Literary studies: fiction Books
University of California Press ReReading Sappho
Book SynopsisThis volume reflects on the late-1990s fascination with Sappho's afterlife. The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD Thomas Habinek INTRODUCTION Ellen Greene 1. Reflecting Sappho Glenn W. Most 2. Sappho's Afterlife in Translation Yopie Prins 3· Sappho's Splintered Tongue:Silence in Sappho 31 and Catullus Dolores O'Higgins 4· Ventriloquizing Sappho, or the Lesbian Muse Elizabeth D. Harvey 5· Sappho in Early Modern England:A Study in Sexual Reputation Harriette Andreadis 6. Sex and Philology:Sappho and the Rise of German Nationalism Joan DeJean 7· Sappho Schoolmistress Holt N Parker 8. H.D. and Sappho: "A Precious Inch of Palimpsest" Erika Rohrbach 9. Sapphistries Susan Gubar BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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University of California Press The Hidden Author An Interpretation of
Book Synopsis"The Satyricon of Petronius", a comic novel written in the first century AD, is famous primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." In this discussion of Petronius' masterful use of parody, the author offers an interpretation of the "Satyricon" as a whole.
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University of California Press Raymond Chandler Speaking
Book SynopsisA selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story A Couple of Writers and the first chapters of Raymond Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Foreword Chronology 1. CHANDLER ON CHANDLER 2. CHANDLER ON THE MYSTERY NOVEL 3. CHANDLER ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING 4. A Couple of Writers 5. CHANDLER ON THE FILM WORLD AND TELEVISION 6. CHANDLER ON PUBLISHING 7. CHANDLER ON CATS 8. CHANDLER ON FAMOUS CRIMES 9. CHANDLER ON HIS NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND PHILIP MARLOWE 10. The Poodle Springs Story Bibliography prepared by Paul Skenazy Index
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University of California Press Licensing Entertainment
Book SynopsisNovels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. This title shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early instances of the modern anxiety.
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University of California Press Anarchism Is Not Enough
Book SynopsisA manifesto against systematic thinking, this text on literary theory, first published 70 years ago in 1928, is a difficult book by a famously difficult writer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Text Creating Criticism: An Introduction to Anarchism Is Not Enough Laura Riding: A Chronology THE MYTH LANGUAGE AND LAZINESS THIS PHILOSOPHY WHAT IS A POEM? A COMPLICATED PROBLEM ALL LITERATURE MR. DOODLE-DOODLE-DOO AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION THE CORPUS POETRY AND MUSIC POETRY AND PAINTING POETRY AND DREAMS JOCASTA HOW CAME IT ABOUT? HUNGRY TO HEAR IN A CAFE FRAGMENT OF AN UNFINISHED NOVEL WILLIAM AND DAISY: FRAGMENT OF A FINISHED NOVEL AN ANONYMOUS BOOK THE DAMNED THING LETTER OF ABDICATION Notes on the Text Appendix I. Three Commentaries on Anarchism Is Not Enough Appendix II. Author to Critic: Laura (Riding) Jackson on 'Jlnarchism Is Not Enough" Selected Bibliography of Works by Laura Riding Selected Critical Bibliography
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University of California Press Mark Twains Letters Volume 6
Book SynopsisMark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. This is sixth volume contains 348 of his letters covering this period, all of which have been thoroughly annotated and indexed.Trade Review"Few things, as Pudd'nhead observed, are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example, and this building collection of the letters is horribly, excruciatingly good. It sets standards of diligence that will cause future editors of writers' letters to weep."-Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement "One of the most important collections of letters by an American author... admirably organized and set forth as to become a source of wonder to general readers and delight to advanced students of literary history"-Genevieve Stuttaford, Publishers Weekly "One of the great scholarly enterprises of the century. Since the 1970s the... members of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California have been turning out magnificent editions of the writer's letters, notebooks, travel narratives and fiction. If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have."-Michael Shelden, London Telegraph
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University of California Press William Dean Howells
Book SynopsisPossibly one of the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition. This biography traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly.Table of ContentsPreface Chronology of Howells' Life and Work 1. Parallel Lives 2. Warring Ambitions, 1851--1859 3. Years of Decision, 1859--1861 4. Consul at Venice, 1861--1865 5. Atlantic Years, 1: 1865--1867 6. Atlantic Years, 2: 1867--1871 7. His Mark Twain, from 1869 8. Fictional Lives, 1871--1878 9. "From Venice as Far as Belmont," 1878--1882 10. In England and Italy, 1882--1883 11. The Man of Business, 1883--1886 12. "Heartache and Horror," 1886--1890 13. Words and Deeds, 1890--1894 14. Peripatetic, 1895--1899 15. Kittery Point, 1900--1905 16. Greater Losses, 1906--1910 17. Reconsiderations, 1911--1917 18. Eighty Years and After, 1918--1920 Notes Index
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University of California Press Dangerous Intimacy
Book SynopsisRecovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm.Trade Review"A brilliant literary detective, Lystra is also particularly good at presenting the prejudicial myths." - Anthony Glavin, Irish Times "Explores a chapter in the life of America's greatest storyteller, one he deeply regretted to the day he died. It is a chapter full of Victorian melodrama. At times, it reads like a steamy romance novel; at other times, like a textbook on power by Machiavelli." - Hartford Courant "Lystra's narrative moves quickly, and offers an illuminating portrait of an aging Twain. The research is thorough, the personalities colorful." - The Jerusalem Post "This gripping examination of Twain's later life recounts a family drama so fantastic it reads like the subplot of a daytime soap.... For all its intrigue and melodrama, this is a remarkably powerful and moving study." - Library Journal"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface A Note on Names 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's Women 2. Heartbreak 3. Rearranging the Household 4. Looking for Love 5. A Pact with the Devil 6. Life in the Sanitarium 7. Someone to Love Him and Pet Him 8. A Viper to Her Bosom 9. Innocence at Home 10. Stormfield 11. An American Lear 12. Illusions of Love 13. Unraveling 14. The Exile Returns 15. Confrontation 16. A Formidable Adversary 17. False Exoneration 18. The Funniest Joke in the World 19. Melting Marble with Ice 20. The End of My Autobiography Epilogue: How Little One May Tell Notes Index
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University of California Press Melvilles Bibles
Book SynopsisTraces Herman Melville's response to an array of nineteenth-century writings that includes literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. This book shows how Melville raised with verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.Trade Review“A fascinating account.” * Review of Biblical Literature *“A well-researched, attractively written examination of the larger biblical context of Melville’s masterpiece, and it provides a capable overview of a variety of nineteenth-century exegetical and hermeneutical traditions on the five Old Testament figures it scrutinizes.” * Christianity and Literature *“Well argued and well written, this is a book for all students of Melville.” * CHOICE *“Each of the book’s five chapters is deftly written and certainly demonstrates Pardes’ proficiency in the fields of literary criticism and biblical exegesis.” * Missiology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Playing with Leviathan: Job and the Aesthetic Turn in Biblical Exegesis 2. "Jonah Historically Regarded": Improvisations on Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature 3. "Call Me Ishmael": The Bible and the Orient 4. Ahab, Idolatry, and the Question of Possession: Biblical Politics 5. Rachel's Inconsolable Cry: The Rise of Women's Bibles Epilogue Notes Index
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University of California Press Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 125th Anniversary
Book Synopsis"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".Trade Review"Handsome, readable, and full of surprises . . . . the American classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are simply superb." * Los Angeles Times *"The Mark Twain Project and the University of California Press are reuniting Samuel Clemens's texts with the essential illustrations he commissioned for them, and the results are splendid: may the Twain never again be sundered!" * Vanity Fair *Table of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD MARK TWAIN ON TOUR ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Notice Explanatory 1. Civilizing Huck.-Miss Watson.-Tom Sawyer Waits 2. The Boys Escape Jim.- Tom Sawyer's Gang.-Deep-laid Plans 3. A Good Going-over.-Grace Triumphant.-"One of Tom Sawyer's Lies" 4. Huck and the Judge.-Superstition 5. Huck's Father.-The Fond Parent.-Reform 6. He Went for Judge Thatcher.-Huck Decides to Leave.-Political Economy.-Thrashing Around 7. Laying for Him.-Locked in the Cabin.-Sinking the Body.-Resting 8. Sleeping in the Woods.-Raising the Dead.-Exploring the Island.-Finding J im.-J im's Escape.-Signs.-"Balum" 9. The Cave.-The Floating House 10. The Find.-Old Hank Bunker.-In Disguise 11. Huck and the Woman.-The Search.-Prevarication.-Going to Goshen 12. Slow Navigation.-Borrowing Things.-Boarding the Wreck.- The Plotters.-Hunting for the Boat 13. Escaping from the Wreck.-The Watchman.-Sinking 14. A General Good Time.- The Harem.-French 15. Huck Loses the Raft.-ln the Fog.-Huck Finds the Raft.-Trash 16. "Give Us a Rest."-The Corpse-Maker Crows.-"The Child of Calamity."-They Both Weaken.-Little Davy Steps ln.-After the Battle.-Ed's Adventures.-Something Queer.-A Haunted BarreL-It Brings a Storm.- The Barrel Pursues.-Killed by Lightning.-Allbright Atones.-Ed Gets Mad.-Snake or Boy ?-"Snake Him Out."-Some Lively Lying.-Off and Overboard.-Expectations.-A White Lie.-Floating Currency.-Running by Cairo.-Swimming Ashore 17. An Evening Call.-The Farm in Arkansaw.-lnterior Decorations.-Stephen Dowling Bots.-Poetical Effusions 18. Col. Grangerford.-Aristocracy.-Feuds.-The Testament.- Recovering the Raft.-The Wood-pile.-Pork and Cabbage 19. Tying Up Daytimes.-An Astronomical Theory.-Running a Temperance Revival.-The Duke of Bridgewater.-The Troubles of Royalty 20. Huck Explains.-Laying Out a Campaign.-Working the Camp-meeting.-A Pirate at the Camp-meeting.-The Duke as a Printer 21. Sword Exercise.-Hamlet's Soliloquy.-They Loafed Around Town.-A Lazy Town.-Old Boggs.-Dead 22. Sherbum.-Attending the Circus.-lntoxication in the Ring.-The Thrilling Tragedy 23. "Sold! "-Royal Comparisons.-)im Gets Homesick 24. Jim in Royal Robes.-They Take a Passenger.-Getting lnformation.-Family Grief 25. "Is It Them?"-Singing the "Doxolojer."-Awful Square.-Funeral Orgies.-A Bad Investment 26. A Pious King.-The King's Clergy.-She Asked His Pardon.- Hiding in the Room.-Huck Takes the Money 27. The FuneraL-Satisfying Curiosity.-Suspicious of Huck.-Quick Sales and Small Profits 28. The Trip to England.-"The Brute!"-Mary Jane Decides to Leave.-Huck Parting with Mary Jane.-Mumps.-The Opposition Line 29. Contested Relationship.-The King Explains the Loss.A Question of Handwriting.-Digging up the Corpse.-Huck Escapes 30. The King Went for Him.-A Royal Row.-Powerful Mellow 31. Ominous Plans.-News of J im.-Old Recollections.-A Sheep Story.-Valuable Information 32. Still and Sunday-like.-Mistaken ldentity.-Up a Stump.-ln a Dilemma 33. A Nigger Stealer.-Southem Hospitality.-A Pretty Long Blessing.-Tar and Feathers 34. The Hut by the Ash-hopper.-Outrageous.-Climbing the Lightning Rod.-Troubled with Witches 35. Escaping Properly.-Dark Schemes.-Discrimination in Stealing.-A Deep Hole 36. The Lightning Rod.-His Level Best.-A Bequest to Posterity.- A High Figure 37. The Lost Shirt.-Mooning Around.-Sailing Orders.- The Witch Pie 38. The Coat of Arms.-A Skilled Superintendent.-Unpleasant Glory.-A Tearful Subject 39. Rats.-Lively Bed-fellows.-The Straw Dummy 40. Fishing.-The Vigilance Committee.-A Lively Run.-Jim Advises a Doctor 41. The Doctor.-Uncle Silas.-Sister Hotchkiss.-Aunt Sally in Trouble 42. Tom Sawyer Wounded.-The Doctor's Story.-Tom Confesses.-Aunt Polly Arrives.-"Hand Out Them Letters" Chapter the Last: Out of Bondage.-Paying the Captive.- Yours Truly Huck Finn MAPS EXPLANATORY NOTES GLOSSARY THREE PASSAGES FROM THE MANUSCRIPT MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES REFERENCES NOTE ON THE TEXT
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisRanging in original publication dates between 1940 and 1985, this title features forty-one titles that reveal a great deal about Duncan's life in poetry - including his impressions of poets whose work he admires, both contemporaries and precursors.Trade Review"Includes some of Duncan's greatest essays ... a great help to all readers." CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: 1940s 1. An Embryo for God: Tropic of Capricorn 2. The Homosexual in Society 3. What to Do Now 4. Reviewing View, an Attack 5. Poetics of Music: Stravinsky 6. The Poet and Poetry--A Symposium Part II: 1950s 7. Pages from a Notebook 8. From a Notebook 9. Notes on Poetics regarding Olson's Maximus Part III: 1960s 10. Properties and Our REAL Estate 11. Ideas of the Meaning of Form 12. After For Love 13. Preface: Helen Adam, Ballads 14. Poetry before Language 15. The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound 16. The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante's Divine Comedy 17. Introduction: William Everson, Single Source 18. Towards an Open Universe 19. The Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in Essential Autobiography 20. A Critical Difference of View 21. Man's Fulfillment in Order and Strife 22. Jack Spicer, Poet: 1925--1965 Part IV: 1970s 23. Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman 24. Notes on Grossinger's Solar Journal: Oecological Sections 25. Iconographical Extensions 26. Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art 27. From Notes on the Structure of Rime 28. Preface to a Reading of Passages 1--22 29. Kopoltus 30. Introduction: Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery 31. An Art of Wondering 32. A Reading of Thirty Things 33. As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years 34. Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit 35. In Introduction: John Taggart, Dodeka Part V: 1980s 36. Preface: Jack Spicer, One Night Stand & Other Poems 37. The Adventure of Whitman's Line 38. The Self in Postmodern Poetry 39. Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard's Museum 40. Afterword: Beverly Dahlen, The Egyptian Poems 41. The Delirium of Meaning Appendix: List of Uncollected Essays and Other Prose Notes Works Cited in the Essays Acknowledgments of Permissions Index
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University of California Press Imagining the Future of Climate Change
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incredibly well-researched and notably conversant with the intricacies of both key sf writing and activism from the inception of environmentalism movements and their related speculative contemplations to those in the present day, Streeby’s Imagining the Future of Climate Change is an indispensable text in working to turn the dystopian now toward more positive and inclusive means of fostering world community-building as we labor together to engage with the climate future we have wrought." * Science Fiction Studies *"A unique and necessary book that bridges the too often too distant spheres of environmental activism and SF scholarship." * Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Imagining the Future of Climate Change 1. #NoDAPL Native American and Indigenous Science, Fiction, and Futurisms 2. Climate Refugees in the Greenhouse World Archiving Global Warming with Octavia E. Butler 3. Climate Change as a World Problem Shaping Change in the Wake of Disaster Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Mean Girl
Book SynopsisAstute.New York Times Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump.Mean Girlfollows Rand's trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand's philosophy of selfishness,Mean Girlilluminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.Trade Review“Lisa Duggan gets it exactly right . . . when she writes that Rand's ‘particular gift was not for philosophical elaboration, but for stark condensation and aphorism. She deployed this gift to create a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.’" * Times Higher Education *"[Duggan] is sharp, engaging, and funny when writing about Rand, whose magnetism, determination, grandiosity, desperation, and galloping narcissism Duggan captures beautifully." * New York Review of Books *"The therapeutic value of Duggan’s book goes well beyond freeing me from shame for my teen-age lack of literary taste and political discernment; it also provides an explanation for our current cultural and political moment. . . . Duggan’s book sums up Rand’s life and philosophy in under ninety pages." -- Masha Gessen * The New Yorker *“‘A history of the influence of Ayn Rand and her particular brand of narcissistic amorality, and an argument that her novels function now as ‘conversion machines for our contemporary culture of greed.’ Exhibit A: Paul Ryan.” * LitHub *"Duggan’s skills as a cultural historian and her sharp-witted socio-political commentary fuse seamlessly together in this short yet fascinating book that is a necessary read for students of culture and politics, but also activists and organisers who feel the deep disillusionment of what seems like a never-ending neoliberal era." * LSE Review of Books *“Lisa Duggan gets it exactly right in Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed when she writes that Rand's ‘particular gift was not for philosophical elaboration, but for stark condensation and aphorism. She deployed this gift to create a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.’" * Inside Higher Education *“Duggan goes beyond the more standard biographical accounts of Rand and gets to the bottom of her novels and how they set a disturbing tone for global capitalism. Further, Duggan explains the mischaracterizations of Rand in modern memory, and provides expert analysis of current affairs in helping readers to contextualize the actual historical Rand and her likely political endorsements as well as her most reactionary views.” * Truthout *“Cultural historian Lisa Duggan has written a small, perfect book which accomplishes so much in only a few pages, with irony and wit, humor and insight. . . . The book is fun, funny and in only 116 pages explains so much about not only its subject but of our neoliberal or reactionary culture of greed and its obstinate commitment to economic fantasy.” * KPFK/Bibliocracy *“Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don’t have to read Rand’s work yourself.” * The Dig *"The power of Duggan’s book seems that maybe in unmasking Rand’s philosophical legitimacy and hold on the right removes a central prop and leaves the right ever more naked.” * The Baffler *Table of ContentsOverview Preface Introduction. “What Is Good for Me Is Right” 1. “Proud Woman Conqueror” 2. “Individualists of the World Unite!” 3. “Would You Cut the Bible?” 4. “I Found a Flaw”Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Comic Books Incorporated How the Business of
Book SynopsisComic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium's origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the waymarket crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.Trade Review"The field needs studies like this, and it needs academics like Kidman who take on the sometimes unglamorous task of exposing the frames – the structures and infrastructures – within which, and between which, the colourful figures of comics and screen so fluidly move." * Times Higher Education *"Comic Books Incorporated chronicles the rise of the comic book business by documenting its emergence as a cultural product. Highlighting the transmedia infrastructures that made comic books possible, Kidman discusses comic books and their history as a medium, how comic books connect to politics and society, and the rise of comic book fan culture . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Kidman’s methodology provides a fresh and exciting contribution to our understanding of the relationship between comics and Hollywood in the twenty-first century." * Media Industries Journal *
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University of California Press The Limits of Realism
Book SynopsisChinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised others of Chinese society. As historical pressures forced new ideological commitments in the late twenties and thirties, however, writers grew suspicious both of the individualism implicit in the realist model and of the often superficial nature of the sympathies that their fiction evoked in the middle class. Anderson argues that realism must be defined negatively as a discourse of limitations and is of minimal utility in the Chinese search for political and cultural empowerment. He shows how hesitations about the realist model affect the fiction of four representative authors, Lu Xun, Ye Shaojun, Mao Dun, and Zhang Tianyi. He also considers the demise of critical realism in the face of a new collectivist understanding of Chinese reality.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
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University of California Press Against Demagogues
Book SynopsisTimeless comedies on resisting tyranny from one of history's greatest comic playwrights. Against Demagogues presents Robert C. Bartlett's new translations of Aristophanes' most overtly political works, the Acharnians and the Knights. In these fantastically inventive, raucous, and raunchy comedies, the powerful politician Cleon proves to be democracy's greatest opponent. With unrivalled power, both plays make clear the dangers to which democracies are prone, especially the threats posed by external warfare, internal division, and class polarization. Combating the seductive allure of demagogues and the damage they cause, Against Demagogues disentangles Aristophanes' serious teachings from his many jokes and pratfalls, substantiating for modern readers his famous claim to teach justice while making a comedy of the city. The book features an interpretive essay for each play, expertly guiding readers through the most important plot points, explaining the significance of various characters, and shedding light on the meaning of the plays' often madcap episodes. Along with a contextualizing introduction, Bartlett offers extensive notes explaining the many political, literary, and religious references and allusions. Aristophanes' comedic skewering of the demagogue and his ruthless ambitionand of a community so ill-informed about the doings of its own government, so ready to believe in empty promises and idle flatterycannot but resonate strongly with readers today around the world. Trade Review"Against Demagogues [is] enlightening reading for those interested in classical political theory, as well as for the contemporary relevance of these thinkers in helping us consider our current political environment." * New Books Network *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: On Reading Aristophanes Today The Acharnians On the Acharnians The Knights On the Knights Appendix: Cleon’s Speech to the Athenian Assembly (Thucydides, War of the Peloponnesians and Athenians 3.37–40) Further Reading
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University of California Press Herman Melville
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Liverpool University Press D.H. Lawrence
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Desire
Book SynopsisIn the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Beginning with the celebration of true love in contemporary popular romance, and the reluctant scepticism of postmodern novels, she goes on to explore past representation of passion by Chretien de Troyes, Malory, Spenser, Donne, Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennyson and Bram Stoker. Belsey also discusses the role of desire in the utopian writings of Plato, More and William Morris, as well as its treatment by a range of speculative feminists, from Charlotte perkins Gilman to Marge Piercy.Trade Review"A book that is pointed, illuminating and beautifully written ... Belsey pursues her topic through western culture with a quickness and subtlety that seems equal to the elusive twists and turns of desire itself." THES "Her account is a ripping yarn in its own right. Such writing contributes directly to what Morris liked to call the 'education of desire': the vital task of teaching us not only to contest and resist what exists, but how to desire, and how to expand the scope of what we might desire instead. Thanks to Catherine Belsey's splendid book, that task no longer looks quite so tough." Kiernan Ryan, University of Cambridge "A superb account of desire in popular and canonical literature, as Belsey conclusively demonstrates, desire itself is not only operative in sexual and romantic fantasies. It is operative everywhere. Belsey's book should be required reading for writers of romance novels." Harriet Hawkins, Critical Survey "Both unsettling and strangely moving. By tracing the constraints and resistances of desire in their historical discontinuity, Belsey proposes to provide desire with a history." Margaret Bridges, The European English MessengerTable of ContentsIllustrations. Preface. Part I: Desire Now:. 1. Prologue: Writing About Desire. 2. Reading Love Stories. 3. Desire in Theory: Freud, Lacan, Derrida. 4. Postmodern Love. Part II: Desire at Other Times:. 5. Adultery in King Arthur's Court. 6. John Donne's Worlds of Desire. 7. Demon Lovers. 8. Futures: Desire and Utopia. Notes. Index.
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Wiley-Blackwell Life of Celine
Book SynopsisThis biography explores the controversial life and work of 20th-century French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine, through the places and times in which he lived and in which he grounded his fiction. It also sheds light on crucial areas of French cultural, social, and political history.Trade Review"Throughout his excellent, comprehensively documented critical biography, the best yet available in English, Hewitt contextualises his subject expertly." Times Higher Education Supplement "Taking advantage of recent biographies written in French and of newly available materials, Hewitt skilfully uses - and, at time, abuses - the available sources. At its best, Hewitt's clear and understandable prose takes the reader inside Céline's novel. He points out what to look for, explains what is important, and makes interesting connections." Choice "Very elegantly written book, which is also an intriguing presentation of French social and political life in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the first two-thirds of the twentieth." MLRTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. 1. A Parisian Childhood. 2. National Service: The Army and the Colonies. 3. The Student of Medicine. 4. The League of Nations. 5. Clichy and Montmartre. 6. Voyage au bout de la nuit. 7. The 'House of Literature'. 8. 1936. 9. Anti-Semitism. 10. Phoney War. 11. The Occupation. 12. Exile. 13. Meudon. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Gothic
Book SynopsisThis Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.Trade Review"The obvious value of ... A Companion to the Gothic is its wealth of critical approaches—from good, old-fashioned "history of ideas" readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory." (Romanticism on the Net, November 2000) "Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." (Studies in Hogg and His World) "The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike." "Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." (Choice) "The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights." (Times Higher Education Supplement) "Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic." (Gothic Studies)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE ‘ORIGINAL’ GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian Duncan). 7. Irish Gothic: C.R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu (Victor Sage). 8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama (David Worrall). PART THREE. NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSMUTATIONS. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (Allan Lloyd-Smith). 10. The Ghost Story (Julia Briggs). 11. Gothic in the 1890s (Glennis Byron). 12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (William Hughes). 13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition (Clive Bloom). 14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions (Gina Wisker). 15. Gothic Film (Heidi Kaye). 16. Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny (David Punter). PART FOUR. GOTHIC THEORY AND GENRE. 17. Gothic Criticism (Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall). 18. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (Michelle A. Massé). 19. Comic Gothic (Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik). PART FIVE. THE CONTINUING DEBATE. 20. Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics (Kate Ferguson Ellis). 21. Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic (Steven Bruhm). 22. Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation (Scott Brewster). 23. The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection (Jerrold E. Hogle). 24. The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic (Lucie Armitt). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Gothic
Book Synopsis* Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. * Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. * Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.Trade Review"The overall result is wonderfully informative and suggestive for the beginning student, while offering some striking additional insights spread across the book for advanced students of Gothic who have yet to consider such contexts for it as postcolonialism, 'goth' subcultures and 'Hallucination and the Narcotic'." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsHow to Use This Book. Chronology. Introduction. Backgrounds and Contexts. Civilisation and the Goths. Gothic in the Eighteenth Century. Gothic and Romantic. Science, Industry and the Gothic. Victorian Gothic. Art and Architecture. Gothic and Decadence. Imperial Gothic. Gothic Postmodernism. Postcolonial Gothic. Goths and Gothic Subcultures. Gothic Film. Gothic and the Graphic Novel. Writers of Gothic. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82). Jane Austen (1775-1817). J. G. Ballard (1930-). Iain Banks (1954-). John Banville (1945-). Clive Barker (1952-). William Beckford (1760-1844). E. F. Benson (1867-1940). Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914). Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Robert Bloch (1917-1994). Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915). Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). James Branch Cabell (1879-1958). Ramsey Campbell (1946-). Angela Carter (1940-1992). Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Marie Corelli (1855-1924). Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825). Walter de la Mare (1873-1956). August Derleth (1909-1971). Charles Dickens (1812-1870). 'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962). Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Lord Dunsany (1878-1957). Bret Easton Ellis (1964-). William Faulkner (1897-1962). Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). William Gibson (1948-). William Godwin (1756-1836). H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925). Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). James Herbert (1943-). William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). James Hogg (1770-1835). Washington Irving (1783-1859). G. P. R. James (1799-1860). Henry James (1843-1916). M. R. James (1862-1936). Stephen King (1947-). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Francis Lathom (1777-1832). J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Sophia Lee (1750-1824). Vernon Lee (1856-1935). M. G. Lewis (1775-1818). David Lindsay (1878-1945). H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). George MacDonald (1824-1905). Arthur Machen (1863-1947). James Macpherson (1736-1796). Richard Matheson (1926-). Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824). Herman Melville (1819-1891). Joyce Carol Oates (1938-). Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897). Mervyn Peake (1911-1968). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). John Polidori (1795-1821). Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823). Reeve, Clara (1729-1807). G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879). Anne Rice (1941-). Walter Scott (1771-1832). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Charlotte Smith (1740-1806). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Horace Walpole (1717-1797). H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Key Works. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764). William Beckford, Vathek (1786). Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794). M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831). C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847). Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860). Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864). Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897). Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898). Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959). Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976). Stephen King, The Shining (1977). Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991). Themes and Topics. The Haunted Castle. The Monster. The Vampire. Persecution and Paranoia. Female Gothic. The Uncanny. The History of Abuse. Hallucination and the Narcotic. Guide to Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisTurner''s strikingly original and penetrating account of Hardy''s extraordinarily creative life and longevity offers a series of thirty-two chapters, each of which relates the biographical and literary background of a single work.Trade Review"... his method has much recommended it. The useful book contains illustrations and notes and is recommended for all academic libraries." Choice "This is a very intriguing and useful work. The result is a book of great interest at various levels, and of value to a range of readers. Students at all levels will find much closely argued material (and meticulously referenced throughout) to help interpretation of the author and his works. Those of us who think we know the man and his work will find new ways of looking at and interpreting the already familiar. This is an intriguing and useful work which opens many new avenues into and through Hardy and his work, both the novels and the poetry. It makes a useful addition to a scholarly series, although this volume at least (I cannot speak for any of the others since I have not read them) has much to offer any interested reader. It is recommended for any literature collection." Languages and Literature "Although it does, indeed, contain a great deal of interesting biographical material this new life has an important new dimension. It explores in considerable detail Hardy's use in his writing of his wide and erudite background of reading. The book is full of instances of Turner's insight into the influence of Hardy's reading on his writing, {and} adds substantially to our knowledge of Hardy's creative methods." The Thomas Hardy Journal "For a critical biography so largely concerned with Hardy's reading, Paul Turner has proved an excellent choice. He brings to his task an intimate familiarity with the classical texts to which Hardy's imagination recurred. Turner renews one's sense of Hardy's writing as at once more spirited and artful and gnarled than a reader is ever quite prepared for." The Review of English Studies "Turner has an admirably broad view of Hardy and literary tradition: he is learned and interesting on Hardy's relation to English and classical tradition, particularly Tennyson, Browning, Greek tragedy and Horace. The pace is brisk, and the tone is often pleasingly crisp, with Turner unafraid to offer a judgement on issues like the tiredness of parts of 'The Dynasts' or the intellectual extremity of some of Hardy's satires." Tim Armstrong, Victorian Poetry "'The Life of Thomas Hardy' is an original, radical biography. This critical biography reveals much about Hardy's thinking and feeling and even more about his creative methods." Day by DayTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. 'How I Built Myself a House'. 2. The Poor Man and the Lady. 3. Desperate Remedies. 4. Under the Greenwood Tree. 5. Pair of Blue Eyes. 6. Far From the Madding Crowd. 6. The Hand of Ethelberta. 7. The Return of the Native. 8. The Trumpet-Major. 9. A Laodicean. 10. Two on a Tower. 11. The Mayor of Casterbridge. 12. The Woodlanders. 13. Wessex Tales. 14. A Group of Noble Dames. 15. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 16. Life's Little Ironies. 17. Jude the Obscure. 18. The Well-Beloved. 19. Wessex Poems. 20. Poems of the Past and Present. 21. The Dynasts Part First. 22. The Dynasts Part Second. 23. The Dynasts Part Third. 24. Time's Laughingstocks. 25. A Changed Man and Other Tales. 26. Satires of Circumstance. 27. Moments of Vision. 28. Late Lyrics and Earlier. 29. The Queen of Cornwall. 30. Human Shows. 31. Winter Words. Notes. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Evelyn Waugh
Book SynopsisIn this biography, Douglas Patey follows Evelyn Waugh's career from the comfortable middle-class home he was anxious to flee, through his escapades at Oxford, his adventures in South America and Africa, his experience of war, to his last years as veiled autobiographer.Trade Review"Patey mounts a spirited defence of Waugh, dismissing with some authority many of the familiar items on the charge-sheet. Patey seems to have read not only everything his subject wrote, but a great deal of background material. Such thoroughness, and an alertness to what may be going on in Waugh's apparently limpid prose makes it a valuable addition to a growing body of critical work on this twentieth-century master." Times Literary Supplement "This calm, deliberate biography- which measures Waugh's life in the context of his work, rather than making the work serve as an excuse for discussing the life - should be included in every academic collection for use of undergraduates through faculty" Choice "Patey's sympathetic and acute portrait of Waugh narrates Waugh's narration of his own life, combining thorough research with an exhaustive knowledge of Waugh's fiction and nonfiction and the insight of a highly skilled literary critic. The result is the finest biography by far of Evelyn Waugh to date, and a welcome corrective of the regnant record. It is impossible to pay sufficient tribute to the chapter Patey devotes to Brideshead Revisited. It is, simply, the very best interpretation of the novel of which I am aware." First Things The Life of Evelyn Waugh is a biography with a difference. In addition to being the life story of the English writer who was so active from the late 1920s until his relatively early death in April 1966 at age 62, it is also a critical assessment of his novels and other literary works. Readers will be well repaid for their perseverance." Languages and Literature "It is a tribute to the thoroughness of Patey's research and his ready invocation of so many perspectives that the subject of his biography should emerge as an even more fascinating and complex figure than one had imagined. It is Waugh the writer, though, who must remain of prime interest. In this regard, Patey is the perfect critical guide." The Month "Patey is a crisp and detailed writer who pays Waugh and the reader the greatest tribute of all-he stays out of the way and gets on with the story" Arthur Jones "A remarkably insightful and readable account of Evelyn Waugh, the writer and the man. While taking the full measure of Waugh's comic genius, Douglas Patey brilliantly analyzes Waugh's sacramental imagination about the world - the writer's conviction, explored through a variety of fictional and journalistic forms, that the extraordinary and transcendent lie just on the far side of the ordinary. Indispensable for anyone who wants to get inside the mind and soul of one of the great English authors of our time." George Weigel "This is surely the finest biography of Evelyn Waugh yet written. It is unashamedly a literary biography and concentrates on the published work, though never forgetting the personal context in which these were written. Within its pages there is much valuable information, some of it of a kind that brings out the essential spirituality of Evelyn Waugh." Culture Wars "Patey has provided the layman and the devotee alike with an indispensable guide to the writer and the vagaries of hs century. I suspect The Life of Evelyn Waugh will be a well-thumber reference tool for many years to come." Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and StudiesTable of ContentsChronology of Waugh's Works. List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Preface. 1. Becoming Modern (1903-1930). 2. The Doom of Youth: Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies. 3. Political Decade - I (1930-1935). 4. Political Decade - II (1935-1939). 5. A Peoples War (1939-1945). 6. Brideshead Revisited. 7. A Peoples Peace (1945-50). 8. The Post of Honour is a Private Station (1948-1953). 9. Retrospective: Shaping a Life (1953-66). Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Gothic
Book SynopsisThis Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.Trade Review"Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." Studies in Hogg and His World "The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike." "Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." Choice "The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights." Times Higher Education Supplement "Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE ‘ORIGINAL’ GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian Duncan). 7. Irish Gothic: C.R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu (Victor Sage). 8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama (David Worrall). PART THREE. NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSMUTATIONS. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (Allan Lloyd-Smith). 10. The Ghost Story (Julia Briggs). 11. Gothic in the 1890s (Glennis Byron). 12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (William Hughes). 13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition (Clive Bloom). 14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions (Gina Wisker). 15. Gothic Film (Heidi Kaye). 16. Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny (David Punter). PART FOUR. GOTHIC THEORY AND GENRE. 17. Gothic Criticism (Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall). 18. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (Michelle A. Massé). 19. Comic Gothic (Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik). PART FIVE. THE CONTINUING DEBATE. 20. Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics (Kate Ferguson Ellis). 21. Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic (Steven Bruhm). 22. Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation (Scott Brewster). 23. The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection (Jerrold E. Hogle). 24. The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic (Lucie Armitt). Index.
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Harvard University Press Original Subjects
Book SynopsisOriginal Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Competing Discourses
Book SynopsisIn the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives.
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Harvard University Press The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Book SynopsisThe Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.
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Harvard University Press The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Book SynopsisThe Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.
£18.86
Harvard University Press Weathered Words
Book SynopsisFormulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Weathered Words concentrates on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings particular aspects of formulaic language into focus.
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Harvard University Press The Letters of Henry James Volume IV 18951916
Book SynopsisThis volume, the conclusion of Leon Edel's splendid edition, rounds off a half century of work on James by the noted biographer-critic. In the letters of the novelist's last twenty years a new Henry James is revealed. Edel's generous selection shows us, as he says, a looser, less formal, less distant personality, a man writing with greater candor and with more emotional freedom, who has at last opened himself up to the physical things of life.The decade embracing the turn of the century is the most productive period of James's career. Happily settled in an English country house and now dictating to a typist, he is able to write The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl in three years. The letters show clearly how his fiction turned from his world-famous tales of international society to the life of passion in his last novels. His new friends and correspondents include Conrad, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, and several young men to whom he writes curious, half-inhibited love letters. Mrs. Wharton, with her chauffered chariot of fire, introduces him to the thrill of motoring and welcomes him into her cosmopolitan circle; to him she embodies the affluence and driving energy of the America of the Gilded Age. For the first time in over twenty years he revisits his homeland, traveling not only in the East but through the South to Florida and west to California. He is dismayed by the materialism he finds and the changed ways of life. Back in England, he plunges into several projects; for the New York edition of his works he revises the early novels and writes his famous prefaces. His relations with agents and publishers as well as family and friends are fully documented in the letters, as are his trips to the Continent and visits with Edith Wharton in Paris. His last years are darkened by a long siege of nervous ill health and by the death of his beloved brother William. But he carries on, moves back to London, and continues to work. Among the most eloquent of all his letters are those describing his anguished reaction to the Great War. To show his allegiance to the Allied cause, he becomes a British citizen, six months before his death. The volume concludes with his final and fading words dictated on his deathbed.Table of ContentsIntroduction Brief Chronology 1. Withdrawal from London 1895-1900 2. The Edwardian Novels 1900-1904 3. The American Scene 1904-1905 4. Revisions 1905-1910 5. Terminations 1911-1915 Appendixes I. William James on Henry James II. Edith Wharton's Subsidy of The Ivory Tower III. The Autobiographies IV. "A Curse Not Less Explicit Than Shakespeare's Own" V. The Deathbed Dictation VI. Holdings of Henry James's Letters Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Struggling Upward
Book SynopsisTimothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation.
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Secret Window
Book SynopsisIn this series of meditations on seven of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's novels and novellas, Chambers focuses on the thread of fantasy that Tanizaki weaves throughout his work. He examines Tanizaki's subtle use of storytelling devices to evoke his characters' alternate sense of reality and to encourage the reader's participation in their fantasies.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese
Book SynopsisUnlike traditional Japanese literature, with its rich tradition of comedy, modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with high seriousness. Cohn analyzes works by three writersIbuse Masuji (18981993), Dazai Osamu (19091948), and Inoue Hisashi (1934 )that assault the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature.Trade ReviewDespite the flourish of Western studies of Japanese literature in the past few decades, the comic spirit in modern Japanese fiction has been largely overlooked, and Joel Cohn in this pioneering project has undertaken the challenging task of identifying the source of laughter...Hopefully this book will inspire many to search for laughter, to the gentle comic spirit, in modern Japanese literature as well as its connection to the past. -- Angela Yiu * Journal of Japanese Studies *This is a book for the educated devotee of Japanese fiction, or the catholic literary scholar, or the enthusiastic plunger with a penchant for the deep end. To categorise it as one for the expert might be off-putting. It may be a case of caviare to the general. The author's understanding of the depths and subtleties of the Japanese language compels admiration. His ability to relate the work of his subjects, Ibuse Masuji, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi, to the wider and more distant literary contexts of Aristophanes, Rabelais, Molière and Bergson is not showmanship, but scholarship. -- Sidney Giffard * Japan Society *
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Harvard University Press Bove P Loves Shadow
Book SynopsisIt is no wonder literary criticism is so sullen. It is too philosophical, too much indebted to the dour Walter Benjamin, wedded to aestheticized helplessness. Lit crit needs new inspirations: the sober cheer of Wallace Stevens; the loving eye of Rembrandt; romance, melodrama, and wit. Let there be more poetry, Paul Bové says, and less cynicism.Trade ReviewAn intellectual feast of the highest order. Bové’s monumental work is both magisterial and personal. He holds himself and others to the highest standards of poetic and critical excellence. And he writes with a strong sense of righteous indignation about the failures of the academy, the deterioration of intellectual integrity, and the decay of the life of the mind in our market-driven time. -- Cornel WestA bracing journey into the mind’s powers, this book is a dynamic invitation to think thought through and to imagine otherwise, an uncompromising feat of inquiry, especially necessary in these sodden times. For anyone who believes close reading or literary criticism is dead, Bové’s pages—especially his heady retrieval of poetic making in ‘The Auroras of Autumn’—bear witness to their indelible presence. -- Colin Dayan, author of In the Belly of Her Ghost and Animal QuintetModern criticism, Paul A. Bové suggests, has fallen in love with the ruins of meaning. We all are tempted by this perspective; who could entirely resist the sorrowful vision of Walter Benjamin’s angel, history piling up as mere debris? But there are alternatives, and this book explores in subtle detail the work of those—notably Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Stevens, and Adorno—who can teach us what some alternatives are. -- Michael Wood, author of On Empson and Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too MuchBové’s thinking has brought him to a fundamental insight about poetry and poetics: reality and its pressures cannot constrain humans’ ability to imagine the criteria required to meet their dreams. At once responsive and inventive, Bové’s book makes the case for the creativity and power of imagination that delights in movement of thought. I have not felt as elated by an intellectual experience since first reading Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense. -- Donald E. Pease, author of The New American ExceptionalismAt once a lament for the decline of the humanities and a manifesto on how to save them…Bové‘s summons to his fellow academics and aspiring cultural critics [is] to step out of the long shadow of Benjamin’s melancholy and to come into the light reflected by poetry, comedy, and the essay—a more expansive form of expression. * Boston Globe *Bové’s close readings make for a critical tour de force. This passionate call offers a refreshing contribution to the philosophy of criticism. * Publishers Weekly *Providing a sweeping look at the history of literary criticism, Bové argues that the proper (Aristotelian) goal of the critic is to choose the framing of the poet and essayist, and to learn new humanistic insights from them, instead of simply seeking a reaffirmation of one’s own melancholic mindsets. * Choice *
£45.86
Harvard University Press Elements of Surprise Our Mental Limits and the
Book SynopsisReading classic and popular literature alongside the latest research in cognitive science, Vera Tobin shows that a good surprise works by taking advantage of cognitive biases, mental shortcuts, and quirks of memory. She provides not only a sophisticated how-to guide for writers but—for all readers—a new appreciation of the pleasures of being had.Trade Review[An] excellent book…Tobin reveals valuable truths about the stories we tell to entertain each other, and those we tell ourselves to get by, and how they are related. -- Simon Ings * New Scientist *Plot twists can jolt us into an understanding of fiction’s deeper meaning. But how do they work?…Tobin pinpoints the psychological quirks that make us vulnerable to literary shock tactics. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *In Elements of Surprise, John le Carré rubs shoulders with Agatha Christie, Jane Austen with Graham Greene, in a wide-ranging analysis of a trope and practice that moves across all genres… Tobin’s careful analysis of the mechanics of ‘surprise’ fully mobilizes the cognitive sciences as provocative and valuable literary critical tools… Elements of Surprise is a fascinating analysis of an element of plot that we might just take too much for granted. -- Gail Marshall * Times Higher Education *[Tobin] looks at our cognitive limits and quirks that not only help make such surprises work effectively but also elicit a certain kind of pleasure and satisfaction when revealed, recognized, understood, and acknowledged. She looks methodically under the hoods of various cognitive theories of memory, perception, and narrative linguistics…The book should be read by writers who want to improve their craft and readers/viewers who want to understand their own responses to such narratives…The better we understand what makes certain features of a narrative work well, the more it can deepen both our reading and writing enjoyment. -- Jenny Bhatt * PopMatters *This book is likely to be the defining standard book in cognitive literary studies for at least the next decade. -- Blakey Vermeule, Stanford UniversityThis is a work of major importance, perhaps the best one yet on the psychology of narrative and on what narrative can offer psychology. It is a pleasure to read and a pleasure to learn from. -- William Flesch, author of Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of FictionIf you want to know how good literary writers are manipulating your mind as a reader—read Tobin. This is a remarkable book. -- Eve Sweetser, University of California, BerkeleyWhat makes a plot, fictitious or real, satisfying? With enthralling style, Tobin uncovers ways in which satisfaction depends upon fundamental processes of thinking about other minds, especially minds telling us stories. Welcome to the cognitive science of sophisticated mental pleasure. A masterpiece. -- Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve UniversityIn this eloquent and masterful work, Tobin guides us to think differently about the stories we require to make sense of our lives. -- Amy Cook, author of Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science
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Harvard University Press The Art of Being
Book SynopsisIn this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Yi-Ping Ong shows that the existentialists discovered a radical way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowledge, freedom, and the world. At stake are the conditions under which knowledge of existence is possible.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in the debates that have convulsed the study of the novel in recent years should read this book. It does more than any other piece of writing I’ve encountered to clarify the underlying stakes of the arguments about close reading versus distant, analog versus computational, depth versus surface…Ong’s masterful book raises questions that I suspect students of the novel will be grappling with for a long time. -- Michael Clune * Critical Inquiry *The Art of Being is brilliant—a beautifully conceived book that brings existentialist philosophy into creative dialogue with literary texts. Full of original and compelling insights into the philosophical content of the novels examined, the intricate readings are absorbing and show how literature subtly reaches beyond itself into our lives. -- Garry L. Hagberg, Bard CollegeYi-Ping Ong wears her immense learning lightly. Her philosophical and literary analyses are elegant and supremely intelligent, and the range of figures that her book draws together results in some startling constellations. The Art of Being is a model of philosophical criticism. -- Robert Chodat, Boston University
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Harvard University, Asia Center Writing for Print
Book SynopsisSuyoung Son examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the relationships between manuscript tradition and print convention, peer patronage and popular fame, and gift exchange and commercial transactions in textual production and circulation.
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Harvard University Press When Novels Were Books
Book SynopsisThe novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained.Trade ReviewGranting publishers equal billing with authors and paying as much attention to buying habits as to reading practices, [Stein] coordinates the history of the novel with ‘the development of the book as a media platform.’…While Watt celebrated a genre bursting free from the stale conventions of epic and romance, Stein casts the novel itself as the fixed point against which modern devotional genres began to emerge. -- Leah Price * New York Review of Books *Engaging and thought-provoking. -- Hal Jensen * Times Literary Supplement *Crisp, refreshing…A clarifying, pleasurable read, one that offers a model for how attention to a period’s larger media ecology can unstick adherence to anachronistic categories. -- Annika Mann * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Compact and erudite…This is clearly a pathfinding book, transatlantic in scope and clear in its focus. It usefully reframes the novel as one print-based mechanism in the emergence of modern selfhood…Readers, therefore, will welcome this careful, innovative study as an important reminder that the novel’s rise, including even its most cherished formal features, did not happen merely to meet the demand of a new middle-class readership but was the effect also of calculated transformations in the incipient book publishing industry. -- Sean Silver * Modern Language Quarterly *[An] erudite work…His analysis of the interconnectedness of pious writings and fiction is thoughtful and astute, and illuminates tensions in both Defoe’s and Richardson’s work…Impressive for both the extent of its research and the lucidity of its prose. -- Hal Gladfelder * Review of English Studies *An impressive attempt to bring together book history and literary history…A refreshing, succinct, and striking new account of how and why the novel achieved literary hegemony over the course of the eighteenth century…[An] innovative work. -- David Womersley * Studies in English Literature *Jordan Alexander Stein has recovered a print world in which secular and religious texts were bought, sold, and read interchangeably with one another on both sides of the Atlantic, and the novel’s formal features developed in tandem with the material affordances of the book. The result is an entirely new account of the novel: no longer the harbinger of secular modernity, the novel is, Stein shows us, the residue of what religious writings left behind. -- Amanda Claybaugh, author of The Novel of PurposeIn this original and erudite study, Jordan Alexander Stein brings fresh insight to an enduring subject in literary studies—the rise of the novel. Redirecting our attention from old modes of genre history to new modes of media history, he argues that eighteenth-century Anglo-Americans learned to read novelistically—and to read for character—within a distinct media ecology. Stein’s reconstruction of that learning process will transform how we assess the relations among fiction, print culture, and practices of reading. -- Deidre Lynch, author of The Economy of CharacterBy revealing how a modern genre emerged from changes in format, not just form, Jordan Alexander Stein restores early novels like Robinson Crusoe and Pamela to a common shelf alongside other books—conversion narratives, spiritual biographies, and the confessions of penitent sinners—that shared the same material dimensions. What mattered most about early English novels, Stein shows us, was not that they were secular or fictional; it was that they were books telling stories about someone’s vulnerability. The crucial figure in the rise of the novel—the imagined person who came to be known as a ‘character’—was no rational, self-possessing hero but a divided, broken self, in danger and beset by doubt. When Novels Were Books is a major contribution to book history and, even better, a gift to our thinking about what books mean and why we care about them. -- Caleb Smith, author of The Oracle and the CurseTakes aim at literary common sense, asking scholars to look again and aslant at novels and the stories they tell about them…Filled with revisionist insights…An alacritous, perceptive study that presses hard on shibboleths. It elicits surprise and nurtures new forms of wonder. -- Sonia Hazard * Studies in the Novel *[A] contribution to the historiography of the rise of the novel and a challenge to the enterprise as a whole. -- Julianne Werlin * Novel *Stein’s fundamental project is to revise the ‘rise of the novel’ narrative by examining print’s role as both a technology and a business, while attending to its powerful social dimensions. He offers a professedly revisionary account that challenges ideologically driven versions of the story, including those tying the novel to the emergence of secular modernity. -- Sandra M. Gustafson * American Literary History *
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Harvard University Press The Rise of the Arabic Book
Book SynopsisThe history of the book has overwhelmingly focused on Europe. But during the Middle Ages, a crucial period of its development, the book was far more popular among speakers of Arabic. Beatrice Gruendler corrects this scholarly oversight, exploring the material resources that underlay the rich world of Medieval Arabic letters.Trade Review[A] superb history of the creation of the Arabic book in the ninth century…Gruendler is a leading authority on Classical Arabic literature of the early period and her chosen excerpts are both astute and illuminating—and often unexpectedly amusing (and sometimes downright scurrilous)…A major work of scholarship which is also a delight to read. -- Eric Ormsby * Literary Review *A persuasive, in-depth, and insightful study of an important part of media history that is often overlooked…It will be of use for scholars and students of Arabic, other languages of Islamic culture, and research on the early development of book culture around the world. -- Jocelyn Sharlet * Journal of Arabic Literature *An exciting and original look at the subject of Abbasid book production from one of the leading authorities on classical Arabic literature. Gruendler brings to life the role of the stationers as book makers and book sellers, humble craftsmen usually overlooked by historians, whose labors enabled Arabic book culture to flourish. This fascinating work inaugurates a new way of looking at the subject. -- Hugh Kennedy, author of Caliphate: The History of an IdeaA window into the vibrant intellectual history of the classical Arabic book, from the pen of an eminent scholar of Abbasid belles lettres. -- Tahera Qutbuddin, author of Arabic Oration: Art and FunctionBeatrice Gruendler expertly plumbs classical and medieval Arabic sources to tell the fascinating story of how authors and autodidacts, book addicts and book doubters, poets and papermakers, and scholars and stationers of ninth-century Baghdad—the city of a hundred bookshops—contributed to the phenomenal rise of the Arabic book. This volume is destined to be indispensable for all who are interested in the global history of the book. -- Shawkat M. Toorawa, Professor of Arabic, Yale UniversityThe breathtaking book revolution that took hold of the Arabic Near East from the ninth century CE onward led to an explosive growth in manuscripts, libraries, and all forms of written culture. In this extraordinary new book, Beatrice Gruendler traces the rise of the Arabic codex, bringing into focus not only the fascinating material objects themselves but also the people who made and used them. After reading this wide-ranging and deeply erudite work, no one who studies the history of the book and of global humanities in general will be able to ignore the Arabic contribution. -- Glenn W. Most, coeditor of The Classical Tradition
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Princeton University Press The Novel Volume 1
Book SynopsisBy viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this volume demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. It contains more than one hundred essays by critics from around the world.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2006 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multi Volume Reference Works/Humanities & Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 "The most crucial aspect of the Il romanzo project is the idea driving it to see literature globally, to free 'the novel' from its modernist, strictly Western center of emergence and consider instead how the form has mutated around the world, and why."--Emilie Bickerton, Bookforum "It's a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there's good reason: few are as hell-bent on rethinking the way we talk about literature... There's no question that people will still be talking about these volumes twenty-five years from now."--Eric Bluson, Times Literary Supplement "Moretti and his contributors have succeeded in making the study of the novel--if not the entire 'literary field'--'longer, larger and deeper' than it was before, or than any single scholar could ever make it."--David Trotter, London Review of Books "[A] very ambitious collection ... The Novel is an impressive achievement, and precisely because Moretti was so willing to include perspectives that diverge sharply from his own."--William Deresiewicz, Nation Praise for Italian edition: "There are books that you read and reread, others that you consult when useful or just for the pleasure ... [The Novel] belongs to both categories because it is much more than a mere collection of essays on a specific subject (in this case, the novel as literary genre, reinterpreted through contributions by novelists, critics, philosophers, anthropologists, and historians from every part of the world). Its changing, evocative flavors are so mouthwatering that it is like a platter of tapas, the little appetizers served by Catalans before a meal, which often take the place of an entire meal. The topic is books--a continuous game of citations and reflections. From the outset, it gives the reader symptoms of an ancient hunger. We are not sure what pushes us to read it and we try to grab and hold on to as much of it as possible ... [The Novel] is not a book. It is a Pantagruelian feast that awakens limitless appetites. It helps to remind us how many flavors can be found in literature and--above all--how many we have lost by eating fast food for the brain."--Diego De Silva, Il Mattino Praise for Italian edition: "[The Novel is a] heroic attempt to capture the great animal of words that we call The Novel. The hunting strategy employed by Franco Moretti and his contributors proves complex and articulated but at the same time oblique and diversified. A merely systematic work could never handle this subject. Neither could a totally anarchic approach ... This work is destined to occupy an important place in contemporary reflections on the novel and on narrative forms in general. The essays are agile but not superficial, specialized but readable, and current ... More than anything else, [The Novel] arouses one's desire to read and reread literary works."--Dario Voltolini, La Stampa Praise for Italian edition: "[These] interesting, useful books ... are not humble, simply informative manuals: they offer essays that lead in multiple directions and examine fundamental problems and questions. They assess the breadth of current studies and they establish an analytical horizon for advanced contemporary culture."--Giulio Ferrot, L'Unita "When you open The Novel ... you may think you know what a novel is; by the time you close it ... you are no longer sure... The sheer diversity of topics here is exciting and opens up many new horizons... It is impossible to understand why the novel has been the quintessential modern art form, and why it has appealed to writers and readers around the globe, without understanding the circumstances of its rise in Western Europe in the 18th century... [I]t helped to incarnate the modern sensibility, and to teach its readers what it means to be modern... If the novel is indeed losing its central position in our imaginative life ... it can only be because modernity itself is slipping away, with all it distinctive promise and menace."--Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun "An essential resource for all academic collections serving students of language and literature."--Thomas L. Cooksey, Library Journal "This two-volume set is the most important resource on the novel now available. Like the novel itself, this work spans the globe and the centuries... Essential."--Choice "No reader will come away from these volumes without a long list of novels they now want to read--novels, in many cases, well-known within their own linguistic or national tradition but unfamiliar outside of it... [This is] a project so capacious, so audacious, so polyvocal--in a word, so novel."--Leah Price, Novel: A Forum on Fiction "There is a great deal to relish here...Moretti and his contributors have succeeded in making the study of the novel--if not the entire 'literary field'--'longer, larger and deeper' that it was before, or than any single scholar could ever make it."--London Review Bookshop "Hugely ambitious... Explores fiction with a capaciousness that's exhilarating as well as eye-opening, as a galactic crew of critics swoop in on subjects ranging from ancient China to Toni Morrison."--Marina Warner, The New Statesman "Moretti's ability in his own criticism to use a playful, informal style is quite remarkable; he quickly puts readers at ease as he calls into question a great deal of what they think they know about narrative... In short, both the range and the content of these essays are exceptionally lively and dynamic, and the writing is sophisticated."--Brian Evenson, Novel: A Forum on FictionTable of ContentsOn The Novel ix 1.1. A STRUGGLE FOR SPACE 1 From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling by JACK GOODY 3 The Control of the Imagination and the Novel by LUIZ COSTA LIMA 37 Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture by HENRY Y. H. ZHAO 69 The Novel on Trial by WALTER SITI 94 1.2. P OLYGENESIS The Ancient Greek Novel: A Single Model or a Plurality of Forms? by TOMAS HAGG 125 Medieval French Romance by ALBERTO VARVARO 156 The Novel in Premodern China by ANDREW H. PLAKS 181 Critical Apparatus: The Semantic Field of "Narrative" Stefano Levi Della Torre, Midrash 217 Maurizio Bettini, Mythos/Fabula 225 Adriana Boscaro, Monogatari 241 Judith T. Zeitlin, Xiaoshuo 249 Abdelfattah Kilito, Qisa 262 Piero Boitani, Romance 269 Maria Di Salvo, Povest' 283 1.3. THE EUROPEAN ACCELERATION The Short, Happy Life of the Novel in Spain by JOAN RAMON RESINA 291 313Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700-1900 by DANIEL COU{{Eacute}}GNAS The Rise of Fictionality by CATHERINE GALLAGHER 336 Serious Century by FRANCO MORETTI 364 The Ruse of the Russian Novel by WILLIAM MILLS TODD III 401 1.4. THE CIRCLE WIDENS Critical Apparatus: The Market for Novels-Some Statistical Profiles James Raven, Britain, 1750-1830 429 John Austin, United States, 1780-1850 455 Giovanni Ragone, Italy, 1815-1870 466 Elisa Marti-Lopez and Mario Santana, Spain, 1843-1900 479 Priya Joshi, India, 1850-1900 495 Jonathan Zwicker, Japan, 1850-1900 509 Wendy Griswold, Nigeria, 1950-2000 521 The Sign of the Voice: Orality and Writing in the United States by ALESSANDRO PORTELLI 531 The Long Nineteenth Century of the Japanese Novel by JONATHAN ZWICKER 553 Epic and Novel in India by MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE 596 The Novel of a Continent: Latin America by GERALD MARTIN 632 The Extroverted African Novel by EILEEN JULIEN 667 1.5. TOWARD WORLD LITERATURE The Novelists' International by MICHAEL DENNING 703 Fecundities of the Unexpected: Magical Realism, Narrative, and History by ATO QUAYSON 726 Readings: Traditions in Contact Abdelfattah Kilito, Al-Saq 'ala al-saq f im a huwa al-Faryaq (Ahmad Faris Shidya q, Paris, 1855) 759 Norma Field, Drifting Clouds (Futabatei Shimei, Japan, 1887-1889) 766 Jale Parla, A Carriage Affair (Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Turkey, 1896) 775 Jongyon Hwang, The Heartless (Yi Kwangsu, Korea, 1917) 781 M. Keith Booker, Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925) 786 M. R. Ghanoonparvar, The Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat, Iran, 1941) 794 Readings: Americas Alessandro Portelli, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, United States, 1852) 805 Roberto Schwarz, Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas ( J. M. Machado de Assis, Brazil, 1880) 816 Jonathan Arac, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, United States, 1884) 841 Ernesto Franco, Pedro Paramo ( Juan Rulfo, Mexico, 1955) 855 Stephanie Merrim, Grande Sertao: Veredas ( Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, 1956) 862 Jose Miguel Oviedo, The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, 1962) 870 Clarisse Zimra, Lone Sun (Daniel Maximin, Guadeloupe, 1981) 876 Alessandro Portelli, Beloved (Toni Morrison, United States, 1987) 886 Contributors 893 Author Index 897 Works Cited Index 907
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Princeton University Press The Novel Volume 2
Book SynopsisA translated selection from the epic five-volume "Italian Il Romanzo" (2001-2003), this title views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. It is suitable for all students and scholars of literature.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 Honorable Mention for the 2007 John G. Cawelti Award, American Culture Association "The most crucial aspect of the Il romanzo project is the idea driving it to see literature globally, to free 'the novel' from its modernist, strictly Western center of emergence and consider instead how the form has mutated around the world, and why."--Emilie Bickerton, Bookforum "It's a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there's good reason: few are as hell-bent on rethinking the way we talk about literature... There's no question that people will still be talking about these volumes twenty-five years from now."--Eric Bulson, Times Literary Supplement "[A] very ambitious collection ... The Novel is an impressive achievement, and precisely because Moretti was so willing to include perspectives that diverge sharply from his own."--William Deresiewicz, Nation Praise for Italian edition: "These volumes are a heroic attempt to capture the great animal of words that we call The Novel. The hunting strategy employed by Franco Moretti and his contributors proves complex and articulated but at the same time oblique and diversified. A merely systematic work could never handle this subject. Neither could a totally anarchic approach ... This work is destined to occupy an important place in contemporary reflections on the novel and on narrative forms in general. The essays are agile but not superficial, specialized but readable, and current ... More than anything else, [The Novel] arouses one's desire to read and reread literary works."--Dario Voltolini, La Stampa Praise for Italian edition: "There are books that you read and reread, others that you consult when useful or just for the pleasure ... [The Novel] belongs to both categories because it is much more than a mere collection of essays on a specific subject (in this case, the novel as literary genre, reinterpreted through contributions by novelists, critics, philosophers, anthropologists, and historians from every part of the world). Its changing, evocative flavors are so mouthwatering that it is like a platter of tapas, the little appetizers served by Catalans before a meal, which often take the place of an entire meal. The topic is books--a continuous game of citations and reflections. From the outset, it gives the reader symptoms of an ancient hunger. We are not sure what pushes us to read it and we try to grab and hold on to as much of it as possible ... [The Novel] is not a book. It is a Pantagruelian feast that awakens limitless appetites. It helps to remind us how many flavors can be found in literature and--above all--how many we have lost by eating fast food for the brain."--Diego De Silva, Il Mattino Praise for Italian edition: "[These] interesting, useful books ... are not humble, simply informative manuals: they offer essays that lead in multiple directions and examine fundamental problems and questions. They assess the breadth of current studies and they establish an analytical horizon for advanced contemporary culture."--Giulio Ferrot, L'Unita "When you open The Novel ... you may think you know what a novel is; by the time you close it ... you are no longer sure... The sheer diversity of topics here is exciting and opens up many new horizons... It is impossible to understand why the novel has been the quintessential modern art form, and why it has appealed to writers and readers around the globe, without understanding the circumstances of its rise in Western Europe in the 18th century... [I]t helped to incarnate the modern sensibility, and to teach its readers what it means to be modern... If the novel is indeed losing its central position in our imaginative life ... it can only be because modernity itself is slipping away, with all it distinctive promise and menace."--Adam Kirsch, New York Sun "An essential resource for all academic collections serving students of language and literature."--Thomas L. Cooksey, Library Journal "This two-volume set is the most important resource on the novel now available. Like the novel itself, this work spans the globe and the centuries... Essential."--Choice "No reader will come away from these volumes without a long list of novels they now want to read--novels, in many cases, well-known within their own linguistic or national tradition but unfamiliar outside of it... [This is] a project so capacious, so audacious, so polyvocal--in a word, so novel."--Leah Price, Novel: A Forum on Fiction "There is a great deal to relish here...Moretti and his contributors have succeeded in making the study of the novel--if not the entire 'literary field'--'longer, larger and deeper' that it was before, or than any single scholar could ever make it."--London Review Bookshop "Hugely ambitious... Explores fiction with a capaciousness that's exhilarating as well as eye-opening, as a galactic crew of critics swoop in on subjects ranging from ancient China to Toni Morrison."--Marina Warner, The New Statesman "Moretti's ability in his own criticism to use a playful, informal style is quite remarkable; he quickly puts readers at ease as he calls into question a great deal of what they think they know about narrative... In short, both the range and the content of these essays are exceptionally lively and dynamic, and the writing is sophisticated."--Brian Evenson, Novel: A Forum on Fiction "There is very much worth exploring in Moretti's excellent collection of essays... Moretti's fine collection is a robust testimony to the novel's long, complex, multicultural history."--Steven D. Smith, International Journal of the Classical TraditionTable of ContentsOn The Novel ix 2.1. THE LONG DURATION The Novel in Search of Itself: A Historical Morphology by THOMAS PAVEL 3 Epic, Novel by MASSIMO FUSILLO 32 The Poetry of Mediocrity by SYLVIE THOREL-CAILLETEAU 64 The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism by FREDRIC JAMESON 95 Readings: Prototypes Massimo Fusillo, Aethiopika (Heliodorus, Third or Fourth Century) 131 Abdelfattah Kilito, Maqamat (Hamadhany FD, Late Tenth Century) 138 Francisco Rico, Lazarillo de Tormes ("Lazaro de Tormes," circa 1553) 146 Thomas DiPiero, Le Grand Cyrus (Madeleine de Scudery, 1649-1653) 152 Perry Anderson, Persian Letters (Montesquieu, 1721) 161 Ian Duncan, Waverley (Walter Scott, 1814) 173 Paolo Tortonese, The Mysteries of Paris (Eugene Sue, 1842-1843) 181 Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1898) 189 Ambrosio Fornet, The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier, 1949) 196 2.2. WRITING PROSE Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative by FRANCESCO ORLANDO 207 The Prose of the World by MICHAL PELED GINSBURG AND LORRI G. NANDREA 244 Excess and History in Hugo's Ninety-three by UMBERTO ECO 274 Minor Characters by ALEX WOLOCH 295 324Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi by NATHALIE FERRAND 324 2.3. THEMES, FIGURES The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism by NANCY ARMSTRONG 349 The Death of Lucien de Rubempre by A. S. BYATT 389 A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Climber: Upward Mobility in the Novel by BRUCE ROBBINS 409 A Businessman in Love by FREDRIC JAMESON 436 Readings: Narrating Politics Benedict Anderson, Max Havelaar (Multatuli, 1860) 449 Luisa Villa, The Tiger of Malaysia (Emilio Salgari, 1883-1884) 463 Edoarda Masi, Ah Q (Lu Hsun, 1921-1922) 469 Thomas Lahusen, Cement (Fedor Gladkov, 1925) 476 Piergiorgio Bellocchio, A Private Matter (Beppe Fenoglio, 1963) 483 Simon Gikandi, Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe, 1964) 489 Jose Miguel Oviedo, Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1969) 497 Klaus R. Scherpe, The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss, 1975-1981) 503 Readings: The Sacrifice of the Heroine April Alliston, Aloisa and Melliora (Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood, 1719-1720) 515 Juliet Mitchell, Natasha and Helene (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1863-1869) 534 Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau, Nana (Nana, Emile Zola, 1880) 541 Valentine Cunningham, Tess (Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891) 548 Peter Madsen, Elsie (The Dangerous Age, Karin Michaelis, 1910) 559 2.4. S PACE AND STORY Over-writing as Un-writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time by MIEKE BAL 571 The Roads of the Novel by HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT 611 The Chronotopes of the Sea by MARGARET COHEN 647 667Torn Space: James Joyce's Ulysses by PHILIP FISHER 667 Readings: The New Metropolis Leo Ou-fan Lee, Shanghai (Midnight, Mao Dun, 1932) 687 Ernesto Franco, Buenos Aires (Adan Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal, 1948) 693 Ernest Emenyonu, Lagos (People of the City, Cyprian Ekwensi, 1954) 700 Roger Allen, Cairo (The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz, 1956-1957) 706 Ardis L. Nelson, Havana (Three Trapped Tigers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 1967) 714 Homi Bhabha, Bombay (Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981) 721 Sibel Irzik, Istanbul (The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk, 1990) 728 2.5. UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES Form and Chance: The German Novella by ANDREAS GAILUS 739 Inconceivable History: Storytelling as Hyperphasia and Disavowal by FRANCIS MULHERN 777 Innovation: Notes on Nihilism and the Aesthetics of the Novel by JOHN BRENKMAN 808 Narrative Literature in the Turing Universe by ESPEN AARSETH 839 Readings: A Century of Experiments 871Andreina Lavagetto, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910) 871 Myra Jehlen, The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein, 1925) 880 Ann Banfield, Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925) 888 Jose Luiz Passos, Macunaima (Mario de Andrade, 1928) 896 Seamus Deane, Finnegans Wake ( James Joyce, 1939) 906 Declan Kiberd, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, 1951-1953) 912 Beatriz Sarlo, Hopscotch ( Julio Cortazar, 1963) 919 Ursula K. Heise, Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon, 1973) 926 Contributors 933 Author Index 937 Works Cited Index 944
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Princeton University Press SemiDetached The Aesthetics of Virtual
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This wide-ranging and informative book offers a valuable guide to the nature of aesthetic experience that is rooted in, yet extends beyond, the literature and art of the nineteenth century. A book preoccupied with distance, it manages to cover a great deal of territory."---Alison Byerly, Review 19"That even ordinary readers oscillate between immersion in a fictional world and awareness of their place outside it is an attractive notion. . . . Plotz’s book demonstrates the rich and varied aesthetic effects which artists have discovered within this twilight zone, and how we might similarly use it in our reading approaches."---Milan Terlunen, Oxonian Review"The book marvelously captures the feeling of being in the world. Plotz compellingly and artfully shows why reading feels so integral to living."---Jonathan Farina, Victorian Review"In this lively and thought-provoking account, Plotz invites us to become more aware of our own positions as readers, and reveals the intellectual rewards for doing so."---Jonathan Buckmaster, Dickens Quarterly"Semi-Detached is a challenging and highly rewarding account, which illuminates a central but – until now – underexplored aspect of aesthetic experience."---Karin Koehler, Modern Language Review
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Princeton University Press American Pulp
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing "[L]ively... Rabinowitz is on to something."--Louis Menand, New Yorker "Rabinowitz's work is a prime example of literary scholarship and essential key to the history of American publishing."--Publishers Weekly "Rabinowitz makes a persuasive case for the role of pulp in widening the landscape of Americans' experience... An ardent collector of pulp fiction, Rabinowitz brings to this scholarly study a passion for the genre and an authoritative analysis of its meaning in American culture."--Kirkus Reviews "[Rabinowitz] writes with briskness and acuity. The historical richness of the material is leavened by a lively, broadminded, and humane sense of her culture. But most important, she writes with affection for the profound effects of her subject."--Ron Slate, On the Seawall "Alluring topics and insightful writing make this a book that should appeal to anyone interested in how reading--and books--change us."--David Keymer, Library Journal "Offers a thoughtful, provocative take on pulp and its influence on American culture, in art, in film--and how the dime-store publications provided new platforms for gay, lesbian, and African American writers, too."--Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer "Paula Rabinowitz has written a fascinating book with much in it to interest anyone curious about aspects of publishing in the 1940s and 1950s. It has a striking cover, ample notes, and some fascinating illustrations."--Jim Burns, Northern Review of Books "Unfailingly fascinating."--Greil Marcus, Barnes and Noble Review "Paula Rabinowitz's exquisite and startling new book about the 'golden age' of U.S. pulp publishing, from the late 1930s to the early 1960s, is rightly confident in the originality of its enterprise. Gorgeously illustrated, American Pulp audaciously sets in motion at least a half-dozen crisscrossing storylines to create a new cartography of pulp performance."--Alan Wald, International Viewpoint "Rabinowitz's snappily titled and alluringly packaged history of the paperback is entertaining...Covering thirty years of pulp history, it places the humble pocketbook in a new light."--Giulia Miller, Times Literary Supplement "Enthusiastic and informative."--Wendy Smith, Daily Beast "This intimate relationship to pulp as object can be traced throughout the book; it seems like a work born of passion, the result of a decade-long love affair with a disposable medium meant to be consumed and thrown away. Yet it is not only the object--and its use by publishing houses, writers, and artists--that she explores, but also the complex and diverse interfaces with the reader, both individual and collective consumers of the pulp book... An overall enjoyable experience."--Vera Benczik, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies "[Rabinowitz's] impeccably researched and passionately written book is an important contribution to the scholarly work on the histories of modernism and 20th-century publishing, and a demonstration of the political possibilities of popular forms."--Sean Cashbaugh, Science & Society "Rabinowitz' scholarship on the subject of pulp is exceptional, often brazenly creative in her ability to conflate cultural events and cultural moods behind what should have been the quickly forgotten history of pulp."--Alex P. Grover, Publishing Research QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface ix 1 Pulp: Biography of an American Object 1 2 Pulp as Interface 40 3 Richard Wright's Savage Holiday: True Crime and 12 Million Black Voices 82 4 Isak Dinesen Gets Drafted: Pulp, the Armed Services Editions, and GI Reading 109 5 Pulping Ann Petry: The Case of Country Place 131 6 Senor Borges Wins! Ellery Queen's Garden 159 7 Slips of the Tongue: Uncovering Lesbian Pulp 184 8 Sci-Unfi: Bombs, Ovens, Delinquents, and More 209 9 Demotic Ulysses: Policing Paperbacks in the Courts and Congress 244 CODA The Afterlife of Pulp 281 Acknowledgments 301 Notes 307 Index 377
£19.00
Princeton University Press Human Forms
Book SynopsisDuncan reorients readers' understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses--even as the two were separating into distinct domains.ains.Trade Review"Duncan’s study is a wide ranging, superbly researched and brilliantly written account of the ways in which the history of the novel is interwoven with the emergence of the new discourse of ‘natural'history, and its logic of an organic transformation of forms and kinds.’ . . . . Human Forms is a rich and brilliant examination of the complex dynamics between the history of scientific ideas and the development of the novel and, as such, will be invaluable to all those interested in Victorian fiction."---Iain Crawford, Dickens Quarterly"[An] exhilarating study which follows in the footsteps of Gillian Beer, Sally Shuttleworth, and George Levine in exploring the resonances between nineteenth-century literature and science."---David Womersley, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900"Duncan teases out, in intimate detail, the deep engagement between putatively Romantic and Victorian modes of thought and writing. This insight should give present studies of the novel renewed urgency. . . . Human Forms casts a bright light on the nineteenth-century novel not simply as an accessory to scientific thought, but as a powerful instrument for formulating questions about the status of the human as a social and biological problem"---Devin Griffiths, Modern Philology
£29.75
Princeton University Press Prose Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English""The rich variety of work featured in this study provides a hugely valuable sense of just how vibrant the form currently is. . . . The book’s robust championing of prose poetry in its many manifestations — and the recognition that this is a contemporary literary mode growing in significance — are perspectives to which we ought to attend."---Simon Collings, Fortnightly Review"With this work, Hetherington and Atherton enrich understanding of and debates about the 'new' genre of prose poetry. Their impressive explication of the genre’s history from the mid-19th century to the present sets a frame for their equally impressive exploration of many facets of this protean art." * Choice Reviews *
£85.00
Princeton University Press SmackBam or The Art of Governing Men
Book SynopsisLaboulaye, one of 19th-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. This volume brings together new translations of 16 of his most wry, political stories that continue to impart lessons today.Trade Review"Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men collects sixteen tales by Édouard Laboulaye, a French law professor and jurist of the Second Empire, and a strong supporter of the abolition of slavery and of women’s rights. Laboulaye’s creative work has been eclipsed by his political career, but in his day he was recognized as a writer of fiction, too, and especially known for his fairy-tales—with their satirical asides, irreverent humor, and free use of international sources, it is not hard to see why."---James Guida, New York Review of Books"The tales are delightful, and they offer a look at a little-known aspect of fairy tale history contemporary with the tale collectors and writers from the nineteenth century."---Sarah N Lawson, Journal of Folklore Research
£17.09
Princeton University Press Becoming George Orwell
Book SynopsisIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.Trade Review"The range and depth of Rodden’s knowledge and understanding of post-World War II literature and worldwide responses to Orwell are unparalleled. . . . Becoming George Orwell makes for an engrossing and illuminating read."---Norman Bissell, Orwell Society"As a self-described 'recovering utopian' in tune with his subject’s utopian skepticism, Rodden’s outlook on democratic socialism will resonate with our current political environment. . . . Anyone with an interest in Orwell will appreciate Rodden’s insights and reflections."---Thomas Karel, Library Journal"[Becoming George Orwell] is a grab-bag of Orwelliana. . . . The chapters can stand on their own or, taken together, form an idiosyncratic biography of a consequential life. To read them is to sit in the presence of a veteran scholar at the peak of his powers"---John J. Miller, National Review"Rodden’s book keeps alive the spirit of the man and his imagination."---Shelley Walia, The Hindu"John Rodden, arguably the world’s leading scholar on George Orwell . . . claims that Orwell 'is the most important writer since Shakespeare and the most influential writer who ever lived'. . . . It’s a big claim, but he provides enough evidence to keep literature departments arguing for years."---Dennis Glover, Sydney Morning Herald"A terrific book. An absolute must for fans of George Orwell."---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews
£22.50
