Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Book SynopsisThis Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction: crime fiction and detective fiction; 1. Eighteenth-century crime writing Ian A. Bell; 2. The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830–68 Lynn Pykett; 3. The short story from Poe to Chesterton Martin Kayman; 4. French crime fiction Sita Schütt; 5. The golden age Stephen Knight; 6. The private eye Dennis Porter; 7. Spy fiction Davis Seed; 8. The thriller David Glover; 9. Postwar American police fiction LeRoy Lad Panek; 10. Postwar British crime fiction Martin Priestman; 11. Women detectives Maureen T. Reddy; 12. Black crime fiction Andrew Pepper; 13. Crime on film and TV Nickianne Moody; 14. Detection and literary fiction Laura Marcus; Guide to further reading.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael Levenson; 1. The metaphysics of modernism Michael Bell; 2. The cultural economy of modernism Lawrence Rainey; 3. The modernist novel David Trotter; 4. Modern poetry James Longenbach; 5. Modernism in drama Christopher Innes; 6. The politics of culture Sara Blair; 7. Modernism and religion Pericles Lewis; 8. Mass culture Allison Pease; 9. Modernism and gender Marianne DeKoven; 10. Musical motives Daniel Albright; 11. The visual arts Glen MacLeod; 12. Film Michael Wood; 13. Colonial modernism Elleke Boehmer and Steven Matthews; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisNow available for the first time in paperback, John Fuller''s Commentary is a compendious yet condensed reference work dealing with all of Auden''s writings. For every poem, play or libretto, Fuller encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases difficult passages, explains allusions, points out interesting variants (including material abandoned in drafts), identifies sources and influences, looks at the verse form and offers critical interpretation. Auden''s formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions. ''magnificent . . . a model of scholarly engagement that is both rigorous and readable.'' Paul Muldoon, Times Literary Supplement Books of the YearTrade Review"'Magnificent.' Paul Muldoon"

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Book Synopsis'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more.

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Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms

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Book SynopsisNot an autobiography in the customary sense, Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900 is a recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin’s West End at the turn of the century. In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, seen from the perspective of a child.Trade ReviewConceived in the early Thirties, the Berlin Childhood belongs in the orbit of that primal history of the modern world on which Benjamin was working during the last thirteen years of his life. It forms the subjective counterpart to the masses of materials brought together for the project on the Paris arcades. The historical archetypes he wished to lay out in their social-pragmatic and philosophical provenance in the study of Paris were to be illuminated by lightning flashes of immediate remembrance in the Berlin book, which throughout laments the irretrievability of what, once lost, congeals into an allegory of its own demise. For the images this book unearths and brings strangely near are not idyllic and not contemplative. Over them lies the shadow of the Third Reich. And through them dreamily runs a shudder at the long forgotten. -- Theodor Adorno, Afterword to Berlin Childhood around 1900 (1950)Berlin Childhood is an extraordinary autobiography in which the 19th-century city comes alive, not through abstract analysis or even storytelling but through details like ‘anthracite as it falls from the coal scuttle into a cast-iron stove, the dull pop of the flame as it ignites the brass mantle.’ Benjamin transports us to the fragmented immediacy of childhood, the city breathing just beyond the confines of home. -- Yvonne Sherratt * Wall Street Journal *Benjamin’s autobiographical masterpiece,…Berlin Childhood around 1900, is a reminder of the astonishing courage and modesty of a writer who, in the mid-193os, was fully and painfully aware both of the coming catastrophe and of what precisely had been lost already (both personally and collectively)… Berlin Childhood is an extraordinary work: as if the extravagant wanderings of Joyce and Proust in the labyrinths of memory and the city had been condensed and refracted to a kaleidoscopic 160 pages. It is less a memoir than a hallucinated inventory of the space of childhood, an eerie projection of the most intimate and exposed places in the author’s recollection, ‘images in which the experience of the big city is precipitated in a child of the middle class’… Berlin Childhood around 1900…imagines the city as a series of resonant nooks and crannies, suffused with an adult’s longing that is never merely individual but which reconstructs a whole historical era in the sound of a carpet being beaten in a courtyard or the ‘giant bloom of plush’ that was his grandmother’s apartment. Inevitably, minor childhood traumas prefigure mature miseries, the time and space of childhood and adulthood interweaving in the most telling ways. -- Brian Dillon * Irish Times *Now is the time to read Walter Benjamin, when doors to the future are slamming shut around us and freedom dribbles out of a modern life that is squeezed by masses of information delivered at high speeds and by a rigid morality that circumscribes behavior, movement and thought… He intended his memoir Berlin Childhood around 1900 as a goodbye to a city he loved but knew he could never again inhabit. Begun in Spain and Italy in 1932, it was finished in 1938 but wasn’t published until 1950, 10 years after he died of an intentional overdose of morphine while fleeing the Gestapo. Benjamin regarded the book as a series of ‘expeditions into the depths of memory,’ an act of ‘digging’ for the future. -- Susan Salter Reynolds * Los Angeles Times Book Review *The Proustian ideal of the redemption of ‘lived experience’ lies at the heart of Benjamin’s idiosyncratic memoir, Berlin Childhood around 1900… In Berlin Childhood he offers us a cityscape of the German capital as seen through the eyes of a precocious and impressionable youth. He revisits his favorite childhood haunts—the zoos, swimming pools, grammar schools, parks and railway terminals—and milks them for utopian potential… In a sense, Benjamin regarded childhood much as he did modern literature: as an invaluable repository of utopian longings and dreams in an age of industrialized degradation. Berlin Childhood represents his own Proustian effort to recapture lost time, a time that any revolution worthy of the name would seek to restore. -- Richard Wolin * The Nation *Comprised of thirty prose pieces separated by montage-like headings, Berlin Childhood provides a series of intimate glimpses into Benjamin’s bourgeois Jewish upbringing. Some of the most heartbreaking scenes include Christmas Day at his grandmother’s house, ice skating, visiting an otter at the zoo, catching butterflies, searching for peacock feathers, and wandering around the streets. In these glimpses of an irretrievable past, homesickness is tangible… The new and brilliantly executed translation by Howard Eiland is of the final 1938 version. -- Eric Bulson * Times Literary Supplement *Benjamin’s work continues to fascinate and delight because it has something for everyone: the literary critic, art historian, philosopher, urban theorist and architect. Whether he is talking about children’s toys, Mickey Mouse, Surrealism, photography, or Kafka, Benjamin has a knack for figuring out what they can tell us about the wider world that produced them. -- Eric Bulson * Times Literary Supplement *Begun in 1932 and extensively reworked between then and 1938, Benjamin’s recollection of his childhood remained unpublished during his lifetime. Now available in English for the first time, this unconventional autobiography is of a piece with, and in some respects the culmination of, Benjamin’s philosophical work. The three abiding aspects of his character—the flâneur, the allegorist and the collector—had already come together in Benjamin as a child. * London Review of Books *Benjamin has an affecting approach to the victories of childhood, exhibiting pleasure and regret at once… Benjamin was acutely aware of history—the history of ideas, the history of violence and fear, the history of commerce and objects. He annotated mentally whatever he saw, then dwelt on it till it became meaningful, maybe incandescent. He tried to see everyday life through the eyes of a mystic. -- Robert Fulford * National Post *Benjamin was a consummate polymath who wrote with erudition, playfulness, and compassion… In Berlin Childhood around 1900, Benjamin turns his scalpel on his childhood, Berlin, and the capricious faculty of memory… The reader stands awestruck as Benjamin flits effortlessly from memory to memory, from his mother’s sewing box to the otter’s cage at the Berlin Zoological Garden, seemingly unaware of the catastrophic shadow looming over him. In Benjamin’s hands, the most pedestrian moments of an inward-facing, bourgeois childhood become revelations about discipline and ideology… As with Kafka, Benjamin’s prose shines most brightly through the language of parable, the cliched, but somehow unexpected aphorism… His province is the truth we always knew but could never quite put into words, the eerily reminiscent description. -- Michael Lukas * Tikkun *Readers of Berlin Childhood will delight in Benjamin’s precise prose, rich in simile and metaphor… A Proust devotee and translator, Benjamin will appeal to enthusiasts of the French master. Intensely modern in its treatment of the city, in its unique approach to autobiography, Berlin Childhood, known only to Benjamin admirers for too long and available only recently in English, belongs in the canon of classic 20th-century texts. -- Rachel Eve Nisselson * AmeriQuests *Fifty years after its posthumous publication in German, this tidy volume of urban vignettes—memories of imperial landmarks and family vacations, school libraries and the arrival of the household telephone—has earned its own afterlife. The later writings of Roland Barthes are obvious descendents, and even Jacques Derrida’s final fixations on hospitality and his native Algeria bear its trace, however unconsciously… [Here are] some of the most marvelous performances of a master stylist… Berlin Childhood around 1900 finally functions like all excavations of lost time: the little boy may be innocent, the remembered milieu yet to be complicated, but the effect is unquestionably narcotic. -- Jonathan Liu * Harvard Book Review *Walter Benjamin’s autobiography of his early childhood is a welcome addition to the English language body of Benjamin’s work… Berlin Childhood around 1900 offers a rich portrait of Berlin at the turn of the twentieth century. Benjamin provides descriptive accounts of his experiences at famous landmarks, such as the Victory Column and the Tiergarten. His autobiography also provides an uncanny perspective of middle-class life in Berlin… While this autobiography focuses on Benjamin’s early childhood, it also profoundly speaks to Benjamin’s anxieties about living in exile and his precarious future… Benjamin’s is a rich autobiography that is translated well and provided with helpful notes by Eiland. -- Sara A. Sewell * H-Net Reviews *Berlin Childhood is not only an autobiographical text by the literary critic, historian and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Describing Berlin around 1900 from the point of view of a child that is introduced into the customs and way of life of society, it also explores a whole era in a nutshell, as Benjamin did on the grand scale in his Arcades Project. And, not least, this book examines the structure of an individual memory and its relation to history. -- Barbara Sattler * Metapsychology *All serious general readers should know something about Benjamin and his ideas… Harvard University Press is doing its best to make this a realistic goal. -- George Fetherling * Seven Oaks *Howard Eiland’s translation…is incomparable. -- Charles Mudede * The Stranger *[Berlin Childhood around 1900] is a series of miniature portraits conjuring up people, objects, streets, and interior scenes that reveal his childhood in a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family in Berlin’s West End at the turn of the century. In the letter to Gershom Scholem in 1932, Benjamin notes these childhood memories are not narratives in the form of a chronicle, but individual expeditions into the depths of memory. Benjamin is a writer who deserves our full attention. -- George Cohen * Booklist *Walter has been our philosophy pin up boy for a while now and this book is another jewel in his crown. An autobiography as a series of vignettes that concentrate on memory and how we understand not just ourselves but the cities and places we live in. Underlines the works he produced later in life with a profoundly personal understanding. Brilliant. -- Bookshop catalogue of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, LondonTable of ContentsTranslator's Foreword "Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin" by Peter Szondi Berlin Childhood around 1900: Final Version Loggias * Imperial Panorama * Victory Column * The Telephone * Butterfly Hunt * Tiergarten * Tardy Arrival * Boys' Books * Winter Morning * At the Corner of Steglitzer and Genthiner * Two Enigmas * Market Hall * The Fever * The Otter * Peacock Island and Glienicke * News of a Death * Blumeshof 12 * Winter Evening * Crooked Street * The Sock * The Mummerehlen * Hiding Places * A Ghost * A Christmas Angel * Misfortunes and Crimes * Colors * The Sewing Box * The Moon * Two Brass Bands * The Little Hunchback * The Carousel * Sexual Awakening From the 1932-1934 Version Departure and Return * The Larder * News of a Death * The Mummerehlen * Society * The Reading Box * Monkey Theater * School Library * New Companion of German Youth * The Desk * Cabinets * Beggars and Whores * The Moon Complete Table of Contents, 1932-1934 Version Notes Credits for Illustrations Index Illustrations Walter Benjamin and his brother Georg The Victory Column on Konigsplatz The goldfish pond in the Tiergarten Berlin's Tiergarten in winter Market hall on Magdeburger Platz Interior of a middle-class German home Courtyard on Fischerstrasse in Old Berlin

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A joy, start to finish." * Philadelphia Inquirer *"The book comes alive when Smith connects his own moral and intellectual growth to his appreciation of the poet. . . . Anyone interested in the intellectual underpinnings of Smith's warm and humane novels should read this book."---Regina Marler, New York Times Book Review"Alexander McCall Smith plumbs the British poet's modern resonance in this charming, quirky, slim volume, a deft weave of biography, textual analysis and memoir. It's a must-read for Auden fans—even more for those who know his work only from a British rom-com. . . . That there's only kindness in the telling marks the moral generosity McCall Smith says the great poet has taught him. He's learned a bunch of other stuff as well. And if you read his quietly wise book, you'll learn it, too."---Anne Kingston, Maclean's"Poets need readers who aren't poets, and it is delightful to see an established novelist answer the call."---Lachlan MacKinnon, Times Literary Supplement"What W. H. Auden Can Do for You is a graceful and personal response of gratitude for Auden, celebrating the resonance, reverence, and rebellion of the man who believed 'truth is catholic, but the search for it is protestant.'"---Mark Oakley, Church Times"McCall Smith restores the link between poetry and life."---Anthony Daniels, New Criterion"Charming."---Fiona Sampson, New Humanist"An appreciation of the poet that should appeal even to those only familiar with his work via Four Weddings and a Funeral."---Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe"Maybe the name of this book is the most radical, insightful thing about it: the notion that Auden is, as McCall Smith writes, 'a healer,' and that this is healing is collective. It's not just what Auden can do for you alone, but for all of us."---Alex Nazaryan, Newsweek"A wonderful work."---Vinton Rafe McCabe, New York Journal of Books"Of all the volumes I've read about [Auden], and all the tributes paid, the most remarkable and in a sense the most lovable is a highly personal, 137-page book by Alexander McCall Smith, What W. H. Auden Can Do For You."---Robert Fulford, National Post"[A] charming, insightful, personal look at one of the 20th century's great poets."---Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times"Not only does What W. H. Auden Can Do for You express Smith's deep admiration of Auden's poetry, but his paean to the messy maestro also makes for a charming, honest look at Auden's failings. . . . Still, Smith's passion for the poet cannot help but inspire us. . . . [He] wisely counsels us to turn to the poems themselves to assess how much light they shed on our lives and loves. We won't be disappointed. For as Isabel Dalhousie knows so well, reading poetry may put us on the right track, after all."---Arlice Davenport, Wichita Eagle"Novelist Alexander McCall Smith has written a short, personal book about another abiding poet: Wystan Hugh Auden, dead these 40 years. . . . McCall Smith feels enormous gratitude to Auden, and he is a keen proselytiser for poetry: its unique force and moral necessity. . . . With poems like Lullaby and Musée des Beaux Arts, Auden transcended his obscure vocabulary and arcane interests to become that rarest of creatures, a necessary poet--the creator of works that people chant to themselves on beaches and read to the bereaved or the newly married. Again and again we return to this strange, weathered scholar poet because he helps us to live."---Peter Rose, Sydney Morning Herald"For some people The Art of War is a touchstone. A guide to living and to life. For others it is Tao Te Ching or even The Tao of Pooh. In his latest book, number one detective Alexander McCall Smith has an admission to make: his own personal touchstone is Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden. . . . If you are a fan of Auden's work, this is a must-read."---Jones Atwater, January Magazine"[A] thoughtful and generous guide to more than the selected poems of W. H. Auden. An uplifting, pocket-sized vade mecum it made me rethink how I read, why poetry can be relevant both to everyday life and great events and it was refreshingly illuminating on the ways we age."---Caroline Jackson, Tablet"[A] charming little book."---Robert Fulford, National Post"McCall Smith makes an excellent case for a young generation to get acquainted with the life trajectory of Auden as poet and as struggling human."---Barbara Berman, TheRumpus.net"For those of us who have waded through a morass of arduous criticism on Auden, it is nice to be reminded why this poet means so much for so many. For those who have not, McCall Smith's book is a great place to start."---Neilson MacKay, NewCriterion.com"Sheer delight in the written and spoken word beams forth from Alexander McCall Smith's overview of the life of the one of the greatest 20th century poets, the Anglo-American poet, W. H. Auden, and his work in What W. H. Auden Can Do for You. The fluency and vigor of McCall Smith's writing gives a strength and momentum to the text that encourages one to read the whole book through without pause. The accessible way in which the author introduces even some of the most complex topics that are covered in Auden's poetry makes this a gem for non-academics and scholars alike."---Lois Henderson, Bookpleasures.com

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Book SynopsisFirst collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the In-Yer Face' generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of Theatre Studies or English Literature. -- .Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction(Laurens De Vos and Graham Saunders)Part I: Surrounding Voices1. Reviewing the fabric of Blasted(Elaine Aston)2. Sarah Kane before Blasted: the monologues(Dan Rebellato)3. ‘Looks like there’s a war on’: Sarah Kane’s Blasted, political theatre and the Muslim Other(Aleks Sierz)4. Staging Power: the politics of sex and death in Seneca’s Phaedra and Kane’s Phaedra’s Love(Zina Giannopoulou)5. The Beckettian world of Sarah Kane(Graham Saunders)6. Cruelty, violence and rituals in Sarah Kane’s plays(Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier)7. Sarah Kane, experiential theatre and the revenant avant-garde(Clare Wallace)Part II: Subjectivity, Responsibility and Representation8. The voice of Kane(Ehren Fordyce)9. ‘I love you now’: time and desire in the plays of Sarah Kane(Robert I. Lublin)10. Sarah Kane and Antonin Artaud: cruelty towards the subjectile(Laurens De Vos)11. Posthumanist identities in Sarah Kane(Julie Waddington)12. Neither here nor there: theatrical space in Kane’s work(Annette Pankratz)13.‘Victim. Perpetrator. Bystander’: critical distance in Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Cruelty(Hillary Chute)14. Sarah Kane’s Phaedra's Love: staging the implacable(Peter A. Campbell)15. Under the surface of things. Sarah Kane’s Skin and the medium of theatre(Mateusz Borowski) 16. ‘We are anathema’ – Sarah Kane’s plays as postdramatic theatre v. the ‘Dreary and repugnant tale of sense’(Eckart Voigts-Virchow)Epilogue‘The mark of Kane’(Edward Bond)References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis accessible book offers an introduction to a range of Bram Stoker's work – novels, short stories, biography, and criticism. It provides a discussion of recent scholarship on Stoker including the many attempts to write his life and find the ‘real’ Bram Stoker, and the lurid speculation this provokes.

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Book SynopsisThis memoir of Graham Greene's life is by his long-term companion.Trade Review'This book adds an important element to our knowledge of Graham Greene' The Times 'Anyone interested in the man or his novels will find this a fascinating and necessary book' Country Life 'An exhilarating and thought-provoking biography ... full of insights into a rigorous and fascinating mind' Daily Mail 'An illuminating memoir, written with intelligence and dignity ... Cloetta successfully makes the case for Greene as a man of great passion and generosity' Scotland on Sunday

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Book SynopsisThe first book to provide a thorough introduction to Gaelic fiction. It traces the evolution of the form over the last century and focuses on the major developments that have led to the recent flourishing in Gaelic fiction publishing.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - The Origin of Gaelic Fiction Chapter 2 - The Early Novels Chapter 3 - Periodical Fiction: 1952 to the Present Day Chapter 4 - The Second Wave of Novels Chapter 5 - Collected Stories Chapter 6 - Contemporary Fiction

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Book SynopsisThe pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. The authors also explore Farrokhzad''s appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable wTrade ReviewThe epitome of what the Islamic Republic wanted to eradicate, Farrokhzad is now the Iranian equivalent of a rock star. * Washington Post *Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran sets in every way a new milestone in the study and understanding of this extraordinary poet. This volume is now clearly the single most important critical study of Farrokhzad in English, and can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in Persian poetry, intellectual history of Iran, and Iranian women * Franklin Lewis, Associate Professor of Persian, University of Chicago *Nearly half a century after her death, neither a biography nor a critical study of her poems has appeared. In the light of this situation, everyone who has read Farrokhzad or read about her will welcome the proposed volume * Michael Craig Hillman, Professor of Persian, University of Texas, Austin *Brookshaw’s and Rahimieh’s multi-faceted collection of essays remains the essential English-language portal into an understanding of Forough Farrokhzad’s life, historical context, and her cinematic and poetic work. As a global icon for those seeking to love, live, and work freely, Farrokhzad continues to inspire individuals inside Iran and across the globe. This expanded edition includes important new essays exploring Farrokhzad’s time in Europe, a period crucial to her artistic development, and also the work of Afghan poet Layla Sarahat Rowshani, one of Farrokhzad’s gifted heirs. * Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., translator of Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems of Forough Farrokhzad (New Directions, 2022), USA *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh. Introduction to the First Edition: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh. Chapter 1: “Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzad.” Homa Katouzian. Chapter 2: “Men and Women Together: Love, Marriage, and Gender in Forugh Farrokhzad’s Asir.” Marta Simidchieva. Chapter 3: “Places of Confinement, Liberation, and Decay: The Home and the Garden in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad.” Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. Chapter 4: “Forugh Farrokhzad’s Romance with Her Muse.” Rivanne Sandler. Chapter 5: “Bewildered Mirror: Mirror, Self, and World in the Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad.” Leila Rahimi Bahmany. Chapter 6: “Personal Rebellion and Social Revolt in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad: Challenging the Assumptions.” Kamran Talattof. Chapter 7: “Garden in Motion: the Esthetic of the Space Between.” Michael Beard. Chapter 8: “Forugh Farrokhzad’s Apocalyptic Visions.” Sirous Shamisa. Chapter 9: “Capturing the Abject of the Nation in The House is Black.” Nasrin Rahimieh. Chapter 10: “The House is Black: A Timeless Visual Essay.” Maryam Ghorbankarimi. Chapter 11: “Forugh Farrokhzad as Translator of Modern German Poetry: observations about the anthology, Marg-e man ruzi.” Nima Mina. Chapter 12: “Alien Rebirths of ‘Another Birth’.” M. R. Ghanoonparvar. Chapter 13: “Re-Writing Forugh: Writers, Intellectuals, Artists, and Farrokhzad’s Legacy in the Iranian Diaspora.” Persis M. Karim. Chapter 14: “Cargo, Chickpeas, and Cobblestones: The Textures of Memory in Forugh Farrokhzad's Travelogue Dar diyari digar.” Marie Ostby. Chapter 15: “Of Stones and Mirrors: The Fragmented Self in the Poetry of Layla Sarahat Rowshani (1958-2004).” Wali Ahmadi.

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Book SynopsisIt will be a welcome addition to the library of any scholar of modernism and can easily be adapted for courses on Woolf and modern literature.Trade ReviewA thoughtfully designed and very teachable volume... Both a treasure-trove of pedagogical resources and a refreshing reminder of the continuity of scholarship. Woolf Studies Annual 2010 This anthology allows us to browse through a range of twenty articles from five decades of scholarship, revisiting familiar pieces and considering for the first time work which even the most dedicated follower of Woolf studies might well have missed. Virginia Woolf Bulletin 2010 For those readers experiencing, in the words of one of the essayists collected here, 'the vertigo of reading Woolf for the first time' this ensemble of pieces from Modern Fiction Studies may have a steadying effect. At the same time, it may introduce them to another kind of instructive dizziness, namely that induced by the busy whirl of Woolf criticism... It is good to remind ourselves of the literary-aesthetic, and literary-critical, reasons for which Woolf has been found important-a purpose well served by Maren Linett's collection. Modern Language Review 2010

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"...the foremost chronicler of our time." -- Library Journal"Tenderly lyrical, outrageously irreverent, yet always accessible." -- Fort Worth Star Telegram

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Book SynopsisLooks at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of this pop culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of both the films and books.Trade ReviewIn Transforming Harry: The Adaptations of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age, editors John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller have used all the spells in their litany to collect a powerful series of essays about adaptations of the popular Harry Potter series. They’ve used accio scholarship to bring invigorating analyses of fandom, transmediation, and adaptation; alohomora to unlock the secrets of the series; and aparecium to reveal the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of the series in the digital age. This is one collection that all Potter scholars and fans must read!""- Paul Booth, author of Digital Fandom 2.0, Game Play, and Playing Fans;""This collection presents a unique look at the Harry Potter phenomenon that expands on the dialogue about the film adaptation of the novels. The contributors offer very timely discussions on the further reception and transformation of the novels beyond the large screen and to the smaller screens of computers and smartphones.""- Cristina Santos, author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins;""An extraordinary body of seminal scholarship, the primary focus of this informed and informative collection is academic, but it will have immense appeal to a broad range of dedicated, non-academic Harry potter fans.""- Helen Dumont, Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisA collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). It also examines the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to Ellis, and reviews the literary and artistic significance of his work.Trade Review"Naomi Mandel's exceedingly well edited collection of essays on Bret Easton Ellis's three major novels—American Psycho, Glamorama, and Lunar Park—provides us with the first, long overdue, book-length account of one of the most controversial and reviled of all American authors. A brave undertaking that goes against the received wisdom of much academic and middle-brow literary criticism, this volume offers many surprising insights through close, lucid, frequently ingenious, and always astute encounters with Ellis's work. Despite—or perhaps better because of—the broad scope of approaches featured, this volume presents readers with a remarkably coherent critical conversation; no doubt to the chagrin of the author's many detractors, this collection of essays ultimately puts forth a convincing counter-canonical argument by positioning Bret Easton Ellis as one of the major American writers of the last thirty years. As such, Bret Easton Ellis proves to be not only an indispensable, and immensely teachable, resource for anyone interested in Ellis's work but also provocative for the study of contemporary literary culture in general." -- Marco Abel, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Nebraska, USA"If Ellis's fiction is notoriously said to be about "surface, surface, surface", this collection of essays duly traces the terrestrial details and faultlines of his prose, to interpret how he diagnoses, reveals and often anticipates the most acute contemporary anxieties, from psychological consequences of materialism through the injunction between politics and media to current questions of literary authorship. What is more, the volume offers, probably for the first time, an overview of Ellis's later career as a novelist from American Psycho to Lunar Park. A must for any scholar and, indeed, with the editor's introduction, for any student or reader of contemporary American literature." -- László B. Sári, Lecturer in the Department of Literatures and Cultures in English, University of Pécs, HungaryThis collection of essays on Bret Easton Ellis's "mature work" (American Psycho, 1991; Glamorama, 1999, LunarPark, 2005) is long overdue. Part of the literary "brat pack" of the 1980s (together with Janowitz and McInerney), Ellis has long stepped outside the genre fiction of his early works, becoming one of the most acknowledged critics of U.S. American lifestyle. The main targets of Ellis's biting critiques - postmodern consumer culture, the "celebrity discourse," and the omnipresence of violence are examined in this anthology in ten persuasive essays. With good reason, the book concentrates on three central novels, which are representative of both thewide range of topicsnegotiated in Ellis's works and the "brand Ellis" (that is, the writer's self-construction in his writings). The anthology is equipped with an excellent introduction on the "value and values of Bret Easton Ellis" as well as introductory articles to each of the three discussed texts. This anthology is not only a wonderful overview of Ellis's oeuvre. It also offers a number of witty and theoretically challenging accounts of the author's most provocative texts. All in all, this book represents an important look at the work of this still active author, covering a basic void in previous criticismof Ellis. This anthology is an indispensable study book for academic discussions of postmodern American literature. -- Stefan L. Brandt, Free University Berlin, Germany ‘Mandel's collection fills a glaring lacuna in contemporary criticism. Ellis's work deserves a book-length study and this collection largely succeeds in providing sober discussion that is necessarily contextual but free of the hysteria occasioned by the extremity of the source material.' -- The Gothic Imagination... readers should appreciate the series' clear purpose and excellent essays. The series is a welcome addition to scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction group review in CHOICETable of ContentsSeries Preface; Introduction; Part I: American Psycho (1991); Introduction; 1. Violence, Ethics, and the Rhetoric of Decorum in American Psycho, Michael P. Clark (University of California, Irvine, USA); 2. American Psycho, Hamlet, and Existential Psychosis, Alex E. Blazer (Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, USA); 3. 'The Soul of this Man is His Clothes': Violence and Fashion in American Psycho, Elana Gomel (Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel); Part II: Glamorama (1999); Introduction; 4. "'It's Really Me': Intermediality and Constructed Identities in Glamorama", Sonia Baelo-Allue (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain); 5. The Unusual Suspects: Celebrity, Conspiracy, and Objective Violence in Glamorama, David Schmid (University at Buffalo, USA); 6. "Merely Political": Glam Terrorism and Celebrity Politics in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama, Arthur Redding (York University, Toronto, Canada); Part III: Lunar Park (2005); Introduction; 7. "An awfully good impression": truth and testimony in Lunar Park, Jeff Karnicky (Drake University, Des Moines, USA); 8. What's in a name? Double exposures in Lunar Park, Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark); 9. Brand Ellis: celebrity authorship in Lunar Park, James Annesley (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK); Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.Trade Review"A brilliant idea--short, perceptive books which tell you what you need to know about some of the most vibrant and challenging writing around today--a bit like having a reading group in your pocket."--Ian Rankin"The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries. With the first volume, I was relieved. After two or three, I was hooked. The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. Refreshingly upfront and up-to-date... Given the space, there are remarkably balanced film/novel comparisons of the most well-known examples... An important feature is the fully referenced bibliographies, including reviews and copious website addresses - the latter ranging from fanzines and authors' and publishers' own sites to academic discussion lists and online journals. In method as in subject matter, these guides move freely on the interface between print culture and multimedia. Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right, they gesture accommodatingly to both words and worlds beyond. Taking the series as a whole, it also confirms two things: that narrative nowadays is generically highly hybrid and increasingly cross-media; and that an understanding of the processes of writing and reading 'contemporary classic' (or at least 'currently famous') fiction cannot be separated - yet must be distinguished - from the processes of making and marketing books and films."-- The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002"...Pat Wheeler's book is short and accessible and is targeted at student's of A-level English Literature. It is presented in five chapters: The Novelist, The Novel, The Novel's Reception, The Novel's Performance, Further Reading, and Discussion Questions. This adds up to a very comprehensive treatment. This particular study will...be a source of information and ideas to lecturers and teachers; it will also undoubtedly be of advantage to the able student who will use it selectively and judiciously." -E. F. Finlayson, School Library Association

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Book SynopsisJ G Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. This guide includes critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation.Trade ReviewThere are substantial and scholarly essays on the influence of surrealism on Ballard, his relation to Baudrillard, his cinematic imagination, the representations of London and other landscapes and the role of violence in his work. A timeline of Ballard's life and an extensive bibliography complete this stimulating volume... Students will find the summaries at the beginning of each chapter a big help. -- The Times Higher Education"The extraordinary fictions of J. G. Ballard, so long overlooked by the academy, are finally beginning to get the academic criticism they deserve. This collection offers a host of incisive essays, sandwiched between Toby Litt's meditations on Ballard's work and an interview with Ballard himself, who cheerfully announces the arrival of a new Dark Age -- by fax, weirdly enough. In between, diverse critical voices cover Ballard's fiction from the sixties to the noughties, from SF to crime, from future apocalypse to domestic memoir. A very worthy addition to the scholarship of one of the post-war era's most important writers."- Professor Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London."J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives may be the most critically capacious and insightful volume yet devoted to this sui generis author whose work spans the past half-century. It is the ideal companion for scholars and teachers of Ballard's endlessly intriguing, evolving, challenging, controversial fictions.'- Professor Brian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College, USA... brings together a wonderful range of critical perspectives on Ballard. -- Routledge ABESTable of ContentsGeneral Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chronology or a Version of J. G. Ballard's Life; Foreword by Toby Litt; Introduction: J. G. Ballard and the Contemporary, Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge); 1. The Geometry of the Space Age: J. G. Ballard's short fiction and science fiction of the 1960s, Brian Baker (Lancaster University); 2. Disquieting Features: An Introductory Tour to The Atrocity Exhibition, Jake Huntley (University of East Anglia); 3. The Gothic, the Body, and the Failed Homeopathy Argument: Reading Crash, Victor Sage (University of East Anglia); 4. Death at Work: The Cinematic Imagination of J. G. Ballard, Corin Depper (Kingston University); 5. Mind is the Battlefield: Reading Ballard's 'Life Trilogy' as War Literature, Umberto Rossi (Rome); 6. From Shanghai to Shepperton: Crises of Representation in J. G. Ballard's Londons, Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University); 7. Visions of Europe in Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes, Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge); 8. The Possibilities of Sacrifice, the Certainties of Trauma: J. G. Ballard's Postmillenial Fiction, Philip Tew (Brunel University); Afterword by Toby Litt; Interview with J.G. Ballard by Jeannette Baxter; Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn informed, engaging and accessible introduction to the Christie phenomenon, examining all her novels and short stories. This edition has been updated to include new material on all recent film, TV and literary adaptations....Trade ReviewMark Campbell on Agatha Christie's Dartmoor * Independent on Saturday *everything you ever wanted to know about Christie's stories in incredible detail * Glasgow Evening Times *I am getting more impressed by the Pocket Essentials with each one I see -- Alex McLintock * Diverse Books *one of the most useful books I've come across in the vast array of titles available to Christie fans -- Heidi Scott * Mostly Harmless *"an impressively complete guide to Agatha Christie's work" * Investigating Poirot *

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Book Synopsis“A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers’ and writers’ desks and in their minds.”—Maya AngelouTrade Review"I love [Cane] passionately; could not possibly exist without it." Alice Walker "This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." Maya Angelou

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ted Berrigan wrote wonderful poems and experimented brilliantly with various prose forms and strategies. Full of surprises, Get the Money! Collected Prose (1961-1983) will be indispensable to students of Berrigan and the New York School."—David Lehman, series editor, The Best American Poetry"What a gift to have "Get the Money - collected prose (1961-1983)" by Ted Berrigan, just new from City Lights Books. Here we have a large collection of Berrigan's journals, reviews, essays, poems and more! What a pleasure to drop into the whirlwind of creative energy that is Ted's language, Ted's world, at the center of the New York City poetry and art worlds of the 1960s . Grab a pepsi, maybe some desoxyn, and enjoy the ride with Ted and his friends! Meet up with Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley and many more - and remember, as Ted reminds us, "Don't forget to love me." With this book, we won't forget."—Gary Lawless, Owner, Gulf of Maine Bookstore“This, ultimately, is the composite picture that emerges of Berrigan: a maker of poems who listens honestly to his own best work and then continuously listens for the sound of the next kind of poem for as long as the poems will have him.”—Jordan Davis, The Poetry FoundationTable of ContentsAnnotated Table of Contents for Get the Money! Collected Prose 1961–1983 by Ted BerriganTB = Ted Berrigan’60s JOURNALSThe ’60s Journals stem from TB’s first stint living in NYC beginning in 1961; it’s a record of his early days, touching on his earliest breakthroughs as a poet, his relationship with his first wife, Sandy Berrigan, his friendships with the likes of poet Ron Padgett and artist Joe Brainard, who also moved from Tulsa, OK (where TB was going to school on the G.I. Bill after a stint in the army), and his meeting the first-generation poets of the NY School, like Frank O’Hara. A look at his early bohemian life.SOME NOTES ABOUT “C”This is a 1964 account of TB’s influential mimeo magazine “C” and the various lengths to which he went to get it made. Appearances by John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler, Andy Warhol, Joe Brainard, Alex Katz, Jasper Johns, Bill Berkson, Edwin Denby, Tony Towle, Gerard Malanga, Jim Brodey, Joe Ceravolo, etc.REVIEWS"Art and Literature: An International Review, edited by John Ashbery, Ann Dunn, Rodrigo Moynihan, and Sonia Orwell (#1, March 1964, $2.00)"Cheeky review of the first issue of a well-heeled magazine John Ashbery co-edited in Paris; the two major early perfect-bound journals of the NY School are Art and Literature and Locus Solus."Lines About Hills Above Lakes, Jonathan Williams (Roman Books, $3.00)"Review of a pamphlet by the Jargon Books publisher and New Directions poet that TB suggests you steal rather than buy, given the exorbitant price."Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara (City Lights Books, $1.25)"Excellent review of City Lights’ homegrown classic."Poems from Oklahoma (Hardware Poets) and The Bloodletting (Renegade Press), Allen Katzman"Review of a now-obscure poet who founded the East Village Other, an alt-weekly."Poems: Aram Saroyan, Richard Kolmar, and Jenni Caldwell (Acadia Press)"A review of a joint publication; Aram Saroyan is the only major figure here (a concrete/minimalist poet and the son of William Saroyan)."In Advance of the Broken Arm, Ron Padgett, w/ cover and drawings by Joe Brainard (C Press)"Review of a mimeo booklet TB himself published under the “C” Press imprint; basically Padgett’s debut volume."Nova Express, William Burroughs (Grove, $5.00)"“Review” that is really a cut-up of Burroughs’ novel, which in itself probably was a cut-up of some variety."Art Chronicle"Round-up of the art shows TB saw and often reviewed for ARTnews."The Anxious Object, Art Today and Its Audience, Harold Rosenberg (Horizon Press, $7.50)"Attack on the critic who coined the phrase “Action Painting,” which is sometimes used instead of “Abstract Expressionism” (the terms refer to the same group of NY abstract painters)."The Doors of Stone, Poems, 1938–1962, F.T. Prince (Rupert-Hart-Davis)"Review of a British poet championed by John Ashbery, among other people."Pavilions, Kenward Elmslie (Tibor de Nagy, $2.00)"Kenward Elmslie (a grandson of Joseph Pulitzer) was an important force in the NY School, lover of Joe Brainard and publisher of Z Press. He is still in print from Coffee House. Elmslie is still alive (93) but is no longer active."Saturday Night: Poems, Bill Berkson (Tibor de Nagy, $2.00)"Review of Bill Berkson’s first book, published by the still-extant NYC art gallery (who also published first books by Ashbery, O’Hara, Guest, Frank Lima, etc.)"New Directions 14, ed. James Laughlin ($1.65)"“Review” of an old issue of New Directions, seemingly written just to talk about James Schuyler’s contribution to it."Peace Eye: Poems, Ed Sanders (Frontier Press, $1.50)"Review of the Beat poet and Fugs founder Ed Sanders; “Peace Eye” was also the name of Sanders’ bookstore in NYC. Ferlinghetti published Sanders’ Poem from Jail as a City Lights pamphlet."Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac (Coward-McCann)"Review of a later Kerouac novel. Kerouac was a huge influence on TB, who considered himself a “late beat” rather than a NY School poet. TB interviewed Kerouac for the Paris Review."Painter to the New York Poets"Review of a show by figurative painter friend of O’Hara and Ashbery Jane Freilicher; she is the “Jane” frequently referred to in O’Hara poems."Red Power"Review of a figurative NY School painter."Sentences from the Short Reviews"A collage made by Anselm Berrigan of some of the best sentences from TB’s stint as a reviewer for ARTnews."Joe Brainard""Red Grooms"These are the two ARTnews reviews we did include, as they are significant painters associated with the NY School."Alice Neel’s Portraits of Joe Gould"A review of a solo show published in Peter Schjeldahl’s Mother.FRANK O’HARA DEAD AT 40An obituary for O’Hara published in the East Village Other.4 JOURNALS"The Chicago Report"A rollicking letter to Ron Padgett about a roadtrip TB goes on with his friend Harry Fainlight to go see Kenneth Koch read with. Anne Sexton in Chicago in the ’60s."From Journals (1970–1971)""Southampton""Bolinas""Selections from a Journal: 1 Nov 1977 to 17 May 1978"More journal extracts, including TB and Alice Notley’s brief stint in Bolinas with the On the Mesa crowd."On the Road Again, an Old Man"Loose “translation” of Basho poems (TB didn’t know Japanese, so he’s making versions based on previous translations).THE ARRIVAL REPORTAn account of the birth of Edmund Berrigan, which took place in Colchester, UK, while TB was teaching there.LONGER WORKS OF THE MORE ACADEMIC TYPE"Get the Money"A loosely jointed piece written for the East Village Other; poetic goofing around."An Interview with John Cage"“Interview” with John Cage collaged together by TB from various sources, none of whom were John Cage. (TB also hired Dick Gallup to work on it.) Peter Schjeldahl published it in his magazine Mother."Introduction to In by Aram Saroyan"Brief note on an Aram Saroyan volume."Ten Things About the Boston Trip: An Aside to Ron & Tom"Note to Padgett and Tom Clark about a trip to Boston on some poetry business."An Interview with John Ashbery"Also written according to the principles behind the John Cage interview."Brain Damage (Some Notes, and a Case History)"Off-beat bit of creative prose (probably a cut-up of a medical text about the human brain)."Note on Jim Brodey’s Poems & Him"As it says; Brodey is out of print but a known and significant second- or third-generation NY School poet."Introduction for Tom Clark at the Folklore Center"As it says; intro for a reading by Tom Clark."Jim Carroll"Very early piece about the author of The Basketball Diaries."Anne Waldman: Character Analysis"Piece about Anne Waldman (more about her than her poetry). "Maya by Anselm Hollo"Review of longtime Naropa professor and close friend of TB’s Anselm Hollo; Coffee House is prepping a collected Hollo (early stages yet)."A Few Hard Words on Tom Raworth"An introduction for a book by the experimental British poet. "In Time: Poems 1962–68, Joel Oppenheimer (Bobbs-Merrill, $5.95)"Review of poet Joel Oppenheimer (somewhat neglected these days and largely out of print but a familiar name for any serious student of the New American Poetry of the ’60s)."Teaching with the School Teachers"Fascinating piece written as a report to his employers about a workshop he gave for teachers who wanted to teach poetry."Note on Alice Notley, Not Used, for 165 Meeting House Lane, Published by “C” Press in 1971"As it says. "Sensation by Anselm Hollo"Another review of Anselm Hollo (see above)."From The Autobiography of God"Another cut-up? Random piece of creative prose."The NY Jets: A Movie"Written as though a filmscript, just goofing around about the NY Jets."The Life of Turner"Another cut-up? Random piece of creative prose."Words for Joanne Kyger"From a letter to and about Joanne Kyger."Scorpio Birthday"A horoscope."Three Book Reviews""Air by Tom Clark (Harper & Row)""The Poetry Room by Lewis MacAdams (Harper & Row)""Great Balls of Fire by Ron Padgett"Three “reviews” that TB made by collaging lines from the various poems in each book in order to make a new poem."Introduction to Fresh Paint: An Anthology of Younger Poets"As it says; not an anthology that anyone remembers these days but a good example of his generosity to the younger generation."Larry Fagin"Short notice concerning the longtime NY poet and editor."Litany"A collage, largely concerning TB’s friend, the poet Bernadette Mayer (published by New Directions these days)."The Fastest Tongue on the Lower East Side"“Review” largely consisting of a poem collaged from the subject of the review, poet Simon Schuchat."Naropa Workshop Notes"Some poetic notes from a workshop TB taught at Naropa."10 Favorite Books of 1980"Exactly what the title says, just a list."Old Age and Decrepitude"Another general roundup of things TB’s read recently, including Hollo, Padgett, and Schuyler, written for the Poetry Project Newsletter."George Schneeman at Holly Solomon"Review of a gallery show by NY School painter George Schneeman, a close friend of TB’s and the painter of the cover of our book."On Franco Beltrametti"Text for the catalog of one of TB’s artist friends."3 Reviews"Three short paragraphs reviewing The Early Auden, an issue of the Paris Review, and the Am Here Books catalog."Business Personal"A demand for the return of certain notebooks stolen from James Schuyler at the Chelsea Hotel."The Oral History Series Community Documentation Workshop"Interesting piece about a series of pamphlets issued by St. Mark’s Community Documentation Workshop and devoted to the history of the neighborhood."Running Commentary"A general round up of recent poetry publications TB found interesting. "Millenium Dust, Joe Ceravolo"Review of second-generation NY School poet Joseph Ceravolo, whose Collected Poems were published Wesleyan about 10 years ago. Died obscure but considered a significant poet today. "Night Flight by Lita Hornick"Lita Hornick was the publisher of Kulchur, a NY magazine in which several of the pieces from the “Reviews” section were published; TB is reviewing her book about contemporary art."The Beeks"Text from a flyer promoting a punk rock band (poet Steve Carey’s brother Tom Carey was a member)."Public Proclamation & Advertisement of Sale"A funny oddball piece blasting his friend Bernadette Mayer for censoring a poem TB and Alice Notley wrote for the Poetry Project Newsletter. "The White Snake by Ed Friedman"Review of a play by the future longtime director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project."Harry Fainlight: In Memoriam (d. 1982, London)"An obituary for his best friend Harry Fainlight, an oddball minor poet TB would publish his poems in “C” magazine.

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Book SynopsisSunset Song regularly appears in lists of favourite Scottish books, and is perhaps the iconic Scottish novel of the first half of the 20th century. Rich in character and detail, and filled with religious, historical and political themes, Sunset Song is a deep, powerful work which rewards close attention and study. Douglas Young''s Scotnote provides readers with an authoritative analysis of the novel, and an overview of the political and historical background to its creation. This is an ideal guide for school pupils and students studying Sunset Song.

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Book SynopsisCombining literary critique with network and complexity science, this book offers a new reading of William Faulkner as a novelist for the information age.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Faulkner in the Information Age; 1. Murder in the house of memory; 2. A clock in place of the Sun; 3. Invasions of interiority; 4. When ideology wavers; 5. Beyond the tyranny of textual space; 6. Architecture of interiority; Conclusion: between image and ideology.

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Book SynopsisJames Joyce''s Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition ? first published in 2022 to celebrate the centenary of the book''s first publication ? helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce''s many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version includes Joyce''s own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel''s plot and allusions, while exploring crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume provides a wide- ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize- winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It addresses a gap in Gurnah scholarship by including chapters which discuss his earlier works that have not received the scholarly attention they deserve.Drawing on a range of critical lenses including postcolonial theory, Indian Ocean studies, psychoanalytic theory, migration studies and gender studies, this book provides illuminating commentary on his novels. Attentive to the geographical and historical reach of the narratives, the chapters engage with recurring thematic concerns of departures and arrivals; of complex family relationships; and of precarious cosmopolitan hospitality in situations of changing power relations from the old Indian Ocean monsoon trading system to colonial and postcolonial contexts. The volume concludes with an author interview. It will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of Literary and Cultural StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah 2. Reading Melancholia in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way 3. From Black Britain to Black Internationalism in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way 4. Dottie, Cruel Optimism and the Challenge to Culture 5. Postmodern Materialism in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Dottie: Intertextuality as Ideological Critique of Englishness 6. Yusuf’s Choice: East African Agency During the German Colonial Period in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel Paradise 7. The Submerged History of the Indian Ocean in Admiring Silence 8. Narrative Cartographies, ‘Beautiful Things’ and Littoral States in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea 9. ‘It Worked in a Different Way’: Male Same- Sex Desire in the Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah 10. Honour and Shame in the Construction of Difference in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels 11. White- washed Minarets and Slimy Gutters: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Narrative Form and Indian Ocean Space 12. At the Margins: Silences in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence and The Last Gift 13. Locating Abdulrazak Gurnah: Margins, Mainstreams, Mobilities 14. A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Markovits is a leading Anglo-American novelist with a varied and ambitious body of work, ranging from a trilogy of historical fictions on the life of Lord Byron (Imposture, 2007; A Quiet Adjustment, 2008; Childish Loves, 2011) to an award-winning portrayal of a gentrification project in Obama-era Detroit (You Don't Have to Live Like This, 2015) to intimate studies of contemporary family life (A Weekend in New York, 2018; Christmas in Austin, 2019). Prolific and unpredictable, Markovits is one of the most interesting realist writers working today. Featuring contributions from emerging and established scholars, this collection provides fresh perspectives on Markovits's place in the contemporary literary field, as well as offering a detailed survey of his work to date. The collection begins with Markovits's early campus novel', The Syme Papers (2004), before exploring hisTable of ContentsForeword - Benjamin MarkovitsIntroduction: A Life Elsewhere - Michael Kalisch The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Academic: The Syme Papers and Singularity - Sam Reese The Byron Trilogy - Peter Graham ‘What Hasn’t Happened to You’: Telling Failure in Either Side of Winter and You Don’t Have to Live Like This - Rachael McLennan ‘Everybody got they role to play’: Basketball and Belonging in Playing Days - Joshua Clayton ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This - James Peacock Temporary Concerns: The Limits of Meritocracy in You Don’t Have to Live Like This - Lola Boorman Strategies of Self-Detachment and ‘The Business of Daily Life’ in the Fiction of Benjamin Markovits - David Brauner Manners, Morals, and the Essingers: A Weekend in New York and Christmas in Austin - Michael Kalisch A Conversation with Benjamin Markovits - Benjamin Markovits and Kasia Boddy Index

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Book SynopsisResearch in urban development in the social sciences has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging sustainable cities and for critiquing the economies of extraction. Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives demonstrates the urgency of integrating a below-ground perspective into the emerging field of urban humanities.The collection is divided into three thematic sections that cluster and revisit different sets of well-known motifs in underground studies: âœDisplacedâ, âœWastedâ and âœBuried.â It showcases the intermedial nature of underground-focused analyses in literature, extending from literary texts to a wider range of cultural forms, including films, graphic novels and videogames. The contributors build on recent scholarship that has expanded the field into new interdisciplinary areas, including intersections with memory studies, ecocriticism and decolonial perspectives. Urban Undergrounds

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two works produced collaboratively by two of the most important modern British novelists. Long hard to obtain and frequently neglected by critics, each can now be appreciated both in its own right and as part of the two authors'' individual oeuvres. This scholarly edition situates both works in the context of the writers'' meeting and ongoing collaboration, providing illuminating literary and historical references and detailing the works'' composition history and reception in the UK and America. As well as establishing definitive texts of both works and of the authors'' prefaces written for the 1924 republication of The Nature of a Crime, this edition also includes Ford''s own 1924 account of his collaboration with Conrad on The Inheritors, as well as the text of Ford''s ''The Old Story'', a hitherto unpublished early draft of the basic plot of The Nature of a Crime.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology: Joseph Conrad; Chronology: Ford Madox Ford; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; The Inheritors; The Nature of a Crime; Illustrations; The Texts: An Essay; Apparatus; Textual Notes; Appendix 1: Ford Madox Ford on The Inheritors; Appendix 2: 'The Old Story'; Explanatory Notes.

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Book SynopsisA History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada''s literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the people who have shaped and are shaping Canadian literary culture, the book examines such major figures as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Thomas King, concluding with young authors of today whose major successes reflect their indebtedness to their Canadian forbearers.Trade Review'Reading this book is every bit as enjoyable as reading one of the hundreds of novels which Staines cites in this first comprehensive history of Canadian fiction in English from its beginnings to the present day. Atwood, Munro, and Ondaatje are global literary celebrities, but nothing comes out of the blue, and Staines provides an indispensable historical and cultural frame for understanding their significance in the evolution of the exceptionally diverse Canadian literary tradition. This book transforms our thinking about Canadian fiction.' Coral Ann Howells, University of London'In this first sustained history of anglophone fiction in Canada, distinguished scholar David Staines follows the careers of scores of writers – among them Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Leacock, Alistair MacLeod, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Thomas King, Yann Martel, and Madeleine Thien, all celebrated around the world. Staines further demonstrates the relevance of place and community to what they have written, and he deftly chronicles the important roles of teachers, editors, letter-writers, and agents in helping to shape this historical record. Spanning more than two hundred years, this book celebrates the emergence of a narrative tradition that voices the culture of Canada itself, that of a 'nation beyond nationalism' in the 21st century.' W. H. New, University of British Columbia'These days Canadians take for granted our world-class literature. Alice Munro wins a Nobel, Margaret Atwood another Booker, and a stunning young talent like Esi Edugyan emerges out of nowhere with a pair of international hits. Ho hum. But it wasn't always this good. For most of our history, writers in Canada identified more with English and American literary traditions than anything in their own land, not least because they could only get published in London or New York. It took a strange amalgam of individual talent, collective will, commercial enterprise, and public support to make CanLit happen, and David Staines has the whole story. Quite simply, this book is a masterpiece, an epic account of the long struggle and spectacular rise of one of the world's great literatures, and it is sure to be the definitive account for generations to come.' Kenneth Whyte, Author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst and Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times'.'… Staines's work is a masterpiece … gives a splendid, very dense and admirably knowledgeable survey of fiction writing in anglophone Canada from colonial times to the present … It belongs in (academic) libraries and should be made available for students of Canada and her literature.' Wolfgang, Klooß, Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien'Staines's enthusiasm is supported by his vast reading, making this book the most comprehensive on the subject … Highly recommended.' T. Ware, Choice Connect'… this volume should be read by anyone with an interest in not only Canadian literature, but Canadian history, as many of the stories our greatest authors are stories of our land and its people at a particular time.' Paul Tuns, The InterimTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The beginnings; 2. From romance towards realism; 3. Emerging into realism; 4. The foundational fifties; 5. The second feminist wave; 6. The flourishing of the wests; 7. The second century; 8. Indigenous voices; 9. Naturalized Canadian writers; 10. The twenty-first century; Afterword; Endnotes; Acknowledgements.

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Book SynopsisMarked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 19101920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in literature, politics and public opinion. What fed the creative and reformist urge besides the circumstances of the moment and a vision of the future? The leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture assembled in this volume argue that the shadow of the past was also a driving factor: the traumatic, undigested memory of the defeat and death of the charismatic national leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). The authors reassess Parnell''s impact on the Ireland of his time, its cultural, religious, political and intellectual life, in order to trace his posthumous influence into the early twentieth century in fields such as political activism, memory culture, history-writing, and literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement; List of contributors; List of illustrations; Introduction: charisma and aftermath Joep Leerssen; Part I. Parnell's Ireland and its different temporalities: 1. O'Connell and Parnell Oliver MacDonagh; 2. The Paradoxes of Parnell Paul Bew; 3. Ireland from Parnell to Pearse R.F. Foster; 4. Race, nation, state Denis Donoghue; 5. Parnell's other Ireland: religious radicals in late-nineteenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; 6. Inside history: storyteller Éamon a' Búrc (1866-1942) and the «little famine» of 1879-1880 Angela Bourke; 7. Digesting the past: anthologies and bi-cultural memory in Ireland Joep Leerssen; 8. The writing of county histories in Parnell's Ireland Nicholas Canny; Part II. After Parnell: the Irish literary and historical imagination: 9. Joyce's dubliners and Parnell: strategies of failure? Frank McGuinness; 10. The rhythm of beauty»: Joyce, Yeats, and the 1890s Edna Longley; 11. «Ingenious lovely things»: Yeats's adjectives Helen Vendler; 12. Modernism in the streets: Pearse and Joyce Declan Kiberd; 13. Modernism, Belfast, and early-twentieth-century Ireland Terence Brown; 14. Too rough for verse? Sea crossings in Irish culture Claire Connolly; 15. «Myth, fact, and mystery»: F.X. Martin, medievalist and historian of the 1916 rising Thomas Bartlett; 16. The Easter rising: four fallacies and some reflections David Fitzpatrick; 17. Belatedness and late style Irish style: contemporary Irish poetry and the problem of belatedness Clair Wills; Illustration credits; Index.

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Book SynopsisWriting Talk includes interviews with nineteen well-known contemporary writers, exploring the ways in which they research and find their original ideas. Working across genres such as fiction, scriptwriting, radio, life writing, biography and more, the writers offer insight into how they interpret, hone and develop these ideas. The conversations examine the roles of technique, craft, language, reading, memory, serendipity, habit and persistence. They offer technical detail about the creative process and give unique insights into the borderlands between genres as well as offering rich, personal insights and universal resonances. A wide-ranging introduction surveys the reasons why we are intrigued by the mysteries of individual writing practice and how these illuminate critical attitudes to literature and performance. Offering a rare glimpse into the creative process of some of this generation's most eminent voices, Writing Talk is a must read for anyone interested in hTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Alan Ayckbourn 2. Andrew Cowan 3. Tanika Gupta 4. Jenny Diski 5. Iain Banks 6. Willy Russell 7. Patricia Duncker 8. Bryony Lavery 9. Kareem Mortimer 10. Michèle Roberts 11. David Edgar 12. Jane Rogers 13. Hanif Kureishi 14. Helen Blakeman 15. Richard Holmes 16. Louis de Bernières 17. Sarah Butler 18. Toby Litt 19. Sally Wainwright 20. Andrew Cowan – Reprise

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Book SynopsisInUnseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor,Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterialwork of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Spanningthree continents, this hugely ambitious bookreads fictional representations of poverty with each city''s psychoanalytic and psychiatric culture, particularly as that culture is fostered by state policies toward the welfare needs of impoverished populations. It explores the causal relationship between precarity and mental health through clinical case studies, the product of extensive collaborations and knowledge-sharing with community psychotherapeutic initiatives in six global cities. These are layered with twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of world literature that exploreissues of identity, illness, and death at the intersections of class, race, globalisation, and migrancy. InUnseen City,Mukherjee argues that a humanistic and imaginative engagement with the psycTrade Review'Considering resonances among contemporary psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and film, Ankhi Mukherjee paints a picture of the world we live in that at once illuminates multiple domains. Mukherjee's chapters encompass what she learned from immersion in the trenches of clinical programs addressing the experiences of homeless and excluded people worldwide, and from the representation of these lives in film and literature, all in the context of philosophically based meaning-making. Whether you are a psychotherapist, an academic, or a culturally aware citizen, Unseen City will augment and transform your experience and understanding of the societies we live in, inclusive of its lives at their margins.' Neil Altman, author of The Analyst in the Inner City'Ankhi Mukherjee's Unseen City is a unique and unusual work, an exploration of the psychic life of poverty in three global metropolises that is as much about the forces of economic globalization, migration, and war that have shaped the urban spaces in which the poor and precarious subjects of her study live as it is about their specific psychic and mental health needs – and the failure of traditional therapies to address them in a satisfying way. It will appeal not only to scholars and academics, but to anyone who is interested in mental health treatment, racial and economic justice, and the ways in which global capital and mass migration are transforming our cities and the lives of some of their most numerous, albeit largely unseen, residents. Mukherjee is a wonderful writer, whose precise and evocative language and strong voice make for a reading experience that is consistently engaging, even gripping at times. Her chapters often have a cinematic feeling, moving effortlessly between the big scale of the urban landscape and highly focalized narratives involving the experiences of individual residents and the small clinics and caregivers who try to tend to their needs.' Tracy McNulty, Cornell University'Unseen City is an extraordinary, brilliant, and important book that re-draws the lines between literature, psychoanalysis, post and anti-colonialism, and activism in bold and urgent ways. At the heart of the book are a set of questions – shockingly – rarely asked in the humanities: what if the subject of psychic life is poor? How do the poor mourn, and how do they heal? And, crucially, how might we re-think the theory and practice of literary criticism so that we can begin to answer these questions? Boldly interdisciplinary, theoretically original, Mukherjee's book draws on her acclaimed and formidable critical acumen to produce a fascinating, compelling, and, most strikingly, morally humane argument that insists that we begin with the psychic life of the poor. Reading contemporary literature and theory, psychoanalytic theory and history, alongside empirical work with the free clinics of today, the book reveals the unseen city of its title: a global city, but not a thoughtless cosmopolitan one, a place of trauma but also of solidarity, living, imagining, suffering, and surviving.' Lyndsey Stonebridge, University of Birmingham'The pandemic represents a historic opportunity to reimagine the world's health systems by demonstrating the profound limitations of a narrow, biomedical framing of what is, ultimately, a social crisis. Surely, this is a metaphor for mental health, whose importance has never been more central or widely acknowledged. Unseen City, at the interface of diverse disciplinary perspectives, and grounded in the lived experiences of diverse actors in three countries, offers insights into exactly what such a reimagined mental health care system might, and should, look like in the future.' Vikram Patel, Harvard Medical School'Ankhi Mukherjee's important new book takes to another stage the vexed question of whether psychoanalysis has a role beyond its privileged place in Western cultures. This is theory as field-work, academic writing that risks itself on the streets. In a series of illuminating case-studies, Unseen City tracks therapy for the poor, the traumatised and the un-homed across the cities of Mumbai, London and New York, from slums to garden therapy, from free clinics to disaster zones. A model of publicly committed intellectual work, the book will become required reading for anyone interested in theory in the post-colony, in how to create a more equitable global distribution of psychoanalytic therapy, and in the role of cultural production in exposing the urgent need to do so.' Jacqueline Rose, Birkbeck University of London'Ankhi Mukherjee's Unseen City, which has quickly and deservingly become one of the most publicly discussed works of academic scholarship this year, reopens [the] question of access from the perspective of a demographic with which psychoanalysis has historically had an exclusionary relationship: the 'urban poor', here additionally encompassing asylum-seekers, migrants, and exiles fleeing warfare and political persecution, from six megacities across the world.' Jivitesh Vashisht, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory'Mukherjee shows how these ambulatory, unorthodox methods of analysis are a pragmatic compromise which analysts, practicing under ideal conditions in the West, are all too quick to dismiss. The desire to sanitize the image of analysis has the effect of relegating the poor, Mukherjee observes, to the unconscious. The best way to ensure that psychoanalysis is politically accountable might, then, be a situation where psychoanalysis - understood in its most orthodox sense - undergoes considerable revision.' Jess Cotton, Jacobin'One of the many revelations to be found in this erudite, brilliant book is that to remain relevant under conditions of global precarity, psychoanalysis must itself be unhomed and rendered uncanny, estranged from its origins and remade from below.' Tanya Agathocleous, Journal of Postcolonial Writing'Mukherjee stresses the value of credible artistic portrayals of urban poverty as a counterweight to more romantic ones, as we have seen, for example, with Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). She believes literature has the potential to help the poor and propertyless see clearly through all kinds of seductive illusions and cast a clear eye on their surroundings. Literature can, as Freud argued, at its best be an invaluable complement to psychoanalysis.' Fredrick Giertsen, Aftenposten Innsikt'There is much to learn from Unseen City; a text that reveals more from repeated readings, and more than is summarised here … Mukherjee's method invites the analogy of psychotherapy as an interdisciplinary practice with the lived, embodied knowledge of the patient meeting, as well as the person of the therapist, psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge. From my own practice, I can recognise times when an unthinking certainty descends, akin to a colonial attitude, and I hear a patient's discourse as nothing more than an example of this or that psychoanalytic concept. This is typically a psychic dead end, where listening and negative capability fails. The other side of this though is the powerful revelatory experience that meaningful interpretation can provide, enabling us to more fully know ourselves and showing, as Mukherjee does, the need for a continued investment in the psychoanalytic contribution.' Adam Flintoff, Psychoanalytic PsychotherapyTable of ContentsPart I. London: 1. Eco-cosmopolitanism as Trauma Cure; 2. The Analyst as Muse of History in Disaster Zones: Free Clinics, London; Part II. Mumbai: 3. Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny; 4. Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India; Part III. New York: 5. Open, Closed, Interrupted City; 6. Psychoanalysis of the Unhomed: Free Clinics, New York.

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