Literary studies: fiction Books
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Errancies of Desire
Book SynopsisFocuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.
£53.55
Critical Companion to Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisA master of extreme situations, Charles Dickens populated his novels with unforgettable characters and elaborate settings. This work is a useful reference to know about Dickens and his work. It contains entries on his works, including the characters in each work, crucial historical and thematic information, and critical discussion.Trade ReviewFacts on File...More than 50 well-chosen and well-reproduced illustrations help bring Dicken's works alive. Highly recommended for Dickens enthusiasts and all literature reference collections. - Choice ""This important reference work should be included in both public and academic libraries."" - Library Journal ""Gives readers and researchers an opportunity to discover the richness of Dickens' literary achievements in the context of his life and times."" - Reference & Research Book News
£60.00
Flannery OConnor
Book SynopsisExamines Flannery O'Connor's life and works, and includes critical analyses of some of the themes in her writing, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.
£60.00
University of Arizona Press The Din Reader An Anthology of Navajo Literature
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£21.56
University of Arizona Press Mapping Neshnabé Futurity
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£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Easy Women Sex And Gender In Modern Mexican
Book SynopsisThe figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies, and stands at the crossroads of its rational literary culture. This text focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, to ask why it exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination.
£22.49
MP - University Of Minnesota Press If I Could Write This in Fire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Full of razors, blossoms, and clarity. The beauty and authority of Cliff’s writing is coupled with profound insight." —Toni Morrison"Cliff is rare, and is already distinguished as a writer of great substance and power." —Tillie Olson"Michelle Cliff has always been a fierce and fearless writer. In this incendiary collection, which ranges from engaging with the work of Lorca, Pasolini and Ama Ata Aidoo to revisiting the life Oto Benga, Cliff examines place and race and legacy, the things we carry with us in our memory and blood. Here is a line from the start of the book: ‘revolutionaries are made, not born.’ This book could make them. Be prepared." —Rebecca Brown, author of The End of Youth
£16.14
University of Minnesota Press I Think I Am
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntrojection, Part I, Endopsychic Allegories, Schreber Guardian, Belief System Surveillance, Part II, Veil of Tears, Go West, Dick Manfred, Timing, Glimmung, Part III, Spiritualism Analogy, Imitating the Dead, Indexical Layer, Ilse, Hammers and Things, Crucifictions, Over There, Martyrology, Can’t Live, Can’t Live, Lola, Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt, Outer Race, The German Introject, Part IV, Materialism, Idealism, and Cybernetics, Startling Stories, A Couple of Years, Android Empathy, Homunculus and Robot, ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD. I AM ALIVE., Go With the FlowPart VRoom for Thought, Caduceus, Jump, Still, A Wake, Spätwerk, Let the Dead Be, Play Bally, Notes, Bibliography, Index
£19.79
The University of Alabama Press Border Crossings Irish Women Writers and National
Book SynopsisRanging from consideration of early writers such as Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson to recent feminist pamphlet wars, this text explores the connections between personal and national identities, politics and literary style, and gender and artistic vocation.
£999.99
The University of Alabama Press Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories Kate
Book SynopsisRace and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days; Grace King's Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson's The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana, its four decades of rule by the Spanish, the Louisiana Purchase and the resulting cultural transformations across the region, Napoleonic law, the Code Noir, the plaçage tradition, the immigration of various ethnic and natural groups into the city, and the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. All of
£999.99
University of Alabama Press Unguessed Kinships
Book SynopsisExplores the values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists. Steven Frye argues for Cormac McCarthy not merely as a naturalist writer but as a naturalist in the most expansive sense.Trade Review“Thoughtful, incisive, and beautifully written, Frye’s Unguessed Kinships is a brilliant and dynamic work, not only adding significantly to the scholarship on literary naturalism, but also making a major statement on the life, career, and work of Cormac McCarthy. Frye’s work is bold and innovative, and it will shape our thinking on McCarthy for generations to come."—;Eric Carl Link, author of The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
£79.90
The University of Alabama Press Dear Incomprehension
Book SynopsisA poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction.
£79.90
The University of Alabama Press A Question of Character Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction 18921912 Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Trade Review[The] discussions of Twain, Howells, Chesnutt, and Johnson... lucidly illustrate the ways that four of our major writers struggled to create literary forms enabling them not only to reflect but also to intervene in contemporary racial debates, and in the process to begin shifting the generic boundaries of American literature. - American Literary Realism ""[A Question of Character] fills in significant gaps in the critical discourse about genre, race, and science at the turn of the century.... [The] introduction and first chapter are extremely useful for explicating how racial discourse in realism and sentimentalism helps determine genre.... [This book] should be required reading for scholars interested in early theories about scientific racism."" - Choice ""Richly informed and theoretically astute."" - American Quarterly
£23.36
University of Alabama Press Paper Empire William Gaddis and the World System
Book SynopsisGaddis (1922-1998) is often cited as the link between literary modernism and postmodernism in the United States. This work includes essays which address subjects as diverse as cybernetics, the law, media theory, race and class, music, and the perils and benefits of globalization. It also contains an interview with Gaddis.Trade ReviewPaper Empire fills the gap in the scholarly literature on Gaddis. I know of no other monograph or collection of essays that addresses in such a focused way the contexts, especially the systematic contexts, of Gaddis's writing. - Brian McHale, author of The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press The Narrative Secret of Flannery OConnor The Trickster as Interpreter
Trade ReviewJohansen... goes a long way toward unlocking the diverse strategies employed by O'Connor. Her thoroughgoing knowledge of O'Connor's work is always impressive. It's a lively time for O'Conner criticism, and Johansen is certainly one of O'Connor's more lively readers. - South Atlantic Review ""I recommend the book to readers interested in the trickster, and those who know and love O'Connor's fiction enough to relish new insights.... Johansen has earned her place in the ranks of those who continue to delight in O'Connor's fiction, to delight in attempts to explain its power over us, and to take pleasure in the certainty that her fiction will continue to elude our explanations."" - Text and Performance Quarterly
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Through the Open Door A New Look at C S Lewis
Book SynopsisThis slender, unpretentious, and well-written book is consistently insightful: it deserves the attention of all who find themselves drawn to Lewis the writer and to Lewis the man.—Modern Fiction Studies
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Translating Modernism Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Book SynopsisThis continues Ronald Berman's career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers. Berman shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres.Trade ReviewTranslating Modernism continues Ronald Berman's challenging and engaging series of investigations into the philosophical/cultural resonances of 'Great Ideas' in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. This is a meticulous exploration of chosen themes bolstered by fruitful discussions of Walter Lippmann, H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and other early 20th century intelligentsia. This is an inspiring and valuable work. --Kirk Curnutt, Vice President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society|“Contains an astonishing wealth of insights into the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. In this little gem, [Berman] shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway 'translate' into their fiction certain intellectual and artistic ideas that were in the air during the early 20th century . . . . Essential.""--CHOICE|“The great benefit of this book is the perceptive focus and unified explication of a specific thematic target for Berman's overall critical project, following a natural progression from his initial three books in this field, with their emphasis on social history and their application of a 'world of ideas' to Fitzgerald and Hemingway's writing . . . . The coherence and intellectual depth of its argument will make better students of us all.""--The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press The Style of Hawthornes Gaze Regarding
Book SynopsisThe Style of Hawthorne's Gaze is an unusual and insightful work that employs a combination of critical strategies drawn from art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and contemporary aesthetic and literary theory to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrative technique and his unique vision of the world. Dolis studies Hawthorne's antitechnological and essentially Romantic view of the external world and examines the recurring phenomena of lighting, motion, aspectivity, fragmentation, and imagination as they relate to his descriptive techniques. Dolis sets the world of Hawthorne's work over and against the aesthetic and philosophical development of the world understood as a view, from its inception in the camera obscura and perspective in general, to its 19thcentury articulation in photography. In light of this general technology of the image, and drawing upon a wide range of contemporary critical theories, Dolis begins his study of Hawthorne at the level of description, where the world of
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Truman Capotes Southern Years
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press Reading Network Fiction
Book SynopsisThe marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called hypertext fiction, literary hypertext, and hyperfiction has surely surrendered any claim to newness in the 21st century. David Ciccoricco establishes the category of network fiction as distinguishable from other forms of hypertext and cybertext: network fictions are narrative texts in digitally networked environments that make use of hypertext technology in order to create emergent and recombinant narratives. Though they both pre-date and post-date the World Wide Web, they share with it an aesthetic drive that exploits the networking potential of digital composition and foregrounds notions of narrative recurrence and return. Ciccoricco analyzes innovative developments in network fiction from first-generation writers Michael Joyce (Twilight, a symphony, 1997) and Stuart Moulthrop (Victory Garden, 1991)
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Word Toys
Book SynopsisWith the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving while traditional genres and media have been transformed. Word Toysis a thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and views them instead as technical objects.Trade ReviewWord Toys is an engaging and delightfully quirky overview of the philosophy and aesthetics of technicity in digital, constraint-based, and speculative poetry and its many cousins, aunts, fellow travelers, and, crucially, outliers."" - Charles Bernstein, author of Recalculating and Pitch of Poetry""Stefans’s work distinguishes itself from any run-of-the-mill scholarly study in being the product of an expansive, ultra-contemporary, kaleidoscopic intelligence, and a spontaneous, razor-sharp wit."" - Jennifer Scappettone, author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice
£36.51
University of Alabama Press Unguessed Kinships
Book SynopsisExplores the values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists. Steven Frye argues for Cormac McCarthy not merely as a naturalist writer but as a naturalist in the most expansive sense.Trade Review“Thoughtful, incisive, and beautifully written, Frye’s Unguessed Kinships is a brilliant and dynamic work, not only adding significantly to the scholarship on literary naturalism, but also making a major statement on the life, career, and work of Cormac McCarthy. Frye’s work is bold and innovative, and it will shape our thinking on McCarthy for generations to come."—;Eric Carl Link, author of The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
£23.36
LUP - University of Georgia Press Campus Sexpot A Memoir
Book SynopsisTakes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel.Trade ReviewCharming and frequently hilarious. - Washington Post Book World ""Not about lust but very much about love, mysterious and miraculous. A riveting book."" - Brian Doyle, author of Leaping
£25.32
LUP - University of Georgia Press Eudora Weltys Fiction and Photography The Body
Book SynopsisDrawing on the context in which the symbolic protection of the white female body is symbolically linked with guarding the US southern body politic, Harriet Pollack traces a pattern in Eudora Welty’s fiction in which a sheltered middle-class daughter is disturbed or delighted by an other-class woman who takes pleasure in “making a spectacle” of her corporeal self.
£41.95
Ohio University Press Fetterd or Free
Book SynopsisBringing a broad range of methodologies (historical, textual, post-structuralist, psychological) to bear on the works of Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Smith, Sarah Fielding, Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, and others. Fetter'd or Free? encourages a re-evaluation of these elder sisters of the Brontes and Eliot.
£27.90
Ohio University Press Drawing on the Victorians
Book SynopsisLate nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership.Trade Review“Drawing on the Victorians is a singularly diverse and multinational collection, a fine critical embodiment of the palimpsest trope that stands … at its conceptual core.“ * Victorian Studies *“Jones and Mitchell’s innovative and pioneering collection will establish new areas of scholarly debate. Moreover, its focus on ‘stories and poems, books and periodicals, comics, cartoons, and other ephemera’ will enrich discussions on the interplay between the production and reception of Victorian and neo-Victorian graphic texts and textual images.” * Neo-Victorian Studies *“Stunningly transnational … The editors take the notion of the palimpsest as their conceptual frame because it speaks to haunting of one text and/or image by another, a layering, they assert, that becomes particularly complex when linguistic, geographic, historical, and temporal boundaries are crossed.”“Research in Victorian and neo-Victorian visual and verbal art receives a welcome boost from this collection. Not claiming to be a definitive map or theory, it nonetheless at every point opens up new questions for debate and new topics for investigation by future critics and scholars.”“This pioneering work in illustration studies will provide a necessary starting point for future work in the field.”
£56.10
Duke University Press Cultural Institutions of the Novel
Book SynopsisFocuses on the status of novels as commodities, their mediation of national cultures, and their role in transnational exchange. This book examines the forms and histories of the novel in England, Nigeria, Japan, France, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.Trade Review“Demonstrating remarkable diversity, Cultural Institutions of the Novel calls for nothing short of a radical change in the basis for defining fiction from ontology to function. It provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the questions on which the next generation of scholars of the novel is setting to work.”—Nancy Armstrong, Brown University“I have been provoked to fundamentals by the challenge of this book, and so will other readers.”—Jonathan Arac, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Transport of the Novel / Deidre Lynch and William B.Warner 1 Prologue: Why the Story of the Origin of the (English) Novel Is an American Romance (If Not the Great American Novel) / Homer Brown 11 I. The Contact Zone 45 1. Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel / Michelle Burnham 47 2. The Maori House of Fiction / Bridget Orr 73 3. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Asian American "Novels" and the Question of History / Lisa Lowe 96 4. The Rise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison / Dane Johnson 129 II. (Trans)National Canons 157 5. At Home with Jane Austen / Deidre Lynch 159 6. The Abbotsford Guide to India: Romantic Fictions of Empire and the narratives of Canadian Literature / Katie Trumpener 193 7. Writing Out Asia: Modernity, Canon, and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro / James A. Fujii 222 8. The Joys of Daughterhood: Gender, Nationalism, and the Making of Literary Tradition(s) / Susan Z. Andrade 249 III. The Romance of Consumption 277 9. Formulating Fiction: Romancing the General Reader in Early Modern Britain / William B. Warner 279 10. "To Love a Murderer" - Fantasy, Sexuality, and the Political Novel: The Case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mucke 306 11. The Limits of Reformism: The Novel, Censorship, and the Politics of Adultery in Nineteenth-Century France / Jann Matlock 335 12. Romances for "Big and Little Boys": The U.S. Romantic Revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener 369 13. Pas Americans: The Case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant 399 Epilogue: The Rise of Novelism / Clifford Siskin 423 Works Cited 441 Index 477 Contributors 487
£27.90
Duke University Press Bodyminds Reimagined
Book SynopsisIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women''s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre''s political potential lies in the authors'' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality''s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slavenarratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these tTrade Review"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." -- Grace Gipson * Black Perspectives *“Sami Schalk’s highly anticipated Bodyminds Reimagined is the most significant contribution to literary and cultural disability studies in years. Appeals to scholars in critical race studies, queer studies, and social justice activism.” -- Anna L. Hinton * ASAP/Journal *"Sami Schalk’s book is an important bridge between Black women’s science fiction and disability theorizing. Her work requires a reconceptualization of the boundaries of disability studies and African American literature as well." -- Moya Bailey * Feminist Formations *"Bodyminds Reimagined boldly demonstrates the capacity of black speculation and experimentation to generate world-building visions that are inclusive and sustainable for multiply marginalized black subjects." -- Petal Samuel * Public Books *"Bodyminds Reimagined is a compelling critical study . . . simultaneously accessible and complex, exhaustively sourced and fresh in its analysis. . . . Students, scholars, and fans of speculative fiction will be well served to familiarize themselves with this book." -- Angela Rovak * Women's Studies *"Sami Schalk, through Bodyminds Reimagined, takes a revolutionary step in defining the black disabled person’s experience in literature and media by promoting examples of black disabled people in speculative fiction created by women of color; and by re-defining manifestations of intersectionality among disabled people of color." -- Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. * Ethnic Studies Review *"Bodyminds Reimagined is an important work on theorizing speculative fiction and the ways in which it can change perceptions, actions, and minds. A model for future intersectional scholarship, this book is well written and accessible." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *"Wide-reaching. . . . Sami Schalk’s version of intersectionality emphasizes multidimensional entanglements that resist visual charting and static notions of identity. This version of intersectionality serves as a launchpad for new social formations." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Bodyminds Reimagined encouraged me to check my own privilege, to think differently about identity, and to reimagine my small niche in the world. The book is that good in its confrontation of the status quo, in its analysis of marginalized peoples in estranged worlds. . . . When I refer to Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined as groundbreaking, I do not mean this lightly. . . . All libraries should stock this book on their shelves." -- Isiah Lavender III * Science Fiction Studies *"Bodyminds Reimagined will appeal both to scholars and general readers. Schalk’s framework is simplified in a way that makes it digestible for those who may be unfamiliar with crip theory or intersectionality. With a slim frame, and at only four chapters, the book is inviting rather than intimidating. Schalk’s ability to sound both personable and professional is particularly enjoyable." -- Anelise Farris * Extrapolation *Table of ContentsPrologue and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33 2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59 3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85 4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113 Conclusion 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£70.55
University of Pittsburgh Press Managing Literacy Mothering America Womens Narratives On Reading And Writing Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisSarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters—the domestic literacy narrative—and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century. Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006).
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press In Search of the Sacred Book
Book SynopsisStudies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. This book departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence.Trade ReviewWe have read the Latin American novel as reconfigurations of history, ethnological recoveries, and political interventions, but we neglected to look at the powerful undercurrents of belief, faith, and epiphanic vision that are a true dimension of their inner creativity. González and his book of revelations discover that poetic knowledge has shaped their storytelling with epiphanies and transfiguration. Nothing of the human experience was estranged to these fictions, not even religion."" - Julio Ortega, Brown University""González, one of his generation’s most accomplished scholars of Spanish American Literature, offers a remarkable, erudite, and imaginative re-reading of the region’s modern fiction, with the compelling argument that, culminating with the Boom, the novel aspired to a reader experience comparable to effects generated by what many cultures regard as ‘sacred texts,’ only to critique and dismantle these aspirations in the late twentieth century and new millennium."" - Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas
£38.95
Fordham University Press Dining With Sherlock Holmes A Baker Street
Book SynopsisA recipe book offering full menus from four Sherlock Holmes dinners and recounting a history of the dinners and of the Firehouse Breakfast which has become a tradition with the Culinary Institute of America. All the recipes are served with a little relevant history and research.Trade Review"...a world-class expert on Sherlock Holmes" -Dallas Morning News
£27.90
Fordham University Press Posthuman Metamorphosis Narrative and Systems
Book SynopsisFrom Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory.Trade Review"In Bruce Clarke's remarkable book, narrative theory is transformed by a sustained encounter with neocybernetic systems theory. The result is a symbiogenesis as compelling as the hybrid sci-fi creatures Clarke engages-creatures we come to understand as playing surprisingly vital roles in thinking/linking/synching our complex social world to itself. For all students of narrative, Posthuman Metamorphosis will be indispensible-and inspiring!" -- -Ira Livingston Pratt Institute "Draws on the work of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and other theorists in a study of narratives of bodily metamorphosis." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "A deft deployment of systems theory in the service of narrative and ecological understanding." -- -Joseph Tabbi University of Illinois, Chicago "The first book-length study devoted to an important and fruitful convergence of social-informational theory and narratology." -- -Mark Hansen University of Chicago "Clarke's wide-ranging and vibrant writing indicates how transformative and productive neocybernetic models can be for literary theory, offering a striking new way of studying the formal and social functions of narrative at the level of literary texts and the level of cultural practices." -- -Colin Milburn Twentieth-Century Literature "Fasten your seat belts. Bruce Clarke's Posthuman Metamophosis takes us from 0 to 60-or in this case, from Ovid to Octavia Butler-at warp speed, ranging across a stunning array of texts, theories, and imagined universes to unpack the intellectual background, theoretical contours, land ethical and political stakes of the posthuman. Neither glibly celebratory nor polemically moralizing, Clarke's rendering of the posthuman is itself a model of interdisciplinary posthumanist scholarship, deftly comparing interpretive frames from media theory, systems theory, biology, narratology, and much else besides, to provide us with an experiment in reading that is, itself, metamorphic." -- -Cary Wolfe Rice University
£71.10
Fordham University Press Posthuman Metamorphosis
Book SynopsisFrom Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory.Trade Review"In Bruce Clarke's remarkable book, narrative theory is transformed by a sustained encounter with neocybernetic systems theory. The result is a symbiogenesis as compelling as the hybrid sci-fi creatures Clarke engages-creatures we come to understand as playing surprisingly vital roles in thinking/linking/synching our complex social world to itself. For all students of narrative, Posthuman Metamorphosis will be indispensible-and inspiring!" -- -Ira Livingston Pratt Institute "Draws on the work of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and other theorists in a study of narratives of bodily metamorphosis." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "A deft deployment of systems theory in the service of narrative and ecological understanding." -- -Joseph Tabbi University of Illinois, Chicago "The first book-length study devoted to an important and fruitful convergence of social-informational theory and narratology." -- -Mark Hansen University of Chicago "Clarke's wide-ranging and vibrant writing indicates how transformative and productive neocybernetic models can be for literary theory, offering a striking new way of studying the formal and social functions of narrative at the level of literary texts and the level of cultural practices." -- -Colin Milburn Twentieth-Century Literature "Fasten your seat belts. Bruce Clarke's Posthuman Metamophosis takes us from 0 to 60-or in this case, from Ovid to Octavia Butler-at warp speed, ranging across a stunning array of texts, theories, and imagined universes to unpack the intellectual background, theoretical contours, land ethical and political stakes of the posthuman. Neither glibly celebratory nor polemically moralizing, Clarke's rendering of the posthuman is itself a model of interdisciplinary posthumanist scholarship, deftly comparing interpretive frames from media theory, systems theory, biology, narratology, and much else besides, to provide us with an experiment in reading that is, itself, metamorphic." -- -Cary Wolfe Rice University
£27.90
Fordham University Press The Pleasures of Memory
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is well known that Dickens established an 'imagined community' founded on his own writing and authorial presence; in her intriguing book, Sarah Winter reveals how he did it. Analyzing the relation between serialization, reading, and memory, and detailing the extraordinary means by which Dickens made himself an institution by appearing to subvert the very nature of institutions, Winter shows how Dickens installed his works, his memories, his authorial presence, and perhaps most influentially, his method of publication---seriality itself--at the center of our collective modern consciousness." -- -Audrey Jaffe University of Toronto "A fine contribution to the sociology of literature ... Highly Recommended." -Choice "The Pleasures of Memory brings a welcome flash of insight to the centuries-old and much-rehashed argument regarding Dickens's politics. The present critical moment has seen the likes of William Flesch, Sharon Marcus, and Nicholas Dames rethink 'reading' in ingeniously new ways. Winter accomplishes the feat of throwing an equally original and yet persuasively commonsensical hat into the ring. She reads Dickens's serial novels from Pickwick through Our Mutual Friend to show how overtly they thematized the mode of their reception in associationist terms as collective or cultural memory. In doing so, she argues (brilliantly, to my mind), that producing serial novels was a political project. Dickens saw popular literature as the means of universal public education." -- -Nancy Armstrong Duke University "The Pleasures of Memory is the book on Dickens we have been waiting for. It is also a major study of the Victorian public sphere. Sarah Winter shows how Dickensian serial fiction-the most potent of nineteenth-century new media- cultivated a field of democratic thinking separate from political institutions. Authoritative, lucid, and wide-ranging, this is the most convincing analysis of literature's social function I've read in recent years." -- -Ian Duncan University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Introduction: Dickens and the Pleasures of Memory 1. Memory's Bonds: Associationism and the Freedom of Thought 2. Dickens's Originality: Serial Fiction, Celebrity, and The Pickwick Papers 3. The Pleasures of Memory, Part I: Curiosity as Didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop 4. The Pleasures of Memory, Part II: Epitaphic Reading and Cultural Memory 5. Learning by Heart in Our Mutual Friend 6. Dickens's Laughter: School Reading and Democratic Literature, 1870-1940 Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Fordham University Press All Ears The Aesthetics of Espionage
Book SynopsisAn archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.Table of Contents1. Entrance: The Spies of Jericho 2. Discipline and Listen Before the Wiretap Overhearing and Diaphony, A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) Mastery and Metrics in Figaro The Ages of Fear Telelistening and Telesurveillance A Secret Conversation 3. Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow 4. In the Footsteps of Orpheus The Trackers, with Hidden Noise The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's The Phantom of the Opera Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death Adorno, the Informer 5. Exit: J.D.'s Dream Notes
£71.10
Fordham University Press All Ears The Aesthetics of Espionage
Book SynopsisAn archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.Table of Contents1. Entrance: The Spies of Jericho 2. Discipline and Listen Before the Wiretap Overhearing and Diaphony, A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) Mastery and Metrics in Figaro The Ages of Fear Telelistening and Telesurveillance A Secret Conversation 3. Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow 4. In the Footsteps of Orpheus The Trackers, with Hidden Noise The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's The Phantom of the Opera Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death Adorno, the Informer 5. Exit: J.D.'s Dream Notes
£19.79
Fordham University Press Maurice Blanchot A Critical Biography
Book SynopsisMaurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note ix Preface xi Part I 1907–1923 1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907–1918) 3 2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 10 3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922–1923) 13 Part II 1920s–1940 4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) 21 5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925–1930) 24 6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927–1930) 29 7. Aligning One’s Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 34 8. “Mahatma Gandhi”: A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 41 9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and La Revue du Siècle (1931–1934) 44 10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle (1931–1935) 51 11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 62 12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July–December 1936) 67 13. Patriotism’s Breaking Point: L’Insurgé (1937) 71 14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937–1938) 82 15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) 88 16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 91 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come—Writing the Récits: “The Last Word” and “The Idyll” (1935–1936) 101 18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932–1940) 111 Part III 1940 –1949 19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940–1944) 121 20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941–1942) 127 21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940–1943) 135 22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats (1941–1944) 145 23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941–1942) 160 24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) 163 25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941–1942) 170 26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 178 27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 182 28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 –1946) 187 29. The Year of Criticism: L’Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) 192 30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945–1948) 195 31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946–1947) 208 32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 219 33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 225 34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947–1949) 229 35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947–1948) 232 36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947–1948) 235 37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948–1949) 239 Part IV 1949–1959 38. Invisible Partner: Èze, Withdrawal (1949–1957) 245 39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Récits (1949–1953) 248 40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949–1951) 254 41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951–1953) 261 42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950–1951) 266 43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951–1953) 271 44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought): Toward The Book to Come (1953–1958) 280 45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953–1957) 290 46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 297 47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957–1958) 301 48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958–1959) 303 Part V 1960 –1968 49. Note That I Say “Right” and Not “Duty”: The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 315 50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960–1965) 324 51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) 336 52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957–1962) 342 53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism—the Entretien and the Fragment (1959–1969) 349 54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 362 55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967–1968) 370 56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375 Part VI 1969–1997 57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969–1973) 389 58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 –1978) 403 59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 –1980) 406 60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969–1979) 416 61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot’s Readability and Visibility (1979–1997) 424 62. With This Break in History Stuck in One’s Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982–1983) 435 63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983–1997) 445 Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465 John McKeane Acknowledgments 479 Notes 481 Bibliography 599 Index 605
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