflections on the memory crisis.... Present Past is most importantly a contribution to our historical understanding of modernism and modernity. -- Eugene W. Holland * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *
£97.20
MB - Cornell University Press Nobodys Angels MiddleClass Women and Domestic
Book SynopsisLangland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.Trade ReviewLangland's account is deeply provocative, and it is elaborated with great intellectual integrity.... Her readings are astute, and her dexterity at balancing strong claims about gender and class against her theoretical fidelity to the demands of writing a discontinuous, non-traditional account of cultural politics is impressive and instructive. Nobody's Angels is, without doubt, essential reading for students of nineteenth-century culture, and it will significantly alter the ways we reconcile the ideologies of public and private spheres. -- John Kucich * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *
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Cornell University Press The Senses of Modernism
Book SynopsisIn The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's...Trade ReviewDanius's historical analysis of the complex relationship of technology to literary/aesthetic modernism (emphasizing the years 1880-1930) provides a new and challenging view of high classical modernism.... Danius bases her observations and conclusions on a solid survey of past critical thought; 37 pages of detailed notes and a 13-page index make the study especially useful for advanced scholars. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *In this book, Sara Danius examines the ways that new technologies influenced the arts of classic modernism from 1880 to 1930, with a concentration on high modernism, in the 1920s.... I found the book intriguing and fascinating. It is certainly an important contribution to our understanding of the intersection of perception and technology, and provides important insights about the role that technology can play in the arts. -- George K. Shortess, Lehigh University * Leonardo *The central aim of this accomplished and lucid study is to dispel the notion that perception in modernist texts can be seen as a flight from the world of modernity and technology into subjectivity and particularity.... Danius's assertion that the senses become technologically mediated in modernity is supported by discussions of visual theory as it is implicit in various optical devices, in Sander's photo-archive, Marey's work, and the conceptualization of cinema in Vertov and others. -- Tim Armstrong, University of London * Modernism/modernity *In her persuasive, well-written exploration of technology's essential yet underestimated role in high modernism, Danius establishes a vivid picture of the modernist landscape as one where technologically enhanced means of perception became a prominent component of the aesthetic discourse.... Danius's ability to utilize a wide body of theory and to draw adeptly on examples from film, painting, and photography to support her close readings of three pioneering modernist novels makes this a provocative, rewarding study from a variety of vantage points. -- Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *Overall, this is a challenging and rewarding analysis by a literary scholar who is deeply immersed in the aesthetic categories of High Modernism. It may be well to note that she is interested in technologies such as X-rays not as artifacts but insofar as they affect the perceptual apparatus of the modern subject. -- Barry Katz, California College of the Arts * Technology and Culture *
£81.00
Cornell University Press Inconsequence
Book SynopsisThe field of lesbian studies is often framed in terms of the relation between lesbianism and invisibility. Annamarie Jagose here takes a radical new approach, suggesting that the focus on invisibility and visibility is perhaps not the most productive way of looking at lesbian representability. Jagose argues that the theoretical preoccupation with metaphors of visibility is part of the problem it attempts to remedy. In her account, the regulatory difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality relies less on codes of visual recognition than on a cultural adherence to the force of first order, second order sexual sequence. As Jagose points out, sequence does not simply specify what comes before and what comes after; it also implies precedence: what comes first and what comes second.Jagose reads canonical novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Daphne du Maurier, drawing upon their elaboration of sexual sequence. In these innovative readings, tropes suchTrade ReviewJagose draws on Foucault and Barthes to comment on the diffusion of sexual knowledge through the scientific/pornographic with the imperative to represent as uncoded that which is accessible through the photographic lens. By stripping the effects of sequence back to its licensing mechanics, Inconsequence reveals how lesbianism comes to figure as the derivation by which all sexuality is generated.... Jagose's incisive deconstruction, and exquisitely detailed footnotes, are invaluable to learn from—to witness how she does what she does—and make Inconsequence an important tool for any contemporary theorist. -- Peta Mayer * Gender Forum *
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Cornell University Press Dirt for Arts Sake Books on Trial from Madame
Book SynopsisLadenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors.Trade ReviewA professor of French and comparative literature, Ladenson sets out to answer the question, 'How does an 'obscene' book become a 'classic'?' with this spry but exhaustive look at the history and culture surrounding the modern world's most controversial literature. Ladenson touches on numerous 'dirty' books, using a handful of landmark titles as jumping-off points for a wide-ranging survey: Madame Bovary, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Well of Loneliness, Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Lolita. Using court records, novelists' letters, newspaper reviews and other books on the subject, Ladenson constructs a vivid composite of society's shifting relationship with such polarizing subjects as adultery, homosexuality and pedophilia—including the suppression thereof as well as the appetite therefor. Tracing the evolution of 'obscenity' from the 1850s to the late 20th century, Ladenson outlines the debates over 'art for art's sake,' as well as the province of realism, illustrating the rocky process of acceptance for the twin concepts and the literature they provoked. Witty, well-written and relevant, including fascinating details from the lives of writers, court cases as recent as the 1960s and as far-flung as Japan, and attempts to reinvent controversial works for contemporary audiences (such as two film versions of Lolita), this highly readable study should make scholars and book junkies as happy as pigs in lit. * Publishers Weekly *A witty and elegant study, written with an exceptional sensitivity to the multiple ironies regarding sex and censorship in literature.... With every text Ladenson so perceptively reads, she has something fresh and arresting to say. She is especially brilliant on Ulysses, along with Madame Bovary the most obvious work of genius under examination here.... Assuredly not an obvious work of genius is Lady Chatterley's Lover... and Ladenson's commentary on it is illuminating.... The chapter on Nabokov and Lolita is extremely funny: a chapter of accidents.... We still believe in censorship today. It's just that we're too hypocritical to call it censorship, and talk instead of 'inappropriate language' in regard to gender or ethnic stereotyping, and of the need to have our 'awareness raised'. Bah humbug, says Ladenson, in so many words. * Sunday Times *An absorbing study of a century's worth of literary obscenity trials. Between the landmark year of 1857, when Britain passed the Obscene Publications Act and France launched prosecutions against Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert, through the trials of Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Fanny Hill, Western culture completely overthrew its traditional concept of the relationship between art and morality, obliterating the very idea of literary obscenity. Out went the old—literature's duty to uphold the ideal—and in came the new: art for art's sake (exempt from moral judgment), and what Ladenson calls dirt for art's sake, art's duty to be realistic, particularly in sexuality. * Maclean's *Elisabeth Ladenson's witty meditation on literary obscenity pivots on 'irony, paradox, and absurdity.' How, she ruminates, can one generation's 'dirt' be another generation's 'art'? 'How does an obscene work become a classic?' It's a fascinating set of hows. Ladenson takes, as her principal texts, seven ambiguously obscene classic works of literature.... What adds freshness to her discussion is chapters on that infamous period of Gallic censorship when public prosecutor Ernest Pinard took Flaubert and Baudelaire to court. By so doing, he installed himself in the annals of literature—as one of its clowns. They also serve who makes fools of themselves for art. * Washington Post *In witty analyses, she establishes common themes and cross-references from nine obscenity trials, revealing shifting sensibilities and legal rulings since 1857 in France, England, and the US, occasionally to comic effect.... Highly recommended. All readers; all levels. * Choice *We have come to applaud transgression, Elisabeth Ladenson argues, but only so long as the values transgressed are different to our own. Discussions of Flaubert, Joyce, Nabokov, and Sade each illustrate the point well, as we see how their most controversial texts have been rewritten in print and film in order to moderate the original provocation. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press Cruising Modernism
Book SynopsisModern society, Michael Trask argues in this incisive and original book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science''s concept of erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures and social theorists when it came to the innovative and unsettling social arrangements of the early twentieth century. Trask focuses on the James brothers in a critique of pragmatism and anti-immigrant sentiment, shows the influence of behavioral psychology on Gertrude Stein''s work, uncovers a sustained reflection on casual labor in Hart Crane''s lyric poetry, and traces the identification of working-class Catholics with deviant passions in Willa Cather''s fiction. Finally, Trask examines how literary leftists borrowed the antiprostitution rhetoric of Progressive-era reformers to protest the ascendance of consumerism in the 1920s.Viewing class as a restless and unstable category, Trask contends, American modernist writers appropriatedTrade ReviewTrask argues that queer studies and Marxist studies should not be marginalized because for major writers of the era neither sexuality nor class was special to a coterie, that to 'belong to mass society is always to enter the sphere of the illicit, the perverse, the dirty'—i.e., 'in mass culture everyone is queer.'... Recommended. Graduate and research collections. * Choice *
£49.50
Cornell University Press Trailing Clouds
Book Synopsis"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina...Trade ReviewThis carefully researched, well-written book defies comparison to other recent criticism. * Choice *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Planets on Tables
Book SynopsisPoets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life...Trade ReviewBonnie Costello argues for still life as a mode of juxtaposition that can hold contrary ideas at a standstill without merging or synthesizing them. Far from being a minor genre, still life becomes, for the author, the aesthetic end of the more politicized modernism of the 1930s (a point that is qualitatively different from the argument that still life was deliberately aesthetic). In Costello's modeling, still life is not restricted to its material components but can include radio waves, foreign news, technology, cinema, even the artist's vocation.... She concentrates on one visual artist, Joseph Cornell, juxtaposing him to canonical American poets Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, and the academically undertreated Richard Wilbur. In so doing, she virtually wipes out the past generation's distinction between the subjective Stevens and the quasi-objective Williams—a fruitful side effect of her inventive exploration of intermedial crossings. * Choice *
£37.05
Cornell University Press Glamour in Six Dimensions
Book SynopsisGlamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown...Trade Review"Glamour in Six Dimensions is a fascinating and unforgettable book about a bewitchingly negative, even deathly, aesthetic. Judith Brown's provocative arguments about glamour's roots in modernist literary form and complicated status as both a sign of the degradation and persistence of aesthetic 'aura,' are sure to recharge the debate about modernist literature's relationship to mass culture. This book is a must-read for anyone working on modernism and twentieth-century aesthetics." -- Sianne Ngai, UCLA"In this very appealing, readable, and erudite book, Judith Brown shows that there is something cruel about glamour, and therefore something cruel about modernism, but she shows too that modernism's cruelty can allow us to appreciate the sensuality of modern culture. Instead of limiting glamour to a pernicious effect of commodification, as it is often understood by Frankfurt School critiques of the culture industry, Glamour in Six Dimensions approaches it as a spur to imagination, feeling, and invention. Brown's elegant readings convince us that glamour is modernism's invention—and its legacy." -- Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers University"This sophisticated, informed, and visually stunning book makes a significant and original contribution to the New Modernist Studies. Judith Brown's premise that glamour inheres in the very problem of modernist form is entirely original and manages to sustain a line of argument extending from Greta Garbo to Conrad to cellophane. Glamour in Six Dimensions is marked by Brown's sheer innovative genius." -- Jane Garrity, University of Colorado"Weaving her neat hexagonal spiderweb, Judith Brown exhibits scintillating jewels caught in a series of dialectical images. She throws fresh light on canonical modernist writers: Chanel No. 5 next to Wallace Stevens's abstraction and Eliot's impersonality; celebrity photographs in Fitzgerald and Woolf; cigarette publicity for the jazz age; translucent plastic and shimmering cellophane wrapping Larsen, Stein, and Barnes. No longer striving for the great acorn of light or the gemlike flame of an earlier generation, Brown's modernism sparkles and shimmers on flat surfaces like glossy photographic paper. The vanishing aura of modernity still glitters through modernist glamour, now quasi-eternal: glamour toujours!" -- Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
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Cornell University Press Welcome to the Suck
Book SynopsisOur collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier's experience in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War. Stories about war always encompass ideas about initiation, masculinity, cross-cultural encounters, and trauma. Peebles shows us how these timeless themes find new expression among a generation of soldiers who have grown up in a time when it has been more acceptable than ever before to challenge cultural and societal norms, and who now have unprecedented and immediate access to the world away from the battlefield through new media and technology.Two Gulf War memoirs by Anthony Swofford (Jarhead) and Joel Turnipseed (Baghdad Express) provide a portrait of soldiers living and fighting on the cusp of the major political and teTrade ReviewRemarkable literature and film are beginning to emerge from both the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War. Peebles explores the new landscape of such works.... Along the way, the author demarcates the new digital battlefield—blogs and Skype—that should reduce alienation but paradoxically call it into heightened relief. Part of the context of these works is the cynicism of the soldiers whose first political memory is, as Peebles puts it, an image of Monica Lewinsky, but who are still idealistic as they enter the war. This classic disjuncture empowers these works and transforms the destruction, waste, stupidity, and disillusionment that are part of all wars into powerful, moving art. Summing Up: Highly recommended for all readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Lines of Sight: Watching War in Jarhead and My War: Killing Time in Iraq2. Making a Military Man: Iraq, Gender, and the Failure of the Masculine Collective3. Consuming the Other: Blinding Absence in The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell and Here, Bullet4. One of U.S.: Combat Trauma on Film in Alive Day Memories and In the Valley of ElahConclusionBibliography Notes Index
£23.39
Cornell University Press Bureau of Missing Persons
Book SynopsisAnalyzing contemporary narratives of the secret lives led by writers' fathers.Trade ReviewA compelling close reading of eighteen memoirs, all of which, Porter finds, struggle with the problem of narrative voice and agency in the context of auto/biography. Structurally, Porter's book is methodical, with each text given the same treatment: a thesis that connects the text to the chapter's theme; an introduction to the text; the methods or levels of detective work involved in the writer's search; the attitude with which the text seems to be written—vengeful, understanding, judgmental, self-reflective; a comparator text; and an interrogation into whether the text's success in finding parent or self. -- Teresa Coronado * Rocky Mountain Review *Detective stories are everywhere: as many critics have claimed, most novels, at least since Bleak House, bear traces of detective fiction. If this is true of novels, Porter's fascinating book argues that it is also the case for literary memoirs—where the mysteries and people investigated are particularly close to home. -- Jonathan Taylor * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Child's Book of Parental Deception1. Faith-Changing for Life The Wounds of Memory: Shame and Discovery in the Kurzem Family Into the Belly of the Beast: Counterfeiting Identity for Survival Probing Secret Conversions: Helen Fremont's Anguished Inquisition2. Deciphering Enigma Codes Shadowing the Furtive Father Beyond the Grave: Mary Gordon’s Ambivalent Inquiry "Love Is No Detective": Germaine Greer’s Guilty Hunt Family on the Lam: A Son Running After Secrets A Scavenger in the Archives: The "Memory Boy" Tracks His Parents The Naked Lady’s Face and the Detective’s Effacement3. The Men Who Were Not There Sleuthing Amidst the Shards of the Past: Tracking Absence in the Austers The Letters and the Flag: Recuperating a Lost Father Speaking Him into the World: A Daughter Reenters Her Father’s History A Father Gone Missing: Documenting a Broken Bond4. Becoming One’s Parent The Limits of Privacy: Decorum and Exposure at the Ackerley’s "Lies Like Contagious Diseases": The Secrets of the Duke and His Son Imagining Himself in the Paternal Matrix Shared Secrets in the Fun House5. Breaking the Silence Race, Secrecy, and Discovery: Black on White, White on BlackConclusion: Freedom or Exploitation?Bibliography Index
£36.10
Cornell University Press Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity
Book SynopsisCharles Altieri, one of our foremost analysts of modernism, has in his recent work argued for the importance of the affects, which philosophy has too long subordinated to cognition and ethics. In Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity, Altieri focuses his attention on modernist poetry, especially that of Wallace Stevens. He argues that critics have failed to appreciate the degree to which modernist poetry, like modernist art, breaks from the epistemology that arose from cultures of empiricism. If we recognize the limits of that authority we can also recognize the close positive affinities between how we feel and how we value.Nineteenth-century writing wanted to build values out of ways of looking at what could be established as fact. Early modernist poetry, particularly that of Stevens and Pound, labors to adapt Nietzschean attitudes toward poetry. Then Stevens embarked on an imaginative journey to find in linguistic activity itself a sufficient model for how we Trade ReviewAltieri provides the most authoritative treatment of Stevens in more than a decade.... He combines aesthetics and philosophy in a rigorous manner that is nonetheless resolutely literary. Wisely eschewing a commentary on all of Stevens's poems, Altieri extracts original interpretive insights from close reading, as seen in his discernment, in 'Farewell to Florida,' of a flight from the female that is as much wishful thinking as renunciation, and a reading of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' in which he emphasizes how the different perspectives ‘fuse’ over the disjunction emphasized by critics such as Harold Bloom. Altieri's detailed explication... reveals him as a dazzling reader of this difficult poet. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of Contents1. Philosophical Poetry and the Demands of Modernity2. Harmonium as a Modernist Text3. "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds": The Parts Negation Played in Developing a New Poetic4. How Stevens Uses the Grammar of As5. Aspectual Thinking6. Stevens's Tragic Mode: Why the Angel Must Disappear in “Angel Surrounded by Paysans”7. Aspect- Seeing and Its Implications in The RockNotesBibliographyIndex
£81.00
Cornell University Press Trailing Clouds
Book Synopsis"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina...Trade ReviewThis carefully researched, well-written book defies comparison to other recent criticism. * Choice *
£26.59
Cornell University Press Prousts Lesbianism
Book SynopsisFor decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction—his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and...Trade ReviewA remarkably close reading of Proust's remarkably long novel, Ladenson's persuasive book will change the way we interpret Proust.... Ladenson's prose is also quite gratifying to read—a rare thing in the Academy that makes this erudite book both provocative and immensely entertaining. * Virginia Quarterly Review *Carefully orchestrated.... Ladenson scours Proust's early work... and converts the scattered evidence of lesbianism into a genuinely thought-provoking synthesis. * Times Literary Supplement *Through a series of finely articulated, close re-readings of Proust's Recherche, this book... provides us with what amounts to be no less than a systematic reassessment of the novel's entire sexual economy, the cornerstone of which being precisely what has been so far mostly ignored or dismissed by critics: Proust's representation of female homosexuality. A brilliant contribution to both the field of queer studies and Proustian criticism. * Modern and Contemporary France *
£23.74
Cornell University Press Overkill
Book SynopsisPerestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture came to reflect the anxiety and despair felt by more and more Russians. Free from censorship for the first time in Russia''s history, the popular culture industry (publishing, film, and television) began to disseminate works that featured increasingly explicit images and descriptions of sex and violence.In Overkill, Eliot Borenstein explores this lurid and often-disturbing cultural landscape in close, imaginative readings of such works as You''re Just a Slut, My Dear! (Ty prosto shliukha, dorogaia!), a novel about sexual slavery and illegal organ harvesting; the Nympho trilogy of books featuring a Chechen-fighting sex addict; and the Mad Dog and Antikiller series of books and films recounting, respectively, the exploits of the Russian Rambo and an assassin killing in the cause of justice. Borenstein argues thaTrade ReviewA remarkably good book.... Whether speaking about lowbrow literature or better made works, Borenstein is a careful reader of popular culture as 'symptom,' as a visible manifestation of social dis-ease.... This book is smart and funny.... written in exactly the right tone for its content. * Slavic and Eastern European Journal *
£28.49
Cornell University Press Russia on the Edge
Book SynopsisSince the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphorswhether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and borderhave become the signs of a different sense of self and the signposts of a new debate about Russian identity. In Russia on the Edge, Edith W. Clowes argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today.Clowes lays out several sides of the debate. She takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers, among them Tatyana Tolstaya and Viktor Pelevin. The most vocal, visible, and colorful rightist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin, the founder oTrade Review"Russia on the Edge is an exceptionally innovative and insightful contribution to the literature on nationalism, national self-images, and identity in Russia today. Arguing that conceptions of 'what Russia is' depend critically on notions about where the country is located, Edith W. Clowes makes a compelling case for the new importance of 'imagined geographies' as perceptual arenas for the construction and contestation of identity in Post-Soviet Russia." -- Mark Bassin, Södertörn University"Clowes provides a provocative reassessment of the new Russia, positing a shift from a traditional temporal historical paradigm to a spatial one. With the fall of the multinational Soviet empire where power resided in Moscow, a more diffuse situation has developed with the rise of ethnic and national identities on the geographical perimeters. Geography has partially displaced history, to the great discomfort of the central ethnic Russian populace.... In this stimulating study, Clowes discusses liberal commentators Mikhail Ryklin and Anna Politkovskaia versus Aleksandr Dugin, an ultra-nationalist... and the more diverse attitudes of 'peripheralist' writers such as Victor Pelevin and Ludmilla Ulitskaia.""In Russia on the Edge, Edith Clowes investigates how and why borders are so central in today's Russia. She brilliantly demonstrates that much of Russian identity is defined not by what Russia is but rather where Russia is. Indeed peripheries function imaginatively as the sites of vital debates about how Russians see themselves. Clowes therefore offers a must-read analysis of how geographical and geopolitical metaphors construct post-Soviet Russian identity." -- Marlene Laruelle, The Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Is Russia a Center or a Periphery? 1. Deconstructing Imperial Moscow 2. Postmodernist Empire Meets Holy Rus': How Aleksandr Dugin Tried to Change the Eurasian Periphery into the Sacred Center of the World 3. Illusory Empire: Viktor Pelevin's Parody of Neo-Eurasianism 4. Russia's Deconstructionist Westernizer: Mikhail Ryklin's "Larger Space of Europe" Confronts Holy Rus' 5. The Periphery and Its Narratives: Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Imagined South 6. Demonizing the Post-Soviet Other: The Chechens and the Muslim South ConclusionIndex
£22.39
Cornell University Press Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity
Book SynopsisCharles Altieri, one of our foremost analysts of modernism, has in his recent work argued for the importance of the affects, which philosophy has too long subordinated to cognition and ethics. In Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity, Altieri focuses his attention on modernist poetry, especially that of Wallace Stevens. He argues that critics have failed to appreciate the degree to which modernist poetry, like modernist art, breaks from the epistemology that arose from cultures of empiricism. If we recognize the limits of that authority we can also recognize the close positive affinities between how we feel and how we value.Nineteenth-century writing wanted to build values out of ways of looking at what could be established as fact. Early modernist poetry, particularly that of Stevens and Pound, labors to adapt Nietzschean attitudes toward poetry. Then Stevens embarked on an imaginative journey to find in linguistic activity itself a sufficient model for how we Trade ReviewAltieri provides the most authoritative treatment of Stevens in more than a decade.... He combines aesthetics and philosophy in a rigorous manner that is nonetheless resolutely literary. Wisely eschewing a commentary on all of Stevens's poems, Altieri extracts original interpretive insights from close reading, as seen in his discernment, in 'Farewell to Florida,' of a flight from the female that is as much wishful thinking as renunciation, and a reading of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' in which he emphasizes how the different perspectives ‘fuse’ over the disjunction emphasized by critics such as Harold Bloom. Altieri's detailed explication... reveals him as a dazzling reader of this difficult poet. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of Contents1. Philosophical Poetry and the Demands of Modernity2. Harmonium as a Modernist Text3. "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds": The Parts Negation Played in Developing a New Poetic4. How Stevens Uses the Grammar of As5. Aspectual Thinking6. Stevens's Tragic Mode: Why the Angel Must Disappear in “Angel Surrounded by Paysans”7. Aspect- Seeing and Its Implications in The RockNotesBibliographyIndex
£30.40
Cornell University Press Present Past Modernity and the Memory Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental...Trade ReviewThis breathtaking explication of the importance of memory in modernity sets the stage for brilliant readings that analyze a series of canonical works as symptoms of and reflections on the memory crisis.... Present Past is most importantly a contribution to our historical understanding of modernism and modernity. -- Eugene W. Holland * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *
£32.30
Cornell University Press Nobodys Angels MiddleClass Women and Domestic
Book SynopsisLangland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.Trade ReviewLangland's account is deeply provocative, and it is elaborated with great intellectual integrity.... Her readings are astute, and her dexterity at balancing strong claims about gender and class against her theoretical fidelity to the demands of writing a discontinuous, non-traditional account of cultural politics is impressive and instructive. Nobody's Angels is, without doubt, essential reading for students of nineteenth-century culture, and it will significantly alter the ways we reconcile the ideologies of public and private spheres. -- John Kucich * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *
£29.45
Cornell University Press Shakespeare among the Moderns
Book SynopsisModernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and provocative book. The preoccupations of such high...Trade ReviewClosely argued, adventurous.... There is a quite exceptional richness of texture in Shakespeare Among the Moderns. Evidence from widely separated fields of inquiry is marshaled with extraordinary dexterity, and the range of reading is impressive.... This is a book of unusual range, depth, and originality. * The Review of English Studies *Halpern brings to this familiar terrain a new depth of understanding and precision of focus. This volume is full of important new insights into the appropriation of Shakespeare by English and American critics from T.S. Eliot and James Joyce to Northrop Frye and Stephen Greenblatt. * Choice *Halpern provides an informative and wonderfully intelligent account of a range of important issues.... There are invaluable discussions of twentieth-century theatrical productions of the plays along with important examples of Shakespeare's transformation in film and other mass media.... Shakespeare among the Moderns sets an exemplary standard of interdisciplinary scholarship.... Shakespeare among the Moderns provides an invaluable synthesis... that helps move discussion beyond the false polarities of the recent culture wars. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Shakespeare Among the Moderns is an ambitious and endlessly suggestive book, particularly notable for the breadth and depth of its intellectual range and for the conversancy of its author with texts, events, and discourses that extend well beyond the concerns of more garden-variety Shakespeareans.... Shakespeare Among the Moderns if one of the best (and best written) books on Shakespeare published in a long time. It should be required reading for all Shakespeareans interested in charting their path to the new century through an enriched understanding of the one now ending. * Shakespeare Bulletin *The breadth of Halpern's research is impressive, and the intricacy of his arguments often dazzling. His insights into the individual plays are often perceptive and original.... Halpern's book is learned, subtle, and often illuminating. * Northern Light *
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Cornell University Press American Literature and the Culture Wars
Book SynopsisGregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinctly American literature? What is the appropriate purpose and scope of such pursuits? Is the notion of a traditional canon of great...Trade ReviewA major contribution.... Jay's analyses tacitly provide new alternatives for critical theory. This book is a significant exploration into our different processes of appropriation, validation, and transmission of literary and cultural values, into a field in which pedagogy functions as a primary means of canon formation and revision. -- Ricardo Miguel Alfonso * The International Fiction Review *In addition to approaching the debates in multiculturalism from a theoretical perspective, Jay also addresses pragmatic issues about how to teach the 'struggle for representation' in the classroom. Because Jay is concerned with putting his theories about multiculturalism into action, Culture Wars is ambitious in its diversified approach. Jay's investigation into the 'culture wars' is provocative and persuasive—down to his pragmatic and sometimes radical suggestion for changing our syllabi.... In American Literature and the Culture Wars, Jay convincingly demonstrates how the scholarly and cultural debates about multiculturalism should be addressed in the classroom, where any real change in the curriculum necessarily begins. By problematizing the positions taken on either side, Jay offers an even-handed examination of historical and current debates, offering pragmatic solutions to teaching multiculturalism, not at the expense of complexity for either teacher or student. Because of this, American Literature and the Culture Wars is a valuable tool for understanding and teaching the myriad voices in American literature and American culture. -- Elaine Arvan Andrews * American Studies International *Jay's thorough review of previous studies establishes a context for his advocacy of an intellectual diversity in the university and use of literature (particularly works representing oppressed minorities) to teach social values.... An essential and useful challenge to rethink course approaches. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press Impossible Women
Book SynopsisImpossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers...Trade ReviewImpossible Women is ideal for Americanists looking to integrate queer studies into their teaching and study of canonical works. -- Frann Michel, Willamette University * MFS: Modern Fiction Studies *
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Cornell University Press The Colonial Unconscious
Book SynopsisFrance between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more...Trade ReviewThis fascinating study examines the extent to which the 'idee coloniale' pervaded French cultural life of the Jazz Age and the ambivalent ways in which colonialism was presented.... Her study represents a challenging interpretation of the French colonial legacy and the rhetoric with which it was surrounded. -- Sarah Howard * Times Literary Supplement *Elizabeth Ezra's eloquent study of race and colonialism not only maps the pervasive influence of racist ideology on French cultural constructions of the nation during the interwar period, but also shows how this ideology continues to shape nationalist rhetoic in France today.... The Colonial Unconscious is a major contribution to the growing field of studies of the colonial past and its impact on French literature and culture. Scholars of French colonialism owe much to Ezra for this superb acheological study of the development of the colonial unconscious in the twentieth century. -- Lisa McNee * Research in African Literatures *Ezra's essays are full of dexterous word play and suggestive and at times compelling ideas about how a colonial unconscious functioned in interwar France—an unconscious that surely has left residues that are resurfacing today. -- Alice L. Conklin, University of Rochester * American Historical Review *Ezra's slender yet dense volume is the latest contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the history of colonial representations and their impact on collective mentalities during the interwar period, a relatively new field that enriches the already substantal corpus of works analyzing political, social, and economic dimensions of French colonialism. -- Brett Bowles, Iowa State University * H-France Book Reviews *The Colonial Unconscious is a significant contribution to the growing field of French Cultural Studies. Ezra's close readings... bring much that is new and original to our understanding of interwar France. Furthermore, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of contemporary France, for it offers insight into the working of colonial ideology. -- Janette Bayles, Utah State University * SubStance #97 *
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Cornell University Press Sex Drives
Book SynopsisSalvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline...Trade ReviewIn her genuinely thought-provoking study Laura Frost chooses to examine Modernist writers who failed to succumb to fascist ideology, yet produced 'fictions of eroticized fascism.' The study is provocative and daring in the sense that there is an almost sheerly thematic link between the chosen authors.... I would also like to emphasize that the book will be an excellent teaching aid for undergraduate classes. * www.Womenwriters.net *Frost's new book is as a particularly succesful blend of broad cultural history and specific literary analyses, maintaining a necessary attachment to established fact without relinquishing her sensitivity to the nature of her texts as literary, as art. Frost takes as her central theme the use and abuse of the image of the 'sexualized fascist'.... Frost remains sensitive to her texts as literary works, and she is particularly good when giving herself space to delve into extended analysis.... The breadth of research makes for a consistently entertaining read and establishes a solid framework for one of her central theses, that liberal, democractic, western societies (particularly Britain, France, and the U.S.) have had and still have vested political interests in aligning so-called deviant sexualities with foreign political orders.... One of the most interesting and fertile aspects of Frost's study emerges, the role of pleasure in the process of sexualization (initially intended to be repulsive), of titillation in the reception of art which represents forces that were responsible for some of the century's darkest moments. This leads the reader to dark and difficult questions, but questions well worth the asking. -- Sean Pryor, University of Sydney * Modernism/modernity *Laura Frost notes in her revelatory new book, Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism, postwar Nazi chic had less to do with the real thing than with liberalism's 'powerful investments in... defining proper and deviant desire.' The connection between fascism and perversity is itself a fantasy, Frost explains, since the actual Nazis were puritanical and radically detached. Their relationship to their victims was not at all like the intimate possibilities that can exist in s/m. Ascribing the bond between sexual master and slave to this emblem of evil was a very effective way to condemn sadomasochistic impulses (and for that matter, to make them even hotter). No wonder the '70s, with their deeply ambivalent fixation on transgressive sexuality, were also the heyday of Nazi chic. -- Richard Goldstein * The Village Voice *Laura Frost's Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism is interested in the imaginative convergence of fascism and eroticism, the eroticizing of the fascist, particularly among writers and artists who ideologically had no sympathy with fascist politics.... Sex Drives contributes to several fields of critical analysis at once; feminist studies, queer theory, culture studies, and literary criticism. -- Thomas L. Long * Lambda Book Report *
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Cornell University Press The Senses of Modernism
Book SynopsisIn The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann''s The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust''s Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce''s Ulysses as narratives of the sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of technological reproduction. In her discussion of the years from 1880 to 1930, Danius proposes that the high-modernist aesthetic is inseparable from a technologically mediated crisis of the senses. She reveals the ways in which categories of perceiving and knowing are realigned when technological devices are capable of reproducing sense data. Sparked by innovations such as chronophotography, phonography, radiography, cinematography, and technologies of speed, this sudden shift in perceptual abilities had an effect on all arts of the time.Danius explores how perception, notably sight and hearing, is staged in the three most significant modern nTrade ReviewDanius's historical analysis of the complex relationship of technology to literary/aesthetic modernism (emphasizing the years 1880-1930) provides a new and challenging view of high classical modernism.... Danius bases her observations and conclusions on a solid survey of past critical thought; 37 pages of detailed notes and a 13-page index make the study especially useful for advanced scholars. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *In this book, Sara Danius examines the ways that new technologies influenced the arts of classic modernism from 1880 to 1930, with a concentration on high modernism, in the 1920s.... I found the book intriguing and fascinating. It is certainly an important contribution to our understanding of the intersection of perception and technology, and provides important insights about the role that technology can play in the arts. -- George K. Shortess, Lehigh University * Leonardo *The central aim of this accomplished and lucid study is to dispel the notion that perception in modernist texts can be seen as a flight from the world of modernity and technology into subjectivity and particularity.... Danius's assertion that the senses become technologically mediated in modernity is supported by discussions of visual theory as it is implicit in various optical devices, in Sander's photo-archive, Marey's work, and the conceptualization of cinema in Vertov and others. -- Tim Armstrong, University of London * Modernism/modernity *In her persuasive, well-written exploration of technology's essential yet underestimated role in high modernism, Danius establishes a vivid picture of the modernist landscape as one where technologically enhanced means of perception became a prominent component of the aesthetic discourse.... Danius's ability to utilize a wide body of theory and to draw adeptly on examples from film, painting, and photography to support her close readings of three pioneering modernist novels makes this a provocative, rewarding study from a variety of vantage points. -- Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *Overall, this is a challenging and rewarding analysis by a literary scholar who is deeply immersed in the aesthetic categories of High Modernism. It may be well to note that she is interested in technologies such as X-rays not as artifacts but insofar as they affect the perceptual apparatus of the modern subject. -- Barry Katz, California College of the Arts * Technology and Culture *
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Cornell University Press The Invention of Native American Literature
Book SynopsisIn an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John...Trade ReviewThe Invention of Native American Literature seeks to redirect the current theoretical and thematic foci of Native American literary studies away from the essentialist, authoritative directions of the canonical past into a more postmodern understanding of the field and its relationship to international literary studies. It is a compelling, original, meticulously researched, and strikingly honest text, and I would recommend it to anyone working in the field.... Parker's text is also valuable for its emphasis on the works of a diverse range of Native writers, including Great Plains authors John Joseph Matthews and D'Arcy McNickle, as well as Ray A. Young Bear, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Thomas King. -- Lori Burlingame * Great Plains Quarterly *This clearly written and informative critique is strongly recommended for all academic and large public libraries and for public libraries with Native American literature collections. * Library Journal *
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Cornell University Press Colonial Odysseys Empire and Epic in the
Book SynopsisThis elegantly written and powerfully argued book focuses on narratives published in English between 1890 and 1940 in which protagonists journey from the familiar world of Europe to alien colonial worlds.Trade ReviewColonial Odysseys makes a genuine and welcome contribution to the study of modernism and colonial history. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *Adam's book is particularly ambitious because it effectively fuses two projects: in addition to an analysis of the British modernists' representations of colonial exploration, it also places these same fictions... within the tradition of the classical epic journey.... Adam's dual focus, which keeps in its sights both the classical literary tradition and the global political scene, does not in the least blur his vision, but indeed allows him to look beyond familiar assessments of both travel writing's cultural function and of modernism's Greco-Roman turn. * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *Adams provides a good account of how such modernist fiction differs from popular Victorian novels of empire, which lack a similar tension between realism and symbolism. Though thematic concerns predominate. Conrad's language receives considerable attention, as do Woolf's travels to Greece and study of its ancient language.... Besides critics and scholars of literature, philosophers, and theologians will find this study rewarding.... Recommended. * Choice *Adams, of course, is not unique in recognizing a sense of weariness and despair in Nostromo, but his explanation for it is, and so is his discussion of Conrad's philosophy in relation to that of Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, and even Slavoj Zizek. * Twentieth-Century Literature *
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Cornell University Press Flesh to Metal
Book Synopsis"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good—or very bad—has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total...Trade ReviewHellebust surveys the USSR's obsessive images involving transformation of humans into metal and machines.... Hellebust's discussion of the 1960s 'scientific-technological revolution' is particularly welcome, since very few Western scholars address this topic.... Hellebust's style is unusually lively and engaging, complementing sound research and a sophisticated theoretical framework. The volume contains several illustrations and an impressive bibliography and endnotes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections and levels. * Choice *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Posttraumatic Culture
Book SynopsisIn their dependence on late-Victorian models, the cultural narratives of 1990s America imply a crisis of storylessnessdeeply implicated in the sense of injury that haunts the close of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Trauma as Interpretation of InjuryPart I: The Sorrows of the Gay NinetiesChapter 1. Traumatic HeroismChapter 2. Empty Treasure: Sherlock Holmes in ShockChapter 3. Post-Traumatic Mourning: Rider Haggard in the Underworld Chapter 4. Traumatic Prophecy: H.G.Wells at the End of TimeChapter 5. Post-Traumatic Style: Oscar Wilde in PrisonPart II: Trauma as Story in the 1990sChapter 6. Thinking Through Others: Prosthetic Fantasy and TraumaChapter 7. Abuse as a Prosthetic SystemChapter 8. Traumatic Triumph in a Black ChildhoodChapter 9. Traumatic Economies in Schindler's ListChapter 10. Traumatic Romance / Romantic TraumaChapter 11. Berserk in BabylonChapter 12. Amok at the ApocalypseEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Power of Contestation Perspectives on Maurice
Book SynopsisBruns, University of Notre Dame; Leslie Hill, University of Warwick; Michael Holland, St Hugh's College, Oxford; Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, University of Strasbourg; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp; Jill Robbins, Emory University, and the editors.Trade ReviewHart and Hartman asked eight scholars to focus on forms of 'contestation' in Blanchot's work as philosopher-novelist. The result is a surprising revelation of how important this notion was to Blanchot throughout his long life. Choice 2005 Impressive, inspiring, and a pleasure to read. -- Martin Crowley French Studies 2007Table of ContentsAchkonwledgmentsIntroduction1. An Event without Witness: Contestation between Blanchot and Bataille2. Maurice Blanchot: The Spirit of Language after the Holocaust3. Responding to the Infinity between Us: Blanchot reading Levinas in L'entretien infini4. Two Sirens Singing: Literature as Contestation in Maurice Blanchot and Theodor W. Adorno5. A Fragmentary Demand6. Anarchic Temporality: Writing, Friendship, and the Ontology of the Work of Art in Maurice Blanchot's Poetics7. The Contestation of Death8. The COunter-spirital LifeNotesContributorsIndex of NamesIndex of Topics
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Johns Hopkins University Press French Writers and the Politics of Complicity
Book SynopsisConsidered together, these six intellectuals serve as sobering reminders that political commitments are never as simple or straightforward as they seem and that admirable motives for political involvement can have dangerous and destructive consequences in historical practice.Trade ReviewGolsan provides crucial lessons on both the necessity and the dangers of political action. Choice 2006 His intellectual honesty, scrupulous commitment to critical fairness, and determination 'to avoid the twin dangers of demonization and apology' places him at the antipodes of the partisan ideologues whose blindness and complicity with evil he documents in a dispassionate, elegant, and compelling voice. H-France 2007 Golsan's fine essays are a window into twentieth-century French intellectual life. -- Donald Reid International History Review 2007 Golsan's ideas are closely argued throughout and cast interesting new light. -- Angela Kimyongur Modern Language Review 2007 An intriguing contribution to the ongoing debates on the past and the present state of the French Republic of Letters. -- Thomas Nolden Shofar 2007 A thought provoking and well-researched new book... Will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, especially those interested in the major currents of French intellectual history. -- Andrew Sobanet Substance 2009
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Johns Hopkins University Press Muriel Spark TwentyFirstCentury Perspectives A
Book SynopsisA resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark's oeuvre while featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts.Trade Review"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years." - Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh"Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Part I: Spark as Scottish and World AuthorChapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish IdentityChapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New YorkerPart II: Situating Spark in Postwar CultureChapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and PsychosisChapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of TreasonChapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of SuspicionChapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the ObjectPart III: Reading SparkChapter 7. The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic GagChapter 8. "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's SeatChapter 9. "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento MoriChapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with IntentAppendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel SparkContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Secret Histories Reading TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisAnd discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.Trade ReviewA useful introduction to a broad canon of 20th-century authors, this book touches on important issues in literary-historical scholarship and uses clear, conversational language deliberately devoid of jargon; a distinctive feature of the discussion is Wyatt's pointed use of a first-person personal voice that blends his autobiographical insights with his critical readings... Highly recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsTo the ReaderAcknowledments1. The Body and the Corporation2. Double Consciousness3. Pioneering Women4. Performing Maleness5. Colored Me6. The Rumor of Race7. The Depression8. The Second World War9. Civil Rights10. Love and Separateness11. Revolt and Reaction12. The Postmodern13. Studying War14. Slavery and Memory15. Pa Not Pa16. After InnocenceA Personal NoteNotesWorks CitedIndex
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University of Toronto Press E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake
Book SynopsisThe first complete collection of all of E. Pauline Johnson's known poems, many painstakingly culled from newspapers, magazines, and archives, along with a selection of her prose, including fiction, journalism, and discussions of gender and race.
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University of Toronto Press Constance Lindsay Skinner
Book SynopsisBorn in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, Constance Lindsay Skinner died in New York City in 1939, a successful and prolific writer. In contrast to her reputation in the United States, she remains virtually unknown in the country of her birth.
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University of Toronto Press Fitting Sentences Identity in Nineteenth and
Book SynopsisBy analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Opening Statements Part One: The Carceral Society *'They locked the door on my meditations': Thoreau, Society, and the Prison House of Identity *'Cast of Characters': Problems of Identity and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Part Two: Writing Wrongs *'To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law': The Paradox of the Individual in De Profundis * Positioning Discourse: Martin Luther King Jr's 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail' Part Three: Prisons, Privilege, and Complicity * Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege * Frustrating Complicity in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist Closing Statements / Opening Arguments Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press A Bibliography of Robertson Davies
Book SynopsisUsing Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history scholars.Table of ContentsChronology Introduction: Scope and Arrangement of the Bibliography; Descriptive Elements; Sources Consulted; Index Location Symbols Acknowledgments Illustrations A Section: Separate Publications Shakespeare's Boy Actors. 1939 Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course. 1942 How Stupid Is Canada? 1946 The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. 1947 Overlaid: A Comedy. 1948 Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. 1949 Fortune, My Foe. 1949 The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. 1949 At My Heart's Core. 1950 Tempest-Tost. 1951 A Masque of Aesop. 1952 Leaven of Malice. 1954 A Jig for the Gypsy. [1955] A Mixture of Frailties. 1958 Battle Cry for Book Lovers. 1960 A Voice from the Attic. 1960 Literature in Medicine. 1962 A Masque of Mr Punch. 1963 In Memoriam Lionel Vincent Massey 1916-1965. 1965 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1965 A21 Massey College Calendar 1966-1967. 1966 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1966 At My Heart's Core & Overlaid. 1966 Massey College Calendar 1967-1968. 1967 Marchbanks' Almanack. 1967 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1967 Massey College Head Remembers Vincent Massey. 1968 In Memoriam The Right Honourable Vincent Massey 1887-1967. [1968] The Voice of the People. 1968 Four Favourite Plays. 1968 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1968 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1969 Stephen Leacock. 1970 [Citation of Dora Mavor Moore for Honorary Degree]. 1970 Feast of Stephen. 1970 The Other Leacock [program poster]. 1970 The McFiggin Fragment. 1970 Fifth Business. 1970 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1970 The Heart of a Merry Christmas. 1970 What Do You See in the Mirror? 1970 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1971 Hunting Stuart & Other Plays. 1972 The Manticore. 1972 An Evening with Ben Jonson [program poster]. 1972 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1972 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1973 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1974 Question Time. 1975 World of Wonders. 1975 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1975 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1976 One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics. 1977 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1977 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1978 The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies. 1979 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1979 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1980 The Well-Tempered Critic. 1981 The Penguin Leacock. 1981 Brothers in the Black Art. 1981 The Rebel Angels. 1981 On Being a Professional. 1981 High Spirits. 1982 Thirty Years at Stratford. [1983] The Mirror of Nature. 1983 The Deptford Trilogy. 1983 Introduction to The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985 What's Bred in the Bone. 1985 The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985 The Salterton Trilogy. 1986 The Lyre of Orpheus. 1988 [Folio Society promotional leaflet. 1990?] Opera and Humour. 1991 Murther & Walking Spirits. 1991 The Cornish Trilogy. [1992] Reading and Writing. 1993 An Introduction to the Twenty-First Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair. 1993 Jezebel: The Golden Tale of Naboth and His Vineyard, and of King Ahab and His Wicked Queen. 1993 Revelation from a Smoky Fire. 1993 Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography. 1993 Two Plays: Fortune, My Foe & Eros at Breakfast. 1993 A Return to Rhetoric. 1993 The Cunning Man. 1994 Two Plays: Hunting Stuart & The Voice of the People. 1994 The Dignity of Literature. 1994 A Christmas Carol Re-Harmonized. 1995 A Gathering of Ghost Stories. 1995 Animal U. 1995 The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995. 1996 Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts. 1997 The Golden Ass, a Libretto. 1999 For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995. 1999 Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975. 2002 The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master. 2005 Selected Plays. 2008 Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading. 2008 Selected Works on the Art of Writing. 2008 B Section: Contributions to Books "Diary of Christmas Excitement" in Souvenir Edition Examiner for the Annual Christmas Party 1945. 1945 "The Theatre: A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada" in Royal Commission Studies. 1951. Preface, "The Director," and "The Players" in Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada 1953. 1953 Statement for playbill A Jig for a Gypsy. 1954 Preface, "Rehearsal-A Study in Rhythm," "The Taming of the Shrew," "Measure for Measure," and "Oedipus Rex" in Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954. 1954 Introduction to B.K. Sandwell's The Diversions of Duchesstown and Other Essays. 1955. Preface, "Julius Caesar," "King Oedipus," "Merchant of Venice," and "A Note on Style in Acting" in Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1955. 1955 "Sherry Trifle" in We Can Cook Too! Recipes Hot Off the Press. 1956 "Stephen Leacock" in Claude T. Bissell, ed., Our Living Tradition: Seven Canadians. 1957 Introduction to Stephen Leacock's Literary Lapses. 1958 "Shakespeare Over Port" in B.A.W. Jackson's Stratford Papers on Shakespeare. 1961 "The Theatre" in D.C. Williams's The Arts as Communication. 1962 "Changing Fashions in Shakespearian Production" in B.A.W. Jackson's Stratford Papers on Shakespeare. 1963 Testimonial letter in Lulie Westfeldt's F. Matthias Alexander: The Man and His Work. 1964 Introduction to Stephen Leacock's Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy. 1964 "Stephen Leacock" in Encyclopedia Americana. 1964 "The Implacable Educator" in Great Canadians, A Century of Achievement. 1965 Introduction to Horton Rhys's A Theatrical Trip for a Wager! Through Canada and the United States. 1966 Preface to Ronald Borg's Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters. 1966 The Centennial Play. 1967 The Centennial Play program. 1967 Program note for the play Caste, Hart House Theatre. 1967 "Letters: The Unfashionable Canadians" in John D. Harbron's Century 1867-1967: The Canadian Saga. 1967. "Note on A Midsummer's Night's Dream" in Peter Raby's The Stratford Scene, 1958-1968. 1968 "Some Reminiscences of W.L. Grant" in The W.L. Grant Fellowship in Adult Education. 1969 "Ben Johnson and Alchemy" in B.A.W. Jackson's Stratford Papers 1968-69. 1972 Foreword to Betty Lee's Love and Whisky: The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival. 1973 "III Playwrights and Plays" in vol. VI of The Revels History of Drama in English. 1975 Autobiographical essay in World Authors 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors. 1975 Preface to Abraham Rotstein's Beyond Industrial Growth. 1976 "Massey College" in William Kilbourn's The Toronto Book: An Anthology of Writings Past and Present. 1976 Statement in advertisement flyer, Masks of Satan. 1976 Program note to the MacMillan Theatre's production of "Pontiac and the Green Man." 1977 Chapter Three, "Robertson Davies," in Geraldine Anthony's Stage Voices: Twelve Canadian Playwrights Talk about Their Lives and Work. 1978 "A Note on 'Overlaid'" in Transitions I: Short Plays, A Source Book of Canadian Literature. 1978 Tribute in The Pierre Berton Celebration Dinner. 1979 "The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect" in Studies in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. 1980 Introduction to "Hope Deferred" in Anton Wagner's Canada's Lost Plays, vol. 3, The Developing Mosaic: English-Canadian Drama to Mid-Century. 1980 Introduction to Arnold Edinborough's The Festivals of Canada. 1981 "Mixed Grill: Touring Fare in Canada, 1920-1935" in L.W. Conolly's Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America. 1982 "What the Opera Is About" in Doctor Canon's Cure, theatre programme. 1982 Foreword to Richard Perkyns's Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984. 1984 Introduction to John Cowper Powys's Wolf Solent. 1984 Introduction to Graham McInnes's The Road to Gundagai. 1985 Foreword to vol. 1 of John Pettigrew and Jamie Portman's Stratford: The First Thirty Years. 1985 "What Is Canadian about Canadian Literature" in Franz K. Stanzel and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz's Encounters and Explorations: Canadian Writers and European Critics. 1986 Letter to Nicholas Goldschmidt in The Peeled Eye: An Author in Canada, Guelph Spring Festival programme. 1986 "The Novel as Secular Religion" in The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 8. 1987. Introduction to Robert Finch's Sail-Boat and Lake. 1988 "Massey, Vincent" and "Massey, Raymond Hart" in Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly's The Oxford Companion to Canadian Drama and Theatre. 1989 "The Only Creatures in All of Nature Who Sing Are Birds and Mankind" in The Joy of Singing: 1989 International Choral Festival. 1989 Introduction to Francis Thistleton's How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona. 1989 Statement in Edward Arlington Robinson. 1990 "A Chat about Literacy" in More Than Words Can Say: Personal Perspectives on Literacy. 1990 "On Macbeth" for the Stratford Festival Theatre programme of Macbeth. 1990 "Heartcry of an Over-Solicited Donor" in Margaret Atwood's Barbed Lyres: Canadian Venomous Verse. 1990 "On the Dangerous Edge" in Clifton Fadiman's Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women of Our Time. 1990 Chapter 4, "The Nineteenth-Century Repertoire" in Ann Saddlemyer's Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914. 1990 "Robertson Davies" in Christopher Bigsby's Arthur Miller and Company. 1990 Introduction to Dorothy Sennett's Vital Signs: International Stories on Aging. 1991 "Reading and Writing" in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. 1992 "Reflections from the Golden Age" in The Greek Miracle Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy. 1992 "A Birthday Brindisi" in Red Jade Cups: John Espey at Eighty. 1993 "The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture" in An Emerging North American Culture. 1993 "A Try for Greatness" in Clare Boylan's The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored. 1993 Introduction to Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right. 1994 "Tanya Moiseiwitsch: An Appreciation" in T.J. Edelstein's The Stage Is All the World: The Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch. 1994 Tribute to Nicholas Goldschmidt in A Night in Old Vienna. 1994 "Getting There" in Constance Rooke's Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. 1994 "Leacock Stephen (1869-1944)" in Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly's Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 1994 Introduction to Marie Elena Korey's Elegant Editions: Aspects of Victorian Book Design. 1995 Untitled tribute to Robert Christie in Five Fond Tributes to Robert Christie. 1995. Introduction to Mabel Smith, Dick Beck, and Beth McMaster's Peterborough Theatre Guild: The First Thirty Years. 1995 Afterword to Mavis Gallant's Across the Bridge. 1996 Foreword to Jerry Sontag's Curiosity Recaptured: Exploring Ways We Think and Move. 1996 Libretto to The Golden Ass: A Two Act Opera. 1999 "Irving, Sir Henry" in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 29. 2004 "Summers, (Augustus) Montague" in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 53. 2004 C Section: Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Journals, Magazines, and Annuals) 1923-1939 1940-1944 1945-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-2004 D Section: Reports of Speeches, Lectures, and Public Presentations E Section: Speeches and Lectures Given F Section: Interviews G Section: Unsigned Articles and Editorials H Section: Translations (organized under each language) I Section: Films, Recordings by Davies, Audio Books, and Braille J Section: Contributions in Articles and Books by Others Index
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University of Toronto Press As for Sinclair Ross
Book SynopsisSinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as The Lamp at Noon and The Painted Door, is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the Prairies during the Great Depression, Ross nevertheless received only modest attention from the public during his lifetime. His reluctance to give readings or interviews further contributed to this faint public perception of the man. In As for Sinclair Ross, David Stouck tells the story of a lonely childhood in rural Saskatchewan, of a long and unrewarding career in a bank, and of many failed attempts to be published and to find an audience. The book also tells the story of a man who fell in love with both men and women and who wrote from a position outside any single definition of gender and sexuality. Stouck''s biography draws on archival records and on insights gathered duriTrade Review"'As for Sinclair Ross is one of the most companionable biographies I have ever read: a loving friend talks articulately and meaningfully about the long life of one of Canada's most important writers. The painstaking research, not just in archives, but most especially in interviews, is outstanding, but the strength of the book is in its warmth, its attention to detail, and the ways Stouck reads the biography into the literature. This is a wonderful, must-have work.' Frances Kaye, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln"
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University of Toronto Press Inventing Sam Slick
Book SynopsisThomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada''s best-known authors. His popular ''Sam Slick the Clockmaker'' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States.Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton''s own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however,
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University of Toronto Press The Vast Design
Book SynopsisIn recent years Yeats has been receiving a great deal of critical attention from many aspects. Professor Engelberg here makes a distinctive contribution to the new studies by bringing under discussion the kind of aesthetic views developed by Yeats in order to rationalize his own practice as poet and dramatist. Yeats was pragmatic in his approach and therefore not concerned about formulating a tight critical theory. Recognizing this, the author at the same time skilfully guides the reader through the opinions expressed in the critical essays to meaningful patterns and shows how Yeats's aesthetic views developed, often in relation to his study of Balzac, Blake, Spenser, Shelley, Morris, and the Irish theatre of his own day. Throughout the stress is fittingly on the originality of Yeats, and the reader will be impressed always with his great critical perceptiveness.
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University of Toronto Press The Borders of Nightmare
Book SynopsisJohn Richardson was Canada's first native-born poet-novelist and 'The Father of Canadian Literature.' Michael Hurley offers the first detailed account of Richardson's fiction rather than of his life or sociological importance.Hurley makes a convincing case for Richardson as an important early cartographer of the Canadian imagination and the originator of 'Southern Ontario Gothic.' He explores Richardson's influence on James Reaney, Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Christopher Dewdney, Frank Davey, and Marian Engel.Arguing that Wacousta and The Canadian Brothers hold central places in our literature, Hurley shows how these two works established a set of boundaries that our national literary discourse has largely kept hidden. Focusing on the protean concept of the border in the fiction of this man from the periphery, The Borders of Nightmare underlines the importance of boundaries, margins, shifting edges, and the coincidence of equally matched opposites in necessary balan
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University of Toronto Press E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake
Book SynopsisThe first complete collection of all of E. Pauline Johnson's known poems, many painstakingly culled from newspapers, magazines, and archives, along with a selection of her prose, including fiction, journalism, and discussions of gender and race.
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University of Toronto Press Ethel Wilson
Book SynopsisEthel Wilson: A Critical Biography is the story of a distinguished writer whose works are rightly considered classics of Canadian literature.
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University of Toronto Press Joyces Mistakes
Book SynopsisJames Joyce has written that ''the man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are the portals of discovery.'' In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an ''error'' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an ''aesthetic of error'' permeates Joyce''s literary productions; readers and criticism of Joyce''s texts are inevitably affected by a slippery dialectic between the possibility of mistake and the potential for irony.Outlining modernism''s struggle with textual authority and completion, Conley locates Joyce among his literary contemporaries, including Herman Melville, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and Marcel Proust. He finds that Joyce''s reconfigurations of authorial presence and his error-generating methods problematize all attempts to edit, anthologize, and even quote or cite his texts. Yet Conley goes well beyond catalog
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