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V&R unipress Aufbruch 1924
Book SynopsisZwei Verfechter der Moderne in Hannover
£30.59
V & R Unipress GmbH Die Nation als Familie
£60.00
Iudicium Verlag I Dont Know My Way Around Here Anymore
£31.20
Bruno Gmuender GmbH Guapa
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£15.29
Anagrama H. P. Lovecraft
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£15.94
Bloomsbury India Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and
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£80.75
Bloomsbury India Imagining a Postcolonial Nation: Hindi Novels and
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Bloomsbury India Ruskin Bond's Desh: Celebrating Root and Defining
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Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica Created in the West Indies: Caribbean
Book SynopsisCreated in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul updates and furthers the debates on the life and work of an internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate and native son of Trinidad and Tobago. The book draws together the proceedings of a series of outstanding public lectures and an academic symposium that featured a distinguished cadre of Caribbean scholars who, during 2007, participated in a year-long schedule of activities initiated by the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, to honour the life and work of this highly accomplished `enigma’ of Caribbean letters. The essays in this collection are organised into three sections that represent a compression of the multifaceted range of V.S. Naipaul’s creative concerns, thematic explorations, even obsessions, and philosophical persuasions. The singular power of these contributions is their ability to push at the borders of Naipaul scholarship, cutting new pathways for considering this most intriguing creative mind and offering fresh perspectives on the now familiar themes of postcolonial identity and nationalism, the fiction of history and history of fiction, home and belonging in a world characterised by flux, movement and cultural contact. Controversy has always companioned Naipaul’s career. Not surprisingly, some of the contributions are unrelentingly honest in their exposé of Naipaul for his trademark impatience with the very societies that created his unique sensibility and his propensity for self-contradiction.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA France/Kafka: An Author in Theory
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Oxford University Press The Tale of alBarraq Son of Rawhan and Layla the Chaste
Book SynopsisThis book presents a bilingual edition and study of an anonymous work of early Arabic fiction set in pre-Islamic times: an Arab maiden called ''Layla the Chaste'' is kidnapped and threatened with forced marriage to a Persian king. Ultimately, she is saved by her handsome and beloved cousin al-Barraq, and they marry and live happily ever after. This knight-in-shining-armour-rescues-damsel-in-distress narrative, which combines elements of the Arabic popular epic (sira) with others from the Udhri; love story and the western fairy tale, was misinterpreted as history by scholars in the 19th century. In the two substantive chapters that frame her translation of the tale, Hammond discusses the text''s evolution in the Arab Renaissance and its metamorphoses in 20th-century popular culture. She also analyses the structure of the tale to look for clues as to its real origins, shedding new light on theories of the development of the Arabic novel.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations A Note on Transliteration and Terminology A Note on the Manuscripts and Published Editions A Note on the (Incorrect) Attribution of the Tale to ?Umar b. Shabba Key Dates 1: From Fiction to History and Back: The Tale, its Versions and its Afterlives 2: The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste, in English translation 3: The Narrative, Its Components and its 'Novelisation' Bibliography Appendix: The Arabic Text
£66.50
The University of Chicago Press Iris Murdoch the Search for Human Goodness
Book SynopsisComprehensively engaging with Murdoch's work this volume gathers contributions from philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the significance of her ideas for contemporary thought.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Maria Antonaccio, William Schweiker. 1: Iris Murdoch and Moral Philosophy Charles Taylor 2: Love and Vision: Iris Murdoch on Eros and the Individual Martha C. Nussbaum 3: Iris Murdoch and the Many Faces of Platonism David Tracy 4: "We Are Perpetually Moralists": Iris Murdoch, Fact, and Value Cora Diamond 5: Form and Contingency in Iris Murdoch's Ethics Maria Antonaccio 6: The Green Knight and Other Vagaries of the Spirit; or, Tricks and Images for the Human Soul; or, The Uses of Imaginative Literature Elizabeth Dipple 7: On the Loss of Theism Franklin I. Gamwell 8: Murdochian Muddles: Can We Get Through Them If God Does Not Exist? Stanley Hauerwas 9: The Sovereignty of God's Goodness William Schweiker Appendix: Metaphysics and Ethics Iris Murdoch Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness
Book SynopsisComprehensively engaging with Murdoch's work this volume gathers contributions from philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the significance of her ideas for contemporary thought.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Forbidden Journeys Fairy Tales and Fantasies by
Book SynopsisA collection of eleven fairy tales by Victorian women.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Refashioning Fairy Tales The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray Ritchie Beauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray Ritchie The Brown Bull of Norrowa, Maria Louisa Molesworth Amelia and the Dwarfs, Juliana Horathia Ewing Part Two: Subversions Nick, Christina Rossetti Christmas Crackers, Julian Horathia Ewing Behind the White Brick, Frances Hodgson Burnett Melisande, or, Long and Short Division, E. Nesbit Fortunatus Rex & Co., E. Nesbit Part Three: A Fantasy Novel Mopsa the Fairy, Jean Ingelow Part Four: A Trio of Antifantasies Speaking Likenesses, Christina Rossetti Biographical Sketches Further Readings
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The University of Chicago Press Madame Proust A Biography
Book SynopsisAims to acquaint Proust fans with Jeanne Weil Proust. This book captures the life and times of Proust's mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer's son to her lifelong worries about her son's sexuality, health problems, and talent. It explores the culture of fin de siecle France.Trade Review"Evelyne Bloch-Dano's Madame Proust provides a wealth of new details about Marcel Proust's formative years and illustrates, as never before, the importance of his Jewish heritage. It does so by concentrating on the most important love relationship in Proust's life: the great affection he had for his mother. Carefully researched, richly documented, and skillfully translated by Alice Kaplan, Bloch-Dano's book deserves to be read by all who are interested in the life and works of Marcel Proust." - William C. Carter, author of Marcel Proust: A Life"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Sade A Biographical Essay
Book SynopsisThe writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Sade himself is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Things A Critical Inquiry Book
Book SynopsisThis book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; and what has been described as bourgcois longing.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Adventure Mystery and Romance Formula Stories as
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The University of Chicago Press Elsie Clews Parsons Inventing Modern Life 1997
Book SynopsisElsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, eminent anthropologist and ardent social critic who challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family and social arrangements. This biography examines the connections linking Parsons' intellectual commitments to her life experience.
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The University of Chicago Press Signs and Cities Black Literary Postmodernism
Book SynopsisDubey argues that for African American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Kafkas Law The Trial and American Criminal
Book SynopsisShows how The Trial provides an uncanny lens through which to consider flaws in the American criminal justice system today. The author begins with the story, at once funny and grim, of Josef K, caught in the Law's grip and then crushed by it.Trade Review"Burns's distinctive voice-combining that of an experienced practitioner, a legal scholar, and a philosopher-is immensely engaging, deeply serious, and consequential. He has a remarkable, almost kaleidoscopic ability to bring together, while respecting the differences, the very particular nightmare of Kafka's work, the ideas of the great philosophers, and the daily injustices of American law today, all while insisting that we know, and should do, better." (Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University Bloomington)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Sappho Is Burning
Book SynopsisThis study offers a different reading of the archaic lesbian poet, Sappho, whose poetry dates from the seventh century BC. Her presentation of many certitudes in the history of poetry, philosophy and sexuality are featured here.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Preserving the Spell
Book SynopsisCarrying his story into the twentieth century, the author mounts an argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating your belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.Trade Review"A wonderfully original work. Maggi's analysis is erudite but adventurous, and he is an exacting, inquisitive, and often brilliant reader. He combines and links the macroscopic-the consideration of major questions in literary and cultural history-and the microscopic-extended close readings-in exemplary fashion. This is a book about fairy tales, but it is also an extended reflection on the fundamental human activity of narration itself-why and how we tell tales and how these tales transform over time." (Nancy L. Canepa, Dartmouth College)
£45.60
The University of Chicago Press After Empire Scott Naipaul Rushdie
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity.
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The University of Chicago Press Cicero on the Emotions Tusculan Disputations 3
Book SynopsisThe third and fourth books of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations" deal with the nature and management of emotion. He presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicurians and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position.
£28.00
University of Chicago Press Billy Budd Sailor
Book SynopsisThis is an accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated and packaged with history of the text and perspectives for its criticism.
£16.72
The University of Chicago Press Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Ritter Gluck The Golden Pot The Sandman Councillor Krespel The Mines of Falun Mademoiselle de Scudéri The Doubles
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Object Lessons The Novel as a Theory of
Book SynopsisObject Lessons explores a fundamental question about literary realism: How can language evoke that which is not language and render objects as real entities? Drawing on theories of reference in the philosophy of language, Jami Bartlett examines novels by George Meredith, William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Iris Murdoch that provide allegories of language use in their descriptions, characters, and plots. Bartlett shows how these authors depict the philosophical complexities of reference by writing through and about referring terms, the names and descriptions that allow us to see objects. At the same time, she explores what it is for words to have meaning and delves into the conditions under which a reference can be understood. Ultimately, Object Lessons reveals not only how novels make references, but also how they are about referring.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press The Writer as Migrant The Rice University
Book SynopsisContaining three interconnected essays, this book sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and between eras.Trade Review"Ha Jin is uniquely placed to address the responsibilities and challenges of the displaced writer. Offering both historical context and a strong personal vision of the migrant writer in America today, these essays are thought-provoking, often inspiring, and, above all, unfailingly interesting." - Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children"
£14.87
The University of Chicago Press The Collaborator The Trial and Execution of
Book SynopsisRobert Brasillach was executed in 1945 for what he wrote during the Nazi occupation of France. The author raises the question of whether he was condemned for his writing, or singled out as a homosexual; and why he was shot, when those responsible for the murder of thousands were set free.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Social Construction of American Realism
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The University of Chicago Press Demons of the Night Tales of the Fantastic
Book SynopsisA compilation of 19th-century French haunting tales. Featuring such authors as Balzac, Merimee, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers some of the more memorable stories in the genre.
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The University of Chicago Press The Economy of Character Novels Market Culture
Book SynopsisAt the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations.
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The University of Chicago Press The Norman Maclean Reader
Book SynopsisIn his 88 years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, which won him enduring fame and critical acclaim. This reader offers an introduction Norman Maclean and provides insight into his life and career.Trade Review"It is an enchanted tale.... I have read the story three times now, and each time it seems fuller." - Roger Sale, New York Review of Books "Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling.... As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway." - Alfred Kazin, Chicago Tribune Book World "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made." - Annie Proulx "His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic." - New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, Best Books of 1992 "Maclean is always with the brave young dead.... They could not have found a storyteller with a better claim to represent their honor.... A great book." - James R. Kincaid, New York Times Book Review"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Norman Maclean Reader
Book SynopsisIn his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim. This reader serves as an introduction for readers new to Maclean, while offering fans fresh insight into his life and career.Trade Review"Smartly edited... the book brings together manuscripts and letters found among Maclean's papers after his death in 1990, as well as hard-to-find essays, lectures, and interviews. Maclean did not draw a distinction between his life and his fiction, and the material in the Reader, much of it available for the first time, burnishes his achievement." (Wall Street Journal) "A solid, satisfying, well-made body of work by a patient craftsman." (Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune)"
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The University of Chicago Press Queer Forster Worlds of Desire The Chicago Series
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a revision of gay criticism and focuses on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies.
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The University of Chicago Press Joyces Ghosts
Book SynopsisFor decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure. In Joyce's Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument that this view is mistaken: Joyce's Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, informing his most distinctive literary experiments. Ireland, Gibbons shows, is not just a source of subject matter or content for Joyce, but of form itself. Joyce's stylistic innovations can be traced at least as much to the tragedies of Irish history as to the shock of European modernity, as he explores the incomplete project of inner life under colonialism. Joyce's language, Gibbons reveals, is haunted by ghosts, less concerned with the stream of consciousness than with a vernacular interior dialogue, the shout in the street, that gives room to outside voices and shadowy presences, the disruptions of a late colonial cult
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The University of Chicago Press History Historians and Autobiography
Book SynopsisHistorians' autobiographies, Popkin shows, reveal how scholars arrive at their vocations, the difficulties of writing about modern professional life, and the ways in which personal stories can add to our understanding of historical events such as war, political movements, and the traumas of the Holocaust.Trade Review"This is a wonderful study of autobiographies by historians. It is the first such book-length study, and it is composed with great analytic acuity and psychological insight. One of its many strengths is its sophisticated discussion of the recent theoretical literature on autobiography. Jeremy Popkin's method throughout is comparative, and his comparisons are ingenious." - Paul Robinson, Stanford University"
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press A Probable State The Novel the Contract and the
Book SynopsisThis work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters.
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The University of Chicago Press The Science of Character Human Objecthood and
Book SynopsisThe Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, the science of the formation of character. Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer maintains that it found its true home in realist fiction of the period, which employed the literary figure of character to investigate the nature of embodied experience. Bringing to life Mill's unrealized dream of a science of character, novelists such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner turned to narrative to explore how traits and behaviors in organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic featuresshapes, colors, and gesturescome to take on cultural meaning through certain categories, such as race and sex. Engaged with materialist science and philosophy, these authors transformed character from the liberal notion of the inner truth of an individual into a materially determined figuration produced through shifts in the boundaries between the body's inside and outside. In their hands, Brilmyer argues, literature became a science, not in the sense that its claims were falsifiable or even systematically articulated, but in its commitment to uncovering, through a fictional staging of realistic events, the laws governing physical and affective life. The Science of Character redraws late Victorian literary history to show how women and feminist novelists pushed realism to its aesthetic and philosophical limits in the crucial span between 1870 and 1920.Trade Review"With an acute ear for the references that give metaphors their edge, as in Eliot's unforgettable image of a squirrel’s heartbeat as a figure for that which we cannot bear to know, Brilmyer brings the soaringly evocative back to earth, giving us a new science of literary analysis." * Critical Inquiry *“Brilmyer’s book shows how the realist imperative to adequately describe the relation between characters and their circumstances unwound Victorian Realism from within, as new scientific theories of matter, force, and cellular life led high Victorian realists— such as George Eliot and Thomas Hardy—and a subsequent generation of New Woman novelists to press the form to its limits and beyond. A major new study of literary character, The Science of Character is important not least for the way it revises the literary history of Victorian Realism and its ends.” * Studies in the Novel *“Brilmyer’s work marks a new epoch in the study of realism. Developing out of deep historical research and an engagement of the thinking of philosophers, theorists, and scholars of character, Brilmyer reverses dominant understandings of the way late nineteenth-century fiction developed to trace the emergence of an impersonal dynamic materialism that from George Eliot forward reimagined the nature of character itself. This is an extraordinarily original and important contribution, both to the history of realism and the novel and to new theorizing about matter.” * George Levine, Rutgers University *“The Science of Character brilliantly and boldly renews discussions of the late Victorian history of the novel. Brilmyer shows us how figures such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner revised the definition of a realistic character along new, materialist lines. That revision demonstrated literature’s ability to produce insights into the workings of both nature and culture.” * Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard University *“Character: a slippery term that can denote either a human-like entity in a literary text or the specific assemblage of traits that makes one person different from others. In this beautifully argued book, S. Pearl Brilmyer refuses to choose between these two possibilities. Instead, she shows how novelists at the end of the nineteenth century enlisted the former in the service of discovering the workings of the latter—how, that is, George Eliot, Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, George Gissing, and Thomas Hardy transformed their aesthetic practice into a science of character. Turning the study of literature and science on its head by demonstrating the degree to which the production of literature was a scientific endeavor for these writers, she also formulates a unified field theory of the late-nineteenth-century novel that recognizes the centrality of women writers and finds in New Woman fiction the key to that novel’s theorization of character and circumstance as inseparable. Bracingly rigorous, intellectually thrilling, exhaustively researched, with far-reaching consequences for our understanding of the novel: The Science of Character is a remarkable achievement.” * Cannon Schmitt, University of Toronto *“The Science of Character is learned and continuously intelligent, a model of philosophically informed criticism. Brilmyer makes a theoretical advance in the conceptualization of character, realism, and the novel itself. This book provides a rigorous proof of concept for feminist New Materialism, and deepens our understanding of several canonical writers. The Science of Character redraws late-century Victorian literary history.” * Andrew Miller, Johns Hopkins University *
£91.00
John Wiley & Sons Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery
Book SynopsisTrade Review“By presenting Montgomery’s fiction as conversing with past and present creative writers, contributors provide a helpful focal point within the broad framework of the collection, extending prior conceptual understandings of the cultural role of reading.” Irene Gammel, author of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic“This collection [is] valuable and [a rarity] in academic literary studies. It is a book both for scholars and for the “Maud Squad.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery
Book SynopsisTrade Review“By presenting Montgomery’s fiction as conversing with past and present creative writers, contributors provide a helpful focal point within the broad framework of the collection, extending prior conceptual understandings of the cultural role of reading.” Irene Gammel, author of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic“This collection [is] valuable and [a rarity] in academic literary studies. It is a book both for scholars and for the “Maud Squad.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press France in the World The Career of Andr233
Book SynopsisAndré Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.Trade Review“It is too easy to view Siegfried as ‘a man of his time.’ Instead, Kennedy aligns Siegfried's eclectic and wide-ranging theories with a racial and ethnic essentialism that is linked as much to eugenics and racial science as it is to the soft prejudices of his class and era. Revealing this thread throughout the academic’s entire life work, France in the World makes a devastating, convincing, and important argument that transcends the case of Siegfried and can be widely applied to a whole generation of interwar/postwar intellectuals.” Seth Armus, St Joseph's College and author of French Anti-Americanism 1930¬–1948: Critical Moments in a Complex History"Kennedy’s intellectual biography of the French political scientist André Siegfried offers a multifaceted and insightful, if ultimately negative, appraisal of the legacy of this influential thinker. Recommended. Graduate students, and faculty.” Choice“André Siegfried (1875-1959) was that political oxymoron, a liberal-conservative. The label might appear to defy definition, but Sean Kennedy’s well-researched and judicious intellectual biography of the man gives flesh and meaning to the term.” H-France
£67.15
John Wiley & Sons Do You Want to Be Happy and Write
Book SynopsisThis new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the author’s oeuvre from 1967 to the present. In twenty essays, contributors explore Ondaatje’s poetry, novels, and work in film, highlighting the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues apparent in his writings.Trade Review“Chock full of complex theoretical language, Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? will likely appeal to academic audiences (and determined CanLit enthusiasts). But general readers may find this insightful analysis a welcome supplement to their continued enjoyment of Ondaatje’s enduring works.” Literary Review of Canada
£98.60
Columbia University Press Christopher Isherwood Myth AntiMyth Myth and
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Columbia University Press Tender Geographies Women the Origins of the
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Columbia University Press Scenes of Seduction
Book SynopsisThis study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France.
£95.00
