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Book SynopsisAlasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage.

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Book SynopsisA sequel to "The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse (Saqi)", this book investigates a number of crucial questions related to the genre's development such as: Why did the Arabic short story take certain trajectories and what determined its path? Can the study of this genre provide us with wider insights into the culture as a whole?

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Book SynopsisThe Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and bares his rebellious heart. His adored mother, who died when he was only seven; a father devoted only to his own social ambitions; the aunt whose daily cruelties passed for care: these are among the indelible portraits in a work that captures the sights, sounds, places, and characters of Stendhal's youth, its pleasures and sorrows, with preternatural clarity and immediacy. Full of dazzling images and burning emotions, The Life of Henry Brulard is a vivid memoir that is also an extraordinary work of the imagination.

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Book SynopsisJordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal. -The New York Times on The Wheel of Time(R) seriesExplore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including:- A brand-new, redrawn world map by Ellisa Mitchell using change requests discovered in Robert Jordan's unpublished notes- An alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World- The long-awaited backstory of Nakomi- 8 page, full color photo insertTake a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time(R). Origins of The Wheel of Time is written by Michael Livingston, Secretary-General of the United States Commission on Military History and professor of medieval literature at The Citadel, with a Foreword by Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan's editor, widow, and executor of his estate.This companion to the internationally bestselling s

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Book SynopsisContemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres. It argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing. Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction understands literature' in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment. Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, it explores how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.Trade ReviewAs with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate * Paul Crawford, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK *This book provides an expansive overview of the many and complex ways the body has featured in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors engage large and important themes: gender, sexuality, disability, race, affect, ageing, the environment, and issues around the ‘digital’ body. This is important reading for students of literature, cultural history, body studies, and the medical humanities * Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK *A timely introduction to key aspects of how literature deals with bodies. Each chapter is focused and backs its presentation of state-of-the-art theory with readings of literary works. Together they add up to an excellent background for understanding the centrality of the body, whether it is seen through the lens of gender, affect, race, disability, aging, or the posthuman * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark *Each essay in this comprehensive anthology critically articulates a partial account of embodied experience that co-constitute literature and the body. ... [T]he collection illuminates the ‘power of the margins’ ... and shows how different forms of situated embodied experiences can affect and be affected by different forms of discourses and texts. * The British Society for Literature and Science *Table of Contents1.Introduction THEMES 2.Gender and Feminism 3.Race and Postcolonial Perspectives 4.Disability 5.Illness and Health 6.Ageing CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 7.Affect 8.Human Rights 9.Ecocriticism and Animal Studies 10.Digital Humanities and the Posthuman Further reading

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Book SynopsisCharlotte Crofts is Associate Professor of Filmmaking at the University of the West of England, UK. She is editor-in-chief of Screenworks (2006-present). She has published a monograph on Angela Carter, Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television (MUP, 2003), a chapter Curiously Downbeat Hybrid or Radical Retelling?: Neil Jordan's and Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves'' in Sisterhoods: Across the Literature/Media Divide (Pluto Press, 1999) and written about her Japanese writings in 'The Other of the Other': Angela Carter's 'New-Fangled' Orientalism' in Re-Visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts, ed. Rebecca Munford (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is currently developing a feature-film adaptation of Angela Carter's Japanese writings. She co-founded the Angela Carter Society with Caleb Sivyer, and Marie Mulvey-Roberts with whom she is developing a Smart phone app on Carter.Marie Mulvey-RobeTrade ReviewThe essays are uniformly serious, well researched, clearly written, and impressively innovative. Including 15 illustrations, this book is for those interested in feminism, fairy tales, and, of course, literary theory and women writers. * CHOICE *Discussing a wide range of Carter’s fiction, this book explores how cross-cultural semiotics, musicality, visual critique, and sensory materiality animate Carter’s pyrotechnic prose. Along with new perspectives on familiar topics, it features exciting studies of folksong, opera, food, and fashion as they inform the poetics of specific Carterian works. * Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Emerita of English, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, USA *Table of ContentsForeword Gina Wisker (University of Brighton, UK) Pyrotechnics: Angela Carter’s Incendiary Imagination Charlotte Crofts (UWE Bristol, UK) & and Marie Mulvey-Roberts (UWE Bristol, UK) SIGNS & OBJECTS 1. Carter and the Japanese Signs: Bunraku, Mishima, Irezumi and Sozo Araki Natsumi Ikoma (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan) 2. Some Kinds of Love: Angela Carter, Art and Objects David Punter (University of Bristol, UK) 3. The Chance Encounter of a Stuffed Dodo, a Fallen Star, and a Fruit Woman Automaton… The Secret Life of Things Queering the Museal Gaze in Angela Carter’s Curiosity Cabinets Anna Kérchy (University of Szeged, Hungary) MUSIC, PERFORMANCE & FAIRYTALE 4. ‘Down to the Greenwood’: Angela Carter and Traditional Folksong Hippolyta C. M. Paulusma (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. From Grizelda’s Patience to Feminist Grit: Angela Carter’s ‘The Patience of Grizelda’ as a Hidden Intertext to ‘The Bloody Chamber’ Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 6. Of Tales, Tragic Opera, Transformation and ‘Tongues’: Tristan und Isolde in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber Ashley Riggs (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 7. Theatre, Adaptation, Angela Carter: A Case Study Belinda Locke (PhD Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia 2018; Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria Australia) WAYS OF SEEING 8. ‘What Then?’ Apocalypticism and Angela Carter’s Surrealist Aesthetics Scott A Dimovitz (Regis University, Denver, USA) 9. Kaleidoscopes, Stereoscopes and Phantasmagoria: Critical and Creative Ways of Seeing in the Work of Angela Carter Caleb Sivyer (UWE Bristol, UK) 10. ‘The Strangeness of the World Made Visible’: Reading Alignments between Angela Carter and Paula Rego Beatrice Bijon (Australian National University, Canberra Australia) MATERIAL BODIES 11. Perceiving Pleasures and Appetites in The Bloody Chamber: ‘Surprise me for dessert with every ice-cream in the ice box’ Maria José Pires (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal) 12. The Skin that Holds You In: States of Dress and Undress in Angela Carter’s Animal/Human Transformation Stories Carys Crossen (University of Manchester, UK) 13. Angela Carter’s Questioning of ‘Age-appropriate’ Appearance and Behaviour in Wise Children Zoe Brennan (UWE Bristol, UK)

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the ESSE 2022 Book AwardsShortlisted for the 2022 SAES / AFEA Research PrizeBuilding on an upsurge of interest in the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter series, this book explores the various ways that British novels, from children's fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have been adapted and rewritten for the US market.Drawing on a vast corpus of over 80 works and integrating the latest research in multimodality and stylistics, Linda Pillière analyses the modifications introduced to make British English texts more culturally acceptable and accessible to the American English reader. From paratextual differences in cover, illustrations, typeface and footnotes to dialectal changes to lexis, tense, syntax and punctuation, Pillière explores the sociocultural and ideological pressures involved in intralingual translation and shows how the stylistic effects of such changes including loss of meaning, voice, rhythm andTrade ReviewA ground-breaking and inspirational publication that certainly will benefit imminent dialogues in the field. * TranscUlturAl Journal *Pillière fills a gap in our understanding of translation with this fascinating study of intralingual translation from British into American English, highlighting with detailed examples many issues such as the role of the editor, the author’s voice and the material nature of the text. * Jean Boase-Beier, Professor Emerita, University of East Anglia, UK *Finally, a monograph on intralingual translation! Pillière has produced a deep, well-researched and entertaining analysis of British American translations based on a wealth of illustrative examples. Her well-informed theoretical discussions are relevant for anyone interested in intralingual translation and its (firm) place within translation studies. A highly readable contribution. * Karen Korning Zethsen, Professor of Translation Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark *An engaging exploration of the intralingual translation of British novels for an American readership. Bringing together insights from translation studies, stylistics, multimodality and publishing practices, Pillière convincingly shows the need for translation studies to move beyond the linguistic text and to consider the book as the product of a collaborative enterprise. An original contribution to translation studies and multimodal stylistics. * Nina Nørgaard, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Defining The Terms 2. Editing The Text 3. Repackaging The Text 4. Americanising The Text 5. Crafting The Text 6. Re-Voicing The Text Conclusion Corpus References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of both planned and fortuitous groupings in periodicals, this book traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw in Collier's (1898), Rudyard Kipling's Kim in McClure's and Cassell's (1900-1901), James Joyce's Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street in the Dial (1923).These periodicalswhether mass-market journals or literary magazinesadjust our perceptions of authors elsewhere known to be in charge and reveal the central role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism.Bringing to light new research from multiple archives, Sigler pieces together original records of journals' advertising strategies, previously unpublished editorial correspondence, and long-buried letters to unearth the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we Trade ReviewIn this illuminating study, Amanda Sigler brilliantly demonstrates the value of studying Victorian and modernist texts in the journals and little magazines that first serialised them. Startlingly, she proves that chance, not authorial autonomy, initially coloured works that later seemed sacrosanct. * Anne Fogarty, Professor of James Joyce Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland *Examining the control authors ceded to collaborative editorial and production processes and reader feedback, Sigler’s meticulously researched book highlights the distinct role magazine serial publication played in making European modernism part of American culture. A major contribution to modernist and periodical studies both, and a clarion call to bring periodical archives into the modernism classroom. * Mark S. Morrisson, Professor and Head of English, Penn State University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Henry James’s Turn of the Screw in Collier’s (1898) Chapter 2: Rudyard Kipling’s Kim in McClure’s and Cassell’s (1900-1901) Chapter 3: James Joyce’s Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920) Chapter 4: Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” in The Dial (1923) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce's fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours. Rando explores how Joyce's texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He examines how Joyce envisions alternatives to the prevailing conventions of hope throughout his works and, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, develops formal techniques of spatializing hope to contemplate it from all sides. Casting fresh light on the ways in which hope animates key aspects of Joyce's approach to literary content and form, Rando moves beyond the limitations of negative critique and literary historicism to present a Joyce who thinks agilely about the future, politics, and possibility.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Hope and Form in Joyce Chapter One: Without Paralysis: Hope, Hunger, and Spiritual Liberation in Dubliners Chapter Two: The Future of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Künstlerroman and Hope Chapter Three: A Humid Nightblue Dot: The Spatialization of Hope in Ulysses Chapter Four: Daydreams of History and Reincarnation in Finnegans Wake Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJane Custance Baker is an independent scholar, who went to university in her 50s, gaining her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.Trade ReviewAn entertaining analysis of the clues provided by descriptions of clothes in interwar crime fiction. * Natasha Cooper, Literary Review *An appealing book about a less than obvious field of study … You might not think that this topic justifies a full-length book - but it does so, and without padding … The writing is accessible and lively. * Martin Edwards, author of The Life of Crime *This lucid, insightful, extensively researched book breaks new ground by revealing how the language of dress and fashion articulated anxieties about class, deception, change and upheaval for the millions who turned to detective fiction for reassurance and escape in interwar Britain. It's an important work and an exciting read. * Fiona Hackney, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *A highly original study of cultural significance of dress in interwar Britain, through the lens of detective fiction. Using a new large-scale survey of the representation of clothing across 280 texts, Baker reveals the powerful cultural meanings of clothes and their importance in constructing gender, class and national identities. * Jane Hamlett, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Getting it Wrong Chapter 3: Searching for Mr Right; Interwar Masculinities Chapter 4: From British Empire to English Heritage, Weaving Nation and Gender Chapter 5: Womanhood Chapter 6: Addressing Race Chapter 7: Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature explores the familiar names of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to connect readers with these experiences. With a lively, jargon-free style and insightful analyses of thought-provoking texts, this concise volume helps you to understand more fully the pleasure to be found in reading, and re-reading. By identifying what readers seek and find in Russian booksfrom aesthetically pleasing descriptions to apt psychological renderingsAngela Brintlinger aims to enhance the gratification of reading, giving armchair travelers an excuse to embark on a series of fascinating journeys. Drawing on BTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1: Introduction: Why we need Russian literature 2: In the beginning there was Pushkin 3: Larger than life: Leo Tolstoy’s world 4: Dostoevsky, amateur psychologist 5: Chekhov and the pleasures of the written word Afterword Appendix: More books to read Works cited and consulted

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Book SynopsisThe Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues, is brought together to produce a comprehensive history of this ill-starred group of renegade writers. Whether the bolshie B.S. Johnson, the globetrotting Ann Quin, the cerebral Christine Brooke-Rose, or the omnipresent Anthony Burgess, these writers each brought their own unique contributions to literature at a time uniquely open to their iconoclastic message. The journey connects historical moments from Bletchley Park, to Paris May '68, to terrorist groups of the 1970s. A tale of love, loss, friendship and a shared vision, this book is a fascinating insight into a bold, provocative and influential group of writers whose collective story has gone untold, until now.Trade ReviewA whimsical and witty romp through the writing, lives and turbulent times of British experimental writers of the 1960s. Darlington tells a well-informed and illuminating story that enriches scholarship and engages new readers alike. * Nonia Williams, Lecturer in Literature, University of East Anglia, UK *A truly amazing book! - Philip Tew, Professor Emeritus, Brunel University, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. 1960 and Before 3. 1960 to 1963 4. 1964 to 1965 5. 1966 to 1967 6. 1968 to 1969 7. 1970 to 1972 8. 1973 and After Index

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Book SynopsisCarey Mickalites is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Memphis, USA. He is the author of Modernism and Market Fantasy, as well as a number of articles on modernist and contemporary literature. He regularly teaches courses and seminars on modernism, contemporary British fiction, colonial and postcolonial literature, and literary and cultural theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fictions of Celebrity and the Markets for Modernism Chapter One: Signature to Brand: Martin Amis’s Negotiations with Literary Celebrity Chapter Two: “To invent a literature”: Ian McEwan’s Commercial Modernism Chapter Three: From Modernism to Postcolonial Inc.: Authorizing Salman Rushdie Chapter Four: What the Public Wants: Prize Culture and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Aesthetic of Disillusionment Chapter Five: Zadie Smith, Inauthenticity, and the Ends of Multicultural Modernism Chapter Six: Valuing the Marginal, or, How Eimear McBride and Anna Burns Reframe Irish Modernism Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPolly Jones is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published extensively on Soviet literature and memory politics, including two monographs (Myth, Memory, Trauma (2013) and Revolution Rekindled (2019)), several edited volumes (including The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (2006)) and numerous articles. She is embarking on a new collaborative project about the concept of the 101st kilometre' in Soviet penal policy and practice.

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Book SynopsisOver a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work. Featuring new material from the recently expanded Graham Greene archive which will be of particular interest and relevance to Greene scholars, it also covers contents of other archives in the UK and elsewhere in a series of mini-essays.Trade ReviewThis final volume of The Works of Graham Greene is a fitting conclusion to Wise and Hill’s years of research. It will be invaluable to Greene scholars and to anyone writing about modern British literature. * A Sort of Newsletter *Shrewd literary detectives, Jon Wise and Mike Hill have dedicated many years to hunting down the lost publications of Graham Greene. This third volume of their bibliography, featuring the recovery of many works and presenting a series of essays on the writing life of this author, brings to a magnificent conclusion a series for which authors and readers can be immensely grateful. * Richard Greene, Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada *An essential guide for anyone who wants to take Greene more seriously than as an entertainer. * Motonori Sato, Professor of English, Keio University, Japan *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Section 1A: Additional Material relating to Graham Greene’s Published Work Part A: Books by Graham Greene Part B: Contributions by Graham Greene to books Part C: Contributions by Graham Greene to Newspapers, Journals and Magazines Part D: Letters written by Graham Greene Part E: Published Interviews with Graham Greene Part F: Films made of Greene’s Fiction & Films written by Graham Greene Bibliography of Published Works by Graham Greene Section 1B: Part A: New Entries relating to Graham Greene’s Published Work Part B: Contributions by Graham Greene to books Part C: Contributions by Graham Greene to Newspapers, Journals and Magazines Part D: Letters written by Graham Greene Part E: Published Interviews with Graham Greene Bibliography of Published Works by Graham Greene Section 2A: Additional Material relating to Graham Greene’s Unpublished Works & Archival Papers Section 2B: New Entries relating to the Unpublished Works & Archival Material of Graham Greene Part 1: Context & Analysis Archives in the United Kingdom Archive in Sweden Part 2: Listings Archives in the United Kingdom Archives in the United States of America Other Archives Section 3 Essays INDEX

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Book SynopsisDr Raphael Kabo is an independent researcher investigating cultural production in, and adjacent to, contemporary global activist movements. He is a co-founder of the anarchist close reading collective 'Beyond Gender' and the research network 'Utopian Acts'.Trade ReviewUtopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature makes a brilliant case for the importance of the utopian imagination in literature and social movements. In readings of contemporary authors like Kim Stanley Robinson, Juliana Spahr, and Mohsin Hamid, Raphael Kabo shows that the dream of a better society isn’t a luxury but a necessity. -- Christian P. Haines, Associate Professor, Penn State University, USATable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One. Redefining Utopia: Utopian critical theory and utopian spatiality Chapter Two. Escaping the Present: Precarity and surplus in a time of crisis Chapter Three. Commons Beyond Capitalism: That Winter the Wolf Came Chapter Four. Utopias Beyond Borders: Exit West Chapter Five. Utopias Beyond Disaster: New York 2140 Chapter Six. Utopias Beyond Death: The Book of Joan and Walkaway Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOur relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them.Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing.Bringing together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth, folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about women climbing trees. Discussing, among others, the literary works of MaTrade ReviewThe Tree Climbing Cure confirms what many of us knew as children—that there’s something intrinsically good about gazing down at the world from precarious perches in trees. It’s no wonder that there’s abundant literature and art devoted to the tree-climbing (and other ways of being near trees), and Andy Brown deeply examines this aesthetic tradition in his excellent contribution to the current movement of arboreal ecocriticism. -- Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USAIf the art of climbing rock has a long and popular literary and artistic history, why are those who climb trees associated with immaturity and derangement? Who knew that tree climbers, too, have a long and fascinating artistic history which Andy Brown reveals in this remarkable book? Without dodging the difficult questions, Brown carefully considers the wellbeing issues raised by tree climbing arts. And you don’t have to leave the ground to feel the benefits sensitively conveyed by this uplifting book. -- Terry Gifford, author of The Joy of Climbing, Green Voices, Pastoral and Reconnecting With John Muir.Andy Brown's The Tree Climbing Cure is a fascinating study of tree climbers and tree climbing in literature and art as well as in practice across Europe and North America. The book's emphasis on the restorative power of tree climbing is particularly timely. The Tree Climbing Cure will appeal to a range of readers, from scholars and students of ecocriticism and environmental philosophy to anyone who enjoys time among trees. -- Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA, author of 'Ecoambiguity' and 'Global Healing'Table of ContentsIntroduction: #manintree Chapter One: The Science of Nature and Wellbeing Chapter Two: Trees and the Mind Chapter Three: The Climbing Cure Chapter Four: The Family Tree Chapter Five: The Child in the Tree Chapter Six: The Archetypal Tree Chapter Seven: The Visionary Tree Chapter Eight: #womanintree Chapter Nine: ‘Tree Hugger’ Chapter Ten: Enthusiasm & Attitude: recreation, work, folly Conclusion: Descent Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field's interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book's Introduction and Conclusion. The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and itTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field Chapter One Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations --Centering Gender --Exploration of Sexuality --Essentialism and Difference --Race and Class Revisited Chapter Two The Necessity and Fiction of “Asian America” --Cultural Nationalism --Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity --Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies --Rethinking Asian American Specificity Chapter Three Intercultural and Generational Concerns --Writing Immigrants --Cultural Translation --Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation --Breaking the Tradition Chapter Four The Transnational Turn --Planetary Presence --The Asia-Pacific Investment --Cautions and Dissonances --Locating the Historical Referent Chapter Five The Social Function of Literature --Cognitive Uses of Language --Community-Based Self-Representation --Controversies --Debating Resistance Chapter Six Aesthetic Form --Form after New Criticism --Legacies and Practices --Reinventing Realist Genres --Poetic and Theatrical Studies Chapter Seven Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization --Reading Formations --Periodization --Methodological Challenge --Post-identity Subjects Chapter Eight Emerging Interests --Food Studies --Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism --Speculative Literature --Digital Humanities and New Media Conclusion Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom's A Matter of Death and Life. Offering in each chapter a brief character sketch of the memoirist, the book shows how personal writing fits into their other work, often demonstrating the continuities and discontinuities in an author's life as well as discussing each author's contributions to psychoanalysis, whether positive or negative.Trade ReviewWe live in the age of potted celebrity biographies. Each carefully structured to obfuscate rather than reveal. What happens in a world where emotional veracity is central and revealing it is the name of the game. In another brilliant book Jeffrey Berman reads a serious of autobiographies by major psychoanalysts, from Sigmund Freud through Wilfred Bion and Masud Khan to the Sigmund’s recently deceased granddaughter Sophie Freud. Berman reveals that even in such a world, the complexity of imaging one’s own life is devilishly hard work for the author, while Berman makes it easy work for the reader. A must read for all engaged in thinking about what our work reveals, like it or not, about ourselves. * Sander L. Gilman, Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Sigmund Freud: An Autobiographical Study 2. The Wolf-Man: Memoirs 3. Helene Deutsch: Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue 4. Wilhelm Stekel: Autobiography 5. C.G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections 6. Wilfred R. Bion: War Memoirs 1917-1919 7. Marion Milner: On Not Being Able to Paint 8. M. Masud R. Khan: The Long Wait 9. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: Final Analysis 10. F. Robert Rodman: Not Dying 11. Louis Breger: Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting 12. Brenda Webster: The Last Good Freudian 13. Madelon Sprengnether: Crying at the Movies 14. Sophie Freud: Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family Conclusion: Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom: A Matter of Death and Life Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTraces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commoditiesTrade Review"By examining the cultural lives of goods such as cotton, coal, fur (and others), Wayne's fascinating study reveals how American writers critiqued U.S. imperial ambitions in the decades after the Civil War. The book makes a significant contribution not only to American literary studies but also to strands of postcolonial and ecocritical scholarship devoted to cultures of extraction, resource narratives and exploitative histories." -Sin ad Moynihan, University of Exeter

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Book SynopsisContemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways about scaleTrade Review"Henry Ivry's Transscalar Critique offers a penetrating response to the Anthropocene's problem of scale. Necessary and urgent,Transscalar Critique centres Black Studies as a vital precursor to contemporary examinations of scale. In doing so it provides an essential corrective to the study of the Anthropocene in literature.?" -David Farrier, University of Edinburgh

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Book SynopsisReconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class statusTrade Review"Pionke's striking innovation is to propose that mid-Victorian bourgeoisie strove to justify their status in negative terms. His persuasive and thought-provoking work allows readers to connect current-day notions of class and economic privilege to an earlier period of capitalist plutocracy a period in which questions of privilege and invidious economic comparisons found their expression in very different cultural forms."" -John Plotz, Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisStudies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors.Trade Review"This book blends scholarly and personal history with literature, film and art, thereby illustrating how questions of identity are navigated by Iranian Armenians, both in Iran and in exile. It is a fresh and nuanced study that approaches the subjects of minorities, race and migration through a non-western lens." -James Barry, Deakin University

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Book SynopsisExamines the political and aesthetic gestures embedded in bandes dessinees and graphic novels in order to question the past and the contemporary realities of the French-speaking world.

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Book SynopsisRepresents the first comprehensive academic collection of Charles Dickens's verse productions.

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Book SynopsisShowcases how a range of migrant experiences are crucial to increasing interdependencies between differentially empowered groups across the world.

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Book SynopsisDaniel Ferrer's stimulating introduction to genetic criticism, translated into English by Rachel Bowlby.

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