Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Harvard University Press Ukrainian Futurism 19141930
Book SynopsisOleh Ilnytzkyj seeks to rectify the misinterpretations surrounding the Futurists and their leader Mykhail Semenko by providing the first major English-language monograph on this vibrant literary movement and its charismatic leader.Trade ReviewIlnytzkyj’s great achievement is to demonstrate that Semenko’s followers were in fact part of the mainstream attempt in the first quarter of the century to transcend the rural basis of Ukrainian identity and create a new, vibrant and more ’modern’ sense of self. -- Andrew Wilson * Slavic and East European Review [UK] *[Ukrainian Futurism] will be a landmark in Ukrainian literary history since it offers, for the first time, a critical and historical analysis of this neglected subject. It will also receive high marks for meticulous research and balanced, well-argued conclusions. The best way of acquainting the Ukrainian reader with it would be to translate and publish [it] in Ukrainian, for it is very doubtful that a critical work of comparable acumen will be published any time soon… To read Ilnytzkyj’s book is to savor the many strands of the rich Ukrainian cultural tapestry in the critical post-World War I epoch. -- George S. N. Luckyj * Slavic Review *
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International Brecht Society The Brecht Yearbook Das Brecht Jahrbuch Volume
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht continues to be regarded as one of the twentieth century's most controversial and influential writers. His life and work raise important questions about the nature and function of literature and theater, about perception and commitment, about feminist approaches to politics and literature, and about intellectual property rights. The Brecht Yearbook is a venue for discussion about aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and the politics of theater in a global context. The Yearbook, like Brecht himself, is committed to the concept of the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Volume 35 has a special section on questions of Marxism and ethics in the work of Brecht. Other contributions focus on the early years of the author and the theory and practice of staging Brechtian plays. The volume also includes two contemporary texts written in the Brechtian tradition.
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International Brecht Society The Brecht Yearbook Das BrechtJahrbuch 36
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht continues to be regarded as one of the twentieth century's most controversial and influential writers. His life and work raise important questions about the nature and function of literature and theater, about perception and commitment, about feminist approaches to politics and literature, and about intellectual property rights. The Brecht Yearbook is a venue for discussion about aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and the politics of theater in a global context. The volume Brecht in / and Asia contains twenty-six essays based on presentations given at Brecht in/and Asia,the thirteenth Symposium of the International Brecht Society (IBS), which was held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 2010. Themes covered include Brecht in India; contemporary Chinese theater; the 'Chinese' Brecht; tradition, Brecht, and political theater; Brecht between imperialism and postcolonialism, orient and occiTable of ContentsEditorial Brecht in India / Brecht in Indien Richard Schechner (New York) Malleable Brecht: The Performance Group\u2019s Mother Courage in India, 1976 Amal Allana (Delhi) Brecht: A Participant in the Process of Nation-Building Boris Dauss\u00e0-Pastor (New York) Estrangement in Kathakali Contemporary Japanese Theater / Japanisches Gegenwartstheater Michiko Tanigawa (Tokyo) Die Stellung des Black Tent Theaters in der japanischen Brecht-Rezeption Joachim Lucchesi (Berlin) Jan-Jan-Oper und Osaka Rap Teil 1: Brecht-Nachkl\u00e4nge im Theater Ishinha Akira Ichikawa (Osaka) Jan-Jan-Oper und Osaka Rap Teil 2: Yukichi Matsumotos Mizumachi und Keaton The \u201cChinese\u201d Brecht / Der \u201cchinesische\u201d Brecht Andreas Aurin (Sydney) Towards a Taoist Reading of the Lehrstu¨ck The Horatians and the Curiatians Weijia Li (Macomb) Braveness in Non-Action: The Taoist Strategy of Survival in Bertolt Brecht\u2019s Schweyk and Anna Seghers\u2019 Transit Zheng Jie (Singapore) Brecht\u2019s Good Person and Traditional Humanistic Chinese Philosophy: Towards an Ethical Subject Gu¨nther Heeg (Leipzig) Brechts chinesische Wendungen: Me-ti und die Praxis kultureller Flexionen Yuan Tan (Wuhan) Unter der chinesischen Maske: Neue Studien zu Brechts „Sechs chinesischen Gedichten\u201c Eberhard Fritz (Altshausen) Die Gro\u00dfmutter, der Pietismus und die Missionare: Neue biografische Erkl\u00e4rungsans\u00e4tze in Bezug auf Brechts „chinesisches Werk\u201c Friedemann Weidauer (Storrs) Brecht\u2019s (Brush with) Maoism Tradition—Brecht—Political Theater / Tradition—Brecht—Politisches Theater Farzana Akhter (Dhaka) Performing Brecht in Bangladesh: Making the Unfamiliar Familiar Parichat Jungwiwattanaporn (Bangkok) Brechtian Theater Meets Buddhist Aesthetics: Kamron Gunatilaka\u2019s The Revolutionist Jan Creutzenberg (Seoul) The Good Person of Korea: Lee Jaram 's Sacheon-ga as a Dialogue between Brecht and Pansori Brecht between Imperialism and Postcolonialism, Orient and Occident / Brecht zwischen Imperialismus und Postkolonialismus, Orient und Okzident Marc Silberman (Madison) A Postcolonial Brecht? Melissa Dinsman (Notre Dame) Imperial Brecht? Bertolt Brecht\u2019s Complex Portrayal of Empire in Mann ist Mann Gudrun Tabbert-Jones (Santa Clara) The \u201cLord of the South See\u201d and His \u201cMaori Woman:\u201d The Function of the Tahiti Metaphor in Brecht\u2019s Early Works Martin Revermann (Toronto) Brecht\u2019s Asia vs. Brecht\u2019s Greece: Cultural Constructs and the Explanatory Power of a Binary Fritz Bennewitz\u2019s Intercultural Brecht Productions / Fritz Bennewitz\u2019 interkulturelle Brecht-Inszenierungen Rolf Rohmer (Leipzig) Ann\u00e4herungen an den Interkulturalismus mit Brecht: Fritz Bennewitz\u2019 Theaterarbeit in Asien Joerg Esleben (Ottawa) From Didactic to Dialectic Intercultural Theater: Fritz Bennewitz and the 1973 Production of the Caucasian Chalk Circle in Mumbai David G. John (Waterloo) Fritz Bennewitz\u2019s Islamic Chalk Circle in the Philippines Brecht(\u2019s) Adaptations / Brecht(s) Bearbeitungen Dennis Carroll (Honolulu) Wuolijoki, Brecht, \u201cWell Made\u201d Dramaturgy, and The Judith of Shimoda Markus Wessendorf (Honolulu) \u201cFear and Misery\u201d Post-9/11: Mark Ravenhill\u2019s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat Conspectus Antony Tatlow (Dublin) Brecht\u2019s East Asia
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Brecht Yearbook Das BrechtJahrbuch 40
Book SynopsisNewest volume of the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht and aspects of theater and literature of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and theater in a global context.Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House under the Society's editorship, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of the life and work of Bertolt Brecht and of aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and theater in a global context. The Yearbook welcomes a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, and, like Brecht himself, it is committed to the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Volume 40 features new research on Brechtian concepts of temporality (Matthias Rothe) and the apparatus (Thomas Pekar), as well as articles on the "Bilder aus der Kriegsfibel" (Arnold Pistiak), the poem "Die Nachtlager" (Klaus-Dieter Krabiel), Brecht and Peruvian theater (Carlos Vargas-Salgado), early Brecht productions in Australia (Laura Ginters), and Brecht and Karl Kraus (Jost Hermand). Biographically oriented pieces focus on Brecht and the Chinese author Feng Zhi (Lin Cheng) and an unpublished letter to Brecht from 1918 (Jürgen Hillesheim). Special contents include a portfolio of drawings by DieterGoltzsche, with a brief introduction by the artist, a tribute to Sara Joffré, a brief set of texts related to the exchanges between Hanns Eisler and Hans Bunge, introduced by Sabine Berendse, and an open letter to Brecht from Hans-Thies Lehmann and Helene Varopoulou. Theodore F. Rippey is Associate Professor of German at Bowling Green State University.Table of ContentsTribute: Sara Joffré, Soul of Peruvian Theater - Carlos Vargas-Salgado Brechtbrief / Letter to Brecht - Hans-Thies Lehmann and Helene Varopoulou 24h DURCHEINANDER / 24h MUDDLE - Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke Erinnerungen an das Brecht-Theater - Dieter Goltzsche The Temporality of Critique: Bertolt Brecht's Fragment Jae Fleischhacker in Chikago (1924-1929) - Matthias Rothe Apparate und Korper: Überlegungen zu Bertolt Brechts Radiolehrstück Der Ozeanflug - Thomas Pekar Wer ist Oscar? Ein unveröffentlichter Brief an Brecht vom 12. Juni 1918 aus schottischer Kriegsgefangenschaft - Jurgen Hillesheim "leg das buch nicht nieder, der du das liesest, mensch": Brechts Gedicht "Die Nachtlager" - Klaus-Dieter Krabiel Übersehen oder verbannt? Hanns Eislers Bilder aus der Kriegsfibel - Arnold Pistiak Framing Two Accompaniments to Brecht, Music and Culture: Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge - Sabine Berendse Hanns Eisler Gespräche mit Hans Bunge: Fragen Sie mehr über Brecht - Georg Knepler Memories of Hans Bunge: on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, 3 December 2009 - Manfred Bierwisch Das "Wiedersehen": Der chinesische Dichter und Germanist Feng Zhi und Bertolt Brecht - Lin Cheng Brechtian Challenges to Theater Artists during the Internal War in Peru - Carlos Vargas-Salgado "Good Woman should have been done in one of our big theaters long before this": Brecht, the Students, and the Making of the New Wave of Australian Theater - Laura Ginters Mark Twain's "Magnanimous-Incident" Hero and Bertolt Brecht's Der gute Mensch von Sezuan - Cora Lee Kluge Navid Kermani's Literary Reflections: On Kafka, Brecht, and the Koran - Vera Stegmann Karl Kraus und Bertolt Brecht: Über die Vergleichbarkeit des Unvergleichlichen - Jost Hermand Book Reviews
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Brecht Yearbook Das BrechtJahrbuch 43
Book SynopsisThe leading scholarly publication on Brecht; volume 43 contains a wealth of articles on diverse topics and a reconstruction of the two-chorus version of The Exception and the Rule.Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of interest to him, especially the politics of literature and theater in a global context. It encourages a wide variety of perspectives and approaches and, like Brecht, is committed to the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Volume 43 opens with a reconstruction of Brecht's two-chorus version of The Exception and the Rule (Reiner Steinweg) and continues with a selection of Helmut Heißenbüttel's reviews of Brecht's work. Four articles (by Christine Künzel, Carsten Mindt, Judith Niehaus,and Sebastian Schuller) address Brechtian aspects of Gisela Elsner's novels. The next two essays (by Hunter Bivens and Friedemann Weidauer) revisit Brecht's reflections on affect and empathy. Also included are papers from the 2016IBS "Recycling Brecht" Symposium: on Brecht's recycling of Lenin in his "neue Dramatik" (Joseph Dial), on Paul Celan as a reconfiguration of Brecht (Paul Peters), on Brecht's adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus (MartinRevermann), and on Hilary Mantel's Brechtian reconfiguration of Thomas Cromwell (Markus Wessendorf). The volume features Richard Schröder's farewell lecture on Brecht's Life of Galileo and an essay by Ulrich Plass on BerndStegemann's allegedly Brechtian reclamation of critical realism. It concludes with Zhang Wei's interview with the Chinese dramaturg, playwright, and Brecht translator Li Jianming. Editor Markus Wessendorf is a Professorin the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in Honolulu.Table of ContentsCRITICAL EDITION OF DIE AUSNAHME UND DIE REGEL Editionsbericht: Die Ausnahme und die Regel - Reiner Steinweg Die Ausnahme und die Regel (Lehrstueckfassung in zwei Choeren, hrsg. von Reiner Steinweg) - Bertolt Brecht HELMUT HEISSENBUETTEL ON BRECHT Helmut Heissenbuettel empfiehlt zum Lesen: Dreigroschenroman von Bertolt Brecht (1967) - Helmut Heissenbuettel Wann ist Musik dumm? Eisler, Brecht und engagierte Kunst (1970) - Helmut Heissenbuettel Der Krimileser, der Dramen schrieb: Bertolt Brechts Arbeitsjournal und seine Kritiker (1973) - Helmut Heissenbuettel Helmut Heissenbuettel ueber das Arbeitsjournal 1938-1955 von Bertolt Brecht - Helmut Heissenbuettel Helmut Heissenbuettel ueber Bertolt Brechts Tagebuecher 1920-22, Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen 1920-1954 und Kurt Schwitters Wir spielen, bus ins der Tod abholt: Briefe aus fuenf Jahrzehnten (1975) - Helmut Heissenbuettel "Verbietet nur der Kaelte, kalt zu sein." Ueber Brechts Gedichte aus dem Nachlass (1982) - Helmut Heissenbuettel BRECHT UND GISELA ELSNER V-Effekte und andere Versuche, die Wirklichkeit zu bewaeltigen: Gisela Elsner und Bertolt Brecht - Christine Kuenzel "Die Befreiung von dem Zwang, Hypnose auszuueben." Zusammenhaenge zwischen einer narrativen und theatralen Strategie der Verfremdung - Christian Mindt Verfremdete und verfremdende Schrift bei Gisela Elsner und Bertolt Brecht - Judith Niehaus "Die Saeure der materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung." Zur Literatur des eingreifenden Denkens bei Bertolt Brecht und Gisela Elsner - Sebastian Schuller BRECHT, AFFECT, EMPATHY Brecht's Cruel Optimism or, What Are Socialist Affects? - Hunter Bivens Reinigung der Gefuehle? Brecht, Chaplin und Empathie in Film und Theater - Friedemann Weidauer RECYCLING BRECHT: PART 2 Recycling Lenin: The Role of Lenin's The Imperialist War: The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism and Social-Pacifism in Brecht's Neue Dramatik - Joseph Dial Celan als Rekonfigurierung Brechts - Paul Peters Bert's Bard: (Re)Assessing Brecht's Translation of Coriolanus - Martin Revermann A Brechtian Reinterpretation of Thomas Cromwell: Hilary Mantel's Novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies - Markus Wessendorf NEW BRECHT RESEARCH Brecht, Galilei, das Fernrohr und die Bibel - Richard Schroeder Patronizing the Crisis: Bernd Stegemann's Dramaturgy of Critical Realism and Authoritarian Populism - Ulrich Plass INTERVIEW In the Brechtian Spirit of Independent Thought: An Interview with Li Jianming - Zhang Wei BOOK REVIEWS
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish
Book SynopsisThis concise companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field.Trade Review“Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free of socio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measured historical overview and a critical introduction, and one can see that the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what are described as intricate negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies and positions.” (Suite101.com, 17 February 2014)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xii Chronology xv Introduction 1Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton 1 Poetic Modernism and the Century’s Wars 11 Vincent Sherry How the experience of continuous war and the collapse of liberalism shape modernist poetry and the twentieth century as a whole, focusing on Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and David Jones. 2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32 Stephen Burt How the poetry of the Movement established a dominant and continuing mode in postwar British poetry, with discussions of Robert Conquest’s anthology New Lines, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage, Lavinia Greenlaw, Alison Brackenbury, and Peter Scupham. 3 Myth, History, and The New Poetry 51 Nigel Alderman Discusses the reaction of the 1960s and later decades to modernist myth-making and Movement antimodernism, exploring the problem of formulating a historical poetics, with attention to Philip Larkin, A. Alvarez’s anthology The New Poetry, Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. 4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72 Michael Thurston Surveys the poetry of peripheral nationalisms and regionalisms, concentrating on the oscillation between commitment and irony in Northern Ireland (John Montague, Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon), Wales (R. S. Thomas, Tony Conran, Robert Minhinnick, Oliver Reynolds, Gillian Clarke), Scotland (W. S. Graham, George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith, Douglas Dunn, Raymond Vettese, Tom Leonard, Kathleen Jamie), northern England, and the Midlands (Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, Jon Silkin, Geoffrey Hill, and Roy Fisher). 5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92 John P. Waters Charts three generations of poets in Northern Ireland, attending to the ways in which problems of identity have generated formal innovation, focusing upon Louis MacNeice, John Hewitt, and Patrick Kavanagh; Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley; Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, and Medbh McGuckian. 6 Poetry and Decolonization 111 Jahan Ramazani Addresses the emergent poetic forms produced by newly independent postcolonial nations and the reaction of poets in the newly post-imperial British state, including discussions of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols, Bernadine Evaristo, Louise Bennett, Okot p’Bitek, Philip Larkin, Noel Coward, Tony Harrison, Christopher Okigbo, and Agha Shahid Ali. 7 Transatlantic Currents 134 C. D. Blanton Considers the resistance to and reception of American influence, focusing on the problem of cultural translation, from the modernists and the Auden generation to the Movement, the British poetry revival, and the contemporary avant-garde. 8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155 Drew Milne Surveys the complex array of avant-garde formations after modernism, tracing the multiple experimental tendencies of neo-modernist writing, with particular attention to the sites, groupings, anthologies, and critical languages of recent innovative poetries. 9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject 176 Linda A. Kinnahan Explores the reinflection of lyric conventions and subjectivities by recent women poets, including Gillian Clarke, Jean “Binta” Breeze, Grace Nichols, Carol Ann Duffy, and Denise Riley. 10 Place, Space, and Landscape 200 Eric Falci Discusses the postwar recuperation of a poetics of place, with examples drawn from Grace Nichols, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Roy Fisher, Ciaran Carson, and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. 11 Poetry and Religion 221 Romana Huk Traces the lingering importance of religious language and thought in an apparently secular era, considering T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, J. F. Hendry, Kathleen Raine, David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Donald Davie, C. H. Sisson, Geoffrey Hill, Jon Silkin, Wole Soyinka, David Marriott, Brian Coffey, John Riley, Pauline Stainer, and Wendy Mulford. 12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243 Peter Middleton Underscores the importance of the material contexts of poetic production to an understanding of the significance of a poem, with close attention to poems by Andrew Motion, J. H. Prynne, and Lavinia Greenlaw. References 264 Index 285
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary
Book SynopsisTHE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have cTrade Review“With this astounding project and a joint effort of editors and scholars, the companion is of great help for students and scholars in need of an introduction to certain authors and a comprehensive view of the contemporary British and Irish literature.” - Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4 (2):144-49Table of ContentsVolume One PrefaceRichard Bradford Part One 1. Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and PoetryRichard Bradford 2. British Literature Today: 21st century British literatureStephen Butler 3. Introduction to Contemporary Irish WritingJames Ward 4. Overview of Modern/Contemporary DramaKevin De Ornellas Part Two 5. Aidan Higgins: Disguised AutobiographiesNeil Murphy 6. Brian FrielGraham Price 7. Alan BennettJoseph H. O’Mealy 8. Edward BondPeter Billingham 9. Seamus HeaneyAdam Hanna 10. Michael MoorcockMark Williams 11. Angela CarterAnja Muller-Wood 12. Christina ReidMichal Lachman 13. Bernard MacLaverty Richard Russell13a. Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative CommunityPilar Villar-Argáiz 14. I am, therefore I think: being and thinking inside the world of John Banville’s fictionAlisa Hemphill 15. Julian Barnes (born 1946)Vanessa Guignery 16. Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman’s FictionJohnny Rodger 17. Howard Barker (and the Art of Theatre)Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Vanasay Khamphommala 18. Marina LewyckaHeather Fielding 19. Dermot Healy (1947-2014)Keith Hopper 20. David EdgarSean Carney 21. Ian McEwanBrian Diemert 22. Tom Paulin - Writer and TranslatorStephanie Schwerter 23. Graham SwiftDaniel Lea 24. Martin AmisAndrew James 25. Peter AckroydJean-Michel Ganteau 26. Patrick McGrathSue Zlosnik 27. Medbh McguckianBarbola Farago 28. Paul MuldoonAlex Alonso 29. William Boyd: ‘Fiction… so real you forget it is fiction’Christine Berberich 30. ‘Some of these things are true, and some of them lies. But they are all good stories’: the Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel Laura J Burkinshaw 31. Linton Kwesi JohnsonEmily Taylor Merriman 32. Hanif KureishiLaurenz Volkmann 33. Colm TóibínKathleen Costello-Sullivan 34. Janice GallowayDorothy Mcmillan 35. Martin CrimpAleks Sierz 36. Adam ThorpeDominic Head 37. Benjamin ZephaniahGraham MacPhee 38. Jeanette WintersonSusana Onega 39. Jonathan CoeLaurent Mellet 40. From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will SelfKevin De Ornellas Volume Two PrefaceRichard Bradford Part Two 41. Jackie KayNerys Williams 42. Kathleen JamieHeather Yeung 43. Ali SmithMonica Germanà 44. A.L. KennedyMonika Szuba 45. Monica AliMichael Perfect 46. Sarah WatersNatasha Alden 47. David GreigClare Wallace 48. David MitchellPatrick O’Donnell 49. Emma DonoghueAbigail Palko 50. Hari KunzruPeter Childs 51. Mark O’RoweDavid Clare 52. Conor McPhersonEamonn Jordan 53. China MiévilleEric Sandberg 54. Zadie SmithChris Holmes Part Three 55. Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary PoetryDavid Wheatley 56. Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish LiteratureArianna Introna 57. Welsh Writing in English (c. 1990 - present)D.J. Howells 58. Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers And Spies: Englishness And Identity In The Contemporary British NovelElsa Cavalié 59. LGBT and FictionJoseph Ronan 60. British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative ‘Singularity’Dr Grace Halden 61. British Influences on the Graphic Novel: a Discussion of the ‘Invasion’ Model of InterpretationHugo Frey 62. The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice’s Great-great-granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy WorldsKatharine Kittredge 63. Contemporary British Gothic: the C21st ghost story.Katherine Byrne 64. Post-Troubles Northern Irish FictionDr. George Legg 65. Globalisation and its Discontents in Twenty-First Century British and Irish Crime FictionStephen Butler 66. British Psychogeographical FictionEva M. Pérez-Rodríguez 67. Representing gender: The Resurgence of Androgyny in Contemporary British LiteratureJustine Goneaud 68. Approaches to Modern, Contemporary DramaKevin De Ornellas 69. Verbatim TheatreCyrielle Garson 70. ‘It had stopped being history and turned into experience’: An Approach to the Historical Novel.Rebecca Devine 71. Global Literature and the Death of the Novel: Rushdie in Retro-PersepectiveMadelena Gonzalez 72. Strange Metaphors: Contemporary Black Writing in BritainJenni Ramone 73. Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social MediaMillicent Weber
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Palgrave Macmillan Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures
Book SynopsisShifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.Trade Review“Anupama Mohan has written a lively book with a focus on the utopian imaginative mode and the representation of the village in South Asian literatures … . Mohan’s book is thus a promising beginning: it is an entrée to a potentially highly fertile field, and whets one’s appetite for more work, for more academic conversations and collaborations between scholars working on utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia in South Asian literatures.” (Barnita Bagchi, Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 52 (4), 2015)“Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures is an excellent exploration of the function of the utopic in the representation of the rural in the work of Indian and Sri Lankan writers. … Anupama Mohan’s Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures is a very important contribution not only to South Asian literary studies and utopia studies but to scholars of spatial modernity as well, particularly in the postcolonial context.” (Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, South Asian Review, Vol. 36 (1), 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Representing the Rural Hind Swaraj and Rural Utopia Beddagama: Dystopia in Ceylon Kanthapura and Khasak: Utopia in Distress Koggala and the Reclaimed Buddhist Utopia Rethinking the Binary: Rural Heterotopia Conclusion Works Cited Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Modern Novel
Book SynopsisThis book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel. Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists. Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. Serves as an excellent springboard for classrTrade Review"What makes the 20th century novel modern? What relations to modernity make fiction experimental and new? Is the postmodern novel a fiction of exhaustion or the replenishment of modernism's purpose? In this detailed and readable book, Jesse Matz offers useful answers to these questions and a guide to novels from Henry james to Zadie Smith." Elaine Showalter "Jesse Matz’s The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction is an ambitious and impressive study of twentieth-century, English-language novels from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond ... This appealingly written, jargon-free overview of the modern novel will certainly change the way I think about – and teach – the field." Brian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Modern How?. 1 When and Why: The Rise of the Modern Novel. 2 “What is Reality?”: The New Questions. 3 New Forms: Reshaping the Novel. 4 New Difficulties. 5 Regarding the Real World: Politics. 6 Questioning the Modern: Mid-Century Revisions. 7 Postmodern Replenishments. 8 Postcolonial Modernity. Conclusions. Notes. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading the Novel in English 1950 2000
Book SynopsisReading the Novel in English 19502000; This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer's close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels that have become canonical and therefore this study is of great use to students generally and for those teaching them. Philip Tew, University College Northampton; Director, UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of English-language novel writing in the second half of the twentieth century. It focuses equally on British and Irish novelists, and on Anglophone novelists from other countries (exclusive of the US). The text provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of ten influential novels. It maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding the fiction of the Trade Review“This is an excellent introductory study, consisting of a series of essays concerning various important Anglophone novels from the period of the post-war to the present day. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer’s close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels that have become canonical and therefore this study is of great use to students generally and for those teaching them.” Philip Tew, University College Northampton; Director, UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies “This is a main theme to a comprehensive study of ten novels: Kingsley Amis’s Luck Jim; William Golding’s Lord of the Flies; Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea; J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians; Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale; Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day; Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy; and Graham Smith’s Last Orders…[Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000] is an asset to anyone who teaches any of these novels.” English Literature in Transition 1880 – 1920Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction: Contexts and Concepts for Reading the Novel in English, 1950-2000. 2. Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1953). 3. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954). 4. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). 5. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). 6. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). 7. J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). 8. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). 9. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989). 10. Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992). 11. Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996). Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading the Novel in English 1950 2000
Book SynopsisReading the Novel in English 19502000; This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer's close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels that have become canonical and therefore this study is of great use to students generally and for those teaching them. Philip Tew, University College Northampton; Director, UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of English-language novel writing in the second half of the twentieth century. It focuses equally on British and Irish novelists, and on Anglophone novelists from other countries (exclusive of the US). The text provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of ten influential novels. It maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding the fiction of the Trade Review“Shaffer provides an informative and contextualizing introduction that deals with issues of form and the shift from the ‘English novel’ to the ‘novel in English’ that was an important change in English literary studies over the period covered. The book is written in an accessible style that reflects its status as an introduction to the fiction of the period. The novels are well chosen, take an international focus, and provide a representative snapshot of fiction in English over the period … .There is a sensitive reading of each novel that takes into account the historical and cultural contexts informing them. Taken all in all, the book is a good introduction to the period and thus achieves what it sets out to do.” (Year's Work in English Studies, 2008) “This is a main theme to a comprehensive study of ten novels: Kingsley Amis’s Luck Jim; William Golding’s Lord of the Flies; Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea; J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians; Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale; Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day; Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy; and Graham Smith’s Last Orders…[Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000] is an asset to anyone who teaches any of these novels.” (English Literature in Transition 1880 – 1920)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction: Contexts and Concepts for Reading the Novel in English, 1950-2000. 2. Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1953). 3. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954). 4. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). 5. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). 6. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). 7. J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). 8. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). 9. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989). 10. Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992). 11. Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996). Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Literature and Culture 1900 1960
Book SynopsisThis introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it big, new, rich, and free. Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period. Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ways that foster discussion, questioning, and continued study. An appendix lists relevant primary and secondary works, including websites. An ideal supplement to primary texts taught in American literature courses. Trade Review"To call this an 'introduction' or 'guide' to its topic is accurate but modest...McDonald does not attempt to redefine texts so much as portray their coincidental nature...Highly Recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Timeline viii Acknowledgments xxii Introduction 1 1 Big 6 Expansion and its Discontents 12 The City 19 Representing Nature 36 Apocalypse 43 The Sense of Place 48 2 Rich 60 Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend 66 USA 71 Work and Identity 79 Labor Reform 91 Consumption and Identity 99 3 New 110 Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne 115 Young America 119 Making It New I: Literary Modernism 128 Making It New II: The Other Arts 149 4 Free 165 The Multiple Meanings of Freedom 170 War and the Affirmation of American Values 173 Writing War 180 Upstream Against the Mainstream 187 “An Inescapable Network of Mutuality” 203 Notes 211 Websites for Further Study of American Literature and Culture 215 Bibliography 217 Index 231
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Literature and Culture 1900 1960
Book SynopsisThis introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it big, new, rich, and free. Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period. Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ways that foster discussion, questioning, and continued study. An appendix lists relevant primary and secondary works, including websites. An ideal supplement to primary texts taught in American literature courses. Trade Review"To call this an 'introduction' or 'guide' to its topic is accurate but modest...McDonald does not attempt to redefine texts so much as portray their coincidental nature...Highly Recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Timeline viii Acknowledgments xxii Introduction 1 1 Big 6 Expansion and its Discontents 12 The City 19 Representing Nature 36 Apocalypse 43 The Sense of Place 48 2 Rich 60 Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend 66 USA 71 Work and Identity 79 Labor Reform 91 Consumption and Identity 99 3 New 110 Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne 115 Young America 119 Making It New I: Literary Modernism 128 Making It New II: The Other Arts 149 4 Free 165 The Multiple Meanings of Freedom 170 War and the Affirmation of American Values 173 Writing War 180 Upstream Against the Mainstream 187 “An Inescapable Network of Mutuality” 203 Notes 211 Websites for Further Study of American Literature and Culture 215 Bibliography 217 Index 231
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to TwentiethCentury American Drama
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA Contributors to this volume: Thomas P. Adler, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Annemarie Bean, Deanna M. Toten Beard, Murray Biggs, Stephen J. Bottoms, Mark Evans Bryan, Peter Civetta, Jerry Dickey, Jill Dolan, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Mark Fearnow, Anne Fletcher, Ehren Fordyce, J. Ellen Gainor, Janet V. Haedicke, Ann Haugo, David Krasner, Daphne Lei, Julia Listengarten, Felicia Hardison Londré, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Brenda A. Murphy, Christopher Olsen, Linda Rohrer Paige, Ann Pellegrini, Gene A. Plunka, Steven price, June Schlueter, Mike Sell, Rachel Shteir, Molly Smith. Andrew Sofer, Leslie A. Wade Also available in The Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series:Trade Review“This Companion provides an original and authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field.” (Stephen Baker Hot Fiction Books, 31 December 2012) “This volume includes more than 30 meticulously researched essays, some with illustrations, by the best-known contemporary experts on American drama and theater … Highly recommended. All collections; all levels.” Choice Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xii Foreword by Molly Smith xvii Acknowledgments xix 1. Introduction: The Changing Perceptions of American Drama 1David Krasner 2. American Drama, 1900–1915 3Mark Evans Bryan 3. Ethnic Theatre in America 18Rachel Shteir 4. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915–1941 34J. Ellen Gainor and Jerry Dickey 5. American Experimentalism, American Expressionism, and Early O’Neill 53Deanna M. Toten Beard 6. Many-Faceted Mirror: Drama as Reflection of Uneasy Modernity in the 1920s 69Felicia Hardison Londré 7. Playwrights and Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 91Annemarie Bean 8. Reading Across the 1930s 106Anne Fletcher 9. Famous Unknowns: The Dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein 127Sarah Bay-Cheng 10. Eugene O’Neill: American Drama and American Modernism 142David Krasner 11. Fissures Beneath the Surface: Drama in the 1940s and 1950s 159Thomas P. Adler 12. Tennessee Williams 175Brenda A. Murphy 13. Expressing and Exploring Faith: Religious Drama in America 192Peter Civetta 14. The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller 209Murray Biggs 15. Drama of the 1960s 229Christopher Olsen 16. Fifteen-Love, Thirty-Love: Edward Albee 247Steven Price 17. The Drama of the Black Arts Movement 263Mike Sell 18. Sam Shepard and the American Sunset: Enchantment of the Mythic West 285Leslie A. Wade 19. Staging the Binary: Asian American Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century 301Daphne Lei 20. August Wilson 318Harry J. Elam, Jr. 21. Native American Drama 334Ann Haugo 22. John Guare and the Popular Culture Hype of Celebrity Status 352Gene A. Plunka 23. Writing Beyond Borders: A Survey of US Latina/o Drama 370Tiffany Ana Lopez 24. ‘‘Off the Porch and into the Scene’’: Southern Women Playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin 388Linda Rohrer Paige 25. David Mamet: America on the American Stage 406Janet V. Haedicke 26. 1970–1990: Disillusionment, Identity, and Discovery 423Mark Fearnow 27. Maria Irene Fornes: Acts of Translation 440Andrew Sofer 28. From Eccentricity to Endurance: Jewish Comedy and the Art of Affirmation 456Julia Listengarten 29. Repercussions and Remainders in the Plays of Paula Vogel: An Essay in Five Moments 473Ann Pellegrini 30. Lesbian and Gay Drama 486Jill Dolan 31. American Drama of the 1990s On and Off-Broadway 504June Schlueter 32. Solo Performance Drama: The Self as Other? 519Stephen J. Bottoms 33. Experimental Drama at the End of the Century 536Ehren Fordyce Index 552
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945
Book SynopsisA Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene''s Heart of the Matter, Jean Rhys''s Wide Sargasso Sea and Kazuo Ishiguro''s The Remains of the Day Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed Trade Review"Esseintally two books in one, this is both a useful reference guide and a detailed introduction tot he postwar British novel." Recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Preface xvi Acknowledgments xx PART I Contexts for the British and Irish Novel, 1945–2000 1 1 The Literary Response to the Second World War 3Damon Marcel DeCoste 2 The ‘‘Angry’’ Decade and After 21Dale Salwak 3 English Dystopian Satire in Context 32M. Keith Booker 4 The Feminist Novel in the Wake of Virginia Woolf 45Roberta Rubenstein 5 Postmodern Fiction and the Rise of Critical Theory 65Patricia Waugh 6 The Novel and the End of Empire 83Reed Way Dasenbrock 7 Postcolonial Novels and Theories 96Feroza Jussawalla 8 Fictions of Belonging: National Identity and the Novel in Ireland and Scotland 112Gerard Carruthers 9 Black British Interventions 128John Skinner 10 The Recuperation of History in British and Irish Fiction 144Margaret Scanlan 11 The Literary Prize Phenomenon in Context 160James F. English 12 Novelistic Production and the Publishing Industry in Britain and Ireland 177Claire Squires 13 The Novel and the Rise of Film and Video: Adaptation and British Cinema 194Brian McFarlane 14 The English Heritage Industry and Other Trends in the Novel at the Millennium 210Peter Childs PART II Reading Individual Texts and Authors 225 15 Samuel Beckett’s Watt 227S. E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley 16 George Orwell’s Dystopias: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four 241Erika Gottlieb 17 Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Other Late Novels 254Bernard Schweizer 18 Modernism’s Swansong: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano 266Patrick A. McCarthy 19 The Heart of the Matter and the Later Novels of Graham Greene 278Cedric Watts 20 William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Other Early Novels 289Kevin McCarron 21 Amis, Father and Son 302Merritt Moseley 22 Dame Iris Murdoch 314Margaret Moan Rowe 23 Academic Satire: The Campus Novel in Context 326Kenneth Womack 24 Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet 340Julius Rowan Raper 25 The Oxford Fantasists: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien 354Peter J. Schakel 26 Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 367Bryan Cheyette 27 Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook 376Judith Kegan Gardiner 28 Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea 388John J. Su 29 John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman 398James Acheson 30 Angela Carter 409Nicola Pitchford 31 Margaret Drabble 421Margaret Moan Rowe 32 V. S. Naipaul 432Timothy Weiss 33 Salman Rushdie 444Nico Israel 34 The Irish Novel after Joyce 457Donna Potts 35 Anita Brookner 469Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 36 Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot 481Merritt Moseley 37 Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day 493Cynthia F. Wong 38 Ian McEwan 504Rebecca L. Walkowitz 39 Graham Swift 515Donald P. Kaczvinsky 40 The Scottish New Wave 526David Goldie 41 A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance 538Lynn Wells 42 Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy 550Anne Whitehead Index 561
£150.26
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Novel Now
Book SynopsisThe Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith, A.L. Kennedy, Matt Thorne, Nicola Barker, and Toby Litt Incorporates original coverage of subgenres such as chick lit, lad lit, gay fiction, crime fiction, and the historical novel Discusses the ways in which notions of regional identity and tribalist views have surfaced in UK and Irish fiction, and how post-Imperial sensibility has become a feature of the British' novel Situates contemporary fiction within its socio-cultural and literary contexts. Trade Review“It is keenly aware and neatly arranged in examining individual authors and their unique qualities while also tracing connecting threads within the many works of the British novel. Bradford … also establishes deep contexts for his work and the works he examines.” (Evelyn Waugh Newsletter And Studies) "This survey of a vast field is elegantly managed, with agreeable readings along the way." (The Guardian) "Bradford is formidable, bracing and wildly stimulating" (The Telegraph) Praise for Richard Bradford’s previous works: For Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis "sharp and convincing… written with magisterial skill" (The Daily Telegraph) "perceptive… intelligent… written with an unstrident ease and sympathy that would surely have pleased his subject" (The Spectator) For First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin "quite the best book [on him] yet to appear… a masterful analysis… Bradford is in such complete command of his subject matter, nothing escapes him. It is as if he has had access to Larkin’s very thought processes. A great biography of a great artistic genius. Utterly magnificent" (The Daily Express) "extraordinary… quite the best thing to appear on Larkin in ages" (The London Evening Standard)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?. 1. Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel. 2. Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan. 3. The Effects of Thatcherism. 4. The New Postmodernists. Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary. 5. The New Historical Novel. 6. Crime and Spy Fiction. Part III: Sex. 7. Women. 8. Men. 9. Gay Fiction. Part IV: Nation, Race and Place. 10. Scotland. 11. England, Englishness and Class. 12. The Question of Elsewhere. 13. Wales. 14. The Troubles. 15. Epilogue: The State of the Novel. Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Novel Now
Book SynopsisThe Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith, A.L. Kennedy, Matt Thorne, Nicola Barker, and Toby Litt Incorporates original coverage of subgenres such as chick lit, lad lit, gay fiction, crime fiction, and the historical novel Discusses the ways in which notions of regional identity and tribalist views have surfaced in UK and Irish fiction, and how post-Imperial sensibility has become a feature of the British' novel Situates contemporary fiction within its socio-cultural and literary contexts. Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 "This survey of a vast field is elegantly managed, with agreeable readings along the way." The Guardian "Bradford is formidable, bracing and wildly stimulating" The Telegraph "The Novel Now shows that Richard Bradford is a very sharp and unillusioned critic; that he is his own man." Martin Amis Praise for Richard Bradford’s previous works: For Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis "sharp and convincing… written with magisterial skill" The Daily Telegraph "perceptive… intelligent… written with an unstrident ease and sympathy that would surely have pleased his subject" The Spectator For First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin "quite the best book [on him] yet to appear… a masterful analysis… Bradford is in such complete command of his subject matter, nothing escapes him. It is as if he has had access to Larkin’s very thought processes. A great biography of a great artistic genius. Utterly magnificent" The Daily Express "extraordinary… quite the best thing to appear on Larkin in ages" The London Evening StandardTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?. 1. Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel. 2. Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan. 3. The Effects of Thatcherism. 4. The New Postmodernists. Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary. 5. The New Historical Novel. 6. Crime and Spy Fiction. Part III: Sex. 7. Women. 8. Men. 9. Gay Fiction. Part IV: Nation, Race and Place. 10. Scotland. 11. England, Englishness and Class. 12. The Question of Elsewhere. 13. Wales. 14. The Troubles. 15. Epilogue: The State of the Novel. Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Contemporary British
Book SynopsisA Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era. Comprises original essays from major scholars. Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author. The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation. Enables students to read contemporary works of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where they fit within British cultural life. Trade Review"Blackwell's new Companion to contemporary British fiction is a delight to review. It delivers on its promises to be innovative, highly readable, lively and topical, and it warrants wholehearted endorsement as an essenital addition to any library that is seriously developing resources for undergraduate and taught postgraduate study." Reference Reviews "James English's companion contains a series of fresh, lively and insightful readings of the key figures in post-war British fiction from Martin Amis to Zadie Smith. Its coverage of the multiple, changing contexts - from globalization and the 'new ethnicities' to the rise of book groups and online retailing - in which that fiction is produced and consumed is generously wide-ranging and satisfyingly informative. This is an authoritative and approachable book." Michael Greaney, Lancaster University “James English's A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction is a valuable addition to discussions of recent writing. The essays collected here are wide-ranging, well-informed, and critically astute. This book will make a strong contribution to our understanding of the contemporary British novel.” Andrzej Gasiorek, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: British Fiction in a Global Frame 1James F. English The increasing importance since the 1970s of transnational markets and circuits of exchange, and the consequent repositioning of British fiction in “world literary space.” Part I Institutions of Commerce 1 Literary Fiction and the Book Trade 19Richard Todd The triangulated relation between (i) authors and agents, (ii) publishers, and (iii) retail booksellers, andthe rise of the retailers to a position of dominance. 2 Literary Authorship and Celebrity Culture 39James F. English and John Frow The phenomenon of literary celebrity and its new articulation of the authorial signature with the brandname. Authors considered include Martin Amis, J. K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Fay Weldon. 3 Fiction and the Film Industry 58Andrew Higson The interaction of contemporary British literature and the cinema, considered as both businesses andcultures. Discusses the full range of novels adapted for the screen, with an extended case study of theadaptation of A. S. Byatt’s Possession. Part II Elaborations of Empire 4 Tropicalizing London: British Fiction and the Discipline of Postcolonialism Nico Israel 83 The emergence of postcolonial theory and, subsequently, of a canon of postcolonial novels. Discusses such theorists as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, and Paul Gilroy, and the novelists Anita Desai, Hari Kunzru, Hanif Kureishi, V. S. Naipaul, Ben Okri, and Salman Rushdie. 5 New Ethnicities, the Novel, and the Burdens of Representation 101James Procter The shifting relationship between race, writing, and representation from the late 1970s to the present, with particular reference to the work of Monica Ali, Farrukh Dhondy, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith. 6 Devolving the Scottish Novel 121Cairns Craig Contemporary Scottish fiction in the context of Scottish nationalism and the politics of devolution, with reference to the work of Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, and Alan Warner. 7 Northern Irish Fiction: Provisionals and Pataphysicians 141John Brannigan How fiction in Northern Ireland has responded to the politics of the interregnum since 1993, with particular attention to the work of Seamus Deane, Glenn Patterson, Deirdre Madden, Robert McLiam Wilson, and Ciaran Carson. Part III Mutations of Form 8 The Historical Turn in British Fiction 167Suzanne Keen The rising status of historical fiction in contemporary Britain as more self-consciously “literary” forms of the genre have emerged alongside traditional verisimilar historical novels and women’s historical romances. Among the many authors discussed are A. S. Byatt, Bernadine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, Craig Raine, Salman Rushdie, and Edmund White. 9 The Woman Writer and the Continuities of Feminism 188Patricia Waugh The persistent concerns and contradictions in women’s fiction since the 1960s, with reference to Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Helen Fielding, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, and Fay Weldon. 10 Queer Fiction: The Ambiguous Emergence of a Genre 209Robert L. Caserio The consolidation of queer fiction as a recognized and important literary category in Britain, and the ongoing tension between this body of literature and the politics of gay rights and gay identity. Writers considered include Pat Barker, Neil Bartlett, Alan Hollinghurst, Jackie Kay, Adam Mars-Jones, Colm Toibin, and Jeanette Winterson. 11 The Demise of Class Fiction 229Dominic Head The waning of class consciousness in British fiction as the traditional, adversarial model of class has given way to new understandings both of social inequity and of collective empowerment. With reference to a range of writers, including Nell Dunn, Livi Michael, Alan Sillitoe, and Raymond Williams. 12 What the Porter Saw: On the Academic Novel 248Bruce Robbins The academic novel considered as a disguised version of the upward mobility story, with the university serving as a figure for the welfare state, the frame in which the ambiguities of upward mobility are played out. Focuses on the novels of Kingsley Amis, Malcolm Bradbury, A. S. Byatt, Amit Chaudhuri, and David Lodge. Index 267
£96.26
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Contemporary British
Book SynopsisA Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era. Comprises original essays from major scholars.Trade Review"Blackwell's new Companion to contemporary British fiction is a delight to review. It delivers on its promises to be innovative, highly readable, lively and topical, and it warrants wholehearted endorsement as an essenital addition to any library that is seriously developing resources for undergraduate and taught postgraduate study." Reference Reviews "James English's companion contains a series of fresh, lively and insightful readings of the key figures in post-war British fiction from Martin Amis to Zadie Smith. Its coverage of the multiple, changing contexts - from globalization and the 'new ethnicities' to the rise of book groups and online retailing - in which that fiction is produced and consumed is generously wide-ranging and satisfyingly informative. This is an authoritative and approachable book." Michael Greaney, Lancaster University “James English's A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction is a valuable addition to discussions of recent writing. The essays collected here are wide-ranging, well-informed, and critically astute. This book will make a strong contribution to our understanding of the contemporary British novel.” Andrzej Gasiorek, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: British Fiction in a Global Frame 1James F. English The increasing importance since the 1970s of transnational markets and circuits of exchange, and the consequent repositioning of British fiction in “world literary space.” Part I Institutions of Commerce 1 Literary Fiction and the Book Trade 19Richard Todd The triangulated relation between (i) authors and agents, (ii) publishers, and (iii) retail booksellers, andthe rise of the retailers to a position of dominance. 2 Literary Authorship and Celebrity Culture 39James F. English and John Frow The phenomenon of literary celebrity and its new articulation of the authorial signature with the brandname. Authors considered include Martin Amis, J. K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Fay Weldon. 3 Fiction and the Film Industry 58Andrew Higson The interaction of contemporary British literature and the cinema, considered as both businesses andcultures. Discusses the full range of novels adapted for the screen, with an extended case study of theadaptation of A. S. Byatt’s Possession. Part II Elaborations of Empire 4 Tropicalizing London: British Fiction and the Discipline of Postcolonialism Nico Israel 83 The emergence of postcolonial theory and, subsequently, of a canon of postcolonial novels. Discusses such theorists as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, and Paul Gilroy, and the novelists Anita Desai, Hari Kunzru, Hanif Kureishi, V. S. Naipaul, Ben Okri, and Salman Rushdie. 5 New Ethnicities, the Novel, and the Burdens of Representation 101James Procter The shifting relationship between race, writing, and representation from the late 1970s to the present, with particular reference to the work of Monica Ali, Farrukh Dhondy, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith. 6 Devolving the Scottish Novel 121Cairns Craig Contemporary Scottish fiction in the context of Scottish nationalism and the politics of devolution, with reference to the work of Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, and Alan Warner. 7 Northern Irish Fiction: Provisionals and Pataphysicians 141John Brannigan How fiction in Northern Ireland has responded to the politics of the interregnum since 1993, with particular attention to the work of Seamus Deane, Glenn Patterson, Deirdre Madden, Robert McLiam Wilson, and Ciaran Carson. Part III Mutations of Form 8 The Historical Turn in British Fiction 167Suzanne Keen The rising status of historical fiction in contemporary Britain as more self-consciously “literary” forms of the genre have emerged alongside traditional verisimilar historical novels and women’s historical romances. Among the many authors discussed are A. S. Byatt, Bernadine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, Craig Raine, Salman Rushdie, and Edmund White. 9 The Woman Writer and the Continuities of Feminism 188Patricia Waugh The persistent concerns and contradictions in women’s fiction since the 1960s, with reference to Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Helen Fielding, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, and Fay Weldon. 10 Queer Fiction: The Ambiguous Emergence of a Genre 209Robert L. Caserio The consolidation of queer fiction as a recognized and important literary category in Britain, and the ongoing tension between this body of literature and the politics of gay rights and gay identity. Writers considered include Pat Barker, Neil Bartlett, Alan Hollinghurst, Jackie Kay, Adam Mars-Jones, Colm Toibin, and Jeanette Winterson. 11 The Demise of Class Fiction 229Dominic Head The waning of class consciousness in British fiction as the traditional, adversarial model of class has given way to new understandings both of social inequity and of collective empowerment. With reference to a range of writers, including Nell Dunn, Livi Michael, Alan Sillitoe, and Raymond Williams. 12 What the Porter Saw: On the Academic Novel 248Bruce Robbins The academic novel considered as a disguised version of the upward mobility story, with the university serving as a figure for the welfare state, the frame in which the ambiguities of upward mobility are played out. Focuses on the novels of Kingsley Amis, Malcolm Bradbury, A. S. Byatt, Amit Chaudhuri, and David Lodge. Index 267
£32.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to TwentiethCentury American
Book SynopsisThis Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Written by prominent specialists in the field. Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another. New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers. Trade ReviewThis book offers a fresh and comprehensive reading of modern American poetry in several important ways. It takes in the whole of the twentieth century instead of dividing into decades like the twenties and thirties or into periods labelled Modernism and Postmodernism. Moreover, instead of focusing on individual poets, the successive chapters relate an often overlapping range of poets to the crucial and defining cultural issues within which the poetry took form and direction and to which the poetry spoke. Stephen Fredman has assembled an extraordinary group of critics to write the chapters. There is nothing else like this rich and trenchant book in the field of modern poetry. Albert Gelpi, Stanford University If I had to recommend a single book on the culture of twentieth-American poetry to students or colleagues, I would choose Stephen Fredman's Concise Companion. Fredman wisely decided to treat the entire century as a whole rather than adopting the usual Modernist/Postmodernist division or treating decades and poets separately. From the opening "Wars I Have Seen" to the final treatment of philosophy and theory in U.S. poetry, Fredman's contributors carefully examine the intersecting worlds of our poetry-- the New York art world, the impact of various diasporas, and the curious intersections with politics, gender, and religion. Yet the poetry itself always comes first, and no reader can fail to profit from these clearly written, concise, and truly expert chapters. Marjorie Perloff, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Chronology xii Introduction 1Stephen Fredman 1 Wars I Have Seen 11Peter Nicholls American poets’ response to war, with particular attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian. 2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33David Herd How US poets responded and reacted to British poetry, in particular, Romanticism, focusing on Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Cleanth Brooks, Charles Olson, Frank O’Hara, and Adrienne Rich. 3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55Alan Golding Discusses the relationship between poets and the academy, with attention to Ezra Pound, the Fugitives,Charles Olson, the anthology wars, creative writing programs, African-American poetry, Charles Bernstein,and Language poetry. 4 Feminism and the Female Poet 75Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller Twentieth-century poetry developed in the context of evolving feminist thought and activism, as demonstrated in the work of Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Sonia Sanchez, and Harryette Mullen. 5 Queer Cities 95Maria Damon The relationship between gay urban sensibility and poetic form, with discussions of Gertrude Stein, DjunaBarnes, Hart Crane, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Allen Ginsberg. 6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World 113Brian M. Reed Poetic responses to New York’s avant-garde tradition in the visual arts, with attention to Mina Loy, WilliamCarlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, John Cage, John Ashbery, Jackson Mac Low, and Susan Howe. 7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry 135Rowan Ricardo Phillips Discusses the effect that the blues and jazz have had on twentieth-century African-American poets, including Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Gayl Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Michael Harper. 8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 151A. Robert Lee The ongoing arrival of populations from beyond US borders and internal migration, as reflected inpoetry – WASP to African American, Jewish to Latino/a, Euro-American to Native American. 9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism 173Alan Filreis A survey of the complex association of modern poetry and American communism (and anticommunism),including discussions of Muriel Rukeyser, William Carlos Williams, Genevieve Taggard, Wallace Stevens, and Kenneth Fearing. 10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity 191Stephen Fredman Why mysticism appeals to American poets and how it affects their poetry, focusing upon Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, John Cage, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and Fanny Howe. 11 Poets and Scientists 212Peter Middleton Shows how poets, including William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Robert Creeley, CharlesOlson, Ron Silliman, Myung Mi Kim, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge have responded to modern technology and the new sciences of physics and genetics. 12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry 231Michael Davidson Addresses the role of ideas and theory in modern poetry, with examples drawn from Wallace Stevens,Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, the New Critics, and many others. Index 252
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to TwentiethCentury American
Book SynopsisThis Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Written by prominent specialists in the field. Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another. New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers. Trade ReviewThis book offers a fresh and comprehensive reading of modern American poetry in several important ways. It takes in the whole of the twentieth century instead of dividing into decades like the twenties and thirties or into periods labelled Modernism and Postmodernism. Moreover, instead of focusing on individual poets, the successive chapters relate an often overlapping range of poets to the crucial and defining cultural issues within which the poetry took form and direction and to which the poetry spoke. Stephen Fredman has assembled an extraordinary group of critics to write the chapters. There is nothing else like this rich and trenchant book in the field of modern poetry. Albert Gelpi, Stanford University If I had to recommend a single book on the culture of twentieth-American poetry to students or colleagues, I would choose Stephen Fredman's Concise Companion. Fredman wisely decided to treat the entire century as a whole rather than adopting the usual Modernist/Postmodernist division or treating decades and poets separately. From the opening "Wars I Have Seen" to the final treatment of philosophy and theory in U.S. poetry, Fredman's contributors carefully examine the intersecting worlds of our poetry-- the New York art world, the impact of various diasporas, and the curious intersections with politics, gender, and religion. Yet the poetry itself always comes first, and no reader can fail to profit from these clearly written, concise, and truly expert chapters. Marjorie Perloff, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Chronology xii Introduction 1Stephen Fredman 1 Wars I Have Seen 11Peter Nicholls American poets’ response to war, with particular attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian. 2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33David Herd How US poets responded and reacted to British poetry, in particular, Romanticism, focusing on Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Cleanth Brooks, Charles Olson, Frank O’Hara, and Adrienne Rich. 3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55Alan Golding Discusses the relationship between poets and the academy, with attention to Ezra Pound, the Fugitives,Charles Olson, the anthology wars, creative writing programs, African-American poetry, Charles Bernstein,and Language poetry. 4 Feminism and the Female Poet 75Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller Twentieth-century poetry developed in the context of evolving feminist thought and activism, as demonstrated in the work of Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Sonia Sanchez, and Harryette Mullen. 5 Queer Cities 95Maria Damon The relationship between gay urban sensibility and poetic form, with discussions of Gertrude Stein, DjunaBarnes, Hart Crane, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Allen Ginsberg. 6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World 113Brian M. Reed Poetic responses to New York’s avant-garde tradition in the visual arts, with attention to Mina Loy, WilliamCarlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, John Cage, John Ashbery, Jackson Mac Low, and Susan Howe. 7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry 135Rowan Ricardo Phillips Discusses the effect that the blues and jazz have had on twentieth-century African-American poets, including Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Gayl Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Michael Harper. 8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 151A. Robert Lee The ongoing arrival of populations from beyond US borders and internal migration, as reflected inpoetry – WASP to African American, Jewish to Latino/a, Euro-American to Native American. 9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism 173Alan Filreis A survey of the complex association of modern poetry and American communism (and anticommunism),including discussions of Muriel Rukeyser, William Carlos Williams, Genevieve Taggard, Wallace Stevens, and Kenneth Fearing. 10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity 191Stephen Fredman Why mysticism appeals to American poets and how it affects their poetry, focusing upon Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, John Cage, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and Fanny Howe. 11 Poets and Scientists 212Peter Middleton Shows how poets, including William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Robert Creeley, CharlesOlson, Ron Silliman, Myung Mi Kim, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge have responded to modern technology and the new sciences of physics and genetics. 12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry 231Michael Davidson Addresses the role of ideas and theory in modern poetry, with examples drawn from Wallace Stevens,Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, the New Critics, and many others. Index 252
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Drama 1945 2000
Book SynopsisThis concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century. Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period. Shows how these dramatists broke new ground in their contribution to political, economic, social and cultural debates, as well as in their dramaturgical strategies. Organized chronologically, with plays, playwrights and movements clustered around different movements such as realism and experimentalism. Gives readers a sense of the development of American drama over time. Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 "This excellent, brief survey will pique the interest of readers enough to send them off to the plays themselves. It is a must for younger scholars and a good starting point for specialists ... Essential." Choice “An astute and timely reminder of the sheer range and variety of American drama as it rose to international prominence, a drama that engaged national myths and realities, anxieties and hopes, as they were reflected in the lives of those who lived out what Henry Luce called ‘the American Century’.” Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia “Strong and engaging … .A fine resource … that the reader can use as a guide to further historical and thematic thinking.” Text and PresentationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Politics, Existentialism, and American Drama, 1935–1945 4 2 Money is Life: American Drama, 1945–1959 27 3 Reality and Illusion: American Drama, 1960–1975 62 4 Mad as Hell: American Drama, 1976–1989 100 5 The Body in Pain: American Drama, 1990–2000 147 Notes 183 Selected Bibliography 192 Index 195
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Art of TwentiethCentury American Poetry
Book SynopsisWritten by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry. Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them. Trade Review"Altieri reads modernist poetry with deep attention and pleasure because he believes that the “gamble” taken by modernism is worth our continued respect. That gamble is the possibility that these poems are not “an accompaniment to the world but the realization of how mind and world become one dynamic field.” Situating the experiments of modernist poetry in the context of early 20th-century scientific and philosophical developments, particularly in the understanding of sensation and perception, Altieri proposes the emergence of a “new realism.” This new realism has consequences for the intellectual and affective dimensions of poetry, for the conception of the poet as the seeing “I,” and for the kind of attention readers bring to a poem. The book traces a history ranging from the “impersonal” experiments of high modernism (Pound, Williams, Eliot, Loy, Moore and Stevens) to poems that construct new kinds of social identities (Zukofsky, Oppen, Hughes, and Auden) and, finally, to a range of later poets who, in various ways, interrogate the costs and limits of impersonality (Lowell, Rich, Creeley, Bishop, Ashbery). Offering lucid analyses of major poets, The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry demonstrates how reading a poem can be an exhilarating way of engaging with the world." Gail McDonald, University of North Carolina-Greensboro “Charles Altieri has the almost uncanny capacity to synthesize complex entities, such as the entire body of poetry of a major figure or the fraught interplay of a poetic movement, into a series of clear and incisive philosophical statements. It's not that he reduces poetry to philosophy--in fact, he gives many sensitive readings of individual poems--but that he is able to ferret out what is most crucially at stake in modern poetry and to present it crisply and succinctly. No one does a better job than Altieri of showing how much modern poetry has to contribute to an understanding of modern life.” Stephen Fredman, University of Notre Dame “The close readings of sometimes quite familiar poems are fresh and provocative, and the argument is one that makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the legacy of the major modernist poets." Christopher MacGowan, College of William and Mary "Altieri is thoroughly captivating, especially when his precise, synthetic, and innovative interpretations focus on beloved poets such as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery." The Wallace Stevens JournalTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction: The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: An Overview. 2 The New Realism in Modernist Poetry: Pound and Williams. 3 The Doctrine of Impersonality and Modernism’s War on Rhetoric: Eliot, Loy, and Moore. 4 How Modernist Poetics Failed and Efforts at Renewal: Williams, Oppen, and Hughes. 5 The Return to Rhetoric in Modernist Poetry: Stevens and Auden. 6 Modernist Dilemmas and Early Post-Modernist Responses. Notes. Works Cited. Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Art of TwentiethCentury American Poetry
Book SynopsisWritten by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry. Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them. Trade Review“Altieri’s powerful readings [are] excellent analyses of poems by Oppen and Bishop, as well as by a host of others, [that] offer insights both into the details of the texts and the wider intellectual issues at stake, while the book’s differing vocations come together powerfully when it analyses the self-projections of ‘Prufrock.’” (Year's Work in English Studies, November 2008) "Altieri is thoroughly captivating, especially when his precise, synthetic, and innovative interpretations focus on beloved poets such as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery." (The Wallace Stevens Journal)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vi List of Abbreviations x 1 Introduction: The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: An Overview 1 2 The New Realism in Modernist Poetry: Pound and Williams 11 3 The Doctrine of Impersonality and Modernism’s War on Rhetoric: Eliot, Loy, and Moore 52 4 How Modernist Poetics Failed and Efforts at Renewal: Williams, Oppen, and Hughes 97 5 The Return to Rhetoric in Modernist Poetry: Stevens and Auden 126 6 Modernist Dilemmas and Early Post-Modernist Responses 157 Notes 215 Works Cited 229 Further Reading 234 Index 243
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Postwar American
Book Synopsis* An inspiring guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period. * Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. 1. Introducing American Literature and Culture in the Postwar Years: Josephine G. Hendin. 2. The Fifties and After: An Ambiguous Culture: Frederick R. Karl. 3. The Beat Generation is Now About Everything : Regina Weinreich. 4. From Bebop to Hip Hop: American Music After 1950: Perry Meisel. 5. American Drama in the Postwar Period: John Bell. 6. Hollywood Dreaming: Postwar American Film: Leonard Quart, Albert Auster. 7. The Beauty and Destructiveness of War: A Literary Portrait of the Vietnam Conflict: Pat C. Hoy II. 8. Postmodern Fictions: David Mikics. 9. Gay and Lesbian Writing in Post World War II America : Mary Jo Bona. 10. Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction: Daniel Fuchs. 11. Fire and Romance: African American Literature Since World War II: Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr. 12. Italian/American Literature and Culture: Fred L. Gardaphé. 13. Irish American Writing: Political Men and Archetypal Women: Robert E. Rhodes and Patricia Monaghan. 14. Emergent Ethnic Literatures: Native American, Hispanic, Asian American: Cyrus R. K. Patell. 15. I’ll Be Your Mirror, Reflect What You Are Postmodern Documentation and the Downtown New York Scene from 1975 to the Present: Marvin J. Taylor. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to William Faulkner
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist. Comprises original essays written by leading scholars.Trade Review"Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." ChoiceTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Richard C. Moreland PART I Contexts 5 1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7 Richard Godden 2 "We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain 28 Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson 3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46 Anne Goodwyn Jones 4 "C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65 Catherine Gunther Kodat 5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85 Michael Zeitlin 6 Faulkner's Lives 104 Jay Parini PART II Questions 113 7 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115 Owen Robinson 8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133 Barbara Ladd 9 "Why Are You So Black?" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148 John N. Duvall 10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165 Julia Leyda 11 Faulkner's Families 180 Arthur F. Kinney 12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202 Cheryl Lester 13 The State 220 Ted Atkinson 14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels 236 Lothar Hönnighausen 15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination 252 Sean Latham 16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269 Leigh Anne Duck 17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284 Peter Lurie 18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301 Vincent Allan King PART III Genres and Forms 319 19 Faulkner's Genre Experiments 321 Thomas L. McHaney 20 "Make It New": Faulkner and Modernism 342 Philip Weinstein 21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359 Susan V. Donaldson 22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373 Greg Forter 23 William Faulkner's Short Stories 394 Hans H. Skei 24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction 410 Noel Polk 25 Faulkner's Texts 420 Noel Polk PART IV Sample Readings 427 26 "By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429 Donald M. Kartiganer 27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445 John Carlos Rowe 28 "The Cradle of Your Nativity": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 459 Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber PART V After Faulkner 477 29 "He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus": Faulkner's Critical Reception 479 Timothy P. Caron 30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infl uence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines 499 Deborah Cohn 31 Faulkner's Continuance 519 Patrick O'Donnell Index 528
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma. Trade Review"Offers strong and accessible scholarship on major playwrights and aspects of theatrical history and historiography, and usefully reflects on its own practices and agendas, and will be extremely useful to students and theatre scholars." Cercles "A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880-2005 is a much needed intervention in the field, with its substantial coverage of Irish drama and significant essays on the work of women playwrights, as well as solid coverage of the usual suspects. It is profitably innovative in terms of both structure and content. Many volumes with such a coverage remit fail to ever go much beyond the standard canonical playwrights and texts...a ‘must buy’ for all University libraries...this is a volume which will have currency for years to come." New Theatre Quarterly "Luckhurst argues for a reassessment of 'Englishness,' and, accordingly, this companion emphasizes postcolonial and feminist agendas and questions the dominance of urban locales and certain theatrical institutions...combined, the essays provide a necessary reassessment of British and Irish drama." Choice “There is so much valuable material in the book that it is sure to be frequently read and consulted.” Donald Hawes, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xii Notes on Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Mary Luckhurst Part I Contexts 5 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre 7 Victor Merriman 2 Reinventing England 22 Declan Kiberd 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siecle 35 Katherine Newey 4 New Woman Drama 48 Sally Ledger Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900–1939 61 5 Shaw among the Artists 63 Jan McDonald 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists 75 Cary M. Mazer 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre 87 Mary Trotter 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment 99 Susan Carlson 9 Unlocking Synge Today 110 Christopher Murray 10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks 125 Jean Chothia 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties 138 Robin Grove Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939–1990 151 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy 153 Mary Brewer 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland 164 Stephen Lacey 14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s 175 Susan Bennett 15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura 188 D. Keith Peacock 16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock 198 Gabriele Griffin Part IV Comedy 211 17 Wilde's Comedies 213 Richard Allen Cave 18 Always Acting: Noel Coward and the Performing Self 225 Frances Gray 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy 237 Katharine Worth 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan 247 John Brannigan 21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity 258 David Higgins 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy 269 Alexander Leggatt 23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy 279 Paul Delaney 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors 289 Anthony Roche Part V War and Terror 299 25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I 301 Mary Luckhurst 26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England 316 John Lennard 27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama 329 Helen Lojek 28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience 341 Dawn Fowler and John Lennard 29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter 358 Mary Luckhurst 30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma 371 Steve Waters Part VI Theatre since 1968 383 31 Theatre since 1968 385 David Pattie 32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front 398 John Deeney 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths 409 Michael Patterson 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre 419 Maria DiCenzo 35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way 429 John Deeney 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre 441 John Bull 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern 454 Jan McDonald 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland 466 Shaun Richards 39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global 476 Elin Diamond 40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe 488 Chris Megson 41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel 499 Lionel Pilkington 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape 509 Cathy Leeney 43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past 519 Richard Rowland 44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams 530 D. Keith Peacock 45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language 541 David Ian Rabey 46 Theatre and Technology 551 Andy Lavender Index 563
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd William Faulkner
Book SynopsisConsidered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner''s roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner''s subjects and characters, ironically, are more readily associated with the history and sociology of the most backward state in the Union. He experimented endlessly with narrative structure, developing an unorthodox writing style. Yet his main goal was to reveal the truth of the human heart in conflict with itself, ultimately defining human nature through the lens of his own Southern experience. This comprehensive account of Faulkner''s literary career features an exploration of his novels and key short stories, including The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and many more. Drawing on psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, feminist, and post-colonial theory, it offers an imaginative topography of Faulkner''s eTrade Review"It is largely due to this diversity of approaches and Matthews' ability to accessibly convey his formidable learning that his book achieves its dual aims: introducing Faulkner to first-timers while modifying an established critical tradition for the sake of a larger reading audience . . . seeing Through the South is a bold, many-sided, and at times surprising book-qualities that are not often combined in the typical introductory volume and are bolstered by Matthews' enthusiasm for his subject and his subtle engagement with Faulkner's daunting critical heritage." (Notes and Queries, 1 June 2011) Matthews has produced the best book on Faulkner this year." (American Literary Scholarship, 2010) "Matthews faces the crisis of Faulkner scholarship-with its cardboard Faulkners and its truncated canon-by giving us a more expansive, more relevant, and, frankly, more interesting Faulkner. His readings of the novels, particularly Sanctuary; If I Forget Thee; Jerusalem; Go Down, Moses; The Sound and the Fury; Absalom! Absalom!; and the Snopes trilogy, are simply indispensable. Beautifully written and obviously the product of long years of scholarship, these readings affirm the "complex mixtures" that make Faulkner one of America's greatest novelist."(Black Hills State University)"John T. Matthews's William Faulkner: Seeing through the South is the rare book that will prove vital and engaging both for readers new to Faulkner's writing and for scholars long devoted to it." (The Journal of American Studies, 2010)" [A] compelling and richly engaging book [that] skilfully opens ways into Faulkner’s writing for new readers and reinvigorates for his wider audience a sense of what we might talk about when we talk about Faulkner today … For all the relaxed manner of Matthews’s address—his witty analogies, comfortable idiom, pleasurable clarifications, jokes and almost unforgiveable puns—his book speaks urgently to modern readers." (Review of English Studies, 2009) "The present excellent book deals with the cohesiveness of Faulkner’s work as an evolving project … Matthews is a master of literary theory without being mastered by it, and he has gifts as a close reader ... Highly recommended." (CHOICE, October 2009) "John T. Matthews' lucid critical biography examines Faulkner's writerly persona and his rich fiction as developing organically out of precise aesthetic and social preoccupations best illustrated through a variety of methodologies … Matthews has previously explored modernist, post-structuralist, materialist and Marxist ways of reading Faulkner, and this critical suppleness benefits and supports student readers." (Times Literary Supplement, April 2009) "John T. Matthews describes his monograph William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (Blackwell) as an introduction to Faulkner's work, but he also attempts something still greater: to present Faulkner's entire imaginative career as a distinctively coherent project and to read all nineteen novels and a number of the best short stories as inter-related episodes in a vast chronicle of the world becoming modern, a record of the indispensable rooting of Faulkner's imagination in the place he chose to live all his life, with an emphasis on how the US South was embedded in the history of global colonialism. Matthews succeeds spectacularly on all counts. Organized according to themes rather than chronology, the book ranges among Faulkner's works and draws unexpected conclusions about them doing so in some of the most energetic, well-crafted, and moving prose I have heard speak from the pages of scholarship. Here, for example, Matthews takes up Faulkner's prose style: At the outset we do need to establish how dense and rich Faulkner's language is, and how his circuitous, polysyllabic style is not just personal eccentricity, or a symptom of alcoholism, or artistic ineptitude, or even some resentful torture of the reader, but an audacious bid to write like no one ever wrote before, and to do so because more than anything Faulkner wanted the reader to feel the world to be as intensely moving as he did himself. That he strained language to its breaking point conveys less a reluctance to communicate anything than a desperate determination to communicate everything. Matthews treats Drusilla Hawk of The Unvanquished as seriously as he does Thomas Sutpen, and That Evening Sun? as worthy of the same sustained attention lavished on The Sound and the Fury. His book reverberates with authority born of intense close readings of Faulkner and his critics, and his very title promises fresh readings. Faulkner, he argues, did see through the lens offered by his native land, and he also saw through the shams offered by various institutions in the modern world. Faulkner's political fable in The Mansion, for example, expresses the shortcomings of US Cold War conflict-thinking on several counts. Not only does America's preoccupation with the defense of personal liberty deafen it to the claims of justice, but the assumption that freedom is synonymous with free marketry ignores the numerous fatalities behind capitalism's success story. Beyond this diagnostic insight, moreover, Faulkner manages to suggest longings for more authentic freedom, in which liberty and justice need not conflict, where the discrepancy between the idle rich and the imprisoned worker need not end in murderous confrontation. Page after highly quotable page, Matthews has produced the best book on Faulkner this year." —John T. Matthews, Professor of English Boston UniversityTable of ContentsList of illustrations vi Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Seeing Through the South: Faulkner and the Life Work of Writing 1 1 An Artist Never Quite at Home: Faulkner's Apprehension of Modern Life 19 2 That Evening Son Go Down: The Plantation South at Twilight 77 3 Come Up: From Red Necks to Riches 124 4 The Planting of Men: The South and New World Colonialism 172 5 Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha 225 Notes 288 Bibliography 296 Index 302
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish
Book SynopsisThis volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events Trade Review“Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free of socio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measured historical overview and a critical introduction, and one can see that the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what are described as intricate negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies and positions.” (Suite101.com, 17 February 2014) “Written by critics from Britain, Ireland and the USA, this new paperback, A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry, edited by Nigel Alderman and C D Blanton (Wiley Blackwell, £29.99 / €36, January 2014), opens up many areas for literary exploration as it introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in British and Irish poetry since 1945.” (Allvoices, 17 February 2014) Gives some sense of why poetry provides the sharpest of lenses through which to view the historical and social developments of the second half of the twentieth century, and will serve both as a useful source of reference and a provocative starting point for discussion." (English Studies, 1 December 2011) "Engaging and uncluttered by jargon. The mix of formal and thematic issues with social and cultural contexts doubles the usefulness of this collection as a preparatory tool for students of the period." (CHOICE, December 2009)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xii Chronology xv Introduction 1Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton 1 Poetic Modernism and the Century’s Wars 11Vincent Sherry How the experience of continuous war and the collapse of liberalism shape modernist poetry and the twentieth century as a whole, focusing on Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and David Jones. 2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32Stephen Burt How the poetry of the Movement established a dominant and continuing mode in postwar British poetry, with discussions of Robert Conquest’s anthology New Lines, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage, Lavinia Greenlaw, Alison Brackenbury, and Peter Scupham. 3 Myth, History, and The New Poetry 51Nigel Alderman Discusses the reaction of the 1960s and later decades to modernist myth-making and Movement antimodernism, exploring the problem of formulating a historical poetics, with attention to Philip Larkin, A. Alvarez’s anthology The New Poetry, Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. 4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72Michael Thurston Surveys the poetry of peripheral nationalisms and regionalisms, concentrating on the oscillation between commitment and irony in Northern Ireland (John Montague, Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon), Wales (R. S. Thomas, Tony Conran, Robert Minhinnick, Oliver Reynolds, Gillian Clarke), Scotland (W. S. Graham, George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith, Douglas Dunn, Raymond Vettese, Tom Leonard, Kathleen Jamie), northern England, and the Midlands (Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, Jon Silkin, Geoffrey Hill, and Roy Fisher). 5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92John P. Waters Charts three generations of poets in Northern Ireland, attending to the ways in which problems of identity have generated formal innovation, focusing upon Louis MacNeice, John Hewitt, and Patrick Kavanagh; Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley; Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, and Medbh McGuckian. 6 Poetry and Decolonization 111Jahan Ramazani Addresses the emergent poetic forms produced by newly independent postcolonial nations and the reaction of poets in the newly post-imperial British state, including discussions of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols, Bernadine Evaristo, Louise Bennett, Okot p’Bitek, Philip Larkin, Noel Coward, Tony Harrison, Christopher Okigbo, and Agha Shahid Ali. 7 Transatlantic Currents 134C. D. Blanton Considers the resistance to and reception of American influence, focusing on the problem of cultural translation, from the modernists and the Auden generation to the Movement, the British poetry revival, and the contemporary avant-garde. 8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155Drew Milne Surveys the complex array of avant-garde formations after modernism, tracing the multiple experimental tendencies of neo-modernist writing, with particular attention to the sites, groupings, anthologies, and critical languages of recent innovative poetries. 9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject 176Linda A. Kinnahan Explores the reinflection of lyric conventions and subjectivities by recent women poets, including Gillian Clarke, Jean “Binta” Breeze, Grace Nichols, Carol Ann Duffy, and Denise Riley. 10 Place, Space, and Landscape 200Eric Falci Discusses the postwar recuperation of a poetics of place, with examples drawn from Grace Nichols, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Roy Fisher, Ciaran Carson, and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. 11 Poetry and Religion 221Romana Huk Traces the lingering importance of religious language and thought in an apparently secular era, considering T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, J. F. Hendry, Kathleen Raine, David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Donald Davie, C. H. Sisson, Geoffrey Hill, Jon Silkin, Wole Soyinka, David Marriott, Brian Coffey, John Riley, Pauline Stainer, and Wendy Mulford. 12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243Peter Middleton Underscores the importance of the material contexts of poetic production to an understanding of the significance of a poem, with close attention to poems by Andrew Motion, J. H. Prynne, and Lavinia Greenlaw. References 264 Index 285
£84.56
John Wiley and Sons Ltd 1913
Book SynopsisThis innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky Explores Pound''s Personae next to Apollinaire''s Alcools and Rilke''s Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton''s The Custom of the Country next to Proust''s Swann''s Way Trade Review"While reading Rabatk's book I constantly had in mind Theodor Adorno's remark to Walter Benjamin about the latter's habit of 'occult adjacentism'. Adorno, of course, meant this as a damning criticism of his friend's method in the Arcades project, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and its kaleidoscopic presentation of a world that troublingly-uncannily-intimates our own." (MLR, April 2009) “Rabate offers scholars and students a new portrait of cosmopolitan modernism to contemplate, making a study of globalization central to his understanding of the period’s literary and artistic endeavors.” (The Review of English Studies, June 2009) “This book’s clarity and specificity will reward even readers familiar with his topics. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”(Choice)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Modernism, Crisis, and Early Globalization 1 1 The New in the Arts 18 2 Collective Agencies 46 3 Everyday Life and the New Episteme 72 4 Learning to be Modern in 1913 96 5 Global Culture and the Invention of the Other 118 6 The Splintered Subject of Modernism 141 7 At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian Modernism 164 8 Modernism and the End of Nostalgia 185 Conclusion: Antagonisms 208 Notes 217 Index 235
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Modern Drama Volume II
Book SynopsisA History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern wTrade ReviewDavid Krasner’s A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960–2000 offers… a structural and technique-based approach to differentiating dramatic eras. In his sequel to A History of Modern Drama, Volume I, Krasner shifts focus from dividing drama by time periods (i.e., “modern” and “contemporary”) to categorizing dramatic eras according to their use of different formal techniques (i.e., “modern” and “postmodern”). This is an important distinction, as book-length studies on postmodern drama are few. Krasner’s Volume II makes this scholarly move feel like a logical step and a natural conclusion. This book will reinvigorate the study of postmodernism and drama. This is a worthy and important volume that should be read by anyone who teaches theatre history and/or modern and postmodern drama courses.- Michael Y. Bennett, Modern DramaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Part I: Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Strangers More than Ever: Modern Drama and Alternative Modernities 3 Part II: United Kingdom and Ireland 47 Chapter 2 Jewish Oedipus, Jewish Ethics: Harold Pinter and Postmodern Philosophy 49 Chapter 3 Tom Stoppard and the Limits of Empiricism 92 Chapter 4 Caryl Churchill, Monetarism, and the Feminist Dilemma 119 Chapter 5 “Can’t Buy Me Love”: Socialism, Working Class Sensibilities, and Modern British Drama 139 Chapter 6 Between Past and Present: Brian Friel’s “Symbolic Middle Ground” 186 Part III: United States 205 Chapter 7 “Participate, I suppose”: Edward Albee and the Specter of Death 207 Chapter 8 “Ask a Criminal”: White Postmodern Manhood in David Mamet and Sam Shepard 225 Chapter 9 Modern Drama, Modern Feminism, and Postmodern Motherhood 254 Chapter 10 History, Reinvention, and Dialectics: African American Drama and August Wilson 279 Chapter 11 Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Postmodern Ethics in the Age of Reagan 301 Part IV: Western and Eastern Europe 319 Chapter 12 Post]War, Cold War, and Post]Cold War: Marxism, Post]Totalitarianism, and European Drama in the Postmodern Era 321 Chapter 13 Eastern Europe, Totalitarianism, and the Wooden Words 353 Part V: Postcolonial Drama 387 Chapter 14 The Fragmentation of the Self in Postcolonial Drama 389 Chapter 15 Africa: Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, and Christina Ama Ata Aidoo 401 Chapter 16 Central and South America: Carlos Fuentes and Derek Walcott 417 Chapter 17 Asia and the Middle East: Yukio Mishima, Gao Xingjian, Girish Karnad, Hanoch Levin, and SaaDallah Wannous 429 Chapter 18 Canada: Ann]Marie MacDonald and Judith Thompson 449 Part VI: Nihilism at the Door 459 Chapter 19 Crisis of Values and Loss of Center in the Plays of Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane 461 Chapter 20 Blasted, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Phaedra’s Love 477 Chapter 21 Pushing More Boundaries: Children and Desire 493 Notes 500 Index 567
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd C.S. Lewis
Book SynopsisIn this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the works of this popular author. Examines his life, work, world view, and the implications of his theology in relation to his other writings Looks at Lewis'' beliefs on the topics of redemption, humanity, spiritual growth, purgatory, and resurrection Examines the different perspectives on Lewis and his work: as prophet, evangelist, and as a spiritual mentor Explores the range and influence of Lewis'' work, from the bestselling apologetic, Mere Christianity, to the world-famous Chronicles of Narnia Features specially-commissioned artwork throughout Written in an accessible style for general readers, students, and scholars, and will introduce Lewis'' theology to a wider audience. Trade Review“C. S. Lewis once suggested that it would be a boon to be able to have a real live Epicurean at our elbow when reading Lucretius or to learn from a mouse or bee’s perspective; so Professor David Clark gives us the enlarged pleasure of reading Lewis with a sensible and good-humored theologian by our side. This is no stale and stuffy pedantic writing, but a lively, witty, and fully engaging translation of Lewis’s thoughts on Christian doctrines of faith and redemption (and a bit of Purgatory). With clarity and piercing insight, Professor Clark guides us merry fellow pilgrims along Lewis’ own spiritual and intellectual journey, pointing out hidden trails, narrow paths, and fascinating facts and myths along the way.” Terry Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College “Professor Clark writes with the confidence of one whose broad and informed acquaintance with the Lewis canon allows him to speak authoritatively about Lewis's theology and use of Scriptural tradition.” Bruce L. Edwards, Bowling Green State University “A very winsome book – nicely poised between a comprehensive introduction for the reader new to Lewis and a holistic treatment of the varied literary output in the Lewis canon for Lewis admirers … The chief contribution of this work lies in [Clark’s] steady treatment of Lewis’s use of Scripture and the Scriptural basis of his own imaginative works … This work walks the tightrope between saying too much and saying just enough from the perspective of a Biblical scholar who also well understands the nature and narrative and why Lewis wrote as he did. Very good for individual or group study.” www.pseudobook.comTable of ContentsAbbreviations. Lewis’s Works. Books of the Bible. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Lewis and Scripture. The Strengths of Lewis. Lewis the Apologist and Mentor. 1 From Atheist to Apologist. Growing Up. Lewis in School. Lewis at Oxford. The Path to Faith. The Christian Lewis. Lewis as Prophet. Lewis as Evangelist. Lewis as Believer and Mentor. 2 Lewis Looks at His World. Aesthetics and Morality in the "Green Book." Aesthetics and Morality in That Hideous Strength. Aesthetics and God in Reflections on the Psalms. Lewis at Cambridge. The Post-Christian West. The Christian Viewpoint. The Hidden Influence. Lewis and Science. 3 Lewis Reaches Out to His World. The Redemption Story: Lewis’s Subtle Approach. The Redemption Story in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Redemption Story in Perelandra. The Myth That Entered History. The Redemption Story: Lewis’s Direct Approach. God’s Life in Us. 4 Humanity in God’s Creation. The Making of Humanity. Humans and Animals. Animals in the Space Trilogy. The Biblical Mandate. Humans and Angels. Fallen Angels. Good Angels. Between Animals and Angels. 5 Walking by Faith. The Myth of Cupid and Psyche According to Apuleius. The Myth According to Lewis. The Meaning of the Myth. Natural Affection. The Importance of Faith. Reconciling Faith and Sight. 6 God’s Plan for the Soul. The Goal of Sanctification. The Concept of Purgatory. The Descent of Christ in The Great Divorce. The Theology of Purgatory. The Descent of Christ in Scripture. Applying the Seven Principles. Will All Be Saved? Is There a Second Chance? Beyond Spaceand Time. Responding to Truth. Purgatory in Scripture. Summary.. 7 God’s Plan for the Body - and the Universe. Resurrection of the Body. Resurrection and Creation. Judgment by Fire. The Face of God. Conclusion: The Legacy of Lewis. Did Lewis Pass the Test? The Impact of Lewis. A Theology of Redemption. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Camus
Book SynopsisHistory (much like his contemporaries) has tended to judge Camus harshly--as mediocre philosopher, conflicted man of the left and, worst of all, apologist for French imperialism. Yet, as David Sherman argues in this rewarding new study, a sensitive reading of the entirety of Camus's writings reveals both a power and unity of philosophical purpose.Trade Review"Despite Camus's own reluctance to be regarded as 'a philosopher' and 'an existentialist', David Sherman's authoritative study establishes the importance of Camus's contribution - in his fiction as well as his essays - to existential philosophy. Sherman's Camus is an engaging man of 'decency and courage', and a great writer who eloquently articulated the modern human predicament." Professor David Cooper, Durham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Situating Camus 1 1 Camus’s Life 10 2 The Absurd 21 3 Life 56 4 Scorn 86 5 Solidarity 106 6 Rebellion 136 7 Realpolitik 173 8 Exile And Rebirth 194 9 Epilogue 207 Index 211
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The TwentiethCentury American Fiction Handbook
Book SynopsisTHE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION Accessibly structured with entries on important historical contexts, central issues, key texts and the major writers, this Handbook provides an engaging overview of twentieth-century American ?ction. Featured writers range from Henry James and Theodore Dreiser to contemporary figures such as Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, and Sherman Alexie, and analyses of key works include The Great Gatsby, Lolita, The Color Purple, and The Joy Luck Club, among others. Relevant contexts for these works, such as the impact of Hollywood, the expatriate scene in the 1920s, and the political unrest of the 1960s are also explored, and their importance discussed. This is a stimulating overview of twentieth-century American fiction, offering invaluable guidance and essential information for students and general readers.Trade Review"This comprehensive guide to American fiction in the twentieth century provides a wealth of information on contemporary writers and their writings." (Booknews, 1 June 2011) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. How to Use This Book. Chronology: Significant Dates and Events, 1900–2000. Introduction. Part 1 Historical Contexts. The American Scene, c.1900. Expatriates: 1920s and Beyond. Charting the Depression: The 1930s. Post-war Alienation, Experiment, and Alternatives. Multicultural America: Borders, Tradition, and Identity. Part 2 Major Writers. Henry James (1843–1916). Edith Wharton (1862–1937). Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945). Willa Cather (1873–1947). Gertrude Stein (1874–1946). Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). Raymond Chandler (1888–1959). Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). John Dos Passos (1896–1970). William Faulkner (1897–1962). Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977). Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938). John Steinbeck (1902–1968). Nathanael West (1903–1940). Richard Wright (1908–1960). William S. Burroughs (1914–1997). Saul Bellow (1915–2005). Norman Mailer (1923–2007). James Baldwin (1924–1987). John Barth (b.1930). Toni Morrison (b.1931). John Updike (1932–2009). Philip Roth (b.1933). Don DeLillo (b.1936). Thomas Pynchon (b.1937). Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938). Raymond Carver (1938–1988). Louise Erdrich (b.1954). Sherman Alexie (b.1966). Part 3 Key Texts. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900). Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902). Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905). Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918). Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio (1919). Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922). F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925). Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time (1925). William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929). Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1937). John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Richard Wright, Native Son (1940). J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood (1952). Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952). Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957). Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1958). Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961). William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1962). Saul Bellow, Herzog (1964). Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977). Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982). Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984). William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984). Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985). Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987). Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989). Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (1992). Part 4 Themes. Race and American Fiction. The American Short Story. Hollywood and American Fiction. Women and Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Guide to Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd 1913
Book SynopsisThis innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky Explores Pound''s Personae next to Apollinaire''s Alcools and Rilke''s Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton''s The Custom of the Country next to Proust''s Swann''s Way Trade Review"While reading Rabatk's book I constantly had in mind Theodor Adorno's remark to Walter Benjamin about the latter's habit of 'occult adjacentism'. Adorno, of course, meant this as a damning criticism of his friend's method in the Arcades project, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and its kaleidoscopic presentation of a world that troublingly-uncannily-intimates our own." (MLR, April 2009) "With this book Jean-Michel Rabaté, one of the foremost scholars of literary modernism, serves up a sumptuous intellectual feast. Examining the currents of thought and creative activity that churn through a single year, the 1913 of his title, he achieves an epic overview of early modernism. Music, painting, technology, science, philosophy, mathematics, literature, sexuality--nothing escapes his probing gaze. Telling anecdotes, insightful criticism, and philosophical rigour are combined to produce a work that is both a pleasure to read and a major scholarly synthesis." Lawrence Rainey, University of York “This book’s clarity and specificity will reward even readers familiar with his topics. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Modernism, Crisis, and Early Globalization 1 1 The New in the Arts 18 2 Collective Agencies 46 3 Everyday Life and the New Episteme 72 4 Learning to be Modern in 1913 96 5 Global Culture and the Invention of the Other 118 6 The Splintered Subject of Modernism 141 7 At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian Modernism 164 8 Modernism and the End of Nostalgia 185 Conclusion: Antagonisms 208 Notes 217 Index 235
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to TwentiethCentury American Drama
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA Contributors to this volume: Thomas P. Adler, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Annemarie Bean, Deanna M. Toten Beard, Murray Biggs, Stephen J. Bottoms, Mark Evans Bryan, Peter Civetta, Jerry Dickey, Jill Dolan, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Mark Fearnow, Anne Fletcher, Ehren Fordyce, J. Ellen Gainor, Janet V. Haedicke, Ann Haugo, David Krasner, Daphne Lei, Julia Listengarten, Felicia Hardison Londré, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Brenda A. Murphy, Christopher Olsen, Linda Rohrer Paige, Ann Pellegrini, Gene A. Plunka, Steven price, June Schlueter, Mike Sell, Rachel Shteir, Molly Smith. Andrew Sofer, Leslie A. Wade Also available in The Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series:Trade Review“This Companion provides an original and authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field.” (Stephen Baker Hot Fiction Books, 31 December 2012) “This volume includes more than 30 meticulously researched essays, some with illustrations, by the best-known contemporary experts on American drama and theater … Highly recommended. All collections; all levels.” Choice Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xii Foreword by Molly Smith xvii Acknowledgments xix 1. Introduction: The Changing Perceptions of American Drama 1David Krasner 2. American Drama, 1900–1915 3Mark Evans Bryan 3. Ethnic Theatre in America 18Rachel Shteir 4. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915–1941 34J. Ellen Gainor and Jerry Dickey 5. American Experimentalism, American Expressionism, and Early O’Neill 53Deanna M. Toten Beard 6. Many-Faceted Mirror: Drama as Reflection of Uneasy Modernity in the 1920s 69Felicia Hardison Londré 7. Playwrights and Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 91Annemarie Bean 8. Reading Across the 1930s 106Anne Fletcher 9. Famous Unknowns: The Dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein 127Sarah Bay-Cheng 10. Eugene O’Neill: American Drama and American Modernism 142David Krasner 11. Fissures Beneath the Surface: Drama in the 1940s and 1950s 159Thomas P. Adler 12. Tennessee Williams 175Brenda A. Murphy 13. Expressing and Exploring Faith: Religious Drama in America 192Peter Civetta 14. The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller 209Murray Biggs 15. Drama of the 1960s 229Christopher Olsen 16. Fifteen-Love, Thirty-Love: Edward Albee 247Steven Price 17. The Drama of the Black Arts Movement 263Mike Sell 18. Sam Shepard and the American Sunset: Enchantment of the Mythic West 285Leslie A. Wade 19. Staging the Binary: Asian American Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century 301Daphne Lei 20. August Wilson 318Harry J. Elam, Jr. 21. Native American Drama 334Ann Haugo 22. John Guare and the Popular Culture Hype of Celebrity Status 352Gene A. Plunka 23. Writing Beyond Borders: A Survey of US Latina/o Drama 370Tiffany Ana Lopez 24. ‘‘Off the Porch and into the Scene’’: Southern Women Playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin 388Linda Rohrer Paige 25. David Mamet: America on the American Stage 406Janet V. Haedicke 26. 1970–1990: Disillusionment, Identity, and Discovery 423Mark Fearnow 27. Maria Irene Fornes: Acts of Translation 440Andrew Sofer 28. From Eccentricity to Endurance: Jewish Comedy and the Art of Affirmation 456Julia Listengarten 29. Repercussions and Remainders in the Plays of Paula Vogel: An Essay in Five Moments 473Ann Pellegrini 30. Lesbian and Gay Drama 486Jill Dolan 31. American Drama of the 1990s On and Off-Broadway 504June Schlueter 32. Solo Performance Drama: The Self as Other? 519Stephen J. Bottoms 33. Experimental Drama at the End of the Century 536Ehren Fordyce Index 552
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Modernist Poetry
Book SynopsisThis text provides close examinations of key poems by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and many others. It considers the key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion while exploring the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry.Trade Review"It is well structured, well researched, clearly written, and full of innovative insights." (M/C Reviews, September 2010) Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction. Part I Subject Matter. 2 Reflexivity. 3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts. 4 Explorations of Consciousness. Part II Techniques. 5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives. 6 The Sound of the Poem. 7 Allusion and Quotation. 8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue. 9 Literal and Metaphorical Language. 10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis. 11 Who is Speaking? Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation. 12 Form. 13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric. 14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric. 15 The Dramatic Monologue. 16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem. 17 Modernist Endings. 18 Value and Evaluation. Glossary. Further Reading. Index.
£29.40
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The American Novel Now
Book SynopsisThe American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writers Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many more Explores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction since 1980, in both mainstream and experimental writings Reflects the liveliness and diversity of American fiction in the last thirty years Written in a style that makes it ideal for students and scholars, while also accessible for general readers Trade Review"More impressively comprehensive than encyclopedic, Patrick O'Donnell does not try to cover every literary novel published in the last thirty years, but instead offers a broad critical overview of contemporary US fiction in terms that make The American Novel Now more than just a survey". (The Journal of American Studies, 2011) "In this extremely accessible discussion, O'Donnell (Michigan State Univ.) reveals his as an authoritative voice on novels from the 1980s to present. His selections are, by his own admission, eclectic: he writes in the introduction that he "chose to discuss, where appropriate, both widely read novels published by the mainstream commercial presses and less visible, often experimental work published by independent presses." He looks at work from more than 70 authors, including central figures of the American literary canon--Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, and Don DeLillo, to name only a few. O'Donnell divides the book (and his approach) into five distinctive parts, discussing, respectively, work leading to the 1980s; realism and experimentation; identity, as it pertains to character--gender, ethnicity, and so on; historicity and "end times"; and social emergence within the novel. All this leads to an intriguing "excursus that speculates on the future of the novel." This is a comprehensive discussion of the novel and present circumstances influencing it--an interesting study on many levels." (CHOICE, December 2010) "The American Novel Now provides an accessible introduction to the many strands of post-1980 American fiction." (TLS, June 2010)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Part I: Before 1980. Part II: From New Realisms to Postmodernism. This American Life”. "Dirty Realisms". Only Wor(l)ds. Magnifying Reality, Multiplying Genre. Part III: Becoming Identities. Reinventing Character. Racing Identity. Engendering Narrative. Toward the Posthuman. Part IV: What Happened to History? The Past is Prologue. Tunneling In. Imagining Epoch. Another History. Catastrophe: The Ends of History. Part V: Relations Stopping Nowhere. The Postnuclear Family. The Reach of Community. Nation and Migration: From There to Here. Epilogue. Notes. References. Index.
£31.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The American Novel Now
Book SynopsisThe American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writers Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many more Explores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction since 1980, in both mainstream and experimental writings Reflects the liveliness and diversity of American fiction in the last thirty years Written in a style that makes it ideal for students and scholars, while also accessible for general readers Trade Review"In this extremely accessible discussion, O'Donnell (Michigan State Univ.) reveals his as an authoritative voice on novels from the 1980s to present. His selections are, by his own admission, eclectic: he writes in the introduction that he "chose to discuss, where appropriate, both widely read novels published by the mainstream commercial presses and less visible, often experimental work published by independent presses." He looks at work from more than 70 authors, including central figures of the American literary canon--Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, and Don DeLillo, to name only a few. O'Donnell divides the book (and his approach) into five distinctive parts, discussing, respectively, work leading to the 1980s; realism and experimentation; identity, as it pertains to character--gender, ethnicity, and so on; historicity and "end times"; and social emergence within the novel. All this leads to an intriguing "excursus that speculates on the future of the novel." This is a comprehensive discussion of the novel and present circumstances influencing it--an interesting study on many levels." (CHOICE, December 2010) "The American Novel Now provides an accessible introduction to the many strands of post-1980 American fiction." (TLS, June 2010)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Part I: Before 1980. Part II: From New Realisms to Postmodernism. This American Life”. "Dirty Realisms". Only Wor(l)ds. Magnifying Reality, Multiplying Genre. Part III: Becoming Identities. Reinventing Character. Racing Identity. Engendering Narrative. Toward the Posthuman. Part IV: What Happened to History? The Past is Prologue. Tunneling In. Imagining Epoch. Another History. Catastrophe: The Ends of History. Part V: Relations Stopping Nowhere. The Postnuclear Family. The Reach of Community. Nation and Migration: From There to Here. Epilogue. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Literature in Context from 1865 to 1929
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Context from 1865 to 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression.Trade Review“American Literature in Context to 1865 can be a key critical reading for various antebellum literature courses, as well as for other members of her targeted ‘widest possible audience’seeking to deepen their knowledge of various early American literary moments.” (Oxford Journals Clippings, 4 May 2012)Table of ContentsTimeline of Texts and Historical Events viii Introduction 1 1 Civil War Memories 6 2 “A Serfdom of Poverty and Restricted Rights”: Black Americans after Emancipation 16 3 Immigrants 33 4 Countrysides 54 5 The Poor and the Wealthy 68 6 To Change America 86 7 Culminations: From the US Entry into World War I to 1929 114 Index 138
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The State of the Novel
Book SynopsisPart of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contemporary British novel written by an expert in the field. Evaluates the state of the serious literary' novel and novel criticism Prominent treatment is paid to the internationalization' of the novel in English Offers a manifesto on contemporary fiction from an expert in this field; Dominic Head is best known for his Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction 1950-2000 Establishes the shared interests of contemporary theorists of the novel, cultural commentators, and novel consumers An ideal supplementary text for students and faculty interested in the novel and contemporary fiction Trade Review“Head contemplates the contemporary novel and its readers, scholarly and general, offering a reminder of the form's potential. Serious fiction interrogates social and political issues and plays an important part in the ‘process of acculturation’ and in the formation of identity and understanding of the self.” (CHOICE, March 2009) "The first half of Head's book benefits from a tight focus on analysing the relationship between the contemporary cultural fields on England and the US, and the literary novel genre … .I particularly liked the readings Head offers of the peculiarly British sub-genre of the 'seaside novel' ". (Times Higher Education Supplement, January 2009)Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Post-Consensus Renaissance?. 2. The Novel and Cultural Life in Britain. 3. Assimilating Multiculturalism. 4. Terrorism in Transatlantic Perspective. 5. Global Futures: Novelists, Critics, Citizens. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Literature in Context after 1929
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in Context after 1929 explores thehistorical events and literary movements that shaped Americanliterature from the Great Depression onward.Table of ContentsTimeline of Texts and Historical Events Introduction 1 1 The Depression and the Early 1940s 4 2 Anti-Communism 27 3 Bad and Mad 57 4 Places 94 5 Immigrant Destinies 120 Index 138
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisThe Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism. An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God Pays close attention to both British and American modernism Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Kevin J. H. Dettmar Part I Origins, Beginnings, and the New 7 1 Philosophy 9 Jean-Michel Rabaté 2 Religion 19 Pericles Lewis 3 Politics 29 Tyrus Miller 4 The Physical Sciences 39 Michael H. Whitworth 5 The Biological Sciences 50 Angelique Richardson 6 Technology 66 Sara Danius 7 Psychology 79 Perry Meisel 8 Anthropology 92 Patricia Rae 9 Obscenity and Censorship 103 David Bradshaw 10 Language 113 R. M. Berry 11 Geography 123 Nico Israel 12 Publishing 133 Mark S. Morrisson 13 Sex and Sexuality 143 Liesl Olson Part II Movements 153 14 Literary Symbolism 155 Marshall C. Olds 15 Dada 163 Robert Short 16 Futurism 169 Tyrus Miller 17 Vorticism 176 Alan Munton 18 Imagism 183 Patrick McGuinness 19 Surrealism 189 Mary Ann Caws 20 Expressionism 198 Richard Murphy 21 Literary Impressionism 204 Max Saunders Part III Modernist Genres and Modern Media 213 22 The Novel 215 Jesse Matz 23 Poetry 227 Adam Parkes 24 Drama 237 Stephen Watt 25 The Visual Arts 244 Richard Weston 26 Film 250 Laura Marcus 27 Music 258 Bernard Gendron 28 Dance 265 Susan Jones 29 Architecture 272 Lee Morrissey 30 Photography 278 Maggie Humm Part IV Readings 285 31 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger! 287 Steven Matthews 32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood 297 Rebecca Loncraine 33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy 306 H. Porter Abbott 34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness 314 Brian W. Shaffer 35 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 324 David Chinitz 36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 333 Karl F. Zender 37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 342 Ruth Prigozy 38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier 350 Sara Haslam 39 The Poetry of H. D. 358 Diana Collecott 40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew 367 Edward Brunner 41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God 376 Cheryl A. Wall 42 James Joyce: Ulysses 384 Michael Patrick Gillespie 43 D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love 393 Joyce Piell Wexler 44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr 402 Andrzej Gasiorek 45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker 411 Michael Thurston 46 Marianne Moore: Observations 422 Catherine Paul 47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 431 Michael Coyle 48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage 440 Laura Marcus 49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives 450 Jaime Hovey 50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 459 Jonathan Levin 51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts 469 Jay Martin 52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson 478 Daniel Morris 53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse 486 Pamela L. Caughie 54 Richard Wright: Native Son 499 Bill V. Mullen 55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) 507 Edward Larrissy 56 Modernist Critical Prose 516 Gary S. Wihl Part V Other Modernisms 525 57 Modernism and Race 527 Martha Jane Nadell 58 Modernism and Gender 535 Bonnie Kime Scott 59 Modernism Queered 542 Laura Doan and Jane Garrity 60 Postcolonial Modernism 551 Bart Moore-Gilbert 61 Global Modernisms 558 Melba Cuddy-Keane 62 Postmodernism 565 Bran Nicol Epilogue: Modernism Now 571 Marjorie Perloff Index 579
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Comparative Literature
Book SynopsisA Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literary studies.Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii Introduction 1 Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas Part I Roadmaps 13 1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15 Rey Chow 2 Why Compare? 28 David Ferris 3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature 46 David Palumbo-Liu 4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator 60 Haun Saussy 5 Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy 65 Kenneth Surin Part II Theoretical Directions 73 6 The Poiein of Secular Criticism 75 Stathis Gourgouris 7 Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West 88 Eric Hayot 8 Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud 108 Efraín Kristal 9 A Literary Object’s Contextual Life 120 Michael Lucey 10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136 Sharon Marcus Part III Disciplinary Intersections 155 11 What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America 157 Jorge Coronado 12 If There’s a Text in this Class, Where Did it Come From? Or, What Does Marilyn Monroe Have to do With The Sorrows of Young Man Werther? 176 Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller 13 Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline 193 Todd Presner 14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular 208 Zoë Norridge 15 Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature 225 Gisèle Sapiro Part IV Linguistic Trajectories 237 16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History 239 Cathy Caruth 17 Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality 254 Simon Gikandi 18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273 Mary Louise Pratt 19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature 296 Nasrin Rahimieh 20 Rudimentariness as Home 312 Mireille Rosello Part V Postcolonial Mobilities 333 21 Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 335 Allison Crumly Deventer and Dominic Thomas 22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method 357 David Theo Goldberg 23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy 369 Deborah Jenson 24 Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison 387 Françoise Lionnet 25 How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism 408 David Murphy 26 Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies 421 Sangeeta Ray Part VI Global Connections 437 27 Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature 439 Emily Apter 28 Logics and Contexts of Circulation 454 Brian T. Edwards 29 “Worlds in Collision:” The Languages and Locations of World Literature 473 Charles Forsdick 30 The Trouble with World Literature 490 Graham Huggan Index 507
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Johns Hopkins University Press Writing Back
Book SynopsisAs both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture.Trade ReviewEven scholars familiar with these works will find Winnett's reading fresh, erudite, and insightful. Choice Winnett's tightly-argued chapters, and the sense of intellectual exchange between them, mark this as an important book in the literary history of transatlantic migration. Forum for Modern Language StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Framing the Un-Scene / Writing the Wrongs: Henry James's Text of America2. An Intellectual Is Being Beaten: The Escape and Return of Harold E. Stearns3. Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden: Malcolm Cowley's Odyssey of Legitimation4. Everybody's Autobiography: The Remaking of an AmericanPostscriptNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press F. Scott Fitzgeralds Fiction
Book SynopsisIrwin seamlessly ties together details from Fitzgerald's life with elements from his entire body of work and considers central themes connected to wealth, class, work, love, jazz, acceptance, family, disillusionment, and life as theatrical performance.Trade ReviewThis volume is an example of what happens when an expert takes a career's worth of teaching and study and elegantly applies it to a subject he loves. John Irwin... wastes nary a word in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction considering Fitzgerald's life and what makes his stories so poetically heartbreaking. A must for Fitzgerald fans, and an enthusiastic push for those who've only read Gatsby once to explore the entire oeuvre. -- Brett McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine This is a luminous, eye-opening, deeply appreciative study about the writings of Fitzgerald, as opposed to yet another chronicle of his high life and hard times... Indeed, this is precisely the kind of book that's long overdue. -- M.J. Moore Neworld Review Readers will find that [ F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction] offers discerning analysis... deserving attention is Irwin's argument about the influence of music, particularly jazz, on Fitzgerald. Finally, treatment of "the mythical method" is revealing, considering that mythopoetic readers of literature are all but moribund. Remarkably, this book does not rehash previous close readings but incorporates the best of such criticisms. Choice It is a testament to both the author's brilliance and the scrupulousness of his focus and approach that the book delivers on every conceivable level... Simply stated, now that "An Almost Theatrical Innocence" has arrive, we can agree that it was well worth the wait. -- Kirk Curnutt The F Scott Fitzgerald Review John T. Irwin's F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction is a brave attempt... to give Fitzgerald the kind of resolutely non-fan-magazine scrutiny that Irwin has previously given to Hart Crane and Poe. he says some smart things about Fitzgerald's imagery--about, for instance, how ambiguous the idea of light is in his writing, so that the green light at the end of the dock is a protent of the shining illusory screen of the movies, standing for persistent illusion as much as romantic aspiration. -- Adam Gopnik The New YorkerTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Compensating Visions in The Great Gatsby2. Fitzgerald as a Southern Writer3. The Importance of "Repose"4. "An Almost Theatrical Innocence"5. Fitzgerald and the Mythical Method6. On the Son's Own TermsWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Freedom Time
Book SynopsisWith an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression.Trade ReviewReed provides a strong context in which to examine these highly complex writers and their techniques, adding insight into writers who are undervalued (in the case of Mullen and Philip) and/or lesser known (Pritchard and Kearney). ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 11. Broken Witness2. Establishing Synchronisms3. Between Now and YetPart 24. Sing It in My Voice5. Exploding Dimensions of SongPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press My Silver Planet
Book SynopsisBy exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.Trade ReviewTiffany is persuasive in arguing that the now ubiquitous idea of 'kitsch' originates in poetry, poetic language, and the articulated views of many players in the greater culture... The value of the book lies in application: understanding the origins of poetic 'kitsch' allows one to understand elite culture better and to use that knowledge as a link between elite culture and vernacular culture. Choice My Silver Planet offers a thrilling new way to read poetry from the past two hundred years. -- Mike Chaser Poetry Magazine A strength of Tiffany's book as a whole is that its history of the relationship of lyric poetry and kitsch from graveyard gothic to Pound reveals the pleasures and anxieties of an art forever seeking to justify its artifices in a natural authority, whether in the rhythms of labor, the rhythms of the sexual body, an essentialism of blood or land, or a totalitarian politics. -- John Wilkinson Modern PhilologyTable of Contents1. Arresting PoetryUnpopular PopMissing VersesBogusTwice MadeMass Ornament2. Poetic Diction and the Substance of KitschDreams, Mottos, GossipChatter and VirtuosityPhraseologyMorbid Animation3. MiscreantDoppelgängerSynthetic VernacularsPoetry vs. LiteratureCommonplaceLyric FatalityThieves' Latin4. The Spurious Progeny of Bare NatureBalladry and the Burden of Popular CultureExploded Beings and After-PoetsLive Burial5. IlliteratureRefrainLullaby LogicThe Cult of SimplicityPets, Trifles, ToysGothic Verse and MelodramaSilver Proxy6. Queer IdyllsTopologies of PrivacyReliquesPoetasterKitsch, Camp, and Homo-fascism1800 WordsPoison7. Kitsching the CantosVortex and Cream PuffContrabandThe Kitsch of ApocalypseEpic, Rhapsody, SeizureBad InfinityEthnofascist Souvenirs8. JunkThermofaxDada KitschAfter After-PoetsCoterie and MelodramaThe Metaphysics of Kitsch9. Inventing ClichésPlastic PoetryLiar, LiarAfterwordIn the Poisonous Candy FactoryCounterfeit CapitalNotesIndex
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