Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
University of Toronto Press The Idea of a Colony
Book SynopsisTo the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Spell of Far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East 2 The Ends of the Earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan 3 The Exotic Transgressions of'Laurence Hope' 4 Everybody's Anima: Sarojini Naidu as Nightingale and Nationalist 5 The Tagore Era 6 The Childhood That Never Was: Rupert Brooke's Primitive Paradise 7 The Infant Gargantua on the Wet, Black Bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese Object Relations 8 The Red Man in the Drawing Room: T.S. Eliot and the Nativists 9 The Last Nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the Shadow of the Other 10 Forgotten Jungle Songs: Ambivalent Primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance Notes Index
£47.70
University of Toronto Press Bernard Shaw and the BBC
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive archival materials held in England, the United States, and Canada, Bernard Shaw and the BBC presents a vivid portrait of many contentious issues negotiated between Shaw and the public broadcaster.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments A Chronology of Bernard Shaw and the BBC Abbreviations In the Beginning, 1923–1928 Saint Joan, 1929 ‘Saying Nice Things Is Not My Business’: Shaw Talks, 1929–1937 4 ‘Radiogenic Shaw’: Broadcast Plays, 1929–1939 ‘GBS Has Been Very Kindly Disposed’: Pre-War Television ‘I Won’t Have That Man on the Air’: The War Years Television Returns, 1946–1950 Radio Finale, 1945–1950 Epilogue Appendix 1 Shaw’s Broadcast Plays and Talks, 1923–1950 Appendix 2 Texts of Selected Shaw Broadcasts Appendix 3 German Wartime Propaganda Broadcasts about Shaw, 1940 Appendix 4 BBC Obituaries of Shaw Notes
£36.90
University of Toronto Press The Writing in the Stars
Book SynopsisBorn in Mexico City in 1914, writer, poet, and diplomat Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, eight years before his death in 1998. The Writing in the Stars explores Paz''s life and ideas by establishing a dialogue between the structure and recurring images of his major poems and the ideas of Carl Jung.Although other literary critics have pointed to Jungian concepts in Paz, a comprehensive study on the subject has yet to be undertaken. Rodney Williamson takes up this challenge, adopting a Jungian perspective to explore successive phases of Paz''s poetry. Williamson illustrates how archetypal images infuse Paz''s early poetry and his surrealist period and shows how the circular structure of Paz''s longer poems, such as ''Piedra de sol'' and ''Blanco,'' are based on the Eastern sacred circle or mandala, a major archetype of psychic wholeness in Jung. He argues that a grasp of the psychological importance of Jung''s archetypes is essential to understanTable of ContentsPreludePhase One Libertad bajo palabra: The Dialogue with the OtherPhase Two Piedra de sol : The Birth of Ego Consciousness and the Search for SelfPhase Three Blanco: Mandala and the Ritual of MeaningPhase Four Vuelta, Nocturno de San Ildefonso, and Pasado en claro : The Circular Journey and Return to the SourcePhase Five Carta de creencia : The Human CoupleConclusions: A Handful of WordsNotes References Index
£45.00
University of Toronto Press The Invention of Modern Italian Literature
Book SynopsisAs an investigation of new expressive processes and stylistic experiences, The Invention of Modern Italian Literature situates prominent Italian writers within the context of modern literature.
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MY - University of Toronto Press The Invention of Modern Italian Literature
Book SynopsisDespite its undeniable impact on modern literature, there are very few comprehensive studies of literary works produced in Italy from the end of the eighteenth- to the twentieth century. The Invention of Modern Italian Literature examines the methods of select Italian writers and considers their impact on the literary world. Touching upon some of the most prominent and influential writers in Italy over the last three hundred years, Gino Tellini looks at the unique creative processes of each, as well as at the dominant trends that have come to characterize modern Italian literature.Examining different genres such as autobiography, letters, poetry, and the novel, this study stresses the ways in which Italian writers achieved a hybrid of various styles of writing. This cross-genre approach had a significant influence on writers around the world and has come to be one of the defining characteristics of modern literature. Among specific writers and works dealt with are Vittorio
£999.99
MY - University of Toronto Press Arduous Tasks
Book SynopsisIn Arduous Tasks, Lina N. Insana demonstrates how translation functions as a metaphor for the transmission of Holocaust testimony and broadens the parameters of survivor testimony.Trade Review'Insana's book provides a brilliant and exceptionally well-researched set of case studies that take up Levi's preoccupation with translation throughout the arc of his career as a writer and his concern that, as a translator, he was making himself and the world more vulnerable to further violence.' -- Michael Bernard-Donals: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol 25:01:2011 'The book is well argued and offers new perspectives on Levi's literary writing as a survivor of and witness of the Holocaust... Arduous Task provides translators and scholars of translation studies alike with novel insights in the two-way transformation that takes place any time interpretation of the other is complicated by experiential or textual traumas.' -- Valerio Ferme Italian Culture - vol 32:01:2014
£61.20
Ohio University Press Praising It New
Book SynopsisMarked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached frombiographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was thedominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since thattime, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition tothe approach advocated by the New Critics.Trade Review“Given our long-term disregard of the New Criticism, Davis‘s compendium is especially welcome.... Davis provides richly informative, well-argued, and elegantly styled introductions, head-notes, and annotations, as well as discriminating suggestions for further reading.” * Virginia Quarterly Review *“In Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism, Garrick Davis offers poets and students an exceptionally well chosen selection from the theoretical essays of the New Criticism in hopes that it will remain an available influence. They are far more interesting than such essays generally tend to be—a strength of the best of the New Critics and one that will continue to serve them well with both an academic and a general audience.” * Eclectica Magazine *“This anthology is both important and necessary. No other collection gives us such an excellent opportunity to go back to the New Criticism and see it again, as if for the first time.” * Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing *“Just how seriously the New Critics took poetry, and how much subtlety and conviction they brought to reading it, can be seen on every page of Praising It New, an excellent new anthology of the New Criticism edited by Garrick Davis.” * The New York Sun *“It is clear from reading the lapidary works in Praising It New that the New Critics were not stern moralists upholding rigid orthodoxies, as their opponents imply. Like other critics of the period -- not least Trilling and Wilson -- they saw poems and novels opening out into life in all its variety, nuance and incompleteness.” * The Wall Street Journal *“The essays in Praising It New still carry a potent charge for anyone interested in what makes the best poems tick. Davis has performed a service to readers (often in the face of recalcitrant publishers unwilling to make works available for reprint at reasonable rates), and the book will be of particular interest to poets and students of poetry. Whether or not teachers will have the good sense to assign it remains to be seen.”“Davis’s notes are excellent: how charming to be told that, as a young instructor, Jarrell coached the tennis team at Kenyon.” * ZYZZYVASPEAKS blog *
£18.89
Ohio University Press Writing an Icon
Book SynopsisBefore Madonna and her many imitators, there was Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur. Jarczok reveals how Nin crafted her personae, which she rewrote and restyled to suit her needs, and how she occupied a singular space in 20th-century culture, as a literary figure, a voice of female sexual liberation, and a celebrity.Trade Review“Jarczok brings Nin scholarship well into the twenty-first century, where it deserves to be.”“[Insightfully explores] questions of [Nin's] self-invention and reception.” * Public Books *“Anita Jarczok is an adept guide for the reconsideration of Nin, neither diminishing nor overinflating her subject.…Taking up the perception of Nin as ‘a devious manipulator, a liar, and a master of self-promotion,’ Jarczok examines the ways in which Nin cultivated her image…However, Jarczok also asks: why shouldn’t Nin have been ambitious?” * Times Higher Education *“[The book] is particularly well executed when it comes to parsing Nin’s reviews, her self-construction via her diaries and public appearances. Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin serves as a good reference guide to Nin’s career and reception history and it goes a long way toward explaining the checkered nature of both.” * Contemporary Women‘s Writing *
£21.59
Ohio University Press A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout
Book SynopsisIn this first study of novelist Elizabeth Strout's best-selling works, Katherine Montwieler reveals how Strout's voice, characters, and themes generate a powerful empathic response among mainstream readersmostly womenthat elite scholars undervalue at their own peril. This accessible companion also includes an exclusive interview with Strout.Trade Review“Companion is the appropriate word for Katherine Montwieler’s study of the works of Elizabeth Strout. With her careful analysis and gentle invitation to notice, among other things, the ‘quiet kindnesses, unexpected acts of grace’ of Strout’s characters, the author makes space in this book for enthusiastic readers, fans, and scholars alike to honor Strout’s stories and their centrality to our contemporary literary landscape."
£40.50
Stanford University Press The Cave and the Mountain
Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.
£77.35
Stanford University Press The Excesses of God
Book SynopsisAn event of rare literary distinction, this book records the conjunction between two distinguished American poets, illuminating not only their work and their connection but also the deep strain of pantheistic mysticism in the American tradition.Table of ContentsForeword Albert Gelpi; Preface; Introduction; 1. All flesh is grass; 2. The wine cup of this fury; 3. And after the fire a still small voice; 4. The horseleech hath two daughters; Conclusion; 'The poet is dead'; Notes; Index.
£48.60
Stanford University Press Abolishing Death
Book SynopsisThe idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a "life-modeling" function to art. The author finds the seeds of this extraordinary concept in the erosion of traditional religion in late-nineteenth-century Russia.Trade Review"Strongly recommended ... It is learned without being in the least pedantic, thoughtful without being ponderous, original without posturing or effortful self-display. The topic has never been treated in extenso before, yet it is very important to a full understanding of Russian literature of the early decades of this century. The book is so fascinating and so enjoyable to read that it may well develop a wider readership beyond specialists." -Hugh McLeanUniversity of California, Berkeley
£63.00
Stanford University Press The Shock of Men Homosexual Hermeneutics in
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the complex relations between narrative, theory, interpretation and homosexuality in the work of Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Michel Tournier and Renaud Camus.Table of ContentsIntroduction: from Gide to Foucalt; 1. Interpreting Proustian interpretation; 2. Barthes: writing desire or desiring writing; 3. Renaud Camus: Paris/Rome: 4. Tournier's double discourses; Bibliography; Index.
£52.20
Stanford University Press The Work of Fire Meridian Crossing Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis is a a collection of essays by Maurice Blanchot, a key figure in the exploration of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Recurring themes in the essays include:the relation of literature and language to death and the historical, personal, and social function of literature.Trade Review"A signal event for literary and cultural studies in the English-speaking world. As crucial essays on individual authors, as a major work of literary theory, as an important means of access to the 1940s in French culture, as an exemplary work combining reading and theory—it is of great importance to us today."—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine"This collection of essays and reviews from the 1940s is about the 'fiery part' of literary language that burns through the aesthetic illusions and the easy referentiality of everyday language. . . . This collection is indepensable to any attempt to understand the years between Heidegger/Benjamin and Derrida/Man."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContents
£25.19
Stanford University Press Modern Chinese Literary Thought Writings on
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China.Trade Review"This volume may be recommended as a comprehensive collection that helps readers understand the important cultural context of the liteary texts produced in China in the first half of the 20th century. The 32 translators have produced smooth and accurate rendering of 55 essays, most of which are here anthologized for the first time in English." -- ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface; General Introduction Kirk A. Denton; Part I. The Late Quing Period 1893-1911: 1. Introduction; 2. Preface to Poems from the Hut in the Human World Huang Zunixian; 3. Foreword to the publication of political novels in translation Liang Qichao; 4. On the relationship between fiction and the government of the people Liang Qichao; 5. Preface to Oliver Twist Lin Shu; 6. Preface to part one of David Copperfield Lin Shu; 7. Miscellaneous notes on literature (excerpts) Liu Shipei; 8. Incidental remarks on literature Wang Guowei; 9. On the power of Mara poetry Lu Xun; Part II. The May Fourth Period 1915-1925: 10. Introduction; 11. Some modest proposals for the reform of literature Hu Shi; 12. On literary revolution Chen Duxiu; 13. Nightmare Lin Shu; 14. Humane literature Zhuo Zuoren; 15. On the literary arts (excerpts) Ye Shengtao; 16. Art and life Xu Zhimo; 17. Replacing religion with aesthetic education Cai Yuanpei; 18. Literature and life Mao Dun; 19. On photography Lu Xun; 20. Preface to The Sorrows of Young Werther Guo Moruo; 21. Fusing with nature Liang Shiqiu; 22. A critique of the new culturists Mei Guangdi; 23. Women and literature Zhou Zuoren; 24. On 'literary criticism' Bing Zin; 25. My opinions on creativity Lu Yin; 26. Preface to Call to Arms Lu Xun; 27. Remarks on the publication of Saturday Wang Dungen; 28. Congratulations to Happy Magazine Zhou Shoujuan; 29. The mission of the new literature Cheng Fangwu; Part III. Revolutionary Literature 1923-1930: 30. Introduction; 31. Class struggle in literature Yu Dafu; 32. From a literary revolution to revolutionary literature Cheng Fangwu; 33. The bygone age of Ah Q Qian Zingcun; 34. On reading Ni Huanzhi Mao Dun; 35. Literature and revolution Liang Shiqiu; 36. Dai Wangshu's poetic literature Dai Wangshu; 37. Form in poetry Wen Yiduo; 38. The divergence of art and politics Lu Xun; 39. Thoughts on realism Zhou Yang; 40. Realism: a 'correction' Hu Feng; Part IV. The Debate on Literary Freedom1932-1935: 41. Introduction; 42. Do not encroach upon literary art Hu Qiuyuan; 43. Regarding the Literary News and Hu Qiuyuan's literary arguments Su Wen; 44. Freedom for literature but not the writer Qu Qiubai; 45. On the 'third category' Lu Xun; 46. Preface to Public Cemetery Mu Shiying; 47. A record of my own inspiration Li Jinfa; 48. Literature and life Zhu Guangquian; Part V. The Period of National Crisis 1936-1945: 49. Introduction; 50. On national defense literature Zhou Yang; 51. What do the broad masses demand of literature Hu Feng; 52. The question of popular literature and art Qu Qiubai; 53. Excerpts from Mao Zedong Mao Zedong; 54. Literature and art for the masses and the use of traditional forms Mao Dun; 55. My writing Zhang Ailing; 56. On writers Qian Zhongshu; 57. Universal or restricted? Shen Congwen; 58. We need the Zawen essay Ding Ling; 59. Talks at the Yan'an forum on literature and art Mao Zedong; 60. Realism today Hu Feng; Reference matter.
£40.50
Stanford University Press The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion
Book SynopsisThisis a series of meditations on the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing by one of the major voices in modern French poetry.Trade Review“Jabès explores a realm of subversiveness above suspicion, indeed a dialectic of subversion itself. Poised between the poetic and the aphoristic, Jabès’s new book calls into deep meditative question the easy, received notions of subversiveness which have become a sort of default mode for diligently dull academic scholars, and celebrates the energies of ever-freshened inquiry.”—John Hollander, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents
£18.04
Stanford University Press Parts of an Andrology On Representations of Mens
Book SynopsisIn studying the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representations of the female body, this book considers works by such authors as Poe, Maupassant, Moravia, Tournier, Roth, Guibert, and Foucault.Trade Review"This outstanding work is of vital importance to several related fields: sexuality studies (lesbian and gay), gender studies (masculinist and feminist), cultural studies, critical theory, and literary criticism. The scholarship is superb, as Schehr factors the entire oeuvres of the authors discussed as well as the author's critical receptions into his own discussions. He is, moreover, a cutting-edge literary theorist who happens to know his history (literary as well as political)-a rare combination." -Kevin Kopelson,University of IowaTable of Contents1. Introduction: on plemystography; 2. Designing men; 3. The writer's hand; 4. From liberation to AIDS; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£20.89
Stanford University Press Allegories of the Purge How Literature Responded
Book SynopsisThis book is about four writers—Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine—whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France.Trade Review"[Watts's] arguments are original, he takes risks, and the stakes are significant." -- South Central Review"Four authors—Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Eluard, Maurice Blanchot, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine—whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France are the subjects of this volume. . . . To understand their views on the trials, it is useful to read their texts as allegories of the purge. . . . The book won the Modern Language Association of America's 2000 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the best book in French and Francophone Literary Studies." -- CoastlinesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Literature on trial 2. Sartre: sentencing literature 3. Blanchot: rebuttals 4. Eluard: purging poetry 5. Ce;line: style wars 6. Ce;line: denying history Conclusion: the spirit of the trial Bibliography Index.
£21.59
Stanford University Press Love Marriage Death And Other Essays on
Book SynopsisA pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jew's body in 20th-century art and literature.Table of Contents1. Ethnicities: why I write what I write 2. Love + marriage = death: STDs and AIDS in the modern world 3. Max Nordau, Sigmund Freud, and the question of conversion 4. Salome, syphilis, Sarah Bernhardt and the 'modern Jewess' 5. Zwetschkenbaum's competence: madness and the discourse of the Jews 6. Otto Weininger and Sigmund Freud: race and gender in the shaping of psychoanalysis 7. Sibling incest, madness, and the Jews 8. R. B. Kitaj's 'good bad' diasporism and the body in American Jewish post-modern art 8. Who is Jewish? The newest Jewish writing in German and Daniel Goldhagen Notes Index.
£25.19
Stanford University Press Ideology Power Text Selfrepresentation and the
Book SynopsisIn the 20th century, Chinese elites viewed the division between intellectuals and peasants as a central concern of literature, and focused on the confrontation between the writer/intellectual self and the peasant "other." The author argues that in the process, they created the "peasantry," the downtrodden masses seen as proper objects of political action and shifting ideological agendas.
£60.30
Stanford University Press The Meridian
Book SynopsisThis is the definitive edition (including drafts, notes, and ancillary materials) of Paul Celan's Meridian, the most important poetological manifesto of the second half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"This translation of a critical edition represents, as Joris himself notes, an epic work. In minute detail it traces the origins and evolution of Celan's Meridian speech for an Anglophone readership, thus making Celan's text as close as possible to an 'original' work in a language other than the one in which it was conceived and published. The volume represents an important step in 'naturalizing' Celan into the English language and (almost) opening his creative process and universe to non-native speakers of German."—Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Journal of Austrian Studies"Over the last half century Paul Celan has emerged as the iconic poet of the postwar/post-Holocaust period—for some of us the greatest German-language poet of the twentieth century as a whole. To those for whom he has served as a guide or beacon, his Meridian speech from 1960 remains his most telling testament to the powers and problematics of poetry and art. Now, in this remarkable work of scholarship, a still greater body of poetics and poesis comes to light. Inaugurated by Bernhard Böschenstein and Heino Schmull, and carried over into English by poet and translator Pierre Joris, Celan's celebration of the uncanny and transitory appears along with its several early versions and with a range of source materials that make up a poetic collage, an implicit epic, in their own right. Those who know how to read it will find sustenance here for years to come."—Jerome Rothenberg"The Meridian speech is one of Paul Celan's key works. This meticulous, fascinating, and, finally, compelling edition begins by unlocking what seems to be the work's multifoliate nature. Ultimately, though, and with the help of Pierre Joris's eloquent translation, we discover that that under the many surfaces of this magisterial essay is an abyss of poetic thinking struggling to emerge into the light of our encounter."—Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania"It may seem quixotic to undertake a translation of all the notes and drafts leading up to The Meridian. However, with a poet of Celan's importance—a poet not given to writing statements at all and whose collected prose amounts to some 50 pages—just tracing the genesis of this major poetics statement would be worthwhile. But what we have here is more: it is a record of Celan's thinking. In other words, a treasure."—Rosmarie Waldrop
£22.79
Stanford University Press Literature of the Lost Home Kobayashi
Book SynopsisA collection of the most significant and enduring works of the most important Japanese literary critic of the 20th century. The selections reflect the wide range of Kobayashi's early work, from meditations on the nature of literature and of criticism to studies of individual Japanese and Western writers.Trade Review"Anderer has now given readers of English the opportunity to form their own conclusions [about Kobayashi, Japan's preeminent literary critic]. This is no mean feat . . . and for it he deserves much gratitude. . . . Given the difficulties of Kobayashi's style . . . translation is a paramount issue. Anderer has risen to the occasion admirably."—Monumenta Nipponica"By making these widely read and often quoted essays available in English, Anderer has provided a valuable service."—Japan QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents TRANSLATIONS
£18.89
Stanford University Press Celan Studies
Book SynopsisPeter Szondi''s Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book''s three studies each concentrate on a different Celan poem. The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan''s Translation of Shakespeare''s Sonnet 105 investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. Reading ''Engführung'' follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. Eden addresses Du liegst, a poem on the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when the poem was written. It analyzes the relation between the historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition. The book contains, as appendixes, Szondi''s notes for three more projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his death in 1971. Trade Review"The English translation of Szondi's seminal work constitutes an important landmark for Celan afficionados who are not proficient in the German language."—Bianca Rosenthal, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
£18.04
Stanford University Press Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow
Book SynopsisThis book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. It highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries inflicted by racism on men of colora language that relies on metaphors of emasculation. The book focuses on how homosexuality comes to function as a powerful symbol for a feminizing racism, and explains why this disturbing symbolism proves to be so rhetorically and emotionally effective. This study also explores the influential concept of literature that these writers promotea view of writing as a cultural and political activity capable of producing the most virile and racially authentic forms of manhood. In comparing African American and Asian American writings, this book offers the first scholarly account of how black and yellow conceptions of masculinity are constructed in relationTrade Review"Through the works of Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin, Kim examines cultural representations of African-American and Asian-American masculinity. He highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries inflicted on men of color and explains the ways that homosexuality comes to function as a powerful symbol for a feminizing racism." -- Reference & Research Book News"...A wonderful example of a book that seamlessly merges literary close readings, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural studies...Kim's work presents a more complicated picture of Afro-Asian relations that acknowledges the libratory potential and problematic rhetoric the two sometimes share." —Julia H. Lee, University of California, IrvineTable of Contents@fmct:Table of Contents @toc4:Preface iii @toc2:Introduction 1 Chapter One Invisible Desires: Homoerotic Racism and its Homophobic Critique in Invisible Man xxx Chapter Two Blueprints for Negro Manhood: Ellison and the Vernacular xxx Chapter Three The Legacy of Fu Manchu: Orientalist Desire and the Figure of the Asian "Homosexual xxx Chapter Four "Shells of the Dead": The Melancholy of Masculine Desire xxx Chapter Five The Fantasy of A Yellow Vernacular: Mimetic Hunger and The "Chameleon Chinaman" xxx Coda xxx @toc4:Notes Index
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Stanford University Press Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays that converges around the usually close and intense relationship between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, two of the most important and remarkable American poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This book examines the issues that drew Levertov and Duncan together, and split them apart.Trade Review"This book is a companion to Stanford University Press's The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, and will greatly amplify the value of The Letters. One of the truly impressive aspects of the present volume is the admirable even-handedness with which the two poets are treated. This volume does one complex thing and does it very well: it makes the conflict between Levertov and Duncan come alive in the fullness of its political and poetic implications. It also makes a signal contribution by engaging with the huge Duncan-Levertov correspondence and demonstrating what a rich treasure trove it is. This study will be the definitive treatment of a very significant controversy."—Stephen Fredman, University of Notre DameTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface iii @toc1:Part I @toc2:1 Decision at the Apogee: Robert Duncan's Anarchist Critique of Denise Levertov 0 @tau:Robert J. Bertholf @toc2:2 Robert Duncan and the Question of Law: Ernst Kantorowicz and the Poet's Two Bodies 00 @tau:Gra'a Caphina @toc2:3 Better to Stumble to It: The Start of Duncan's Letters: Poems 19531956 000 @tau:Devin Johnston @toc2:4 Visions of the Field in Poetry and Painting: Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and John Button 000 @tau:Donna Krolik Hollenberg @toc1:II @toc2:5 My Stories with Robert Duncan 000 @tau:Ellen Tallman @toc2:6 The People P***k: A Dialectical Tale 000 @tau:Aaron Shurin @toc2:7 The Hasid and the Kabbalist 000 @tau:John Felstiner @toc1:III @toc2:8 Chelsea 8: Political Poetry at Mid-Century 000 @tau:Brett Millier @toc2:9 Poetic Authority and the Public Sphere of Politics in the Activist 60s: The Duncan-Levertov Debate 000 @tau:Anne Dewey @toc2:10 Prophetic Frustrations: Robert Duncan's Tribunals 000 @tau:Peter O'Leary @toc2:11 Revolution or Death: Levertov's Poetry in Time of War 000 @tau:Jose Rodriguez Herrera @toc2:12 The Vision of a Burning Babe: Southwell, Levertov, and Duncan 000 @tau:Paul A. Lacey @toc2:13 Poetic Language and Language Poetry: Levertov, Duncan, Creeley 000 @tau:Albert Gelpi @toc4:List of Contributors 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Double Agency
Book SynopsisIn Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood.Trade Review"...Chen provides an intelligent, well-organized study that will be immediately useful in the field. With this book, the field of Asian American studies comes of age."--CHOICE"...the sophistication with which Chen develops her critical framework and the deftness of her close readings make Double Agency an insightful and influential addition to the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies." -- Journal of Asian American StudiesTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface: On Impersonation and the Nature of the Not-so-secret Agent PART I: IMPERSONATION AND STEREOTYPE Chapter One: Impersonation and Double Agency--Theorizing the Practice, Practicing the Theory Chapter Two: Dissecting the "Devil Doctor": Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu Chapter Three: De/Posing Stereotype on the Asian American Stage PART II: DOUBLE AGENTS, DOUBLE AGENCY Chapter Four: Bodily Negotiations: The Politics of Performance in Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach Chapter Five: Shamanism and the Subject(s) of History in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman Chapter Six: Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts: the Double(d) Agent of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker Coda Works Cited Index
£78.30
Stanford University Press Double Agency
Book SynopsisIn Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the bookimpersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authoritythus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty/disloyalty, real/fake, and Asian/American, Double Agency attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as im-personationsdynamic perfoTrade Review"...Chen provides an intelligent, well-organized study that will be immediately useful in the field. With this book, the field of Asian American studies comes of age."--CHOICE"...the sophistication with which Chen develops her critical framework and the deftness of her close readings make Double Agency an insightful and influential addition to the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies." -- Journal of Asian American StudiesTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface: On Impersonation and the Nature of the Not-so-secret Agent PART I: IMPERSONATION AND STEREOTYPE Chapter One: Impersonation and Double Agency--Theorizing the Practice, Practicing the Theory Chapter Two: Dissecting the "Devil Doctor": Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu Chapter Three: De/Posing Stereotype on the Asian American Stage PART II: DOUBLE AGENTS, DOUBLE AGENCY Chapter Four: Bodily Negotiations: The Politics of Performance in Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach Chapter Five: Shamanism and the Subject(s) of History in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman Chapter Six: Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts: the Double(d) Agent of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker Coda Works Cited Index
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Stanford University Press From Split to Screened Selves
Book SynopsisOffers a study of autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. This work investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, and across the colonial encounter.Trade Review"Through her close readings of textual and cinematic autobiographies and through her judicious use of theoretical concepts, Gabara makes a persuasive case for diversity in autobiography, for broadening the characteristics which define life writing and filmic recits de soi." -- Biography"Rachel Gabara's work is an informative contribution to the scholarship that already exists on the problems associated with the autobiographical genre as it introduces media that have not yet been fully explored . . . Gabara's work is an interesting and original look at autobiography that is pertinent for scholars in diverse disciplines." -- Randi L. Polk * French Review *"Relying on excellent scholarship, Rachel Gabara's work has brought together both familiar and new material to bear on the vexed question of autobiography. An outstanding contribution to literary, cultural, and film studies, From Split to Screened Selves will have a real impact on a number of fields: postcolonial studies, comparative literature, French and Francophone studies, film studies, and autobiographical studies." -- Panivong Norindr * University of Southern California *"A skillful examination . . . This interesting, carefully researched study will be very useful." -- CHOICE"Rachel Gabara's monograph is a welcome, and timely, intervention in the field of autobiographical studies . . . It is to be hoped that her truly interdisciplinary approach . . . will influence research in post-colonial, comparative literature and francophone studies. " -- Kate Marsh * international Journal of Francophone Studies *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements iii Introduction iii @toc1:Part I: Split Selves: French Autobiography in the First, Second, and Third Persons @toc2:Chapter 1: Autobiography of Himself: Roland Barthes By Roland Barthes By Roland Barthes 0 Chapter 2: Internal Conversation: Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood 00 @toc1:Part II: Autobiography in Images: From Photography to Film @toc2:Chapter 3: Seeing Autobiography: From Camera Lucida to the Cinema 00 Chapter 4: Screening Autobiography: Cyril Collard's Savage Nights 131165 @toc1:Part III: Francophone Autobiography: Selves and Others, Words and Images @toc2:Chapter 5: (Un)Veiling Herself?: Assia Djebar in Love, An Algerian Cavalcade 00 Chapter 6: AutoBiographical Third Cinema: David Achkar's Allah Tantou and Raoul Peck's Lumumba: Death of the Prophet 00 Conclusion 00 Notes Index
£52.70
Stanford University Press H. C. for Life That Is to Say...
Book SynopsisH. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida''s literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Hélène Cixous. The main figure that informs Derrida''s reading here is that of taking sides. While Hélène Cixous in her life and work takes the side of life, for life, Derrida admits always feeling drawn to the side of death. Rather than being an obvious choice, taking the side of life is an act of faith, by wagering one''s life on life. H. C. for Life sets up and explores this interminable argument between Derrida and Cixous as to what death has in store deep within life itself, before the end. In addition to being a memoir, it is also a theoretical confrontationfor example about the meaning of might and omnipotence, and a philosophical and philological analysis of the crypts within the vast oeuvre of Hélène Cixous. Finally, the book is Derrida''s tribute to the thought of the woman whom he regards as one of the great French poets, writers, and thinTrade Review"H.C. for Life, That Is to Say represents a vigorous volley within the series produced by the mutual provocation society of Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida. The particular provocation here--even more moving now that Derrida has gone--is his insistence that they fall on one side or the other of the question of life and death. She is for life, whereas for him one always dies in the end. Veritably incited, however, by Cixous' work, Derrida cannot avoid writing for her, on her side; and he cannot avoid provoking, in the sense of writing on behalf of, or on the side of her voice, reading and citing at length, playing off the polyphonic effects of a poetics that he considers to be among 'the most powerful and the most engaged in thinking in the history of literature.'"—Gary Wills, University at Albany-SUNY"Because Hélene Cixous (the H.C. of the title) has a genius for making language speak and because no one knew better than Derrida how to mine the secret's of Cixous's profoundly complex and beguiling prose, this volume stands out as exceptional."—CHOICE"H.C. for Life is, to be sure, a more than worthy homage to Cixous, all 173 pages of it, an homage that will incite the reader to read and reread the entirety of Cixous' difficult though fascinating and unique corpus. In this work, Derrida pays homage to the rich and powerful work of Hélene Cixous by rethinking the very concept of life in relationship to power, death, literature, and so on." —symploke
£18.99
Stanford University Press Revolution of the Heart
Book SynopsisAn engagingly written critical genealogy of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture.Trade Review"Haiyan Lee's new book is a solid, carefully structured and thoughtfully argued theoretical account of the centrality of emotion in the transformation of modernity and the construction of the modern self in China from 1900 to 1950. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book encompasses literature, modern social history and cultural studies Haiyan Lee's book is an ambitious and interesting project, to be lauded for the ways it synthesizes complex and contentious theoretical issues." -- The China Quarterly"What I find most impressive about this study is the wealth of readings Lee offers. Revolution of the Heart is a very well-researched book, and Lee's thesis is presented clearly, forcefully, and within well-constructed literary and critical contexts." -- Sean Macdonald * Chinese Literature *"Revolution of the Heart begins weeping, in the late Qing, and ends wailing, roughly a century later. In the pages between, Haiyan Lee makes a powerful argument for the centrality of feeling—especially romantic love—to the imagination of the nation, reform, and revolution in twentieth-century China." -- Alexander des Forges"I fully recommend Revolution of the Heart, and congratulate Haiyan Lee for helping us to understand more deeply the multifaceted transformations of sentiment in the first half of 20th-century China." –Wendy Larson, University of Oregon"Haiyan Lee should be congratulated for producing a genealogy of love that is replete with keen insights and observations. Her postmodernist and poststructuralist readings of the text are perceptive and incisive. Lee's book is a testimony of how postmodernist and poststructuralist approaches, when employed judiciously and grounded empirically, can enrich our understanding of history." -- Yung-chen Chiang"[A]n exceptionally well-researched and well-argued study on an important topic. . . . . With excellent historical contextualization and appropriate attention to secondary and primary sources, the book boasts both depth and breadth." -- The China Journal
£91.80
Stanford University Press Mourning Modernity
Book SynopsisIn Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism.Trade Review"Mourning Modernity provides critics with a powerful and clarifying set of descriptors for American modernism." -- American Literature"Mourning Modernity opens the door to reconsidering Lukác's categories outside of his problematic formal absolution, with an eye to the variety of affective modes that historical self-awareness can take. This is no small achievement, and offers a key vantage on the constitution of America's resentment-filled present." * Evan Mauro, Reviews in Cultural Theory *"Mourning Modernity transforms in a stroke what we thought we knew about U.S. modernism...We should be thankful that Moglen has both charted this exciting new terrain and left some work for the rest of us to do." -- Modernism/Modernity"In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen combines a brilliant analysis of literary modernism with extraordinary insights into U.S. political culture. We will never be able to write about modernism again without taking into account Moglen's compelling arguments about the distinction between literary works that aestheticize alienation and those that call for remaking the social order." -- George Lipsitz * University of California at Santa Barbara *"Seth Moglen's Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuires of American Capitalism is a powerful volume offering breathtakingly sweeping claims about the span of American literature in the first half of the twentieth century." -- David M. Ball * College Literature *"Mourning Modernity is a groundbreaking contribution to the discourse on literary modernism." -- Fred Moten * University of Southern California *Table of Contents[Table of Contents] CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. THE TWO MODERNISMS 1. Modernism and Loss: The Divided Response to American Capitalism 2. Melancholic Modernism 3. The Modernism of Mourning PART TWO. THE TWO MODERNISMS AT WAR: DOS PASSOS'S U.S.A. TRILOGY 4. John Dos Passos and the Crises of American Radicalism 5. The Modernism of Mourning in U.S.A.: "Writing So Fiery and Accurate" 6. Melancholic Modernism in U.S.A.: Naturalism and the "Torment of Hope" Conclusion. "The Language of the Beaten Nation Is Not Forgotten": Dos Passos's Camera Eye and the Unfinished Work of Mourning Notes Works Cited Index
£22.49
Stanford University Press Race and the AvantGarde
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American writing, Timothy Yu juxtaposes the works of experimental language poets and Asian American poetsconcerned primarily with issues of social identity centered around discourses of race. Yu delves into the 1960s social upheaval to trace how Language and Asian American writing emerged as parallel poetics of the avant-garde, each with its own distinctive form, style, and political meaning. From its provocative reevaluation of Allen Ginsberg to fresh readings of Ron Silliman, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and John Yau, along with its analysis of a new archive of Asian American writers from the 1970s, this book is indispensable for readers interested in race, Asian American studies, contemporary poetry, and the avant-garde.Trade Review"Timothy Yu expands and further delineates the complicated relationship between ethnic minorities and self-proclaimed avant-grade communities." -- J. Michael Martinez and Jordan Windholz * Puerto del Sol *"Yu's Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 is ... provocative text that scholars of contemporary poetry and Asian American literature will be citing, discussing, and arguing over for many years to come." -- Kimberly Lamm * Contemporary Literature. *"Though this book at first appears narrowly focused, it manages to illuminate large areas of contemporary American poetry. The book is perhaps most compelling when it links poetry to late-20th-century social and political developments, for instance, the volatile situation during the late 1960s when the New Left fragmented into the competing, identity-conscious factions of the 1970s." -- CHOICE"With Race and the Avant-Garde, Timothy Yu goes an extraordinarily long way toward overcoming the historical divorce between the "aesthetic" and the "ethnic." And excitingly, for teachers and students of Asian American literature, he has made Asian American poetry a central part of the case. Treating the rise of Asian American poetry and Language poetry in light of each other, Yu illustrates the indelible presence of race in experimental writing and the constitutive role of form in ethnic writing." -- Colleen Lye * Author of America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 *"Race and the Avant-Garde marks a major turning point in genre and culture studies: it treats what is known as Asian American poetry not as a separate entity, but as a community in constant dialogue with that other community known as the avant-garde. In the latter part of the 20th century, Yu argues, the social groupings of American poetry come to cross-fertilize one another in intriguing ways, so that a 'minority' poetry like Asian American can best be understood as itself an avant-garde. Yu's sociology is both sophisticated and revelatory. Allen Ginsberg, Ron Silliman, John Yau, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: these poets will never look the same after reading Yu's outstanding book." * Marjorie Perloff,Author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media and Differentials *"Explores how conflicts, anxieties, and confusions fuse with aesthetics, ideologies, and social formations in the unsettling project of a syncretic Asian American poetics. In order to fully engage such poetics, Yu looks at roots but also rootlessness, lineages as well as misalignments. Yu takes risks; the welcome result is a provocatively informative excursion into the productive synergy of race and aesthetic innovation." * Charles Bernstein *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xxx Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Contemporary Avant-Garde 1 1. Auto Poesy: Allen Ginsberg and the Politics of Poetry 000 2. Ron Silliman and the Ethnicization of the Avant-Garde 000 3. Inventing a Culture: Asian American Poetry in the 1970s 000 4. Audience Distant Relative: Reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 000 5. Mr. Moto's Monologue: John Yau and Experimental Asian American Writing 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
£45.00
Stanford University Press The Metamorphoses of Tintin
Book SynopsisThe Metamorphoses of Tintin, a pioneering book first published in French in 1984, offers a complete analysis of Herge's legendary hero.Trade Review"The translator, Jocelyn Hoy, has done an exceptional job of rendering conceptually difficult material clear and elegant without sacrificing the precision of Apostolidès' original text... Apostolidès' focus on the interiority of the text renders The Metamorphoses of Tintin or Tintin for Adults a fascinating exercise in psychoanalytic literary criticism, one full of insight and the starting point for anyone interested in close readings of the albums... Apostolidès very successfully traces the evolution of tone, narrative, and character through a psychoanalytic close reading. It is the capacity for change, the metamorphoses, inherent to Hergé's fictional masterpiece that Apostolidès so richly details thereby demonstrating that Tintin's world is not dead on the page, but vibrantly alive."—Richard Ivan Jobs, Pacific University, H-France Review"[Apostolidès] convincingly makes the case that the much-loved Tintin narratives are worthy of the kind of attention more usually accorded to works of the established literary canon."—Raphaël Taylor, Times Literary Supplement"The Metamorphoses of Tintin, a classic of contemporary French literary scholarship, is one of the most successful examples of a study in "lowbrow" literature. Apostolidès shows how the highly successful comic-book series, The Adventures of Tintin, incorporates sophisticated anthropological insights into the nature of religious beliefs, the structure of fetishism, mimetic rivalry, drugs, and sexuality. Explaining how a tinge of colonialist pride in the early years of the series soon gave way to an attitude of solidarity with marginalized people and the poor, Apostolidès argues that the adventures of Tintin express a larger movement from a society concerned with public values to one more interested in private life." —Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago"Moreover, there are scores of scholarly books and articles about the young reporter, including that foundational work of Tintinology, the 1984 study by Jean-Marie Apostolidès, which has now been translated as The Metamorphoses of Tintin. This last is a labor of love but also of sophisticated analysis, examining the evolution and changing character of the Tintinesque universe Tintinatics of a scholarly turn will certainly want to acquire Jean-Marie Apostolidès's The Metamorphoses of Tintin."—Washington Post Book World"In the course of describing the genesis and metamorphoses of the Tintin series and its characters, the author applies anthropological insights to topics such as value deflation, order and symmetry, rivalry, fetishism, and religious beliefs.... This volume's strengths: its groundbreaking critical approach, careful scrutiny of characters and plots, and clear, concise presentation (the last attributable to Hoy's translation).... Recommended."—J. A. Lent, Choice
£84.15
Stanford University Press The Metamorphoses of Tintin
Book SynopsisThe Belgian artist Georges Remi''s (Hergé) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eighty years. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the twentieth century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date. With the proliferation of Tintin blogs, Steven Spielberg''s and Peter Jackson''s planned cinematographic adaptations, and a Tintin museum scheduled to open in Belgium in the near future, there are many signs that the popularity of Hergé''s boy hero continues to grow. The Metamorphoses of Tintin is the English translation of the first critical study of the canonical Tintin cartoons. Published in French in 1984 and republished many times since, this pioneering work examines the long career of both the cartoonist and his creation. Hergé''s right-wing upbringing, all too apparent in his first two albums, brought accusations of misoTrade Review"The translator, Jocelyn Hoy, has done an exceptional job of rendering conceptually difficult material clear and elegant without sacrificing the precision of Apostolidès' original text... Apostolidès' focus on the interiority of the text renders The Metamorphoses of Tintin or Tintin for Adults a fascinating exercise in psychoanalytic literary criticism, one full of insight and the starting point for anyone interested in close readings of the albums... Apostolidès very successfully traces the evolution of tone, narrative, and character through a psychoanalytic close reading. It is the capacity for change, the metamorphoses, inherent to Hergé's fictional masterpiece that Apostolidès so richly details thereby demonstrating that Tintin's world is not dead on the page, but vibrantly alive."—Richard Ivan Jobs, Pacific University, H-France Review"[Apostolidès] convincingly makes the case that the much-loved Tintin narratives are worthy of the kind of attention more usually accorded to works of the established literary canon."—Raphaël Taylor, Times Literary Supplement"The Metamorphoses of Tintin, a classic of contemporary French literary scholarship, is one of the most successful examples of a study in "lowbrow" literature. Apostolidès shows how the highly successful comic-book series, The Adventures of Tintin, incorporates sophisticated anthropological insights into the nature of religious beliefs, the structure of fetishism, mimetic rivalry, drugs, and sexuality. Explaining how a tinge of colonialist pride in the early years of the series soon gave way to an attitude of solidarity with marginalized people and the poor, Apostolidès argues that the adventures of Tintin express a larger movement from a society concerned with public values to one more interested in private life." —Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago"Moreover, there are scores of scholarly books and articles about the young reporter, including that foundational work of Tintinology, the 1984 study by Jean-Marie Apostolidès, which has now been translated as The Metamorphoses of Tintin. This last is a labor of love but also of sophisticated analysis, examining the evolution and changing character of the Tintinesque universe Tintinatics of a scholarly turn will certainly want to acquire Jean-Marie Apostolidès's The Metamorphoses of Tintin."—Washington Post Book World"In the course of describing the genesis and metamorphoses of the Tintin series and its characters, the author applies anthropological insights to topics such as value deflation, order and symmetry, rivalry, fetishism, and religious beliefs.... This volume's strengths: its groundbreaking critical approach, careful scrutiny of characters and plots, and clear, concise presentation (the last attributable to Hoy's translation).... Recommended."—J. A. Lent, Choice
£21.59
Stanford University Press Contextual Practice
Book SynopsisFredman makes the original argument that some of the most innovative works of poetry and art in the postwar period (1945–1970) engaged in a "contextual practice," a term that refers both to a way of making art characterized by assemblage and to a new relationship between art and life, an "erotic poetics."Trade Review"Fredman has written a clear, well-informed study of a specific facet of mid-20th-century poetry: how 'contextual practice' informed much of the work of avant-garde poets, painters, and filmmakers . . . Recommended." -- B. Wallenstein * CHOICE *"Contextual Practice takes a wide-angle, interdisciplinary look at some of the most important if overlooked works, figures, and social scenes specic to the American avant-garde from around 1945 to 1970 . . . Fredman recovers the provocatively contingent and charmingly social structures that informed some of the most dynamic art made after the Second World War. Those of us interested not only in the postwar American poetry scene, but in the humanities and counterculture history broadly speaking, will find in Fredman's evocative juxtapositions a Grand Collage indeed." -- Daniel Kane * Review of English Studies *"Stephen Fredman's Contextual Practice provides an in-depth exploration of cultural and aesthetic contexts shared by poets Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley and Denise Levertov, filmmaker Harry Smith, philosopher Norman O. Brown, and artist Wallace Berman and the circle around his seminal Semina magazine. Fredman has written a brilliant treatise on the poetics of collage in the New American poetry. And he puts his theories into practice with his exemplary use of contingent juxtapositions of a precisely ordered constellation of examples." -- Charles Bernstein * University of Pennsylvania *
£52.70
Stanford University Press Postsocialist Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book examines Chinese culture under the condition of postsocialist modernity, in which market reforms have fundamentally altered the fields of film, literature, and cultural debate.Trade Review"This timely, informative study is remarkable in its narrative flow and clarity of argument. McGrath clearly delineates both the problems with market-driven cultural production and the pluralistic gains in freedom and openness by self-initiated, enterprising artists and writers." -- Ban Wang"Postsocialist Modernity is an engaging and well-written analysis that employs an array of primary sources to illustrate the ways literature, culture, and cinema connect to national transformation in an international context. Additionally, McGrath provides accurate and helpful translations of Chinese cultural terminology affiliated with this particular era. The book is strongly recommended to researchers, graduate students, upper-division undergraduates, and anyone interested in contemporary Chinese cinema, literature, and culture." -- Yilian Liao * China Review International *"This is the most lucid, engaging, and theoretically acute account of contemporary Chinese cultural production to have emerged in recent years from the Western academy." -- Andrew F. Jones, University of California"This thoughtful...study explores facets of Chinese culture resulting from China's recent transition from a socialist to a primarily market economy . . . Addressing a select group of texts, including commercial and avant-garde films and literature, McGrath shows that despite China's rapid rise in the global economy the cultural products of this period display a more hesitant, anxious attitude toward modernity." —CHOICE"This clearly written, engaging study of literature, film, debate and theory in contemporary culture beings with the insight that postsocialist Chinese modernity must be understood in the context of global modernity and, more specifically, the global capitalist system." -- China Quarterly
£22.49
Stanford University Press Warped Mourning
Book SynopsisAfter Stalin''s death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book''s premise is that late Soviet and post-Soviet culture, haunted by its past, has produced a unique set of memorial practices. More than twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains the land of the unburied: the events of the mid-twentieth century are still very much alive, and still contentious. Alexander Etkind shows how post-Soviet Russia has turned the painful process of mastering the past into an important part of its political present.Trade Review"[Warped Mourning is] a nuanced, thought-provoking and comprehensive study of mourning and memory that integrates cultural artifacts and leading theoretical concepts."—Josephine Von Zitzewitz, The Slavonic & East European Review"As mourning narratives are the main objects of Etkind's book, he investigates memoirs, fiction and non-fiction writings, and movies in search of mnemonic footprints of the gulag experience, trying to trace the gulag as a determinant of Soviet and post-Soviet cultural and intellectual life . . . Memory of the Soviet Union in Russia is an ongoing contestation, and Etkind's book is an important contribution to understanding the politics of memory in Russia."—Daria Khlevnyuk, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology"The scope of authors the book surveys is impressively broad . . . [T]his is a provocative and intriguing book, one that offers a powerful corrective to the frequent laments regarding historical amnesia in post-Soviet Russia. It prompts scholars of memory to think more broadly and creatively about the forms that remembrance may take in culture, especially in situations when a more direct engagement with the past may be obstructed or blocked . . . Published when it was, this book itself constitutes a work of mourning for the crimes of the past and a warning about the future, even as it reminds us that the work of mourning is always—intrinsically—incomplete."—Olga Shevchenko, Somatosphere"Illuminating, rigorous in its analysis, and stimulating, Warped Mourning draws on a wide range of theoretical models of memory expounded by Freud, Benjamin, and Derrida and presents an innovative theory of mourning grounded in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia . . . Etkind persuasively presents a thoroughly constructed theory of mourning with bright empirical insights. The author marries the history of his own family with the histories of victims of the gulag who became the objects of investigation in his book. This personal involvement makes the writing passionate and committed. It also helps sharpen the theoretical precision in the attempts to understand the suffering of others and analyze the subsequent remembrance of this suffering. Such compassionate writing makes the reading process engaging and involving as well. The book will definitely be of interest to all those who are interested in memory, trauma, and Russian history."—Yuliya Yurchuk, Ab Imperio"The cultural memory of traumas and catastrophes are a particularly rich area of investigation, and Warped Mourning makes its own unique and highly significant contribution to this field by convincingly arguing that the memory practices of late and post-Soviet culture deserve separate study . . . Etkind argues that the trend toward the gothic in late and post-Soviet literature confirms his broad characterization of Soviet Russian culture as unable or unwilling to remember the past, settling rather for a 'warped' repetition of it. Warped Mourning offers a reading of twentieth-century Russian culture that resists any attempt to normalize it."—Harriet Murav, Slavic Review"Warped Mourning is pioneering and thought-provoking. It reads (or rereads) a dazzling range of texts, films, and images to reveal their obsession with the past . . . [B]rilliant close readings . . . A work of great ambition that engages a century of thinking about trauma."—Polly Jones, Times Literary Supplement"Etkind presents a rich, intelligent, and profound account of responses to the devastating loss of human life in Russia's Soviet period. . . . This brilliant book will be indispensable for scholars of mourning theories."—C. A. Rydel, CHOICE"There is undoubtedly much that is new and exciting in this study of the impact of state violence on the form and content of art and scholarship in post-Stalin Russia."—Victoria Donovan, The Russian Review"Mr. Etkind ranges expertly through cultural theory, finding in film, literary criticism, linguistics, art and philosophy the effect of the Stalinist trauma on later Soviet and now Russian generations."—The Economist"Etkind's brilliant and lucid work presents the first serious account of theoretical challenges to mourning theories in the context of Soviet terror. It is entirely possible that the very terms of that terror—its policies of falsification, its endemic uncertainty, its capacious inclusion of the perpetrators themselves—will undercut many of the assumptions that have governed mourning and melancholia for the last hundred years."—Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh"In Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied, Alexander Etkind shows why mourning is more conducive to cultural analysis. Where trauma is unsymbolized and melancholia is contained within the self, mourning is often an address to the other . . . Etkind peruses a broad array of writings and artifacts, offering interpretations inflected by insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory."—Anna Fishzon, New Books in Psychoanalysis
£89.10
Stanford University Press Warped Mourning
Book SynopsisHaunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices - this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s.Trade Review"[Warped Mourning is] a nuanced, thought-provoking and comprehensive study of mourning and memory that integrates cultural artifacts and leading theoretical concepts."—Josephine Von Zitzewitz, The Slavonic & East European Review"As mourning narratives are the main objects of Etkind's book, he investigates memoirs, fiction and non-fiction writings, and movies in search of mnemonic footprints of the gulag experience, trying to trace the gulag as a determinant of Soviet and post-Soviet cultural and intellectual life . . . Memory of the Soviet Union in Russia is an ongoing contestation, and Etkind's book is an important contribution to understanding the politics of memory in Russia."—Daria Khlevnyuk, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology"The scope of authors the book surveys is impressively broad . . . [T]his is a provocative and intriguing book, one that offers a powerful corrective to the frequent laments regarding historical amnesia in post-Soviet Russia. It prompts scholars of memory to think more broadly and creatively about the forms that remembrance may take in culture, especially in situations when a more direct engagement with the past may be obstructed or blocked . . . Published when it was, this book itself constitutes a work of mourning for the crimes of the past and a warning about the future, even as it reminds us that the work of mourning is always—intrinsically—incomplete."—Olga Shevchenko, Somatosphere"Illuminating, rigorous in its analysis, and stimulating, Warped Mourning draws on a wide range of theoretical models of memory expounded by Freud, Benjamin, and Derrida and presents an innovative theory of mourning grounded in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia . . . Etkind persuasively presents a thoroughly constructed theory of mourning with bright empirical insights. The author marries the history of his own family with the histories of victims of the gulag who became the objects of investigation in his book. This personal involvement makes the writing passionate and committed. It also helps sharpen the theoretical precision in the attempts to understand the suffering of others and analyze the subsequent remembrance of this suffering. Such compassionate writing makes the reading process engaging and involving as well. The book will definitely be of interest to all those who are interested in memory, trauma, and Russian history."—Yuliya Yurchuk, Ab Imperio"The cultural memory of traumas and catastrophes are a particularly rich area of investigation, and Warped Mourning makes its own unique and highly significant contribution to this field by convincingly arguing that the memory practices of late and post-Soviet culture deserve separate study . . . Etkind argues that the trend toward the gothic in late and post-Soviet literature confirms his broad characterization of Soviet Russian culture as unable or unwilling to remember the past, settling rather for a 'warped' repetition of it. Warped Mourning offers a reading of twentieth-century Russian culture that resists any attempt to normalize it."—Harriet Murav, Slavic Review"Warped Mourning is pioneering and thought-provoking. It reads (or rereads) a dazzling range of texts, films, and images to reveal their obsession with the past . . . [B]rilliant close readings . . . A work of great ambition that engages a century of thinking about trauma."—Polly Jones, Times Literary Supplement"Etkind presents a rich, intelligent, and profound account of responses to the devastating loss of human life in Russia's Soviet period. . . . This brilliant book will be indispensable for scholars of mourning theories."—C. A. Rydel, CHOICE"There is undoubtedly much that is new and exciting in this study of the impact of state violence on the form and content of art and scholarship in post-Stalin Russia."—Victoria Donovan, The Russian Review"Mr. Etkind ranges expertly through cultural theory, finding in film, literary criticism, linguistics, art and philosophy the effect of the Stalinist trauma on later Soviet and now Russian generations."—The Economist"Etkind's brilliant and lucid work presents the first serious account of theoretical challenges to mourning theories in the context of Soviet terror. It is entirely possible that the very terms of that terror—its policies of falsification, its endemic uncertainty, its capacious inclusion of the perpetrators themselves—will undercut many of the assumptions that have governed mourning and melancholia for the last hundred years."—Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh"In Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied, Alexander Etkind shows why mourning is more conducive to cultural analysis. Where trauma is unsymbolized and melancholia is contained within the self, mourning is often an address to the other . . . Etkind peruses a broad array of writings and artifacts, offering interpretations inflected by insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory."—Anna Fishzon, New Books in Psychoanalysis
£21.59
Stanford University Press Julian Bell
Book SynopsisThe short, both tragic and happy life, of Julian Bell, poet, younger member of Bloomsbury, son of Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, from his birth in 1908 until his death in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War.Trade Review"This biography meticulously fleshes out Bell's family relations, aesthetic efforts, and social and political commitments. . . It was a life marked by a redemptive courage, and it was, as Stansky and Abrahams show, a rich life—rich in the living, and rich in the telling."—Todd Avery, Virginia Woolf Miscellany"Stansky is also very good at showing Bell resisting as well as being a direct exemplar of Bloomsbury ideas, ideals, and habits, and also as one who breaks from these . . . [Bell] offers an excellent lens on both the Bloomsbury topsoil and the roots below . . . [A] text that affords, in nearly equal measure, instruction, pathos, and pleasure."—Judith Scherer Herz, English in Translation"Peter Stansky's biography gives weight to the argument that Julian's life, though it was short and not as accomplished as others in Bloomsbury, was significant. He was to be reckoned with—not only as an adventurous young man passionate about fighting fascism like many of his generation in the 1930s—but as a corrective to Bloomsbury's narrowness of vision about what values count in a life . . . Stansky astutely, honestly and sympathetically presents a new portrait of Julian Bell, psychologically and emotionally shadowed by his eminent family and their friends in perhaps the most important intellectual circle in twentieth-century England."—Patricia Laurence, Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone"The writers do a fine job of excerpting poems, letters, and essays to give a sense of Bell's thinking . . . [Julian Bell is] full of fresh information, [and] is particularly rich."—Charles Oberndorf, The Volunteer"An intergenerational conversation, between the younger and the older Peter Stansky, as well as between Julian Bell and his elders in the Bloomsbury Group. A new Julian Bell emerges—even franker about his physical and emotional needs, even more frustrated by claustrophobic England—which makes more telling and inevitable his spectacular end on the battlefields of Spain. A beautiful, tragic book."—Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge"Peter Stansky's revised and expanded biography of Julian Bell is a valuable addition to our knowledge of early twentieth-century English culture. It should be illuminating not just for Bloomsbury enthusiasts but also for those interested in English attitudes toward sexuality, China, and the Spanish Civil War."—S. P. Rosenbaum"Stansky revisits his and Abraham's earlier work and adds information then unavailable to create a more intimate look at this curious figure."—V. A. Murrenus Pilmaier, CHOICE
£999.99
Stanford University Press Having It All in the Belle Epoque
Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating ways in which two French photographic women's magazines of the early 1900s created a visually compelling female role model who could perfectly balance feminism, femininity, and that tricky combination of work and life that is still the subject of debates today.Trade Review"Through brilliantly constructed close readings of word and image in these magazines, Mesch brings to light a much more complicated picture of debates by and on women at the turn of the nineteenth century . . . Many of the journalists used by, and writers depicted in, these magazines had literary ambitions. Indeed, one of the great virtues in having this material addressed by a scholar with a proper interest in cultural history, as well as securely anchored origins in the world of nineteenth-century French literary studies, is that she is able to identify novels of the period which addressed the issue of women's magazines . . . Not only does Mesch identify such key texts in the relationship between journalism and fiction, but she also brings to bear in the cultural history the kind of close textual analysis for which literary interpretation is the best preparation." -- Nicholas White * Times Literary Supplement *"Rachel Mesch's fascinating, lavishly illustrated study opens a window into the surprising world of the Belle Époque French women's magazines that, in the dozen or so years preceding the Great War, tackled questions still at the heart of debates over women's place in society today: how to reconcile femininity and feminism, life and work, conventional expectations and new opportunities . . . Having It All takes us on a remarkable journey into lost time, worthwhile both in itself and for the insights it offers into issues that continue to preoccupy us today." -- Michael Garval * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *"This book's unique angle of analysis, wealth of quotations from primary sources, and many illustrations make it both a viable teaching tool and a scholarly resource." -- Miglena Sternadori * Journal of Magazine and New Media Research *"In the search for work-life balance, readers will marvel at suggestions that date back 100 years." -- Publishers Weekly"Having It All in the Bell Epoque provides a fine historical survey debating the history of high-achieving women and how the roots of these achievers can be traced back to early 1900s France. Two key photographic magazines for women created a female role model who embodied new freedoms and approaches for women, captivating large numbers of French women and setting the stage for a century of women's rights changes. This focus on these publications provides new images of this modern French figure, analyzes artistic and literary trends contributing to the rise of this culture, and blends history with literary and artistic insights throughout, making for a solid and specific pick for any women's studies collection." -- Midwest Book Review"Just how expertly Mesch navigates the 'contradictory ideological terrain' of Belle Époque literary feminism, where a self-declared feminist can call her partner 'master' if doing so might reconcile love, marriage, feminism, and femininity without requiring a choice between them cannot be over-emphasized . . . [S]he argues convincingly for the significance of the magazines' 'dreaming' and the momentous ideological shift it represents . . . Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Having It All is also remarkably timely: as the magazines beckoning from grocery check-out stands demonstrate, we still worship celebrities, just as we continue to debate whether women can be both 'feminine' and 'feminist' and to strive for a work-life balance." -- Hope Christiansen"Asking the question 'Did women have a Belle Epoque?' Having It All in the Belle Epoque is a study that explores some of the early twentieth-century history of concerns and debates that remain extremely relevant to women's lives into the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this book a rich archive that illuminates the history of women readers and writers before World War I while offering a longer-term perspective on the ways we think about the complexities of femininity and feminism (and their relationships to one another) up to the present day." -- Roxanne Panchasi * New Books in French Studies *"In Having It All in the Belle Epoque, Mesch sheds new light on the gender mores of 19th century Europe. As she warns, the modern woman becomes a 'bundle of contradictions' for whom 'there are no easy answers' . . . Mesch's study raises powerful new questions about the place of fashion periodicals in campaigns for women's equality." -- Emily Hershman * Make: A Literary Magazine *"Mesch's study furthers understanding of Belle Époque women's literary culture by highlighting its role and reception in the print culture of the time . . . Mesch offers engaging intricate readings of the magazines' celebration of feminine, elegant, achieving women before she moves beyond their pages to consider both the magazines' relationship to the actual authors they promoted and their reception by the larger public . . . Mesch's concept of Belle Époque literary feminism opens a new perspective onto the matrix of Belle Époque women's magazines, popular women's fiction, and their female readers . . . Having It All is a well-researched, richly textured, and readable study built upon detailed, elegant readings of Belle Époque visual print culture. At the same time, it elucidates important and dynamic relations of journalism and female literary culture in the Belle Époque. Deftly bringing into play the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies, Mesch's romance with Femina and La Vie Heureuse constitutes a welcome contribution to French studies that will engage students and scholars of print media, women's history, gender studies, and French literary culture." -- Cheryl A. Morgan"For too long, we have tended to view the Belle Epoque through the prism of the feminism of our own day—how it measures up or falls short of current standards. By linking women's magazines of the time to novels, visual imagery, and cultural practices, Mesch breaks out of this straitjacket, offering the most insightful and thorough examination of that space to date." -- Lenard R. Berlanstein * University of Virginia *"[W]ith its rich array of reproduced pages to illustrate points, and nice attention to the magazines' visual as well as verbal discourse, this is a highly readable, enjoyable book that adds an important dimension to the study of how the vibrant feminist contestation of those years was mediated for and experienced by the majority of women." -- Diana Holmes * French Studies *"Mesch illuminates both the context that produced the paradox of 'having it all' and the difficulties that arose as a result. Her book opens a window onto a distant and relatively unknown past, all the while shedding light on debates that are still very much alive today." -- Susan Hiner * Vassar College *"Few academic books have given rise to blogs (Plus ça change) and articles published by Slate.com ("Having It All. In France. 100 Years ago."). These online publications are a testament both to Rachel Mesch's lively, jargon-free prose and the surprising lessons in her wonderful new study that are applicable even to our lives today . . . Mesch's engaging, entertaining study is a lovely addition to Belle Époque, feminist, and media studies. Her scholarship demonstrates her talents as a close reader of texts and images and a great synthesizer of cultural events." -- Gayle A. Levy * Contemporary French Civilization *"Offering a refreshing new vision of late-19th-century feminism, Mesch presents a compelling reinterpretation of two fin-de-siècle women's magazines . . . Mesch's book helps one view these women's magazines in the context of their time and understand the feminist message they embodied for their readers . . . Highly recommended." -- S. E. Cline * CHOICE *
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Stanford University Press The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization
Book SynopsisA novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people''s working lives. Over the last few decades, we have seen the shift from an economy based on the production of goods to one based on the provision of services, the entry of large numbers of women into the workforce, and the emergence of new digital technologies that have transformed the way people work. The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization argues that art and literature not only reflected the transformation of the workplace but anticipated and may have contributed to it as well, providing some of the terms through which resistance to labor was expressed. As firms continue to tout creativity and to reorganize in response to this resistance, they increasingly rely on models of labor that derive from values and ideas found in the experimental poetry and conceptual arTrade Review"The originality of this study of postwar literature and capitalism lies not just in its focus on production as opposed to consumption, or on the effects that transformations of labor have had on what kind of art was made, by whom, and how. It lies also in its rigorous attention to the effects that aesthetic concepts have exerted on the transformation of labor, and to how art responds when wage labor is recast in explicitly aesthetic terms. Bernes's book goes beyond reflectionist arguments and elective affinities. Sobering and optimistic at once, it gives us new tools to think about the relation between art and labor, even as the two seem to be converging irreversibly." -- Sianne Ngai * Stanford University *"Far from wanting to tout any hoary theory of the artist-as-prophet, Bernes is working with a remarkably sophisticated and resilient new critical model which will doubtless have a lot of traction in the years ahead." -- Julian Murphet * Affirmations: Of the Modern *"Bernes poses the question of whether the quintessentially unproductive, workless realm of poetry may be instructive for what our precarious and workless capitalist future holds. The result is an intellectually rich, dynamic and lucidly written book...The theses Bernes puts forward concerning poetry's instrumentalization by capitalism will be of interest to all scholars of modern literature, not merely those interested in the postwar American poets and artists studied in detail here."––Benjamin Pickford, Literature & History"Developments in poetry and art, Bernes argues, also feed reciprocally into...transformations in the workplace, as 'aspects of the artistic critique, such as the critique of work from the standpoint of participation, became essential parts of the restructuring undertaken by capitalists to improve profitability'....[With] acute sensitivity to poetic form and [a] profound grasp of historical capitalism as filtered through their chosen sites of the gendered body and the workplace...Bernes [avoids] reductively optimistic or pessimistic claims about either poetry's total immunity or its total complicity." -- Walt Hunter * American Literary History *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts0Introduction chapter abstractAn overview of the argument of the book, the Introduction discusses postwar literature and art in light of the transformation of advanced capitalist economies, in particular the shift from the production of goods to the provision of services and the expansion of white-collar and in-person service work. Through an examination of some key examples, Bernes argues that the neo-avant-garde language of "participation," aiming to overcome the hierarchical relationship between writer and reader, artist and audience, anticipated and contributed to a shift in management theory toward new horizontal forms of corporate structure, undertaken in response to the widespread rebellion against the "anachronistic authoritarianism" of the postwar workplace. Bernes summarizes the main chapters of the book as well as its conclusions and finishes with a general discussion of periodization and historicization, elucidating his unique methodology in light of Marxist debates about historical causality. 1Lyric and the Service Sector: Frank O'Hara at Work chapter abstractO'Hara's "I do this, I do that" poems detail the poet's movements through the city during periods of leisure. In this chapter, Bernes argues that such leisure periods are usually, implicitly or explicitly, circumscribed by periods of work. This is especially true in Lunch Poems, where the conceit of the book is that many of the poems were written during his "lunch hour." O'Hara's lunch-hour pastorals are not so much opposed to the workday and its unfree time of getting things done as they are a space for an alternative kind of work. This chapter proposes that we see O'Hara as poet of service work as much as poet of consumption, reorienting ourselves to the presence of labor (his own and others') within the poems. In particular, Bernes argues, O'Hara adapts the resources of the lyric poem to the transactional space of service work. 2John Ashbery's Free Indirect Labor chapter abstractThe early poems of John Ashbery must be read as a meditation on the plight of labor, particularly white-collar labor, in the postwar United States. Beginning with an early poem, "The Instruction Manual" (1956), and its exploration of the ambiguous class position of white-collar workers, this chapter tracks themes of both labor and management in Ashbery's experimental second book, The Tennis Court Oath. In this book the standpoint of the earlier poem gives way to an explosion of shifting voices as Ashbery's distinctive use of free indirect discourse and other techniques of point of view registers the contemporary breakdown in labor relations and the crisis for established modes of management. In Ashbery's mature style of the 1970s, this chaotic play of voices yields to a comparatively measured technology of point of view, which reflects the new modes of management that followed the crises of the 1960s and 1970s. 3The Poetry of Feedback chapter abstractEmerging from the military-industrial research programs of World War II, cybernetics presents an image of social self-regulation based on reciprocal, horizontal, and participatory relations rather than explicit hierarchies. This is appealing both to firms looking for a way to cut administrative bloat and trim costs and to artists and writers interested in developing a "participatory" practice, one that undoes the division of labor between reader and writer, spectator and art maker. Cybernetics promises a mode of collaboration and collectivity that liberates art from the narrow confines of artists. This chapter examines Hannah Weiner's Code Poems alongside Dan Graham's Works for Magazine Pages, both of which sit at the interstices of experimental poetry and conceptual art and both of which put cybernetic discourse to work to model alternative social relations. In each case, the laboratory of social relations takes postwar labor as its subject. 4The Feminization of Speedup chapter abstractEngaging debates around the status of unpaid reproductive labor, this chapter investigates Bernadette Mayer's multifarious project Memory, which is simultaneously a performance, a conceptual work, an installation, and an epic poem. In attempting to document, down to the smallest detail, every aspect of her life for thirty days—using photographs, audio recordings, and written notation—Mayer effectively demonstrates the subsumption of the entirety of life by the protocols and routines of work as well as the transformation of the relationship between unpaid reproductive work and feminized wage labor. Mayer's "total" artwork, which merges different technologies into a single apparatus, prefigures the reorganization of office work around the personal computer, a technology that has probably done more than anything else to ensure that work and home life are unified by enabling white-collar workers to accomplish tasks from home and, in that sense, never leave work. 5Art, Work, and Endlessness in the 2000s chapter abstractThis chapter skips forward several decades, to the 2000s, and looks at the legacy of the transformations discussed in the preceding chapters. Bernes examines the debates that followed the emergence of "Flarf" and "conceptual poetry," both movements that foregrounded their relationship to contemporary office work. He focuses in particular on the relationship between Flarf poetry, with its rebellious use of work time, work machinery, and work jargon, and the increase in interworker aggression, which he attributes to the inability of workers to find outlets for resistance. Bernes links this horizontalized aggression with the phenomenon of the "Internet troll," who responds to the emasculation that male workers feel as a consequence of the restructuring of labor. By the 2000s, firms had so thoroughly neutralized the aesthetic critique of labor mobilized by preceding generations of artists that it persisted only in various forms of minor rebellion and acting out. 6Epilogue: Overflow chapter abstractThe Epilogue considers the possible fate of the artistic critique of labor in the decades to come. As demand for labor weakens because of ongoing structural transformations, the link between art and labor will likewise weaken, Bernes argues. Thus, artists would do well to revive older traditions linking the poet to wagelessness. The Epilogue examines these traditions, beginning with the Renaissance ballad and continuing through the Romantic poetry of vagrancy and the African American fugitive lyric, linking this poetic history to a theoretical investigation of what Karl Marx calls "surplus populations." The long history of the poetics of wagelessness gives some indication of the aesthetic outlines of the coming era. In closing, Bernes looks at two contemporary poets, Fred Moten and Wendy Trevino, who engage this long tradition and mobilize it to meet the specific conditions of twenty-first-century capitalism.
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Stanford University Press Whither Fanon
Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the wars of decolonization. Investigating and foregrounding the clinical system that Fanon devised in an attempt to intervene against negrophobia and anti-blackness, this book rereads his clinical and political work together, arguing that the two are mutually imbricated. For the first time, Fanon''s therapeutic innovations are considered along with his more overtly political and cultural writings to ask how the crises of war affected his practice, informed his politics, and shaped his subsequent ideas. As David Marriott suggests, this combination of the clinical and political involves a psychopolitics that is, by definition, complex, difficult, and perpetually challenging. He details this psychopolitics from two points of view, focusing fiTrade Review"This book is a clarifying event amid recent readings of Fanon and a radical intervention in the conventional ones. Writing with an intensity and momentum unparalleled by other scholars in the field, David Marriott is Frantz Fanon's first reader." -- Frank B. Wilderson III * University of California, Irvine *"Whither Fanon? is one of the most original and significant works of theory of this generation. Drawing deeply from Fanon's clinical psychoanalytic work, David Marriott shows in labyrinthine precision how Fanon's colonial racial interiority is both far more unfree than has been imagined and open to an ungrounded revolution without reserve. Perhaps alone among Fanon's readers, Marriott keeps up with Fanon's own complexity, radical negativity, and creative criticality." -- Rei Terada * University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis introduction considers recent responses to what has become known as "critical Fanonism." Is Fanonism reducible to a narrative of liberation in which national and human liberation remains both telos and eschatology? Or does his work offer a different way of thinking about the relationship between time and event, law and violence, sovereignty and subject? Taking its cue from Fanon's meditation on the revolutionary moment as a tabula rasa, this introduction considers two broad ways of dealing with critical Fanonism: as a dialectical phenomenology and as a politics of redemption and/or liberation. Along the way, it asks why "narrative" and "experience" continue to be more or less the principal terms for engaging with Fanon's thought and attempts to show how Fanon escapes the teleological and phenomenological hold of both terms in a way that suggests differing theoretical possibilities. 1Psychodramas chapter abstractThis chapter presents an overview of the development and genealogy of Fanon's socialthérapie, showing how this innovation in clinical method followed from a radically new approach to the colony as both group idea and praxis. Drawing on Fanon's clinical papers, it pursues the following questions: how does politics inform Fanon's therapeutics? And what of psychoanalysis in the colony? What is the relation between Fanonian socialthérapie and François Tosquelles's thérapeutiques institutionnelles? And why did Fanon describe group therapy as a "transvaluation"? In the course of the discussion, Fanon's notions of madness and alienation are presented—including his view of the clinic itself as a form of psychodrama and psychic life as a form of occupation. 2The Clinic as Praxis chapter abstractThis chapter compares Fanon's critiques of colonial neuropsychiatry and, in particular, its diagnostic use of racial heredity to the institutional innovations of his own therapeutic practices, including his use of psychoanalytic therapies. The chapter charts the complex evolution of that usage from 1952 to 1958, a period in which the notion of therapy changes from that of a mirror of disalienation to that of a more unnameable n'est pas in which resolution is no longer seen as a move towards egoic reintegration. It becomes clear that identification is conceived no longer in specular terms as an imaginary misrecognition but more in terms of something foreclosed, lost, or missing; in other words, the experience of colonial racism is compared to that of an unconscious content that is irreversible, nontransferable, and inexplicable and yet is coextensive with the feeling of an uncanny wretchedness. 3Negrophobogenesis chapter abstractThis brief chapter outlines the main diagnostic terms of Fanon's socialthérapie—epidermalization, petrification, and sociogeny. The question of how racism comes to be embodied, or how the body comes to acquire a racial signifiance, for example, is shown to be a key element of Fanon's conception of le vécu noir, or black lived experience. What that conception shows is the dilemma of becoming black when becoming is established via a certain historicity of hatred that fails to go beyond the level of affect, which remains tied to the various episodes of its racialization. 4Historicity and Guilt chapter abstractThe chapter begins with a reconsideration of the relation between institutional therapy and the entire problem of the semblable, then moving on to discuss Fanon's struggle, in his clinical writings, to understand the resistance to treatment by the colonisé. The starting point for this discussion is Mannoni's Psychologie de la colonisation and Fanon's critique of its oedipalization of cultural conflict. It is here, in this critique, that Fanon begins his alternative investigations of guilt, truth, historicity, and reason—defined and elaborated via Jaspers's notion of Grenzsituationen, language and cultural translation in the colony, and the cultural conflict over signs, signification, and media. In the course of the discussion, Fanon's alternative ideology of the sign—which indicates a new psycho-political message—is elaborated. 5Racial Fetishism chapter abstractThis chapter presents Fanon's work on anxiety in relation to fetishism. The aim here is to show how negrophobia—as stereotype, fantasy, idea, and affect—functions as a source of traumatic energy in the psychic life of the colonized. The chapter begins with a detailed survey of one of the longest case histories in Black Skin, White Masks in order to elicit Fanon's explanation of racial anxiety, before moving on to consider the stereotype as a type of fetishistic thinking and practice in the libidinal and political economies of the colony (and postcolony). The stereotype-as-fetish is integral to Fanon's discussion of disguised or repressed representations and what he calls the overdetermination of blackness as phobic object. What is also clear is that representation itself does not allow us to accurately recognize the differences between Vorstellung and Darstellung in Fanon's analyses, nor the question of racial capitalism more generally. 6Desire and Law chapter abstractThough the initial hypothesis of this chapter—that Oedipus as colonus must be distinguished from its classical version—has met with little if any discussion, it is nonetheless fundamental for understanding the way in which the colonisé experiences both its desire and its inhibition as a form of guilty indebtedness. The chapter explores this guilt as arising from a flaw that is both de facto and de jure subject to a command that can neither be forsworn nor borne. The chapter also discusses Fanon's analyses of dispossession together with his clinical study of subjects who have succumbed to an absolute depersonalization during total war. Accordingly, the following questions are discussed: how is this flaw experienced as Erlebnis? How can blackness appear to itself other than as guilt and expiation? What is the role of this anti-Oedipus in colonial war, torture, and state violence? 7The Condemned chapter abstractThis chapter discusses Fanon's refusal, in contrast to the supporters of cultural nationalism, to advocate a black conception of the world, ethics, and politics, alongside his rejection of any teleological view of time, emancipation, or freedom. The chapter looks at Fanon's call for a blackness that is n'est pas and that cannot be put to work either dialectically, speculatively, progressively, or fugitively. Only the n'est pas is capable of expressing the temporal sensibility of Fanonism and its struggle to make known the pathologies of blackness and its reactionary culture of ressentiment. The chapter charts this struggle via afro-pessimism, which it uses to illustrate the central antinomies of what are, by definition, the blackest characteristics of Fanon's thought. 8Invention chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the various notions of invention in Fanon's work. Fanon invokes invention as a descent that is also a surpassing, a leap, that allows the colonisé to grasp the non-permanent nature of colonial historic truth. This is why, politically, Fanon's thinking of invention criticizes traditional notions of political organization, or sovereign will, and argues overtly for a revolutionary violence that is separated from the institutions of politics. In this chapter, Fanon's notion of invention is compared to that of Georges Sorel and C. L. R. James—two thinkers who make invention synonymous with class struggle and who thereby oppose spontaneity to certain forms of bureaucracy and the values of the bourgeois order as such. While James situates invention in a Marxist milieu, the chapter argues that the form in which Fanonian invention manifests itself cannot be plotted according to the preestablished forms of Marxist philosophy or dialectics. 9Existence chapter abstractThis chapter examines invention not as a figure of history, scientific method, anthropology, or politics but as a question of existence. It shows how invention cannot be limited to knowledge, narrative, or even the political command for a greater awareness of illusion or reality. These paths—which continue to dominate readings of Fanonism—are shown to be simplifications of what Fanon expresses as the sociogenic truths of colonialism. In a reading of sociogeny that engages with the psychoanalytic genealogy of the term, the chapter argues that modern readings of sociogeny need remedying in order to link sociogeny to trauma, repetition, and neurosis. 10The Abyssal chapter abstractThis chapter revisits Fanon's complex relationship to negritude and, in particular, to the poetry of Aimé Césaire. On the one hand, it establishes a clear link between Césaire's abyssal theory of negritude and Fanon's no less poetic attempt to rethink the relation between the universal and the particular at the point where either becomes the abyssal mediation of the other in the conjoined sphere of an enriching saturation. The abyssal, for its part, indicates a profoundly original approach to black writing and thought and designates a perpetual opening that is, by definition, oblique and singular. This opening is pursued via the interrelated figures of corpsing, social death, and orphic descent.
£98.60
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies
Book SynopsisFeatures the American humourist Will Rogers' writings and observations on society during World War I and the Roaring Twenties. Included in this collection are two of Rogers' most popular books, "The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference" and "The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition".
£19.90
John Wiley & Sons The Call of the Wild
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Louisiana State University Press Making the Poem
Book SynopsisWallace Stevens remains one of the major figures of American modernist poetry, celebrated for his masterful style and investigations of the natural, political, and metaphysical worlds. Stevens scholar George Lensing explores the poet's progress in the creation of his body of work, considering its development, composition, and reception.
£35.96
Louisiana State University Press Wharton Hemingway and the Advent of Modernism
Book SynopsisExamines the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers' overlapping contexts, interests, and aesthetic techniques.
£36.86
Louisiana State University Press Reclaiming Assia Wevill
Book SynopsisReconsiders cultural representations of Assia Wevill (1927-1969). Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick's innovative study combines feminist recovery work with discussions of the power and gendered dynamics that shape literary history. She focuses on how Wevill figures into poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Beautiful and Damned
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the novel’s centennial in 2022, this collection approaches The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more than its faults. Prominent Fitzgerald scholars analyse major themes and reveal unappreciated issues with attention to history, biography, literary influence, gender studies, and narratology.
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