Literary studies: fiction Books
Duke University Press Bodyminds Reimagined
Book SynopsisIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women''s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre''s political potential lies in the authors'' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality''s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slavenarratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these tTrade Review"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." -- Grace Gipson * Black Perspectives *“Sami Schalk’s highly anticipated Bodyminds Reimagined is the most significant contribution to literary and cultural disability studies in years. Appeals to scholars in critical race studies, queer studies, and social justice activism.” -- Anna L. Hinton * ASAP/Journal *"Sami Schalk’s book is an important bridge between Black women’s science fiction and disability theorizing. Her work requires a reconceptualization of the boundaries of disability studies and African American literature as well." -- Moya Bailey * Feminist Formations *"Bodyminds Reimagined boldly demonstrates the capacity of black speculation and experimentation to generate world-building visions that are inclusive and sustainable for multiply marginalized black subjects." -- Petal Samuel * Public Books *"Bodyminds Reimagined is a compelling critical study . . . simultaneously accessible and complex, exhaustively sourced and fresh in its analysis. . . . Students, scholars, and fans of speculative fiction will be well served to familiarize themselves with this book." -- Angela Rovak * Women's Studies *"Sami Schalk, through Bodyminds Reimagined, takes a revolutionary step in defining the black disabled person’s experience in literature and media by promoting examples of black disabled people in speculative fiction created by women of color; and by re-defining manifestations of intersectionality among disabled people of color." -- Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. * Ethnic Studies Review *"Bodyminds Reimagined is an important work on theorizing speculative fiction and the ways in which it can change perceptions, actions, and minds. A model for future intersectional scholarship, this book is well written and accessible." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *"Wide-reaching. . . . Sami Schalk’s version of intersectionality emphasizes multidimensional entanglements that resist visual charting and static notions of identity. This version of intersectionality serves as a launchpad for new social formations." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Bodyminds Reimagined encouraged me to check my own privilege, to think differently about identity, and to reimagine my small niche in the world. The book is that good in its confrontation of the status quo, in its analysis of marginalized peoples in estranged worlds. . . . When I refer to Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined as groundbreaking, I do not mean this lightly. . . . All libraries should stock this book on their shelves." -- Isiah Lavender III * Science Fiction Studies *"Bodyminds Reimagined will appeal both to scholars and general readers. Schalk’s framework is simplified in a way that makes it digestible for those who may be unfamiliar with crip theory or intersectionality. With a slim frame, and at only four chapters, the book is inviting rather than intimidating. Schalk’s ability to sound both personable and professional is particularly enjoyable." -- Anelise Farris * Extrapolation *Table of ContentsPrologue and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33 2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59 3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85 4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113 Conclusion 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 159 Index 175
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University of Pittsburgh Press Managing Literacy Mothering America Womens Narratives On Reading And Writing Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisSarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters—the domestic literacy narrative—and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century. Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006).
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University of Pittsburgh Press In Search of the Sacred Book
Book SynopsisStudies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. This book departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence.Trade ReviewWe have read the Latin American novel as reconfigurations of history, ethnological recoveries, and political interventions, but we neglected to look at the powerful undercurrents of belief, faith, and epiphanic vision that are a true dimension of their inner creativity. González and his book of revelations discover that poetic knowledge has shaped their storytelling with epiphanies and transfiguration. Nothing of the human experience was estranged to these fictions, not even religion."" - Julio Ortega, Brown University""González, one of his generation’s most accomplished scholars of Spanish American Literature, offers a remarkable, erudite, and imaginative re-reading of the region’s modern fiction, with the compelling argument that, culminating with the Boom, the novel aspired to a reader experience comparable to effects generated by what many cultures regard as ‘sacred texts,’ only to critique and dismantle these aspirations in the late twentieth century and new millennium."" - Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas
£38.95
Fordham University Press Dining With Sherlock Holmes A Baker Street
Book SynopsisA recipe book offering full menus from four Sherlock Holmes dinners and recounting a history of the dinners and of the Firehouse Breakfast which has become a tradition with the Culinary Institute of America. All the recipes are served with a little relevant history and research.Trade Review"...a world-class expert on Sherlock Holmes" -Dallas Morning News
£27.90
Fordham University Press Posthuman Metamorphosis Narrative and Systems
Book SynopsisFrom Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory.Trade Review"In Bruce Clarke's remarkable book, narrative theory is transformed by a sustained encounter with neocybernetic systems theory. The result is a symbiogenesis as compelling as the hybrid sci-fi creatures Clarke engages-creatures we come to understand as playing surprisingly vital roles in thinking/linking/synching our complex social world to itself. For all students of narrative, Posthuman Metamorphosis will be indispensible-and inspiring!" -- -Ira Livingston Pratt Institute "Draws on the work of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and other theorists in a study of narratives of bodily metamorphosis." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "A deft deployment of systems theory in the service of narrative and ecological understanding." -- -Joseph Tabbi University of Illinois, Chicago "The first book-length study devoted to an important and fruitful convergence of social-informational theory and narratology." -- -Mark Hansen University of Chicago "Clarke's wide-ranging and vibrant writing indicates how transformative and productive neocybernetic models can be for literary theory, offering a striking new way of studying the formal and social functions of narrative at the level of literary texts and the level of cultural practices." -- -Colin Milburn Twentieth-Century Literature "Fasten your seat belts. Bruce Clarke's Posthuman Metamophosis takes us from 0 to 60-or in this case, from Ovid to Octavia Butler-at warp speed, ranging across a stunning array of texts, theories, and imagined universes to unpack the intellectual background, theoretical contours, land ethical and political stakes of the posthuman. Neither glibly celebratory nor polemically moralizing, Clarke's rendering of the posthuman is itself a model of interdisciplinary posthumanist scholarship, deftly comparing interpretive frames from media theory, systems theory, biology, narratology, and much else besides, to provide us with an experiment in reading that is, itself, metamorphic." -- -Cary Wolfe Rice University
£71.10
Fordham University Press Posthuman Metamorphosis
Book SynopsisFrom Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory.Trade Review"In Bruce Clarke's remarkable book, narrative theory is transformed by a sustained encounter with neocybernetic systems theory. The result is a symbiogenesis as compelling as the hybrid sci-fi creatures Clarke engages-creatures we come to understand as playing surprisingly vital roles in thinking/linking/synching our complex social world to itself. For all students of narrative, Posthuman Metamorphosis will be indispensible-and inspiring!" -- -Ira Livingston Pratt Institute "Draws on the work of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and other theorists in a study of narratives of bodily metamorphosis." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "A deft deployment of systems theory in the service of narrative and ecological understanding." -- -Joseph Tabbi University of Illinois, Chicago "The first book-length study devoted to an important and fruitful convergence of social-informational theory and narratology." -- -Mark Hansen University of Chicago "Clarke's wide-ranging and vibrant writing indicates how transformative and productive neocybernetic models can be for literary theory, offering a striking new way of studying the formal and social functions of narrative at the level of literary texts and the level of cultural practices." -- -Colin Milburn Twentieth-Century Literature "Fasten your seat belts. Bruce Clarke's Posthuman Metamophosis takes us from 0 to 60-or in this case, from Ovid to Octavia Butler-at warp speed, ranging across a stunning array of texts, theories, and imagined universes to unpack the intellectual background, theoretical contours, land ethical and political stakes of the posthuman. Neither glibly celebratory nor polemically moralizing, Clarke's rendering of the posthuman is itself a model of interdisciplinary posthumanist scholarship, deftly comparing interpretive frames from media theory, systems theory, biology, narratology, and much else besides, to provide us with an experiment in reading that is, itself, metamorphic." -- -Cary Wolfe Rice University
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Fordham University Press The Pleasures of Memory
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is well known that Dickens established an 'imagined community' founded on his own writing and authorial presence; in her intriguing book, Sarah Winter reveals how he did it. Analyzing the relation between serialization, reading, and memory, and detailing the extraordinary means by which Dickens made himself an institution by appearing to subvert the very nature of institutions, Winter shows how Dickens installed his works, his memories, his authorial presence, and perhaps most influentially, his method of publication---seriality itself--at the center of our collective modern consciousness." -- -Audrey Jaffe University of Toronto "A fine contribution to the sociology of literature ... Highly Recommended." -Choice "The Pleasures of Memory brings a welcome flash of insight to the centuries-old and much-rehashed argument regarding Dickens's politics. The present critical moment has seen the likes of William Flesch, Sharon Marcus, and Nicholas Dames rethink 'reading' in ingeniously new ways. Winter accomplishes the feat of throwing an equally original and yet persuasively commonsensical hat into the ring. She reads Dickens's serial novels from Pickwick through Our Mutual Friend to show how overtly they thematized the mode of their reception in associationist terms as collective or cultural memory. In doing so, she argues (brilliantly, to my mind), that producing serial novels was a political project. Dickens saw popular literature as the means of universal public education." -- -Nancy Armstrong Duke University "The Pleasures of Memory is the book on Dickens we have been waiting for. It is also a major study of the Victorian public sphere. Sarah Winter shows how Dickensian serial fiction-the most potent of nineteenth-century new media- cultivated a field of democratic thinking separate from political institutions. Authoritative, lucid, and wide-ranging, this is the most convincing analysis of literature's social function I've read in recent years." -- -Ian Duncan University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Introduction: Dickens and the Pleasures of Memory 1. Memory's Bonds: Associationism and the Freedom of Thought 2. Dickens's Originality: Serial Fiction, Celebrity, and The Pickwick Papers 3. The Pleasures of Memory, Part I: Curiosity as Didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop 4. The Pleasures of Memory, Part II: Epitaphic Reading and Cultural Memory 5. Learning by Heart in Our Mutual Friend 6. Dickens's Laughter: School Reading and Democratic Literature, 1870-1940 Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Fordham University Press All Ears The Aesthetics of Espionage
Book SynopsisAn archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.Table of Contents1. Entrance: The Spies of Jericho 2. Discipline and Listen Before the Wiretap Overhearing and Diaphony, A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) Mastery and Metrics in Figaro The Ages of Fear Telelistening and Telesurveillance A Secret Conversation 3. Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow 4. In the Footsteps of Orpheus The Trackers, with Hidden Noise The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's The Phantom of the Opera Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death Adorno, the Informer 5. Exit: J.D.'s Dream Notes
£71.10
Fordham University Press All Ears The Aesthetics of Espionage
Book SynopsisAn archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.Table of Contents1. Entrance: The Spies of Jericho 2. Discipline and Listen Before the Wiretap Overhearing and Diaphony, A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) Mastery and Metrics in Figaro The Ages of Fear Telelistening and Telesurveillance A Secret Conversation 3. Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow 4. In the Footsteps of Orpheus The Trackers, with Hidden Noise The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's The Phantom of the Opera Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death Adorno, the Informer 5. Exit: J.D.'s Dream Notes
£19.79
Fordham University Press Maurice Blanchot A Critical Biography
Book SynopsisMaurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note ix Preface xi Part I 1907–1923 1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907–1918) 3 2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 10 3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922–1923) 13 Part II 1920s–1940 4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) 21 5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925–1930) 24 6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927–1930) 29 7. Aligning One’s Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 34 8. “Mahatma Gandhi”: A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 41 9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and La Revue du Siècle (1931–1934) 44 10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle (1931–1935) 51 11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 62 12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July–December 1936) 67 13. Patriotism’s Breaking Point: L’Insurgé (1937) 71 14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937–1938) 82 15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) 88 16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 91 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come—Writing the Récits: “The Last Word” and “The Idyll” (1935–1936) 101 18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932–1940) 111 Part III 1940 –1949 19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940–1944) 121 20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941–1942) 127 21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940–1943) 135 22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats (1941–1944) 145 23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941–1942) 160 24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) 163 25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941–1942) 170 26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 178 27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 182 28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 –1946) 187 29. The Year of Criticism: L’Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) 192 30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945–1948) 195 31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946–1947) 208 32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 219 33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 225 34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947–1949) 229 35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947–1948) 232 36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947–1948) 235 37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948–1949) 239 Part IV 1949–1959 38. Invisible Partner: Èze, Withdrawal (1949–1957) 245 39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Récits (1949–1953) 248 40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949–1951) 254 41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951–1953) 261 42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950–1951) 266 43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951–1953) 271 44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought): Toward The Book to Come (1953–1958) 280 45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953–1957) 290 46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 297 47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957–1958) 301 48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958–1959) 303 Part V 1960 –1968 49. Note That I Say “Right” and Not “Duty”: The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 315 50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960–1965) 324 51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) 336 52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957–1962) 342 53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism—the Entretien and the Fragment (1959–1969) 349 54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 362 55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967–1968) 370 56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375 Part VI 1969–1997 57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969–1973) 389 58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 –1978) 403 59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 –1980) 406 60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969–1979) 416 61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot’s Readability and Visibility (1979–1997) 424 62. With This Break in History Stuck in One’s Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982–1983) 435 63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983–1997) 445 Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465 John McKeane Acknowledgments 479 Notes 481 Bibliography 599 Index 605
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Fordham University Press Novel Shocks
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Great Migration to White Flight 25 2. The Price of Salt Is the City: Patricia Highsmith and the Queer Frontiers of Neoliberalism 46 3. Naked Lunch, Or, the Last Snapshot of the Surrealists 63 4. Shock Therapy: Atlas Shrugged, Urban Renewal, and the Making of the Entrepreneurial Subject 84 5. Fallen Corpses and Rising Cities: The Bell Jar and the Making of the New Woman 104 Conclusion: The Siege of Harlem and Its Commune 125 Acknowledgments 139 Notes 143 Works Cited 163 Index 185
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MP-GRY Grey House Publishing Nobel Prize Winners 1997 2001 Supplement
Book SynopsisPresents detailed accounts of the lives and work of the 876 men, women, and institutions that earned the Nobel Prize from its inception in 1901. Arranged alphabetically, each informative 1,200 to 2,500-word essay provides abundant information on the Laureate's life and achievements, with special emphasis on the body of work for which the prize was awarded.
£68.00
University of Hawaii Press The Historical Fiction UNESCO Collection of Representative Works European
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University of Hawai'i Press In Light of Shadows More Gothic Tales by Izumi
Book SynopsisThis second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taisho writer Izumi Kyoka. It includes the novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story Mayu kakushi no rei (A quiet obsession), and Kyoka's hauntingly erotic final work, Rukoshinso (The heartvine), as well as discussions of each of these three tales.
£16.16
University of Hawai'i Press Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan
Book SynopsisTurns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press TwoWorld Literature Kazuo Ishiguros Early Novels
Book SynopsisIn this convincing and provocative study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro.Trade ReviewThis is an accomplished work, a detailed and generous reading of Ishiguro’s early novels and a needed correction to cultural essentialism that still pervades much of world literature theory. I would be delighted to point my students to Suter's book as they explore Ishiguro and consider the now more complicated question of his relationship with Britain and Japan. It is a pleasure to read and its arguments will be lasting. Convincing and provocative, Two-World Literature exhibits a radically poststructuralist approach to Ishiguro’s novels with its emphasis on the rhetorical, narratological, and transnational aspects of his work. Long before the Nobel literary prize was awarded to him, some critics wondered if Ishiguro was a Japanese novelist who wrote in English or a British novelist who injected Japanese sensibilities into his narratives. Suter attempts to establish him as a writer of world literature, one who transgresses the boundary between East and West.
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University of Hawai'i Press TwoWorld Literature Kazuo Ishiguros Early Novels
Book SynopsisAims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the deployment of cultural stereotypes in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. Aamir Mufti has described âworld literatureâ as the legacy of an imperial system of cultural mapping from a unified perspective. Rebecca Suter views Ishiguro's fiction as an alternative to this paradigm.Trade ReviewThis is an accomplished work, a detailed and generous reading of Ishiguro’s early novels and a needed correction to cultural essentialism that still pervades much of world literature theory. I would be delighted to point my students to Suter's book as they explore Ishiguro and consider the now more complicated question of his relationship with Britain and Japan. It is a pleasure to read and its arguments will be lasting. Convincing and provocative, Two-World Literature exhibits a radically poststructuralist approach to Ishiguro’s novels with its emphasis on the rhetorical, narratological, and transnational aspects of his work. Long before the Nobel literary prize was awarded to him, some critics wondered if Ishiguro was a Japanese novelist who wrote in English or a British novelist who injected Japanese sensibilities into his narratives. Suter attempts to establish him as a writer who transgresses the boundary between East and West.
£23.96
University of Missouri Press The Novels of John Steinbeck A Critical Study
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University of Missouri Press The Ghost in the Little House Volume 1
Book SynopsisDrawing on letters and diaries, this biography details Rose Wilder Lane's life and highlights her troubled relationship with an apparently cold and manipulative mother. It throws light on the writing of the ""Little House"" books.
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University of Missouri Press Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love
Book SynopsisThis text re-examines Hardy's novels, emphasizing the love triangles that populate his work. It argues that Hardy was actually sympathetic to his female characters, and refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his success.
£48.60
University of Missouri Press Autobiography LH14 Volume 14
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume of Langston Hughes's autobiography, charting the period of his life from age 29 to 35. It is filled with portraits of the people and places Hughes encountered during his travels around the world.
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University of Missouri Press The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter Perspectives on
Book SynopsisAn analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles.Trade Review[Whited] has brought together an impressive array of scholarship to address the phenomenon that is Harry Potter.... From historical literary cousins to socio-political interpretations of the series' setting, from textual comparisons to fan club communities, the essays span a wide range of scholarly perspectives.... This is an exciting and substantial contribution to early scholarship about an important body of literary work.-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; ""Whited's collection of lively, well-written essays heightens appreciation of a classic in the making, addressing the international phenomenon of J. K. Rowling's books.""-Choice; ""The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter will be indispensable to those interested in the larger literary and sociological issues raised in and around these books.""-Mythprint; ""A highly scholarly and insightful text, offering new perceptions on beloved favorites, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is a welcome addition to Literary Criticism reference collections and highly recommended for scholars and non-specialist general readers who enjoy J. K. Rowling's... canon of deftly written and increasingly influential fantasy.""-Midwest Book Review
£31.05
University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Metaphor
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and the American West Mark Twain and His Circle
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University of Missouri Press Centenary Reflections on Mark Twains No. 44 The
Book SynopsisOne hundred years after its writing, Mark Twain’s ‘The Mysterious Stranger’ remains a literary enigma. Twain’s last significant full-length work of fiction and one of his most deeply philosophical works on the nature of truth and the human condition, it was unfinished at his death and has gained a reputation as an experimental text.
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain in Japan
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Medicine
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Human Nature
Book SynopsisMark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why.
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University of Missouri Press Constructing Mark Twain
Book SynopsisThe thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars.
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University of Missouri Press Rafts and Other Rivercraft
Book SynopsisThe raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is vital to truly understanding Mark Twain's novel.Trade ReviewDr. Beidler’s critiques of inaccurate literary analyses and book illustrations will be of real value to historians and archaeologists with an interest in the navigation and trade on the western rivers, as well as to professionals in the field of American literature, and especially to all readers who want to know about the river world of Huck Finn."" - Kevin Crisman, author of The Eagle: An American Brig on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812Table of Contents Rafts and Other Rivercraft Acknowledgments Introduction “On such a craft as that”: Some Basic Questions 1. “A little section of a lumber raft”: A Rise, a Raft, a Crib 2. “Right in the middle of the wigwam”: Shelter, Oars, Smallpox 3. “Riding high like a duck”: Canoes, Boats, Ferries 4. “In amongst some bundles of shingles”: A Baby, a Barrel, a Home 5. “Generally known as a ‘sucker’”: A Boy, a Raft, a River Works Consulted Index
£43.65
University of Missouri Press The Philosopher and the Storyteller
Book SynopsisThroughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say about literature in both his published work and his private letters. The Philosopher and the Storyteller is the first book-length study of the literary dimensions of Voegelin’s philosophy—and the first to use his philosophy to read specific novels.Trade ReviewOne of the most perceptive and well-written works concerning Eric Voegelin's thought and its illuminative potential that this reader has had the pleasure to encounter. The book exploits the wide-ranging and penetrating insights of Voegelin pertinent to literary criticism and applies them in a coherent, masterly way."" - Glenn Hughes, author of Mystery and Myth in the Philosophy of Eric Voegelin
£28.45
University of New Mexico Press The Circuit Stories from the Life of a Migrant
Book SynopsisAfter dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through. So begins life in the US for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Francisco Jiménez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Telling Western Stories From Buffalo Bill to
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University of New Mexico Press Steinbecks Imaginarium Essays on Writing Fishing
Book SynopsisExplores the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s writing. Robert DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck’s artistic career that deserve closer attention.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo M233xico by
Book SynopsisRepresents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish and in English, painstakingly translated and annotated by Phillip B. Gonzales.Trade ReviewThis book shifts our understanding of the vibrant world of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century nuevomexicano letters through recovering the literary contributions of Manuel Sariñana, a Mexican immigrant whose writing provides a unique perspective on the shifting political and cultural concerns of a territory in transition." - Anita Huizar-Hernández, author of Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West "This work recovers an important literary and social-political novella from 1908 that merits wider dissemination and analysis. It effectively unearths a critical portrait of New Mexican politics, its central ideas, the key historical characters, and the shifting allegiances found in such an environment. The pícaro protagonist here holds the key to unravelling the narration as well as the politics of its era." - Francisco A. Lomelí, coeditor of Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland
£54.40
Seagull Books London Ltd The Crime of Jean Genet
Book SynopsisNow in paperback,The Crime of Jean Genetis a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on anotherandone of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement. Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. His presence, she writes, gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genet's movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing. This book is Eddé's account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genet's life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genet's work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genet's perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, Eddé helps us more clearly understand Genet's relation
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John Wiley & Sons Showing Our Colors
Book SynopsisAn English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources, the collection brings to life the stories of Black German women living amid racism, sexism and other institutional constraints in Germany.
£21.80
MP-KST Kent State Uni To Michal from Serge Letters of Charles Williams
Book SynopsisThese letters to ""Michal"", Charles Williams's endearing name for his wife, from ""Serge"", a moniker by which his close friends addressed him, are more than just a collection of love letters. They throw light on the man himself, his work, and Williams in the context of his literary contemporaries.
£48.60
Cornell University Press Delphine
Book SynopsisGermaine de Stau00ebl''s first major novel, Delphine, published in 1802, is a profound commentary on the status of women during a critical period of French political history. Delphine''s eighteenth-century conventional form as an epistolary novel masks its unconventional questioning of accepted values and norms. From the start, the Napoleonic government understood that Delphine was more than just a tale of tragic love. Though Stau00ebl disclaimed any intention of writing a political novel, the subversive aspects of a book dedicated to The France of Silence were not lost on Bonaparte, who prompty exiled the author from Paris. Perhaps most unacceptable to Napoleon was Stau00ebl''s assertion of the rights of the individual, particularly those of women. The novel is especially important for its presentation of the plight of women at the end of the eighteenth century. This translation of Delphine is based on the authoritative critical French edition prepared by Trade Review"A new and admirable translation."—New York Review of Books "This remarkable translation is highly recommended." -Choice "This excellent translation... reads elegantly." -Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Translator's Note Preface by Germaine de Sta\u00ebl Delphine Explanatory Notes Selected Bibliography
£81.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Eudora Welty
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Reynolds Price
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£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Graham Greene
Book SynopsisThis collection of seventeen interviews covers fifty years. In all the interviews Graham Greene granted over the years, the reader hears very clearly the voice of a man whose conversation is as painfully honest and unpretentious as is his written prose.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Toni Morrison
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of interviews, beginning in 1974, with Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison describes herself as an African-American writer, and these essays show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American experience.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Comic Crime
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin John Dickson Carr A Critical Study
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East European Monographs Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisIleana Orlich captures the shifting and subtle identities and continuities of Romania's literary tradition by concentrating on unfamiliar aesthetic and cultural landscapes, mythic archetypes, and modernist techniques. Examining a distinct and unusual range of authors and texts, Orlich charts the crosscurrents of the century's representative fiction, attesting to the importance of a critical vision of Romanian literature and a commitment to its dynamic interactions with European models.Trade ReviewA meaningful contribution to the study of Romanian literature. -- Oana Popescu-Sandu Slavic and East European Journal
£32.30
East European Monographs From Szlachta Culture to the Twentyfirst Century
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnother exciting contribution to Conrad Studies, providing a powerful analysis of Polish and East Central European contexts in Conrad’s biography, together with interpretation of archival sources, studies in literary history, comparative literary criticism, and the reception of Conrad’s works in Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, by scholars from Europe and elsewhere. * Modern Language Review *
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