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Columbia University Press Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea Between
Book SynopsisThe lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read to recast the social transformations of Chosŏn Korea and the development of early modern Korean literature.Trade ReviewKinship Novels of Early Modern Korea is a methodologically brilliant introduction to Korean lineage novels and the domestic worlds in which they were produced and consumed. Written as women were becoming ever more constrained by patriarchal kinship ideals, lineage novels are a rich archive of the often unruly emotional responses to the affective restructuring of the domestic realm. -- Maram Epstein, author of Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late-Imperial Chinese FictionKinship Novels of Early Modern Korea sets an admirable standard for emerging studies of premodern Korean literature with its in-depth historical analysis, theoretical sophistication, and measured, clear writing style. -- Sunyoung Park, author of The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea offers a captivating story about the rise and fall of the lineage novel, walking us through the ways in which the kinship feelings and practices of elite families cast not only the form and content of this genre but also its production and circulation. Compelling testimony of how our deep understanding of history can help us appreciate the aesthetics of bygone days and why literature still matters. -- Yoon Sun Yang, author of From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial KoreaIn this sweeping account of the political, social, and cultural life of seventeenth- to early twentieth-century Korea, Ksenia Chizhova provocatively asks, How did Koreans do kinship? Her fascinating answers offer glimpses into the unruly emotions of everyday life and the oft-tumultuous relations between genders and generations. This is early modern Korea as never before seen and literary history at its best. -- Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Eloquent, detailed, and original, this book’s account of the lineage trope, vernacular writing, gender, and readership sheds new light on the early modern novel in East Asian literary history. -- Ning Ma, author of The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and WestAn impressive, well researched book that opens a new vista on the history of premodern Korean literature. . . [Chizhova’s] work deserves highest praise for its meticulous scholarship and fascinating narrative. It will interest scholars and students of Korean literature as well as sociologists/anthropologists who want to learn about the intricate human relationships that reigned in the daily life of elite households in eighteenth-century Korea. -- Martina Deuchler * The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *This book is a sophisticated and engaging study of early modern Korean lineage novels, and it is highly recommended to anybody with interest in premodern Korea and East Asia, the gender and language politics of literary traditions, and, incidentally, global histories of the novel. -- Wiebke Denecke * Journal of Asian Studies *Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea is a fascinating read, and Chizhova does an excellent job in outlining the development, structure and history of the lineage novel. -- Tony Malone * Tony's Reading List *Chizhova combines historical and literary criticism superbly, showing broad knowledge of these and other disciplines, especially material culture and gender. Her book is also original in its approach and methodology. -- Francisco Gómez Martos * Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Lineage and the Novel in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910Part I: Figurations of Chosŏn Kinship1. The Structure of Kinship: Generational Narratives2. The Texture of Kinship: Vernacular Korean CalligraphyPart II: The Affective Coordinates of Kinship3. Feelings and the Space of the Novel4. Feelings and the Conflicts of KinshipPart III: Reconfiguration5. The Novel Without the LineageNotesReferencesIndex
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd The Sherlock Holmes Book Big Ideas Simply
Book SynopsisLearn about the world''s greatest detective in The Sherlock Holmes Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sherlock Holmes in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sherlock Holmes Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Sherlock Holmes, with:- Includes all four novels and 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understandingThe Sherl
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Penguin Books Ltd More Lives than One A Biography of Hans Fallada
Book SynopsisJenny Williams is Senior Lecturer in German at Dublin City University. She has worked on Fallada's life and writings for many years. Her biography is based on published and unpublished sources, including family letters and interviews.Trade ReviewA major contribution to our understanding of literature and politics in the tumult of interwar Germany -- Harold JamesA masterpiece of biography * Choice (USA) *Informative and engaging * The Times Literary Supplement *Williams's life is astute, rigorously researched and engrossing -- John Dugdale * Guardian *Williams's reading of Fallada's work is superb, her engagement with Ditzen and his family and friends uncanny. A calmly authoritative biography -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd Artful
Book SynopsisA playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet ''Playful and audacious'' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, Artful slips slyly between fiction and essay, guiding the reader thrillingly through a sequence of ideas on art and literature. With Smith''s trademark humour, inventiveness, poignancy and critical insight, this is unique experiment in form, style, life, love, death, immortality and what art can mean. Based on four electrifying lectures given by the author at Oxford University, and exploring the explosive connections between art, story, memory and grief - Artful is a tidal wave of ideas to blast away the cobwebs and change how you see the world. *****''Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . makes
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Palgrave MacMillan UK New Woman Fiction Women Writing Firstwave
Book SynopsisThe New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle .Trade Review'Ann Heilmann's New Woman Fiction: Women Writing Feminism synthesies recent debates on the New Woman fiction, and makes its own distinctive contribution to the growing body of work on this fin de siecle phenomenon. It discusses a wider range of writers and texts than earlier studies of this body of writing, and locates both the writers and texts more clearly and more firmly in the context of late nineteenth 'feminism' than have earlier studies. It also seeks to draw parallels between this 'first wave' of feminism and the 'second wave' feminism of the latter part of the twentieth century. This has the effect of simultaneously broadening and narrowing the corpus of New Woman writing: more texts are put on display, but New Woman writers are more specifically (and perhaps more narrowly) defined as 'committed feminists with a vision of social regeneration through didactic literature [through which] they sought to reach and politicize a mass readership.' This lucid study offers an historically grounded and theoretically informed introduction to an important aspect of the history of women's writing.' - Lyn Pykett, Professor of English, University of Wales, AberystwythTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Regen(d)eration Contesting/Consuming Femininities Keynotes and Discords Marriage and Its Discontents The Crisis of Gender and Sexuality The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Departures
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Palgrave Macmillan Early Modern Womens Letter Writing 14501700
Book SynopsisThis landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century.Trade Review'...a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history, early modern British history, and the history of language...' - Carrie F. Klaus, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J .Daybell Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women; R.Dalrymple Letter Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century; J.Ward Commanding Communications: The Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women; A.Truelove Female Literary and the Social Conventions of Women's Letter Writing in England, 1540-1603; J.Daybell Deference and Defiance in Women's Letters of the Thynne Family; A.Wall Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: The Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574-1618); V.Larminie 'How Subject to Interpretation': Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness; S.J.Steen Tudor and Stuart Women: Their Family Lives Through Their Letters; R.O'Day Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643); J.Eales 'Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world': Letter Writing in Early Modern English Convents; C.Walker Gentle Companions: Single Women and Their Letters in Late-Stuart England; S.Whyman 'Begging Pardon for all mistakes and errors in this writing I being a women and doing it myself': Family Narratives in Some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters; A.Laurence Notes and References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Attention
Book SynopsisThis book draws on Iris Murdoch's philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch's ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but also the difficulty, for most of us, of fighting against our natural self-centred tendencies.Why is attention important to morality? This book argues that many moral failures and moral achievements can be explained by attention. Not only our actions and choices, but the possibilities we choose among, and even the meaning of what we perceive, are to a large extent determined by whether we pay attention, and what we attend to. In this way, the book argues that attention is fundamental, though often overlooked, in morality. While the book's discussion of attention revolves primarily around Murdoch's thought, it also engages significantly with Simone Weil, who introduced the concept of attention in a spiritual context.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. What is Ethical about Attention? 2. Attention without Self-Concern 3. Attention without Self 4. Self-Knowledge 5. Moral Perception 6. Motivation and Action Coda
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Failure Conrads Fiction 20 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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WW Norton & Co The House of Mirth
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WW Norton & Co Candide
Book SynopsisCandide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings.Trade Review"I have used this text in Western Civ courses many times. It is definitely the best and most accessible Candide available. The annotations are especially helpful to students (and to their professors)." -- Mark W. McLeod, Gonzaga University "The Norton Critical Edition of Candide is a teaching gem, with clear, unmistakable glosses, an accurate translation and just enough background and criticism for undergraduate study as well as graduate-level reference. This is an excellent start!" -- Frank E. Meek, Colorado Mountain College "An excellent translation with helpful footnote information and background information. And at a most affordable price for students." -- W. M. Howe, Blue Mountain Community College
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WW Norton & Co Ethan Frome
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.
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WW Norton & Co The Autobiography of an ExColored Man
Book SynopsisThe Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition.
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WW Norton & Co Little Women
Book SynopsisThis authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
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Taylor & Francis Fenimore Cooper
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Taylor & Francis Ltd John Dos Passos Collected Critical Heritage
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University of California Press The Novel of August Strindberg
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Book SynopsisSince Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.Trade Review'Given that genre is really a construction of critics, librarians and booksellers, designed to place books in a way that they can be more easily found by consumers, and that fantasy literature is less easy to define than, say, crime fiction, this companion has a large field to cover and does an admirable job of presenting a good overview of the many authors who fit into this [particular] niche.' Stuart Bentley, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Part I. Histories: 1. Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany Gary K. Wolfe; 2. Gothic and horror fiction Adam Roberts; 3. American fantasy, 1820–1950 Paul Kincaid; 4. The development of children's fantasy Maria Nikolajeva; 5. Tolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of genre fantasy Edward James; Part II. Ways of Reading: 6. Structuralism Brian Attebery; 7. Psychoanalysis Andrew M. Butler; 8. Political readings Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; 9. Modernism and postmodernism Jim Casey; 10. Thematic criticism Farah Mendlesohn; 11. The languages of the fantastic Greer Gilman; 12. Reading the fantasy series Kari Maund; 13. Reading the slipstream Gregory Frost; Part III. Clusters: 14. Magical realism Sharon Sieber; 15. Writers of colour Nnedi Okorafor; 16. Quest fantasies W. A. Senior; 17. Urban fantasy Alexander C. Irvine; 18. Dark fantasy and paranormal romance Roz Kaveney; 19. Modern children's fantasy Catherine Butler; 20. Historical fantasy Veronica Schanoes; 21. Fantasies of history and religion Graham Sleight.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.Trade Review'No doubting its success.' The Times Literary Supplement'Strikes an excellent balance between scholarship and accessibility, and between the biographical and the critical.' The Book and Magazine CollectorTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology; List of abbreviations and texts; Preface John O. Jordan; 1. The life and times of Charles Dickens Grahame Smith; 2. From Sketches to Nickleby Robert L. Patten; 3. The middle novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield Kate Flint; 4. Moments of decision in Bleak House J. Hillis Miller; 5. Novels of the 1850s: Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and A Tale of Two Cities Hilary Schor; 6. The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend Brian Cheadle; 7. Fictions of childhood Robert Newsom; 8. Fictions of the city Murray Baumgarten; 9. Gender, family, and domestic ideology Catherine Waters; 10. Dickens and language Garrett Stewart; 11. Dickens and the form of the novel Nicola Bradbury; 12. Dickens and illustrations Richard Stein; 13. Dickens and theatre John Glavin; 14. Dickens and film Joss Marsh; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Faber & Faber The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Book SynopsisThe Peru of the near future is in the throes of an insurgency. A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In the midst of this, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the story of his friend, a modern revolutionary. In The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Mario Vargas Llosa offers not just a brilliant psychological portrait, but also a searing account of Latin America''s political scene.
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Faber & Faber A Wreath for Udomo Faber Editions
Book Synopsis''The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday TimesThose men who are history now; did they feel like this? A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can''t tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the corner. Over brandy and stew, she discovers he is in awe of her friend, Panafrica''s greatest political writer and fighter. Their meeting inducts this stranger, Udomo, into London''s revolutionary community of exiled African activists: the start of a life-changing journey. Amidst the internal politics and love affairs, Udomo is inspired by other leaders'' independence uprisings; but when he returns to his native land to overthrow the colonial oppressors, his idealism is put to the ultimate test ... Inspired by Peter Abrahams'' befriending of future African heads of state in mid-century London, A Wreath for Udomo (1956) is a radical lost classic, unforgettably expTrade Review'An African writer, a writer of the world, who opened up in South Africa a path of exploration for us, the writers who have followed the trail he bravely blazed.' - Nadine Gordimer'Abrahams explored with sensitivity and passion, the injustices of apartheid and the complexities of racial politics . An important literary voice.' - New York Times'He writes with vividness and great dignity . The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' - Sunday Times'With all that has been written about Africa, hardly anything has been said about the most significant people of all - the African leaders, revolutionaries one moment, Prime Ministers the next. This unusual novel, written with a close and sympathetic knowledge, gives a fascinating insight into these men.' - Observer'Intelligent and exciting . Written with skill and sympathy.' - TLS
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Pearson Education Gullivers Travels and A Modest Proposal
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Style in Fiction A Linguistic Introduction to
Book SynopsisStylistics is the study of language in the service of literary ends, and in Style in Fiction, Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short demonstrate how stylistic analysis can be applied to novels and stories. Writing for both students of English language and English literature, they show the practical ways in which linguistic analysis and literary appreciation can be combined, and illuminated, through the study of literary style. Drawing mainly on major works of fiction of the last 150 years, their practical and insightful examination of style through texts and extracts leads to a deeper understanding of how prose writers achieve their effects through language. Since its first publication in 1981, Style in Fiction has established itself as a key textbook in its field, selling nearly 30,000 copies. Now, in this revised edition, the authors have added substantial new material, including two completely new concluding chapters. These provide an extensive, up-to-date survey of d
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Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd On the Edge
Book SynopsisOn the Edge is a first-of-its-kind collection of short stories and extracts from novels centred on theme of same-sex desire, translated from the original Hindi. The sixteen beautiful and provocative stories featured here (published between 1927 and 2022) include classic works by Asha Sahay, Premchand, Ugra, Rajkamal Chaudhuri, Geetanjali Shree, Sara Rai and Rajendra Yadav, among others.Trade Review "A window to the varied depictions of queerness in different eras.. . . The collection does not read like a translated work, thanks to Vanita’s vast experience with queer text and language, which ensure sensitive handling." —Tribune India
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Harvard University Press On the Origin of Stories
Book SynopsisBrian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works.Trade ReviewThis is an insightful, erudite, and thoroughly original work. Aside from illuminating the human love of fiction, it proves that consilience between the humanities and sciences can enrich both fields of knowledge. -- Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University, and author of The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureIntegrating a vast array of findings in the social and biological sciences and in the history of the arts, Boyd makes a compelling case for art as an adaptive human behavior. I can think of no similar work in contemporary literary theory; I have to go back to Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism for a work of comparable imaginative sweep and analytical precision. A monumental achievement. -- David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-MadisonRich, intelligent and incredibly wide-ranging--from Zeus to Seuss, as one chapter title says--this book is indispensable reading for anyone who wants to think about the nature of fiction. Do we imagine that situating art within a theory of evolution must be reductive? Then we must consider, as Boyd suggests we do, the difference between solving a problem and picturing a chance of solving a problem--and imagine what it would be mean not to be able to do the second. -- Michael Wood, Princeton UniversityOn the Origin of Stories may have an impact far beyond academic circles...No one thinks on this scale anymore. Bent to the cultivation of shrinking plots of expertise, enlivened by the occasional boundary squabble, we are ill-accustomed to broad new theories even from Young Turks, let alone established critics. Ambition is in itself cause for celebration...Boyd's treatment is engrossing, as elegant in the writing as the reasoning. It offers a new insight into the question of why some works [of fiction] speak to audiences across cultures and generations...To look at a story as a naturalist looks at a leaf or a shell, not criticizing improvisations but marveling at its inventive beauty, is a refreshing experience...Whatever your opinion of Derrida, Boyd offers absolution to all lovers of fiction. Our childish taste for make-believe, it seems, is a little more serious than we thought. -- Laura Dietz * Times Literary Supplement *Brian Boyd's On the Origin of Stories, which presents itself as a work of "evocriticism," might well be a straw in the wind blowing contemporary criticism back from Culture to Nature. Given the rampant culturalism of much current literary work, which can see the natural only as an ideologically insidious "naturalizing," it is agreeable to read a work which discusses Homer cheek by jowl with allusions to dung beetles, the neocortex and cases of sexual harassment among pigeons. In sober evolutionary spirit, Boyd has no doubt that whatever more glamorous things human beings can get up to, they are in the first place natural material objects. He also insists in the teeth of postmodern orthodoxy that there is indeed a universal human nature; that culture is not unique to the human animal; and that there is a universally identifiable activity known as art. Nobody who is aware of the excesses of contemporary culturalism could doubt the subversive force of these platitudes. The word "natural," like the words "fact" and "truth," hardly ever turns up in such writings without being ceremoniously draped in scare quotes--and this in an ecological age. The point to Boyd's superbly erudite study is to offer an evolutionary theory of art...Brian Boyd has produced a challenging piece of critical theory, which might well herald the return to Nature of which cultural criticism is in such sore need. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *Like all the best stories, this one has a pleasing symmetry. It is a book in two parts, each illuminating the other. On one side stands evolutionary theory and its attempts to explain human nature. On the other is story itself, represented by two great works of fiction: Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!...[Boyd] has some novel and thought-provoking ideas, and his book covers an impressively wide terrain...What really matters, Boyd makes clear, is whether a story is worthy of our attention. On the Origin of Stories surely is. -- Kate Douglas * New Scientist *[Boyd's] highly intelligent, impressively learned and patiently elaborated theory of the origin of fiction and the other arts begins with the idea that art is cognitive play...Diffusion of Boyd's ideas might even, in our utilitarian and scientistic society, restore the prestige of the arts and humanities. -- William Deresiewicz * The Nation *Fascinating...Elaborate hypotheses like this one are themselves a kind of story, and Boyd tells his on a grand scale. His central arguments are prefaced by a substantial reprise of basic evolutionary theory--very useful if you're unfamiliar with it--and followed by two case studies, of Homer's Odyssey and the tales of Dr. Seuss. It is expert, though highly idiosyncratic, literary criticism..."Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," Wordsworth wrote of the first, intoxicating years of the French Revolution. Reading [a] path-breaking book like [this], one feels something similar. -- George Scialabba * Boston Globe *This is a very important book--important in its own right, but also important as a marker for significant change in the academic study of the humanities. Basically, Boyd sees art as an adaptation, one that brings advantages in our struggle for survival and procreative success. He studies the ways in which stories focus attention (as play does) and foster collaboration and unity. This heightened form of play yields a heightened form of sociality, creates 'creativity,' refines and extends our cognitive skills, helps us to understand one another's thoughts, intentions and motives, see our world from multiple perspectives, explore possibilities and not just actualities, command attention, enjoy status and foster reciprocal altruism (among other things). Most interesting, I believe, is the fact that Boyd's position validates thousands of years of humanistic thought, from Aristotle to Horace, Sidney, Johnson, the Kant of the Critique of Pure Reason (though not perhaps the Kant of the Critique of Judgment) and the successful practice of the storyteller's art by a host of writers whose work has been not only substantive but widely popular. In short, Boyd's study of human nature, human behavior, human development and human artistic expression squares with what many of us have long believed and it does so with the leverage of contemporary, evolutionary science. -- Richard B. Schwartz, University of Missouri, ColumbiaBrian Boyd brilliantly makes the case for literature as necessary for the survival of humankind. Step by step, he builds his argument that we have evolved to engage in play and, in particular, in storytelling...Both Homer and Dr. Seuss must catch and hold our attention with their artistry, their universality, and their moral tone. Boyd forcefully and elegantly supports his view that art is not simply pleasurable for humans but crucial to our survival. -- Barbara Fisher * Boston Globe *A searching, free-wheeling book that sets forth a Darwinian view of narrative's place in human history. -- Robert Fulford * National Post *Masterful...[An] entrancing book...[Boyd] clearly invites comparison with Darwin's masterpiece. Like its namesake, Boyd's book is carefully constructed and constitutes, in Ernst Mayr's words, "one long argument."...While a number of evolutionary analyses of literature, fiction, myths, folklore, and art have appeared in the last 15 years or so, this one stands out for its accessibility and genuinely integrative approach, combined with a detailed analysis of two specific fictional works...Boyd covers an astonishing range of evolutionary concepts, human evolution, cognitive and developmental psychology, human ethology, anthropology, game theory and related topics. Having done research in several of these areas, I can attest that he has selected judiciously and described the science remarkably accurately and clearly...Unlike much of the early writings by promoters of simplistic Pleistocene EEA scenarios and typological human universals, Boyd explores detailed empirical observations and experiments, realizes that human variation is the engine of evolutionary change, but--and I view this as an essential strength--eschews a single-minded, or even primary, concern with adaptation...Boyd gets so much right! -- Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee * The Evolutionary Review *On the Origin of Stories is a fascinating book, even a necessary book. At its best, evocriticism can help to reorient the arts and humanities, renewing (or, in some benighted quarters, sparking) our appreciation for the creative works of human minds and hands, and leading humanists to take a fresh look at the rich evolutionary record. -- Michael Bérubé * New Scientist *Boyd's book will engage and excite readers for decades to come...Reading On the Origins of Stories, I was struck with the same excitement and enthusiasm I can only imagine the readers' of Darwin's text felt in 1859. Boyd's text is itself a seminal work synthesizing various literary theories upon an evolutionary framework strong enough to hold whatever stance from which the reader comes. Boyd illustrates this by applying evolutionary thinking to the works of Homer and Dr. Seuss alike...This amazing text allows us to see art from new vantage points that may, in fact, ensure its survival within our global culture...Brian Boyd elevates the writing of criticism to an art form by indeed considering the arousal and sustained engagement of his readers. On the Origin of Stories is itself a welcomed mutation in critical writing. Boyd carries his reader along an original odyssey into science, literature, human nature, the epic landscape of Ancient Greece and the tiny world of Whoville. Like Homer and Dr. Seuss, Boyd cares about his readers and wants us to find our way home to the text without sacrificing intellectual integrity and scholarly research. -- Christine Boyko-Head * arbuturian.com *[A] richly interesting and varied book. -- Lisa Gorton * Australian Book Review *Boyd has created a compelling, erudite, and thoroughly original work about the nature of humanistic expression in art and literature. Beautifully written and wide-ranging, the book delves into social science, evolutionary biology, art, and literature to create a comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. The author argues that art derives from play and is a humanistic adaptation, offering advantages for human survival. Storytelling, he contends, fosters cooperation, social cognition, and creativity...Apropos the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, this book is a fitting tribute to Darwin. -- K. Wein * Choice *Boyd's understanding of human evolution thus leads him towards those features of literary texts that have always fascinated practical and humanist critics...Boyd alone provides us with a sophisticated literary analysis informed by an equally sophisticated understanding of human biology. Boyd demonstrates comprehensively that evolutionary literary theory is compatible with and can inform perceptive literary criticism. -- John Holmes * The British Society for Literature and Science *Table of Contents* Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Animal, Human, Art, Story Book I: Evolution, Art, and Fiction Part 1 Evolution and Nature * Evolution and Human Nature? * Evolution, Adaptation, and Adapted Minds * The Evolution of Intelligence * The Evolution of Cooperation Part 2 Evolution and Art * Art as Adaptation? * Art as Cognitive Play * Art and Attention * From Tradition to Innovation Part 3 Evolution and Fiction * Art, Narrative, Fiction * Understanding and Recalling Events * Narrative: Representing Events * Fiction: Inventing Events * Fiction as Adaptation Book II: From Zeus to Seuss: Origins of Stories Part 4 Phylogeny: The Odyssey * Earning Attention (1): Natural Patterns: Character and Plot * Earning Attention (2): Open-Ended Patterns: Ironies of Structure * The Evolution of Intelligence (1): In the Here and Now * The Evolution of Intelligence (2): Beyond the Here and Now * The Evolution of Cooperation (1): Expanding the Circle * The Evolution of Cooperation (2): Punishment Part 5 Ontogeny: Horton Hears a Who! * Problems and Solutions: Working at Play * Levels of Explanation: Universal, Local, and Individual * Levels of Explanation: Individuality Again * Levels of Explanation: Particular * Meanings * Conclusion * Retrospect and Prospects: Evolution, Literature, Criticism * Afterword * Evolution, Art, Story, Purpose * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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Harvard University Press Fictional Worlds
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Manchester University Press The Ghost Story 18401920 A Cultural History
Book SynopsisThe Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers including Dickens, Collins, Henry James, and M.R. James.Trade Review‘Makes an important contribution to the field of Victorian cultural studies’Simon Hay, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Summer 2012 -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Seeing the Spectre: an economic theory of the Ghost Story2. Dickens’s Spectres: sight, money and reading the ghost story 3. Money and Machines: Wilkie Collins’s ghosts 4. Love, Money, and History: The Female Ghost Story 5. Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism 6. Haunted Houses and History: Henry James’s Anglo-American Ghosts 7. Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter 8. M.R. James’s Gothic Revival ConclusionBibliography
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Manchester University Press Rebel by vocation Sen OFaolin and the generation
Book SynopsisFrom 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literary magazine, it is now mostly discussed in the context of its hard political criticism. Carson has unearthed a wealth of sources to put The Bell in its social as well as literary contexts.Trade Review'The book makes excellent use of archival research, including fascinating material quoted from O'Faolains's dealings with the BBC.'Claire Connolly, Irish Times, May 2016‘The book is a significant contribution that deserves a wide readership.’Brad Kent, Université Laval, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.40 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rebel by vocation1. Beginnings and blind alleys: O'Faoláin and his circle 2. A broken world: Church and State in The Bell 3. The mart of ideas: O'Faoláin and Literature 4. The thin society: O'Faoláin and the descent of The Bell 5. Conclusion: Signing off Works Cited Index
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Edinburgh University Press Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus
Book SynopsisThis is the first of the 2-volume introduction and notes which Scott wrote to accompany the first complete edition of his fiction. His notes explain both use of language and incidents in his novels. The Edinburgh Edition includes a scholarly introduction, full addenda, corrigenda and explanatory notes.
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Edinburgh University Press Modernism Space and the City
Book SynopsisThis innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
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Edinburgh University Press The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Comic Book Apocalypse
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McFarland & Company Zola and Film Essays in the Art of Adaptation
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and film, explores the dynamic relationship between Zola's fiction and its film adaptations, examining critically significant cinematic adaptations of Zola's novels from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Louisiana State University Press Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
Book SynopsisOne of the South's most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. In this welcome guide to Gaines's fiction, Keith Clark offers insightful analyses of his novels and short stories.
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Rlpg/Galleys From Heinlein to Here
Book SynopsisThis volume covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the "golden age" of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Star Wars", and "E.T.") would soon dominate box offices.Trade Review...the stories are among the field's best known, by the most highly regarded authors of the period....There's little doubt why these stories are considered among the finest in science fiction history....Gunn's commentary is both informative and perceptive....he explains the literary development of science fiction, and the stories support his analysis....It belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who loves science fiction. * Science Fiction Weekly *An excellent introduction to the history of the genre. * The New York Times *The best series, historically arranged, of SF anthologies ever assembled...All six volumes belong in the library of every university, school, and teacher and reader of science fiction. Gunn has gathered stories of importance to the development of SF and stories that represent the best writing of the genre. * Anatomy of Wonder, 5th Edition *...provides one of the most comprehensive views of the field and should be required reading for all students of sf. It has withstood the test of time, with classic stories....Gunn's headnotes and introductions remain provocative, even years later. The Road to Science Fiction can be read as an historical document, one that says much about Gunn, his mind, and his take on sf as it does about the state of sf from its roots to its full maturity as a genre. * Science Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Beyond These Horizons Chapter 2 "All You Zombies" Chapter 3 The Clear, Cool Voice of Asimov Chapter 4 Reason Chapter 5 The Simak Reservation Chapter 6 Desertion Chapter 7 Mimsy Were the Kuttners Chapter 8 Mimsy Were the Borogoves Chapter 9 The Bradbury Chronicles Chapter 10 The Million-Year Picnic Chapter 11 More Than SF Chapter 12 Thunder and Roses Chapter 13 Ecce Femina Chapter 14 That Only a Mother Chapter 15 A Matter of Time Chapter 16 Brooklyn Project Chapter 17 The Social Side Chapter 18 Coming Attraction Chapter 19 The Expanding Universe Chapter 20 The Sentinel Chapter 21 Farmerworld Chapter 22 Sail On! Sail On! Chapter 23 The Science in Science Fiction Chapter 24 Critical Factor Chapter 25 Why Not Literature? Chapter 26 Fondly Fahrenheit Chapter 27 A Touch of Stone Chapter 28 The Cold Equations Chapter 29 The Ballads of Lost C. Smith Chapter 30 The Game of Rat and Dragon Chapter 31 Scalpel of Wit Chapter 32 Pilgrimage to Earth Chapter 33 The British Are Coming! Chapter 34 Who Can Replace a Man? Chapter 35 The Sirens of Mainstream Chapter 36 Harrison Bergeron Chapter 37 That Old-Time Religion Chapter 38 The Streets of Ashkelon Chapter 39 Terminal Fiction Chapter 40 The Terminal Beach Chapter 41 Again and Again Chapter 42 Dolphin's Way Chapter 43 The Future as Metaphor Chapter 44 Slow Tuesday Night Chapter 45 Through a Glass Darkly Chapter 46 Day Million Chapter 47 Will Reality Please Raise Its Hand? Chapter 48 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale Chapter 49 The New Thing Chapter 50 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Chapter 51 Aye, and Delany Chapter 52 Aye, and Gomorrah Chapter 53 The New Scientific Revolution Chapter 54 The Jigsaw Man Chapter 55 Hard Science and Soft People Chapter 56 Kyrie Chapter 57 Out of the Knight Chapter 58 Masks Chapter 59 Surviving the Future Chapter 60 From Stand on Zanzibar Chapter 61 The Big Protest Chapter 62 The Big Flash Chapter 63 The Origin and Development of Science Fiction Writers Chapter 64 Sundance Chapter 65 Science Fiction as Simile Chapter 66 From The Left Hand of Darkness Chapter 67 Issues and Controversies Chapter 68 When It Changed Chapter 69 The Science Fiction Art Story Chapter 70 The Engine at Heartspring's Center Chapter 71 The Uncertain Future Chapter 72 Tricentennial
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University Press of Kentucky Divided Fictions Fanny Burney and Feminine
Book SynopsisIn this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist from private to public terms, but also reveals in Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity."
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Univ of Chicago Behalf of Ohio State Up Unnatural Narratology
Book SynopsisUnnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges offers a number of developments, refinements, and defenses of key aspects of unnatural narrative studies. The first section applies unnatural narrative theory and analysis to ideologically charged areas such as feminism, postcolonial studies, cultural alterity, and subaltern discourse. The book goes on to engage with and intervene in theoretical debates in several areas of both critical theory and narrative theory, including affect studies, immersion, narration, character theory, frames, and theories of reception and interpretation. Antimimetic perspectives are also extended to additional fields, including autobiography, graphic narratives, drama and film, performance studies, and interactive gamebooks. Written by an international assemblage of distinguished and emerging narrative scholars and theorists, this collection promises to greatly enhance the study of narrative and further advance the frontiers of narrati
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Ohio State University Press Monstrous Youth
Book SynopsisThe monstrous has a long, complicated history within children''s popular media. In Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States, Sara Austin traces the evolution of monstrosity as it relates to youth culture from the 1950s to the present day to spotlight the symbiotic relationship between monstrosity and the bodies and identities of children and adolescents. Examining comics, films, picture books, novels, television, toys and other material culture-including Monsters, Inc. and works by Mercer Mayer, Maurice Sendak, R. L. Stine, and Stephanie Meyer-Austin tracks how the metaphor of monstrosity excludes, engulfs, and narrates difference within children''s culture.Analyzing how cultural shifts have drastically changed our perceptions of both what it means to be a monster and what it means to be a child, Austin charts how the portrayal and consumption of monsters corresponds to changes in identity categories such as race, sexuality, gender, disability, and class. In demonstrating how monstrosity is leveraged in service of political and cultural movements, such as integration, abstinence-only education, and queer rights, Austin offers insight into how monster texts continue to reflect, interpret, and shape the social discourses of identity within children''s culture.
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Ohio State University Press A Theology of Sense
Book SynopsisScott Dill''s A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature brings together theology, aesthetics, and the body, arguing that Updike, a central figure in post-1945 American literature, deeply embeds in his work questions of the body and the senses with questions of theology. Dill offers new understandings not only of the work of Updike-which is importantly being revisited since the author''s death in 2009-but also new understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, religion, and physical experience.Dill explores Updike''s unique literary legacy in order to argue for a genuinely postsecular theory of aesthetic experience. Each chapter takes up one of the five senses and its relation to broader theoretical concerns: affect, subjectivity, ontology, ethics, and theology. While placing Updike''s work in relation to other late twentieth-century American writers, Dill explains their notions
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Wayne State University Press Dear Chester Dear John Letters Between Chester
Book SynopsisChester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves.Trade Review"Reading these letters, one is delighted to be in the company of two friends who truly like each other. One also feels the passionate excitement and richness of their intellect and creativity, their anger and joy. But most of all one learns what it is like in the 20th century to be an African-American writer in America and Europe." - Clarence Major, professor of English at the University of California-Davis and author of Dirty Bird Blues"
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Syracuse University Press Errancies of Desire
Book SynopsisFocuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.
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The University of Alabama Press Liberalism and the Culture of Security The
Book SynopsisTraces a crucial paradox in historical and contemporary notions of citizenship: in a liberal democratic culture that imagines its citizens as self-reliant, autonomous, and inviolable, the truth is that claims for citizenship—particularly for marginalized groups such as women and slaves—have just as often been made in the name of vulnerability and helplessness.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Return of the Contemporary
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University of Hawai'i Press The Confessions of a Number One Son
Book SynopsisIn the early 1970s, Frank Chin, the outspoken Chinese American author of such plays as The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon, wrote a fulllength novel that was never published and presumably lost. Nearly four decades later, Calvin McMillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian American literature,would discover Chin's original manuscripts and embark on an extensive restoration project. Meticulously reassembled from multiple extant drafts, Frank Chin's forgotten novel is a sequel to The Chickencoop Chinaman and follows the further misadventures of Tam Lum, the original play's witty protagonist. Haunted by the bitter memories of a failed marriage and the untimely death of a beloved family member, Tam flees San Francisco's Chinatown for a life of self-imposed exile on the Hawaiian island of Maui. After burning his sole copy of a manuscript he believed would someday be hailed as The Great Chinese American Novel, Tam stumbles into an unlikely romance with Lily, a former
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ABC-CLIO Native Americans in Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisBuild high-interest theme lesson plans that accurately portray Native peoples and cultures with this authoritative guide to the best children's fiction. This highly readable reference book also provides a balanced discussion of the disservice done to Native Americans by misleading, inaccurate, and insensitive books.Table of ContentsForeword. For the Seventh Generation by Joseph Bruchac xi Introduction. Learning about Native Realities--A Personal Journey xv References xx Chapter 1. The Way It Wasn't: Stereotypes and Misrepresentations 1 European Responses to the New World 1 Our Little Indian Cousin: A Good Indian Boy 5 Geronimo, Wolf of the Warpath: Freedom Fighter as Bad Indian 8 In Search of Sedna: A Children's Version of a Major Eskimo Myth 12 The Indian in the Cupboard: Making Plastic Indians Wooden 15 Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: Did Chief Seattle Really Say That? 18 References 22 Chapter 2. Imaging Native Worlds 24 Picture Books and Traditional Stories 24 Traditional Plains Cultures and Stories in the Picture Books of Paul Goble 27 Native Faces of the Universal Hero in the Picture Books of Gerald McDermott 38 Living by Oceans and Deserts: Realistic Portrayals of Modern Native Life 49 Picture Book Versions of Traditional Tales 53 Picture Book Fiction and Petry about Native Peoples 70 References 79 Chapter 3. Native Tricksters and Legendary Heres in Children's Stories 82 Transmitting and Adapting Native Stories: Petics and Problems 82 Tracking the Trickster: Coyote and His Cousins 86 The History of a Culture Hero's Biography: Nanabozho/Hiawatha 105 Collections of Traditional Myths and Legends 122 References 141 Chapter 4. Cultures in Conflict: Native Experiences in Children's Novels 146 Native Themes and Narrative Techniques in Novels About and By Native Peoples 146 Invasion and the Search for Home in the Novels of Scott O'Dell 149 Self-Discovery and Cultural Recovery in the Novels of Jean Craighead George 160 Discovery and Recovery in Children's Novels by Native Writers 171 Novels Portraying Native Experiences 176 References 194 Epilogue. Writing Between Two Worlds: The Inuit Stories of Michael Kusugak 196 References 201 Appendix.Incorporating Native Stories in the Language Arts Program 203 Philosophy and Objectives 203 Arctic Food on Ice 205 Author Study: Elizabeth Cleaver's Collages 206 As the Crow Flies: Pourquoi Legends from Across the Continent 211 Brave Hunters: Inuit Legends Retold by James Houston 213 Tracking the Trickster 215 Where the Buffalo Roamed: Plains Indian Mythology 217 Developing a Novel Study Unit: Julie of the Wolves 220 Other Units Focusing on Native Traditions and Legends 223 Author, Illustrator, Title Index 225 Subject Index 233
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LB Productions Write for Your Life Thorndike Nonfiction
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Urbanomic Media Ltd Applied Ballardianism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to The Essay
Book SynopsisThis Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present.Table of ContentsPart I. Forms of the Essay: 1. Remembering the essay Jeff Dolven; 2. The personal essay Merve Emre; 3. The critical essay Frances Ferguson; 4. The nature essay Daegan Miller; 5. The essay in theory Kara Wittman; Part II. The Work of the Essay: 6. Essay and experiment Julianne Werlin; 7. Essay, enlightenment, revolution Anahid Nersessian; 8. The essay, abolition, and racial blackness Jesse McCarthy; 9. The Utopian essay Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado; 10. Ethics and the essay David Russell; 11. Essay and empire Saikat Majumdar; 12. Unqueering the essay Grace Lavery; Part III. Technologies of the Essay: 13. The essay and the novel Jason Childs; 14. Lyric, essay Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young; 15. The photograph as essay Kevin Adonis Browne; 16. The essay film Nora M. Alter; 17. The essay online Jane Hu.
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