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  • Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture

    Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture

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    Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement.

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    £22.79

  • Scottish Romanticism and the Making of Collective

    Edinburgh University Press Scottish Romanticism and the Making of Collective

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    Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic.

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    £95.00

  • The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver

    Edinburgh University Press The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver

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    Book SynopsisThe Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers.

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    £85.50

  • Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature

    Edinburgh University Press Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature

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    Book SynopsisThis book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. Read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.

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  • Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

    Edinburgh University Press Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

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    Book SynopsisThrough a robust analysis of several 'new-consciousness' novels by award winning authors the book highlights their unconventional, yet coherent undertakings to foreground the marginal experiences of the Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, women and sexual minority populations in Egypt.

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  • Outlaws and Spies

    Edinburgh University Press Outlaws and Spies

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    Book SynopsisConor McCarthy shows how outlaw literature and espionage literature critique the use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays and the Ned Kelly story to John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.

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    £85.50

  • Hotel Modernity

    Edinburgh University Press Hotel Modernity

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    Book SynopsisHotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film.Trade Review"Robbie Moore's delightfully original Hotel Modernity is an adroit, indeed magisterial, intervention in cultural history but also in thinking about the novel form and its metaphors. His eclectic, deft, sophisticated approach persuasively and inspiringly combines substantial research on the world of hotels with shimmeringly suggestive critical readings of a rare order." -Philip Horne, UCL

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  • Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

    Edinburgh University Press Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

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    Book SynopsisThis book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture.

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    £90.25

  • Home and Identity in NineteenthCentury Literary

    Edinburgh University Press Home and Identity in NineteenthCentury Literary

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    Book SynopsisThis book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty.

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    £85.50

  • The Modernist Exoskeleton

    Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Exoskeleton

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    Book SynopsisFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.

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  • Novel Sensations

    Edinburgh University Press Novel Sensations

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    Book SynopsisConcentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind..

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  • E.L. Doctorow

    Edinburgh University Press E.L. Doctorow

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    Book SynopsisThis book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow.

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    £90.25

  • Beckett Beyond the Normal

    Edinburgh University Press Beckett Beyond the Normal

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    Book SynopsisThis book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.

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  • The Ideas in Stories

    Edinburgh University Press The Ideas in Stories

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    Book SynopsisArgues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content

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    £90.25

  • The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture

    Edinburgh University Press The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture

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    Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 18801950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain.

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  • The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture

    Edinburgh University Press The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture

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    Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880 1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain.Trade Review"The short story and the modern magazine grew up together, but the story of their mutual emergence has been slow to develop. At last, here is a volume that delves into this culturally vibrant symbiosis on all levels, from game-changing theoretical accounts to sharp, empirical micro-histories. This book is a must-have for short story experts and periodical studies scholars indeed for anyone fascinated by the interactions between emerging media and cultural forms. " -Patrick Collier, Ball State University

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  • Devolving Black Britain

    Edinburgh University Press Devolving Black Britain

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    Book SynopsisWriting Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness.

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    £85.50

  • Living Jim Crow

    Edinburgh University Press Living Jim Crow

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    Book SynopsisAnalysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore how authors mobilised this setting as a tool for racial resistance.

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  • Transgender and the Literary Imagination

    Edinburgh University Press Transgender and the Literary Imagination

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    Book SynopsisTransgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.

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    £22.79

  • Dickens and Demolition

    Edinburgh University Press Dickens and Demolition

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    Book SynopsisDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime.

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    £27.54

  • Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction

    Edinburgh University Press Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction

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    Book SynopsisThis book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'nave' readers.

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    £90.25

  • Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction

    Edinburgh University Press Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction

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    Book SynopsisThis book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'naive' readers.

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    £19.94

  • Rereading Orphanhood

    Edinburgh University Press Rereading Orphanhood

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    Book SynopsisRereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.

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    £90.25

  • Rereading Orphanhood

    Edinburgh University Press Rereading Orphanhood

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    Book SynopsisRereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.

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    £24.69

  • Deleuze in Childrens Literature

    Edinburgh University Press Deleuze in Childrens Literature

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    Book SynopsisJane Newland focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Andre Dhotel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Michel Tournier. They are explored across chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsense.

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  • Aging in the Modern Arabic Novel

    Edinburgh University Press Aging in the Modern Arabic Novel

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    Book SynopsisBy assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of theoretical approaches to aging, particularly from the perspective of gender and feminism, to reconcile the biological and cultural understandings of old age.

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    £85.50

  • Specters of World Literature

    Edinburgh University Press Specters of World Literature

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    Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an other that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.

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    £90.25

  • Redwood a Tale

    Edinburgh University Press Redwood a Tale

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    Book SynopsisThis new edition includes a historically and theoretically informed critical introduction that situates the novel within American social and literary history, also featuring a bibliography for further research and appendices detailing the significant differences between the two nineteenth-century editions.

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    £94.50

  • Ancient Epic in Film and Television

    Edinburgh University Press Ancient Epic in Film and Television

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    Book SynopsisExamines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television.

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  • Ancient Epic in Film and Television

    Edinburgh University Press Ancient Epic in Film and Television

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    Book SynopsisExamines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television.Trade Review"Gardner and Potter have produced a fascinating collection of essays on epic screen productions that defines the epic genre outside its traditional parameters and covers a wide variety of shows across different decades from the 1980s to 2021." -Professor Antony Augoustakis, Department of the Classics, University of Illinois

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    £23.74

  • Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel

    Edinburgh University Press Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel

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    Book SynopsisThis book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.

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    £85.50

  • Prophetic Translation

    Edinburgh University Press Prophetic Translation

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    Book SynopsisIn this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations.

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    £20.89

  • Living in Technical Legality

    Edinburgh University Press Living in Technical Legality

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    Book SynopsisThrough detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.

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    £22.79

  • Nuclear Fictions

    Edinburgh University Press Nuclear Fictions

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    Book SynopsisLooks at cultures of deterrence and 'war-ending' weapons and suggests their longer role within the development and stasis of the Anglosphere.

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    £81.00

  • Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

    Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

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    Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.

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    £85.50

  • Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

    Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

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    Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.

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    £19.94

  • Eliot and Becketts Low Modernism

    Edinburgh University Press Eliot and Becketts Low Modernism

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    Book SynopsisExplores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett.

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  • Elizabeth Bowens Psychoanalytic Fiction

    Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Bowens Psychoanalytic Fiction

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    Book SynopsisThis book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.

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    £19.94

  • Marie Corelli a Romance of Two Worlds

    Edinburgh University Press Marie Corelli a Romance of Two Worlds

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    Book SynopsisMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.

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  • The Politics of Kathy Acker

    Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Kathy Acker

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    Book SynopsisThis study boldly argues for Acker's revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including the Paris Commune, Russian Nihilists and the global revolts of the 1960s.

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  • Liminal Whiteness in Early U.S. Fiction

    Edinburgh University Press Liminal Whiteness in Early U.S. Fiction

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    Book SynopsisHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.

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  • New Ecological Realisms

    Edinburgh University Press New Ecological Realisms

    Book SynopsisMonika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, Jose Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis.

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  • Jane Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw

    Edinburgh University Press Jane Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw

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    Book SynopsisPublished in 1803, Thaddeus of Warsaw is a beguiling romance that also exposes the hardships faced by migrants in Britain two hundred years ago.

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    £29.45

  • Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida

    Edinburgh University Press Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida

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    Book SynopsisJames Dutton argues that Proust's la recherche du temps perdu (1913 27), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philosophy and literature. In its genre-defying originality, it anticipates some of the most important concepts and strategies of poststructuralist French thought exemplified in the work of Derrida and Deleuze.Trade Review"Dutton performs an acrobatic movement between Proust, Derrida and Deleuze, foregrounding In Search of Lost Time as a 'textual becoming' and running with the 'fractal force' of all three works. Readers are invited to join Derrida and Deleuze as sprouting roots in the rhizomatic unfurling of Proust's book. We should accept." -Patrick ffrench, King's College London

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  • Superheroes

    Globe Pequot Press Superheroes

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    Book SynopsisSuperheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in tights who fight for what's right and the comic book phenomenon that conquered the world. From their origins in stories created by barely grown men during an era of global war and printed on cheap paper for consumption by children, superheroes have grown into a popular culture whirlwind that has attracted millions of fans and crossed over into every form of media.Encompassing early coming books, indie outliers, and the mammoth fictional universes managed by DC and Marvel, Superheroes! chronicles the rise of a distinctly American invention, the modern-day evolution of the myths and legends of old. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Captain America, X-Men, the Justice League and the Avengersthey all represent our greatest hopes, and sometimes our darkest fantasies. Pop culture expert Brian Solomon tells a story that goes from the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages of comic bo

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  • Secrecy and Community in 21stCentury Fiction

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Secrecy and Community in 21stCentury Fiction

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    Book SynopsisSecrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with what is called ''communities of secrecy'', it is fundamentally indebted to the thought of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who have pointed to the fallacies and dangers of identitarian and exclusionary communities, arguing for forms of being-in-common characterized by non-belonging, singularity and otherness.Also drawing on the work of J. Hillis Miller, Derek Attridge, Nicholas Royle, Matei Calinescu, Frank Kermode and George Simmel, among others, this volume analyses the centrality of secrets in the construction of literary form, narrative sequence and meaning, together with their foundational role in our private and interpersonal lives and the public and political realms. In doing so, it engages with the Derridean ethico-political value of secrecy and Derrida'sTrade ReviewThe secret as index of ineradicable opacity rather than hidden knowledge to be disclosed; the forms of community that come from honoring the singularity and inviolability of others; and literature as an especially revelatory location for both of these operations – these are among the insights provided by this well-conceived, eclectic collection. Secrecy and Community highlights the urgency of recasting our sense of the present through the medium of Derrida’s late work. It is an impressive and moving achievement, and a welcome addition to contemporary thought. * Greg Forter, Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA, and author of Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction: Atlantic and Other Worlds (2018) *This much-needed volume of essays extends Derridean theory through close readings of a wide range of 21st-century narrative texts, thus demonstrating the complex interrelationship between secrets and community, identity politics and literature. * Leslie W. Lewis, Susan D. Morgan Distinguished Professor of English, Goucher College, USA, and author of Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature (2017) *Many anthologies on secrecy exist, but only a few include cutting-edge essays and vivid empirical studies. In this timely book, the studies compiled by María J. López and Pilar Villar-Argáiz explore the link between secrecy, community, democracy and literature with admirable articulacy and precision. This volume attests to the intersectional articulation of these elements, and will contribute much to research on the different dimensions of literary secrecy. * Eduardo Barros Grela, Professor of English Studies, University of A Coruña, Spain, and co-editor of American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States (2011) *Table of ContentsNotes on contributors Foreword Joseph Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine, USA) Acknowledgements Introduction: Secrecy and community in twenty-first-century fiction María J. López (University of Córdoba, Spain) Part One. SECRECY, LITERARY FORM AND THE COMMUNITY OF READERS 1. Secrecy and community in ergodic texts: Derrida, Ali Smith and the experience of form Derek Attridge (University of York, UK) 2. Protective mimicry: Reflections on the novel today Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex, UK) 3. ‘Where all is known and nothing understood’: Narrative sequence and textual secrets in Toni Morrison’s Love Paula Martín-Salván (University of Córdoba, Spain) 4. Challenging stereotypes of femininity through secrets in Alice Munro’s fiction Mercedes Díaz Dueñas (University of Granada, Spain) 5. Zoë Wicomb and the secrets of the canon Liani Lochner (Université Laval, Canada) Part Two. COMMUNITIES OF SECRECY 6. Cryptaesthetic resistance and community in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland María Luisa Pascual Garrido (University of Córdoba, Spain) 7. Queering the Maori crypt: Community and secrecy in Witi Ihimaera’s The Uncle’s Story Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas (University of Granada, Spain) 8. Secrecy, invisibility and community in Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque (University of Córdoba, Spain) 9. Novel mediums: The art of not speaking in (and of) Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black Hannu Poutiainen (Tampere University, Finland) Part Three. SECRECY, POSTCOLONIALISM AND DEMOCRACY 10. Shame and the idea of community in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings and What Happened to Us Mike Marais (Rhodes University, South Africa) 11. ‘Whilst our souls negotiate': Secrets and secrecy in Jonathan Franzen’s Purity Jesús Blanco Hidalga (University of Córdoba, Spain) 12. Conversing with spectres: Secrets and ghosts in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees Kim L. Worthington (Massey University, New Zealand) Index

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  • This Is a Classic

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc This Is a Classic

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    Book SynopsisThis Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some of today's most accomplished literary translators who translate classics into English or who work closely with translation in the US context and magnifies translators' knowledge, skills, creativity, and relationships with the literary texts they translate, the authors whose works they translate, and the translations they make. The volume presents translators' expertise and insight on how classics get defined according to language pairs and contexts. It advocates for careful attention to the role of translation and translators in reading choices and practices, especially regarding literary classics.Trade ReviewTranslation has always been about learning to understand others while finding out something vital about ourselves. Unlike other books in the field, This Is a Classic does not fall into the trap of neglecting one part of that equation to favor the other, and that is because it never loses sight of the fact that a literary classic – whatever else it is or does – teaches us to look at ourselves anew in consideration of others. * Juan Carlos Calvillo, Professor, Center for Literature and Linguistics, El Colegio de México, Mexico City *This important collection aims to raise awareness of translation in mainstream academia but is equally valuable for the lay reader because, as Galasso points out in her introduction, 'the classics are tools for developing writers.' With brilliant contributions from a constellation of our generation's literary rock stars, Galasso is on point in her curation of these essays which, as she points out, could just as accurately have been titled 'Translators on the Making of World Literature' because without translation 'literature would not have the ability to move around the globe.'" * Samantha Schnee, Founding Editor of Words Without Borders *Table of ContentsIntroduction Literary Classics through Translation Regina Galasso (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Prologue: The Translator's Agency and the Literary Classic Abroad: Emily Dickinson's Voyage to Braziliput Adalberto Muller (University Federal Fluminense, Brazil) 1. Chinese Classics: The Commentarial Tradition Sabina Knight (Smith College, USA) with Kidder Smith (Bowdoin College, USA) 2. Happy Hour Homer: On Translating and Performing the Iliad Live in a Bar Lynn Kozak (McGill University, Canada) 3. Today in the Temple of Language: Translating Dante Mary Jo Bang (Washington University St. Louis, USA) 4. True Confessions of a Literary Translator Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (Independent Scholar, India) 5. What is a Classic? The Case of Esperanto Humphrey Tonkin (University of Hartford, USA) 6. The Russian Canon in Retranslation Marian Schwartz (Independent Scholar, USA) 7. Translating Yiddish Classics: Redefining Tradition in Modern Yiddish Literature through the Prism of Kadya Molodowsky Chantal Ringuet (Independent Scholar, Canada) 8. Victor Català's A Film (3000 Meters): Translating a Catalan Classic Peter Bush (Independent Scholar, UK) 9. Translation as Storytelling Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University, USA) 10. In Terror and Pandemic: Translating García Lorca's Poet in New York Mark Statman (The New School, USA) 11. Stopping at the Surface: Translating Clarice Lispector's The Besieged City and A Breath of Life Johnny Lorenz (Montclair State University, USA) 12. Tanizaki's The Key in Translation: Will You Still Need Me? Will You Still Read Me, When I'm Sixty-Four? Anna Zielinska-Elliott (Boston University, USA) 13. An Essay on Nichita Stanescu: The Classic and the Personal in Translation Sean Cotter (University of Texas, USA) 14. From Arabic to English, What is a Classic? Michelle Hartman (McGill University, Canada) 15. Translating a Classic into the Future: Tómas Jónsson—Bestseller Lytton Smith (SUNY Geneseo, USA) 16. Love, Anger, Madness Making a Classic: Amplifying Marie Vieux Chauvet's Haitian Trilogy Caroyln Shread (Mount Holyoke College, USA) 17. What besides Words?: Translating Bilge Karasu's A Long Day's Evening Aron Aji (University of Iowa, USA) 18. Nonsense in a Given Direction: Translating the Timelessness of Marguerite Duras Emma Ramadan (Independent Scholar, USA) 19. "Sentence" as Lifeline: Translating David Albahari's Novels Ellen Elias-Bursac (Independent Scholar, USA) Epilogue Matching Socks in the Dark; or How to Translate from Languages You Don't Know Ilan Stavans (Amherst College, USA) A Translation Experiment Kleptomaniac Classic: Ramona Esther Allen (CUNY, USA) and Sean Cotter (University of Texas, USA) Index

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  • Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature

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    Book SynopsisBreaking with linearity the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically in different countries at different times, using a variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche's critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts the emergence of Nietzsche's idea of eternal return, before then turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This history is explored from its inception, in the works of Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking work, Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez retraces the teleological view of literature through a wide expanse of texts, both narrative and of literary criticism – from Homer to Aristotle, Tasso and Schiller – before delineating how certain authors of modern literature rejected linearity in favour of circular forms of narrative. Built on Nietzschean philosophy, particularly on his idea of eternal recurrence, the book’s close engagement with writers and dramatists, ranging from Strindberg to Nabokov, Joyce, Borges and Calvino, radically reconfigures the aesthetics grounding these texts. This brilliant account adds an important dimension to the evolution of the Western narrative. * Thirthankar Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of English, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India, and co-editor of Samuel Beckett as World Litertature *Far from a mere typology, Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature is both ambitious in scope and quite original in dealing with its central premise. Toribio Vazquez offers a personal attempt to present and understand the many different circular alternatives probed by the 20th-century writers under the spell of Nietzsche’s negative philosophy, a milestone for the contemporary collapse of linearity. His close readings compose an engaging picture of modernism(s) in Europe, sensitive to singularities and also particularly attentive of non-canonical names, such as Azorín and Kharns. A fine, comprehensive study, theory and analysis concerned. * Fábio de Souza Andrade, Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of São Paulo, Brazil *In this wide-ranging comparative study Toribio Vazquez extends our understanding of post-Nietzschean poetics. His corpus of canonical and non-canonical 20th-century writers exploit structures of circularity for a variety of purposes, from the axiological and psychological to the existential and self-referential. This is an ambitious and impressive piece of work. * Duncan Large, Professor of European Literature and Translation, University of East Anglia, UK *Table of ContentsForeword by Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Genealogy of Linearity 2. Nietzsche’s Bequest: Buddha’s Shadow and the ‘Greatest Burden’ 3. The Birth of Circularity: Strindberg, Stein and Azorín 4. ‘Vivir es Volver’: Queneau, Nabokov and Kharms 5. Circulus Vitiosus Litterae: Joyce, Borges and the Theatre of the Absurd 6. Circular Echoes: Robbe-Grillet, Calvino, Cortázar and Blanchot 7. Conclusion: Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature References Index

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