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Book SynopsisJordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal. -The New York Times on The Wheel of Time(R) seriesExplore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including:- A brand-new, redrawn world map by Ellisa Mitchell using change requests discovered in Robert Jordan's unpublished notes- An alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World- The long-awaited backstory of Nakomi- 8 page, full color photo insertTake a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time(R). Origins of The Wheel of Time is written by Michael Livingston, Secretary-General of the United States Commission on Military History and professor of medieval literature at The Citadel, with a Foreword by Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan's editor, widow, and executor of his estate.This companion to the internationally bestselling s

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Book SynopsisContemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres. It argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing. Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction understands literature' in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment. Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, it explores how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.Trade ReviewAs with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate * Paul Crawford, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK *This book provides an expansive overview of the many and complex ways the body has featured in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors engage large and important themes: gender, sexuality, disability, race, affect, ageing, the environment, and issues around the ‘digital’ body. This is important reading for students of literature, cultural history, body studies, and the medical humanities * Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK *A timely introduction to key aspects of how literature deals with bodies. Each chapter is focused and backs its presentation of state-of-the-art theory with readings of literary works. Together they add up to an excellent background for understanding the centrality of the body, whether it is seen through the lens of gender, affect, race, disability, aging, or the posthuman * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark *Each essay in this comprehensive anthology critically articulates a partial account of embodied experience that co-constitute literature and the body. ... [T]he collection illuminates the ‘power of the margins’ ... and shows how different forms of situated embodied experiences can affect and be affected by different forms of discourses and texts. * The British Society for Literature and Science *Table of Contents1.Introduction THEMES 2.Gender and Feminism 3.Race and Postcolonial Perspectives 4.Disability 5.Illness and Health 6.Ageing CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 7.Affect 8.Human Rights 9.Ecocriticism and Animal Studies 10.Digital Humanities and the Posthuman Further reading

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Book SynopsisCharlotte Crofts is Associate Professor of Filmmaking at the University of the West of England, UK. She is editor-in-chief of Screenworks (2006-present). She has published a monograph on Angela Carter, Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television (MUP, 2003), a chapter Curiously Downbeat Hybrid or Radical Retelling?: Neil Jordan's and Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves'' in Sisterhoods: Across the Literature/Media Divide (Pluto Press, 1999) and written about her Japanese writings in 'The Other of the Other': Angela Carter's 'New-Fangled' Orientalism' in Re-Visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts, ed. Rebecca Munford (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is currently developing a feature-film adaptation of Angela Carter's Japanese writings. She co-founded the Angela Carter Society with Caleb Sivyer, and Marie Mulvey-Roberts with whom she is developing a Smart phone app on Carter.Marie Mulvey-RobeTrade ReviewThe essays are uniformly serious, well researched, clearly written, and impressively innovative. Including 15 illustrations, this book is for those interested in feminism, fairy tales, and, of course, literary theory and women writers. * CHOICE *Discussing a wide range of Carter’s fiction, this book explores how cross-cultural semiotics, musicality, visual critique, and sensory materiality animate Carter’s pyrotechnic prose. Along with new perspectives on familiar topics, it features exciting studies of folksong, opera, food, and fashion as they inform the poetics of specific Carterian works. * Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Emerita of English, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, USA *Table of ContentsForeword Gina Wisker (University of Brighton, UK) Pyrotechnics: Angela Carter’s Incendiary Imagination Charlotte Crofts (UWE Bristol, UK) & and Marie Mulvey-Roberts (UWE Bristol, UK) SIGNS & OBJECTS 1. Carter and the Japanese Signs: Bunraku, Mishima, Irezumi and Sozo Araki Natsumi Ikoma (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan) 2. Some Kinds of Love: Angela Carter, Art and Objects David Punter (University of Bristol, UK) 3. The Chance Encounter of a Stuffed Dodo, a Fallen Star, and a Fruit Woman Automaton… The Secret Life of Things Queering the Museal Gaze in Angela Carter’s Curiosity Cabinets Anna Kérchy (University of Szeged, Hungary) MUSIC, PERFORMANCE & FAIRYTALE 4. ‘Down to the Greenwood’: Angela Carter and Traditional Folksong Hippolyta C. M. Paulusma (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. From Grizelda’s Patience to Feminist Grit: Angela Carter’s ‘The Patience of Grizelda’ as a Hidden Intertext to ‘The Bloody Chamber’ Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 6. Of Tales, Tragic Opera, Transformation and ‘Tongues’: Tristan und Isolde in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber Ashley Riggs (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 7. Theatre, Adaptation, Angela Carter: A Case Study Belinda Locke (PhD Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia 2018; Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria Australia) WAYS OF SEEING 8. ‘What Then?’ Apocalypticism and Angela Carter’s Surrealist Aesthetics Scott A Dimovitz (Regis University, Denver, USA) 9. Kaleidoscopes, Stereoscopes and Phantasmagoria: Critical and Creative Ways of Seeing in the Work of Angela Carter Caleb Sivyer (UWE Bristol, UK) 10. ‘The Strangeness of the World Made Visible’: Reading Alignments between Angela Carter and Paula Rego Beatrice Bijon (Australian National University, Canberra Australia) MATERIAL BODIES 11. Perceiving Pleasures and Appetites in The Bloody Chamber: ‘Surprise me for dessert with every ice-cream in the ice box’ Maria José Pires (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal) 12. The Skin that Holds You In: States of Dress and Undress in Angela Carter’s Animal/Human Transformation Stories Carys Crossen (University of Manchester, UK) 13. Angela Carter’s Questioning of ‘Age-appropriate’ Appearance and Behaviour in Wise Children Zoe Brennan (UWE Bristol, UK)

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the ESSE 2022 Book AwardsShortlisted for the 2022 SAES / AFEA Research PrizeBuilding on an upsurge of interest in the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter series, this book explores the various ways that British novels, from children's fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have been adapted and rewritten for the US market.Drawing on a vast corpus of over 80 works and integrating the latest research in multimodality and stylistics, Linda Pillière analyses the modifications introduced to make British English texts more culturally acceptable and accessible to the American English reader. From paratextual differences in cover, illustrations, typeface and footnotes to dialectal changes to lexis, tense, syntax and punctuation, Pillière explores the sociocultural and ideological pressures involved in intralingual translation and shows how the stylistic effects of such changes including loss of meaning, voice, rhythm andTrade ReviewA ground-breaking and inspirational publication that certainly will benefit imminent dialogues in the field. * TranscUlturAl Journal *Pillière fills a gap in our understanding of translation with this fascinating study of intralingual translation from British into American English, highlighting with detailed examples many issues such as the role of the editor, the author’s voice and the material nature of the text. * Jean Boase-Beier, Professor Emerita, University of East Anglia, UK *Finally, a monograph on intralingual translation! Pillière has produced a deep, well-researched and entertaining analysis of British American translations based on a wealth of illustrative examples. Her well-informed theoretical discussions are relevant for anyone interested in intralingual translation and its (firm) place within translation studies. A highly readable contribution. * Karen Korning Zethsen, Professor of Translation Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark *An engaging exploration of the intralingual translation of British novels for an American readership. Bringing together insights from translation studies, stylistics, multimodality and publishing practices, Pillière convincingly shows the need for translation studies to move beyond the linguistic text and to consider the book as the product of a collaborative enterprise. An original contribution to translation studies and multimodal stylistics. * Nina Nørgaard, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Defining The Terms 2. Editing The Text 3. Repackaging The Text 4. Americanising The Text 5. Crafting The Text 6. Re-Voicing The Text Conclusion Corpus References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of both planned and fortuitous groupings in periodicals, this book traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw in Collier's (1898), Rudyard Kipling's Kim in McClure's and Cassell's (1900-1901), James Joyce's Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street in the Dial (1923).These periodicalswhether mass-market journals or literary magazinesadjust our perceptions of authors elsewhere known to be in charge and reveal the central role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism.Bringing to light new research from multiple archives, Sigler pieces together original records of journals' advertising strategies, previously unpublished editorial correspondence, and long-buried letters to unearth the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we Trade ReviewIn this illuminating study, Amanda Sigler brilliantly demonstrates the value of studying Victorian and modernist texts in the journals and little magazines that first serialised them. Startlingly, she proves that chance, not authorial autonomy, initially coloured works that later seemed sacrosanct. * Anne Fogarty, Professor of James Joyce Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland *Examining the control authors ceded to collaborative editorial and production processes and reader feedback, Sigler’s meticulously researched book highlights the distinct role magazine serial publication played in making European modernism part of American culture. A major contribution to modernist and periodical studies both, and a clarion call to bring periodical archives into the modernism classroom. * Mark S. Morrisson, Professor and Head of English, Penn State University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Henry James’s Turn of the Screw in Collier’s (1898) Chapter 2: Rudyard Kipling’s Kim in McClure’s and Cassell’s (1900-1901) Chapter 3: James Joyce’s Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920) Chapter 4: Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” in The Dial (1923) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce's fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours. Rando explores how Joyce's texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He examines how Joyce envisions alternatives to the prevailing conventions of hope throughout his works and, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, develops formal techniques of spatializing hope to contemplate it from all sides. Casting fresh light on the ways in which hope animates key aspects of Joyce's approach to literary content and form, Rando moves beyond the limitations of negative critique and literary historicism to present a Joyce who thinks agilely about the future, politics, and possibility.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Hope and Form in Joyce Chapter One: Without Paralysis: Hope, Hunger, and Spiritual Liberation in Dubliners Chapter Two: The Future of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Künstlerroman and Hope Chapter Three: A Humid Nightblue Dot: The Spatialization of Hope in Ulysses Chapter Four: Daydreams of History and Reincarnation in Finnegans Wake Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJane Custance Baker is an independent scholar, who went to university in her 50s, gaining her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.Trade ReviewAn entertaining analysis of the clues provided by descriptions of clothes in interwar crime fiction. * Natasha Cooper, Literary Review *An appealing book about a less than obvious field of study … You might not think that this topic justifies a full-length book - but it does so, and without padding … The writing is accessible and lively. * Martin Edwards, author of The Life of Crime *This lucid, insightful, extensively researched book breaks new ground by revealing how the language of dress and fashion articulated anxieties about class, deception, change and upheaval for the millions who turned to detective fiction for reassurance and escape in interwar Britain. It's an important work and an exciting read. * Fiona Hackney, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *A highly original study of cultural significance of dress in interwar Britain, through the lens of detective fiction. Using a new large-scale survey of the representation of clothing across 280 texts, Baker reveals the powerful cultural meanings of clothes and their importance in constructing gender, class and national identities. * Jane Hamlett, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Getting it Wrong Chapter 3: Searching for Mr Right; Interwar Masculinities Chapter 4: From British Empire to English Heritage, Weaving Nation and Gender Chapter 5: Womanhood Chapter 6: Addressing Race Chapter 7: Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature explores the familiar names of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to connect readers with these experiences. With a lively, jargon-free style and insightful analyses of thought-provoking texts, this concise volume helps you to understand more fully the pleasure to be found in reading, and re-reading. By identifying what readers seek and find in Russian booksfrom aesthetically pleasing descriptions to apt psychological renderingsAngela Brintlinger aims to enhance the gratification of reading, giving armchair travelers an excuse to embark on a series of fascinating journeys. Drawing on BTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1: Introduction: Why we need Russian literature 2: In the beginning there was Pushkin 3: Larger than life: Leo Tolstoy’s world 4: Dostoevsky, amateur psychologist 5: Chekhov and the pleasures of the written word Afterword Appendix: More books to read Works cited and consulted

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Book SynopsisThe Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues, is brought together to produce a comprehensive history of this ill-starred group of renegade writers. Whether the bolshie B.S. Johnson, the globetrotting Ann Quin, the cerebral Christine Brooke-Rose, or the omnipresent Anthony Burgess, these writers each brought their own unique contributions to literature at a time uniquely open to their iconoclastic message. The journey connects historical moments from Bletchley Park, to Paris May '68, to terrorist groups of the 1970s. A tale of love, loss, friendship and a shared vision, this book is a fascinating insight into a bold, provocative and influential group of writers whose collective story has gone untold, until now.Trade ReviewA whimsical and witty romp through the writing, lives and turbulent times of British experimental writers of the 1960s. Darlington tells a well-informed and illuminating story that enriches scholarship and engages new readers alike. * Nonia Williams, Lecturer in Literature, University of East Anglia, UK *A truly amazing book! - Philip Tew, Professor Emeritus, Brunel University, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. 1960 and Before 3. 1960 to 1963 4. 1964 to 1965 5. 1966 to 1967 6. 1968 to 1969 7. 1970 to 1972 8. 1973 and After Index

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Book SynopsisCarey Mickalites is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Memphis, USA. He is the author of Modernism and Market Fantasy, as well as a number of articles on modernist and contemporary literature. He regularly teaches courses and seminars on modernism, contemporary British fiction, colonial and postcolonial literature, and literary and cultural theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fictions of Celebrity and the Markets for Modernism Chapter One: Signature to Brand: Martin Amis’s Negotiations with Literary Celebrity Chapter Two: “To invent a literature”: Ian McEwan’s Commercial Modernism Chapter Three: From Modernism to Postcolonial Inc.: Authorizing Salman Rushdie Chapter Four: What the Public Wants: Prize Culture and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Aesthetic of Disillusionment Chapter Five: Zadie Smith, Inauthenticity, and the Ends of Multicultural Modernism Chapter Six: Valuing the Marginal, or, How Eimear McBride and Anna Burns Reframe Irish Modernism Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPolly Jones is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published extensively on Soviet literature and memory politics, including two monographs (Myth, Memory, Trauma (2013) and Revolution Rekindled (2019)), several edited volumes (including The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (2006)) and numerous articles. She is embarking on a new collaborative project about the concept of the 101st kilometre' in Soviet penal policy and practice.

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Book SynopsisOver a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work. Featuring new material from the recently expanded Graham Greene archive which will be of particular interest and relevance to Greene scholars, it also covers contents of other archives in the UK and elsewhere in a series of mini-essays.Trade ReviewThis final volume of The Works of Graham Greene is a fitting conclusion to Wise and Hill’s years of research. It will be invaluable to Greene scholars and to anyone writing about modern British literature. * A Sort of Newsletter *Shrewd literary detectives, Jon Wise and Mike Hill have dedicated many years to hunting down the lost publications of Graham Greene. This third volume of their bibliography, featuring the recovery of many works and presenting a series of essays on the writing life of this author, brings to a magnificent conclusion a series for which authors and readers can be immensely grateful. * Richard Greene, Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada *An essential guide for anyone who wants to take Greene more seriously than as an entertainer. * Motonori Sato, Professor of English, Keio University, Japan *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Section 1A: Additional Material relating to Graham Greene’s Published Work Part A: Books by Graham Greene Part B: Contributions by Graham Greene to books Part C: Contributions by Graham Greene to Newspapers, Journals and Magazines Part D: Letters written by Graham Greene Part E: Published Interviews with Graham Greene Part F: Films made of Greene’s Fiction & Films written by Graham Greene Bibliography of Published Works by Graham Greene Section 1B: Part A: New Entries relating to Graham Greene’s Published Work Part B: Contributions by Graham Greene to books Part C: Contributions by Graham Greene to Newspapers, Journals and Magazines Part D: Letters written by Graham Greene Part E: Published Interviews with Graham Greene Bibliography of Published Works by Graham Greene Section 2A: Additional Material relating to Graham Greene’s Unpublished Works & Archival Papers Section 2B: New Entries relating to the Unpublished Works & Archival Material of Graham Greene Part 1: Context & Analysis Archives in the United Kingdom Archive in Sweden Part 2: Listings Archives in the United Kingdom Archives in the United States of America Other Archives Section 3 Essays INDEX

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Book SynopsisDr Raphael Kabo is an independent researcher investigating cultural production in, and adjacent to, contemporary global activist movements. He is a co-founder of the anarchist close reading collective 'Beyond Gender' and the research network 'Utopian Acts'.Trade ReviewUtopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature makes a brilliant case for the importance of the utopian imagination in literature and social movements. In readings of contemporary authors like Kim Stanley Robinson, Juliana Spahr, and Mohsin Hamid, Raphael Kabo shows that the dream of a better society isn’t a luxury but a necessity. -- Christian P. Haines, Associate Professor, Penn State University, USATable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One. Redefining Utopia: Utopian critical theory and utopian spatiality Chapter Two. Escaping the Present: Precarity and surplus in a time of crisis Chapter Three. Commons Beyond Capitalism: That Winter the Wolf Came Chapter Four. Utopias Beyond Borders: Exit West Chapter Five. Utopias Beyond Disaster: New York 2140 Chapter Six. Utopias Beyond Death: The Book of Joan and Walkaway Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOur relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them.Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing.Bringing together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth, folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about women climbing trees. Discussing, among others, the literary works of MaTrade ReviewThe Tree Climbing Cure confirms what many of us knew as children—that there’s something intrinsically good about gazing down at the world from precarious perches in trees. It’s no wonder that there’s abundant literature and art devoted to the tree-climbing (and other ways of being near trees), and Andy Brown deeply examines this aesthetic tradition in his excellent contribution to the current movement of arboreal ecocriticism. -- Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USAIf the art of climbing rock has a long and popular literary and artistic history, why are those who climb trees associated with immaturity and derangement? Who knew that tree climbers, too, have a long and fascinating artistic history which Andy Brown reveals in this remarkable book? Without dodging the difficult questions, Brown carefully considers the wellbeing issues raised by tree climbing arts. And you don’t have to leave the ground to feel the benefits sensitively conveyed by this uplifting book. -- Terry Gifford, author of The Joy of Climbing, Green Voices, Pastoral and Reconnecting With John Muir.Andy Brown's The Tree Climbing Cure is a fascinating study of tree climbers and tree climbing in literature and art as well as in practice across Europe and North America. The book's emphasis on the restorative power of tree climbing is particularly timely. The Tree Climbing Cure will appeal to a range of readers, from scholars and students of ecocriticism and environmental philosophy to anyone who enjoys time among trees. -- Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA, author of 'Ecoambiguity' and 'Global Healing'Table of ContentsIntroduction: #manintree Chapter One: The Science of Nature and Wellbeing Chapter Two: Trees and the Mind Chapter Three: The Climbing Cure Chapter Four: The Family Tree Chapter Five: The Child in the Tree Chapter Six: The Archetypal Tree Chapter Seven: The Visionary Tree Chapter Eight: #womanintree Chapter Nine: ‘Tree Hugger’ Chapter Ten: Enthusiasm & Attitude: recreation, work, folly Conclusion: Descent Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field's interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book's Introduction and Conclusion. The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and itTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field Chapter One Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations --Centering Gender --Exploration of Sexuality --Essentialism and Difference --Race and Class Revisited Chapter Two The Necessity and Fiction of “Asian America” --Cultural Nationalism --Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity --Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies --Rethinking Asian American Specificity Chapter Three Intercultural and Generational Concerns --Writing Immigrants --Cultural Translation --Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation --Breaking the Tradition Chapter Four The Transnational Turn --Planetary Presence --The Asia-Pacific Investment --Cautions and Dissonances --Locating the Historical Referent Chapter Five The Social Function of Literature --Cognitive Uses of Language --Community-Based Self-Representation --Controversies --Debating Resistance Chapter Six Aesthetic Form --Form after New Criticism --Legacies and Practices --Reinventing Realist Genres --Poetic and Theatrical Studies Chapter Seven Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization --Reading Formations --Periodization --Methodological Challenge --Post-identity Subjects Chapter Eight Emerging Interests --Food Studies --Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism --Speculative Literature --Digital Humanities and New Media Conclusion Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom's A Matter of Death and Life. Offering in each chapter a brief character sketch of the memoirist, the book shows how personal writing fits into their other work, often demonstrating the continuities and discontinuities in an author's life as well as discussing each author's contributions to psychoanalysis, whether positive or negative.Trade ReviewWe live in the age of potted celebrity biographies. Each carefully structured to obfuscate rather than reveal. What happens in a world where emotional veracity is central and revealing it is the name of the game. In another brilliant book Jeffrey Berman reads a serious of autobiographies by major psychoanalysts, from Sigmund Freud through Wilfred Bion and Masud Khan to the Sigmund’s recently deceased granddaughter Sophie Freud. Berman reveals that even in such a world, the complexity of imaging one’s own life is devilishly hard work for the author, while Berman makes it easy work for the reader. A must read for all engaged in thinking about what our work reveals, like it or not, about ourselves. * Sander L. Gilman, Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Sigmund Freud: An Autobiographical Study 2. The Wolf-Man: Memoirs 3. Helene Deutsch: Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue 4. Wilhelm Stekel: Autobiography 5. C.G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections 6. Wilfred R. Bion: War Memoirs 1917-1919 7. Marion Milner: On Not Being Able to Paint 8. M. Masud R. Khan: The Long Wait 9. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: Final Analysis 10. F. Robert Rodman: Not Dying 11. Louis Breger: Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting 12. Brenda Webster: The Last Good Freudian 13. Madelon Sprengnether: Crying at the Movies 14. Sophie Freud: Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family Conclusion: Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom: A Matter of Death and Life Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTraces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commoditiesTrade Review"By examining the cultural lives of goods such as cotton, coal, fur (and others), Wayne's fascinating study reveals how American writers critiqued U.S. imperial ambitions in the decades after the Civil War. The book makes a significant contribution not only to American literary studies but also to strands of postcolonial and ecocritical scholarship devoted to cultures of extraction, resource narratives and exploitative histories." -Sin ad Moynihan, University of Exeter

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Book SynopsisContemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways about scaleTrade Review"Henry Ivry's Transscalar Critique offers a penetrating response to the Anthropocene's problem of scale. Necessary and urgent,Transscalar Critique centres Black Studies as a vital precursor to contemporary examinations of scale. In doing so it provides an essential corrective to the study of the Anthropocene in literature.?" -David Farrier, University of Edinburgh

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Book SynopsisReconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class statusTrade Review"Pionke's striking innovation is to propose that mid-Victorian bourgeoisie strove to justify their status in negative terms. His persuasive and thought-provoking work allows readers to connect current-day notions of class and economic privilege to an earlier period of capitalist plutocracy a period in which questions of privilege and invidious economic comparisons found their expression in very different cultural forms."" -John Plotz, Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisStudies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors.Trade Review"This book blends scholarly and personal history with literature, film and art, thereby illustrating how questions of identity are navigated by Iranian Armenians, both in Iran and in exile. It is a fresh and nuanced study that approaches the subjects of minorities, race and migration through a non-western lens." -James Barry, Deakin University

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Book SynopsisExamines the political and aesthetic gestures embedded in bandes dessinees and graphic novels in order to question the past and the contemporary realities of the French-speaking world.

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Book SynopsisRepresents the first comprehensive academic collection of Charles Dickens's verse productions.

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Book SynopsisShowcases how a range of migrant experiences are crucial to increasing interdependencies between differentially empowered groups across the world.

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Book SynopsisDaniel Ferrer's stimulating introduction to genetic criticism, translated into English by Rachel Bowlby.

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Book SynopsisJohn Burt Foster, Jr., is University Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Nabokov's Art Memory and European Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor, with Wayne J. Froman, of Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the past editor of The Comparatist and of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, the journal of the International Comparative Literature Association.Trade ReviewTransnational Tolstoy is a welcome and groundbreaking addition to Tolstoy studies, and to the transnational reading of Russian literature generally … In this rewarding volume, John Burt Foster has updated and extended the exhausted genres of ‘Tolstoy and the West’ and ‘Tolstoy and World Literature.’ … Transnational Tolstoy provokes consideration … and plays an exemplary role in opening Tolstoy’s complex position ‘between the west and the world’ to new and productive approaches. -- William Nickell, University of Chicago * Slavic and East European Journal *Transnational Tolstoy is unlike any other current work on Tolstoi today. It provides a refreshing and thought-provoking look at one of the major figures of Russian literature and the dialogues he inspired and initiated around the globe. -- Justin Weir, Harvard University * Slavic Review *Foster ... clearly has a gift for condensing his arguments into self-contained, well-expressed units. He also writes with a stylistic finesse and an apparent aversion to generating critical antipathy; his focus is always on saying things as well and persuasively as possible. Judging by his wide cultural knowledge, refined style, and pleasing attitude, he could have been a diplomat. * Cambridge Quarterly Review *Foster's book is a laudable venture into a new critical method of reading great fiction transnationally ... [He] works with splendid erudition and ingenuity ... [to provide] a refreshing and welcome method of reading and understanding Tolstoi. * Modern Language Review *Transnational Tolstoy is a tour de force of old-fashioned comparative literature, taking in, as it does, such a wide selection of authors from such a wide selection of cultures and nations. * The European Legacy *Foster's engaging study makes a crucial point: that, far from being a monologist or solipsist or hegemonic universalist, Tolstoi developed an ever more nuanced recognition of the incredibly complex interplay of different influences on which any cultural product must depend . . . To have returned this magnificently plural Tolstoi to us, as Foster has in lucid and mercifully jargon-free prose, is a substantial achievement. -- Jeff Love, Clemson University, US * Slavonic and East European Review *I immensely enjoyed reading John Burt Foster's Transnational Tolstoy, a monumental work that puts Tolstoy at the very heart of world literature, relating his work, and especially War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Hadji Murad, to that of immediate predecessors such as Stendhal, contemporaries like Flaubert, and successors including Malraux and Lampedusa, Premchand and Mahfouz. Fully informed by the most recent thinking on comparative and world literature, yet always wearing its learning lightly, Transnational Tolstoy stands as a guide and an inspiration for literary scholars worldwide. -- Theo D'haen, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Leuven, Belgium, and author of The Routledge Concise History of World LiteratureIn Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World John Burt Foster, Jr., offers a new framework for reading the works of Lev Tolstoy. Often viewed as one of the pillars of 'western' literature, Tolstoy’s works now receive a thorough consideration from a fresh perspective, defining Tolstoy’s art through the concepts of 'transnational' writing and 'global' literature. Foster uses these concepts effectively to open up intriguing sides of Tolstoy’s art and to encourage readers to think differently about Tolstoy. Foster probes the middle-aged and aged Tolstoy’s views of himself as non-Western. Finally, he investigates the ways in which twentieth-century non-Western writers of various stylistic bents—modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial; imagist and magical realist—have engaged with Tolstoy’s art. The result is a stimulating read for literary scholars and the educated public alike. -- Edith W. Clowes, Brown-Forman Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia, USA, and author of Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet IdentityTransnational Tolstoy is a consistently illuminating and lucidly written examination of Tolstoy as a central figure in the fluid movement of culture around the world. More broadly, this wonderful book is also a methodologically innovative, provocative, and inspiring example of how to conduct literary study in the twenty-first century. -- Vladimir Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Director of Graduate Studies, Yale University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Tolstoy and the New Comparatism Part One: Facing West 1. "Occidentalism" in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Culture Shock on European Visits 2. Vengeance is Mine: Anna Karenina and Stendhal's Italy 3. Napoleonic Anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education 4. From Worldliness to World Literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and Proust Part Two: Outside the Soviet Canon 5. Realism as Imagism: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Modernist Fiction 6. Toxic Nationalism: From Tolstoy and Stendhal to Malraux and Lampedusa 7. Felt History: From Anna Karenina to Magical Realism Part Three: Into the World 8. What is Art?, Hadji Murad, and World Literature 9. Dialogues with Tolstoy: Premchand and Mahfouz 10. "Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy": Who Owns War and Peace? 11. Postcoloniality and Islamic Identity in Hadji Murad Conclusion: Between the West and the World Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRobert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous publications include Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students.Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and Co-Director of the London Graduate School.Trade ReviewRobert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan’s collection of essays on Rushdie attempts to rethink his work with respect to postcolonialism, postmodernism, and what Eaglestone identifies as the paradoxical in Rushdie’s work. [The book features] a useful chronology and further reading section. * The Year's Work in English Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Kenan Malik \ Series Editors' Preface \ Contributors \ General Introduction Robert Eaglestone and Martin MacQuillan \ 1. Rushdie's Early Fiction and the Rise of Postcolonialism Ellie Byrne \ 2. Revisiting The Satanic Verses: The Fatwa and its Legacies Anshuman Mondal \ 3. Rushdie after 9/11 Martin MacQuillan \ 4. Salman Rushdie and the Post-Colonial Folk and Fairy Tale Andrew Teverson \ 5. Interview: Homi Bhabha with Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan \ 6. Postcolonial Secularism and Literary Form in Salman Rushdie's Fiction Stephen Morton \ 7. The Authentic in Salman Rushdie Robert Eaglestone \ 8. Rushdie Writing and Rewriting the Canon Ankhi Mukerjee \ 9. Rushdie's Non-fiction Daniel O'Gorman \ Further Reading \ Index

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Book SynopsisThe first biography to examine Mailer''s life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner''s Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualities but rather because it launched a brutally realistic sub-genre of military fiction Catch 22 and MASH would not exist without it. Richard Bradford combs through Mailer's personal letters to lovers and editors which appear to be a rehearsal for his career as a shifty literary narcissist, and which shape the characters of one of the most widely celebrated World War II novels.Bradford strikes again with a merciless biograTrade ReviewBradford offers a solid sense that Mailer could be unpleasant. * Publishers Weekly *British academic Bradford seems to thrive [...] when sniping, deriding perceived flaws of style and soul. * Kirkus Reviews *absorbing […] Bradford draws from myriad sources to craft an indelible portrait of the artist as a fascinating, never-boring man. * Booklist *... the book’s very existence attests to a more complicated reality. It would be naïve to suppose that the renewed attention on Mailer has nothing to do with the scandals attached to his name. It would also be naïve to pretend that he was not a great American writer. * The New Yorker *... if this lively biography ends up being a damning speech for the prosecution, well, pugilistic old Norman is simply receiving a dose of his own medicine. You can imagine Mailer’s ghost becoming suitably energised to rise from his sulphurous grave to box Bradford’s lights out. * The Times *compulsively readable…[a] solid multifaceted critique of Mailer * The National Review *... there are some interesting asides and neat apercus. * The SundayTelegraph *Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer brings the life of an epic personality down to earth for a modern-day re-evaluation. Author Richard Bradford writes of Mailer’s storied life in a fair and objective manner, leaving the reader to judge Mailer’s words and actions […] Bradford’s book is as fascinating and awe-inspiring as his subject * City Book Review *the story itself is so gripping (even jaw-dropping) * Readers Digest *the book [does a] careful investigation into the subtle, emotional aspects of power between men. * New Statesman *Tough Guy adequately charts the controversies, the scandals, the successes, and the failures — in literature and in life — of its complicated subject * The Washington Independent Review of Books *A good illustration of the risks of elevating Mailer to sainthood is found in a new biography. Richard Bradford’s Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer is a slender volume that tends to summarize huge amounts of information in single pages… Bradford’s hasty approach … has the advantage of plainly and clearly stating Mailer’s profound limitations…he has a gift for making Mailer look and sound preposterous — and rightly so. * Washington Examiner *Bradford’s book has all the personal info you want to know… * Truthdig *“Tough Guy” is well-written and lurid, its subject a cautionary tale… [it] will hold your attention. * Pittsburg Post-Gazette *[H]e has a penchant that’s incredibly refreshing in the 21st century because it’s so rare: he sometimes allows himself to dislike his subjects. This makes Tough Guy a bracing reading experience… his analyses are also superb… Norman Mailer would certainly have sued Richard Bradford over this book, and that should stand as its strongest recommendation. * Open Letters Review *queasily compelling … a colourful and bracing read … memorably scathing * The Business Post Ireland *Tough Guy makes a sturdy case for Mailer as, if not a great guy, the author of era-defining books and a cultural force worth reckoning with... Veteran biographer Bradford reliably illuminates how Mailer's work reflected his life at the time… Bradford is unsparing in his criticism of Mailer. * Shelf Awareness *Bradford is a fluent narrator and provides a useful refresher on the salient details of a long and interesting life. Tough Guy will satisfy salacious appetites as it explores Mailer’s relational dynamics and sexual proclivities, his alcohol and drug use, his penchant for fisticuffs. … Efficient and gossipy, Tough Guy does ample justice to Mailer the charismatic self-marketer, one of the baddest of the bad boys of postwar American literature. * Art Fuse *... told in forensic detail by Richard Bradford... * Oldie *This may be the best biography Mailer deserves: for after all the best possible things have been said about Mailer, it’s hard to feel he made the most of his talent. * The New Republic *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Referencing Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Brooklyn Boy 2. Odd Man Out 3. Pacific Grim 4. Waiting For Fame 5. Back Home 6. The Deer Park 7. Norman Mailer: The Death of the Novel 8. ‘The White Negro’ 9. How Not To Murder Your Wife 10. Time For Something Different? 11. Apocalypse Now 12. Politics and the Women 13. The Biographer’s Song 14. Pharaohs and Tough Guys 15. A Clandestine World Revealed 16. Retirement: With Picasso, Oswald, Christ and Hitler Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis''Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his own life and the safe return of his companions.'' Recounting the epic journey home of Odysseus from the Trojan War, The Odyssey - alongside its sister poem The Iliad - stands as the well-spring of Western Civilisation and culture, an inspiration to poets, writers and thinkers for thousands of years since. This authoritative prose translation by Martin Hammond brings Homer''s great poem of homecoming to life as Odysseus battles through such familiar dangers as the cave of the Cyclops, the call of the Sirens and his hostile reception back in his native land of Ithaca.Trade ReviewAn excellent version... it may well prove the translation for this and the next generation. * Sir Roger Tomkys, Anglo-Hellenic Review *Hammond’s admirable translation….is remarkably successful in combining accuracy with a lively and highly readable style * A.F.Garvie, Classical Review *Martin Hammond’s new version is clearly a labour of love and a wonderful achievement as it has none [of the faults of other versions] and although it is in prose, if read aloud the prose transforms itself into poetry. It is as close to the Greek as it is possible to get and keeps all the formulaic patterns so that the music of the original shines out and rings in the ear…..It is instilled with magic Mediterranean light…..I have now read it seven times and find I get more from each re-reading * William Cookson, AGENDA *Hammond's precise and highly readable translation embraces not only the immediate human appeal of the Odyssey but also much of what is alien to modern literary culture: 'modes of speech, insistent narrative sequencing, the wealth of formulaic repetition' ... [It] offers Anglophone readers a faithful and direct experience of the style and manner of Homer's great poem. * The Classical Review *Overall this is a highly professional production, to be seriously considered for textbook use in the classroom. * Journal of Classics Teaching *Hammond succeeds admirably in presenting a translation that is easy and enjoyable to read and faithful to Homer * D.M.Goldstein, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This is a magnificent piece of work….I enjoyed reading [Hammond’s] Odyssey enormously. It is more years than I care to think since I read the work from end to end. Hammond’s translation moved me to do so within a day, and that is a tribute indeed. This is a first-class work which should give pleasure to both those who read Greek and those who do not – and deserves to attract many to read Homer for whom that is as yet a pleasure in store * Dr John Moore, Conference and Common Room *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction by Jasper Griffin Suggestions for further reading A note on the Greek text Book I: The Gods, Athene and Telemachos Book II: Telemachos and the Suitors Book III: Telemachos in Pylos Book IV: Telemachos in Sparta Book V: Odysseus and Kalypso Book VI: Nausikaa Book VII: Odysseus in Phaiacia Book VIII: Phaiacian Games and Song Book IX: The Cyclops Book X: Kirke Book XI: The Underworld Book XII: Skylla and Charybdis Book XIII: Return to Ithaka Book XIV: Odysseus and Eumaios Book XV: Telemachos Returns Book XVI: Odysseus and Telemachos Book XVII: Odysseus Comes to His House Book XVIII: Odysseus As Beggar Book XIX: Eurykleia Recognises Odysseus Book XX: Insults and Omens Book XXI: The Trial of the Bow Book XXII: The Suitors Killed Book XXIII: Odysseus and Penelope Book XXIV: The Underworld, Laertes, Peace Index

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Book SynopsisNow in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level. Updated throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the contemporary study of literature, the book also now includes a wider range of international examples to reflect the growing field of world literature.Providing a complete guide to studying the novel in one easy-to-read volume, the book covers: The form of the novel The history of the novel, from its earliest days to new electronic forms Realism, modernism and postmodernism Analysing fiction: narrative, character, structure, theme and dialogue Critical approaches to studying the novel Practical guidance on critical reading, secondary criticism, electronic resources and essay writing Versions and adaptationsStudying the Novel also includes a number of features to help readers navigate the book and find key information quickly, including chapter summaries tTrade ReviewAn excellent resource, not only for students studying the novel at university, but for trainee teachers teaching the novel in schools. * Michaela Smith, Edge Hill University, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the seventh edition 1. Fiction and the Novel 2. History, Genre, Culture 3. Shorter Fiction 4. Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism 5. Fiction and Electronic Media 6. Analysing Fiction 7. Studying the Novel 8. Versions and Adaptations 9. Critical Approaches to Fiction Timeline of the Novel Glossary of Terms Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis''I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I''ve read in years. It''s likely the best memoir published in years.'' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and EngFrom the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and how he survived it. Glen David Gold grew up rich on the beaches of 1970s California, until his father lost a fortune and his parents divorced when he was ten.Glen and his English mother moved to San Francisco, where she was fleeced by a series of charming con men and turned increasingly wayward. When he was twelve, she took off for New York without telling him, leaving him to fend for himself. On midnight streets and at drug-fuelled parties, wise-cracking his way through an alarming adult world, Glen watched his mother''s countless, wild attempts to reinvent herself. In this exceptioTrade ReviewRemarkable . . . The product of nine years of work and a lifetime of reflection, the book is full of humour, unflinching reflection and flashes of horror. And it exudes tremendous empathy for his mother . . . Gold's book is funnier and more hopeful than any story about a child's abandonment and a parent's descent into terrifying chaos has a right to be. * The Times *Gold's heartbreaking, brave book deals with his tangled, troubled and troubling relationship with his tempestuous mother and, with insightful introspection, he reveals how it has affected all his other relationships. It's a shocking read, describing a shattered childhood, a complicated adolescence and an adulthood that finds him happy and whole. * Book of the Month, Psychologies *Gold's sentences reflect the surface of the 1970s perfectly . . . Gold's novelistic handling of these moments is brilliant . . . It's a dazzlingly insightful account how the smart children of emotionally 'shattered' adults attempt to hold themselves and their parents together as they grow . . . Gold says he is finally happy. He's achieved this state by letting go of his need to explain and save his mother. He broke the bonds of her 'terrible love'. And like his muse, Houdini, Gold has made a moving public spectacle of his escape. -- Helen R. Brown * Spectator *An extraordinary memoir . . . It's a tale of a boy's moral and sentimental education, with all the febrile moods and heart-stopping lurches of a Donna Tartt epic . . . There's something painfully sweet about this memoir, particularly the way Gold wills himself to extract something of value from the pain inflicted by irresponsible adults . . . smart, generous, and gripping until the very last pages. It's one of the best books I've read in 2018. -- Joanna Thomas-Corr * New Statesman *Remarkable . . . It's a tale of disintegrating relationships, bad choices, guilt, panic, hurt and weighty sadness so well told, with such lucidity and honesty, it's almost frightening to read . . . Gold wears his wisdom and novelist's powers of observation lightly, remaining beguilingly modest and likeable to the end. -- Jane Graham * Big Issue *Equally subtle and shocking, as clear-eyed about how the sins of the parent are visited on the child as it is generous and loving . . . It touches lightly on the set pieces, bizarre incidents and bravura descriptions that readers of Gold's bestselling novels, Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, will treasure . . . it never feels over-worked or weighed down with detail . . . You cannot read it and remain unchanged. -- Maria Farrell * Irish Times *Imagine Home Alone with a kid who is part Salvador Dali, part Holden Caulfield . . . an extraordinary book about growing up in California . . . Gold's childhood is much more than merely interesting; it is riveting . . . [his] knack for devastating insights are a marvel to read . . . an audacious, boundary-shattering work that will be talked about for a very long time. * Los Angeles Times *Ambitious and brave * New York Times *One helluva ride . . . in his capable hands even the smallest events seem revelatory. Each dimwitted move his mother makes reads as more bonkers (and undeniably sad) than the last. Each time Gold throws himself into love, it's like Orpheus trying to win back Eurydice. When combined with his deadpan delivery and wry sense of humor, each obstacle to overcome or hoop to jump through takes on a life of its own . . . wickedly intelligent, wildly imaginative (well, in some ways) and everything in between. * San Francisco Chronicle *A banquet of vivacity, shrewdness and wit, a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humour. . . One of the myriad delights of this memoir is its revealing vista onto the ethos of San Francisco in the 70s and Los Angeles in the '80s, deleted worlds in which outrageous characters stagger and strive. . . Gold is a dynamic writer outfitted in wisdom and verve, one whose sentences you'll want to remember. -- William Giraldi * Washington Post *Dazzling . . . Beautiful and deft, witty and searing, like a playful song with a persistent bass line of unresolved grief. I can't stop thinking about it. * Janet Fitch, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and White Oleander *We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you'd never expect. The people shatter, reassemble themselves, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline, hard as real diamonds, flashing, revealing. The story is simple, just a boy and his mother's long disintegration, but the journey is darkly complicated, heartbreaking, beautiful as hell * Mark Childress, author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA *Glen David Gold is one of the best storytellers working today. He could write about anything and make it gripping. As it turns out, he also has one hell of a story to tell. * Joseph Fink, author of WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE *An extraordinary account of an extraordinary life. Gold captures with stunning clarity the emotional chaos he grew up in, and that made him the brilliant writer he is now. * Lev Grossman, author of THE MAGICIANS *I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years. Gold's a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It's exciting, beautiful, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren't. Oh, and you'll never forget this charming, intelligent, unique narrator. * Darin Strauss, author of HALF A LIFE and CHANG AND ENG *A fine, funny, discomfiting book. And very candid. -- Teddy Jamieson * Sunday Herald *

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Book Synopsis''I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I''ve read in years. It''s likely the best memoir published in years.'' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and EngFrom the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and how he survived it. Glen David Gold grew up rich on the beaches of 1970s California, until his father lost a fortune and his parents divorced when he was ten.Glen and his English mother moved to San Francisco, where she was fleeced by a series of charming con men and turned increasingly wayward. When he was twelve, she took off for New York without telling him, leaving him to fend for himself. On midnight streets and at drug-fuelled parties, wise-cracking his way through an alarming adult world, Glen watched his mother''s countless, wild attempts to reinvent herself. In this exceptioTrade ReviewDazzling . . . Beautiful and deft, witty and searing, like a playful song with a persistent bass line of unresolved grief. I can't stop thinking about it. * Janet Fitch, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and White Oleander *I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years. Gold's a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It's exciting, beautiful, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren't. Oh, and you'll never forget this charming, intelligent, unique narrator. * Darin Strauss, author of HALF A LIFE and CHANG AND ENG *We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you'd never expect. The people shatter, reassemble themselves, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline, hard as real diamonds, flashing, revealing. The story is simple, just a boy and his mother's long disintegration, but the journey is darkly complicated, heartbreaking, beautiful as hell * Mark Childress, author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA *Glen David Gold is one of the best storytellers working today. He could write about anything and make it gripping. As it turns out, he also has one hell of a story to tell. * Joseph Fink, author of WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE *An extraordinary account of an extraordinary life. Gold captures with stunning clarity the emotional chaos he grew up in, and that made him the brilliant writer he is now. * Lev Grossman, author of THE MAGICIANS *Gold's heartbreaking, brave book deals with his tangled, troubled and troubling relationship with his tempestuous mother and, with insightful introspection, he reveals how it has affected all his other relationships. It's a shocking read, describing a shattered childhood, a complicated adolescence and an adulthood that finds him happy and whole. * Book of the Month, Psychologies *Remarkable . . . The product of nine years of work and a lifetime of reflection, the book is full of humour, unflinching reflection and flashes of horror. And it exudes tremendous empathy for his mother . . . Gold's book is funnier and more hopeful than any story about a child's abandonment and a parent's descent into terrifying chaos has a right to be. * The Times *One helluva ride . . . in his capable hands even the smallest events seem revelatory. Each dimwitted move his mother makes reads as more bonkers (and undeniably sad) than the last. Each time Gold throws himself into love, it's like Orpheus trying to win back Eurydice. When combined with his deadpan delivery and wry sense of humor, each obstacle to overcome or hoop to jump through takes on a life of its own . . . wickedly intelligent, wildly imaginative (well, in some ways) and everything in between. * San Francisco Chronicle *Imagine Home Alone with a kid who is part Salvador Dali, part Holden Caulfield . . . an extraordinary book about growing up in California . . . Gold's childhood is much more than merely interesting; it is riveting . . . [his] knack for devastating insights are a marvel to read . . . an audacious, boundary-shattering work that will be talked about for a very long time. * Los Angeles Times *A banquet of vivacity, shrewdness and wit, a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humour. . . One of the myriad delights of this memoir is its revealing vista onto the ethos of San Francisco in the 70s and Los Angeles in the '80s, deleted worlds in which outrageous characters stagger and strive. . . Gold is a dynamic writer outfitted in wisdom and verve, one whose sentences you'll want to remember. -- William Giraldi * Washington Post *Gold's sentences reflect the surface of the 1970s perfectly . . . Gold's novelistic handling of these moments is brilliant . . . It's a dazzlingly insightful account how the smart children of emotionally 'shattered' adults attempt to hold themselves and their parents together as they grow . . . Gold says he is finally happy. He's achieved this state by letting go of his need to explain and save his mother. He broke the bonds of her 'terrible love'. And like his muse, Houdini, Gold has made a moving public spectacle of his escape. -- Helen R. Brown * Spectator *Remarkable . . . It's a tale of disintegrating relationships, bad choices, guilt, panic, hurt and weighty sadness so well told, with such lucidity and honesty, it's almost frightening to read . . . Gold wears his wisdom and novelist's powers of observation lightly, remaining beguilingly modest and likeable to the end. -- Jane Graham * Big Issue *Equally subtle and shocking, as clear-eyed about how the sins of the parent are visited on the child as it is generous and loving . . . It touches lightly on the set pieces, bizarre incidents and bravura descriptions that readers of Gold's bestselling novels, Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, will treasure . . . it never feels over-worked or weighed down with detail . . . You cannot read it and remain unchanged. -- Maria Farrell * Irish Times *An extraordinary memoir . . . It's a tale of a boy's moral and sentimental education, with all the febrile moods and heart-stopping lurches of a Donna Tartt epic . . . There's something painfully sweet about this memoir, particularly the way Gold wills himself to extract something of value from the pain inflicted by irresponsible adults . . . smart, generous, and gripping until the very last pages. It's one of the best books I've read in 2018. -- Joanna Thomas-Corr * New Statesman *A fine, funny, discomfiting book. And very candid. -- Teddy Jamieson * Sunday Herald *Ambitious and brave * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to 20th-century literature and film.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of the works of Andrew Lang, the Scottish writer whose enormous output spanned the whole the range of late-nineteenth century intellectual culture: from literary criticism to anthropology, magic to archaeology, folklore to Scottish history.

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Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield had a lifelong interest in literatures in translation and in literary translating. From her early notebooks until letters written just before her death, she records the joy of learning foreign languages, often using transformative, inter-lingual games of her own as a source of creativity.

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Book SynopsisZoe Beenstock examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and social contract philosophy. Her reading offers a new understanding of canonical accounts of retreat by some of British Romanticism's most dominant voices.

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