Literary studies: fiction Books
Rowman & Littlefield Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of
Book SynopsisWe think we know Betty and Veronica from Archie comics, but we don’t. Far more than just Archie’s girlfriends, this book shows how the girls adapted to be compelling, relevant characters for each new generation over the past eighty years. Betty, Veronica, and the rest of the Riverdale gang appear to be frozen in time in Archie comics. They are perpetual high schoolers, recycling the same basic plotlines over and over in their wholesome, small-town American world. However, there is much more to Betty and Veronica than the broad archetypes and clichéd storytelling suggests. In Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale, Tim Hanley explores the complexity behind these two iconic characters. We know Betty and Veronica as Archie's girlfriends, but that's just the beginning—they are their own women with evolving motivations and aims. From fighting over Archie to tackling women’s lib to chasing down serial killers on Riverdale, their friendship has endured and grown through decades of shifting characterizations and social change. Exploring their past offers unique insights into the ways life has progressed for young women over the past eighty years, and shows us the hidden strengths and secret depths of these pop culture icons. Featuring full-color comic book cover art that spans nearly eight decades of publishing—along with behind-the-scenes accounts of creative decisions, historical insights, and examinations of their different incarnations—this book provides a vibrant exploration of Betty and Veronica’s many adventures along their long, intriguing journey in popular culture.
£30.00
Black Rose Books Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass –
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Africa World Press Voices From The Continent, Vol Iii: A Curriculum
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£21.21
Africa World Press Emerging Perspectives On Aminata Sow Fall: The
Book SynopsisVarious contibutors demonstrate Fall's unique intervention in literary creation where realism and heroism merge.
£29.71
Africa World Press Yoruba Fiction, Orature And Culture: Oyekan
Book SynopsisA selection of essays on Oyekan Owomoyela and his impact on the study of Yoruban literature.
£31.96
Africa World Press Emerging Perspectives On Yvonne Vera
Book SynopsisNew and exciting research on one of Zimbabwe's most influential writers, Yvonne Vera.
£31.96
The Library of America Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in
Book SynopsisWhat forms can religious experience take in a world without cult or creed? Organized religion is notably absent from J. R. R. Tolkien's Secondary Universe of elves, dwarves, men and hobbits despite the author's own deep Catholic faith. Tolkien stated that his goal was 'sub-creating' a universe whose natural form of religion would not directly contradict Catholic theology. Essays in Light Beyond All Shadows examine the full sweep of Tolkien's legendarium, not only The Lord of the Rings but also The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-Earth series plus Peter Jackson's film trilogy. Contributions to Light Beyond All Shadows probe both the mind of the maker and the world he made to uncover some of his fictional strategies, such as communicating through imagery. They suggest that Tolkien's Catholic imagination was shaped by the visual appeal of his church's worship and iconography. They seek other influences in St. Ignatius Loyola's meditation technique and St. Philip Neri's 'Mediterranean' style of Catholicism. They propose that Tolkien communicates his story through Biblical typology familiar in the Middle Ages as well as mythic imagery with both Christian and pagan resonances. They defend his 'comedy of grace' from charges of occultism and Manichaean dualism. They analyze Tolkien's Christian friends the Inklings as a supportive literary community. They show that within Tolkien's world, Nature is the Creator's first book of revelation. Like its earlier companion volume, The Ring and the Cross, edited by Paul E. Kerry, scholarship gathered in Light Beyond All Shadows aids appreciation of what is real, meaningful, and truthful in Tolkien's work.Trade ReviewThese essays. . . offer some insight into the interpretation of Tolkein's work. * Literature and Theology *Table of Contents1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction: Exploring Tolkien's Universe Chapter 4 Water, Ecology, and Spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-Earth Chapter 5 Divine Contagion-On the Nature in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings Chapter 6 Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-Earth Chapter 7 The Biblical Structure of The Lord of the Rings Chapter 8 Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the Rings Chapter 9 I am the Song, Music, Poetry, and the Transcendental in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth Chapter 10 Tolkien: Lord of the Occult? Chapter 11 The Fantastic Secret of Tolkien's Fairy Tales: Literature and Jesuit Spiritual Exercises Chapter 12 Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien Chapter 13 Where two or three are gathered: Tolkien and the Inklings Chapter 14 Peter Jackson, Evil, and the Temptation of Films at the Cracks of Doom Chapter 15 Songs of Innocence and Experience, or, What Remains of Tolkien's "Catholic" Tale in Jackson's The Lord of Rings 16 Bibliography 17 Biographical Entries
£50.09
Melville House Publishing Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: And Other
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Melville House Publishing Strange Stars
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Microcosm Publishing Notes From Underground
Book SynopsisMuch history and theory is uncovered here in the first comprehensive study of zine publishing.
£17.09
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media
Book SynopsisSteve Tomasula's work exists at the cutting edges of scientific knowledge and literary techniques. As such, it demands consideration from multiple perspectives and from critics who can guide the reader through the formal innovations and multimedia involutions while providing critical scientific, aesthetic, historical, and technical contexts. This book, the first of its kind, provides this framework, showing readers the richness and relevance of the worlds Tomasula constructs. Steve Tomasula's work is redefining the form of the novel, reinventing the practice of reading, and wrestling with the most urgent questions raised by massive transformations of media and biotechnologies. His work not only charts these changes, it formulates the problems that we have making meaning in our radically changing technological contexts. Vast in scope, inventive in form, and intimate in voice, his novels, short stories, and essays are read and taught by a surprisingly diverse array of scholars in fields ranging from contemporary experimental writing and literary criticism to the history of science, biotechnology and bioart, book studies, and digital humanities.Trade ReviewDavid Banash and this excellent collection do more than bring Steve Tomasula’s astounding work to a wider audience. This book reveals the multiform layers of interlacing aesthetics that, like a tumor, a clock, a biological accident, and the birth of the alphabet, assemble into patterns that are playful, enigmatic, and wondrous. Tomasula was once the best-kept secret in contemporary narrative. Now, his work is suitably viral. * Davis Schneiderman, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English, Lake Forest College, USA, and &NOW Board Member *A groundbreaking collection of essays on an author who is at the cutting edge of experimental fiction in the twenty-first century. * Marcus Boon, Professor of English, York University, Canada, and author of In Praise of Copying (2010) *Steve Tomasula’s eco-hybrid, post-cyber, transmedia fiction works are as hard to characterize as they are engaging. Only a genetically engineered polydactyl would have enough thumbs to signal the enthusiasm generated by the digerati-literati lucky enough to have encountered them in the first decade of the new millennium. Varied and eclectic, sui generis and virtuosic, Tomasula’s major works get their due in this volume as a wide range of authors, eager and equal to the task, position his activities within the critical discourses proliferating at the intersection of creative thought and literary philosophy. * Johanna Drucker, Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *What is a work that arrives before it is written? What is a work that emerges from the soft tissue of the body at different points in a given era? How do make a new kind of writing derived from the oscillation between two rectangles of light; frames that might include surveillance, animal ethologies and anatomies, as much as a philosophy of the book-to-be? This extraordinary anthology constellates readings of Tomasula novels and intermedia projects that offer us a glimpse of the novel as installation, as 'nature opening out to culture.' As someone interested in what happens at the intersection of narrative and biology, the instance of mutation as a trait transmitted between and across texts of different kinds, I was very inspired by the essays in this remarkable collection. David Banash has curated something that makes it possible to come to writing again, differently. The introduction, co-written with Andrea Spain, was, itself, a fierce and brilliant consideration of 'composition, emergence, sensation': the intense, unpredictable and sometimes violent energies that underlie Tomasula’s work in its incipient stages, but also carry it through a duration. Which is prose. Which is this other kind of radical art. An art or novel that appears only when we orient towards it. In this way. * Bhanu Kapil, Associate Professor of Writing, Naropa University, USA, and author of Ban en Banlieue (2015) *Table of Contents1. “Variations on a Theme”: the (re)Invention of the Human in Vas: An Opera in Flatland Sylvie Bauer (Université Rennes 2, France) 2. The Great American Novel: System Update Kathi Inman Berens (University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, USA) 3. Tomasula's Book R. M. Berry (Florida State University, USA) 4. Fabrications in a Complex Mirror: Steve Tomasula's Turbulent Fiction Gerald Bruns (University of Notre Dame, USA) 5. Literary Archaeologies in The Book of Portraiture Flore Chevaillier (Central State University, USA) 6. The Material Is the Message: Body as Text/Text as Body in Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in Flatland Anthony Enns (Dalhousie University, Canada) 7. A Book, an Atlas, and an Opera: Steve Tomasula's Fictions of Science as Science Fiction Pawel Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland) 8. Spatiality and Print, Temporality and Digital Media: Media-Specific Strategies in Steve Tomasula's The Book of Portraiture and TOC N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University, USA) 9. The Work of Art After the Mechanical Age Mary Holland (SUNY, New Paltz, USA) 10. Intermediality in Steve Tomasula's TOC: A New Media Novel: A Semiological Analysis Anne Hurault-Paupe (Paris 13 University, France) 11. Exploration and Discovery Through Visuality in Steve Tomasula's The Book of Portraiture Pelin Iscan (University of Strasbourg, France) 12. Do We Not Bleed? The Color of Flesh in a Cyborg World Anne Larue (University Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité, France) 13. Ontological Metalepses, Unnatural Narratology, & Locality: A Politics of the [[page]] in Tomasula's VAS & TOC Lance Olsen (University of Utah, USA) 14. 'Still, It Moves' : The Subreal Fiction of Steve Tomasula Jackie Orr (Syracuse University, USA) 15. Enumeration in Steve Tomasula's Short Stories Françoise Palleau-Papin (University of Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité, France) 16. Encoding the Body, Questioning Legacy: Reflections on Intersemiotic Experiments in Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in Flatland Françoise Sammarcelli (University of Paris Sorbonne, France) 17. Steve Tomasula's Work of Wonder Anne-Laure Tissut (Rouen University, France) Afterword—An Interview with Steve Tomasula Bibliography Index
£133.00
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd We walk straight so you better get out the way
Book SynopsisI remember shaving off my beard in the bathroom on the eve of the camp, with Mahalia Jackson singing rousing spirituals from the living room. Afterwards my chin was strangely smooth, and seemed to have shrunk. I remember that from the Springbok Grounds, where the army has its administrative offices, you could see a whisky ad on a billboard with a moustachioed gentleman suggesting: "Don't be vague, ask for Haig". I remember our arrival at camp, in a roaring truck with wooden plank benches that fetched s from the station. There were many trucks parked or driving along an endless esplanade with their headlights forked into the night. Dust and diesel fumes. People running. Uniforms. Hoarse orders in Afrikaans. I remember 'roer jou gat!", "jou gat", "se gat", "bakgat", "slapgat", "gates", and "don't gooi me grief, hey!" We walk straight so you better get out of the way is author's new book of personal and public memories of growing up in South Africa. Once again he delves deeply into sense memories, making the reader hum long-forgotten tunes, summoning up familiar pictures through his delicate and finely-tuned phrasing. In this title the author deals with the army years, the Grateful Dead years, the loss of his father to prison years and the losing himself to Paris years.
£9.50
Equinox Publishing Ltd Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley’s Roots, examining the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. More than an investigation into Alex Haley’s legacy, Identifying Roots unearths the politics of beginnings and belongings. While we all come from somewhere, this book examines the terms on which our roots can work as a tradition to embrace rather than a past to leave behind. And it investigates why some of the texts we read also seem to read us back. Identifying Roots invites readers to reimagine the way we tell stories. A provocative study that draws upon Black studies, the history of religions, and anthropology, the book underscores the social drama and dynamics that define our scriptures. Nimbly moving between the stories of Alex Haley, his characters, and the world that received them, Newton reminds us that our roots are stories of consequence.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Anthropology of Scriptures Chapter 1: Identifying with Alex Haley “Before This Anger” Chapter 2: “The Book that Changed America” Chapter 3: “The Saga of an American Family” Chapter 4: Kunta Kinte in American TV, Film, and Music Chapter 5: Root-Work in the Academic Study of Religion Conclusion: Rooting Identity
£42.75
Equinox Publishing Ltd Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley’s Roots, examining the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. More than an investigation into Alex Haley’s legacy, Identifying Roots unearths the politics of beginnings and belongings. While we all come from somewhere, this book examines the terms on which our roots can work as a tradition to embrace rather than a past to leave behind. And it investigates why some of the texts we read also seem to read us back. Identifying Roots invites readers to reimagine the way we tell stories. A provocative study that draws upon Black studies, the history of religions, and anthropology, the book underscores the social drama and dynamics that define our scriptures. Nimbly moving between the stories of Alex Haley, his characters, and the world that received them, Newton reminds us that our roots are stories of consequence.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Anthropology of Scriptures Chapter 1: Identifying with Alex Haley “Before This Anger” Chapter 2: “The Book that Changed America” Chapter 3: “The Saga of an American Family” Chapter 4: Kunta Kinte in American TV, Film, and Music Chapter 5: Root-Work in the Academic Study of Religion Conclusion: Rooting Identity
£23.70
Unbound House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead,
Book SynopsisFrom the gothic fantasies of Walpole’s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors’ personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature.We encounter Jane Austen drinking ‘too much wine’ in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf’s love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder’s return to Brideshead.Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves, House of Fiction opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.Trade Review ‘A lively tour of fictional property’ The Times, Books of the Year ‘A fascinating tour of real and literary bricks and mortar ... [Richardson’s] research is formidable. Her book does much more, though, than track real architectural detail in made-up houses. It reveals key imaginative shifts in British authors’ attitudes to homes over the years’ Sunday Times 'The real houses that haunt English fiction' Guardian
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan
Book SynopsisIn early 1900, the paths of three British writers—Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle—crossed in South Africa, during what’s become known as Britain’s last imperial war. Each of the three had pressing personal reasons to leave England behind, but they were also motivated by notions of duty, service, patriotism and, in Kipling's case, jingoism. Sarah LeFanu compellingly opens an unexplored chapter of these writers’ lives, at a turning point for Britain and its imperial ambitions. Was the South African War, as Kipling claimed, a dress rehearsal for the Armageddon of World War One? Or did it instead foreshadow the anti-colonial guerrilla wars of the later twentieth century? Weaving a rich and varied narrative, LeFanu charts the writers’ paths in the theatre of war, and explores how this crucial period shaped their cultural legacies, their shifting reputations, and their influence on colonial policy.Trade Review'Through careful research and compelling writing, Sara LeFanu brings to life three great writers of the Victorian world and draws them together in a moment of imperial reconfiguration. … [Something of Themselves] succeeds in avoiding the predictability of conventional biography and helps us rethink the literary geographies of the period.' -- Journeys journal
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Death of Camus
Book SynopsisIn 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated murder: he was silenced by the KGB. The Russians had a motive: Camus had campaigned tirelessly against the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and vociferously supported the awarding of the Nobel Prize to the dissident novelist Boris Pasternak, which enraged Moscow. Sixty years after Camus’ death, Catelli takes us back to a murky period in the Cold War. He probes the relationship between Camus and Pasternak, the fraught publication of Doctor Zhivago, the penetration of France by Soviet spies, and the high price paid by those throughout Europe who resisted the USSR.Trade Review'Mr. Catelli's case is compelling ... his book provides a clear and useful window into the currents that political writers were forced to navigate during the Cold War.' -- Wall Street Journal‘An investigation into the astonishing claim that the Nobel prize winner was killed by the Soviet secret police.’ -- The Sunday Times‘Published in English for the first time, the Italian poet and historian Giovanni Catelli argues that Camus, author of the existential masterpiece "The Stranger", was murdered by the Soviet security agency.’ -- The Telegraph'Kisil maintains that Zabrana did his utmost to find "credible and objective sources" of information in the USSR. "It’s possible -- and actually even probable -- that he could have met someone from this circle of people who told him about the assassination of Camus, and who themselves had heard it from someone close to the upper echelons of the Communist Party," he said.' -- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty'Catelli learned not to give up hope in the time since he discovered the testimony of Jan Zábrana. His book reads like a detective novel without resolution or punishment –– no one was or will be jailed for murdering Camus.' -- Pagina 12 (Argentina)'A text of seductive literary, biographical, critical and historical value.' -- Avvenire'Catelli succeeds in convincing us that Camus could have been assassinated by the KGB.' -- Le Monde Libertaire'Fast-paced and entertaining, reads like a spy novel.' -- La Capital (Argentina)'Catelli contends that the KGB was responsible for the auto accident that killed Camus […] More controversially, he also argues that the French government was complicit in the killing.' -- Inside Hook'Eloquently written.' -- Green Left
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Profile Books Ltd Love and the Novel: Life After Reading
Book Synopsis'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and Lupton made me want to go back to them all' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Incandescent' Lara Feigel, Guardian 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'A delicious combination of critical thought and passionate personal experience.' - Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep Romantic love was born alongside the novel, and books have been shaping how we experience and think about our most intimate stories ever since. But what do novels give us when our own lives diverge from the usual narrative paths? Christina is a professor used to examining stories with a critical eye; until one day in middle age she finds herself falling in love and leaving her marriage for a romance with another woman. This involves a familiar enough tale, but when her new partner suffers a stroke, Tina begins to reflect on the sorts of love that novels rarely capture. A heady mix of memoir, criticism and storytelling that draws on novels ranging from Pride and Prejudice to Price of Salt, Anna Karenina to Conversations with Friends, to illuminate the ways love and novels work, and show how some types of love, which don't race to a narrative end-point, might be the most important of all.Trade ReviewIt is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and Lupton made me want to go back to them all -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *I adored this book. An elegant, unflinching look at what it means to grapple with the true implications of our desire. -- Keiran Goddard, author * Hourglass *An utterly addictive - sometimes caustic, sometimes tender - account of a midlife lurch in a new direction. -- Marina Benjamin, author * The Middlepause *Tina Lupton's eloquent account of an unexpected real-life plot twist marries critical prowess and a gripping story, in an honest and fantastically insightful book. -- Laura Kipnis, author of 'Love in the Time of Contagion'Lupton's unsparing memoir forces us to re-examine the lives lived on our bookshelves and in our heads. -- Leah Price, author of 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Books'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life -- Sarah MossSuch a rich exploration of love in all its forms (marital, adulterous; for children, friends). I love how Christina Lupton summons an iconic cast of our favourite fictional lovers ... even as her own desires carry her far beyond many of their teachings. A delicious combination of critical thought and passionate personal experience. -- Tanya Shadrick, author of 'The Cure for Sleep'In this eloquent, captivating conversation between memoir and criticism, Christina Lupton also offers a mesmerizing love song to the experience of reading in its own right. -- David James, author of Discrepant SolaceDo novels help us know how to love? Is middle-aged passion worth upending your life and stability for? Instead of turning to shrinks to solve our romantic travails, clearly we should be turning to literature professors. Tina Lupton's eloquent account of an unexpected real-life plot twist marries critical prowess and a gripping story, in an honest and fantastically insightful book. -- Laura Kipnis, author of 'Love in the Time of Contagion'Interspersing self-examination with an equally gripping analysis of the texts that have made and remade their reader, Lupton's unsparing memoir forces us to re-examine the lives lived on our bookshelves and in our heads. -- Leah Price, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About BooksWhat happens when you fall in love and discover in yourself such urgency to be with your beloved that you overturn all the certainties and structures of your life? What next?This haunting and highly personal account is studded with memorable insights into dozens of the novels about love and loss that long shaped Lupton's professional and personal life, but its true contribution is to show us how and why even the most impassioned reader can't ultimately take novels as a blueprint for living. -- Jenny Davidson, author of 'Reading Styles: A Life in Sentences'A memoir, as formidably intelligent as it is forcefully felt, about a life spent reading about love, which turned out to be the best preparation for letting "the pleasure of all scripts fall away" and discovering how to love differently -- Kevin Brazil, author of ‘What Ever Happened to Queer Happiness?’Love and the Novel is an utterly addictive - sometimes caustic, sometimes tender - account of a midlife lurch in a new direction. As Christina Lupton falls in love with a woman and contemplates turning her family's world upside down, she learns that life, like fiction, is far from linear. In so far as it lends itself to fictional plotting, it is a place of many rooms. I loved Lupton's bold reading of the defining events in her life through the literature she loves and teaches - each book a gateway to self-revelation, and sometimes transformation. -- Marina Benjamin, author * The Middlepause *
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Dar Arab Five Days Untold
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Oldcastle Books Ltd Brit Noir
Book SynopsisBarry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena. After the success of earlier entries in the series, Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he returns to the UK to produce the perfect reader's guide to modern British crime fiction. Every major living British writer is considered, often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted for the reader. Forshaw's personal acquaintance with writers, editors and publishers is unparalleled, so Brit Noir features interviews with (and quotations from) the writers, editors and publishers themselves.Trade ReviewUnsurprisingly Barry Forshaw's Brit Noir is a wonderful reference book that any self-respecting and serious connoisseur of crime fiction needs to have on their book-shelf -- Ayo Onatade * Shots Magazine *UK critic-author Barry Forshaw long ago established himself as an authority on English-translated Nordic mysteries, producing the guide Nordic Noir in 2013, which he followed up a year later with Euro Noir. Now comes Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of the British Isles (Oldcastle/Pocket Essentials) -- J. Kingston Pierce * The Rap Sheet *Brit Noir is a book to dip into but also, as I did, to read from cover to cover. I've always considered Forshaw to be an honest reviewer and the book very much reflects his personality. It made the book a stimulating and, at times, amusing read -- Sarah Ward * Crime Pieces *very glad indeed to have a copy of this short and snappy book on my shelves -- Martin Edwards * Do You Write Under Your Own Name? *A must-have for crime fans: for reminding yourself about old favourites, for finding new authors, and for that 'What shall we watch?' moment -- Marsali Taylor * The Mystery People *
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Oldcastle Books Ltd American Noir
Book SynopsisBarry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the United States, to produce the perfect reader's guide to modern American crime fiction. The word 'Noir' is used in its loosest sense: every major living American writer is considered (including the giants Harlan Coben, Patricia Cornwell, James Lee Burke, James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky, as well as non-crime writers such as Stephen King who stray into the genre), often through a concentration on one or two key books. Many exciting new talents are highlighted, and Barry Forshaw's knowledge of - and personal acquaintance with - many of the writers, grants valuable insight into this massively popular field. But the crime genre is as much about films and TV as it is about books, and American Noir is a celebration of the former as well as the latter. US television crime drama in particular is enjoying a golden age, and all of the important current series are covered here, as well as key contemporary films.Trade ReviewThe book canters through American Crime fiction of the early 21st century, conveys information in an easily accessible manner and provides a readable overview of the whole area, one that can be dipped into at random, consulted for specific information or read for general interest -- Jo Hesslewood * Mystery People *a very good collection of well-written, critically astute, and almost always appreciative book reviews -- Jon L Breen * Mystery Scene *Forshaw makes a good case for crime fiction being the literature of social justice and morality -- Francis Phillips * Catholic Herald *A wonderful book to pick up and flick through and start reading the page it opens on. It is filled with fascinating facts to get your reading juices going! -- C.S. * Crime Squad *Forshaw's deep knowledge of noir ensures this is a fascinating guide, as well as a top-notch reading list -- Andre Paine * Crime Scene Magazine *
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Writer To Writer: The Republic of Elsewhere
Book SynopsisMargaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Salman Rushdie feature in this collection of over forty interviews with award-winning authors. This is a genre-crossing collection of interviews and essays that recounts in intimate detail encounters with many of the world’s foremost writers. Interspersed are photos as well as a charismatic commentary, provided by editor and veteran journalist Ciaran Carty, revealing a surprising, often unexpected interconnectedness between these otherwise distinct figures. Individually, these pieces provide a rare glimpse inside some of the world’s most creative minds; collectively, they address topics such as history, politics, sexuality, and class, while also reflecting the distinguished and wide-ranging career of one of Ireland’s leading critics and broadcasters. Filled with laugh-out-loud anecdotes, personal confessions, and passionate declarations, this book is the definitive collection for literature enthusiasts and aspiring writers alike.Trade ReviewIn Writer to Writer - The Republic of Elsewhere, veteran arts journalist Ciaran Carty brings great acuity to his interviews with some of the prime exponents of 20th-century literature. -- Paddy Kehoe * RTE *Clearly positioned as a book for our times, the array of writers here gives weight to Carty’s overarching idea that literature (and those who create it) exist outside borders, are (to reappropriate Theresa May’s infamous phrase) “citizens of everywhere”. Literature, Carty suggests, exists in a separate country: the land of the imagination, “a republic of elsewhere”. -- Sean Hewitt * The Irish Times *
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd No Land, No Mother
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection focus on the rich dialogue carried out in David Dabydeen's increasingly diverse and critically acclaimed body of writing. Dialogue across diversity and the simultaneous habitation of multiple arenas are seen as dominant characteristics of his work. Essays by Aleid Fokkema, Tobias Doring, Heike Harting and Madina Tlostanova provide rewardingly complex readings of Dabydeen's 'Turner', locating it within a revived tradition of Caribbean epic (with reference to Walcott, Glissant and Arion), as subverting and appropriating the romantic aesthetics of the sublime and in the connections between the concept of terror in both Turner's painting and in Fanon's classic works on colonisation. Lee Jenkins and Pumla Gqola explore Dabydeen's fondness for intertextual reference, with the nature of canonic authority and ideas about the masculine. Michael Mitchell, Mark Stein, Christine Pagnoulle and Gail Low focus Dabydeen's more recent fiction, "Disappearance", "A Harlot's Progress" and "The Counting House". By dealing with his more recent work and looking more closely at Dabydeen's Indo-Guyanese background, this collection complements the earlier "Art of David Dabydeen".
£12.99
Peepal Tree Press Ltd Ismith Khan: The Man & His Work
Book SynopsisTrinidadian author Ismith Khan (1925-2002) is celebrated in this new critical study, which sheds invaluable and entertaining light on his life, his short stories and his three novels: the semi-autobiographical The Jumbie Bird (1961), The Obeah Man (1964), which was adapted as a play for the BBC, and The Crucifixion, published by Peepal Tree Press in 1987. Khan's literary accomplishments are given in-depth treatment, particularly his skill in representing the diversity of Trinidadian culture across language, generation, ethnicity and class. Clear and well-documented, the survey gives a persuasive case for the re-evaluation of this great writer's work."Khan's ear for dialect and his ability to render it in print made his novels lasting successes." – The New York TimesRoydon Salick is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. He is the author of The Novels of Samuel Selvon: A Critical Study (2001).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Postcolonial Literatures in Context
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Literatures in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to postcolonial literatures in English (and English translation) and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including old and new diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous identities and politics and globalization. Close readings of commonly studied texts from and about Africa, Australia, Canada, Palestine and South Asian diasporas highlight critical questions and ways of reading postcolonial texts. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores a range of wider cultural texts including film, non-fiction and art. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives including diaspora theory, feminism, indigeneity and the postcolony. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying postcolonial literatures.Trade Review"Postcolonial Literatures in Context is well researched, intelligent, and lucid in its exploration of the field. It ranges in informed ways across a wide selection of postcolonial texts, both literary and discursive, and its close reading of key examples of fiction published this decade is impressive. A useful and stimulating book." - Shirley Chew, Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, University of Leeds, UK... well-presented and clear. -- Routledge ABESTable of ContentsSeries Preface; Part I: Contexts; 1. Social and cultural contexts; 2. Literary contexts; Review, Reading and Research; Part II: Texts; 3. Readings of Key Texts; Review, Reading and Research; Part III: Wider contexts; 4. Critical contexts; 5. Afterlives and adaptations; Review, Reading and Research; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Becoming Jane Austen
Book SynopsisJon Spence's fascinating biography paints an intimate portrait of Jane Austen. "Becoming Jane Austen" gives the fullest account we have of her falling in love with the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy, a relationship that was more serious and enduring than previously believed and one that had a profound effect upon her life and her art. The elegant narrative examines Austen's other emotional attachments, building a picture of her world as she herself perceived and experienced it. It is a world familiar to us from her novels, but in "Becoming Jane Austen", Jane herself is the heroine.Trade ReviewMention in The Bookseller'It is the small incidents that Jon Spence puts under the microscope in his entertaining and sensitive biography.' 'Jon Spence is painstaking, delicate, full of insight - a somehow fitting, friendly biographer.' ~ Joceline Bury, Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine -- Joceline Bury'Jon Spence's book has all the virtues of a well-researched and original study. Hard to write anything new about Jane Austen these days, but Spence, in his own quiet and unobtrusive way, has done it.' ~ John Bayley -- John Bayley"Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of her falling in love with the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy." -- Lucy Whitson, Evening ExpressReview in Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography, October 2007"Fascinating...full of details that add color and texture to what we know of Austen." --The Record-Courier -- Mary Louise Ruehr"Spence meticulously unpacks the evidence available to him...and lays the probablilities before us in writing that is charged with its own kind of electricity. His great achievement is that by the end of Becoming Jane Austen it is indeed possible to see how Jane became Jane Austen, the great writer of English literature." -- Sydney Morning Heraldmention in 'Books on Radio' -- The Bookseller'A delightful book ... I have enjoyed it immensely.' -- John Bayley CBE, Writer and Literary Critic'Jon Spence's 'Becoming Jane Austen' is one of the best half-dozen books published on Austen in the last quarter century.' 'This is a book full of wisdom about [Jane Austen] and her art.' Joseph Wiesenfarth, JASNA News -- Joseph Wiesenfarth'Becoming Jane Austen' is a good, traditional biography. Clearly written, jargon-free and pleasant to read, it covers familiar ground without any sense of fatigue and makes the most of the material.' ~ Peter Washington, The Literary Review -- Peter Washington'Jon Spence has given us the most cogent portrait of Jane Austen's literary life to date.' ~ Julia Barrett, author of 'Presumption', 'The Third Sister' and 'Jane Austen's "Charlotte"', British Heritage Magazine -- Julia Barrett * British Heritage Magazine *Title mentioned, April 2007 -- Stephanie Cross * Observer *"This biography does uncover some interesting facts about the novelist's antecedents and family, showing them to be just as obsessed with fortune and gentility as the Dashwoods and the Bennets." * Tablet, The *Table of ContentsIllustrations; New Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Legacies; 2 Home; 3 Scenes; 4 The Good Apprentice; 5 History; 6 Love and Art; 7 Place; 8 Ways of Escape; 9 Money; 10 Work; 11 The World; 12 The Body; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Quercus Publishing Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Book SynopsisShortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.In 1890 Stevenson settled in Upolu, an island in Samoa, after two years sailing round the South Pacific. He was given a Samoan name and became a fierce critic of the interference of Germany, Britain and the U.S.A. in Samoan affairs - a stance that earned him Oscar Wilde's sneers, and brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office, who regarded him as a menace and even threatened him with expulsion from the island.Joseph Farrell's pioneering study of Stevenson's twilight years stands apart from previous biographies by giving as much weight to the Samoa and the Samoans - their culture, their manners, their history - as to the life and work of the man himself. For it is only by examining the full complexity of Samoa and the political situation it faced as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, that Stevenson's lasting and generous contribution to its cause can be appreciated.Trade ReviewA bracing amalgam of history, biography and travel . . . Farrell has done his compatriot proud. -- Ian Thomson * Financial Times. *Scholarly, engaging and deeply thoughtful, Joseph Farrell's account of Stevenson's last four years in Samoa has the feel of an instant classic in studies of the writer. The Navigator Islands had fascinated Stevenson for years, but when he went to live there in 1890, frail and famous, the realities of life in on the margins of his own culture, language and society changed him forever. Rarely can a place and a writer have had so much effect on each other: Joseph Farrell's brilliant study takes us further into this fascinating relationship than ever before. -- Claire Harman, author of Robert Louis Stevenson: A BiographyMarvellously done, thanks to the lively fair-mindedness of Farrell's excellent prose. Vivid, scholarly, informative, but above all a really good read. -- Liz Lochhead, Scots Makar 2011-16Joseph Farrell's is the best book I have seen on Stevenson's years in Samoa, the most enviable of any writer's ever. Farrell is fair to both his sunburnt Bohemianism and his unremitting hard work. -- James BuchanStevenson in Samoa is very good indeed . . . It is full of interest and repays the attention it demands. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman. *A sparkling account of the last years of Stevenson's life . . . An emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde and translator of literary works from Italian, Farrell comes armed with perceptive, elegant prose and a revealing understanding of Stevenson's peculiarly Scottish frame of mind. * Literary Review *A very profound examination of Stevenson's Samoa in light of current and present ideologies. -- Brian Morton * Glasgow Herald. *Farrell provides a welcome service by offering us the fascinating story of Stevenson's last great roll with the dice. -- Peter Carty * Spectator. *By adeptly detailing colonial politics in which Stevenson intervened, Farrell takes us well beyond the image of the romantic exile in Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa. -- Christine Bold * T.L.S. *A warm and intelligent account of the novelist's life and work in his last years in the South Seas. -- Allan Massie * Catholic Herald Books of the Year *
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Libris More Lives Than One: Biography of Hans Fallada
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Libris Memoir of Italo Svevo
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Greenwich Exchange Ltd Student Guide to Patrick Hamilton
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Dedalus Ltd Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy
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The Lilliput Press Ltd A Night in the Catacombs: Fictional Portraits of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Fictions: Nerval's Les Illumines
Book SynopsisNerval's "Les Illumines" (1852) has often been seen as a problem text, and as a strange supplement to his masterpieces "Les Chimeres", "Les Filles du feu", and "Aurelia". In this first book-length study, in English or French, of "Les Illumines", Meryl Tyers argues that it is a complex work of art in its own right and that its originality has been obscured by the tangled publishing history of its individual narratives. Tyers re-examines that history and provides a complete documentary basis for critical discussion of the work. She also traces the critical response from the earliest reviews through to the scholarly editions and studies of the present day. Tyers's own critical reading pays particular attention to 'La Bibliotheque de mon oncle', Nerval's intriguing preface. By investigating in detail those fragmentary structures and varying themes that may at first make the unity of "Les Illumines" seem elusive, she is able to show that subtle integrative mechanisms are at work in a volume that deserves to be placed among the highest achievements of this incomparable poet.Table of Contents1 Texts and Contexts 2 The Text and its Readers 3 Reading Nerval’s Library: Les Illumines and the Literature of Eccentricity 4 The Library Catches Fire: Reading Proliferation Appendices- Appendix 1: The Individual Recits Appendix 2: Source Materials for Les Illumines Appendix 3: Contemporary Reviews of Les Illumines Appendix 4: Jules de Premaray’s Review
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Edmond Jabes and the Hazard of Exile
Book SynopsisFor a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live (Theodor Adorno). The Jewish writer Edmond Jabes, born in Cairo in 1912, wrote explicitly from the perspective of exile once he arrived in France after the Suez crisis. However, Jaron argues, exile was a predominant theme even before Jabes left Egypt. He brings to light the author's associations with other francophone writers in Egypt, especially those affiliated with the Surrealists, but shows that metropolitan France exerted a greater pull. Drawing on unpublished archival and rare printed sources, Jaron examines how Jabes opposed anti-Semitism during the 1930s, and later placed the Shoah at the heart of his acclaimed "Livres des Questions" (1963-73).Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Judaism in the Margin; 2: A Still–Born Poet; 3: 'La Patrie de l'humain'; 4: Exile Confirmed; 5: On Not Belonging
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony
Book SynopsisBest known for his 1947 memoir L'Espece humaine, Robert Antelme (1917-1990) is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi concentration camps. In this first study in any language to be devoted to Antelme's work, Martin Crowley reveals the author's vital yet insufficiently recognized influence on recent thought in France and elsewhere about such questions as the nature of community and the indivisibility of humanity. He explores the conclusions Antelme drew from his deportation and his involvement with the post-war French left, and provides the first detailed textual criticism of L'Espece humaine. Examining the responses to the author's writing by such figures as Blanchot, Perec, Agamben, Nancy and Derrida, Crowley demonstrates Antelme's key contribution to the development of modern European thought.Table of Contents1: Humanity; 2: Community; 3: Testimony; Afterword: 'JA'
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bernardin De St Pierre, 1737-1814: A Life of
Book SynopsisThis book explores the importance of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's principal works, notably the novel Paul et Virginie. It provides an account of the writer's significance and status in a period of French history which saw the transition from monarchy to republic and empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Formative Years 2. Early Adventures 3. The Exotic Colony 4. Building for the Future 5. A Publishing Sensation 6. The Reception of the Études 7. Paul et Virginie 8. Bernardin and the Revolution 9. Towards the End 10. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards a New Material Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Genre
Book SynopsisSet in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet period. The book's central aim in offering such a synthesis is to negotiate the poles of postmodernist subjectivism and 'traditional' materialism around which much current literary and critical theory has stagnated, and, as the title suggests, to point the way towards a newly conceived material basis for textual and literary analysis.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Between the Lines in the Soviet 1920s 1 The Problem of Material 2 Bakhtin and Dostoevsky beyond Formalism 3 The Problem of Material and the Problem of Genre 4 Representation and the Two Lines of Genre Theory in Bakhtin 5 A Neo-Idealist Theory of Genre 6 Speech Genres and Literary Genres, Conclusion: The Fates of Literary Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teresa of Avila's Autobiography: Authority, Power
Book SynopsisThe Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82) was the author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies - "Vida". This text examines the impact of textual models on Teresa's self-construction.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1 The Background of Teresa’s Writing: Spirituality as a Subjective Form of Knowledge, 2 Experience versus Intellect: The ‘Will to Knowledge’ and the Practice of Recogimiento, 3 Redefining the Boundaries between Truth and Error (1525-1559), 4 Teresa’s Criticism of Confessors (1539-1554), 5 Practices of the Self: Mortification , Obedience and Genera Confession (1554 - 1559) 6 Subverting the Structure of Confession: Role Reversals (1560-1565), 7 Writing the Self (1562-1565), Conclusion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Alter Ego: The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris
Book SynopsisAlter Ego is the first monograph in English on the critical writings of Michel Leiris (1901-90). A groundbreaking autobiographer and pioneering ethnographer, Leiris also produced important criticism on art, opera, jazz and literature, which acts as a key commentary on twentieth-century intellectual movements and demonstrates vividly the constant refashioning and reformulation of contemporary ideas and aesthetics. Hand defines and situates Leiris's core themes, analyses his criticism in each of the art areas examined, and delineates the model that emerges of a contrapuntal and heterogeneous critical identity.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Perceiving Presence: Leiris and Visual Art; 2: Breaking the Sound Barrier: Leiris and Music; 3: Reading Rules: Leiris and Literature; Conclusion
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The Lilliput Press Ltd The Family Business
Book SynopsisAnother first in my life: at the age of thirty-one I brought a girlfriend home. Kathleen sat on the chaise longue, small legs crossed, one tiny toe resting on my mother’s lime-green pouffe, her petite nose wrinkling with distaste as she looked about our family den. Through her eyes I regarded the rusticated fireplace, the crenellation of photos above, the grey cloth donkey – creels full of real turf crumbs from the West – propped against the ormolu clock.’ The Family Business is many things: journal of a frustrated young writer and lover; portrait of bohemian social life in 1970s Dublin; intimate history of the rising Catholic middle class and of a family in flux. Kenny writes autobiography with the eye and ear of a novelist, evoking a time, a place and a welter of emotions through vividly remembered scenes, snippets of dialogue, small epiphanies. Unlike most memoirs, which place so much weight on the act of remembering itself, and are thus more about the writer’s present than his past, The Family Business has the immediacy of a diary, and an almost excruciating honesty. It is, above all, an extraordinarily accomplished piece of writing.
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Voices From A Journal
Book SynopsisThis is a writer’s journal of his friendships, encounters and observations during the 1950s and 60s, describing relationships with Cork author Frank O’Connor, Patrick Kavanagh, Charles Cape (onetime governor of Strangeways Prison) and the remarkable Margaret Radford, baglady and acquaintance of Shaw, Lawrence and Ford Madox Ford, with her vivid experiences of the Great War. Peopled by the colourful characters met in his profession, Naughton also gives an intimate portrait of a marriage and the onset of death as he survives a coronary thrombosis. Limpid, candid and tellingly written, it delineates the struggles and triumphs of a migrant Irish writer living in the English provinces, with sharp insights into human behaviour.
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Maney Publishing Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian
Book SynopsisSince the early 1980s, the novel has been deemed by many Italian women writers to be the most apt vehicle for creating positive images of the future of women. The novel becomes the space for confession, while at the same time allowing greater expressive freedom. There is no longer one voice for the "feminine role" and, by creating heroines who are also intellectuals, these authors offer their readers models of alternative versions of self. This study is a partial inventory of the new women's narrative and aims to provide a broad literary framework through which both the general reader and the student can appreciate the characteristics and innovations of contemporary Italian women's fiction. The writers chosen for this study (Ginerva Bompiani, Edith Bruck, Paola Capriolo, Francesca Duranti, Rosetta Loy, Giuliana Morandini, Marta Morazzoni, Anna Maria Ortese, Sandra Petrignanni, Fabrizia Ramondino, Elisabetta Rasy and Francesca Sanvitale) have achieved both critical acclaim and public recognition and their texts show the richness of voices, topics and structures in Italian women's writing today.Table of ContentsPreface, Introduction, From Mythic Revisionism to the Limits of Realism: Anna Maria Ortese and Paola Capriolo, Searching for Reality: Francesca Sanvitale, Time and Remembrance: Rosetta Loy, Personal Histories: Fabrizia Ramondino, Contradictory Cultures: Edith Bruck and Giuliana Morandini, The Split Self or Female Creativity: Francesca Duranti, Seductive Specularities: Marta Morazzoni and Sandra Petrignani, Theory and Fictional Praxis: Elisabetta Rasy and Ginevra Bompiani, Bibliography, Index
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Maney Publishing Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood
Book SynopsisAlthough never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a visual source for Calvino's fiction. This recurring theme provides both a link between some very different works and an insight into the autobiographical dimension of an author whose attitude to privacy is protective but detached. This work is an analysis of the criteria of representative (and of representational distortion) of a descriptive motif.Table of ContentsIntroduction; I: The Realist Landscape; II: The Landscape of the Fairy-Tale; III: Echo Effects; IV: The Inner Landscape
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Maney Publishing Image, Eye and Art in Calvino
Book SynopsisThis book addresses a central concern in the work of Italy's most important contemporary novelist, Italo Calvino. It investigates the relationship between the visual and the textual in Italo Calvino's oeuvre—a key aspect of the author's multidimensional writings.Table of ContentsLe Square Introduction Part I: Image 1. Calvino's Colours 2. Colours, Landscapes and the Senses in Difficult Loves 3. The Visual in Cosmicomics: Myth and Classical Rhetoric 4. Images and Scientific Knowledge in Calvino 5. Recreating Visibility in Literary Translation: How to Code Space in Italian and in Danish 6. The Significance of Visibility: Interpreting the Image in Calvino Part II: Eye 7. Innanzi Tutto, Aprire Leggermente, Ovvero... Contemplations About Language: Verbosities, Infelicities, Nonsensicalities, Oddities 8. Calvino at Play: Rules and Games for Writing in Space 9. The Dizzying Gaze: Calvino's Thesis, the First Novel, and Conrad as a Model of Visibility 10. From the Vantage Point of Hindsight': Viewing Calvino's Landscape 11. Leaning from the Steep Slope...': The Fall of the Cartographic Eye in Calvino's Late Works 12. Language and the Brain's 'Mental Cinema' Part III: Art 13. From Picasso to Dürer: Calvino's Book Covers 14. Italo Calvino and the Fantastic Iconology of Cartoons 15. The Photographic Image: Calvino 'in Dialogue' with Barthes, Sontag and Baudrillard 16. Ekphrasis: The Problem of Representing Visual Art in the Works of Italo Calvino and Per Højholt 17. Signs and Visuality in Italo Calvino's Narratives 18. Calvino and Klee: Variations of Line Part IV: Ekphrasis 19. The Painter of Absence 20. The Arrow in the Mind: A Review of 'The Mechanism of Meaning' 22. Calvino's Apartment in Rome: An Imagined Space
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Pomona J. D. Salinger: A Life Raised High
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Authorial Echoes: Textuality and Self-plagiarism
Book SynopsisLuigi Pirandello is best known for his experimental plays, but his narrative production has not enjoyed the same degree of critical attention. O'Rawe's study represents the first major reassessment of this output, including the 'realist' novels, the historical novel I vecchi e i giovani (1909) and the autobiographical Suo marito (1911). The book identifies in Pirandello a practice of 'self-plagiarism' - constant rewriting and revision and obsessive re-use of material - and explores the relation of these overlooked modes of composition to the author's own theories of authorship and textuality. Drawing on a wide range of critical theory, O'Rawe repositions Pirandello as a major figure in the development of European narrative modernism.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I 1 ‘Non parola ma la cosa stessa’: Pirandello, Metaphor and ‘L’umorismo’ 2 The Unrepeatable Repeated: Epiphany and Self-Plagiarism PART II 3 Metaphors of History: I vecchi e i giovani 4 Authors and Authenticity: Suo marito, 5 ‘Non conclude’?: Uno, nessuno e centomila and the Dangers of Overinterpretation, Conclusion
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Wild Goose Publications Against the Tide: The Story of the Adomnan of
Book SynopsisTells the story of the Adomnan of Iona, author of the early medieval classic "Life of Columba" and revered composer and promulgator of the seventh century 'Law of the Innocents' ensuring the protection of non-combatants in times of war.
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