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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Science Fiction and Philosophy
Book SynopsisFeaturing numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues. Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of artificial intelligence Features numerous updates to the popular and highly acclaimed first edition, including new chapters addressing the cutting-edge topic of the technological singularity Draws on a broad range of science fiction's more familiar novels, films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Brave New WorldTrade Review"Schneider's anthology, as it stands, is a great introduction to many of the fundamental theoretical issues raised by SF. Each topic is covered with a panel of accessible texts. One will also appreciate the presence of several short stories and references to related works of SF in every section of the book." (Metapsychology online reviews 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction Thought Experiments: Science Fiction as a Window into Philosophical Puzzles 1Susan Schneider Part I Could I Be in a “Matrix” or Computer Simulation? Related Works:The Matrix; Avatar; Ender’s Game; The Hunger Games; Simulacron‐3; Ubik; Tron; Permutation City; Vanilla Sky; Total Recall 17 1 Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a Hard Drive 19Eric Schwitzgebel and R. Scott Bakker 2 Are You in a Computer Simulation? 22Nick Bostrom 3 Plato’s Cave. Excerpt from The Republic 26Plato 4 Some Cartesian thought Experiments. Excerpt from The Meditations on First Philosophy 30René Descartes 5 The Matrix as Metaphysics 35David J. Chalmers Part II What Am I? Free Will and the Nature of Persons Related Works:Moon; Software; Star Trek, The Next Generation: Second Chances; Mindscan; The Matrix; Diaspora; Blindsight; Permutation City; Kiln People; The Gods Themselves; Jerry Was a Man; Nine Lives; Minority Report 55 6 Where Am I? 57Daniel C. Dennett 7 Personal Identity 69Eric Olson 8 Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons 91Derek Parfit 9 Who Am I? What Am I? 99Ray Kurzweil 10 Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report 104Michael Huemer 11 Excerpt from “The Book of Life: A Thought Experiment” 114Alvin I. Goldman Part III Mind: Natural, Artificial, Hybrid, and Superintelligent Related Works:Transcendence; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Humans; Blade Runner; AI; Frankenstein; Accelerando; Terminator; I, Robot; Neuromancer; Last and First Men; His Master’s Voice; The Fire Upon the Deep; Solaris; Stories of your Life 117 12 Robot Dreams 119Isaac Asimov 13 A Brain Speaks 125Andy Clark 14 Cyborgs Unplugged 130Andy Clark 15 Superintelligence and Singularity 146Ray Kurzweil 16 The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis 171David J. Chalmers 17 Alien Minds 225Susan Schneider Part IV Ethical and Political Issues Related Works:Brave New World; Ender’s Game; Johnny Mnemonic; Gattaca; I, Robot; Terminator; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Mindscan; Autofac; Neuromancer; Planet of the Apes; Children of Men; Nineteen Eighty‐Four; Player Piano; For a Breath I Tarry; Diamond Age 243 18 The Man on the Moon 245George J. Annas 19 Mindscan: Transcending and Enhancing the Human Brain 260Susan Schneider 20 The Doomsday Argument 277John Leslie 21 The Last Question 279Isaac Asimov 22 Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics” and Machine Metaethics 290Susan Leigh Anderson 23 The Control Problem. Excerpts from Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 308Nick Bostrom Part V Space and Time Related Works:Interstellar; Twelve Monkeys; Slaughterhouse‐Five; All You Zombies; The Time Machine; Back to the Future; Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions; Anathem 331 24 A Sound of Thunder 333Ray Bradbury 25 Time 343Theodore Sider 26 The Paradoxes of Time Travel 357David Lewis 27 The Quantum Physics of Time Travel 370David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood 28 Miracles and Wonders: Science Fiction as Epistemology 384Richard Hanley Appendix: Philosophers Recommend Science Fiction 393Eric Schwitzgebel Index 410
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Herman Melville
Book Synopsis* * This comprehensive resource demonstrates the relevance of Melville s works in the twenty-first century. * Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville.Trade Review“As a guide to various perspectives on American literary studies at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, it has its value.”—(Reference Reviews, 1 December 2012)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xx Texts and Abbreviations xxi Preface xxiiiWyn Kelley Part I Travels 1 1 A Traveling Life Laurie Robertson-Lorant 3 2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture Peter Gibian 19 3 Melville’s World Readers A. Robert Lee 35 4 Global Melville Paul Lyons 52 Part II Geographies 69 5 Science and the Earth Bruce A. Harvey 71 6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea Mary K. Bercaw Edwards 83 7 Pacific Paradises Alex Calder 98 8 Atlantic Trade Hester Blum 113 9 Ancient Lands Basem L. Ra’ad 129 Part III Nations 147 10 Democracy and its Discontents Dennis Berthold 149 11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform Carol Colatrella 165 12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion Hilton Obenzinger 181 13 Pierre’s Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation Christopher Castiglia 197 14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma John Stauffer 214 15 Gender and Sexuality Leland S. Person 231 Part IV Libraries 247 16 The Legacy of Britain Robin Grey 249 17 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature Rachela Permenter 266 18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea R. D. Madison 282 19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph Edgar A. Dryden 299 20 The Company of Women Authors Charlene Avallone 313 21 Hawthorne and Race Ellen Weinauer 327 22 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”: Melville and the Visual Arts Robert K. Wallace 342 Part V Texts 363 23 The Motive for Metaphor: Typee, Omoo, and Mardi Geoffrey Sanborn 365 24 Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein 378 25 The Language of Moby-Dick: “Read It If You Can” Maurice S. Lee 393 26 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic Christopher Sten 408 27 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales Caroline Levander 423 28 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno” Marvin Fisher 435 29 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man Gale Temple 451 30 How Clarel Works Samuel Otter 467 31 Melville the Realist Poet Elizabeth Renker 482 32 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms John Wenke 497 Part VI Meanings 513 33 The Melville Revival Sanford E. Marovitz 515 34 Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture Elizabeth Schultz 532 35 The Melville Text John Bryant 553 Index 567
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to William Faulkner
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. * Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist. * Comprises original essays written by leading scholars.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Richard C. Moreland PART I Contexts 5 1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7 Richard Godden 2 "We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain 28 Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson 3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46 Anne Goodwyn Jones 4 "C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65 Catherine Gunther Kodat 5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85 Michael Zeitlin 6 Faulkner's Lives 104 Jay Parini PART II Questions 113 7 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115 Owen Robinson 8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133 Barbara Ladd 9 "Why Are You So Black?" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148 John N. Duvall 10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165 Julia Leyda 11 Faulkner's Families 180 Arthur F. Kinney 12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202 Cheryl Lester 13 The State 220 Ted Atkinson 14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels 236 Lothar Hönnighausen 15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination 252 Sean Latham 16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269 Leigh Anne Duck 17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284 Peter Lurie 18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301 Vincent Allan King PART III Genres and Forms 319 19 Faulkner's Genre Experiments 321 Thomas L. McHaney 20 "Make It New": Faulkner and Modernism 342 Philip Weinstein 21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359 Susan V. Donaldson 22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373 Greg Forter 23 William Faulkner's Short Stories 394 Hans H. Skei 24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction 410 Noel Polk 25 Faulkner's Texts 420 Noel Polk PART IV Sample Readings 427 26 "By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429 Donald M. Kartiganer 27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445 John Carlos Rowe 28 "The Cradle of Your Nativity": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 459 Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber PART V After Faulkner 477 29 "He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus": Faulkner's Critical Reception 479 Timothy P. Caron 30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infl uence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines 499 Deborah Cohn 31 Faulkner's Continuance 519 Patrick O'Donnell Index 528
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Crime Fiction
Book SynopsisA Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fictionFollows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularityFeatures full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the fieldIncludes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliographyTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction: What is Crime Fiction? 1Charles J. Rzepka Part I History, Criticism, Culture 11 1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 13Heather Worthington 2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 28Lee Horsley 3 Criticism and Theory 43Heta Pyrhönen 4 Crime and the Mass Media 57Alain Silver and James Ursini 5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 76Joel Black Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces 91 6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 93Lauren Gillingham 7 From Sensation to the Strand 105Christopher Pittard 8 The “Classical” Model of the Golden Age 117Susan Rowland 9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic 128Alexander Moudrov 10 The “Hard-boiled” Genre 140Andrew Pepper 11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction 152Carl Malmgren 12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science 164Sarah Dauncey 13 The Police Novel 175Peter Messent 14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller 187Philip Simpson 15 True Crime 198David Schmid 16 Gangs and Mobs 210Jonathan Munby 17 Historical Crime and Detection 222Ray B. Browne 18 Crime and the Spy Genre 233David Seed 19 Crime and the Gothic 245Catherine Spooner 20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths 258Adrienne E. Gavin 21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction 270Frankie Bailey 22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) 283Ed Christian 23 Crime Writing in Other Languages 296Sue Neale 24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection 308Patricia Merivale 25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers 321Christopher Routledge 26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel 332Arthur Fried 27 Criminal Investigation on Film 344Philippa Gates Part III Artists at Work 357 Fiction 359 28 William Godwin (1756–1836) 361Philip Shaw 29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 369Maurice S. Lee 30 Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) 381Andrew Mangham 31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) 390John A. Hodgson 32 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) 403Leroy Lad Panek 33 Agatha Christie (1890–1976) 415Merja Makinen 34 James M. Cain (1892–1977) 427William Marling 35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) 438Esme Miskimmin 36 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) 450Jasmine Yong Hall 37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) 462Alicia Borinsky 38 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 475Stephen Soitos 39 David Goodis (1917–1967) 487David Schmid 40 P. D. James (1920–) 495Louise Harrington 41 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) 503Bran Nicol 42 Elmore Leonard (1925–) 510Charles J. Rzepka 43 Sara Paretsky (1947–) 523Malcah Effron 44 Walter Mosley (1952–) 531John Gruesser Film 539 45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) 541Nick Haeffner 46 Martin Scorsese (1942–) 553Mark Desmond Nicholls 47 John Woo (1946–) 562Karen Fang Conclusion 570Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley References 574 Index 599
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Novel
Book SynopsisThe Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 19002000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines, especially social, cultural and political theory. Broad in scope, including sections on formalism; the Chicago School; structuralism and narratology; deconstruction; psychoanalysis; Marxism; social discourse; gender; post-colonialism; and more. Includes whole essays or chapters wherever possible. Headnotes introduce and link each piece, enabling readers to draw connections between different schools of thought. Encourages students to approach theoretical texts with confidence, applying the same skills they bring to literary texts. Includes a volume introduction, a selected bibliography, an index of tTrade Review“Readers of Dorothy J. Hale's The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 will find the volume to be two books in one. One book is the anthology proper, which brings together essays that theorize the complex nature and history of novelistic fiction. Those essays became classroom classics in colleges and universities during the last forty years of the 20th century. The second is a virtual book of its own comprised of Hale's brilliant introductions to the theoretical essays. Elaborating each of the essays, interweaving their significance and the significance of the schools of theory from which the essays derive, Hale's meditations are a supplemental bonus to all teachers and students with a taste for ‘novel theory.’ ” Robert L. Caserio, author of Plot, Story and the Novel and The Novel in England 1900-1950: History and Theory.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. General Introduction. Part I: Form and Function. 1 Victor Shklovsky, “Sterne’s Tristram Shandy”. 2 Vladimir Propp, from Morphology of the Folktale. 3 Henry James, Prefaces to the New York Edition. Preface to The Portrait of a Lady. Preface to The Ambassadors. 4 Percy Lubbock, from The Craft of Fiction. 5 Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism. “Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres”. Part II: The Chicago School. 6 R. S. Crane, from “The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones”. 7 Ralph W. Rader, “Richardson to Austen”. 8 Wayne C. Booth, from The Rhetoric of Fiction. Part III: Structuralism, Narratology, Deconstruction. 9 Tzvetan Todorov, from The Poetics of Prose. 10 Seymour Chatman, from Story and Discourse. “Discourse: Covert versus Overt Narrators”. 11 Roland Barthes, “The Reality Effect”. 12 Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text”. 13 J. Hillis Miller, from Reading Narrative. “Indirect Discourses and Irony”. 14 Barbara Johnson, from A World of Difference. “Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Part IV: Psychoanalytic Approaches. 15 René Girard, from Deceit, Desire, and the Novel. “‘Triangular’ Desire”. 16 Shoshana Felman, from “Turning the Screw of Interpretation”. “The Turns of the Story’s Frame: a Theory of Narrative”. 17 Peter Brooks, “ Freud’s Masterplot”. Part V: Marxist Approaches. 18 Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller”. 19 György Lukács, from Studies in European Realism. 20 György Lukács, “The Ideology of Modernism”. 21 Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious. Part VI: The Novel as Social Discourse. 22 Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel. 23 M. M. Bakhtin, from “Discourse in the Novel”. 24 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from The Signifying Monkey. “Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text”. 25 Jane Tompkins, from Sensational Designs. “Introduction: The Cultural Work of American Fiction”. 26 D. A. Miller, from The Novel and the Police. Part VII: Gender, Sexuality, and the Novel. 27 Virginia Woolf, “Women and Fiction”. 28 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, from Between Men. 29 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s. The Art of the Novel”. 30 Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction. “The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now”. 31 Catherine Gallagher, from Nobody’s Story. Part VIII: Post-Colonialism and the Novel. 32 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a. Critique of Imperialism”. 33 Edward W. Said, from Culture and Imperialism. “Consolidated Vision”. 34 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Location of Culture. “DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the. Modern Nation”. 35 Franco Moretti, from Atlas of the European Novel. “The Novel, the Nation-State”. Part IX: Novel Readers. 36 Wolfgang Iser, from The Implied Reader. “The Reader as a Component Part of the Realisti. 37 Nina Baym, from Novels, Readers, and Reviewers. “The Triumph of the Novel”. 38 Garrett Stewart, from Dear Reader. “In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in Mary Shelley”. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Science Fiction
Book SynopsisA Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from MaryTrade Review“The volume as a whole successfully acquaints diligent readers with an array of substantive avenues of critical inquiry into science fiction … Highly recommended." Choice “[This] Companion provides unusual depth and detail … The main strengths here are the distinguished roster of contributors, who have plenty of thought-provoking ideas … Anyone seeking an immersion course in the history and criticism of [science fiction] today will find that their time is well repaid.” Science Fiction Studies Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: Approaching Science Fiction 1 PART I Surveying the Field 9 1 Hard Reading: The Challenges of Science Fiction 11Tom Shippey 2 The Origins of Science Fiction 27George Slusser 3 Science Fiction/Criticism 43Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. 4 Science Fiction Magazines: The Crucibles of Change 60Mike Ashley PART II Topics and Debates 77 5 Utopia 79Phillip E. Wegner 6 Science Fiction and Religion 95Stephen R.L. Clark 7 “Monsters of the Imagination”: Gothic, Science, Fiction 111Fred Botting 8 Science Fiction and Ecology 127Brian Stableford 9 Feminist Fabulation 142Marleen S. Barr 10 Time and Identity in Feminist Science Fiction 156Jenny Wolmark 11 Science Fiction and the Cold War 171M. Keith Booker PART III Genres and Movements 185 12 Hard Science Fiction 187Gary Westfahl 13 The New Wave 202Rob Latham 14 Cyberpunk 217Mark Bould 15 Science Fiction and Postmodernism 232Veronica Hollinger 16 The Renewal of “Hard” Science Fiction 248Donald M. Hassler PART IV Science Fiction Film 259 17 American Science Fiction Film: An Overview 261Vivian Sobchack 18 Figurations of the Cyborg in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels and Films 275Christine Cornea 19 British Television Science Fiction 289Peter Wright PART V The International Scene 307 20 Canadian Science Fiction 309Douglas Barbour 21 Japanese and Asian Science Fiction 323Takayuki Tatsumi 22 Australian Science Fiction 337Van Ikin and Sean McMullen PART VI Key Writers 351 23 The Grandeur of H.G. Wells 353Robert Crossley 24 Isaac Asimov 364John Clute 25 John Wyndham: The Facts of Life Sextet 375David Ketterer 26 Philip K. Dick 389Christopher Palmer 27 Samuel Delaney: A Biographical and Critical Overview 398Carl Freedman 28 Ursula K. Le Guin 408Warren G. Rochelle 29 Gwyneth Jones and the Anxieties of Science Fiction 420Andy Sawyer 30 Arthur C. Clarke 431Edward James 31 Greg Egan 441Russell Blackford PART VII Readings 453 32 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus 455Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan 33 Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland 466Jill Rudd 34 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World 477David Seed 35 Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 489Brian Baker 36 Joanna Russ: The Female Man 500Jeanne Cortiel 37 J.G. Ballard: Crash 512Roger Luckhurst 38 Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale 522Faye Hammill 39 William Gibson: Neuromancer 534Andrew M. Butler 40 Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars Trilogy 544Carol Franko 41 Iain M. Banks: Excession 556Farah Mendlesohn Index 567
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO THE BRITISH AND IRISH SHORT STORY A COMPANION TO THE BRITISH AND RISH SHORT STORY A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story chronicles the development of this important literary form in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Part I covers the years up to 1945 and examines the short fiction that emerged around such themes as imperial adventures, responses to war, and detective and crime stories. Authors covered in this period include Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and Elizabeth Bowen. Part II reflects the range of themes, and richer diversity of authorship, that developed during the postwar years, including feminist writings, gay and lesbian fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and short stories by Asian and Afro-Caribbean writers. Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, and Ben Okri, are just some of the authors discussed in these chapters. Incorporating a wide range of approaches, ATrade Review"Companion to the British and Irish Short Story is an instructive and engaging guide, covering a broad range of interest in fiction from schoolwork to academic research." (Reference Reviews, April 2009)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Preface xv Part I: 1880–1945 1 Introduction 3 1 The British and Irish Short Story to 1945 5Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres 17 2 The Story of Colonial Adventure 19Mariadele Boccardi 3 Responses to War: 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 35Richard Greaves 4 Irish Short Fiction: 1880–1945 51Patrick Lonergan 5 The Detective and Crime Story: 1880–1945 65Jopi Nyman 6 The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880–1945 81Becky DiBiasio 7 Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945) 96Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 8 Rudyard Kipling’s Art of the Short Story 114David Malcolm Reading Individual Authors and Texts 129 9 Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Bottle Imp,” “The Beach of Falesá,” and “Markheim” 131Michael Meyer 10 Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales 140David Grylls 11 Joseph Conrad: “The Secret Sharer” and “An Outpost of Progress” 149Christopher Thomas Cairney 12 The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro (“Saki”) 157Sandie Byrne 13 Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce’s Dubliners 165Richard Greaves 14 H.G. Wells’s Short Stories: “The Country of the Blind” and “The Door in the Wall” 174Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 15 D.H. Lawrence’s Short Stories: “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” 183Kathryn Miles 16 Virginia Woolf: “Kew Gardens” and “The Legacy” 193Stef Craps 17 Katherine Mansfi eld: “The Garden Party” and “Marriage à la Mode” 202Jennifer E. Dunn 18 Frank O’Connor: “Guests of the Nation” and “My Oedipus Complex” 211Greg Winston 19 The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty 221Shawn O’Hare 20 W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden Stories 227David Malcolm 21 Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover” and “Mysterious Kôr” 236Sarah Dillon Part II: 1945–the Present 245 Introduction 247 22 The British and Irish Short Story: 1945–Present 249Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres 261 23 New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945 263Greg Winston 24 Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present 279James M. Lang 25 Scottish Short Stories (post 1945) 294Gavin Miller 26 Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay 308Michael Parker 27 The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust 330Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 28 Feminist Voices: Women’s Short Fiction after 1945 342Michael Meyer 29 British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories 356Brett Josef Grubisic 30 Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction 372Mitchell R. Lewis 31 Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945 384Günther Jarfe Reading Individual Authors and Texts 399 32 The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross 401David Malcolm 33 Alan Sillitoe: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” 409Michael Parker 34 The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor 416Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 35 The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett 423Andrzej Ga² siorek 36 Edna O’Brien: “A Rose in the Heart of New York” 431Sinéad Mooney 37 Doris Lessing: African Stories 440Don Adams 38 The Desire for Clarity: Seán O’Faoláin’s “Lovers of the Lake” 448Paul Delaney 39 The Short Stories of Muriel Spark 456Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 40 Jean Rhys: “Let Them Call It Jazz” 464Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 41 George Mackay Brown: “Witch,” “Master Halcrow, Priest,” “A Time to Keep,” and “The Tarn and the Rosary” 472Gavin Miller 42 William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art 480John Kenny 43 John McGahern: Nightlines 488Stanley van der Ziel 44 The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty’s “Walking the Dog” 498Jerzy Jarniewicz 45 Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire – Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism 507Madelena Gonzalez 46 J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape 516Mitchell R. Lewis 47 The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri 524Wolfgang Görtschacher 48 James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast 532Peter Clandfield 49 Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time 541Patrick Lonergan Index 550
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd C.S. Lewis
Book SynopsisIn this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the works of this popular author. Examines his life, work, world view, and the implications of his theology in relation to his other writings Looks at Lewis'' beliefs on the topics of redemption, humanity, spiritual growth, purgatory, and resurrection Examines the different perspectives on Lewis and his work: as prophet, evangelist, and as a spiritual mentor Explores the range and influence of Lewis'' work, from the bestselling apologetic, Mere Christianity, to the world-famous Chronicles of Narnia Features specially-commissioned artwork throughout Written in an accessible style for general readers, students, and scholars, and will introduce Lewis'' theology to a wider audience. Trade Review“C. S. Lewis once suggested that it would be a boon to be able to have a real live Epicurean at our elbow when reading Lucretius or to learn from a mouse or bee’s perspective; so Professor David Clark gives us the enlarged pleasure of reading Lewis with a sensible and good-humored theologian by our side. This is no stale and stuffy pedantic writing, but a lively, witty, and fully engaging translation of Lewis’s thoughts on Christian doctrines of faith and redemption (and a bit of Purgatory). With clarity and piercing insight, Professor Clark guides us merry fellow pilgrims along Lewis’ own spiritual and intellectual journey, pointing out hidden trails, narrow paths, and fascinating facts and myths along the way.” Terry Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College “Professor Clark writes with the confidence of one whose broad and informed acquaintance with the Lewis canon allows him to speak authoritatively about Lewis's theology and use of Scriptural tradition.” Bruce L. Edwards, Bowling Green State University “A very winsome book – nicely poised between a comprehensive introduction for the reader new to Lewis and a holistic treatment of the varied literary output in the Lewis canon for Lewis admirers … The chief contribution of this work lies in [Clark’s] steady treatment of Lewis’s use of Scripture and the Scriptural basis of his own imaginative works … This work walks the tightrope between saying too much and saying just enough from the perspective of a Biblical scholar who also well understands the nature and narrative and why Lewis wrote as he did. Very good for individual or group study.” www.pseudobook.comTable of ContentsAbbreviations. Lewis’s Works. Books of the Bible. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Lewis and Scripture. The Strengths of Lewis. Lewis the Apologist and Mentor. 1 From Atheist to Apologist. Growing Up. Lewis in School. Lewis at Oxford. The Path to Faith. The Christian Lewis. Lewis as Prophet. Lewis as Evangelist. Lewis as Believer and Mentor. 2 Lewis Looks at His World. Aesthetics and Morality in the "Green Book." Aesthetics and Morality in That Hideous Strength. Aesthetics and God in Reflections on the Psalms. Lewis at Cambridge. The Post-Christian West. The Christian Viewpoint. The Hidden Influence. Lewis and Science. 3 Lewis Reaches Out to His World. The Redemption Story: Lewis’s Subtle Approach. The Redemption Story in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Redemption Story in Perelandra. The Myth That Entered History. The Redemption Story: Lewis’s Direct Approach. God’s Life in Us. 4 Humanity in God’s Creation. The Making of Humanity. Humans and Animals. Animals in the Space Trilogy. The Biblical Mandate. Humans and Angels. Fallen Angels. Good Angels. Between Animals and Angels. 5 Walking by Faith. The Myth of Cupid and Psyche According to Apuleius. The Myth According to Lewis. The Meaning of the Myth. Natural Affection. The Importance of Faith. Reconciling Faith and Sight. 6 God’s Plan for the Soul. The Goal of Sanctification. The Concept of Purgatory. The Descent of Christ in The Great Divorce. The Theology of Purgatory. The Descent of Christ in Scripture. Applying the Seven Principles. Will All Be Saved? Is There a Second Chance? Beyond Spaceand Time. Responding to Truth. Purgatory in Scripture. Summary.. 7 God’s Plan for the Body - and the Universe. Resurrection of the Body. Resurrection and Creation. Judgment by Fire. The Face of God. Conclusion: The Legacy of Lewis. Did Lewis Pass the Test? The Impact of Lewis. A Theology of Redemption. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Science Fiction Handbook
Book SynopsisFew literary genres can expand the boundaries of our imagination as much as science fiction. The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive historical survey of literary works of science fiction and its most popular sub-genres.Trade Review"Science fiction has been an important force in English-language literature and publishing for well over one hundred years. The task of adequately summarizing it ... would seem daunting. Doing it adequately and in a manner that is both understandable to the lay reader and even at times entertaining might seem an impossibility. And doing all that in fewer than 350 pages . . . forget it. But Booker and Thomas have succeeded. Bravo. As Mr. Spock might say, with the lift of an eyebrow, 'Fascinating.' As is this handbook. Every decent library should have it, and every good science fiction fan should refer to it. I guarantee you'll learn something and have your horizons expanded." (Green Man Review, September 2009) ?Booker and Thomas have produced a valuable work that manages to find a niche in a suddenly crowded market for resources on science fiction.? (CHOICE, October 2009) "The book is ... rich, [and] diverse ... .If you are interested in science fiction ... you [should] run out and get a copy. Although the focus is on literature, movies and TV shows are also included. I highly recommend it. The book not only taught me and demonstrated its a potential as a reference work, it introduced me to works of science fiction that I had not read and left me wanting to go out and read them." (Exploring Our Matrix Blog, September 2009) "In short, The Science Fiction Handbook is a fascinating reference work that puts science fiction subgenres into historical perspective while offering more detailed analyses of representative corresponding novels." (SF Signal, July 2009) ?In The Science Fiction Handbook, authors M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas finally give the genre its due, and celebrate it, as well as help to distinguish it from other forms such as fantasy or horror.? (SFscope.com, April 2009)Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction. Science Fiction in Western Culture. Part II: Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres. The Time-Travel Invasion. The Alien Invasion Narrative. The Space Opera. Apocalyptic and Post-Disaster Narratives. Dystopian Science Fiction. Utopian Fiction. Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender. Science Fiction and Satire. Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction. Multicultural Science Fiction. Part III: Representative Science Fiction Authors. Isaac Asimov (1920–1992). Margaret Atwood (1939–). Octavia Butler (1947–2006). Samuel R. Delany (1942–). Philip K. Dick (1928–1982). William Gibson (1948–). Nicola Griffith (1960–). Joe Haldeman (1943–). Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988). Nalo Hopkinson (1960–). Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–). Ian McDonald (1960–). China Miéville (1972–). George Orwell (1903–1950). Marge Piercy (1936–). Frederik Pohl (1919–). Kim Stanley Robinson (1952–). Neal Stephenson (1959–). H. G. Wells (1866–1946). Part IV: Discussions of Individual Texts. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895). H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898). George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950). Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth, The Space Merchants (1952). Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959). Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974). Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974). Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton (1976). William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984). Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). Octavia Butler, “Xenogenesis” trilogy (1987–1989). Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992). Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1994). Kim Stanley Robinson, “Mars” trilogy (1992–1996). Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000). China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (2000). Ian McDonald, River of Gods (2005). Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Romance
Book SynopsisRomance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples Trade Review“Acknowledging the difficulty of defining "romance," Saunders and the contributors collectively produce a volume that offers a more comprehensive survey of the literature--including its historical, national, and generic varieties--than have previous standard works on the subject…Some of the essays--e.g., Helen Cooper's "Malory and the Early Prose Romances" and Richard Cronin's "Victorian Romance: Medievalism"--are exemplary in the quality of their writing, scholarship, and critical perception…Highly recommended.” Choice "... It would be worth acquiring for an academic humanities collection and, from my own experience, would be particulary useful for English literature students at undergraduate and postgraduate level." Reference ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 1. Ancient Romance 10 Elizabeth Archibald 2. Insular Beginnings: Anglo-Norman Romance 26 Judith Weiss 3. The Popular English Metrical Romances 45 Derek Brewer 4. Arthurian Romance 65 W. R. J. Barron 5. Chaucer’s Romances 85 Corinne Saunders 6. Malory and the Early Prose Romances 104 Helen Cooper 7. Gendering Prose Romance in Renaissance England 121 Lori Humphrey Newcomb 8. Sidney and Spenser 140 Andrew King 9. Shakespeare’s Romances 160 David Fuller 10. Chapbooks and Penny Histories 177 John Simons 11. The Faerie Queene and Eighteenth-century Spenserianism 197 David Fairer 12. ‘‘Gothic’’ Romance: Its Origins and Cultural Functions 216 Jerrold E. Hogle 13. Women’s Gothic Romance: Writers, Readers, and the Pleasures of the Form 233 Lisa Vargo 14. Paradise and Cotton-mill: Rereading Eighteenth-century Romance 251 Clive Probyn 15. ‘‘Inconsistent Rhapsodies’’: Samuel Richardson and the Politics of Romance 269 Fiona Price 16. Romance and the Romantic Novel: Sir Walter Scott 287 Fiona Robertson 17. Poetry of the Romantic Period: Coleridge and Keats 305 Michael O’Neill 18. Victorian Romance: Tennyson 321 Leonée Ormond 19. Victorian Romance: Medievalism 341 Richard Cronin 20. Romance and Victorian Autobiography: Margaret Oliphant, Edmund Gosse, and John Ruskin’s ‘‘needle to the north’’ 360 Francis O’Gorman 21. Victorian Romance: Romance and Mystery 375 Andrew Sanders 22. Nineteenth-century Adventure and Fantasy: James Morier, George Meredith, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson 389 Robert Fraser 23. Into the Twentieth Century: Imperial Romance from Haggard to Buchan 406 Susan Jones 24. America and Romance 424 Ulrika Maude 25. Myth, Legend, and Romance in Yeats, Pound, and Eliot 438 Edward Larrissy 26. Twentieth-century Arthurian Romance 454 Raymond H. Thompson 27. Romance in Fantasy Through the Twentieth Century 472 Richard Mathews 28. Quest Romance in Science Fiction 488 Kathryn Hume 29. Between Worlds: Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, and Romance 502 Clare Morgan 30. Popular Romance and its Readers 521 Lynne Pearce Epilogue: Into the Twenty-first Century 539 Corinne Saunders Index 542
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Crime Fiction
Book SynopsisA Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. It brings together a series of forty-seven original essays from some of the world's leading authorities.Trade Review"Including a helpful introduction by Rzepka and conclusion by both editors, the volume is a welcome addition to the impressive "Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture" series and to scholarship on crime and detective literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. " (Choice, 1July 2011) "Whilst the editors admit that the collection is not entirely representative (there is no mention of Japanese manga, for instance, or any consideration of hybrids of crime and science fiction), this companion offers an encyclopaedic account of crime fiction and its generic cross-fertilisations, and is an essential guide for students and scholars alike." (Routledge ABES, 2011) "This substantial and informative book covers a wide variety of themes within the genre and also a long time span from the eighteenth century to the present . . . It will give all aficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment. It is indeed a trusty companion that will entertain and add to our knowledge." (Reference Reviews, 2011) "It will give all aficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment. It is indeed a trusty companion that will entertain and add to our knowledge." (Languages & Literature, 2011) "Several of the contributors praise books and authors long out of print. Hopefully, this companion will encourage readers and librarians to hunt them down and enjoy." (Book News, 1 March 2011) "In all, despite its shortcomings in terms of narratology and a few logical inconsistencies, Rzepka and Horsley's Companion to Crime Fiction offers a broad-ranging and well-argued introduction to this field of popular culture. Beginning students will certainly profit from its thematic diversity and wide historical reach." (Kult Online, 2011) "A Companion to Crime Fiction goes into enormous detail but is reasonably easy to read. It is not an academic-styled book but a guide to how crime fiction has developed over time to accommodate an increasingly demanding audience/reader. With essays from some of the most educated scholars in this field of research, the reader gains a greater understanding in terms of a general overview of the genre, individual authors and producers of film, the blurred lines between crime fiction and other genres and an in depth, well researched analysis of crime fiction itself." (M/C Reviews, November 2010)Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction: What Is Crime Fiction? 1 Charles J. Rzepka Part I History, Criticism, Culture 11 1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 13 Heather Worthington 2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 28 Lee Horsley 3 Criticism and Theory 43 Heta Pyrhönen 4 Crime and the Mass Media 57 Alain Silver and James Ursini 5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 76 Joel Black Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces 91 6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 93 Lauren Gillingham 7 From Sensation to the Strand 105 Christopher Pittard 8 The “Classical” Model of the Golden Age 117 Susan Rowland 9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic 128 Alexander Moudrov 10 The “Hard-boiled” Genre 140 Andrew Pepper 11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction 152 Carl Malmgren 12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science 164 Sarah Dauncey 13 The Police Novel 175 Peter Messent 14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller 187 Philip Simpson 15 True Crime 198 David Schmid 16 Gangs and Mobs 210 Jonathan Munby 17 Historical Crime and Detection 222 Ray B. Browne 18 Crime and the Spy Genre 233 David Seed 19 Crime and the Gothic 245 Catherine Spooner 20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths 258 Adrienne E. Gavin 21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction 270 Frankie Bailey 22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) 283 Ed Christian 23 Crime Writing in Other Languages 296 Sue Neale 24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection 308 Patricia Merivale 25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers 321 Christopher Routledge 26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel 332 Arthur Fried 27 Criminal Investigation on Film 344 Philippa Gates Part III Artists at Work 357 Fiction 359 28 William Godwin (1756–1836) 361 Philip Shaw 29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 369 Maurice S. Lee 30 Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) 381 Andrew Mangham 31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) 390 John A. Hodgson 32 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) 403 Leroy Lad Panek 33 Agatha Christie (1890–1976) 415 Merja Makinen 34 James M. Cain (1892–1977) 427 William Marling 35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) 438 Esme Miskimmin 36 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) 450 Jasmine Yong Hall 37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) 462 Alicia Borinsky 38 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 475 Stephen Soitos 39 David Goodis (1917–1967) 487 David Schmid 40 P. D. James (1920–) 495 Louise Harrington 41 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) 503 Bran Nicol 42 Elmore Leonard (1925–) 510 Charles J. Rzepka 43 Sara Paretsky (1947–) 523 Malcah Effron 44 Walter Mosley (1952–) 531 John Gruesser Film 539 45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) 541 Nick Haeffner 46 Martin Scorsese (1942–) 553 Mark Desmond Nicholls 47 John Woo (1946–) 562 Karen Fang Conclusion 570 Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley References 574 Index 599
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Johns Hopkins University Press Romantic Sobriety
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.Trade Review"A panoramic view of the theoretical options open to the self-aware American academic critic wanting to write about Romanticism." (Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary, University of London)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sensation of RomanticismPart I: Periodicity1. Romantic Sobriety2. Kant All Lit Up: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of GeniusPart II: Theory3. De Man, Marx, Rousseau, and the Machine4. Against Theory beside Romanticism: Mute Bodies, Fanatical Seeing5. The Sensation of the Signifier6. Ghost TheoryPart III: Texts7. Lyric Ritalin: Time and History in "Ode to the West Wind"8. No Satisfaction: High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan9. Gothic Thought and Surviving Romanticism in Zofloya and Jane Eyre10. Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic SensationCoda: The Embarrassment of RomanticismNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the
Book SynopsisBackscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.Trade ReviewIt seems certain, given Backscheider's impressive track record as a revisionary influence upon eighteenth-century studies, that this generous book, abounding in perceptions waiting to be gleshed out, will energize a round of 'next-generation' research into Rowe and her legacy. -- Kathryn R. King Review of English Studies Both original and provocative, Paula Backscheider's new book is also deeply learned and comprehensive in its scholarship... -- John Richetti Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Paula R. Backsheider's latest book seeks to establish, with impressive detail and energy, the centrality of the fiction of Elizabeth Singer Rowe to the development of the English novel. -- Gillian Skinner Modern Literary ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Locating Elizabeth Singer Rowe1. Positioning Rowe's Fiction2. Isles of Happiness3. Toward Novelistic Discourse4. The Beautiful LifeConclusion: Lifestyle as LegacyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Exquisite Masochism
Book SynopsisComplicating our understanding of Victorian marriage ideology's more well-trodden focus on a productive, nation-building ideal, Exquisite Masochism offers fascinating insight into our own culture's debates around illicit sexuality, marriage, reproduction, and feminism.Trade ReviewJarvis opens new avenues of criticism to work that is often oversimplified. Highly recommended. Choice ... an engaging cultural study, with applications wider than nineteenth-century literature. Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Making Scenes2. The Grasp of Wuthering Heights3. Buoyed Up4. Hideously Multiplied5. Dead GemsConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press American Hieroglyphics
Book SynopsisAlong the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Emerson, Thoreau, and WhitmanChapter 1. Champollion and the Historical Background; Emerson's Hieroglyphical EmblemsChapter 2. Thoreau: The Single, Basic Form — Patenting a LeafChapter 3. Whitman: Hieroglyphic Bibles and Phallic SongsPart II: PoeChapter 4. The Hieroglyphics and the Quest for Origins: The Myth of Hieroglyphic DoublingChapter 5. Ends and Origins: The Voyage to the Polar Abyss and the Journey to the Source of the Nile; The Survival of the ManuscriptChapter 6. Certainty and Credibility — Self-Evidence and Self-Reference; Nietzsche and Tragedy — Whitman and Opera; The Open RoadChapter 7. Writing Self / Written Self; The Dark Double; The Overwhelming of the Vessel Chapter 8. Cannibalism and Sacrifice; Metaphors of the Body — Transfiguration, Transubstantiation, Resurrection, and AscensionChapter 9. Narcissus and the Illusion of DepthChapter 10. Self-Recognition; Deciphering a Mnemic Inscription; Historical Amnesia and Personal AnamnesisChapter 11. Repetition; Symbolic Death and Rebirth; The Infinite and Indefinite; The Mechanism of ForeshadowingChapter 12. The Unfinished Narrative; The Cavern Inscription on Tsalal; Survival in an ImageChapter 13. The White Shadow; Imaging the Indefinite; Reading the Spirit from the Letter; The Finality of Revenge; The Alogical Status of the SelfChapter 14. The Return to Oneness; Breaking the Crypt; The Limits of Interpretation; The Ultimate CertaintyPart III: Hawthorne and MelvilleChapter 15. Hawthorne: The Ambiguity of the Hieroglyphics; The Unstable Self and Its Roles; Mirror Image and Phonetic Veil; The Feminine Role of the Artist; Veil and Phallus; The Book as Partial ObjectChapter 16. Melville: The Indeterminate Ground; A Conjunction of Fountain and Vortex; The Myth of Isis and Osiris; Master Oppositions; The Doubleness of the Self and the Illusion of Consistent Character; Dionysus and Apollo; Mask and Phallus; The Chain of Partial ObjectsEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Being Cool
Book SynopsisRzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.Trade ReviewRzepka's close reading of Leonard's fiction is an insightful, thorough and timely addition to scholarship on the author. Library Journal Few people are as versed in Elmore Leonard's world as Charles Rzepka. BU TodayTable of ContentsPreface1. Being Cool2. Being Other(s)3. Plays Well with Others4. ChorusesConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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MP-GRY Grey House Publishing George Orwell
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Temple University Press,U.S. Pimping Fictions
Book SynopsisThe first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights eraTrade Review"Gifford's groundbreaking study of the 'art and business of black crime literature' is ingenious in its embrace of elements of street literature from historical and literary perspectives along with the culture of the writers who produce it, the commercial enterprises that publish it, and the 'white-controlled spaces' they occupy and must negotiate... In exploring how these writers, little noticed by academia or mainstream media, negotiate the connection between white-controlled spaces in urban centers, prisons, and publishing, Gifford makes a persuasive case for their importance." Publishers Weekly, December 2012 "Gifford aims to inject greater awareness of black crime fiction into the history of African American cultural production, and his analyses of Chester Himes, Robert Beck, Donald Goines, and Players magazine fulfill that ambition. His book clarifies this popular yet understudied topic... Summing Up: Recommended."--Choice, August 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “He Jerked His Pistol Free and Fired It at the Pavement”: Chester Himes and the Transformation of American Crime Literature2 Pimping Fictions: Iceberg Slim and the Invention of Pimp Literature3 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the Radicalization of Black Crime Literature4 Black in a White Paradise: Utopias and Imagined Solutions in Black Crime Literature5 “For He Who Is”: Players Magazine and the Reimagining of the American Pimp6 The Women of Street Literature: Contemporary Black Crime Fiction and the Rise of the Self-Publishing MarketplaceNotesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero
Book SynopsisHighlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsTrade Review"[A] novel and provocative analysis about how the figure of the 'nationalist superhero' reflects, consolidates, and propels the nationalistic metaphors and narratives that are inextricable elements of the modern nation-state and of the modern, self-governing citizen... Dittmer's tome is theoretically informed and sophisticated. It makes a compelling case for the position that the ways that a people entertains itself, its popular culture, are fertile sites for analyses of how that people comes to know itself and others. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introducing Nationalist Superheroes 2 Gendered Nation-state, Gendered Hero 3 Embodying Multiculturalism 4 Origins 5 Narratives of Continuity and Change 6 Grounding the Nation-state 7 Geopolitical Orders 8 Alternate Worlds 9 Parody and Subversion Afterword Notes References Index
£60.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero
Book SynopsisHighlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsTrade Review"[A] novel and provocative analysis about how the figure of the 'nationalist superhero' reflects, consolidates, and propels the nationalistic metaphors and narratives that are inextricable elements of the modern nation-state and of the modern, self-governing citizen... Dittmer's tome is theoretically informed and sophisticated. It makes a compelling case for the position that the ways that a people entertains itself, its popular culture, are fertile sites for analyses of how that people comes to know itself and others. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introducing Nationalist Superheroes 2 Gendered Nation-state, Gendered Hero 3 Embodying Multiculturalism 4 Origins 5 Narratives of Continuity and Change 6 Grounding the Nation-state 7 Geopolitical Orders 8 Alternate Worlds 9 Parody and Subversion Afterword Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. From Slave Ship to Supermax
Book SynopsisIn his cogent and groundbreaking book, From Slave Ship to Supermax, Patrick Elliot Alexander argues that the disciplinary logic and violence of slavery haunt depictions of the contemporary U.S. prison in late twentieth-century Black fiction. Alexander links representations of prison life in James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk to his engagements with imprisoned intellectuals like George Jackson, who exposed historical continuities between slavery and mass incarceration. Likewise, Alexander reveals how Toni Morrison's Beloved was informed by Angela Y. Davis's jail writings on slavery-reminiscent practices in contemporary women's facilities. Alexander also examines recurring associations between slave ships and prisons in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage, and connects slavery's logic of racialized premature death to scenes of death row imprisonment in Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying.Alexander ultimately makes the case that contemporary Black novelists depict racial terro
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University of Toronto Press Disraeli
Book SynopsisDisraeli: The Romance of Politics examines the relation between Disraeli's novels and his political career and illuminates both in a way not previously attempted.Trade Review'Highly recommended.' -- E.J. Jenkins Choice Magazine, vol 51:02:2013 'This truly interdisciplinary study illuminates the way that drama and narrative art infuse the practice of nineteenth-century politics.' -- Jane Stabler SEL Studies vol 55:04:2015 "O'Kell is at his most innovative when he reads Disraeli's explicitly political writing against the imaginative backdrop of the novels. [...] The result of this layered reading is that Disraeli's career in fact appears more plausible as its disparate elements are yoked together in an account which incorporates the different tones of his voice." -- Daisy Hay Times Literary Supplement, September 20, 2013 'Disraeli: The Romance of Politics is the most thorough study to date of the relationship between Disraeli's political and literary careers... O'Kell's book, already thorough and valuable, may yet come to acquire additional relevance, by highlighting the circuitous nature of routes to political power, and the tenacity of the adventurer.' -- Michael Flavin Canadian Journal of History vol 49: autumn 2014 'O'Kell has brought a remarkably fresh perspective to Disraeli's career... It is certainly a book that should stand as an example of how a genuinely cross-disciplinary approach to Victorian Studies in general, and 'the dynamics of political culture' in particular, can enliven the most studied of nineteenth-century topics.' -- I. Cawood The English Historical Review; September 2014 'The literary life of Benjamin Disraeli is the most important book to be published on this intriguing figure in at least a decade... For the Victorianist, O'Kell's magnum opus is an exemplar of interdisciplinary methodology and offers a refreshing re-interpretation of Disraeli's political life and literary works.' -- Rosemary Mitchell Journal of Victorian Culture, 19 June 2015 'Thoughtful, lucid, well-researched book... O'Kell throws new, important, and interesting light on $rdquo;The Chief$rduo;'. -- Richard Aldous Review19, August 2015 O'Kell's study is a fascinating and compelling portrait of one of Victorian Britain's most colourful figures... A book that is certain to set a precedent for years to come.' -- David G. Reagles Victorian Periodicals vol 48:02:2015 'Robert O'Kell's Disraeli: The Romance of Politics is a brilliant original book that illuminates Benjamin Disraeli's mind and temperament as no previous work has managed.; it threatens many other Disraeli biographies seem superficial.' -- Frederick Schweitzer Victorian Studies vol 57:01:2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. The Representative Affair 2. The Byronic Legacy 3. Virtues and Vanities 4. Henrietta: A Love Story 5. What Is He? The Crisis Examined 6. Prejudice 7. Vindication 8. "The Arts of a Designing Person": Disraeli, Peel, and Young England / Coningsby; or the New Generation 9. Sir Robert Peel and the Apotheosis of Young England 10. Sybil; Two Nations, or One?: Disraeli's Allegorical Romance 11. The Corn Law Debate of 1846 and the Politics of Protection 12. Tancred: Principles, Expediency and Trust 13. Leadership 14. On Top of the Greasy Pole: The Disestablishment Crisis of 1868 15. Lothair: The Politics of Love, Faith and Duty 16. "The Family Romance": Politics, Power and Love in Disraeli's Endymion 17. The Faery Queen, the "Arch Villain," and "the Mephistopheles of Statesmanship" 18. The Conquering Hero / Falconet Bibliography Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press Settling Down and Settling Up The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Womens Writing
Book SynopsisThis book is a comparative examination of the second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing that dialogues with black diaspora and postcolonial theory, feminist and social geography, and cultural studies.Trade Review"Particularly valuable in Medovarski’s work is her conceptualization of the second generation in terms of its expansion of the "conditions of possibility" (a concept borrowed from Michel de Certeau). In other words, Medovarski conceives of the second generation not just as a resistant force, but instead as a transformative one that can work to "remake citizenship on other, more ethical or more inclusive terms" and thereby create nations that are "‘more’ than they currently are." Medovarski takes her cue from a wonderful selection of texts, intervening nicely into already established discourses surrounding some of the more well-known texts." -- Veronica Austen * Canadian Literature, August 2020 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. “Settling Down and Settling Up”: Conceptualizing the Second Generation 1. “A Kind of New Vocabulary”: Dionne Brand’s (Re)Mappings in What We All Long For 2. “Belonging Is What You Give Yourself”: Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin 3. “I Knew This Was England”: Myths of “Back Home” in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon 4. “The Abuses of Settlement”: Esi Edugyan’s The Second Life of Samuel Tyne 5. “When Roots Won’t Matter Anymore”: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Conclusion: “Conditions of Possibility” Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Anna Maria Ortese
Book SynopsisAfter years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to Ortese’s work, the contributors to this collection map the author’s complex textual geography, with its overlapping literary genres, forms, and conceptual categories, and the rhetorical and narrative strategies that pervade Ortese’s many types of writing. The essays are complemented by material translated here for the first time: Ortese’s unpublished letters to her mentor, the writer Massimo Bontempelli; and an extended interview with Ortese by fellow Italian novelist Dacia Maraini.Trade Review'This sumptuously produced, skillfully edited collection of essays will help bring Ortese's work to the large audience it undoubtedly deserves... Highly recommended.' -- S. Botterill Choice Magazine vol 53:03:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel (Flora Ghezzo) PART I: From Naples to Paris (via Jerusalem): Modern Alienation and Utopian Reality 1. "Clouds in Front of my Eyes": Ortese's Poetics of the Gaze in "Un paio di occhiali" and Il mare non bagna Napoli (Lucia Re) 2. Cities "Paved with Causalties": Ortese's Journeys through Urban Modernity (Andrea Baldi) 3. Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt and the Artist as "Conscious Pariah" (Cristina Della Coletta) PART II: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self 4. Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese's Letters to Massimo Bontempelli (Amelia Moser) Four Letters of Anna Maria Ortese to Massimo Bontempelli and a Condolence Letter to Paola Masino 5. Anna Maria Ortese's Precocious Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori (Luigi Fontanella) 6. The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) (Beatrice Manetti) 7. On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the Autobiography of the Ephemeral (Flora Ghezzo) PART III: Becoming a Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of the Otherness 8. Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese's "Real Children of the Universe" (Inge Lanslots) 9. "Call Me My Name": The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America (Gian Maria Annovi) 10. The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese's Il cardillo addolorato and a Critique of European Modernity (Gala Rebane) 11. The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web (Margherita Pieracci Harwell) 12. Alonso, the Poet and the Killer. Ortese's Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History (Tatiana Crivelli) PART IV: An Uncommon Reader 13. An "Uncommon Reader": The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese (Monica Farnetti) Appendix: Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (Dacia Maraini) Works by Anna Maria Ortese
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University of Toronto Press On Friendship and Freedom
Book SynopsisIgnazio Silone, the anti-fascist, Italian author and political activist, continues to intrigue readers and stimulate their minds nearly four decades after his death. On Friendship and Freedom contains the first published collection of correspondence between Silone and his longtime friend the philanthropist and art collector Marcel Fleischmann. Maria Nicolai Paynter, a recognized authority on Silone and his work, deftly guides the reader through the years dominated by Fascism and Nazism as well as the decades leading up to Silone’s death in 1978. Of particular interest for its human value, the correspondence gathered in this volume is most inspiring in that it reveals how two men of different cultural and religious backgrounds join together and share true friendship against all odds. Trade Review'This powerful and invaluable book contributes to an understanding not only of Silone and Fleischmann, but also of European intellectual history of the 20th century.' -- C. De. Santi Choice Magazine vol 54:06:2017Table of ContentsACKNOWLEGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS FOREWORD CHRONOLOGY Introduction Four Remarkable People Ignazio and Darina Silone Marcel Fleischmann and Elsa Schiess Illustrations The Correspondence The Swiss Years: 1934-1944 Bridging the Distance: 1945-1976 Afterword NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Marble Statue as Idea Collected Essays on Adalbert Stifters Der Nachsommer
Book SynopsisEach of the essays in this study of Der Nachsommer focuses on overlooked details of the novel. As all the phenomena presented are oriented toward fulfillment of their highest potential, the novel emerges as a powerful assertion of the intent to achieve classical form in all things despite the ever-present threat of dissolution and chaos.
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University of Texas Press Make Ours Marvel
Book Synopsis The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past its primary rival, DC Comics, for domination of the comic book market. Since the 2000s, the company’s iconic characters have leaped from page to screens with the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which includes everything from live-action film franchises of Iron Man and the Avengers to television and streaming media, including the critically acclaimed Netflix series Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Marvel, now owned by Disney, has clearly found the key to transmedia success. Make Ours Marvel traces the rise of the Marvel brand and its transformation into a transmedia empire over the past fifty years. A dozen original essays range across topics such as how Marvel expanded the notion of an all-sTrade ReviewWell-written. . . .[A]nd packed with information about the workings of the Marvel Universe. There is much to ponder and learn here. * Choice *Make Ours Marvel is a well-timed anthology that fairly and critically examines Marvel’s long history as one of the great myth-makers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. * Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature *The contributors [to Make Ours Marvel]...lay the groundwork for the future study of Marvel Entertainment, a great achievement unto itself. The audience for this book may be wide considering the popularity of the subject matter, but more specifically it is highly recommended to those scholars invested in studying Marvel Entertainment. This strong collection of essays on transmedia study is undoubtedly made for those studying Marvel Entertainment across its permutations in comics, film, TV, and more. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Excelsior! Or, Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Matt Yockey Chapter 1. Reforming the “Justice” System: Marvel’s Avengers and the Transformation of the All-Star Team Book, by Mark Minett and Bradley Schauer Chapter 2. Man Without Fear: David Mack, Daredevil, and the “Bounds of Difference” in Superhero Comics, by Henry Jenkins Chapter 3. “This Female Fights Back!”: A Feminist History of Marvel Comics, by Anna F. Peppard Chapter 4. “Share Your Universe”: Generation, Gender, and the Future of Marvel Publishing, by Derek Johnson Chapter 5. Breaking Brand: From NuMarvel to MarvelNOW! Marvel Comics in the Age of Media Convergence, by Deron Overpeck Chapter 6. Marvel and the Form of Motion Comics, by Darren Wershler and Kalervo A. Sinervo Chapter 7. Transmedia Storytelling in the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” and the Logics of Convergence-Era Popular Seriality, by Felix Brinker Chapter 8. The Marvel One-Shots and Transmedia Storytelling, by Michael Graves Chapter 9. Spinning Webs: Constructing Authors, Genre, and Fans in the Spider-Man Film Franchise, by James N. Gilmore Chapter 10. Playing Peter Parker: Spider-Man and Superhero Film Performance, by Aaron Taylor Chapter 11. Spotting Stan: The Fun and Function of Stan Lee’s Cameos in the Marvel Universe(s), by Dru Jeffries Chapter 12. Schrödinger’s Cape: The Quantum Seriality of the Marvel Multiverse, by William Proctor Notes on Contributors Index
£66.60
University of Texas Press The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
Book SynopsisWhen Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams’s quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a perfect novel,” and a host of writers and critics, including Colum McCann, Julian Barnes, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Emma Straub, Ruth Rendell, C. P. Snow, and Irving Howe, praised its artistry. The New Yorker deemed it “a masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel traces the life of Stoner’s author, John Williams. Acclaimed biographer Charles J. Shields follows the whole arc of Williams’s life, which in many ways paralleled that of his titular character, from their Trade Review[An] engrossing short biography. * The New Yorker *An excellent biography. * Wall Street Journal *Shields…hoovers up the available evidence and shapes it into an episodic narrative without giving much sense of what he makes of his subject…Shields's book is a handy corrective for anyone who's nostalgic for the days when American writers and publishers routinely ran up large bar tabs. * London Review of Books *A fine biography of Williams by Charles J. Shields, published by University of Texas Press * Texas Monthly *This rich biography gives new insight into the enigmatic man behind Stoner, a novel quickly forgotten after its 1963 publication but more recently recognized as a midcentury American classic. * Publishers Weekly, “The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018” *The Williams that emerges is not unlike Stoner himself: self-obsessed, given to petty feuds, and insecure about his abilities...It is to Shields’s credit that by the end of this finely crafted biography readers will feel they have some insight into this talented, troubled enigma of a man. * Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review *Despite obvious parallels with his fictional university protagonist, John Williams is both different and interesting enough to merit a book of his own, Charles J. Shields's The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. It certainly helps that, like Williams, Shields know how to tell a good story, one that will appeal especially to those interested in the ins and outs of the publishing industry and the ups and downs of a writer's life. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Charles Shields has done us all a service by pointing up and pointing out the novelist's unyielding ambition and rigor. * New York Journal of Books *[An] exemplary biography, the first devoted to the life of one of America's most unusual writers. * Financial Times *[A] sharp-eyed biography. * Booklist *Through exhaustive research and sharp prose, Shields has composed a portrait of the complicated author and the particular darknesses that drove Williams to write, to overcompensate, to philander, to mansplain. * The Millions *Brief but compelling...The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel is a welcome reminder that even in the rarefied world of literature, good sometimes prevails. * Waterbury Republican-American *Shields' writing is captivating and reveals much about the wounded psyches of the GI Bill generation of American (male) authors. * Shepherd Express *Shields describes Williams's development and motivations and explains persuasively why a writer hungry for fame didn't go in for the postmodernist experiments of his time. * New Criterion *Shields accomplishes an admirable feat of objectivity in a biography published during our riven age of identity and tribal politics. * American Book Review *[John Williams's Stoner] has in recent decades become the sort of book that people adore, give to their friends, fiercely identify with, and dub 'the perfect novel.' And full credit to Charles Shields for going behind the scenes to fill in the picture of Williams's own—somewhat similarly miserable—life…Stoner's rediscovery reflects well on the artisanship of John Williams, a novelist whose accomplishments and foibles Charles Shields has brought ably into view. * Western American Literature *Charles Shields's biography of John Williams invites us to enrich our understanding of Stoner—and Williams's other writings as well—in The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. Through his accessible style, his scrupulous attention to detail, and his use of source material and interviews, Shields provides us with a balanced study of a writer whose work has the power to transform the unremarkable into the astonishing. * Journal of American Culture *Charles J. Shields' subtitle accurately captures the scope, purpose, and content of the book. It's a biography of John Williams. It's a description of how Williams's major work came to be, and it's a reflection on the writing life, as lived by John Williams. I found Shields to be fair in his approach to all three. * Concho River Review *Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Nothing But the Night Chapter One: He Comes from Texas Chapter Two: “Ho, Ho! Wasn’t I the Character Then?” Chapter Three: Rough Draft Chapter Four: Key West Chapter Five: Alan Swallow Chapter Six: Love Part II. Butcher’s Crossing Chapter Seven: The Winters Circle Chapter Eight: “Natural Liars Are the Best Writers” Chapter Nine: Butcher’s Crossing Chapter Ten: Fiasco Part III. Stoner Chapter Eleven: “It Was That Kind of World” Chapter Twelve: “The Williams Affair” Chapter Thirteen: Stoner Part IV. Augustus Chapter Fourteen: Bread Loaf and “Up on the Hill” Chapter Fifteen: The Good Guys Chapter Sixteen: “Long Life to the Emperor!” Part V. The Sleep of Reason Poem: “An Old Actor to His Audience” Chapter Seventeen: “How Can Such a Son of a Bitch Have Such Talent?” Chapter Eighteen: In Extremis Epilogue. John Williams Redux Acknowledgments Notes Works Consulted A John Williams Bibliography Index
£22.79
University of Texas Press Super Bodies
Book SynopsisFinalist —San Diego Comic-Con International 2024 Eisner Award in Best Academic/Scholarly WorkAn examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustration—idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noir—examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning. Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative, Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that superheroes are toTrade ReviewNot surprisingly, this is exceptionally well illustrated for an academic book. It is an important contribution to comics scholarship and will help anyone appreciate the medium more deeply. * CHOICE *Table of Contents 1. How to Draw Superheroes 2. The Superhero and the Dessinateur 3. Idealism and Comic Book Heroes 4. Retro Art and Nostalgia 5. Realism in an Unrealistic Genre 6. Super Cute Manga, Kawaii, and Infantilization 7. Grotesque Bodies and Monstrous Heroes 8. Superhero Noir, More than Just Black and White 9. Drawing Conclusions Works Cited Index
£40.50
University of Texas Press Redrawing the Western
£24.29
Duke University Press Junot Diaz
Book SynopsisJosé David Saldívar offers a critical examination of Junot Díaz, showing how his influences converged in his fiction and how his work radically changed the course of US Latinx literature and created a new way of viewing the decolonial world.Trade Review"This is an engaging, important contribution to understanding of Junot Díaz’s work and life. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- A. A. Edwards * Choice *"Junot Díaz is a good introduction to the Diaz oeuvre, while at the same time, a must-read for an intermediate reader of Junot Díaz’s work." -- Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez * Kritikon Litterarum *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. “Wrestling with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”: How Junot Díaz Thinks About Coloniality, Power, and the Speculative Genres 27 Part I. Junot Díaz’s MFA Program Era at Cornell University and Beyond 2. Díaz’s Planet MFA: “Negocios” 47 3. Díaz’s Planet POC (People of Color): Drown 73 Part II. Understanding Imaginary Transference and the Colonial Difference 4. Becoming Oscar “Oscar Wao” 99 Part III. A Legacy In-formation 5. Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Love 151 Conclusion and Coda: “Monstro” and Islandborn 179 Notes 191 Bibliography 225 Index 239
£70.55
New York University Press The Forbidden Body
Book SynopsisFrom creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come togetherThroughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayedor, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Yet, we remain fascinated, obsessed even, by bodies that have left, or been forced out of, their proper place. The Forbidden Body examines how horror culture treats these bodies, exploring the dark spaces where sex and the sexual body come together with religious belief and tales of terror. Taking a broad approach not limited to horror cinema or popular fiction, but embracing also literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, and participative culture, Douglas E. Cowan explores how fears of bodies that are tainted, impure, or sexually deviant are made visible and reinforced through popularTrade ReviewGroundbreaking, disturbing, and riveting. Cowan recognizes that horror has a penchant for being at the same time scary and sexy, and that religion likewise has a unique ability to terrify in connection with restrictions on human sexuality. The intersections and even the simple comparability of these two human phenomena has not been explored by academics, much less explored adequately. Only Cowan could write this book, and write it so well. -- James McGrath, Butler UniversityAdds depth and texture to our understanding of horror’s relation to the body and religious imagination. This is a new area of inquiry in the world of religious studies and Cowan is at the forefront as a clear authority on the questions raised by horror, popular theology, and religious studies. -- Laura Ammon, Appalachian State UniversityCowan has managed to write a philosophical take on what is clearly his favorite genre, inviting readers to figure out why and how they, religion and sex fit into these salacious, silly and scary stories. -- Chris LaCroix * Real Change News *Cowan successfully illuminates representations of disfigured (sexualized) bodies in the horror mode while demonstrating how the religious imagination supports or enacts these representations. The book also offers a striking perspective on the different culturally internalized fears that shape our living together and influence our daily choices, preferences, fears, and attitudes…Thanks to the appealing and entertaining way of writing, the book also stimulates curiosity for exploring the abysses in the cosmos of sexuality, horror fiction, and religion. -- Katharina Luise Merkert * Reading Religion *The Forbidden Body proceeds somewhat like a string of pearls, presenting a series of interesting insights as Cowan leads the reader through some of his favorite horror texts and what he finds sociologically significant about the way they deploy sex and raise questions about the unseen order… this is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. -- Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University * Nova Religio *Horror fans will find much to be excited about in this book––perhaps in more ways than one... This is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. * Nova Religio *
£66.60
New York University Press The Forbidden Body
Book SynopsisFrom creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come togetherThroughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayedor, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Yet, we remain fascinated, obsessed even, by bodies that have left, or been forced out of, their proper place. The Forbidden Body examines how horror culture treats these bodies, exploring the dark spaces where sex and the sexual body come together with religious belief and tales of terror. Taking a broad approach not limited to horror cinema or popular fiction, but embracing also literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, and participative culture, Douglas E. Cowan explores how fears of bodies that are tainted, impure, or sexually deviant are made visible and reinforced through popularTrade ReviewGroundbreaking, disturbing, and riveting. Cowan recognizes that horror has a penchant for being at the same time scary and sexy, and that religion likewise has a unique ability to terrify in connection with restrictions on human sexuality. The intersections and even the simple comparability of these two human phenomena has not been explored by academics, much less explored adequately. Only Cowan could write this book, and write it so well. -- James McGrath, Butler UniversityAdds depth and texture to our understanding of horror’s relation to the body and religious imagination. This is a new area of inquiry in the world of religious studies and Cowan is at the forefront as a clear authority on the questions raised by horror, popular theology, and religious studies. -- Laura Ammon, Appalachian State UniversityCowan has managed to write a philosophical take on what is clearly his favorite genre, inviting readers to figure out why and how they, religion and sex fit into these salacious, silly and scary stories. -- Chris LaCroix * Real Change News *Cowan successfully illuminates representations of disfigured (sexualized) bodies in the horror mode while demonstrating how the religious imagination supports or enacts these representations. The book also offers a striking perspective on the different culturally internalized fears that shape our living together and influence our daily choices, preferences, fears, and attitudes…Thanks to the appealing and entertaining way of writing, the book also stimulates curiosity for exploring the abysses in the cosmos of sexuality, horror fiction, and religion. -- Katharina Luise Merkert * Reading Religion *The Forbidden Body proceeds somewhat like a string of pearls, presenting a series of interesting insights as Cowan leads the reader through some of his favorite horror texts and what he finds sociologically significant about the way they deploy sex and raise questions about the unseen order… this is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. -- Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University * Nova Religio *Horror fans will find much to be excited about in this book––perhaps in more ways than one... This is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. * Nova Religio *
£23.74
New York University Press Empires Nursery
Book SynopsisHow children and children's literature helped build America's empireAmerica's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children's literature, authors instilled the idea of America's power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America's indispensability to the international order. Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children's literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country's command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children's literature thereby helped to disguise dominTrade Review"What a book! Sharp, surprising, and creative, Empire’s Nursery tells the story of how a generation of children learned the art of empire. Brian Rouleau has shown himself to be a superb historian." -- Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States"Polished, well organized, and engaging. This is an important contribution that demonstrates the significance of taking children and their material culture seriously. Specifically, whereas most literature on the history of children and youth looks for children to be agents of change, Empire’s Nursery regards children as cultural conservators." -- Jennifer Helgren, University of the Pacific"There is much to admire in Empire’s Nursery, which weaves together settler colonial studies and children’s literary studies—two strands of analysis that aren’t usually put into conversation. Rouleau makes important claims that deserve engagement and elaboration. Featuring excellent archival work, Empire’s Nursery excavates children’s writing in response to the literature they were reading." -- Anna Mae Duane, author of Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
£27.54
New York University Press Keywords for Comics Studies
Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Trade ReviewKeywords for Comics Studies is the book this field needs right now, featuring its heavy hitters explaining—as well as debating—the complex and conceptual underpinnings of comics today. Savvy, fresh, inclusive, and often brilliant, it’s an essential text. * Hillary Chute, author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere *In this latest entry of the sublime Keywords series from NYU Press, Fawaz, Streeby, and Whaley demonstrate, once again, why they are three of the top scholars working in the Humanities today. This volume is a well-curated, intellectually nimble, collection of wonderfully constructed interdisciplinary entries from a compelling spectrum of creators, educators and theorists. This delightfully accessible book belongs in the collection of anyone truly serious about researching the medium of comics and its associated cultures. * John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside and illustrator of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation *
£62.90
New York University Press Keeping It Unreal
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies!Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic booksCharacters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination.Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges toand respite fromwhite supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre literature, as well as contemporary literary realist fiction centering fantastic conceits.Darieck Scott offers a rich meditTrade ReviewScott reflects on the importance of fantasy in comic books in this brisk and insightful meditation ... this analysis is rich and rewarding. * Publishers Weekly *This fabulously written reconsideration of fantasy goes beyond readings of Black queer comics to reveal the value of becoming fantastical—of living in a ‘habitable imaginary’ where dreams are substantiated. I came looking for insights about Luke Cage and Black Panther . . . only to find liberation and Black queer life. * Jennifer Brody, Stanford University *A primer in counter-intuition and bold imagination that dares to embrace the radical possibility of black happiness. Writing with razor-sharp wit and blistering erudition, Scott rewrites the meaning of fantasy to reveal its power as an intellectual and political tool for reimagining blackness beyond an antiblack world. His captivating excavations of black fantasy in the comic genre provide not only a space of pleasure and possibility, but a tool for living a different kind of black futurity. * Tina Campt, Brown University *Scott does an amazing job in the conclusion of providing some context as well as personal revelation, that allows the reader to feel like they too are part of this conversation and creation…Overall, Scott’s Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics is a well-constructed engagement of various scholarly sources in the understanding and construction of ourselves, of others, and of life through the use of fantasy. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *In Keeping It Unreal, Scott doubles down on his belief that even in a whitewashed landscape, Black comic book heroes and their influence warp the foundation of how the industry operates, whether seen in superheroes or in porn. Ultimately, as a powerful reflection of the Black body’s identity, he argues that within these fantasy-acts lies a deep-rooted recognition of Black humanity that cannot be erased or denied. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *
£20.69
New York University Press Keeping It Unreal
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies!Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic booksCharacters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination.Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges toand respite fromwhite supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre literature, as well as contemporary literary realist fiction centering fantastic conceits.Darieck Scott offers a rich meditTrade ReviewScott reflects on the importance of fantasy in comic books in this brisk and insightful meditation ... this analysis is rich and rewarding. * Publishers Weekly *This fabulously written reconsideration of fantasy goes beyond readings of Black queer comics to reveal the value of becoming fantastical—of living in a ‘habitable imaginary’ where dreams are substantiated. I came looking for insights about Luke Cage and Black Panther . . . only to find liberation and Black queer life. * Jennifer Brody, Stanford University *A primer in counter-intuition and bold imagination that dares to embrace the radical possibility of black happiness. Writing with razor-sharp wit and blistering erudition, Scott rewrites the meaning of fantasy to reveal its power as an intellectual and political tool for reimagining blackness beyond an antiblack world. His captivating excavations of black fantasy in the comic genre provide not only a space of pleasure and possibility, but a tool for living a different kind of black futurity. * Tina Campt, Brown University *Scott does an amazing job in the conclusion of providing some context as well as personal revelation, that allows the reader to feel like they too are part of this conversation and creation…Overall, Scott’s Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics is a well-constructed engagement of various scholarly sources in the understanding and construction of ourselves, of others, and of life through the use of fantasy. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *In Keeping It Unreal, Scott doubles down on his belief that even in a whitewashed landscape, Black comic book heroes and their influence warp the foundation of how the industry operates, whether seen in superheroes or in porn. Ultimately, as a powerful reflection of the Black body’s identity, he argues that within these fantasy-acts lies a deep-rooted recognition of Black humanity that cannot be erased or denied. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *
£66.60
University of Toronto Press Useless Joyce
Book SynopsisTim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art.Trade Review‘Highly recommended.’ -- R.D. Newman * Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018 *"Useless Joyce provides an implicit defense of literary pleasure, with the teacher-critic serving as mediator of that pleasure." -- Mark Wollaeger * James Joyce Literary Supplement, Fall 2018 *"...Conley’s insatiable appetite to read Joyce for his usefulness enriches our understanding of his texts and will provoke further research and inquiry." -- Eleni Loukopoulou, Independent Scholar * James Joyce Quarterly, vol 55 no 1-3, Spring/Summer '18 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Textual Functions Chapter 1: Guidance Systems Chapter 2: Misquoting Joyce Chapter 3: Limited Editions, Edited Limitations Chapter 4: Translation, Annotation, Hesitation Part Two: Cultural Appropriations Chapter 5: Make a Stump Speech of It Chapter 6: Win a Dream Date with James Joyce Chapter 7: The Stephen Dedalus Diet Conclusion: Means without End Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£38.70
University of Toronto Press Solitude and Speechlessness
Book SynopsisSolitude and Speechlessness argues that experiences of isolation are inherent to the writing and reading of Renaissance literature, and finds parallels and meaning in the lives of solitary figures including poets, ascetics, and hermits.Trade Review"Solitude and Speechlessness is a book that scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry will appreciate for its detailed, precise, and accurate analysis of canonical works. It provides a re-reading of such works through a peculiar lens: the pursuit, or fear, of the sense of isolation that allows us to find, but also lose, ourselves." -- Elena Brizio, Georgetown University * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *"In his remarkable study, Andrew Mattison offers a fascinating examination of the various and self-conscious forms of literary withdrawal within sixteenth and seventeenth-century English writings, and of the implications that such a poetics of isolation have for the writing of literary history." -- Joshua Easterling, Murray State University * Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching *"In our current global experience of isolation, Mattison’s book has special resonance. Among many achievements, it reminds us of the virtue of being ambitious readers, challenging ourselves to wander from familiar paths." -- Anna Welch, State Library Victoria * Parergon *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Writing in Solitude 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory Conclusion: Reading in Solitude Bibliography
£47.60
University of Toronto Press Romantic Revelations
Book SynopsisRomantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.Trade Review"Washington’s richly suggestive book is a timely and useful polemic for all those working in Romantic studies who value the period as an age of revolution and institutional change. In postapocalyptic constructions of hope and love, Romanticism finds new resonance in our own age of climate crisis. Even amidst the so-called sixth extinction, Washington makes the case that there is ample space and time to defamiliarize ‘the thing with feathers’ and the ‘ever-fixed mark.’ Washington’s call for a new social contract that thinks beyond narrow species categories is a welcome reminder that this cohort of two-hundred-year-old Romantic reformers is still changing the world." -- Fuson Wang, University of California, Riverside * Journal of British Studies *"The philosophically speculative twist Washington brings to bear on what are undoubtedly, unavoidably acute, searing political challenges makes this a book for our times. As we exit the Anthropocene, hopefully with grace rather than blindness and resentment, to paraphrase John Ricco, we are compelled, as Washington suggests, to understand ‘the world on its own terms.’ Seems damn-near impossible to me. But Washington gives me hope that this can be done with hope, and love, and that an emerging generation of Romantics scholars among whom he counts himself might just pull it off." -- Joel Faflak, University of Western Ontario * Romantic Circles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out? 1. The Mind Is Its Own Place: What Percy Shelley's Mountain Did Not Say 2. No More Cakes and Ale, Only Oil Slicks: Mary Shelley’s Post-Apocalyptic State of Nature 3. Byron’s Speculative Turn: The Biopolitics of Paradise 4. Birds Do It, Bees Do It: John Clare, Biopolitics, and the Nonhuman Origins of Love 5. The Best of All Possible End of the Worlds: Jane Austen’s Frankenstein, or Love in the Ruins Coda: After Extinctualism: Hope for Life Notes Bibliography Index
£41.65
University of Toronto Press Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary
Book SynopsisRighteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion particularly indignation and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers. Noting how art often holds the power to shed light on issues surrounding inequity, inequality, and injustice, the book explores the ethical function of art as a tool in resistance and sociopolitical protest, thereby validating the axiom that ethics and aesthetics can still collaborate in the creation of meaning. Drawing on a range of Italian novels and films and examining the works of artists such as Tiziano Scarpa, Simona Vinci, Paolo Sorrentino, and Monica Stambrini, the author shows that anger can be used constructively as a weapon of resistance against negative and oppressive forces.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Anger and Commitment in the Narratives of Tiziano Scarpa 1. Pasolini’s La rabbia and the Spectacularization of Scarpa’s Posthuman Aesthetics 2. An Apocalyptic Kamikaze: Tiziano Scarpa or How to Invade the Reader 3. The Fundamental Things in Life According to Scarpa Part II. Anger and Spaces of Vulnerability in the Narratives of Melania Mazzucco and Monica Stambrini 4. Melania Mazzucco’s Un giorno perfetto: Domestic Violence on an Everyday Perfect Day 5. Pushing Boundaries: Road Movies and Gas Stations in Monica Stambrini’s Benzina Part III. Anger and Spaces of Otherness in the Narratives of Paolo Sorrentino, Simona Vinci, and Veronica Tomassini 6. A Recipe for the Advantages and Disadvantages of Love: Anger and Misogyny in Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love 7. Society, Simulacra, and Love: Simona Vinci’s Stanza 411 8. Wounding the Individual: Dynamics of Diversity and Anatomy of Love in Veronica Tomassini’s Sangue di Cane Afterword Notes Works Cited Index
£51.85
University of Toronto Press A Name for Herself
Book SynopsisThis book collects a majority of Montgomery's early and non-fiction publications across a variety of forms and places them in the context of her career and the narrative strategies of women authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade Review"In this first volume of ‘The L.M. Montgomery Library,’ Benjamin Lefebvre collects and expertly annotates Montgomery’s non-fiction periodical writing, presenting it as a record of her literary apprenticeship … The thirty-five instalments of her column ‘Around the Table,’ signed ‘Cynthia,’ are enthralling, … and A Name for Herself is worth the cover price for these pieces alone." -- Faye Hammill * Times Literary Supplement *"Lefebvre, one of the top Montgomery scholars in the world, has painstakingly collected these scattered publications from throughout Montgomery’s career to provide a valuable resource … By including Montgomery’s contributions to these publications, many of which were fleeting, Lefebvre enriches our knowledge of the periodical landscape in North America and demonstrates how these magazines and newspapers were important vehicles for women authors in Canada and the United States." -- Jennifer Scott, Victorian Periodicals Review"In this rich volume, Lefebvre’s selections reveal Montgomery as a professional writer who deserves a strong and enduring presence in Canadian letters." -- Rita Bode, Trent University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface A Note on the Text Part 1: Early and Student Publications The Wreck of the "Marco Polo" A Western Eden From Prince Albert to P.E. Island The Usual Way Extracts from the Diary of a Second Class Mouse High School Life in Saskatchewan Valedictory "Portia" – A Study "Which Has the Most Patience under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life – Man or Woman?" Crooked Answers The Bad Boy of Blanktown School James Henry, Truant A Girl's Place at Dalhousie College To the Editor Part 2: Maud Montgomery, Newspaper Woman A Half-Hour in an Old Cemetery Around the Table Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers Christmas Shopping in Halifax Stores Many Admiring Glances Bestowed upon Graduates Netted Doily Innocent Irreverence Part 3: The Upward Climb to Heights Sublime Two Sides of a Life Story The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. The first volume, A Life in Print, focuses specifically on Montgomery’s role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). The selections give a strong impression of Montgomery as a writer and cultural critic as she discusses a range of topics with wit, wisdom, and humour, including the natural landscape of Prince Edward Island, her wide readership, anxieties about modernity, and the continued relevance of old ideals. These essays and interviews, joined by a number of additional pieces that discuss her work’s literary and cultural value in relation to an emerging canon of Canadian literature, make up nearly one hundred selections in all. Each volume in TheTrade Review"Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers, especially women before Laurence, Munro, and Atwood. For Montgomery completists, the Reader is irresistible. For those engaged in Montgomery studies or Canadian literature more generally, it is invaluable." -- Anne Furlong * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 *“While Lefebvre’s The L.M. Montgomery Reader is a vital resource of primary sources from and secondary assessments of one of Canada’s most popular twentieth-century authors, it is his insightful and knowledgeable analysis that shapes and gives meaning to the collection. The depth of his knowledge results in a work that is as comprehensible as it is comprehensive.” -- Andre Narbonne * American Review of Canadian Studies *"With this volume, Lefebvre broadens our understanding of Montgomery's reception and reputation both within Canada and internationally, unearthing previously obscure content and commentary and making it accessible to a far wider audience. This reader will thus prove a valuable resource to both existing and future scholars of Montgomery's work and life, as well as those fans keen for a little more insight into the ever-elusive figure of L.M. Montgomery." -- Sarah Galletly * British Journal of Canadian Studies *"Lefebvre has uncovered a cache of new, important material in an already impressive and crowded field of Montgomery scholarship … His sensitive editing of the material brings the public side of Montgomery into better focus as she fields endless questions about how she became a writer, how Anne came to be and whether or not she was a real girl and what the author thought of young women in her day. [This book will] deepen our knowledge and understanding of this beloved Canadian icon." -- Laurie Glenn Norris * Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB) *"This comprehensive volume (with its two companions) forms a treasure trove of previously unavailable material; it will be of interest to scholars of Canadian and world literature and possibly to true admirers of Anne of Green Gables and its author." -- Barbara L. Talcroft * Children's Literature LLC *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Life in Print BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE A Note on the Text 1. [Such a Delightful Little Person] (1908) 2. Author Tells How He Wrote His Story (1908) 3. Origin of Popular Book (1908) 4. The Author of Anne of Avonlea (1909) 5. Miss Montgomery, the Author of the “Anne” Books (1909) A. WYLIE MAHON 6. A Trio of Women Writers (1909) DONALD B. SINCLAIR 7. Canadian Writers on Canadian Literature – A Symposium (1910) 8. Says Woman’s Place Is Home (1910) 9. Want to Know How to Write Books? Well Here’s a Real Recipe (1910) PHOEBE DWIGHT 10. Miss Montgomery’s Visit to Boston (1910) 11. Four Questions Answered (1910) LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY 12. Miss L.M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables (1910) 13. How I Began to Write (1911) L.M. MONTGOMERY 14. [Seasons in the Woods] (1911) L.M. MONTGOMERY 15. With Our Next-Door Neighbors: Prince Edward Island (1911) THOMAS F. ANDERSON 16. [The Marriage of L.M. Montgomery] (1911) 17. A Canadian Novelist of Note Interviewed (1911) 18. Interviews with Authors (1911) ANNE E. NIAS 19. The Old Minister in The Story Girl (1912) A. WYLIE MAHON 20. L.M. Montgomery: Story Writer (1913) MARJORY MACMURCHY 21. L.M. Montgomery at Women’s Canadian Club (1913) 22. L.M. Montgomery of the Island (1914) MARJORY MACMURCHY 23. What Twelve Canadian Women Hope to See as the Outcome of the War (1915) 24. The Way to Make a Book (1915) L.M. MONTGOMERY 25. How I Began (1915) L.M. MONTGOMERY 26. [This Hideous War] (1915) 27. What Are the Greatest Books in the English Language? (1916) 28. My Favorite Bookshelf (1917) L.M. MONTGOMERY 29. The Author of Anne (1919) ETHEL CHAPMAN 30. The Gay Days of Old (1919) L.M. MONTGOMERY 31. Introduction to Further Chronicles of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery (1920) NATHAN HASKELL DOLE 32. One Little Girl Who Wrote to L.M. Montgomery and Received a Reply (1920) 33. A Sextette of Canadian Women Writers (1920) OWEN MCGILLICUDDY 34. Blank Verse? “Very Blank,” Said Father (1921) L.M. MONTGOMERY 35. “I Dwell among My Own People” (1921) L.M. MONTGOMERY 36. Bits from My Mailbag (1922) L.M. MONTGOMERY 37. From Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, Opinions and a Statement of Their Own Working Methods by More Than One Hundred Authors (1923) 38. Novel Writing Notes (1923) L.M. MONTGOMERY 39. Proud That Canadian Literature Is Clean (1924) 40. Canadian Public Cold to Its Own Literature (1924) 41. Thinks Modern Flapper Will Be Strict Mother (1924) 42. Symposium on Canadian Fiction in Which Canadian Authors Express Their Preferences (1924) 43. Something about L.M. Montgomery (1925) 44. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: A Reader’s Journal (1925) ALTAIR 45. Famous Author and Simple Mother (1925) NORMA PHILLIPS MUIR 46. The Day before Yesterday (1927) L.M. MONTGOMERY MACDONALD 47. Who’s Who in Canadian Literature: L.M. Montgomery (1927) V.B. RHODENIZER 48. About Canadian Writers: L.M. Montgomery, the Charming Author of “Anne” (1927) KATHERINE HALE 49. On Being of the Tribe of Joseph (1927) AUSTIN BOTHWELL 50. Minister’s Wife and Authoress (1928) C.L. COWAN 51. An Autobiographical Sketch (1929) L.M. MONTGOMERY 52. Modern Girl Defined by Noted Writer (1929) 53. L.M. Montgomery’s Ideas (1930) 54. The ’Teen-Age Girl (1931) L.M. MONTGOMERY 55. Anne of Green Gables at Home (1931) A.V. BROWN 56. An Open Letter from a Minister’s Wife (1931) L.M. MONTGOMERY 57. Life Has Been Interesting (1933) MRS. L.M. MACDONALD (L.M. MONTGOMERY) 58. The Importance of Beauty in Everything (1933) L.M. MONTGOMERY 5.9 From Courageous Women (1934) L.M. MONTGOMERY 60. Author to Get No Profit as Green Gables Filmed (1934) 61. Film Preview of Noted Novel Honors Canadian Woman Writer (1934) 62. Is This My Anne (1935) L.M. MONTGOMERY 63. Foreword to Up Came the Moon, by Jessie Findlay Brown (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 64. Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 65. Memories of Childhood Days (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 66. The Mother of the Anne Series – Lucy M. Montgomery (1937) EVA-LIS WUORIO, TRANSLATED BY VAPPU KANNAS 67. The Book and the Film (1937) 68. For and about Girls (1937) L.M. MONTGOMERY 69. Prince Edward Island (1939) L.M. MONTGOMERY, OBE 70. Beloved Writer Addresses Several Aurora Gatherings (1940) 71. Noted Author Dies Suddenly at Home Here (1942) 72. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1942) 73. L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1942) 74. Body of Island’s Beloved Authoress Home for Burial (1942) 75. Island Writer Laid to Rest at Cavendish (1942) 76. The Creator of “Anne” (1942) 77. [L.M. Montgomery’s Last Poem] (1942) 78. L.M. Montgomery / Mrs. (Rev.) Ewen Macdonald (1942) 79. L.M. Montgomery as a Letter-Writer (1942) E. WEBER 80. L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1944) E. WEBER Epilogue: Anne of Green Gables – The Story of the Photoplay (1920) ARABELLA BOONE Sources Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. The second volume, A Critical Heritage, narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s critical reputation in the years since her death. It traces milestones and turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a scholarly field. The introduction also considers Montgomery’s publishing history in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom at a time when her work remained in print not because it was considered part of a university canon of literature, but simply due to the continued interest of readers. Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading MoTrade Review‘Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers.’ -- Anne Furlong * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 *“Both scholars and devoted readers of this complex Canadian author will find it fascinating.” -- Barbara L. Talcroft * Children's Literature LLC *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Critical Heritage BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE A Note on the Text 1. Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942 (1966) ELIZABETH WATERSTON 2. The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973) HELEN PORTER 3. Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983) T.D. MACLULICH 4. Little Orphan Mary: Anne’s Hoydenish Double (1989) >ROSAMOND BAILEY 5. Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery’s “Room of Her Own” (1992) MARY RUBIO 6. Women’s Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Fiction, 1918–1939 (1993) DIANE TYE 7. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994) OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS 8. Decoding L.M. Montgomery’s Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women’s Private Literature (1994) HELEN M. BUSS 9. “Fitted to Earn Her Own Living”: Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995) CAROLE GERSON 10. “Pruned Down and Branched Out”: Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995) LAURA M. ROBINSON 11. Finding L.M. Montgomery’s Short Stories (1995) REA WILMSHURST 12. L.M. Montgomery’s Manuscript Revisions (1995) ELIZABETH EPPERLY 13. “My Secret Garden”: Dis/Pleasure in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999) IRENE GAMMEL 14. Writing with a “Definite Purpose”: L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000) CECILY DEVEREUX 15. Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002) MONIQUE DULL 16. The Maud Squad (2002) CYNTHIA BROUSE 17. “The Golden Road of Youth”: L.M. Montgomery and British Children’s Books (2004) JENNIFER H. LITSTER 18. Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008) ANDREA MCKENZIE 19. Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008) EMILY AOIFE SOMERS 20. Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, “As Long as the Leaves Hold Together” (2012) VANESSA BROWN AND BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE Sources Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Hidden Paradigms
Book SynopsisBuilding on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known epic stories while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Summarizing an Epic Legend, The Legend of Ponnivala Nadu 2. Character and Plot Structures, The Mahabharata 3. Human Life as a Balancing Act, The Epic of Gilgamesh 4. Seven Great Phases of History, The Bible’s Old and New Testament Stories 5. Landscapes and Identity Formation, The Vatsendaela Saga 6. Human versus Extra-Human Powers, The Nanabush Legend Cycle 7. Hidden Paradigms, Additional Themes and Some Overview Theories 8. The Story Told by the Stars, Babylonian Star-lore and the Hindu Nakshatras 9. An Epic Story Visualized as a Lotus Plant, The Lotus Plant in Barabudur, Central Java Conclusion Annotated Bibliography Listing Sources for Specific Epics Discussed General Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press In the House of the Hanged
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by Sasha Sokolov one of the most important living Russian novelists presents his ideas on art, literature, writing, and culture.Trade Review"Sasha Sokolov’s writing, celebrated in the Soviet Union as among the best of tamizdat, continues to attract serious readers in post-Soviet Russia … For the serious reader, and student, of Sokolov’s writing, there is much to be gleaned in this collection." -- Cynthia Simmons * Slavic & East European Journal *"This is a welcome addition to English-language resources on this important and inventive Slavic writer." -- B.M. Sutcliffe, Miami University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. On Secret Tablets 2. In the House of the Hanged 3. Having Discovered It – Opened It Wide – Given It Wings 4. Palisandre – C'est Moi? 5. The Key Word of Belles-Lettres 6. A Portrait of an Artist in America: Waiting for the Nobel 7. The Anxious Pupa 8. The Shared Notebook or a Group Portrait of SMOG 9. A Mark of Illumination 10. An Abstract 11. About the Other Encounter 12. Discourse 13. Gazebo 14. Philornist Notes Index of Names and Places
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University of Toronto Press Beyond the Family Romance
Book SynopsisGiovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascoli’s literature and Freud’s theories, with a particular focus on each author’s interrogation of origins. Through close readings and historical contextualization, themes of regression, memory, and other manifestations of ‘origins’ are analyzed, moving Pascoli’s poetry beyond the biographical strictures that have hitherto confined it.Truglio’s post-structuralist readings question the dichotomy between ‘safety within the home’ and the ‘threatening outside world,’ revealing the ambivalences with which images of the home are fraught in Pascoli’s poetry. In addition to the sustained comparison w
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University of Nebraska Press Perla
Book SynopsisTells the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her son, who, not long after losing her, learns that he is about to become a father. These two events become the impetus for reconstructing Perla's past and for understanding gestation.Trade Review“[Frédéric Brun’s] first novel strikes its reader by its questioning, its humility, and its necessity.”—Alexandre Fillon, Livres-Hebdo “Startling in its resplendent gentleness.”—Valérie Marin La Meslée, Le Point “Simple and clear in its language yet still capable of spanning a large and complicated subject. . . . A beautiful book and a glowing bright epitaph. But also—in all its beauty—a defiant act against the great darkness. In all its shapes.”—Jeppe Krogsgaard Christensen, Berlinske “Luminous pages, the beauty of well-written phrases, the delicate and pure style of an author one absolutely must discover.”—Mohammed Aïssaoui, Le Figaro Littéraire
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