Literary studies: fiction Books
Edinburgh University Press Commemorative Modernisms
Book SynopsisThis book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and Technology
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett's trademark aesthetics.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze in Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisJane Newland focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Andre Dhtel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Michel Tournier. They are explored across chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsense.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Kirkyard Romanticism
Book SynopsisExamines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead
£999.99
McFarland & Co Inc Frederic Dannay Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine
Book Synopsis Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen''s role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.
£50.66
McFarland & Co Inc Brat Life
Book Synopsis With hundreds of thousands of current and former military brats in the United States, their lives as children of service members are surprisingly little documented. Reading about the experiences of fellow brats can help these children of warriors understand both themselves and the unique world in which they were raised. Learning of the challenges that these children face will also help the general population consider how to honor and to help those whose lives were shaped by the military without volunteering or being drafted. This book explores the military brat experience as reflected in novels intended for adults, adolescent fiction, autobiographies and biographies, and highlights the common elements: frequent moves, the ever-present sense of danger, the potential loss of the service member, and isolation from the larger civilian world. By understanding the lives of brats, we can better understand the very real costs--beyond the lives of service members themselves--that
£38.37
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
£22.79
University of Toronto Press Hidden Paradigms
Book SynopsisUnderstanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines. In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than thirty-eight hours to complete over eighteen nights. Bringing this unique example of Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other culturally significant works the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the Mahabharata, an Icelandic Saga, the BibleTable 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
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature
Book SynopsisGraphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narrTrade ReviewGraphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is a highly compelling read for all scholars who want to expand beyond a Euro-American-Japanese-centric approach in comic research and learn about comics’ crucial contribution to world literature. The comprehensive essays in this volume point out the diversity of international comic production, circulation, and reception and stress the multiplicity of comics’ structural codes. They outline the need for comic research to push for a decentered approach--by envisioning universality alongside unique perspectives. In doing so, this volume convincingly discusses world literature as a processual concept rather than affirming a normative canon. I consider this volume a key addition to the disputed field of world literature; by addressing the comic medium, it presents an urgently needed debordering in thinking about the world. * Marina Rauchenbacher, Research Associate, Department of German Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, and author of Karoline von Günderrode. Eine Rezeptionsstudie (2014) *A rich journey, this book invites us to an intimate reading of comics as world literature from a Global South perspective. Playful yet aware of what is at stake literarily and politically, it transgresses geographical as well as disciplinary borders and opens our eyes to the stories of those who, more often than not, are denied border crossing. Thoroughly researched, well written, and passionate, it will appeal to literary scholars and comic book fans alike. * Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and author of The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual (2021) *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms James Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar 1. Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature Dominic Davies, City University London, UK 2. Latin America’s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic "World Literature" Jasmin Wrobel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 3. An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fi shiqqat bab el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk) Dima Nasser, Brown University, USA 4. Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative Camila Gutiérrez, Pennsylvania State University, USA 5. A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978-2016) Sandra Federici 6. Born in the “World”: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Writing and Art as World Literature Allison Blecker, Harvard University, USA 7. Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative Debadrita Chakraborty, Cardiff University, UK 8. Opening Up a World and the Temporal-Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass as World Literature Jin Lee, Myongji University, South Korea 9. Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins Catherine Sly, Independent Scholar, Australia 10. A Case Study of Sita’s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial Ramayana Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Ahmedabad University, India 11. Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel’s Black Panther Jana Fedtke 12. Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars) Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah, Universiti Sains Islam, Malaysia 13. “LONG LIVE the Waste!”: Junk Food Bites Back in Jung’s Approved for Adoption Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USA Notes on Contributors Index
£95.00
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Northern Crossings
Book SynopsisThis open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case. Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of ''cosmopolitan'' and ''vernacular'' or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization which provideTrade ReviewGo global or extend the local? This volume digs into the most fundamental questions about the construction of literary place, presenting an elaborate and multifaceted case study from the semi-periphery. It convincingly shows how translation-flows concern far more than numbers: they show a culture at work. * Anthony Pym, Distinguished Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia *By framing Sweden as a "semi-peripheral" space of world literary networks, Northern Crossings opens up new cross-ways of scrutinizing translation-flows, creation of readerships and recognition of literary works through the Nobel Prize in the public sphere. An interesting co-authored work which underscores benefits of collaborative work in World Literature Studies. * B. Venkat Mani, Professor of German and World Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, author of Recoding World Literature (2017), and co-editor, A Companion to World Literature (2020) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Introduction – The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden) and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) 1. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan, the Vernacular and the Semi-periphery 2. Infrastructure of the Semi-peripheral Exchange 3. Translators of Nobel Prize Literature 4. Translation Strategies to and from the Literary Semi-periphery: Reduction Retention, Replacement 5. Positioning the Swedish Literary Semi-periphery 6. General Conclusion References Index
£90.25
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Realism Aesthetics Experiments Politics
Book SynopsisRealism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its 19th-century aesthetics committed to making reality into an object of serious art; the experiments with and against realism by 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, or magical realist writing; and the politics of realism, especially its ambitions to map the complex realities produced by global capitalism and climate catastrophe. This juxtaposition of aesthetics, experiments, and politics unsettles the entrenched opposition between realism and experimental literature that tends to ignore the fact that realism, by virtue of its commitment to a changing material and social world, cannot be but continuously experimenting. The innovative chapters of this book address some of the pressing questions of literary and cultural studies today, like the complex relation Trade ReviewLiterary realism has never looked more exciting than now, thanks to timely and ambitious volumes such as this one. The collection ranges across multiple national and historical contexts to offer a substantial reassessment of the realist mode. Written with acuity and flair, the chapters in this book demonstrate that realism was more supple, experimental, and expansive than critics have tended to assume. * Benjamin Kohlmann, Professor of English Literature, University of Regensburg, Germany, and author of British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States (2021) *Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics is an exciting addition to the recent scholarship on the aesthetic, political, and theoretical possibilities of realist writing. Following a clear and engaging introduction, the chapters cover a broad historical and geographical range and offer new insights on realism’s relationship to modernism, postmodernism, magical realism, postcoloniality, global literature, climate fiction, experimental fiction, and more. In all, the book charts an exciting course for realist studies in the new millennium. * Ulka Anjaria, Professor of English, Brandeis University, USA, and author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012) *Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics persuades us of the renewed energy and innovation in the plurality of realism. Casting realism as an aesthetic and political strategy, the book is broad in scope and the essays reinforce the capacity for foundational and contemporary realism to be both experimental and relevant. * Maggie Bowers, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Portsmouth, UK, and author of Magic(al) Realism: The New Critical Idiom (2004) *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Realism, Political Aesthetics, and (New) Materialism (Jens Elze, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) Part I. Aesthetics 1. “Uses of ‘Realism’”: A Term in History and the History of a Term (Andreas Mahler, Free University of Berlin, Germany) 2. George Eliot’s Realisms (Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 3. Medical Realism and the Magic of Reality: Art and Insight in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and Émile Zola’s Le docteur Pascal (Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 4. Conrad on Epidemics: From The Shadow-Line to Covid-19 (and Back) (Nidesh Lawtoo, KU Leuven, Belgium) Part II. Experiments 5. “Should I Call It Horror?”: Reflecting Realism by Exploring Contingency in Ror Wolf’s Adventure Series Pilzer und Pelzer (Barbara Bausch, Free University of Berlin, Germany) 6. Trawling Truth: B.S. Johnson’s Evacuation of Realist Epistemology (André Otto, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) 7. Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (Nasrin Babakhani, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) 8. Narrative as Realistic Thinking (Kai Wiegandt, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany) Part III. Politics 9. Realism for Sustainability (Caroline Levine, Cornell University, USA) 10. Network Realism/Capitalist Realism (Dirk Wiemann, University of Potsdam, Germany) 11. Postcolonial Realism and Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters (Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong) 12. Settler-Colonial Realism: Naturalizing and Denaturalizing the Frontier (Hamish Dalley, Daemen College, USA) Notes on Contributors Index
£90.25
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film
Book SynopsisUsing Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.Precarity is everywhere now, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, housing and food insecurity, depression, and deaths of despair are now being recognized as symptoms of the downward pull of social precarity. Although these and similar ills have been attributed to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and willful neglect of the common good, precarization has accompanied the booms and busts of industrial modernity from its beginnings. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film explores how German and Austrian literature, film, and social history have engaged with social precarity, from the period of Romanticism and early industrialization to the present. The chapters in this volume deal with precarity as both an objective phenomenon reflected in literary and filmic representations and as a subjective phenomenon that gives these representations their particular shape. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film opens new critical perspectives on diverse forms of lived precarity and their creative manifestations by reflecting on the history of capitalist modernity from the vantage points of weakness, vulnerability, marginality, impoverishment, and otherness.
£36.40
Stanford University Press Genres of Privacy in Postwar America
Book SynopsisWith this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category of the private person in the postwar period. Especially after the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to privacy in 1965, legal scholars, judges, and the public scrambled to understand the scope of that right. Before and after the Court's ruling, authors of genre fiction and film reformulated their aliens, androids, and monsters to engage in debates about personal privacy as it pertained to issues like abortion, police surveillance, and euthanasia. Triangulating novels and films with original archival discoveries and historical and legal research, Rampell provides new readings of Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy B. Hughes, Philip K. Dick, Octavia Butler, Chester Himes, Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, and others. The book pairs the right of privacy for heterosexual sex with queer and proto-feminist crime fiction; racialized police surveillance at midcentury with Black crime fiction; Roe v. Wade (1973) with 1960s and 1970s science fiction; the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (1974) with horror; and the right to die with westerns. While we are accustomed to defenses of fiction for its capacity to represent fully rendered private life, Rampell suggests that we might value a certain strand of genre fiction for its capacity to theorize the meaning of the protean concept of privacy.Trade Review"In crisp and lucid prose, Palmer Rampell gives us new and compelling views of the ambitious genre writers who explored the rough edges of the postwar liberal consensus. Bolstered with rare finds from Rampell's original archival research, this book brilliantly shows the unnoted power of genre fiction."—Sean McCann, author of A Pinnacle of Feeling"This richly interdisciplinary book transforms our understanding of the relationship between privacy and literature, and Rampell's provocative readings of genre fiction mount a compelling case against literary and liberal truisms about the bourgeois private self."—Annie McClanahan, author of Dead Pledges"Genres of Privacyis a brainy and painstaking literature review of a variety of postwar genre works and their relationship to contemporary privacy-related issues... Rampell's expansive definition of the right to privacy gives his book a wide sweep and provides a view into several different issues and genres, lending it an immediate relevance."—Harrison Blackman, Los Angeles Review of Books"Recommended."—G. Grieve-Carlson, CHOICE
£22.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of
Book SynopsisIt had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end. On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York, Lee Child embarked on the twentieth book in his globally successful Jack Reacher series. Andy Martin was there to see him do it, sitting a couple of yards behind him, peering over his shoulder as the writer took another drag of a Camel cigarette and tapped out the first sentence: “Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn’t easy.” Miraculously, Child and Martin stuck with it, in tandem, for the next 8 months, right through to the bitter-sweet end and the last word, “needle”. Reacher Said Nothing is a one-of-a-kind meta-book, an uncompromising account in real time of the genesis, evolution and completion of a single work, Make Me. While unveiling the art of writing a thriller Martin also gives us a unique insight into the everyday life of an exemplary writer. From beginning to end, Martin captures all the sublime confidence, stumbling uncertainty, omniscience, cluelessness, ecstasy, despair, and heart-thumping suspense that go into writing a number-one bestseller.Trade Review�Love Jack Reacher? You'll have to enjoy this... [Andy Martin] revels in the minutiae you didn't realize you wanted to know.� Shortlist �It's fascinating to watch the process of writing unfolding in real time... it shouldn't work - after all writing is a predominantly mental activity - and yet it does in a way that makes you wonder why no-one's thought of doing this before... Andy Martin has created something new here: a fusion of literary criticism, biography and fly-on-the-wall meta-novel which serves as a remarkable insight into the creative process.�Spectator �Very entertaining. Until Child can be persuaded to publish his own version of Stephen King's On Writing, I think it will be a wise investment for anybody who wants to write popular fiction.�Jake Kerridge, Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Politics and You 7 Part 2: Making Your Voice Heard 29 Part 3: Politics is a Team Sport 67 Part 4: It’s All Marketing 131 Part 5: Let the Campaigns Begin 189 Part 6: Presidential Politics 263 Part 7: The Part of Tens 311 Appendix: State ID Voting Requirements 331 Index 353
£14.24
University of Minnesota Press Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisCan social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond nihilistic conceptions of the capitalism-caused Anthropocene and toward generative bodies of thought that provoke creative ways of thinking about the world ahead. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities.Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
£10.64
Manchester University Press Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal
Book SynopsisMary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the ‘Frankenstein Complex’, this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel’s remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways.Trade Review'...covers an impressively wide range of adaptations of Shelley’s classic and that can only be warmly recommended to anyone interested in Frankenstein, or in adaptation studies in general for that matter.'Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text – Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. PerryPart I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio1 Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy – Lissette Lopez Szwydky2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’: adaptive symbiosis and Peake’s Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein – Glenn Jellenik3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein – Laurence RawPart II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age – Dennis R. Perry5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios’ reinvention of horror cinema – Morgan C. O’Brien6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley’s motivic novel as adjacent adaptation – Kyle Bishop7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class – Matt Lorenz8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project – Maria K. Bachman and Paul C. Peterson Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein9 ‘Plainly stitched together’: Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past – Jamie Horrocks10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment – Carol Margaret Davison11 Young Frankensteins: graphic children’s texts and the twenty-first-century monster – Jessica Straley12 In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel – Farran L. Norris Sands13 The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West—Reanimator’ – Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockPart IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics14 Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon – Kate Newell15 ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’: adapting Mary Shelley’s monster in superhero comic books – Joe Darowski16 Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein – Véronique Bragard and Catherine ThewissenPart V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein17 Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media – Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman18 Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Kelly JonesFrankenstein’s pulse: an afterword – Richard J. HandIndex
£23.84
Manchester University Press Incest in Contemporary Literature
Book SynopsisThis is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and artists, rather than a single author from this period. The collection exposes the wide use of incest and sexual trauma, and the frequency this appears within contemporary literature and related arts. Incest in contemporary literature discusses the impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film. Authors discussed include Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Miles Leeson with Emma V. MillerPart I: Behind closed doors1. Text, image, audience: Adaptation and reception of Andrea Newman’s A Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1969) – Frances Pheasant-Kelly2. Assuming a ‘manly position’: The crisis of masculinity in Ian McEwan’s early fiction – Justine Gieni3. ‘Waking in the dark’: Remembering incest in A Thousand Acres (1991), Exposure (1993) and Beautiful Kate (2009) – Rebecca WhitePart II: Incest and the child protagonist4. ‘The word is incest’: Narrative, affect and judgement in and across the Lolitas – Matthew Pateman5. Appropriate or anathema? The representation of incest in children’s literature – Alice Mills6. ‘[B]orn to make a real life, however it cracks your heart’: creative women and daydreaming in Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels (2008) – Emma V. MillerPart III: Incest as a political conceit7. The desire for power and the power of desire: The case of Pier Paolo Pasolini – Michael Mack8. ‘Our close but prohibited union’: Sibling incest, class and national identity in Iain Banks’s The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007) – Robert Duggan9. Is posthuman incest possible? Science fiction and the futures of the body – Alistair BrownPart IV: The rhetoric of narrating incest10. ‘Is’t not a kind of incest?’ Metaphor and relation in the poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath – Charles Mundye11. ‘[T]he thing that makes us different from other people’: Narrating incest through ‘différance’ in the work of Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing – Emma V. Miller and Miles Leeson12. Avuncular ambiguity: Ethical virtue in Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince (1973) and Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins (1954) – Miles LeesonIndex
£67.50
Manchester University Press Luminous Presence: Derek Jarman's Life-Writing
Book SynopsisLuminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a dozen books, many of which are autobiographical. Much of Jarman's exploration of post-war queer identity and imaginative response to HIV/AIDS can be found in his books, such as the lyrical AIDS diaries Modern Nature and Smiling in Slow Motion. This book fully explores, for the first time, the remarkable range and depth of Jarman’s writing. Spanning his career, Alexandra Parsons argues that Jarman’s self-reflexive response to the HIV/AIDS crisis was critical in changing the cultural terms of queer representation from the 1980s onwards. Luminous presence is of great interest to students, scholars and readers of queer histories in literature, art and film.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 'The porter into forgotten landscapes': A finger in the fishes mouth2 Dancing Ledge: 'An autobiography at forty'3 Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio: 'Reading between the lines of history'4 Becoming Pasolini: Derek Jarman in Ostia5 Kicking the Pricks: 'Forward into an uncertain future...'6 Self-Projection in film: The Last of England and The Garden7 Modern Nature: Haunting, flowers and personal mythologies8 Queer Edward II: 'Are you a closet bigot?'9 At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament10 Smiling in Slow Motion: Testimony and elegy11 'A kind of bliss': Blue and Chroma12 Derek Jarman’s Garden: A therapy and a pharmacopoeiaConclusion: 'The past is the mirror'BibliographyFilmographyIndex
£63.75
Manchester University Press South African London: Writing the Metropolis
Book SynopsisThis book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.Trade Review'In this rich and engaging new study, Andrea Thorpe offers us the perspectives of those for whom London was variously a lens to view the world [...] The book is sharply cognisant of the production of 'South African' writing and writers in London and how this was racially structured [...] there is much in Thorpe's work for scholars of South African history and writing, London and urban histories, exile, modernity, and transnational movements.'Anne Macguire, The London Journal'Thorpe's re-evaluation of South African writing as London writing holds political as well as scholarly importance.'Hayley G. Toth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing'South African London is a well-conceived and engaging book, providing informed and insightful readings that nuance the contrapuntal paradigm of exilic writing. It makes a valuable contribution to South African literary history, as well as to the literature of London and to Diaspora Studies.'Peter Blair, Modern Language Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Through the “eyes” of London 1 Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson: South African liberal humanists in postwar LondonDetour:“I have always been a Londoner”: Noni Jabavu, an unconventional South African in London 2 Swinging City: Todd Matshikiza’s contrapuntal London writing 3 Waiting and Watching in the city’s pleasure streets: Arthur Nortje’s poems set in London Detour: South African writers and London networks of black British activism 4 Securing the past: Self-reflexive, retrospective narratives of London in J.M. Coetzee’s Youth and Justin Cartwright’s In Every Face I Meet Epilogue: Between the cracks of the city: Transnational Solidarities in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret Index
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Manchester University Press Cormac Mccarthy: A Complexity Theory of
Book SynopsisCombining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy’s literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems. In a world recovering from global economic crisis and poised on the brink of another, studying the methods by which literature interrogates narratives of inevitability around global economic inequality and eco-disaster is ever more relevant.Trade Review'In her foundational study of McCarthy’s engagement with complex adaptive systems, Cooper gracefully assimilates historical, economic, environmental, and complexity studies, archival documents, and previous scholarship to explore McCarthy’s cultural critique of the intersecting American systems of twentieth- and twenty-first-century economic imperialism, consumer capitalism, and criminal justice, and the disruption of complex ecological systems. Turning from problems to solutions in her later chapters, she shows how McCarthy’s works advance an ethic of care for humans, animals, and the environment, and she examines the roles that storytelling and nomadism can play in promoting such an ethic. Wide-ranging and rich in new insights, this book impresses with its confident perception of the overarching values that unify McCarthy’s body of work.' Dianne Luce, author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period'Lydia Cooper brilliantly reads McCarthy’s peripatetic novels to reveal a single focused vision, one that exposes the predations of capitalist excess against a fragile ecological balance. McCarthy’s very syntax and style, in all its experimental variations, everywhere fixes our gaze on what has been lost (or soon will be). In turn, Cooper’s triumph lies in her own ambulatory reading of fictional cars and horses, animate landscapes and insensible figures, Gothic loomings, climate crises, and food webs. One cannot help but leave this book eager to return to a McCarthy seen entirely anew.'Lee Clark Mitchell, Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres, Princeton University'Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature is a brilliant, elegant, and incisive inquiry into the scientific and philosophical ideas that inform McCarthy’s work. Rich with social and political implications in the realm of environmentalism and ecocriticism, the volume moves beyond general themes to advance McCarthy as both prophet and commentator, making his work relevant to a host of perennial and contemporary issues and concerns.' Steven Frye, Professor and Chair of English, California State University, Bakersfield'With this timely and fascinating book, Lydia Cooper draws together the three most recent and robust points of interest in McCarthy studies – economics, environmentalism, and complexity theory – an intersection of topics that is broadly applicable in our contemporary world as well.'Stacey Peebles, Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities, Associate Professor of English at Centre College -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Cars, Trucks, and Horses. Man in the Age of the Machine2. War and the Wanderer. Epic Violence, Biblical Morality, and the Rise of Empire in Blood Meridian 3. Professionals. Late Capitalism and the Illegal Drug Trade in No Country for Old Men and The Counselor4. Prophets. Imagining the End of the Anthropocene in The Road5. Pilgrims. Nomadism and the Making and Unmaking of the World in The Border Trilogy6. Death and the Poet. Suttree and Art that SustainsIndex
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Manchester University Press Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature
Book SynopsisThis original and innovative book proposes ‘dismemory’ as a new form of intertextual engagement with Shakespeare by modern and contemporary Irish writers. Through reflection on these canonical writers and ranging across thirteen Shakespeare plays, Taylor-Collins demonstrates how Irish writers who helped to fashion and critique the Irish nation state carry an indelible, if often subdued, mark of Shakespeare’s early modern English influence.The volume overall renews and revitalises the Shakespeare–modern Ireland connection: Taylor-Collins reveals Hamlet’s hauntological legacy in Playboy of the Western World, Ulysses, and Ghosts; how the corporal economies that exert pressure from Coriolanus and Ben Jonson flicker through to the antiheroes in Beckett’s Three Novels; and how the landed legacies of territorial contests in Shakespeare are engaged with in Yeats’s poetry, and similarly how the diseased muddiness in Hamlet is addressed by Heaney.Trade Review'Breath-taking in an imaginative audacity tempered only by scholarly scruple, this study shows just how much of the modern Irish mind Shakespeare invented. Nick Taylor-Collins's text crackles with new ideas: it is a work of passion and truth. It shows just how deeply Irish writers illuminate the Bard who in turn lights up their texts. The author has the gift of explanation without simplification. Its writer combines a fine alertness to the nuances of language along with a deep understanding of the socio-cultural matrices out of which all literature springs. The result is a magnificent evocation of the ways in which writers take fire from one another ... and even reinvent their predecessors.'Declan Kiberd, Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame University -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Remembering memoryPart I: Ghosts1 ‘Go on from this’: J. M. Synge’s Playboy2 ‘Remember me’: Hamlet, memory, and Leopold Bloom’s poiesis3 ‘Someone wholly other’: John Banville’s GhostsPart II: Bodies4 ‘[M]y genius for forgetting’: Samuel Beckett’s theatrical bodies5 ‘Kate had herself sterilized’: O’Brien’s self-disciplining bodiesPart III: Land6 ‘[R]ights of memory’: W. B. Yeats, surface, and counter-memory7 ‘[D]ithering, blathering’: Seamus Heaney, the diseased word-hoard, and the HistorianConclusion: ‘I disremember’ ReferencesIndex
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Manchester University Press Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural
Book SynopsisMaking home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison. The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children’s books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.Trade Review'Making Home approaches the extremely complex topic of American culture with refreshing clarity and insight...The result is an extremely well structured and accessible study, whose depth lies in its approach to the many diverse texts it engages.'Wade A Bell Jr, Moderna Språk, May 2016 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Orphans and American literature: Texts, intertexts, and contexts2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building 5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels A CodaBibliographyIndex
£21.00
Manchester University Press The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary
Book SynopsisHow might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors – including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole – this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 ‘The Love Alternative’: Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000)2 The Gift of Friendship: Paul Auster’s Fiction and Film3 Broken Utopias: Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude (2003)4 The Borders of Friendship: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)Conclusion
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Manchester University Press The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction
Book SynopsisPenny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan’s longest and most significant people’s movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.Trade Review'This outstanding book paints a different picture of 1830s and 1840s politics as it captures how literature influences history and not just reflects it.'ChoiceReprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library AssociationIt represents a fascinating addition to scholarship on Victorian popular literature and, at times, a genuinely entertaining read which would benefit scholars working on popular fiction, the penny blood, radicalism, and the connection between popular literature and politics.Anna Gasperini, Journal of Victorian CultureThe strengths of Breton’s book are numerous and considerable. They include his skepticism of easy, academically fashionable ideological explanations of cultural phenomena ... Breton vividly demonstrates that popular literature was radical because radicalism appealed to plebeian Victorians. Rebecca Nesvet, Victorian Periodicals Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Old, New, Borrowed and Blue Newgate Calendar 2 Jack Sheppard, the Newgate Novel 3 Penny Radicalism? Sweeny Todd and the Bloods 4 Mysteries and Ambiguities: G. W. M. Reynolds and The Mysteries of London5 Distant Friends of the People: Howitt’s Journal and Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling MagazineConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of
Book SynopsisMid-Century Gothic defines a distinct post-war literary and cultural moment in Britain, lasting ten years from 1945-55. This was a decade haunted by the trauma of fascism and war, but equally uneasy about the new norms of peacetime and the resurgence of commodity culture. As old assumptions about the primacy of the human subject became increasingly uneasy, culture answered with gothic narratives that reflected two troubling qualities of the new objects of modernity: their uncannily autonomous agency, and their disquieting intimacy with the reified human body. The book offers fresh readings of novels, plays, essays and films of the period, unearthing neglected texts as well as reassessing canonical works. By bringing these into dialogue with the mid-century architecture, exhibitions and material culture, it provides a new perspective on a notoriously neglected historical moment and challenges previous accounts of the supposed timidity of post-war culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘The world of things’: an introduction to mid-century gothicPart I: Agency1 Rubble, walls and murals: abstraction and materiality2 Seeing things: found objects and the eye of the beholder3 Machines and spectrality: the gothic potential of technology Part II: Intimacy4 Neophilia and nostalgia: the trouble with gentrification 5 Strange beauty: Costume, performance and power in the New Elizabethan age6 Bombs, Prosthetics and Madness: Incorporating the Intimacy of ThingsConclusion: Beyond the mid-century
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Manchester University Press The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary
Book SynopsisHow might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors – including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole – this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 ‘The Love Alternative’: Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000)2 The Gift of Friendship: Paul Auster’s Fiction and Film3 Broken Utopias: Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude (2003)4 The Borders of Friendship: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)Conclusion
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Manchester University Press South African London: Writing the Metropolis
Book SynopsisThis book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.Trade Review'In this rich and engaging new study, Andrea Thorpe offers us the perspectives of those for whom London was variously a lens to view the world [...] The book is sharply cognisant of the production of 'South African' writing and writers in London and how this was racially structured [...] there is much in Thorpe's work for scholars of South African history and writing, London and urban histories, exile, modernity, and transnational movements.'Anne Macguire, The London Journal'Thorpe's re-evaluation of South African writing as London writing holds political as well as scholarly importance.'Hayley G. Toth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing'South African London is a well-conceived and engaging book, providing informed and insightful readings that nuance the contrapuntal paradigm of exilic writing. It makes a valuable contribution to South African literary history, as well as to the literature of London and to Diaspora Studies.'Peter Blair, Modern Language Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Through the “eyes” of London 1 Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson: South African liberal humanists in postwar LondonDetour:“I have always been a Londoner”: Noni Jabavu, an unconventional South African in London 2 Swinging City: Todd Matshikiza’s contrapuntal London writing 3 Waiting and Watching in the city’s pleasure streets: Arthur Nortje’s poems set in London Detour: South African writers and London networks of black British activism 4 Securing the past: Self-reflexive, retrospective narratives of London in J.M. Coetzee’s Youth and Justin Cartwright’s In Every Face I Meet Epilogue: Between the cracks of the city: Transnational Solidarities in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret Index
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Vintage Publishing Letters to a Writer of Colour
Book SynopsisFilled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour.'Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once' Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens'A whip-smart collection' Kamila Shamsie, author of Best of FriendsWhat if we reconsidered our assumptions about how fiction should be written? And can we then apply our discoveries to both what we read and how we read? This book explores these questions and encourages us into a more inclusive conversation about storytelling, featuring:• Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are• Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist• Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn't a license we carry in our wallets• Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny• Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma• Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves• Kiese Laymon on hearing that no one wants to read the story that you want to write• Deepa Anappara on writing even through conditions that impede the creation of artPlus essays from Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo, Jamil Jan Kochai, Vida Cruz-Borja, Femi Kayode, Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Leila Aboulela, Myriam Gurba, Mohammed Hanif and Sharlene Teo.'This book is essential' Nikesh Shukla'Bracing and moving . . . No one interested in how we read and should read fiction can afford to miss this' Pankaj Mishra, author of Run And HideTrade ReviewA whip-smart collection of essays. I read parts of it with the joy of recognition and other parts with the astonishment of revelation -- Kamila ShamsieElectric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once -- Laila Lalami, author of Conditional CitizensLetters to a Writer of Colour is full of wisdom, nuance and elegance. It stretches discourses around "colour" and invites us to think more deeply and broadly about these questions. It is essential reading in a world full of soundbites and furious noise -- Tash AwThe problem of the color line, as WEB Du Bois called it, has existed in literature and literary criticism as much as social and geopolitical realms, and systematic neglect by publishers, critics and readers has only exacerbated it. Excavating long-buried experiences of rejection, incomprehension and misunderstanding, Letters to a Writer of Colour defines the problem with precision and passion, and also outlines ways to transcend it. No one interested in how we read and should read fiction can afford to miss this bracing and moving anthology -- Pankaj MishraI knew I would love this book as soon as I laid eyes on the title and the list of contributors, and it didn't disappoint - far from it. These essays provide so much wisdom and warmth, giving us a sense of restoration, of community. They take a refreshingly holistic view of the craft and balance real technical insight with deeply gentle humanity. I cannot wait for my students to read this book! -- Okechukwu Nzelu, author of Here Again Now
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Fordham University Press Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the
Book SynopsisHumanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn’t tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa. Overlapping with but distinct from human rights, humanitarianism centers on a relationship of assistance, focusing less on rights than on needs, less on legal frameworks than moral ones, less on the problem than on the nonstate solution. Tracing the white savior narrative back to religious missionaries of the nineteenth century, Humanitarian Fiction reveals the influence of religious thought on seemingly secular institutions and uncovers a spiritual, collectivist streak in the discourse of humanity. Because the humanitarian model of care transcends the boundaries of the state, and its networks touch much of the globe, Humanitarian Fictions redraws the boundaries of literary classification based on a shared problem space rather than a shared national space. The book maps a transnational vein of Anglophone literature about Africa that features missionaries, humanitarians, and their so-called beneficiaries. Putting humanitarian thought in conversation with postcolonial critique, this book brings together African, British, and U.S. writers typically read within separate traditions. Paustian shows how the novel—with its profound sensitivity to narrative—can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives that give African agency its due.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The White Savior Narrative and the Third Sector Novel | 1 1. The Moral Cause | 33 2. The Emancipated African | 67 3. The Universal Human | 101 4. The Benevolent Gift | 134 5. The Nongovernmental Organization | 169 Epilogue: Rearticulating the Humanitarian Atlantic | 207 Acknowledgments | 215 Notes | 219 Works Cited | 251 Index | 267
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Rowman & Littlefield From Native Son to King's Men: The Literary
Book SynopsisOn the heels of the Great Depression and staring into the abyss of a global war, American writers took fiction and literature in a new direction that addressed the chaos that the nation—and the world—was facing. These authors spoke to the human condition in traumatic times, and their works reflected the dreams, aspirations, values, and hopes of people living in the World War II era. In From Native Son to King’s Men: The Literary Landscape of 1940s America, Robert McParland examines notable works published throughout the decade. Among the authors covered are James Baldwin, Pearl S. Buck, James Gould Cozzens, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, Norman Mailer, Ann Petry, Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright. McParland explores how popular novels, literary fiction, and even short stories by these authors represented this pivotal period in American culture. By examining the creative output of these authors, this book reveals how the literature of the 1940s not only offered a pathway for that era’s readers but also provides a way of understanding the past and our own times. From Native Son to King’s Men will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural climate of the 1940s and how this period was depicted in American literature.Trade ReviewMcParland skillfully analyzes a wide range of American writers and their works and how they collectively displayed ‘the dreams, hopes, anxieties, and cultural imagination’ of the 1940s. Combining biography and criticism, McParland shows how American literature written between the Great Depression and the Cold War depicted a general age of ‘transition, recovery, and expectation’ but also addressed issues such as ‘war, the problem with racism, the struggles and dreams of daily life in a changing world.’ The heart of the book is five chapters covering authors and novels by theme: accounts of war by writers including Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck; a look at ‘home’ in the South by William Faulkner and Carson McCullers; depictions of American racial strife by Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, and Richard Wright; novels of WWII by Normal Mailer and John Hersey; and studies of developing domestic issues by a new cadre of postwar writers such as Saul Bellow and John O’Hara. He also examines such books as Richard Wright’s Native Son (‘We still have Bigger Thomas among us… [he] could not easily embrace the American dream’). McParland delivers an insightful look at writers who help shape a decade. * Publishers Weekly *
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Broadview Press Ltd The Red Badge of Courage
Book SynopsisThe story of a young soldier, Henry Fleming, who flees a Civil War battle, The Red Badge of Courage has been celebrated for its depiction of both the physical action of battle and the protagonist’s internal struggle. Despite the precise and vivid descriptions of the scenes of battle in his fiction, Stephen Crane was not born until six years after the war had ended and never saw military service. His novel altered the tradition of war literature in its naturalistic emphasis on a single, ordinary man facing the horrors of battle.This edition includes an important new introduction by James Nagel, author of the book Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism and former president of the Stephen Crane Society. Historically significant reviews and commentary from the publication of the novel in 1895 are included, along with the deleted Chapter 12 from the novel. The short story “The Veteran,” in which the protagonist appears as an elderly man, is also included.Trade Review“With this insightful volume, James Nagel once again confirms his stellar reputation as one of the leading critics of American literature. From the engaging discussion of the novel’s craftsmanship, its structure and style, to the comprehensive overview of critical perspectives, Nagel’s introduction cements The Red Badge of Courage as the finest impressionistic account of the most shattering war in American history. The Appendices are valuable for its evidence of Hamlin Garland’s influence on the young writer as well as for the perceptive reviews by Crane’s contemporaries. The deleted Chapter 12, reprinted in the appendices, is an essential reference for Nagel’s inarguable conclusion that had the chapter remained, the final version of the text would not have achieved such a fine balance of form. Undoubtedly, this edition of America’s major Civil War novel will become indispensable to any serious reader of Stephen Crane.” — Olivia Carr Edenfield, Georgia Southern University“James Nagel’s edition of Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is an authoritative, meticulous contribution. In clear, direct prose, Nagel describes the contextual and structural intricacies of the novel and guides readers through the critical tradition. Nagel’s annotations are prudent; he does not crowd Crane’s text with unnecessary or tangential information. The appendices and select bibliography are also quite valuable, providing researchers an excellent point of departure. Useful to the student as well as the specialist, this book will no doubt become a standard resource for scholars of Crane, Naturalism, and literary Impressionism.” — Robert C. Clark, University of West AlabamaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionStephen Crane: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarAppendix A: Reminiscences of Stephen Crane Hamlin Garland, “Stephen Crane: A Soldier of Fortune” (1900) Joseph Conrad, “Stephen Crane: A Note without Dates” (December 1919) Appendix B: Reviews of The Red Badge of Courage William Dean Howells, Harper’s Weekly (26 October 1895) H.B. Marriott Watson, Pall Mall Gazette (26 November 1895) Harold Frederic, The New York Times (26 January 1896) Arthur G. Sedgwick, The Nation (2 July 1896) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “A Bit of War Photography,” The Philistine (July 1896) William Morton Payne, The Dial (1 February 1896) Appendix C: A Debate about Crane’s Novel General Alexander C. McClurg, The Dial (16 April 1896) Ripley Hitchcock, The Dial (1 May 1896) Sydney Brooks, The Dial (16 May 1896) Appendix D: The Deleted Chapter 12 of The Red Badge of CourageAppendix E: Stephen Crane, “The Veteran”Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Frederick Douglass: Selected Writings and
Book SynopsisUniversally recognized today as one of the most important and influential Americans of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass rose to prominence in the national abolitionist movement before and during the Civil War by virtue of the vividness and power with which, drawing on his personal experiences of enslavement and freedom, he spoke and wrote against American slavery and he continued to propound his vision of an America that would afford freedom, equality, and opportunity to all long after slavery was formally abolished. This edition offers a selection of Douglass's most significant writing and oratory from throughout his long career, including the complete texts of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which has become a classic example of the slave narrative genre, and The Heroic Slave, Douglass's only published work of fiction, together with excerpts from Douglass's other autobiographical writings and key speeches he gave both before and after the Civil War. The edition also provides clear and thorough annotations for the assistance of the student reader and a range of contextual materials, including responses to Douglass's Narrative and photographs of Douglass. As an introduction to Douglass's life and work that balances breadth and concision, this edition is well suited for a variety of undergraduate courses in American history and literary studies. This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts.Trade ReviewThe expansion, diversification, and revitalization of the texts and terms of American literary history in recent years is made marvelously accessible in the … new Broadview Anthology of American Literature."— Hester Blum, Penn State University"The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is, quite simply, a breakthrough. … Meticulously researched and expertly assembled, this anthology should be the new gold standard for scholars and teachers alike."—Michael D’Alessandro, Duke University"So much thought has been put into every aspect of the Broadview Anthology of American Literature, from the selection of texts to their organization to their presentation on the page; it will be a gift to classrooms for years to come."—Lara Langer Cohen, Swarthmore College "The multiplicity of early American locations, languages, and genres is here on wondrous display."—Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University "Above all, this is a volume for the 21st century. … Its capaciousness and ample resource materials make for a text that is always evolving and meeting its readers in new ways."—Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison"a rich collection that reflects the diversity of American literatures…. [and] that never forgets its most important audience: students. There is a wealth of material here that will help them imagine and reimagine what American literature could be."—Michael C. Cohen, UCLATable of ContentsIntroductionNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself In Context: Responses to Frederick Douglass’s Narrative Margaret Fuller, Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, from The New York Tribune A.C.C. Thompson, “To the Public. Falsehood Refuted,” The Liberator Frederick Douglass, Reply to Mr. A.C.C. Thompson, The Liberator from To My Old Master What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? The Heroic Slave In Context: Photographs of Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom from The Dred Scott Decision from Self-Made Men Men of Color, to Arms! from The Composite Nation from Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered at the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument In Context: The Emancipation Memorial (Freedmen's Monument) from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass In Context: The Black Man at the White House
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Broadview Press Ltd Washington Irving: Selected Writings
Book SynopsisTwo of Washington Irving's works of short fiction from his 1819-20 work, The Sketch Book Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are among the most enduringly popular of American classics. In his own day, Irving's works were widely read in Britain as well as in America; the English novelist William Makepiece Thackeray described him as 'the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old.' This edition takes notice of transatlantic literary history with an appendix of reviews from American and British newspapers, and by printing in facing page format the American and British versions of 'Traits of Indian Character' (which differed from each other in a variety of interesting ways). Also included are an excerpt from Irving's first major work, A History of New York; excerpts from a key source that Irving drew on for Rip Van Winkle and a selection of illustrations showing some of the ways in which this character was imagined in nineteenth-century America. With a concise but wide-ranging introduction and extensive explanatory notes, this edition is ideally suited for course use.This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts.Trade ReviewComments on The Broadview Anthology of American Literature“The expansion, diversification, and revitalization of the texts and terms of American literary history in recent years is made marvelously accessible in the … new Broadview Anthology of American Literature.” — Hester Blum, Penn State University“The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is, quite simply, a breakthrough. … Meticulously researched and expertly assembled, this anthology should be the new gold standard for scholars and teachers alike.” — Michael D’Alessandro, Duke University“So much thought has been put into every aspect of the Broadview Anthology of American Literature, from the selection of texts to their organization to their presentation on the page; it will be a gift to classrooms for years to come.” — Lara Langer Cohen, Swarthmore College “The multiplicity of early American locations, languages, and genres is here on wondrous display.” — Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University “Above all, this is a volume for the 21st century. … Its capaciousness and ample resource materials make for a text that is always evolving and meeting its readers in new ways.” — Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison“a rich collection that reflects the diversity of American literatures…. [and] that never forgets its most important audience: students. There is a wealth of material here that will help them imagine and reimagine what American literature could be.” — Michael C. Cohen, UCLA “The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is an instructor’s dream for introducing students to the diversity and complexity of American literature.” — Venetria K. Patton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“I am eager to teach with this anthology! It aligns with cutting-edge research through its selections, its introductions, and explanatory notes, and the texts are supplemented with primary documents that encourage teachers and students to think critically and dynamically.” — Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionfrom A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the end of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker Chapter 5from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The Wife Rip Van Winkle English Writers on America Traits of Indian Character The Legend of Sleepy Hollow In Context: Responses to The Sketch Book in American and British newspapers A German Source for Rip Van Winkle In Context: Images of Rip Van Winkle
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Purdue University Press Tournier Elementaire
Book SynopsisMichel Tournier, member of the Acadimie Goncourt and one of the most influential French writers of the post-Nouveau roman period, stresses the crucial interrelationship that exists between myth and literature. It is the writer's duty, he states, to keep myths alive by continually renewing and transforming them, re-releasing them in an ever changing social context. Written in French, this study considers the Tournier novel as the story of a voyage in a literal and figurative sense. Jonathan Krell uses the term "elementary" to characterize this voyage through the universe of Tournier's imagination, which is dominated by the four primordial element&--earth, water, air, and fire. Building on a foundation of Western culture's rudimentary myths, such as the ogre, twinship, and the Biblical stories of creation and the magi, Tournier performs a radical and disturbing transformation. Professor Krell shows how the transformation is made.
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Baker Publishing Group Reading Black Books – How African American
Book SynopsisChristianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts) Midwest Book Review 2023 Gold Book Award Winner (Nonfiction - Religion/Philosophy) Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American literature. Pastor and teacher Claude Atcho offers a theological approach to 10 seminal texts of 20th-century African American literature. Each chapter takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theological reflection on a primary literary text, from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Richard Wright's Native Son to Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain. The book includes end-of-chapter discussion questions. Reading Black Books helps readers of all backgrounds learn from the contours of Christian faith formed and forged by Black stories, and it spurs continued conversations about racial justice in the church. It demonstrates that reading about Black experience as shown in the literature of great African American writers can guide us toward sharper theological thinking and more faithful living.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Image of God: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man2. Sin: Richard Wright's Native Son3. God: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain4. Jesus: Countee Cullen's "Christ Recrucified" and "The Black Christ"5. Salvation: Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain6. Racism: Nella Larsen's Passing7. Healing and Memory: Toni Morrison's Beloved8. Lament: W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Litany of Atlanta"9. Justice: Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground10. Hope: Margaret Walker's "For My People"Discussion Questions
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Salem Press Inc I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Book SynopsisThis title includes in-depth critical discussions of Maya Angelou's novel. Maya Angelou's ""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"" took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. As it shot to the top of best-seller lists, it made Angelou one of the most recognized black women in America. Despite controversy over its frank depiction of sexual abuse, the autobiography is still widely read in high schools and colleges across the country. Three decades after it was published, readers continue to admire Angelou's artistry, wit, and indomitable spirit. Edited by Mildred R. Mickle, Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Greater Allegheny, this volume brings together a variety of critical offerings on Angelou's famous autobiography. Mickle's introduction pays tribute to Angelou's achievement and examines the inspiration she drew from Phillis Wheatley's civil rights advocacy as well as the similarities between ""Caged Bird"" and Harriet Jacobs' ""Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"" and Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poetry. ""The Paris Review""'s Christopher Cox reminds readers of how revolutionary Angelou's autobiography was when it was published and recounts the comments Angelou made on her work in an interview with George Plimpton. Four original essays by Amy Sickels, Pamela Loos, Neil Heims, and Robert C. Evans provide valuable context for reader's new to Angelou's work. Sickels discusses the historical events that surround Angelou's life: the civil rights, black power, and black arts movements as well as the emergence of black women's literature with the first publications of Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, and Lucille Clifton. Loos provides a survey of the major pieces of criticism on ""Caged Bird"", paying special attention to the book's early reception and how it fits in the autobiographical genre and slave narratives, as well as issues of race, gender, aesthetics, and identity. Neil Heims discusses the struggle for a black identity through readings of both ""Caged Bird"" and James Baldwin's ""If Beale Street Could Talk"". Finally, Robert C. Evans examines the role that both formal and informal education play in the young Maya's maturation. The collection also includes ten previously published essays that examine ""Caged Bird"" through a variety of lenses. Critics examine the character of young Maya, noting how her rootlessness contributes to her perseverance and adaptability, as well as how Angelou's narrative technique allows her to recount the details of incredible life without being controlled by them. The book's treatment of sexual abuse is also investigated in the larger context of other black women's narratives of sexual abuse. Other critics attend to ""Caged Bird""'s place in the genre of ethnic autobiography and the particular challenges it presents to teachers seeking to expose students multicultural literature; the childhood roots of Angelou's political activism; the influence of blues music on the narrative's structure; and, the young Maya's relationships with the black community, literature, and the women in her life.
£93.60
Kent State University Press Hemingway in Comics
Book SynopsisErnest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature--reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner--extending even into comic books. Appearing variously with Superman, Mickey Mouse, Captain Marvel, and Cerebus, he has even battled fascists alongside Wolverine in Spain and teamed up with Shade to battle adversaries in the Area of Madness.Robert K. Elder's research into Hemingway's comic presence demonstrates the truly international reach of Hemingway as a pop culture icon. In more than 120 appearances across multiple languages, Hemingway is often portrayed as the hypermasculine legend: bearded, boozed up, and ready to throw a punch. But just as often, comic book writers see past the bravado to the sensitive artist looking for validation. Hemingway's role in these comics ranges from the divine to the ridiculous, as his image is recorded, distorted, lampooned, and whittled down to its essential parts.As Elder notes, comic book creators and Hemingway share a natural kinship. The comic book page demands an economy of words, much like Hemingway's less-is-more "iceberg theory," only in graphic form. In addition, he turned out to be the perfect avatar for comic book artists wanting to tell history-rich stories, as he experienced beautiful places during the most chaotic times: Paris in the 1920s, Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Cuba on the brink of revolution, France during World War I and during World War II just after the Allies landed in Normandy.Hemingway in Comics provides a unique lens for considering one of our most influential authors. Not only for the dedicated Hemingway fan, this book will appeal to all those with an appreciation for comics, pop culture, and the absurd.Trade Review"Robert K. Elder identifies more than 120 Hemingway appearances in comics from around the world, and with 270 colorful illustrations, Hemingway in Comics reveals a great many of those sightings. Indeed, we see how Hemingway inspires comic writers and artists to create new stories of immense entertainment." — Foreword Reviews"Elder is an amiable guide to comic strips, books, and graphic novel series that use Hemingway as a springboard into satire, joke-telling, brooding existential meditations, and wonky literary archaeology. Overall verdict: Ka-Pow." — Booklist
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University of Iowa Press Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
Book SynopsisBringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict between U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a spotlight on writers from the war's numerous fronts and applying lenses of race, gender, and decolonization, the essayists present several new angles from which to view the tense global showdown that lasted roughly a half-century. Ultimately, they reframe the Cold War not merely as a divide between the Soviet Union and the United States, but between nations rich and poor, and mostly white and mostly not. By emphasizing the global dimensions of the Cold War, this innovative collection reveals emergent forms of post-WWII empire that continue to shape our world today, thereby raising the question of whether the Cold War has ever fully ended.
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Hippocampus Press Lovecraft Annual No. 6 (2012)
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Hippocampus Press A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P.
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Hippocampus Press Dead Reckonings No. 23 (Spring 2018)
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Percival Everett
Book SynopsisFor the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps. The author of more than twenty-five books, Everett has established himself as one of America's--and arguably the world's--premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Among his many honors since 2000 are Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards for erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) and three prominent awards for his 2005 novel Wounded--the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, France's Prix Lucioles des Libraires, and Italy's Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori Prize. Interviews collected in this volume--several of which appear in print or in English translation for the first time--display Everett's abundant wit as well as the independence of thought that has led to his work's being described as ""characteristically uncharacteristic."" At one moment he speaks with great sophistication about the fact that African American authors are forced to overcome constraining expectations about their subject matter that white writers are not. And in the next he talks about training mules or quips about ""Jim Crow,"" a pet bird Everett had on his ranch outside Los Angeles. Everett discusses race and gender, his ecological interests, the real and mythic American West, the eclectic nature of his work, the craft of writing, language and linguistic theory, and much more.
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Academic Studies Press Companion to Victor Pelevin
Book SynopsisCompanion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and students, including how best to teach Pelevin to university-level students, and which critical debates invite further investigation. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin’s oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium. Examining all of Pelevin’s major works and all Peleviniana currently available in English, the Companion aims to prompt further inquiry into this author’s intellectually stimulating and socially prescient work.Trade Review“Khagi’s project is intertextual, elucidating both Pelevin’s highly self-referential writing and its relation to Russian literature as a whole. Her holistic approach to Pelevin’s fiction is demonstrated by the extensive footnotes outlining literary theories and politics, and linking to multiple Russian authors, elevating the Companion from a sourcebook on ‘Peleviniana’ to a masterclass in post-Soviet literature. … This concern with intertextuality is embedded within each of the eight essays here, allowing Khagi’s Companion to offer Anglophone readers an invaluable map of the contemporary literary world that Pelevin both creates and critiques.”— Sarah Gear, University of Exeter, Modern Language Review (April 2023: Vol. 118, No. 2)“This companion to Pelevin’s work has two major benefits. It offers some usefully workmanlike analyses of his early texts, with handy plot synopses, some general contextualization and thematically engaging discussions. The Companion also offers some introduction to common critical approaches to the writer. The writing is accessible and succinct (if often rather descriptive), and the illustrations a pleasant touch. … [O]verall this is an excellent, balanced and carefully neutral… study that collects everything the Pelevin initiate needs to begin appreciating his work.”— Sally Dalton-Brown, University of Melbourne, Slavonic and East European Review 100, no. 3 (July 2022)“The new collection is thoughtfully crafted for a specific audience, namely US and European nonspecialists looking to teach Pelevin at the university level. The chapters… treat all the author’s major works, particularly those translated into English, but they also draw in less-known compositions and avoid going into the weeds on topics more relevant to Russianists. … In sum, the Companion’s scope is simultaneously expansive and tightly focused, and it models effective ways to approach Pelevin in the classroom. … Highly recommended.”— B. J, Nieubuurt, University of Michigan, CHOICE (December 2022: Vol. 60, No. 4)“The Companion to Victor Pelevin is a collaborative undertaking by current and recent graduate students from American universities and serves scholarly and pedagogical objectives… Some contributions, like Sofya Khagi’s and Alexander McConell’s, are innovative and explore new avenues in research about Pelevin…”— Clemens Günther, Freie Universität Berlin, Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 78.2Table of ContentsIntroduction Victor Pelevin: Life, Works, Critical DebatesSofya Khagi, University of MichiganPart One: The Post-Soviet1. The Early Years: Post-Soviet with a Capital “S”Michael Martin, University of MichiganPart Two: Space, Time, History2. Space-Time Poetics in Chapaev and the VoidSofya Khagi, University of Michigan3. Parody of Past and Present in Chapaev and the VoidChristopher Fort, University of Michigan4. Masking the Void, Voiding the Mask: Viktor Pelevin and the Performance of HistoryAlexander McConnell, University of MichiganPart Three: Simulation and Mind Control5. “The Battle for Your Mind”: Transformation of Western Social Theory in Generation ‘П’Dylan Ogden, University of Michigan6. Totalitarian Literature in Generation ‘П’Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado, BoulderPart Four: Metamorphosis and Utopia7. Transformative Reading for Tailless Monkeys: Metamorphoses in The Sacred Book of the WerewolfGrace Mahoney, University of Michigan8. The Mythic and the Utopian: Visions of the Future through the Lens of Victor Pelevin’s S.N.U.F.F. and Love for Three ZuckerbrinsTheodore Trotman, University of ChicagoAppendixSelect Publications by Victor Pelevin in Russian and English
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. The Art of Time: Levinas, Ethics, and the
Book SynopsisEthics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question “what should I do?” has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. One of the foremost theorists of ethics during the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) radicalized the discipline of philosophy by arguing that “the ethical” is the foundational moment for human subjectivity, and that human subjectivity underlies all of Western philosophy. Levinas’s voice is crucial to the resurging global attention to ethics because he grapples with the quintessential problem of alterity or “otherness,” which he conceptualizes as the articulation of, and prior responsibility to, difference in relation to the competing movement toward sameness. Academicians and journalists in Spain and abroad have recently fastened on an emerging cluster of peninsular writers who, they argue, pertain to a discernible literary generation, provisionally referred to as Generación X. These writers are distinct from their predecessors; they and their literary texts are closely related to the specific socio-political and historical circumstances in Spain and their novels relate stories of more and less proximity, more and less responsibility, and more and less temporality. In short, they trace the temporal movement of alterity through narrative. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"The Art of Time is anchored in thorough mastery of primary and secondary work in Levinas studies, and it displays capacious knowledge of 1990's Spanish literature and culture. This study goes beyond earlier work that brings Levinasian ethical philosophy to bear upon literary criticism...and will be an impetus and aspiration for future work by other scholars." -- Donald Wehrs * Auburn University *"Molinaro recuperates underappreciated works, by authors all too easily dismissed as immature or irrelevantly counter-cultural, that speak to us all. As such, this book will be of great interest to anyone interested in ethics in literature or contemporary Spanish literature and culture." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The Art of Time is anchored in thorough mastery of primary and secondary work in Levinas studies, and it displays capacious knowledge of 1990's Spanish literature and culture. This study goes beyond earlier work that brings Levinasian ethical philosophy to bear upon literary criticism...and will be an impetus and aspiration for future work by other scholars." -- Donald Wehrs * Auburn University *"Molinaro recuperates underappreciated works, by authors all too easily dismissed as immature or irrelevantly counter-cultural, that speak to us all. As such, this book will be of great interest to anyone interested in ethics in literature or contemporary Spanish literature and culture." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of ContentsA Note on Translations ... iv One - Ethics, Alterity, and Levinas ... 1 Two - Spain’s Generación X ... 49 Three - Repeating the Same Violence or the Failure of Synchrony: Veo Veo, El frío, and Mensaka ... 99 Four - The Betrayal of Diachrony: El secreto de Sara, Anatol y dos más, and Tocarnos la cara ... 143 Five - Diachrony and Saying: Arde lo que será, Sentimental, and La fiebre amarilla ... 186 Afterword ... 220 Acknowledgments ... 225 Bibliography ... 227 Index ... 251 About the Author ... 252
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Papillote Press An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the
Book SynopsisAn A-Z of Neglected Writers from the English-speaking Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region's rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers - such as WG Ogilvie and Claude Thompson - whose lives and work have slipped out of view while heralding others - Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete, for example - whose work has never been properly recognised. Offering a fascinating insight into the worlds of these 'lost' writers, this A-Z also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works.
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Orion Publishing Co Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Book Synopsis'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review'The best single-volume life of the author available' Irish TimesThe much mythologised author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited was hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Evelyn Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years after his death, Philip Eade draws on extensive unpublished sources to paint a fresh and compelling portrait of this endlessly fascinating man, telling the full story of his dramatic, colourful and frequently bizarre life.Trade ReviewIf you like your Waugh fast, furious and funny, there is much to enjoy in Philip Eade's sparkling Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited ... Waugh's letters are a joy to read, and Eade's coup is his access to a hitherto unpublished cache of them -- Paula Byrne * THE TIMES *Eade isn't a standard literary biographer; he is, by instinct and preference, an entertainer ... He is an assiduous researcher with a considerable narrative gift. He also, crucially, likes his subject. Waugh never much cared what anyone thought of him, but Eade does, and time and again he finds justification for what previous biographers have considered questionable behaviour. He also has a nice, wry turn of phrase ... this is an exemplary piece of work -- Marcus Berkmann * DAILY MAIL Book of the Week *Brisk and entertaining ... intelligent and illuminating ... the best single-volume life of the author available. To read A Life Revisited is to experience a reckoning with a man whose life, like his work, is both a solace and a stimulus -- Matthew Adams * IRISH TIMES *Essential ... Eade's pacey new biography delivers the raw material of Waugh's life ... treat the Waugh aficionado in your life * SUNDAY TIMES Books of the Year *For even more laughs, Philip Eade's Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited demonstrates that Waugh's life, already done by divers hands, really is worth another visit -- John Banville * GUARDIAN Best Books of 2016 *Anyone with the slightest interest in Evelyn Waugh - and who has not been intrigued by his steady return to favour? - should buy, and keep, Philip Eade's Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. Why? Because it is packed with brand new, fascinating information about Waugh, his family, his friends and lovers. As well, it 'rebalances' a number of entrenched, skewed perceptions of man and soldier. And it is irresistibly readable -- Donat Gallagher, editor of THE ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND REVIEWS OF EVELYN WAUGH[I]t is the force of Waugh's energy - creative, sexual and social - that crackles through the pages of Philip Eade's meticulous and wildly entertaining biography ... Eade supplies an astonishing wealth of detail ... and is sympathetic to Waugh's many failings without being sycophantic -- Martin Townsend * DAILY EXPRESS *Eade's new biography draws on unpublished letters, diaries and memoirs to explore the eccentric larger-than-life story of one of the most acclaimed novelists of the 20th century. Will send readers back to the novels in droves * FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year *Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited represents a sort of tipping point: Eade's even-handedness gently but firmly nudges Waugh's work centre stage again ... Eade is excellent on tracing the sources of Waugh's delights and horrors, from his life to his work and back again: the failures, the successes, the disappointments, the endless grist to the authorial mill -- Ian Sansom * LITERARY REVIEW *Philip Eade makes the case that now is the time to revisit Waugh and see if some of the old charges of cynicism, snobbery and emotional cruelty really hold true. The result is a bright, breezy and sympathetic portrait that stops just the right side of sentimental -- Kathryn Hughes * MAIL ON SUNDAY *A gloriously entertaining indulgence. There isn't a single dull page in the whole book, and it could easily be twice as long without overstaying its welcome -- Eilis O'Hanlon * IRISH INDEPENDENT *Philip Eade has written a brisk, lively, and wonderfully entertaining account of the life of a strange, tormented, unique creature. Through page after page one finds oneself laughing aloud yet again at stories that have been told and retold many times. While previous biographers have been respectful (Martin Stannard) or compassionate (Selina Hastings), Eade seems genuinely to like his subject, and takes Waugh largely as he presented himself to the world. In his preface he writes that his intention is not to offer us a reassessment of Waugh the writer, but 'to paint a fresh portrait of the man by revisiting key episodes throughout his life and focusing on his most meaningful relationships. In this admirably modest aim he has happily succeeded -- John Banville * NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS *A splendid treat. Eade's exploration of the most significant episodes in the life of this fearless, deeply melancholic comedian is a most worthwhile addition to the bowing shelf of Waughiana -- Christopher Hirst * iNEWS *Peppered with humour ... Eade's fine biography does a very good job of pinning down the particular puckish charisma that made Waugh so popular -- Violet Hudson * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *The chief delight of this biography is the way it foregrounds Waugh's own voice ... Above all, Eade sends readers back to the books. You'll want to have at least the short stories, Brideshead, A Handful of Dust and the Sword of Honour trilogy to hand after reading this ... Eade shows just how hard-won his effortless brilliance really was -- Suzi Feay * FINANCIAL TIMES *Vastly entertaining ... a Perrier-Jouët book, frothy and fun -- Laura Freeman * STANDPOINT *Fifty years after Evelyn Waugh's death from a heart attack, aged 62, Philip Eade's challenging biography draws on 80 previously unpublished love letters, written by Waugh to the beautiful Teresa 'Baby' Jungman, one of the wildest of the Bright Young Things with whom he was obsessed in the 1930s. It reveals a softer side to his personality, different from the brilliant, acerbic wit that previous biographers have focused on ... A fascinating read -- Rebecca Wallersteiner * THE LADY *Eade's biography is crisp, diligent and sympathetic; his fresh material adds texture to this oft-told story -- James Fergusson * COUNTRY LIFE Book of the Week *Eade's thoughtful and thorough re-examination will not affect Waugh's status as a novelist, but it may well raise his reputation as a man * NEW STATESMAN *This biography, drawing on 80 previously unpublished love letters written by Waugh to Bright Young Thing Teresa 'Baby' Jungman, reveals a softer side to the author of Brideshead Revisited and explores the impact of his complex love life on his novels * THE LADY Christmas Book Guide *For all the value of the newly available sources and the good use to which Mr. Eade has put them, in the end it is his biographical skills and crisp way with words and phrase that make this such a valuable tool for understanding the perplexing figure of Evelyn Waugh -- Martin Rubin * WASHINGTON TIMES *Spurred by the milestone of fifty years since Waugh's death, encouraged by the subject's grandson, Alexander Waugh, and some new material, Eade has launched into this confounding, crowded, complicated life with brio ... [S]ympathetic, well-researched ... Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited will whet the appetite of any Wavian -- Mark McGinness * SYDNEY MORNING HERALD *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Lewis Carroll: The Man and his Circle
Book SynopsisBestselling author, pioneering photographer, mathematical don and writer of nonsense verse, Lewis Carroll remains a source of continuing fascination. Though many have sought to understand this complex man he remains for many an enigma. Now leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, offers his unique appraisal of the man born Charles Dodgson but whom the world knows best as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. This new biography of Carroll presents a fresh appraisal based upon his social circle. Contrary to the claims of many previous authors, Carroll's circle was not child centred: his correspondence was enormous, numbering almost 100,000 items at the time of his death, and included royalty and many of the leading artists, illustrators, publishers, academics, musicians and composers of the Victorian era. Edward Wakeling draws upon his personal database of nearly 6,000 letters, mostly never before published, to fill the gaps left by earlier biographies and resolve some of the key myths that surround Lewis Carroll, such as his friendships with children and his drug-taking. Meticulously researched and based upon a lifetime's study of the man and his work, this important new work will be essential reading for scholars and admirers of one of the key authors of the Victorian age.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Rhona Lewis, Christ Church, Oxford Preface Acknowledgements A Chronology of C. L. Dodgson’s Life 1. The Dodgson Family 2. Teachers and Oxford University Associates 3. Publishers and Printers 4. Illustrators 5. Mathematicians and Logicians 6. Photographers 7. Artists and Musicians 8. Actors and Dramatists 9. Friends and Children 10. Professionals 11. Royalty 12. Famous Acquaintances Epilogue: Full Circle Bibliography Short Titles Notes Index
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Legenda The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac,
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