Literary studies: fiction Books
LUP - University of Michigan Press Bringing the Devil to His Knees The Craft of
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Introduction Part One/Techniques, Devices, and Strategies Richard Russo In Defense of Omniscience Jim Shepard I Know Myself Real Well. That's the Problem Susan Neville Where's Iago? Steven Schwartz Finding a Voice in America Chuck Wachtel Behind the Mask: Narrative Voice in Fiction Joan Silber Weight in Fiction Ehud Havazelet Chekhov and Form Charles Baxter ""You're Really Something"": Inflection and the Breath of Life Debra Spark Getting In and Getting Out: First Words on First (and Last) Words Part Two/Maps and Legends Karen Brennan Dream, Memory, Story, and the Recovery of Narrative Robert Boswell Narrative Spandrels C. J. Hribal The Scene Beast Is Hungry Peter Turchi The Writer as Cartographer Antonya Nelson ""Mom's on the Roof"": The Usefulness of Jokes in Shaping Short Stories Part Three/Facing Up to the Reader Michael Martone Ruining a Story Kevin McIlvoy The Editor Comes Clean at Last (A Tale of One Rejection Letter and One Acceptance Letter to Stephen Crane) Pablo Medina Literature and Democracy Judith Grossman Thinking about a Reader Margot Livesey How to Tell a True Story
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Cosmopolitan Love
Book SynopsisExamines the writings of D.H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships in domestic settings, and Eileen Chang, a Chinese writer who migrated to the US and explored Chinese heterosexual love in her writing.Trade Review“With suggestive pairings of novels by two famous literary authors who are seldom considered together, Sijia Yao invites us to think comparatively on the topic of love across different cultures. By juxtaposing love with cosmopolitanism, her sensitive readings underscore both their transformative potential and inexhaustible appeal.” —Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University“Cosmopolitan Love introduces a new way to understand how D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang (best-known for Lust, Caution) reconceived love as the basis for social and political transformation. In demonstrating the fascinating affinity between the two writers, Sijia Yao emphasizes the cross-cultural nature of their achievement. Cosmopolitan Love is notable for its compelling theoretical foundation and insightful close readings.” —Keith Cushman, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and recipient of the Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Contributions to D. H. Lawrence Studies“This book articulates love not only as essential to modern society but also as transcending of parochial and national boundaries. Sijia Yao offers an insightful reading of Eileen Chang and D. H. Lawrence in pursuit of cosmopolitan sensibility.”—Ban Wang, William Haas Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, author of At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical EcologyTable of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Incest Prohibition and Cosmopolitanism Chapter Two: Sexual Love as Public Defiance Chapter Three: Adulterous Love as Modern Creation Chapter Four: The Twin Utopias of Transcendental Love Conclusion Bibliography
£56.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Reading Virgil and His Texts
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Catherine A Story
Book SynopsisThe Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts.
£80.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Anna Seghers
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£69.30
The University of Michigan Press Writing Pirates
Book SynopsisConnects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. The book shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the ‘other’: foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors.
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Discourse Knowledge and Power in Apuleius
Book SynopsisPresents a new approach to the Metamorphoses: this is the first in-depth investigation of the use of speech and discourse as tools of characterization in Apuleius' novel. The book argues that discourse is the primary tool for negotiating identity, status, and power in the Metamorphoses.Table of Contents Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Cultural and Discursive Contexts Apuleius and the Metamorphoses Language and Meaning in the Metamorphoses Approaches to Discourse Apuleius’ Manipulation of Discourse in the Apology This Book Chapter 1: Discourse from the Margins The Priests of the Syrian Goddess: Ancient Evidence The Priests in the Metamorphoses and the Onos The Bandits: Ancient Evidence The Robbers’ Rhetoric The Bandits’ Betrayal Conclusion Chapter 2: Elite Discourse The Tale of Thelyphron The Festival of Laughter The Wise Physician Markers of Truth Chapter 3: Asinine Discourse First Impressions Lucius’ First Master: Milo Metamorphosis Asinine Strategies of Communication Conclusion Chapter 4: Feminine Discourse Byrrhena Photis The Corinthian Matron Isis Conclusion Chapter 5: Silence Curiosity, Garrulity, and Silence Unheeded Warnings Magical Initiation How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ass The Tale of Cupid and Psyche Silence and Revelation Conclusion Chapter 6: The Novel as Discourse Models of Reading The Prologue The Asinine Narrator and the Characterized Fictive Reader The Narrator’s Control The Epilogue Conclusion: The Man from Madauros Bibliography Passages Cited Index
£64.95
University of California Press Mark Twains Letters Volume 2 18671868 9 Mark
Book SynopsisContains the letters that trace young Sam Clemens' remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity.
£84.00
University of California Press The Flight of the Mind
Book SynopsisA book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Illustrations Introduction 1. "I Owned to Great Egotism": The Neurotic Model in Woolf Criticism 2. "Never Was Anyone So Tossed Up & Down by the Body As I Am": The Symptoms of Manic-Depressive Illness 3. "But What Is the Meaning of 'Explained' It?" Countertransference and Modernism 4. "In Casting Accounts, Never Forget to Begin with the State of the Body": Genetics and the Stephen Family Linc 5. "How Completely He Satisfied Her Is Proved by the Collapse": Emblematic Events in Family History 6. "How Immense Must Be the Force of Life": The Art of Autobiography and Woolf's Bipolar Theory of Being 7. "A Novel Devoted to Influenza": Reading without Resolution in The Voyqge Out 8. "Does Anybody Know Mr. Flanders?" Bipolar Cognition and Syncretistic Vision in Jacob's Room 9. "The Sane & the Insane, Side by Side": The Object-Relations of Self Management in Mrs. Dallollway 10. "It Is Finished": Ambivalence Resolved, Self Restored in To the Liqhthouse 11. "I Do Not Know Altogether Who I Am": The Plurality of lntrasubjective Life in The Waves Epilogue: Science and Subjectivity Afterword, by Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison Appendix: Virginia Woolf's Mood Swing Chart (1895-1941) Notes Works Cited Index
£45.05
University of California Press J.M. Coetzee
Book SynopsisThis treatise defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that he absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. It describes the political contexts surrounding his novels.
£22.50
University of California Press Mark Twains Letters Volume 4 18701871 9 Mark
Book SynopsisContains 338 letters that document the first two years of the author's loving marriage to Olivia L Langdon. This title recounts a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife.
£84.00
University of California Press Reading Sappho
Book SynopsisThis volume considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the western cultural tradition. Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD Thomas Habinek INTRODUCTION Ellen Greene I · LANGUAGE AND LITERARY CONTEXT 1. Sappho's Amatory Language Giuliana Lanata, translated by William Robins 2. Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho Mary R. Lefkowitz 3· Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas:"Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric Gregory Nagy 4· Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry Charles Segal II · HOMER AND THE ORAL TRADITION 5· Sappho and Helen Page duBois 6. Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's Lyrics Jack Winkler III · RITUAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 7· Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood Claude Calame 8. Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality Judith P. Hallett 9· Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho Eva Stehle 10. Who Sang Sappho's Songs? Andre Lardinois IV WOMEN'S EROTICS 11. Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why Is Sappho a Woman? Marilyn B. Skinner I2. Sappho's Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man Eva Stehle 13· The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho Anne Carson 14. Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in the Poetry of Sappho Ellen Greene 15. Sappho and the Other Woman Margaret Williamson BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
£24.30
University of California Press ReReading Sappho
Book SynopsisThis volume reflects on the late-1990s fascination with Sappho's afterlife. The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD Thomas Habinek INTRODUCTION Ellen Greene 1. Reflecting Sappho Glenn W. Most 2. Sappho's Afterlife in Translation Yopie Prins 3· Sappho's Splintered Tongue:Silence in Sappho 31 and Catullus Dolores O'Higgins 4· Ventriloquizing Sappho, or the Lesbian Muse Elizabeth D. Harvey 5· Sappho in Early Modern England:A Study in Sexual Reputation Harriette Andreadis 6. Sex and Philology:Sappho and the Rise of German Nationalism Joan DeJean 7· Sappho Schoolmistress Holt N Parker 8. H.D. and Sappho: "A Precious Inch of Palimpsest" Erika Rohrbach 9. Sapphistries Susan Gubar BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
£24.30
University of California Press The Hidden Author An Interpretation of
Book Synopsis"The Satyricon of Petronius", a comic novel written in the first century AD, is famous primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." In this discussion of Petronius' masterful use of parody, the author offers an interpretation of the "Satyricon" as a whole.
£41.65
University of California Press Raymond Chandler Speaking
Book SynopsisA selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story A Couple of Writers and the first chapters of Raymond Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Foreword Chronology 1. CHANDLER ON CHANDLER 2. CHANDLER ON THE MYSTERY NOVEL 3. CHANDLER ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING 4. A Couple of Writers 5. CHANDLER ON THE FILM WORLD AND TELEVISION 6. CHANDLER ON PUBLISHING 7. CHANDLER ON CATS 8. CHANDLER ON FAMOUS CRIMES 9. CHANDLER ON HIS NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND PHILIP MARLOWE 10. The Poodle Springs Story Bibliography prepared by Paul Skenazy Index
£22.50
University of California Press Licensing Entertainment
Book SynopsisNovels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. This title shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early instances of the modern anxiety.
£27.90
University of California Press Anarchism Is Not Enough
Book SynopsisA manifesto against systematic thinking, this text on literary theory, first published 70 years ago in 1928, is a difficult book by a famously difficult writer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Text Creating Criticism: An Introduction to Anarchism Is Not Enough Laura Riding: A Chronology THE MYTH LANGUAGE AND LAZINESS THIS PHILOSOPHY WHAT IS A POEM? A COMPLICATED PROBLEM ALL LITERATURE MR. DOODLE-DOODLE-DOO AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION THE CORPUS POETRY AND MUSIC POETRY AND PAINTING POETRY AND DREAMS JOCASTA HOW CAME IT ABOUT? HUNGRY TO HEAR IN A CAFE FRAGMENT OF AN UNFINISHED NOVEL WILLIAM AND DAISY: FRAGMENT OF A FINISHED NOVEL AN ANONYMOUS BOOK THE DAMNED THING LETTER OF ABDICATION Notes on the Text Appendix I. Three Commentaries on Anarchism Is Not Enough Appendix II. Author to Critic: Laura (Riding) Jackson on 'Jlnarchism Is Not Enough" Selected Bibliography of Works by Laura Riding Selected Critical Bibliography
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University of California Press Mark Twains Letters Volume 6
Book SynopsisMark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. This is sixth volume contains 348 of his letters covering this period, all of which have been thoroughly annotated and indexed.Trade Review"Few things, as Pudd'nhead observed, are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example, and this building collection of the letters is horribly, excruciatingly good. It sets standards of diligence that will cause future editors of writers' letters to weep."-Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement "One of the most important collections of letters by an American author... admirably organized and set forth as to become a source of wonder to general readers and delight to advanced students of literary history"-Genevieve Stuttaford, Publishers Weekly "One of the great scholarly enterprises of the century. Since the 1970s the... members of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California have been turning out magnificent editions of the writer's letters, notebooks, travel narratives and fiction. If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have."-Michael Shelden, London Telegraph
£84.00
University of California Press William Dean Howells
Book SynopsisPossibly one of the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition. This biography traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly.Table of ContentsPreface Chronology of Howells' Life and Work 1. Parallel Lives 2. Warring Ambitions, 1851--1859 3. Years of Decision, 1859--1861 4. Consul at Venice, 1861--1865 5. Atlantic Years, 1: 1865--1867 6. Atlantic Years, 2: 1867--1871 7. His Mark Twain, from 1869 8. Fictional Lives, 1871--1878 9. "From Venice as Far as Belmont," 1878--1882 10. In England and Italy, 1882--1883 11. The Man of Business, 1883--1886 12. "Heartache and Horror," 1886--1890 13. Words and Deeds, 1890--1894 14. Peripatetic, 1895--1899 15. Kittery Point, 1900--1905 16. Greater Losses, 1906--1910 17. Reconsiderations, 1911--1917 18. Eighty Years and After, 1918--1920 Notes Index
£36.00
University of California Press Dangerous Intimacy
Book SynopsisRecovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm.Trade Review"A brilliant literary detective, Lystra is also particularly good at presenting the prejudicial myths." - Anthony Glavin, Irish Times "Explores a chapter in the life of America's greatest storyteller, one he deeply regretted to the day he died. It is a chapter full of Victorian melodrama. At times, it reads like a steamy romance novel; at other times, like a textbook on power by Machiavelli." - Hartford Courant "Lystra's narrative moves quickly, and offers an illuminating portrait of an aging Twain. The research is thorough, the personalities colorful." - The Jerusalem Post "This gripping examination of Twain's later life recounts a family drama so fantastic it reads like the subplot of a daytime soap.... For all its intrigue and melodrama, this is a remarkably powerful and moving study." - Library Journal"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface A Note on Names 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's Women 2. Heartbreak 3. Rearranging the Household 4. Looking for Love 5. A Pact with the Devil 6. Life in the Sanitarium 7. Someone to Love Him and Pet Him 8. A Viper to Her Bosom 9. Innocence at Home 10. Stormfield 11. An American Lear 12. Illusions of Love 13. Unraveling 14. The Exile Returns 15. Confrontation 16. A Formidable Adversary 17. False Exoneration 18. The Funniest Joke in the World 19. Melting Marble with Ice 20. The End of My Autobiography Epilogue: How Little One May Tell Notes Index
£20.70
University of California Press Melvilles Bibles
Book SynopsisTraces Herman Melville's response to an array of nineteenth-century writings that includes literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. This book shows how Melville raised with verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.Trade Review“A fascinating account.” * Review of Biblical Literature *“A well-researched, attractively written examination of the larger biblical context of Melville’s masterpiece, and it provides a capable overview of a variety of nineteenth-century exegetical and hermeneutical traditions on the five Old Testament figures it scrutinizes.” * Christianity and Literature *“Well argued and well written, this is a book for all students of Melville.” * CHOICE *“Each of the book’s five chapters is deftly written and certainly demonstrates Pardes’ proficiency in the fields of literary criticism and biblical exegesis.” * Missiology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Playing with Leviathan: Job and the Aesthetic Turn in Biblical Exegesis 2. "Jonah Historically Regarded": Improvisations on Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature 3. "Call Me Ishmael": The Bible and the Orient 4. Ahab, Idolatry, and the Question of Possession: Biblical Politics 5. Rachel's Inconsolable Cry: The Rise of Women's Bibles Epilogue Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 125th Anniversary
Book Synopsis"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".Trade Review"Handsome, readable, and full of surprises . . . . the American classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are simply superb." * Los Angeles Times *"The Mark Twain Project and the University of California Press are reuniting Samuel Clemens's texts with the essential illustrations he commissioned for them, and the results are splendid: may the Twain never again be sundered!" * Vanity Fair *Table of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD MARK TWAIN ON TOUR ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Notice Explanatory 1. Civilizing Huck.-Miss Watson.-Tom Sawyer Waits 2. The Boys Escape Jim.- Tom Sawyer's Gang.-Deep-laid Plans 3. A Good Going-over.-Grace Triumphant.-"One of Tom Sawyer's Lies" 4. Huck and the Judge.-Superstition 5. Huck's Father.-The Fond Parent.-Reform 6. He Went for Judge Thatcher.-Huck Decides to Leave.-Political Economy.-Thrashing Around 7. Laying for Him.-Locked in the Cabin.-Sinking the Body.-Resting 8. Sleeping in the Woods.-Raising the Dead.-Exploring the Island.-Finding J im.-J im's Escape.-Signs.-"Balum" 9. The Cave.-The Floating House 10. The Find.-Old Hank Bunker.-In Disguise 11. Huck and the Woman.-The Search.-Prevarication.-Going to Goshen 12. Slow Navigation.-Borrowing Things.-Boarding the Wreck.- The Plotters.-Hunting for the Boat 13. Escaping from the Wreck.-The Watchman.-Sinking 14. A General Good Time.- The Harem.-French 15. Huck Loses the Raft.-ln the Fog.-Huck Finds the Raft.-Trash 16. "Give Us a Rest."-The Corpse-Maker Crows.-"The Child of Calamity."-They Both Weaken.-Little Davy Steps ln.-After the Battle.-Ed's Adventures.-Something Queer.-A Haunted BarreL-It Brings a Storm.- The Barrel Pursues.-Killed by Lightning.-Allbright Atones.-Ed Gets Mad.-Snake or Boy ?-"Snake Him Out."-Some Lively Lying.-Off and Overboard.-Expectations.-A White Lie.-Floating Currency.-Running by Cairo.-Swimming Ashore 17. An Evening Call.-The Farm in Arkansaw.-lnterior Decorations.-Stephen Dowling Bots.-Poetical Effusions 18. Col. Grangerford.-Aristocracy.-Feuds.-The Testament.- Recovering the Raft.-The Wood-pile.-Pork and Cabbage 19. Tying Up Daytimes.-An Astronomical Theory.-Running a Temperance Revival.-The Duke of Bridgewater.-The Troubles of Royalty 20. Huck Explains.-Laying Out a Campaign.-Working the Camp-meeting.-A Pirate at the Camp-meeting.-The Duke as a Printer 21. Sword Exercise.-Hamlet's Soliloquy.-They Loafed Around Town.-A Lazy Town.-Old Boggs.-Dead 22. Sherbum.-Attending the Circus.-lntoxication in the Ring.-The Thrilling Tragedy 23. "Sold! "-Royal Comparisons.-)im Gets Homesick 24. Jim in Royal Robes.-They Take a Passenger.-Getting lnformation.-Family Grief 25. "Is It Them?"-Singing the "Doxolojer."-Awful Square.-Funeral Orgies.-A Bad Investment 26. A Pious King.-The King's Clergy.-She Asked His Pardon.- Hiding in the Room.-Huck Takes the Money 27. The FuneraL-Satisfying Curiosity.-Suspicious of Huck.-Quick Sales and Small Profits 28. The Trip to England.-"The Brute!"-Mary Jane Decides to Leave.-Huck Parting with Mary Jane.-Mumps.-The Opposition Line 29. Contested Relationship.-The King Explains the Loss.A Question of Handwriting.-Digging up the Corpse.-Huck Escapes 30. The King Went for Him.-A Royal Row.-Powerful Mellow 31. Ominous Plans.-News of J im.-Old Recollections.-A Sheep Story.-Valuable Information 32. Still and Sunday-like.-Mistaken ldentity.-Up a Stump.-ln a Dilemma 33. A Nigger Stealer.-Southem Hospitality.-A Pretty Long Blessing.-Tar and Feathers 34. The Hut by the Ash-hopper.-Outrageous.-Climbing the Lightning Rod.-Troubled with Witches 35. Escaping Properly.-Dark Schemes.-Discrimination in Stealing.-A Deep Hole 36. The Lightning Rod.-His Level Best.-A Bequest to Posterity.- A High Figure 37. The Lost Shirt.-Mooning Around.-Sailing Orders.- The Witch Pie 38. The Coat of Arms.-A Skilled Superintendent.-Unpleasant Glory.-A Tearful Subject 39. Rats.-Lively Bed-fellows.-The Straw Dummy 40. Fishing.-The Vigilance Committee.-A Lively Run.-Jim Advises a Doctor 41. The Doctor.-Uncle Silas.-Sister Hotchkiss.-Aunt Sally in Trouble 42. Tom Sawyer Wounded.-The Doctor's Story.-Tom Confesses.-Aunt Polly Arrives.-"Hand Out Them Letters" Chapter the Last: Out of Bondage.-Paying the Captive.- Yours Truly Huck Finn MAPS EXPLANATORY NOTES GLOSSARY THREE PASSAGES FROM THE MANUSCRIPT MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES REFERENCES NOTE ON THE TEXT
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisRanging in original publication dates between 1940 and 1985, this title features forty-one titles that reveal a great deal about Duncan's life in poetry - including his impressions of poets whose work he admires, both contemporaries and precursors.Trade Review"Includes some of Duncan's greatest essays ... a great help to all readers." CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: 1940s 1. An Embryo for God: Tropic of Capricorn 2. The Homosexual in Society 3. What to Do Now 4. Reviewing View, an Attack 5. Poetics of Music: Stravinsky 6. The Poet and Poetry--A Symposium Part II: 1950s 7. Pages from a Notebook 8. From a Notebook 9. Notes on Poetics regarding Olson's Maximus Part III: 1960s 10. Properties and Our REAL Estate 11. Ideas of the Meaning of Form 12. After For Love 13. Preface: Helen Adam, Ballads 14. Poetry before Language 15. The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound 16. The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante's Divine Comedy 17. Introduction: William Everson, Single Source 18. Towards an Open Universe 19. The Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in Essential Autobiography 20. A Critical Difference of View 21. Man's Fulfillment in Order and Strife 22. Jack Spicer, Poet: 1925--1965 Part IV: 1970s 23. Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman 24. Notes on Grossinger's Solar Journal: Oecological Sections 25. Iconographical Extensions 26. Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art 27. From Notes on the Structure of Rime 28. Preface to a Reading of Passages 1--22 29. Kopoltus 30. Introduction: Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery 31. An Art of Wondering 32. A Reading of Thirty Things 33. As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years 34. Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit 35. In Introduction: John Taggart, Dodeka Part V: 1980s 36. Preface: Jack Spicer, One Night Stand & Other Poems 37. The Adventure of Whitman's Line 38. The Self in Postmodern Poetry 39. Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard's Museum 40. Afterword: Beverly Dahlen, The Egyptian Poems 41. The Delirium of Meaning Appendix: List of Uncollected Essays and Other Prose Notes Works Cited in the Essays Acknowledgments of Permissions Index
£42.50
University of California Press Imagining the Future of Climate Change
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incredibly well-researched and notably conversant with the intricacies of both key sf writing and activism from the inception of environmentalism movements and their related speculative contemplations to those in the present day, Streeby’s Imagining the Future of Climate Change is an indispensable text in working to turn the dystopian now toward more positive and inclusive means of fostering world community-building as we labor together to engage with the climate future we have wrought." * Science Fiction Studies *"A unique and necessary book that bridges the too often too distant spheres of environmental activism and SF scholarship." * Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Imagining the Future of Climate Change 1. #NoDAPL Native American and Indigenous Science, Fiction, and Futurisms 2. Climate Refugees in the Greenhouse World Archiving Global Warming with Octavia E. Butler 3. Climate Change as a World Problem Shaping Change in the Wake of Disaster Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Mean Girl
Book SynopsisAstute.New York Times Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump.Mean Girlfollows Rand's trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand's philosophy of selfishness,Mean Girlilluminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.Trade Review“Lisa Duggan gets it exactly right . . . when she writes that Rand's ‘particular gift was not for philosophical elaboration, but for stark condensation and aphorism. She deployed this gift to create a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.’" * Times Higher Education *"[Duggan] is sharp, engaging, and funny when writing about Rand, whose magnetism, determination, grandiosity, desperation, and galloping narcissism Duggan captures beautifully." * New York Review of Books *"The therapeutic value of Duggan’s book goes well beyond freeing me from shame for my teen-age lack of literary taste and political discernment; it also provides an explanation for our current cultural and political moment. . . . Duggan’s book sums up Rand’s life and philosophy in under ninety pages." -- Masha Gessen * The New Yorker *“‘A history of the influence of Ayn Rand and her particular brand of narcissistic amorality, and an argument that her novels function now as ‘conversion machines for our contemporary culture of greed.’ Exhibit A: Paul Ryan.” * LitHub *"Duggan’s skills as a cultural historian and her sharp-witted socio-political commentary fuse seamlessly together in this short yet fascinating book that is a necessary read for students of culture and politics, but also activists and organisers who feel the deep disillusionment of what seems like a never-ending neoliberal era." * LSE Review of Books *“Lisa Duggan gets it exactly right in Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed when she writes that Rand's ‘particular gift was not for philosophical elaboration, but for stark condensation and aphorism. She deployed this gift to create a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.’" * Inside Higher Education *“Duggan goes beyond the more standard biographical accounts of Rand and gets to the bottom of her novels and how they set a disturbing tone for global capitalism. Further, Duggan explains the mischaracterizations of Rand in modern memory, and provides expert analysis of current affairs in helping readers to contextualize the actual historical Rand and her likely political endorsements as well as her most reactionary views.” * Truthout *“Cultural historian Lisa Duggan has written a small, perfect book which accomplishes so much in only a few pages, with irony and wit, humor and insight. . . . The book is fun, funny and in only 116 pages explains so much about not only its subject but of our neoliberal or reactionary culture of greed and its obstinate commitment to economic fantasy.” * KPFK/Bibliocracy *“Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don’t have to read Rand’s work yourself.” * The Dig *"The power of Duggan’s book seems that maybe in unmasking Rand’s philosophical legitimacy and hold on the right removes a central prop and leaves the right ever more naked.” * The Baffler *Table of ContentsOverview Preface Introduction. “What Is Good for Me Is Right” 1. “Proud Woman Conqueror” 2. “Individualists of the World Unite!” 3. “Would You Cut the Bible?” 4. “I Found a Flaw”Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Comic Books Incorporated How the Business of
Book SynopsisComic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium's origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the waymarket crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.Trade Review"The field needs studies like this, and it needs academics like Kidman who take on the sometimes unglamorous task of exposing the frames – the structures and infrastructures – within which, and between which, the colourful figures of comics and screen so fluidly move." * Times Higher Education *"Comic Books Incorporated chronicles the rise of the comic book business by documenting its emergence as a cultural product. Highlighting the transmedia infrastructures that made comic books possible, Kidman discusses comic books and their history as a medium, how comic books connect to politics and society, and the rise of comic book fan culture . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Kidman’s methodology provides a fresh and exciting contribution to our understanding of the relationship between comics and Hollywood in the twenty-first century." * Media Industries Journal *
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University of California Press The Limits of Realism
Book SynopsisChinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised others of Chinese society. As historical pressures forced new ideological commitments in the late twenties and thirties, however, writers grew suspicious both of the individualism implicit in the realist model and of the often superficial nature of the sympathies that their fiction evoked in the middle class. Anderson argues that realism must be defined negatively as a discourse of limitations and is of minimal utility in the Chinese search for political and cultural empowerment. He shows how hesitations about the realist model affect the fiction of four representative authors, Lu Xun, Ye Shaojun, Mao Dun, and Zhang Tianyi. He also considers the demise of critical realism in the face of a new collectivist understanding of Chinese reality.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
£28.90
University of California Press Against Demagogues
Book SynopsisTimeless comedies on resisting tyranny from one of history's greatest comic playwrights. Against Demagogues presents Robert C. Bartlett's new translations of Aristophanes' most overtly political works, the Acharnians and the Knights. In these fantastically inventive, raucous, and raunchy comedies, the powerful politician Cleon proves to be democracy's greatest opponent. With unrivalled power, both plays make clear the dangers to which democracies are prone, especially the threats posed by external warfare, internal division, and class polarization. Combating the seductive allure of demagogues and the damage they cause, Against Demagogues disentangles Aristophanes' serious teachings from his many jokes and pratfalls, substantiating for modern readers his famous claim to teach justice while making a comedy of the city. The book features an interpretive essay for each play, expertly guiding readers through the most important plot points, explaining the significance of various characters, and shedding light on the meaning of the plays' often madcap episodes. Along with a contextualizing introduction, Bartlett offers extensive notes explaining the many political, literary, and religious references and allusions. Aristophanes' comedic skewering of the demagogue and his ruthless ambitionand of a community so ill-informed about the doings of its own government, so ready to believe in empty promises and idle flatterycannot but resonate strongly with readers today around the world. Trade Review"Against Demagogues [is] enlightening reading for those interested in classical political theory, as well as for the contemporary relevance of these thinkers in helping us consider our current political environment." * New Books Network *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: On Reading Aristophanes Today The Acharnians On the Acharnians The Knights On the Knights Appendix: Cleon’s Speech to the Athenian Assembly (Thucydides, War of the Peloponnesians and Athenians 3.37–40) Further Reading
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University of California Press Herman Melville
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Liverpool University Press D.H. Lawrence
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Desire
Book SynopsisIn the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Beginning with the celebration of true love in contemporary popular romance, and the reluctant scepticism of postmodern novels, she goes on to explore past representation of passion by Chretien de Troyes, Malory, Spenser, Donne, Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennyson and Bram Stoker. Belsey also discusses the role of desire in the utopian writings of Plato, More and William Morris, as well as its treatment by a range of speculative feminists, from Charlotte perkins Gilman to Marge Piercy.Trade Review"A book that is pointed, illuminating and beautifully written ... Belsey pursues her topic through western culture with a quickness and subtlety that seems equal to the elusive twists and turns of desire itself." THES "Her account is a ripping yarn in its own right. Such writing contributes directly to what Morris liked to call the 'education of desire': the vital task of teaching us not only to contest and resist what exists, but how to desire, and how to expand the scope of what we might desire instead. Thanks to Catherine Belsey's splendid book, that task no longer looks quite so tough." Kiernan Ryan, University of Cambridge "A superb account of desire in popular and canonical literature, as Belsey conclusively demonstrates, desire itself is not only operative in sexual and romantic fantasies. It is operative everywhere. Belsey's book should be required reading for writers of romance novels." Harriet Hawkins, Critical Survey "Both unsettling and strangely moving. By tracing the constraints and resistances of desire in their historical discontinuity, Belsey proposes to provide desire with a history." Margaret Bridges, The European English MessengerTable of ContentsIllustrations. Preface. Part I: Desire Now:. 1. Prologue: Writing About Desire. 2. Reading Love Stories. 3. Desire in Theory: Freud, Lacan, Derrida. 4. Postmodern Love. Part II: Desire at Other Times:. 5. Adultery in King Arthur's Court. 6. John Donne's Worlds of Desire. 7. Demon Lovers. 8. Futures: Desire and Utopia. Notes. Index.
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Wiley-Blackwell Life of Celine
Book SynopsisThis biography explores the controversial life and work of 20th-century French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine, through the places and times in which he lived and in which he grounded his fiction. It also sheds light on crucial areas of French cultural, social, and political history.Trade Review"Throughout his excellent, comprehensively documented critical biography, the best yet available in English, Hewitt contextualises his subject expertly." Times Higher Education Supplement "Taking advantage of recent biographies written in French and of newly available materials, Hewitt skilfully uses - and, at time, abuses - the available sources. At its best, Hewitt's clear and understandable prose takes the reader inside Céline's novel. He points out what to look for, explains what is important, and makes interesting connections." Choice "Very elegantly written book, which is also an intriguing presentation of French social and political life in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the first two-thirds of the twentieth." MLRTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. 1. A Parisian Childhood. 2. National Service: The Army and the Colonies. 3. The Student of Medicine. 4. The League of Nations. 5. Clichy and Montmartre. 6. Voyage au bout de la nuit. 7. The 'House of Literature'. 8. 1936. 9. Anti-Semitism. 10. Phoney War. 11. The Occupation. 12. Exile. 13. Meudon. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Gothic
Book SynopsisThis Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.Trade Review"The obvious value of ... A Companion to the Gothic is its wealth of critical approaches—from good, old-fashioned "history of ideas" readings to the most sophisticated of recent theory." (Romanticism on the Net, November 2000) "Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." (Studies in Hogg and His World) "The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike." "Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." (Choice) "The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights." (Times Higher Education Supplement) "Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic." (Gothic Studies)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE ‘ORIGINAL’ GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian Duncan). 7. Irish Gothic: C.R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu (Victor Sage). 8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama (David Worrall). PART THREE. NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSMUTATIONS. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (Allan Lloyd-Smith). 10. The Ghost Story (Julia Briggs). 11. Gothic in the 1890s (Glennis Byron). 12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (William Hughes). 13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition (Clive Bloom). 14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions (Gina Wisker). 15. Gothic Film (Heidi Kaye). 16. Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny (David Punter). PART FOUR. GOTHIC THEORY AND GENRE. 17. Gothic Criticism (Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall). 18. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (Michelle A. Massé). 19. Comic Gothic (Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik). PART FIVE. THE CONTINUING DEBATE. 20. Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics (Kate Ferguson Ellis). 21. Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic (Steven Bruhm). 22. Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation (Scott Brewster). 23. The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection (Jerrold E. Hogle). 24. The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic (Lucie Armitt). Index.
£151.16
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Gothic
Book Synopsis* Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. * Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. * Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.Trade Review"The overall result is wonderfully informative and suggestive for the beginning student, while offering some striking additional insights spread across the book for advanced students of Gothic who have yet to consider such contexts for it as postcolonialism, 'goth' subcultures and 'Hallucination and the Narcotic'." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsHow to Use This Book. Chronology. Introduction. Backgrounds and Contexts. Civilisation and the Goths. Gothic in the Eighteenth Century. Gothic and Romantic. Science, Industry and the Gothic. Victorian Gothic. Art and Architecture. Gothic and Decadence. Imperial Gothic. Gothic Postmodernism. Postcolonial Gothic. Goths and Gothic Subcultures. Gothic Film. Gothic and the Graphic Novel. Writers of Gothic. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82). Jane Austen (1775-1817). J. G. Ballard (1930-). Iain Banks (1954-). John Banville (1945-). Clive Barker (1952-). William Beckford (1760-1844). E. F. Benson (1867-1940). Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914). Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Robert Bloch (1917-1994). Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915). Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). James Branch Cabell (1879-1958). Ramsey Campbell (1946-). Angela Carter (1940-1992). Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Marie Corelli (1855-1924). Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825). Walter de la Mare (1873-1956). August Derleth (1909-1971). Charles Dickens (1812-1870). 'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962). Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Lord Dunsany (1878-1957). Bret Easton Ellis (1964-). William Faulkner (1897-1962). Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). William Gibson (1948-). William Godwin (1756-1836). H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925). Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). James Herbert (1943-). William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). James Hogg (1770-1835). Washington Irving (1783-1859). G. P. R. James (1799-1860). Henry James (1843-1916). M. R. James (1862-1936). Stephen King (1947-). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Francis Lathom (1777-1832). J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Sophia Lee (1750-1824). Vernon Lee (1856-1935). M. G. Lewis (1775-1818). David Lindsay (1878-1945). H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). George MacDonald (1824-1905). Arthur Machen (1863-1947). James Macpherson (1736-1796). Richard Matheson (1926-). Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824). Herman Melville (1819-1891). Joyce Carol Oates (1938-). Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897). Mervyn Peake (1911-1968). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). John Polidori (1795-1821). Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823). Reeve, Clara (1729-1807). G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879). Anne Rice (1941-). Walter Scott (1771-1832). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Charlotte Smith (1740-1806). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Horace Walpole (1717-1797). H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Key Works. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764). William Beckford, Vathek (1786). Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794). M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831). C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847). Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860). Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864). Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897). Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898). Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959). Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976). Stephen King, The Shining (1977). Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991). Themes and Topics. The Haunted Castle. The Monster. The Vampire. Persecution and Paranoia. Female Gothic. The Uncanny. The History of Abuse. Hallucination and the Narcotic. Guide to Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisTurner''s strikingly original and penetrating account of Hardy''s extraordinarily creative life and longevity offers a series of thirty-two chapters, each of which relates the biographical and literary background of a single work.Trade Review"... his method has much recommended it. The useful book contains illustrations and notes and is recommended for all academic libraries." Choice "This is a very intriguing and useful work. The result is a book of great interest at various levels, and of value to a range of readers. Students at all levels will find much closely argued material (and meticulously referenced throughout) to help interpretation of the author and his works. Those of us who think we know the man and his work will find new ways of looking at and interpreting the already familiar. This is an intriguing and useful work which opens many new avenues into and through Hardy and his work, both the novels and the poetry. It makes a useful addition to a scholarly series, although this volume at least (I cannot speak for any of the others since I have not read them) has much to offer any interested reader. It is recommended for any literature collection." Languages and Literature "Although it does, indeed, contain a great deal of interesting biographical material this new life has an important new dimension. It explores in considerable detail Hardy's use in his writing of his wide and erudite background of reading. The book is full of instances of Turner's insight into the influence of Hardy's reading on his writing, {and} adds substantially to our knowledge of Hardy's creative methods." The Thomas Hardy Journal "For a critical biography so largely concerned with Hardy's reading, Paul Turner has proved an excellent choice. He brings to his task an intimate familiarity with the classical texts to which Hardy's imagination recurred. Turner renews one's sense of Hardy's writing as at once more spirited and artful and gnarled than a reader is ever quite prepared for." The Review of English Studies "Turner has an admirably broad view of Hardy and literary tradition: he is learned and interesting on Hardy's relation to English and classical tradition, particularly Tennyson, Browning, Greek tragedy and Horace. The pace is brisk, and the tone is often pleasingly crisp, with Turner unafraid to offer a judgement on issues like the tiredness of parts of 'The Dynasts' or the intellectual extremity of some of Hardy's satires." Tim Armstrong, Victorian Poetry "'The Life of Thomas Hardy' is an original, radical biography. This critical biography reveals much about Hardy's thinking and feeling and even more about his creative methods." Day by DayTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. 'How I Built Myself a House'. 2. The Poor Man and the Lady. 3. Desperate Remedies. 4. Under the Greenwood Tree. 5. Pair of Blue Eyes. 6. Far From the Madding Crowd. 6. The Hand of Ethelberta. 7. The Return of the Native. 8. The Trumpet-Major. 9. A Laodicean. 10. Two on a Tower. 11. The Mayor of Casterbridge. 12. The Woodlanders. 13. Wessex Tales. 14. A Group of Noble Dames. 15. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 16. Life's Little Ironies. 17. Jude the Obscure. 18. The Well-Beloved. 19. Wessex Poems. 20. Poems of the Past and Present. 21. The Dynasts Part First. 22. The Dynasts Part Second. 23. The Dynasts Part Third. 24. Time's Laughingstocks. 25. A Changed Man and Other Tales. 26. Satires of Circumstance. 27. Moments of Vision. 28. Late Lyrics and Earlier. 29. The Queen of Cornwall. 30. Human Shows. 31. Winter Words. Notes. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Evelyn Waugh
Book SynopsisIn this biography, Douglas Patey follows Evelyn Waugh's career from the comfortable middle-class home he was anxious to flee, through his escapades at Oxford, his adventures in South America and Africa, his experience of war, to his last years as veiled autobiographer.Trade Review"Patey mounts a spirited defence of Waugh, dismissing with some authority many of the familiar items on the charge-sheet. Patey seems to have read not only everything his subject wrote, but a great deal of background material. Such thoroughness, and an alertness to what may be going on in Waugh's apparently limpid prose makes it a valuable addition to a growing body of critical work on this twentieth-century master." Times Literary Supplement "This calm, deliberate biography- which measures Waugh's life in the context of his work, rather than making the work serve as an excuse for discussing the life - should be included in every academic collection for use of undergraduates through faculty" Choice "Patey's sympathetic and acute portrait of Waugh narrates Waugh's narration of his own life, combining thorough research with an exhaustive knowledge of Waugh's fiction and nonfiction and the insight of a highly skilled literary critic. The result is the finest biography by far of Evelyn Waugh to date, and a welcome corrective of the regnant record. It is impossible to pay sufficient tribute to the chapter Patey devotes to Brideshead Revisited. It is, simply, the very best interpretation of the novel of which I am aware." First Things The Life of Evelyn Waugh is a biography with a difference. In addition to being the life story of the English writer who was so active from the late 1920s until his relatively early death in April 1966 at age 62, it is also a critical assessment of his novels and other literary works. Readers will be well repaid for their perseverance." Languages and Literature "It is a tribute to the thoroughness of Patey's research and his ready invocation of so many perspectives that the subject of his biography should emerge as an even more fascinating and complex figure than one had imagined. It is Waugh the writer, though, who must remain of prime interest. In this regard, Patey is the perfect critical guide." The Month "Patey is a crisp and detailed writer who pays Waugh and the reader the greatest tribute of all-he stays out of the way and gets on with the story" Arthur Jones "A remarkably insightful and readable account of Evelyn Waugh, the writer and the man. While taking the full measure of Waugh's comic genius, Douglas Patey brilliantly analyzes Waugh's sacramental imagination about the world - the writer's conviction, explored through a variety of fictional and journalistic forms, that the extraordinary and transcendent lie just on the far side of the ordinary. Indispensable for anyone who wants to get inside the mind and soul of one of the great English authors of our time." George Weigel "This is surely the finest biography of Evelyn Waugh yet written. It is unashamedly a literary biography and concentrates on the published work, though never forgetting the personal context in which these were written. Within its pages there is much valuable information, some of it of a kind that brings out the essential spirituality of Evelyn Waugh." Culture Wars "Patey has provided the layman and the devotee alike with an indispensable guide to the writer and the vagaries of hs century. I suspect The Life of Evelyn Waugh will be a well-thumber reference tool for many years to come." Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and StudiesTable of ContentsChronology of Waugh's Works. List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Preface. 1. Becoming Modern (1903-1930). 2. The Doom of Youth: Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies. 3. Political Decade - I (1930-1935). 4. Political Decade - II (1935-1939). 5. A Peoples War (1939-1945). 6. Brideshead Revisited. 7. A Peoples Peace (1945-50). 8. The Post of Honour is a Private Station (1948-1953). 9. Retrospective: Shaping a Life (1953-66). Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£41.75
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Gothic
Book SynopsisThis Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.Trade Review"Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles. Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." Studies in Hogg and His World "The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike." "Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." Choice "The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights." Times Higher Education Supplement "Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ghost of a History. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. PART ONE. GOTHIC BACKGROUNDS. 1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture (Fred Botting). 2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic (Robin Sowerby). 3. European Gothic (Neil Cornwell). PART TWO. THE ‘ORIGINAL’ GOTHIC. 4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis (Robert Miles). 5. Mary Shelley, Arthur of Frankenstein (Nora Crook). 6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic (Ian Duncan). 7. Irish Gothic: C.R. Maturin and J.S. LeFanu (Victor Sage). 8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama (David Worrall). PART THREE. NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSMUTATIONS. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (Allan Lloyd-Smith). 10. The Ghost Story (Julia Briggs). 11. Gothic in the 1890s (Glennis Byron). 12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (William Hughes). 13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition (Clive Bloom). 14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions (Gina Wisker). 15. Gothic Film (Heidi Kaye). 16. Shape and Shadow: On Poetry and the Uncanny (David Punter). PART FOUR. GOTHIC THEORY AND GENRE. 17. Gothic Criticism (Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall). 18. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (Michelle A. Massé). 19. Comic Gothic (Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik). PART FIVE. THE CONTINUING DEBATE. 20. Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics (Kate Ferguson Ellis). 21. Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic (Steven Bruhm). 22. Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation (Scott Brewster). 23. The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection (Jerrold E. Hogle). 24. The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic (Lucie Armitt). Index.
£38.90
Harvard University Press Original Subjects
Book SynopsisOriginal Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions.
£16.10
Harvard University, Asia Center Competing Discourses
Book SynopsisIn the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives.
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Harvard University Press The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Book SynopsisThe Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.
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Harvard University Press The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Book SynopsisThe Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.
£18.86
Harvard University Press Weathered Words
Book SynopsisFormulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Weathered Words concentrates on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings particular aspects of formulaic language into focus.
£23.36
Harvard University Press Forming the Critical Mind
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Harvard University Press The Letters of Henry James Volume IV 18951916
Book SynopsisThis volume, the conclusion of Leon Edel's splendid edition, rounds off a half century of work on James by the noted biographer-critic. In the letters of the novelist's last twenty years a new Henry James is revealed. Edel's generous selection shows us, as he says, a looser, less formal, less distant personality, a man writing with greater candor and with more emotional freedom, who has at last opened himself up to the physical things of life.The decade embracing the turn of the century is the most productive period of James's career. Happily settled in an English country house and now dictating to a typist, he is able to write The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl in three years. The letters show clearly how his fiction turned from his world-famous tales of international society to the life of passion in his last novels. His new friends and correspondents include Conrad, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, and several young men to whom he writes curious, half-inhibited love letters. Mrs. Wharton, with her chauffered chariot of fire, introduces him to the thrill of motoring and welcomes him into her cosmopolitan circle; to him she embodies the affluence and driving energy of the America of the Gilded Age. For the first time in over twenty years he revisits his homeland, traveling not only in the East but through the South to Florida and west to California. He is dismayed by the materialism he finds and the changed ways of life. Back in England, he plunges into several projects; for the New York edition of his works he revises the early novels and writes his famous prefaces. His relations with agents and publishers as well as family and friends are fully documented in the letters, as are his trips to the Continent and visits with Edith Wharton in Paris. His last years are darkened by a long siege of nervous ill health and by the death of his beloved brother William. But he carries on, moves back to London, and continues to work. Among the most eloquent of all his letters are those describing his anguished reaction to the Great War. To show his allegiance to the Allied cause, he becomes a British citizen, six months before his death. The volume concludes with his final and fading words dictated on his deathbed.Table of ContentsIntroduction Brief Chronology 1. Withdrawal from London 1895-1900 2. The Edwardian Novels 1900-1904 3. The American Scene 1904-1905 4. Revisions 1905-1910 5. Terminations 1911-1915 Appendixes I. William James on Henry James II. Edith Wharton's Subsidy of The Ivory Tower III. The Autobiographies IV. "A Curse Not Less Explicit Than Shakespeare's Own" V. The Deathbed Dictation VI. Holdings of Henry James's Letters Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Struggling Upward
Book SynopsisTimothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation.
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Secret Window
Book SynopsisIn this series of meditations on seven of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's novels and novellas, Chambers focuses on the thread of fantasy that Tanizaki weaves throughout his work. He examines Tanizaki's subtle use of storytelling devices to evoke his characters' alternate sense of reality and to encourage the reader's participation in their fantasies.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese
Book SynopsisUnlike traditional Japanese literature, with its rich tradition of comedy, modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with high seriousness. Cohn analyzes works by three writersIbuse Masuji (18981993), Dazai Osamu (19091948), and Inoue Hisashi (1934 )that assault the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature.Trade ReviewDespite the flourish of Western studies of Japanese literature in the past few decades, the comic spirit in modern Japanese fiction has been largely overlooked, and Joel Cohn in this pioneering project has undertaken the challenging task of identifying the source of laughter...Hopefully this book will inspire many to search for laughter, to the gentle comic spirit, in modern Japanese literature as well as its connection to the past. -- Angela Yiu * Journal of Japanese Studies *This is a book for the educated devotee of Japanese fiction, or the catholic literary scholar, or the enthusiastic plunger with a penchant for the deep end. To categorise it as one for the expert might be off-putting. It may be a case of caviare to the general. The author's understanding of the depths and subtleties of the Japanese language compels admiration. His ability to relate the work of his subjects, Ibuse Masuji, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi, to the wider and more distant literary contexts of Aristophanes, Rabelais, Molière and Bergson is not showmanship, but scholarship. -- Sidney Giffard * Japan Society *
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Harvard University Press Bove P Loves Shadow
Book SynopsisIt is no wonder literary criticism is so sullen. It is too philosophical, too much indebted to the dour Walter Benjamin, wedded to aestheticized helplessness. Lit crit needs new inspirations: the sober cheer of Wallace Stevens; the loving eye of Rembrandt; romance, melodrama, and wit. Let there be more poetry, Paul Bové says, and less cynicism.Trade ReviewAn intellectual feast of the highest order. Bové’s monumental work is both magisterial and personal. He holds himself and others to the highest standards of poetic and critical excellence. And he writes with a strong sense of righteous indignation about the failures of the academy, the deterioration of intellectual integrity, and the decay of the life of the mind in our market-driven time. -- Cornel WestA bracing journey into the mind’s powers, this book is a dynamic invitation to think thought through and to imagine otherwise, an uncompromising feat of inquiry, especially necessary in these sodden times. For anyone who believes close reading or literary criticism is dead, Bové’s pages—especially his heady retrieval of poetic making in ‘The Auroras of Autumn’—bear witness to their indelible presence. -- Colin Dayan, author of In the Belly of Her Ghost and Animal QuintetModern criticism, Paul A. Bové suggests, has fallen in love with the ruins of meaning. We all are tempted by this perspective; who could entirely resist the sorrowful vision of Walter Benjamin’s angel, history piling up as mere debris? But there are alternatives, and this book explores in subtle detail the work of those—notably Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Stevens, and Adorno—who can teach us what some alternatives are. -- Michael Wood, author of On Empson and Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too MuchBové’s thinking has brought him to a fundamental insight about poetry and poetics: reality and its pressures cannot constrain humans’ ability to imagine the criteria required to meet their dreams. At once responsive and inventive, Bové’s book makes the case for the creativity and power of imagination that delights in movement of thought. I have not felt as elated by an intellectual experience since first reading Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense. -- Donald E. Pease, author of The New American ExceptionalismAt once a lament for the decline of the humanities and a manifesto on how to save them…Bové‘s summons to his fellow academics and aspiring cultural critics [is] to step out of the long shadow of Benjamin’s melancholy and to come into the light reflected by poetry, comedy, and the essay—a more expansive form of expression. * Boston Globe *Bové’s close readings make for a critical tour de force. This passionate call offers a refreshing contribution to the philosophy of criticism. * Publishers Weekly *Providing a sweeping look at the history of literary criticism, Bové argues that the proper (Aristotelian) goal of the critic is to choose the framing of the poet and essayist, and to learn new humanistic insights from them, instead of simply seeking a reaffirmation of one’s own melancholic mindsets. * Choice *
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