Literary studies: fiction Books
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze
Book SynopsisForming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Becketts creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional reality and the highlighting of seeing devices -- eyes, mirrors, windows -- point to the absence of a unified representation. While masks and closed spaces show the visible to be opaque and devoid of any beyond, light and darkness, spectres -- manifestations without origin -- reveal a realm beyond the confines of identity, where nothing provides a mediation with the seen, or sets it within perspective. Finally, Becketts use of the audio-visual media deepens his exploration of the irreducibly real part of existence that escapes seeing. This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Becketts creation. The theoretical elaborations of Jacques Lacan -- in relation with corresponding developments in the history and philosophy of the visual arts -- offer an indispensible framework to understand the imaginary not as representation, but as rooted in the fundamental opacity of existence.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon History and Race in Caryl Phillips′s The Nature
Book SynopsisThis monograph examines Caryl Phillipss The Nature of Blood (1997),a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus on Jewish and African diasporas and the storytelling of its migrant characters. Particular attention is given to the analysis of characters revealing different facets of the Jewish question. Maria Festa also provides a historical excursus on the notion of race and considers another character alluding to Shakespeares Othello to expose the paradoxes of the relationship between subjugator and subjugated. The study makes the case that among the novels most remarkable achievements is Phillipss effort to redress the absence of the Other from our history, that by depicting experiences of displacement, and by confronting readers with seemingly disconnected narrative fragments, The Nature ofBloodis a reminder of the missing stories, the voicesmarginalised and often racializedthat Western history has consistently failed to include in its accounts of the past and arguably its present.Trade Review"""In her reading of Caryl Phillipss The Nature of Blood, Maria Festa studies the unique ways in which the narrative of racism, Nazi camps, traumatic memory, and black consciosness meet the issues of historical imagination. Literature and traumatic fiction are here once again the source of a tenacious counter-memory."" Roberto Beneduce, Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology, University of Turin, and co-author of Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics
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ibidem Jhumpa Lahiris Works in Transition Towards a New
Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh perspective by showing how Lahiri gradually shifts her identity from a fiction writer to a non-fiction writer.
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ibidem Year of the Horseshoe Bat
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V&R unipress GmbH Weltweit – Worldwide – Remarque: Beiträge zur
Book SynopsisZu seinen Lebzeiten zählte Erich Maria Remarque zu den wirkmächtigsten deutschsprachigen Autoren. Doch welchen Stellenwert nehmen er und sein Werk heute, 50 Jahre nach seinem Tod international ein? Wie werden seine Werke und Positionen heute diskutiert und welche Zielsetzungen werden damit in verschiedenen Medien verbunden? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beleuchten diese Fragen aus historischer, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive; sie ziehen ein Resümee der Rezeption in einzelnen Ländern und Kulturen und beschreiben die Veränderungen, die das Autorbild und das Werk Remarques in den Augen der Leserinnen und Leser in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten weltweit erfahren haben. Dabei wird nicht nur die literaturwissenschaftliche und literarische Rezeption in den Blick genommen, sondern der Fokus auch auf die künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit Remarque in Film, Theater, bildender Kunst und Graphic Novel erweitert. In his lifetime Erich Maria Remarque was one of the most popular authors in Germany. Yet, how significant are his works internationally 50 years after his death? How are his works and positions discussed today and which goals are connected with his works throughout different media? The contributions in this volume highlight these questions from a historical, literary and cultural perspective. They draw conclusions of the reception in selected countries and cultures and describe the changes the author and Remarque's works underwent worldwide in the eyes of his readers in the past decades. Here, not only the literary reception is being focused on but also the artistic debate with Remarque in film, theatre, visual art and graphic novels.
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Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia
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Prestige Books Graham Greene: A Study in His Language and Style
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Sarup & Son The Feminist Sensibility in the Novels of Thomas
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Shubhi Publications The Thematic Study of Tagore's Novel
Book SynopsisThe book explores Tagore's prowess as a novelist, underscoring his overlooked fiction writing compared to his poetry and plays. It offers a critical evaluation of his novels, emphasizing his substantial literary impact.
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Creative Books New Woman in Indian English Fiction: Study of
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Creative Books V.S.Naipaul: A Critical Study
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Juggernaut Publication A Place of No Importance
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Museum Tusculanum Press Witness: Memory, Representation, and the Media in
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Museum Tusculanum Press Making Use of History in New South African
Book SynopsisA study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote''s Gods of Our Time, Mike Nicol''s The Ibis Tapestry, and Zakes Mda''s Ways of Dying. Moslund shows how literary engagement with the past seeks to rupture the continuity of a strongly dichotomised epistemology and through that dissolve the inherited polarisation of society. Falsification of history is exposed as constructed discourse and past simplifications of reality as sharply demarcated into homogenous self-justifying, categorisations of, Us against Them, are challenged with paradox, doubt and introspection.
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Aarhus University Press Marvellous Fantasy
Book SynopsisIn this book academics write about significant fantasy books, films, television series and music. The different approaches offer new insights into this popular genre, and together the book''s chapters provide a catalogue of analytical tools for the study of fantasy. The book is a multidisciplinary introduction to the diversity of fantasy. It contains a general introduction to the genre of fantasy and it considers: J R R Tolkien; J K Rowling; H C Andersen; C S Lewis; Terry Pratchett; Robert E Howard; J M Barrie; Disney; China Miéville; Donald Barthelme; Simon R Green; Narnia; The Discworld; Conan; Xena: Warrior Princess; Peter Pan; King Rat; Hawk & Fisher; Harry Potter; The Lord of the Rings; Fan Fiction; Sword and Sorcery.
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Mimesis International Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the
Book SynopsisIn recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. The genre has acquired a global reach, illuminating different corners of the world and spreading through the use of various cultural media.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. YUG PURUSH
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the most enigmatic man of the era; the man who, despite being a mortal, was superhuman in every way. Krishna was a visionary who could see into the future, and tried in his own way to make it better, accepting what he could not change. A brilliant strategist, he manipulated people to achieve the end goalyet never for the wrong reasons. The powers he exhibited are in all of us; only we are not aware of them and have no idea how to activate or harness them. This book reveals how Krishna directed his immense powers to make the earth a better place toive in for future generations. He stood forove, friendship and harmony, yet did not hesitate to destroy, if it meant the destruction of evil. The ninety-nine sons of Dhritrashtra have been equated with the many faces of corruption, and when corruption reaches its peak, there is born a personike Krishna, who uses every means at his disposal to snuff it out. That is why he is the Yug Purushone who stands out, and above, everyone else.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. ORPHANED
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HarperCollins India Dharma Artha Kama Moksha: Anandmay Jeevan Jeene
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Fate of Butterflies
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press De Gabo A Mario
Book SynopsisTwo extraordinary storytellers, Gabriel García Márquez (affectionately known as Gabo) and Mario Vargas Llosa the novelist and the literary critic star in one of the most fervent friendships that the world of literature has ever seen. These same friends, ten years later, end their friendship with an infamous punch to the face. But before things fell apart under the guidance of these two men who would later win Nobel Prizes, a group of writers, the best of Latin America, met, celebrated, lived and wrote together sharing exciting adventures and shared experiences the stuff that literary genius is made of.
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Fine Print Publishing A Young Wandering Mudlark in Old Kathmandu
Book SynopsisAmid this chronicle of self-discovery, readers encounter a colorful array of charactersâa wispy hippini, sustaining herself on a concoction of vanilla curd and copious amounts of sugar for vitality on a shoestring budget; the eccentric Ranas, seeking thrills within the casino's dens.
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Academic Studies Press The Tears and Smiles of Things
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HarperCollins Publishers Adverbs
Book SynopsisA dramatic meditation on love both fleeting and everlasting, ‘Adverbs’ is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices, and famed author of the Lemony Snicket series.Trade Review'The ingenuity and panache of these stories is instantly attractive.' Daily Telegraph ‘One of our most dazzling literary conjurers shuffles the deck of contemporary consciousness and desire. A thrilling feat of tragic magic.' Michael Chabon 'Handler's writing is artful, perverse, irreverent, truthful and ridiculous – but it's rarely less than brilliant.' New Statesman 'Witty, perplexing…This is an interesting and intelligent work, of which I think Lemony Snicket would be proud.' Literary Review 'Cleverly held together…as thought-provoking as it is confusing.' FT Magazine 'Exuberantly funny voice and ability to lard his stories with details that return, pages later, with multiplied resonance.' Scotsman 'Handler shows great skill in drawing characters and telling their stories. Beguilingly, humorously and at times brilliantly. Definitely worth reading…' Express ‘He's enjoying himself. He's simply taken the tricks out for a joyride and the reader has been invited along.' Sunday Business Post
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HarperCollins Publishers Mantrapped A Novel
Book SynopsisA brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful new memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off.Trade ReviewPraise for Fay Weldon: ‘Fay Weldon is a national treasure.’ Literary Review ‘Prolific and provocative, Fay Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists.’ Time Out
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HarperCollins Publishers THE DETACHED RETINA
Book SynopsisA collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.Trade Review‘Aldiss is a magician.’ SUNDAY TIMES 'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH
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HarperCollins Publishers PALE SHADOW OF SCIENCE
Book SynopsisTwo of Aldiss’ essay collections from the mid-1980s in one volume.Trade Review'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.’THE TELEGRAPH ‘Aldiss has rarely been far from SF’s intellectual centre.’ SFX MAGAZINE
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HarperCollins Publishers THIS WORLD AND NEARER ONES
Book SynopsisAldiss’ acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years.Trade Review'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH ‘The best of British science fiction writers.’ THE SCOTSMAN
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HarperCollins Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies
Book SynopsisTakes over two dozen of our most beloved Christmas carols and writes them from a zombie's point-of-view.
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Penguin Publishing Group The Portable Stephen Crane Viking portable library
Book Synopsis“A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision—he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty.” In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871–1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlook—the low life of New York’s Irish slums; the tedium, brutality, and chaos that were the true conditions of the Civil War; the ambiguous contract that binds a terrified man to his killer and the damned to their human judges. He communicated what he saw with the same laconic factuality that characterized his journalism and, in the process, laid the foundations for the unblinking realism of Hemingway and Dos Passos. The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writer’s vision. It contains three complete novels—Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, George’s Mother, and Crane&rsquoTable of ContentsIntroductionEditor's NoteCrane ChronologyPart One: The World of MaggieThe Maggie Inscription to Hamlin GarlandA Letter from Stephen Crane to Catherine HarrisMaggie: A Girl of the StreetsA Great MistakeAn Ominous BabyA Dark-Brown DogGeorge's MotherThe Men in the StormAn Experiment in MiseryAn Experiment in LuxuryHeard on the Street Election NightAbove All ThingsPart Two: The World of Henry FlemingA Letter from Stephen Crane to Mrs. Olive Brett ArmstrongThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarAn Episode of WarThe VeteranPart Three: A World of ShipwreckA Letter from Stephen Crane to Cora E. StewartStephen Crane's Own StoryFlanagan and His Short Filibustering AdventureThe Open BoatPart Four: A World of IroniesA Letter from Stephen Crane to Lily Brandon MonroeA Letter from Stephen Crane to Willis Brooks HawkinsTwo Letters from Stephen Crane to Nellie CrouseThe Bride Comes to Yellow SkyThe Five White MiceThe Blue HotelThe MonsterHis New MittensThe KnifePart Five: A World in MiniatureA Letter from Stephen Crane to Copeland & DayA Letter from Stephen Crane to De Morest's Family MagazineFrom The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)From the Uncollected PoemsFrom War Is Kind (1899)From the Posthumously PUblished PoemsA Prologue
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Penguin Publishing Group Northland Stories Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Book SynopsisLike the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures and one-dimensional plots to explore deeper psychological and social questions of self-mastery, masculinity, and racial domination. The uneasy relationship between the Native Americans and whites lies at the heart of many of the stories, while others reflect London's growing awareness of the destruction wrought by the white incursion on Indian culture.Northland Stories comprises nineteen of Jack London's greatest short works, including An Odyssy of the North (London's major breakthrough as a young author), The White Silence, The Law of Life, The League of the Old Men, and the world classic To Build a Fire.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaTable of ContentsEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Jonathan AuerbachIntroduction by Jonathan AuerbachSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextNorthland StoriesThe White SilenceThe Son of the WolfIn a Far CountryTo the Man on TrailThe Wisdom of the TrailAn Odyssey of the NorthThe God of His FathersSiwashGrit of WomenWhere the Trail ForksThe Law of LifeKeesh, the Son of KeeshThe Death of LigounLi Wan, the FairThe League of the Old MenThe Story of Jees UckLove of LifeThe Sun-Dog TrailTo Build a FireExplanatory NotesAppendix
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Penguin Publishing Group Ruth Hall A Domestic Tale of the Present Time Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisIn Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard conversations, it is as unconventional in style as in substance and strikingly modern in its impact.
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Penguin Random House LLC The Morgesons Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion and will and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. The novel is set in 19th-century American middle-class society.
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Oxford University Press, USA Ciceros de Provinciis Consularibus Oratio
Book SynopsisPerhaps no other single Roman speech exemplifies the connection between oratory, politics and imperialism better than Cicero''s De Provinciis Consularibus, pronounced to the senate in 56 BC. Cicero puts his talents at the service of the powerful triumviri (Caesar, Crassus and Pompey), whose aims he advances by appealing to the senators'' imperialistic and chauvinistic ideology. This oration, then, yields precious insights into several areas of late republican life: international relations between Rome and the provinces (Gaul, Macedonia and Judaea); the senators'' view on governors, publicani (tax-farmers) and foreigners; the dirty mechanics of high politics in the 50s, driven by lust for domination and money; and Cicero''s own role in that political choreography. This speech also exemplifies the exceptional range of Cicero''s oratory: the invective against Piso and Gabinius calls for biting irony, the praise of Caesar displays high rhetoric, the rejection of other senators'' recommendaTrade Review"This is a splendid work. Politics, history, the range of amicitia, constitutional complexity, philology, linguistics, rhetoric, and nuanced language are examined thoroughly and persuasively." --James S. Ruebel, Ball State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface ; Timeline ; Introduction ; Latin text (Peterson, OCT 1911) ; Commentary ; Glossary of rhetorical terms ; Maps ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Commonwealth of Letters
Book SynopsisCommonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial literature after the war. How did some of modernism''s leading figures of the 1930s--such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender--come to admire late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s? Similarly, why did late colonial and early postcolonial writers--including Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Claude McKay, and Ngugi wa Thiong''o--actively seek alliances with metropolitan intellectuals? Peter Kalliney''s original and extensive archival work on modernist cultural institutions demonstrates that this disparate group of intellectuals had strong professional incentives to treat one another more as fellow literary professionals, and less as political or cultural antTrade ReviewIt is the mapping of the literary networks, rivalries, allegiances and collaborations that marks Kalliney's book out as an important contribution in this turn of postcolonial studies to interaction with modernist periodicity and aesthetics ... Kalliney offers a truly expansive study of the importance of migration in the developmental history of modernism. * Robert McLaughlan and Neelam Srivastava, Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Commonwealth of Letters is an original and revisionist account of the historical encounter between the writers and institutions of English modernism and late colonial intellectuals, informed by solid archival research and refreshing new readings of the postcolonial canon, and keenly attuned to the complex history of cultural exchanges across the Atlantic. * Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste *For too long, modernist autonomy and postcolonial politics were thought to be antithetical. This book's splendid research deals this dichotomy a convincing blow. With illuminating insights into crossracial networks in radio, publishing, and other cultural institutions, Kalliney brilliantly shows how modernism enriched African and Caribbean literatures and was itself sustained by them. * Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics *A fascinating study which explores how modernist ideas influenced a generation of black and white writers-often working sideby-side-and created international networks of affiliation which rise up above race or geography. An illuminating and convincing examination of Anglophone literary history in the second half of the twentieth century. * Caryl Phillips, author of Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 *This densely argued study covers a lot of ground, from literary modernism to postcolonial Anglophone literature from the West Indies and Afria. The book's bibloiography testifies to Kalliney's prodigious research." -M.S. Vogeler, emerita, California State University, Fullerton, CHOICEKalliney's argument is extensive, meticulously researched, and compellingly revisionist... Kalliney provides a startling and thorough reimagining of the complex lines of aesthetic, philosophic, and institutional affiliation between metropolitan and colonial authors in the period 1930-70. * Novel *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions ; 1. Modernist Networks and Late Colonial Intellectual ; 2. Race and Modernist Anthologies: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Ezra Pound ; 3. For Continuity: FR Leavis, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o ; 4. Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors ; 5. Developing Fictions: Amos Tutuola at Faber and Faber ; 6. Metropolitan Publisher as Postcolonial Clearinghouse: The African Writers Series ; 7. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual ; Conclusion ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Age of Silver
Book SynopsisThe Age of Silver advances a horizontal method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include The Plum in the Golden Vase (China), Don Quixote (Spain), The Life of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions'' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote heteroglossic national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of world literature and historical transcultural relations.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward Horizontal Comparisons Chapter 1. Global Silver, Local Novels Chapter 2. Along the Grand Canal: The Lord of Silver in The Plum in the Golden Vase Chapter 3. La Mancha to the Indies: Romance and Materiality of the Empire in Don Quixote Chapter 4. Out of Nagasaki: To the End of the Floating World Chapter 5. Caribbean to China: Crusoe's Two Adventures Epilogue: The Transcivilizational Feminine and World Literature Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Ulysses on the Liffey
Book SynopsisA new and illuminating critique of the narrative, ethical and aesthetic strands in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.
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Oxford University Press James Joyce Revised Edition
Book Synopsis''A truly masterful biography, wise in its completeness. If Joyce be a great writer, then this is a great book.'' Sunday Times''The greatest literary biography of the century.'' Anthony Burgess, The ObserverTrade Review'major scholarly work ... a new bench-mark for biography as a major vehicle of literary scholarship' John Batchelor, British Book News, September 1993
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Oxford University Press, USA Murder on Deck
Book SynopsisFrom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Viola Brothers Shore to William Faulkner, Ellery Queen, John Mortimer, Susan Moody, and others, this book offers 25 stories that seeks to plumb the depths of ghastly crimes. Many of these stories take place on luxury liners, or holiday shorelines.Trade Review"This collection plumbs seaside resorts and oceanbound ships for the ultimate mystery experience."--Library Journal Murder On Deck confirms Rosemary Herbert's title as our eminent authority on mystery fiction. More important, it gives us a delightful collection of overlooked gems."--Tony Hillerman "A pleasing collection of 'shipboard and shoreline mystery stories'.... With a crew of contributors ranging from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to John Mortimer,this compendium of aquatic crime is perhaps the most satisfactory anthology of the year."--The Wall Street Journalr "Splendid stories. Oceans of delight."--Colin Dexter
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Oxford University Press The Distaff Side
Book SynopsisAdopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the different representations of women in the Odyssey and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the visualization of the Odyssey''s female characters by ancient artists, and several essays discuss the visual and iconographic implications of Odysseus'' female encounters in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. Feminine in orientation, but not narrowly feminist in approach, this first interdisciplinary work on the Odyssey''s female characters will have a broad audience among scholars and students working in classical studies, iconography and art history, women''s studies, mythology, and ancient history.Trade ReviewA multi-disciplinary range - history, art history and literature. It has ample notes and references and a magnificent collection of sixty plates, eminently usable in other Homeric contexts. * JACT review *The twelve contributors combine to offer a remarkably coherent reading of the poem and its values; the volume as a whole is an important contribution to current debate in this much-discussed field. * M.R. Gale, Royal Holloway, London, Journal of Hellenic Studies *This is a helpful contribution to the field. All Greek is translated. The production is fine. * The Classical Review *In an impressive series of papers, the contributors to this rich volume examine the various facets of the feminine figures in the Odyssey in the light of Greek culture, history, and mythology...A unique collection of outstanding articles on every aspect of the feminine in the Odyssey.The Journal of Indo-European StudiesAn enjoyable, informative, and instructive read ... the first extensive interdisciplinary discussion of representation of female characters in the poem * Grainne McLaughlin, Univ. of Dublin, Hermathena *Three introductory essays ... will doubtless prove especially helpful to undergraduates as they cover the key areas of the poem's datation, its representation of female characters, and the contemporary nuances in their vizualization by artists of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. * Grainne McLaughlin, Univ. of Dublin, Hermathena *A work useful to both undergraduates and specialists. * Grainne McLaughlin, Univ of Dublin, Hermathena *
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Oxford University Press Harriet Beecher Stowe
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years. Joan Hedrick takes the reader into the multi-layered world of nineteenth-century morals and mores in this absorbing story of a gifted and complex writer whose place in the canon is still contended.Trade Reviewlong overdue ... a fascinating and unfamiliar view of nineteenth-century American society. * Literary Review *
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Oxford University Press, USA Psychoanalysis and Black Novels Desire and the Protocols of Race Race and American Culture
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic theory is one of the most important tools in contemporary literary criticism, and this text argues that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of African-American desire, alienation and subjectivity. It examines figures such as Freud and Lacan.Trade Review...intriguing....Tate's study raises crucial questions about the way African American subjectivity is addressed within literary studies....she inspires a reevaluation of how texts produce that black subjectivity. * Modernism/Modernity *
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Oxford University Press William Faulkner and Southern History
Book SynopsisWilliam Faulkner more than any other writer is intimately associated with the South about which he wrote. This book reveals the man and his family and the ways in which southern culture and his own life were wound around one another in his greatest works.Trade Reviewa rewarding piece of scholarship about a mysterious man * Observer *
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Oxford University Press, USA Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood
Book SynopsisAlthough Eliza Haywood was one of the best known and most prolific writers in her own time, there is no modern edition of her works. This edition provides representative texts from Haywood''s entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing Haywood produced, the ways she treated important themes and issues, and the contributions she made to the development of the English novel.Trade ReviewBackscheider's volume will make it possible to include Haywood as a significant presence in both survey courses and graduate seminars * Years Work in English Studies *
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Oxford University Press, USA NeoSlave Narratives Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form Race and American Culture
Book SynopsisThis is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.Trade ReviewRushdy's book tells us a great deal not just about the four novels he reads closely, but also about the American conceptions of slavery and race in the second half of the Twentieth century; we walk away from Neo Slave Narratives with a multilayered sense of what Rushdy calls the social logic of the form, a logic which demonstrates that form is not extrinsic to historical understanding but rather constitutive of it. In short, Rushdy approaches his texts as complex objects circulating in many intersecting exchanges and listens carefully for the whistling and humming around him. * Eric Gardner, Theory and Cultural Studies *
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Oxford University Press, USA Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony
Book Synopsis"Ceremony" is one of the most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts. This casebook includes theoretical approaches and information, especially on Native American beliefs, that should enhance their understanding and appreciation of this contemporary classic.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Peter G. Beidler: Animals and Theme in Ceremony 3: Robert C. Bell: Circular Design in Ceremony 4: Elaine Jahner: An Act of Attention: Event Structure in Ceremony 5: Kenneth Lincoln: Blue Medicine 6: John Purdy: The Transformation: Tayo's Genealogy in Ceremony 7: Reed Way Dasenbrock: Forms of Biculturalism in Southwestern Literature: The Work of Rudolfo Anaya and Leslie Marmon Silko 8: Paula Gunn Allen: Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 9: Louis Owens: "The Very Essence of Our Lives": Leslie Silko's Webs of Identity 10: Catherine Rainwater: The Semiotics of Dwelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 11: Robert M. Nelson: The Function of the Landscape of Ceremony 12: James Ruppert: No Boundaries, Only Transitions: Ceremony 13: Rachel Stein: Contested Ground: Nature, Narrative, and Native American Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 14: Jace Weaver: Leslie Marmon Silko 15: Kenneth M. Roemer: Silko's Arroyos as Mainstream: Processes and Implications of Canonical Identity 16: Laura Coltelli: Leslie Marmon Silko 17: Robin Cohen: Of Apricots, Orchids, and Wovoka: An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko 18: Selected Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Life of Langston Hughes
Book SynopsisFebruary 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic but dedicated spirit that led him from Mexico to Africa and the Soviet Union to Japan, and countless other stops around the globe. Associating with political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, and drawing inspiration from both Walt Whitman and the vibrant Afro-American culture, Hughes soon became the most original and revered of black poets. In the first volume''s Afterword, Rampersad looks back at the significant early works Hughes produced, the genres he explored, and offers a new perspective on Hughes''s lasting literary influence. Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University''s Beinecke LibraTrade ReviewRampersad's two-volume biography, re-released to commemorate Hughes' centennial, is the definitive account of the poet, playwright, and novelist who was the leading light of the Harlem Renaissance. New afterwords offer perspective on Hughes' literary legacy. * The Orlando Sentinel *Arnold Rampersad's biography of Langston Hughes sweeps up the reader like a novel does....Rampersad's book serves as a foundational introduction to the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as to others in politics, literature, and the arts. Its dramatic, even painful, last chapter will lead you straight out to search for the second volume. * Topica Tip World *Excellent....Mr. Rampersad [leaves] you eager to see what he makes of the rest of the story, and confident that his second volume will be as good as his first. * John Gross, The New York Times *Throughout this comprehensive and enthralling account of Hughes's life and his development as a writer, Rampersad offers a precise assessment of his work and its importance...This may be the best biography of a black writer we have had. * David Nicholson, The Washington Post Book World *An exquisite orchestration of the fully lived life. * Michael S. Harper, The Boston Globe *
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Oxford University Press The Life of Langston Hughes Volume 2
Book SynopsisFebruary 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. The second volume in this masterful biography finds Hughes rooting himself in Harlem, receiving stimulation from his rich cultural surroundings. Here he rethought his view of art and radicalism, and cultivated relationships with younger, more militant writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Bakara. Rampersad''s Afterword to volume two looks further into his influence and how it expanded beyond the literary as a result of his love of jazz and blues, his opera and musical theater collaborations, and his participation in radio and television. In addition, Rempersad explores the controversial matter of Hughes''s sexuality and the possibility that, despite a lack of clear evidence, Hughes was homosexual. Trade ReviewRampersad's two-volume biography, re-released to commemorate Hughes' centennial, is the definitive account of the poet, playwright, and novelist who was the leading light of the Harlem Renaissance. New afterwords offer perspective on Hughes' literary legacy. * The Orlando Sentinel *Excellent....Mr. Rampersad [leaves] you eager to see what he makes of the rest of the story, and confident that his second volume will be as good as his first. * John Gross, The New York Times (on Volume I) *Throughout this comprehensive and enthralling account of Hughes's life and his development as a writer, Rampersad offers a precise assessment of his work and its importance...This may be the best biography of a black writer we have had. * David Nicholson, The Washington Post Book World *An exquisite orchestration of the fully lived life. * Michael S. Harper, The Boston Globe *
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