Literary studies: fiction Books
Temple University Press,U.S. Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero
Book SynopsisHighlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsTrade Review"[A] novel and provocative analysis about how the figure of the 'nationalist superhero' reflects, consolidates, and propels the nationalistic metaphors and narratives that are inextricable elements of the modern nation-state and of the modern, self-governing citizen... Dittmer's tome is theoretically informed and sophisticated. It makes a compelling case for the position that the ways that a people entertains itself, its popular culture, are fertile sites for analyses of how that people comes to know itself and others. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introducing Nationalist Superheroes 2 Gendered Nation-state, Gendered Hero 3 Embodying Multiculturalism 4 Origins 5 Narratives of Continuity and Change 6 Grounding the Nation-state 7 Geopolitical Orders 8 Alternate Worlds 9 Parody and Subversion Afterword Notes References Index
£60.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero
Book SynopsisHighlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsTrade Review"[A] novel and provocative analysis about how the figure of the 'nationalist superhero' reflects, consolidates, and propels the nationalistic metaphors and narratives that are inextricable elements of the modern nation-state and of the modern, self-governing citizen... Dittmer's tome is theoretically informed and sophisticated. It makes a compelling case for the position that the ways that a people entertains itself, its popular culture, are fertile sites for analyses of how that people comes to know itself and others. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introducing Nationalist Superheroes 2 Gendered Nation-state, Gendered Hero 3 Embodying Multiculturalism 4 Origins 5 Narratives of Continuity and Change 6 Grounding the Nation-state 7 Geopolitical Orders 8 Alternate Worlds 9 Parody and Subversion Afterword Notes References Index
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. From Slave Ship to Supermax
Book SynopsisIn his cogent and groundbreaking book, From Slave Ship to Supermax, Patrick Elliot Alexander argues that the disciplinary logic and violence of slavery haunt depictions of the contemporary U.S. prison in late twentieth-century Black fiction. Alexander links representations of prison life in James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk to his engagements with imprisoned intellectuals like George Jackson, who exposed historical continuities between slavery and mass incarceration. Likewise, Alexander reveals how Toni Morrison's Beloved was informed by Angela Y. Davis's jail writings on slavery-reminiscent practices in contemporary women's facilities. Alexander also examines recurring associations between slave ships and prisons in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage, and connects slavery's logic of racialized premature death to scenes of death row imprisonment in Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying.Alexander ultimately makes the case that contemporary Black novelists depict racial terro
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Disraeli
Book SynopsisDisraeli: The Romance of Politics examines the relation between Disraeli's novels and his political career and illuminates both in a way not previously attempted.Trade Review'Highly recommended.' -- E.J. Jenkins Choice Magazine, vol 51:02:2013 'This truly interdisciplinary study illuminates the way that drama and narrative art infuse the practice of nineteenth-century politics.' -- Jane Stabler SEL Studies vol 55:04:2015 "O'Kell is at his most innovative when he reads Disraeli's explicitly political writing against the imaginative backdrop of the novels. [...] The result of this layered reading is that Disraeli's career in fact appears more plausible as its disparate elements are yoked together in an account which incorporates the different tones of his voice." -- Daisy Hay Times Literary Supplement, September 20, 2013 'Disraeli: The Romance of Politics is the most thorough study to date of the relationship between Disraeli's political and literary careers... O'Kell's book, already thorough and valuable, may yet come to acquire additional relevance, by highlighting the circuitous nature of routes to political power, and the tenacity of the adventurer.' -- Michael Flavin Canadian Journal of History vol 49: autumn 2014 'O'Kell has brought a remarkably fresh perspective to Disraeli's career... It is certainly a book that should stand as an example of how a genuinely cross-disciplinary approach to Victorian Studies in general, and 'the dynamics of political culture' in particular, can enliven the most studied of nineteenth-century topics.' -- I. Cawood The English Historical Review; September 2014 'The literary life of Benjamin Disraeli is the most important book to be published on this intriguing figure in at least a decade... For the Victorianist, O'Kell's magnum opus is an exemplar of interdisciplinary methodology and offers a refreshing re-interpretation of Disraeli's political life and literary works.' -- Rosemary Mitchell Journal of Victorian Culture, 19 June 2015 'Thoughtful, lucid, well-researched book... O'Kell throws new, important, and interesting light on $rdquo;The Chief$rduo;'. -- Richard Aldous Review19, August 2015 O'Kell's study is a fascinating and compelling portrait of one of Victorian Britain's most colourful figures... A book that is certain to set a precedent for years to come.' -- David G. Reagles Victorian Periodicals vol 48:02:2015 'Robert O'Kell's Disraeli: The Romance of Politics is a brilliant original book that illuminates Benjamin Disraeli's mind and temperament as no previous work has managed.; it threatens many other Disraeli biographies seem superficial.' -- Frederick Schweitzer Victorian Studies vol 57:01:2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. The Representative Affair 2. The Byronic Legacy 3. Virtues and Vanities 4. Henrietta: A Love Story 5. What Is He? The Crisis Examined 6. Prejudice 7. Vindication 8. "The Arts of a Designing Person": Disraeli, Peel, and Young England / Coningsby; or the New Generation 9. Sir Robert Peel and the Apotheosis of Young England 10. Sybil; Two Nations, or One?: Disraeli's Allegorical Romance 11. The Corn Law Debate of 1846 and the Politics of Protection 12. Tancred: Principles, Expediency and Trust 13. Leadership 14. On Top of the Greasy Pole: The Disestablishment Crisis of 1868 15. Lothair: The Politics of Love, Faith and Duty 16. "The Family Romance": Politics, Power and Love in Disraeli's Endymion 17. The Faery Queen, the "Arch Villain," and "the Mephistopheles of Statesmanship" 18. The Conquering Hero / Falconet Bibliography Index
£34.20
MY - University of Toronto Press Settling Down and Settling Up The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Womens Writing
Book SynopsisThis book is a comparative examination of the second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing that dialogues with black diaspora and postcolonial theory, feminist and social geography, and cultural studies.Trade Review"Particularly valuable in Medovarski’s work is her conceptualization of the second generation in terms of its expansion of the "conditions of possibility" (a concept borrowed from Michel de Certeau). In other words, Medovarski conceives of the second generation not just as a resistant force, but instead as a transformative one that can work to "remake citizenship on other, more ethical or more inclusive terms" and thereby create nations that are "‘more’ than they currently are." Medovarski takes her cue from a wonderful selection of texts, intervening nicely into already established discourses surrounding some of the more well-known texts." -- Veronica Austen * Canadian Literature, August 2020 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. “Settling Down and Settling Up”: Conceptualizing the Second Generation 1. “A Kind of New Vocabulary”: Dionne Brand’s (Re)Mappings in What We All Long For 2. “Belonging Is What You Give Yourself”: Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin 3. “I Knew This Was England”: Myths of “Back Home” in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon 4. “The Abuses of Settlement”: Esi Edugyan’s The Second Life of Samuel Tyne 5. “When Roots Won’t Matter Anymore”: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Conclusion: “Conditions of Possibility” Notes Works Cited Index
£34.20
University of Toronto Press Anna Maria Ortese
Book SynopsisAfter years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to Ortese’s work, the contributors to this collection map the author’s complex textual geography, with its overlapping literary genres, forms, and conceptual categories, and the rhetorical and narrative strategies that pervade Ortese’s many types of writing. The essays are complemented by material translated here for the first time: Ortese’s unpublished letters to her mentor, the writer Massimo Bontempelli; and an extended interview with Ortese by fellow Italian novelist Dacia Maraini.Trade Review'This sumptuously produced, skillfully edited collection of essays will help bring Ortese's work to the large audience it undoubtedly deserves... Highly recommended.' -- S. Botterill Choice Magazine vol 53:03:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel (Flora Ghezzo) PART I: From Naples to Paris (via Jerusalem): Modern Alienation and Utopian Reality 1. "Clouds in Front of my Eyes": Ortese's Poetics of the Gaze in "Un paio di occhiali" and Il mare non bagna Napoli (Lucia Re) 2. Cities "Paved with Causalties": Ortese's Journeys through Urban Modernity (Andrea Baldi) 3. Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt and the Artist as "Conscious Pariah" (Cristina Della Coletta) PART II: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self 4. Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese's Letters to Massimo Bontempelli (Amelia Moser) Four Letters of Anna Maria Ortese to Massimo Bontempelli and a Condolence Letter to Paola Masino 5. Anna Maria Ortese's Precocious Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori (Luigi Fontanella) 6. The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) (Beatrice Manetti) 7. On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the Autobiography of the Ephemeral (Flora Ghezzo) PART III: Becoming a Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of the Otherness 8. Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese's "Real Children of the Universe" (Inge Lanslots) 9. "Call Me My Name": The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America (Gian Maria Annovi) 10. The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese's Il cardillo addolorato and a Critique of European Modernity (Gala Rebane) 11. The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web (Margherita Pieracci Harwell) 12. Alonso, the Poet and the Killer. Ortese's Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History (Tatiana Crivelli) PART IV: An Uncommon Reader 13. An "Uncommon Reader": The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese (Monica Farnetti) Appendix: Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (Dacia Maraini) Works by Anna Maria Ortese
£62.05
University of Toronto Press On Friendship and Freedom
Book SynopsisIgnazio Silone, the anti-fascist, Italian author and political activist, continues to intrigue readers and stimulate their minds nearly four decades after his death. On Friendship and Freedom contains the first published collection of correspondence between Silone and his longtime friend the philanthropist and art collector Marcel Fleischmann. Maria Nicolai Paynter, a recognized authority on Silone and his work, deftly guides the reader through the years dominated by Fascism and Nazism as well as the decades leading up to Silone’s death in 1978. Of particular interest for its human value, the correspondence gathered in this volume is most inspiring in that it reveals how two men of different cultural and religious backgrounds join together and share true friendship against all odds. Trade Review'This powerful and invaluable book contributes to an understanding not only of Silone and Fleischmann, but also of European intellectual history of the 20th century.' -- C. De. Santi Choice Magazine vol 54:06:2017Table of ContentsACKNOWLEGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS FOREWORD CHRONOLOGY Introduction Four Remarkable People Ignazio and Darina Silone Marcel Fleischmann and Elsa Schiess Illustrations The Correspondence The Swiss Years: 1934-1944 Bridging the Distance: 1945-1976 Afterword NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£49.30
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Marble Statue as Idea Collected Essays on Adalbert Stifters Der Nachsommer
Book SynopsisEach of the essays in this study of Der Nachsommer focuses on overlooked details of the novel. As all the phenomena presented are oriented toward fulfillment of their highest potential, the novel emerges as a powerful assertion of the intent to achieve classical form in all things despite the ever-present threat of dissolution and chaos.
£19.16
University of Texas Press Make Ours Marvel
Book Synopsis The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past its primary rival, DC Comics, for domination of the comic book market. Since the 2000s, the company’s iconic characters have leaped from page to screens with the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which includes everything from live-action film franchises of Iron Man and the Avengers to television and streaming media, including the critically acclaimed Netflix series Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Marvel, now owned by Disney, has clearly found the key to transmedia success. Make Ours Marvel traces the rise of the Marvel brand and its transformation into a transmedia empire over the past fifty years. A dozen original essays range across topics such as how Marvel expanded the notion of an all-sTrade ReviewWell-written. . . .[A]nd packed with information about the workings of the Marvel Universe. There is much to ponder and learn here. * Choice *Make Ours Marvel is a well-timed anthology that fairly and critically examines Marvel’s long history as one of the great myth-makers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. * Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature *The contributors [to Make Ours Marvel]...lay the groundwork for the future study of Marvel Entertainment, a great achievement unto itself. The audience for this book may be wide considering the popularity of the subject matter, but more specifically it is highly recommended to those scholars invested in studying Marvel Entertainment. This strong collection of essays on transmedia study is undoubtedly made for those studying Marvel Entertainment across its permutations in comics, film, TV, and more. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Excelsior! Or, Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Matt Yockey Chapter 1. Reforming the “Justice” System: Marvel’s Avengers and the Transformation of the All-Star Team Book, by Mark Minett and Bradley Schauer Chapter 2. Man Without Fear: David Mack, Daredevil, and the “Bounds of Difference” in Superhero Comics, by Henry Jenkins Chapter 3. “This Female Fights Back!”: A Feminist History of Marvel Comics, by Anna F. Peppard Chapter 4. “Share Your Universe”: Generation, Gender, and the Future of Marvel Publishing, by Derek Johnson Chapter 5. Breaking Brand: From NuMarvel to MarvelNOW! Marvel Comics in the Age of Media Convergence, by Deron Overpeck Chapter 6. Marvel and the Form of Motion Comics, by Darren Wershler and Kalervo A. Sinervo Chapter 7. Transmedia Storytelling in the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” and the Logics of Convergence-Era Popular Seriality, by Felix Brinker Chapter 8. The Marvel One-Shots and Transmedia Storytelling, by Michael Graves Chapter 9. Spinning Webs: Constructing Authors, Genre, and Fans in the Spider-Man Film Franchise, by James N. Gilmore Chapter 10. Playing Peter Parker: Spider-Man and Superhero Film Performance, by Aaron Taylor Chapter 11. Spotting Stan: The Fun and Function of Stan Lee’s Cameos in the Marvel Universe(s), by Dru Jeffries Chapter 12. Schrödinger’s Cape: The Quantum Seriality of the Marvel Multiverse, by William Proctor Notes on Contributors Index
£66.60
University of Texas Press The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
Book SynopsisWhen Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams’s quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a perfect novel,” and a host of writers and critics, including Colum McCann, Julian Barnes, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Emma Straub, Ruth Rendell, C. P. Snow, and Irving Howe, praised its artistry. The New Yorker deemed it “a masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel traces the life of Stoner’s author, John Williams. Acclaimed biographer Charles J. Shields follows the whole arc of Williams’s life, which in many ways paralleled that of his titular character, from their Trade Review[An] engrossing short biography. * The New Yorker *An excellent biography. * Wall Street Journal *Shields…hoovers up the available evidence and shapes it into an episodic narrative without giving much sense of what he makes of his subject…Shields's book is a handy corrective for anyone who's nostalgic for the days when American writers and publishers routinely ran up large bar tabs. * London Review of Books *A fine biography of Williams by Charles J. Shields, published by University of Texas Press * Texas Monthly *This rich biography gives new insight into the enigmatic man behind Stoner, a novel quickly forgotten after its 1963 publication but more recently recognized as a midcentury American classic. * Publishers Weekly, “The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018” *The Williams that emerges is not unlike Stoner himself: self-obsessed, given to petty feuds, and insecure about his abilities...It is to Shields’s credit that by the end of this finely crafted biography readers will feel they have some insight into this talented, troubled enigma of a man. * Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review *Despite obvious parallels with his fictional university protagonist, John Williams is both different and interesting enough to merit a book of his own, Charles J. Shields's The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. It certainly helps that, like Williams, Shields know how to tell a good story, one that will appeal especially to those interested in the ins and outs of the publishing industry and the ups and downs of a writer's life. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Charles Shields has done us all a service by pointing up and pointing out the novelist's unyielding ambition and rigor. * New York Journal of Books *[An] exemplary biography, the first devoted to the life of one of America's most unusual writers. * Financial Times *[A] sharp-eyed biography. * Booklist *Through exhaustive research and sharp prose, Shields has composed a portrait of the complicated author and the particular darknesses that drove Williams to write, to overcompensate, to philander, to mansplain. * The Millions *Brief but compelling...The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel is a welcome reminder that even in the rarefied world of literature, good sometimes prevails. * Waterbury Republican-American *Shields' writing is captivating and reveals much about the wounded psyches of the GI Bill generation of American (male) authors. * Shepherd Express *Shields describes Williams's development and motivations and explains persuasively why a writer hungry for fame didn't go in for the postmodernist experiments of his time. * New Criterion *Shields accomplishes an admirable feat of objectivity in a biography published during our riven age of identity and tribal politics. * American Book Review *[John Williams's Stoner] has in recent decades become the sort of book that people adore, give to their friends, fiercely identify with, and dub 'the perfect novel.' And full credit to Charles Shields for going behind the scenes to fill in the picture of Williams's own—somewhat similarly miserable—life…Stoner's rediscovery reflects well on the artisanship of John Williams, a novelist whose accomplishments and foibles Charles Shields has brought ably into view. * Western American Literature *Charles Shields's biography of John Williams invites us to enrich our understanding of Stoner—and Williams's other writings as well—in The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. Through his accessible style, his scrupulous attention to detail, and his use of source material and interviews, Shields provides us with a balanced study of a writer whose work has the power to transform the unremarkable into the astonishing. * Journal of American Culture *Charles J. Shields' subtitle accurately captures the scope, purpose, and content of the book. It's a biography of John Williams. It's a description of how Williams's major work came to be, and it's a reflection on the writing life, as lived by John Williams. I found Shields to be fair in his approach to all three. * Concho River Review *Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Nothing But the Night Chapter One: He Comes from Texas Chapter Two: “Ho, Ho! Wasn’t I the Character Then?” Chapter Three: Rough Draft Chapter Four: Key West Chapter Five: Alan Swallow Chapter Six: Love Part II. Butcher’s Crossing Chapter Seven: The Winters Circle Chapter Eight: “Natural Liars Are the Best Writers” Chapter Nine: Butcher’s Crossing Chapter Ten: Fiasco Part III. Stoner Chapter Eleven: “It Was That Kind of World” Chapter Twelve: “The Williams Affair” Chapter Thirteen: Stoner Part IV. Augustus Chapter Fourteen: Bread Loaf and “Up on the Hill” Chapter Fifteen: The Good Guys Chapter Sixteen: “Long Life to the Emperor!” Part V. The Sleep of Reason Poem: “An Old Actor to His Audience” Chapter Seventeen: “How Can Such a Son of a Bitch Have Such Talent?” Chapter Eighteen: In Extremis Epilogue. John Williams Redux Acknowledgments Notes Works Consulted A John Williams Bibliography Index
£22.79
University of Texas Press Super Bodies
Book SynopsisFinalist —San Diego Comic-Con International 2024 Eisner Award in Best Academic/Scholarly WorkAn examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustration—idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noir—examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning. Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative, Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that superheroes are toTrade ReviewNot surprisingly, this is exceptionally well illustrated for an academic book. It is an important contribution to comics scholarship and will help anyone appreciate the medium more deeply. * CHOICE *Table of Contents 1. How to Draw Superheroes 2. The Superhero and the Dessinateur 3. Idealism and Comic Book Heroes 4. Retro Art and Nostalgia 5. Realism in an Unrealistic Genre 6. Super Cute Manga, Kawaii, and Infantilization 7. Grotesque Bodies and Monstrous Heroes 8. Superhero Noir, More than Just Black and White 9. Drawing Conclusions Works Cited Index
£40.50
University of Texas Press Redrawing the Western
£24.29
Duke University Press Junot Diaz
Book SynopsisJosé David Saldívar offers a critical examination of Junot Díaz, showing how his influences converged in his fiction and how his work radically changed the course of US Latinx literature and created a new way of viewing the decolonial world.Trade Review"This is an engaging, important contribution to understanding of Junot Díaz’s work and life. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- A. A. Edwards * Choice *"Junot Díaz is a good introduction to the Diaz oeuvre, while at the same time, a must-read for an intermediate reader of Junot Díaz’s work." -- Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez * Kritikon Litterarum *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. “Wrestling with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”: How Junot Díaz Thinks About Coloniality, Power, and the Speculative Genres 27 Part I. Junot Díaz’s MFA Program Era at Cornell University and Beyond 2. Díaz’s Planet MFA: “Negocios” 47 3. Díaz’s Planet POC (People of Color): Drown 73 Part II. Understanding Imaginary Transference and the Colonial Difference 4. Becoming Oscar “Oscar Wao” 99 Part III. A Legacy In-formation 5. Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Love 151 Conclusion and Coda: “Monstro” and Islandborn 179 Notes 191 Bibliography 225 Index 239
£70.55
New York University Press The Forbidden Body
Book SynopsisFrom creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come togetherThroughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayedor, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Yet, we remain fascinated, obsessed even, by bodies that have left, or been forced out of, their proper place. The Forbidden Body examines how horror culture treats these bodies, exploring the dark spaces where sex and the sexual body come together with religious belief and tales of terror. Taking a broad approach not limited to horror cinema or popular fiction, but embracing also literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, and participative culture, Douglas E. Cowan explores how fears of bodies that are tainted, impure, or sexually deviant are made visible and reinforced through popularTrade ReviewGroundbreaking, disturbing, and riveting. Cowan recognizes that horror has a penchant for being at the same time scary and sexy, and that religion likewise has a unique ability to terrify in connection with restrictions on human sexuality. The intersections and even the simple comparability of these two human phenomena has not been explored by academics, much less explored adequately. Only Cowan could write this book, and write it so well. -- James McGrath, Butler UniversityAdds depth and texture to our understanding of horror’s relation to the body and religious imagination. This is a new area of inquiry in the world of religious studies and Cowan is at the forefront as a clear authority on the questions raised by horror, popular theology, and religious studies. -- Laura Ammon, Appalachian State UniversityCowan has managed to write a philosophical take on what is clearly his favorite genre, inviting readers to figure out why and how they, religion and sex fit into these salacious, silly and scary stories. -- Chris LaCroix * Real Change News *Cowan successfully illuminates representations of disfigured (sexualized) bodies in the horror mode while demonstrating how the religious imagination supports or enacts these representations. The book also offers a striking perspective on the different culturally internalized fears that shape our living together and influence our daily choices, preferences, fears, and attitudes…Thanks to the appealing and entertaining way of writing, the book also stimulates curiosity for exploring the abysses in the cosmos of sexuality, horror fiction, and religion. -- Katharina Luise Merkert * Reading Religion *The Forbidden Body proceeds somewhat like a string of pearls, presenting a series of interesting insights as Cowan leads the reader through some of his favorite horror texts and what he finds sociologically significant about the way they deploy sex and raise questions about the unseen order… this is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. -- Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University * Nova Religio *Horror fans will find much to be excited about in this book––perhaps in more ways than one... This is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. * Nova Religio *
£66.60
New York University Press The Forbidden Body
Book SynopsisFrom creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come togetherThroughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayedor, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Yet, we remain fascinated, obsessed even, by bodies that have left, or been forced out of, their proper place. The Forbidden Body examines how horror culture treats these bodies, exploring the dark spaces where sex and the sexual body come together with religious belief and tales of terror. Taking a broad approach not limited to horror cinema or popular fiction, but embracing also literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, and participative culture, Douglas E. Cowan explores how fears of bodies that are tainted, impure, or sexually deviant are made visible and reinforced through popularTrade ReviewGroundbreaking, disturbing, and riveting. Cowan recognizes that horror has a penchant for being at the same time scary and sexy, and that religion likewise has a unique ability to terrify in connection with restrictions on human sexuality. The intersections and even the simple comparability of these two human phenomena has not been explored by academics, much less explored adequately. Only Cowan could write this book, and write it so well. -- James McGrath, Butler UniversityAdds depth and texture to our understanding of horror’s relation to the body and religious imagination. This is a new area of inquiry in the world of religious studies and Cowan is at the forefront as a clear authority on the questions raised by horror, popular theology, and religious studies. -- Laura Ammon, Appalachian State UniversityCowan has managed to write a philosophical take on what is clearly his favorite genre, inviting readers to figure out why and how they, religion and sex fit into these salacious, silly and scary stories. -- Chris LaCroix * Real Change News *Cowan successfully illuminates representations of disfigured (sexualized) bodies in the horror mode while demonstrating how the religious imagination supports or enacts these representations. The book also offers a striking perspective on the different culturally internalized fears that shape our living together and influence our daily choices, preferences, fears, and attitudes…Thanks to the appealing and entertaining way of writing, the book also stimulates curiosity for exploring the abysses in the cosmos of sexuality, horror fiction, and religion. -- Katharina Luise Merkert * Reading Religion *The Forbidden Body proceeds somewhat like a string of pearls, presenting a series of interesting insights as Cowan leads the reader through some of his favorite horror texts and what he finds sociologically significant about the way they deploy sex and raise questions about the unseen order… this is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. -- Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University * Nova Religio *Horror fans will find much to be excited about in this book––perhaps in more ways than one... This is great reading for anyone hoping to produce their own scholarship on religion and popular culture. * Nova Religio *
£23.74
New York University Press Empires Nursery
Book SynopsisHow children and children's literature helped build America's empireAmerica's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children's literature, authors instilled the idea of America's power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America's indispensability to the international order. Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children's literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country's command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children's literature thereby helped to disguise dominTrade Review"What a book! Sharp, surprising, and creative, Empire’s Nursery tells the story of how a generation of children learned the art of empire. Brian Rouleau has shown himself to be a superb historian." -- Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States"Polished, well organized, and engaging. This is an important contribution that demonstrates the significance of taking children and their material culture seriously. Specifically, whereas most literature on the history of children and youth looks for children to be agents of change, Empire’s Nursery regards children as cultural conservators." -- Jennifer Helgren, University of the Pacific"There is much to admire in Empire’s Nursery, which weaves together settler colonial studies and children’s literary studies—two strands of analysis that aren’t usually put into conversation. Rouleau makes important claims that deserve engagement and elaboration. Featuring excellent archival work, Empire’s Nursery excavates children’s writing in response to the literature they were reading." -- Anna Mae Duane, author of Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
£27.54
New York University Press Keywords for Comics Studies
Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Trade ReviewKeywords for Comics Studies is the book this field needs right now, featuring its heavy hitters explaining—as well as debating—the complex and conceptual underpinnings of comics today. Savvy, fresh, inclusive, and often brilliant, it’s an essential text. * Hillary Chute, author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere *In this latest entry of the sublime Keywords series from NYU Press, Fawaz, Streeby, and Whaley demonstrate, once again, why they are three of the top scholars working in the Humanities today. This volume is a well-curated, intellectually nimble, collection of wonderfully constructed interdisciplinary entries from a compelling spectrum of creators, educators and theorists. This delightfully accessible book belongs in the collection of anyone truly serious about researching the medium of comics and its associated cultures. * John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside and illustrator of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation *
£62.90
New York University Press Keeping It Unreal
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies!Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic booksCharacters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination.Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges toand respite fromwhite supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre literature, as well as contemporary literary realist fiction centering fantastic conceits.Darieck Scott offers a rich meditTrade ReviewScott reflects on the importance of fantasy in comic books in this brisk and insightful meditation ... this analysis is rich and rewarding. * Publishers Weekly *This fabulously written reconsideration of fantasy goes beyond readings of Black queer comics to reveal the value of becoming fantastical—of living in a ‘habitable imaginary’ where dreams are substantiated. I came looking for insights about Luke Cage and Black Panther . . . only to find liberation and Black queer life. * Jennifer Brody, Stanford University *A primer in counter-intuition and bold imagination that dares to embrace the radical possibility of black happiness. Writing with razor-sharp wit and blistering erudition, Scott rewrites the meaning of fantasy to reveal its power as an intellectual and political tool for reimagining blackness beyond an antiblack world. His captivating excavations of black fantasy in the comic genre provide not only a space of pleasure and possibility, but a tool for living a different kind of black futurity. * Tina Campt, Brown University *Scott does an amazing job in the conclusion of providing some context as well as personal revelation, that allows the reader to feel like they too are part of this conversation and creation…Overall, Scott’s Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics is a well-constructed engagement of various scholarly sources in the understanding and construction of ourselves, of others, and of life through the use of fantasy. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *In Keeping It Unreal, Scott doubles down on his belief that even in a whitewashed landscape, Black comic book heroes and their influence warp the foundation of how the industry operates, whether seen in superheroes or in porn. Ultimately, as a powerful reflection of the Black body’s identity, he argues that within these fantasy-acts lies a deep-rooted recognition of Black humanity that cannot be erased or denied. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *
£20.69
New York University Press Keeping It Unreal
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies!Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic booksCharacters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination.Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges toand respite fromwhite supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre literature, as well as contemporary literary realist fiction centering fantastic conceits.Darieck Scott offers a rich meditTrade ReviewScott reflects on the importance of fantasy in comic books in this brisk and insightful meditation ... this analysis is rich and rewarding. * Publishers Weekly *This fabulously written reconsideration of fantasy goes beyond readings of Black queer comics to reveal the value of becoming fantastical—of living in a ‘habitable imaginary’ where dreams are substantiated. I came looking for insights about Luke Cage and Black Panther . . . only to find liberation and Black queer life. * Jennifer Brody, Stanford University *A primer in counter-intuition and bold imagination that dares to embrace the radical possibility of black happiness. Writing with razor-sharp wit and blistering erudition, Scott rewrites the meaning of fantasy to reveal its power as an intellectual and political tool for reimagining blackness beyond an antiblack world. His captivating excavations of black fantasy in the comic genre provide not only a space of pleasure and possibility, but a tool for living a different kind of black futurity. * Tina Campt, Brown University *Scott does an amazing job in the conclusion of providing some context as well as personal revelation, that allows the reader to feel like they too are part of this conversation and creation…Overall, Scott’s Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics is a well-constructed engagement of various scholarly sources in the understanding and construction of ourselves, of others, and of life through the use of fantasy. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *In Keeping It Unreal, Scott doubles down on his belief that even in a whitewashed landscape, Black comic book heroes and their influence warp the foundation of how the industry operates, whether seen in superheroes or in porn. Ultimately, as a powerful reflection of the Black body’s identity, he argues that within these fantasy-acts lies a deep-rooted recognition of Black humanity that cannot be erased or denied. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *
£66.60
University of Toronto Press Useless Joyce
Book SynopsisTim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art.Trade Review‘Highly recommended.’ -- R.D. Newman * Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018 *"Useless Joyce provides an implicit defense of literary pleasure, with the teacher-critic serving as mediator of that pleasure." -- Mark Wollaeger * James Joyce Literary Supplement, Fall 2018 *"...Conley’s insatiable appetite to read Joyce for his usefulness enriches our understanding of his texts and will provoke further research and inquiry." -- Eleni Loukopoulou, Independent Scholar * James Joyce Quarterly, vol 55 no 1-3, Spring/Summer '18 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Textual Functions Chapter 1: Guidance Systems Chapter 2: Misquoting Joyce Chapter 3: Limited Editions, Edited Limitations Chapter 4: Translation, Annotation, Hesitation Part Two: Cultural Appropriations Chapter 5: Make a Stump Speech of It Chapter 6: Win a Dream Date with James Joyce Chapter 7: The Stephen Dedalus Diet Conclusion: Means without End Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£38.70
University of Toronto Press Solitude and Speechlessness
Book SynopsisSolitude and Speechlessness argues that experiences of isolation are inherent to the writing and reading of Renaissance literature, and finds parallels and meaning in the lives of solitary figures including poets, ascetics, and hermits.Trade Review"Solitude and Speechlessness is a book that scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry will appreciate for its detailed, precise, and accurate analysis of canonical works. It provides a re-reading of such works through a peculiar lens: the pursuit, or fear, of the sense of isolation that allows us to find, but also lose, ourselves." -- Elena Brizio, Georgetown University * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *"In his remarkable study, Andrew Mattison offers a fascinating examination of the various and self-conscious forms of literary withdrawal within sixteenth and seventeenth-century English writings, and of the implications that such a poetics of isolation have for the writing of literary history." -- Joshua Easterling, Murray State University * Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching *"In our current global experience of isolation, Mattison’s book has special resonance. Among many achievements, it reminds us of the virtue of being ambitious readers, challenging ourselves to wander from familiar paths." -- Anna Welch, State Library Victoria * Parergon *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Writing in Solitude 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory Conclusion: Reading in Solitude Bibliography
£47.60
University of Toronto Press Romantic Revelations
Book SynopsisRomantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.Trade Review"Washington’s richly suggestive book is a timely and useful polemic for all those working in Romantic studies who value the period as an age of revolution and institutional change. In postapocalyptic constructions of hope and love, Romanticism finds new resonance in our own age of climate crisis. Even amidst the so-called sixth extinction, Washington makes the case that there is ample space and time to defamiliarize ‘the thing with feathers’ and the ‘ever-fixed mark.’ Washington’s call for a new social contract that thinks beyond narrow species categories is a welcome reminder that this cohort of two-hundred-year-old Romantic reformers is still changing the world." -- Fuson Wang, University of California, Riverside * Journal of British Studies *"The philosophically speculative twist Washington brings to bear on what are undoubtedly, unavoidably acute, searing political challenges makes this a book for our times. As we exit the Anthropocene, hopefully with grace rather than blindness and resentment, to paraphrase John Ricco, we are compelled, as Washington suggests, to understand ‘the world on its own terms.’ Seems damn-near impossible to me. But Washington gives me hope that this can be done with hope, and love, and that an emerging generation of Romantics scholars among whom he counts himself might just pull it off." -- Joel Faflak, University of Western Ontario * Romantic Circles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out? 1. The Mind Is Its Own Place: What Percy Shelley's Mountain Did Not Say 2. No More Cakes and Ale, Only Oil Slicks: Mary Shelley’s Post-Apocalyptic State of Nature 3. Byron’s Speculative Turn: The Biopolitics of Paradise 4. Birds Do It, Bees Do It: John Clare, Biopolitics, and the Nonhuman Origins of Love 5. The Best of All Possible End of the Worlds: Jane Austen’s Frankenstein, or Love in the Ruins Coda: After Extinctualism: Hope for Life Notes Bibliography Index
£41.65
University of Toronto Press Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary
Book SynopsisRighteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion particularly indignation and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers. Noting how art often holds the power to shed light on issues surrounding inequity, inequality, and injustice, the book explores the ethical function of art as a tool in resistance and sociopolitical protest, thereby validating the axiom that ethics and aesthetics can still collaborate in the creation of meaning. Drawing on a range of Italian novels and films and examining the works of artists such as Tiziano Scarpa, Simona Vinci, Paolo Sorrentino, and Monica Stambrini, the author shows that anger can be used constructively as a weapon of resistance against negative and oppressive forces.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Anger and Commitment in the Narratives of Tiziano Scarpa 1. Pasolini’s La rabbia and the Spectacularization of Scarpa’s Posthuman Aesthetics 2. An Apocalyptic Kamikaze: Tiziano Scarpa or How to Invade the Reader 3. The Fundamental Things in Life According to Scarpa Part II. Anger and Spaces of Vulnerability in the Narratives of Melania Mazzucco and Monica Stambrini 4. Melania Mazzucco’s Un giorno perfetto: Domestic Violence on an Everyday Perfect Day 5. Pushing Boundaries: Road Movies and Gas Stations in Monica Stambrini’s Benzina Part III. Anger and Spaces of Otherness in the Narratives of Paolo Sorrentino, Simona Vinci, and Veronica Tomassini 6. A Recipe for the Advantages and Disadvantages of Love: Anger and Misogyny in Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love 7. Society, Simulacra, and Love: Simona Vinci’s Stanza 411 8. Wounding the Individual: Dynamics of Diversity and Anatomy of Love in Veronica Tomassini’s Sangue di Cane Afterword Notes Works Cited Index
£51.85
University of Toronto Press A Name for Herself
Book SynopsisThis book collects a majority of Montgomery's early and non-fiction publications across a variety of forms and places them in the context of her career and the narrative strategies of women authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade Review"In this first volume of ‘The L.M. Montgomery Library,’ Benjamin Lefebvre collects and expertly annotates Montgomery’s non-fiction periodical writing, presenting it as a record of her literary apprenticeship … The thirty-five instalments of her column ‘Around the Table,’ signed ‘Cynthia,’ are enthralling, … and A Name for Herself is worth the cover price for these pieces alone." -- Faye Hammill * Times Literary Supplement *"Lefebvre, one of the top Montgomery scholars in the world, has painstakingly collected these scattered publications from throughout Montgomery’s career to provide a valuable resource … By including Montgomery’s contributions to these publications, many of which were fleeting, Lefebvre enriches our knowledge of the periodical landscape in North America and demonstrates how these magazines and newspapers were important vehicles for women authors in Canada and the United States." -- Jennifer Scott, Victorian Periodicals Review"In this rich volume, Lefebvre’s selections reveal Montgomery as a professional writer who deserves a strong and enduring presence in Canadian letters." -- Rita Bode, Trent University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface A Note on the Text Part 1: Early and Student Publications The Wreck of the "Marco Polo" A Western Eden From Prince Albert to P.E. Island The Usual Way Extracts from the Diary of a Second Class Mouse High School Life in Saskatchewan Valedictory "Portia" – A Study "Which Has the Most Patience under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life – Man or Woman?" Crooked Answers The Bad Boy of Blanktown School James Henry, Truant A Girl's Place at Dalhousie College To the Editor Part 2: Maud Montgomery, Newspaper Woman A Half-Hour in an Old Cemetery Around the Table Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers Christmas Shopping in Halifax Stores Many Admiring Glances Bestowed upon Graduates Netted Doily Innocent Irreverence Part 3: The Upward Climb to Heights Sublime Two Sides of a Life Story The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£28.80
University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. The first volume, A Life in Print, focuses specifically on Montgomery’s role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). The selections give a strong impression of Montgomery as a writer and cultural critic as she discusses a range of topics with wit, wisdom, and humour, including the natural landscape of Prince Edward Island, her wide readership, anxieties about modernity, and the continued relevance of old ideals. These essays and interviews, joined by a number of additional pieces that discuss her work’s literary and cultural value in relation to an emerging canon of Canadian literature, make up nearly one hundred selections in all. Each volume in TheTrade Review"Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers, especially women before Laurence, Munro, and Atwood. For Montgomery completists, the Reader is irresistible. For those engaged in Montgomery studies or Canadian literature more generally, it is invaluable." -- Anne Furlong * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 *“While Lefebvre’s The L.M. Montgomery Reader is a vital resource of primary sources from and secondary assessments of one of Canada’s most popular twentieth-century authors, it is his insightful and knowledgeable analysis that shapes and gives meaning to the collection. The depth of his knowledge results in a work that is as comprehensible as it is comprehensive.” -- Andre Narbonne * American Review of Canadian Studies *"With this volume, Lefebvre broadens our understanding of Montgomery's reception and reputation both within Canada and internationally, unearthing previously obscure content and commentary and making it accessible to a far wider audience. This reader will thus prove a valuable resource to both existing and future scholars of Montgomery's work and life, as well as those fans keen for a little more insight into the ever-elusive figure of L.M. Montgomery." -- Sarah Galletly * British Journal of Canadian Studies *"Lefebvre has uncovered a cache of new, important material in an already impressive and crowded field of Montgomery scholarship … His sensitive editing of the material brings the public side of Montgomery into better focus as she fields endless questions about how she became a writer, how Anne came to be and whether or not she was a real girl and what the author thought of young women in her day. [This book will] deepen our knowledge and understanding of this beloved Canadian icon." -- Laurie Glenn Norris * Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB) *"This comprehensive volume (with its two companions) forms a treasure trove of previously unavailable material; it will be of interest to scholars of Canadian and world literature and possibly to true admirers of Anne of Green Gables and its author." -- Barbara L. Talcroft * Children's Literature LLC *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Life in Print BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE A Note on the Text 1. [Such a Delightful Little Person] (1908) 2. Author Tells How He Wrote His Story (1908) 3. Origin of Popular Book (1908) 4. The Author of Anne of Avonlea (1909) 5. Miss Montgomery, the Author of the “Anne” Books (1909) A. WYLIE MAHON 6. A Trio of Women Writers (1909) DONALD B. SINCLAIR 7. Canadian Writers on Canadian Literature – A Symposium (1910) 8. Says Woman’s Place Is Home (1910) 9. Want to Know How to Write Books? Well Here’s a Real Recipe (1910) PHOEBE DWIGHT 10. Miss Montgomery’s Visit to Boston (1910) 11. Four Questions Answered (1910) LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY 12. Miss L.M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables (1910) 13. How I Began to Write (1911) L.M. MONTGOMERY 14. [Seasons in the Woods] (1911) L.M. MONTGOMERY 15. With Our Next-Door Neighbors: Prince Edward Island (1911) THOMAS F. ANDERSON 16. [The Marriage of L.M. Montgomery] (1911) 17. A Canadian Novelist of Note Interviewed (1911) 18. Interviews with Authors (1911) ANNE E. NIAS 19. The Old Minister in The Story Girl (1912) A. WYLIE MAHON 20. L.M. Montgomery: Story Writer (1913) MARJORY MACMURCHY 21. L.M. Montgomery at Women’s Canadian Club (1913) 22. L.M. Montgomery of the Island (1914) MARJORY MACMURCHY 23. What Twelve Canadian Women Hope to See as the Outcome of the War (1915) 24. The Way to Make a Book (1915) L.M. MONTGOMERY 25. How I Began (1915) L.M. MONTGOMERY 26. [This Hideous War] (1915) 27. What Are the Greatest Books in the English Language? (1916) 28. My Favorite Bookshelf (1917) L.M. MONTGOMERY 29. The Author of Anne (1919) ETHEL CHAPMAN 30. The Gay Days of Old (1919) L.M. MONTGOMERY 31. Introduction to Further Chronicles of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery (1920) NATHAN HASKELL DOLE 32. One Little Girl Who Wrote to L.M. Montgomery and Received a Reply (1920) 33. A Sextette of Canadian Women Writers (1920) OWEN MCGILLICUDDY 34. Blank Verse? “Very Blank,” Said Father (1921) L.M. MONTGOMERY 35. “I Dwell among My Own People” (1921) L.M. MONTGOMERY 36. Bits from My Mailbag (1922) L.M. MONTGOMERY 37. From Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, Opinions and a Statement of Their Own Working Methods by More Than One Hundred Authors (1923) 38. Novel Writing Notes (1923) L.M. MONTGOMERY 39. Proud That Canadian Literature Is Clean (1924) 40. Canadian Public Cold to Its Own Literature (1924) 41. Thinks Modern Flapper Will Be Strict Mother (1924) 42. Symposium on Canadian Fiction in Which Canadian Authors Express Their Preferences (1924) 43. Something about L.M. Montgomery (1925) 44. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: A Reader’s Journal (1925) ALTAIR 45. Famous Author and Simple Mother (1925) NORMA PHILLIPS MUIR 46. The Day before Yesterday (1927) L.M. MONTGOMERY MACDONALD 47. Who’s Who in Canadian Literature: L.M. Montgomery (1927) V.B. RHODENIZER 48. About Canadian Writers: L.M. Montgomery, the Charming Author of “Anne” (1927) KATHERINE HALE 49. On Being of the Tribe of Joseph (1927) AUSTIN BOTHWELL 50. Minister’s Wife and Authoress (1928) C.L. COWAN 51. An Autobiographical Sketch (1929) L.M. MONTGOMERY 52. Modern Girl Defined by Noted Writer (1929) 53. L.M. Montgomery’s Ideas (1930) 54. The ’Teen-Age Girl (1931) L.M. MONTGOMERY 55. Anne of Green Gables at Home (1931) A.V. BROWN 56. An Open Letter from a Minister’s Wife (1931) L.M. MONTGOMERY 57. Life Has Been Interesting (1933) MRS. L.M. MACDONALD (L.M. MONTGOMERY) 58. The Importance of Beauty in Everything (1933) L.M. MONTGOMERY 5.9 From Courageous Women (1934) L.M. MONTGOMERY 60. Author to Get No Profit as Green Gables Filmed (1934) 61. Film Preview of Noted Novel Honors Canadian Woman Writer (1934) 62. Is This My Anne (1935) L.M. MONTGOMERY 63. Foreword to Up Came the Moon, by Jessie Findlay Brown (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 64. Come Back with Me to Prince Edward Island (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 65. Memories of Childhood Days (1936) L.M. MONTGOMERY 66. The Mother of the Anne Series – Lucy M. Montgomery (1937) EVA-LIS WUORIO, TRANSLATED BY VAPPU KANNAS 67. The Book and the Film (1937) 68. For and about Girls (1937) L.M. MONTGOMERY 69. Prince Edward Island (1939) L.M. MONTGOMERY, OBE 70. Beloved Writer Addresses Several Aurora Gatherings (1940) 71. Noted Author Dies Suddenly at Home Here (1942) 72. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1942) 73. L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1942) 74. Body of Island’s Beloved Authoress Home for Burial (1942) 75. Island Writer Laid to Rest at Cavendish (1942) 76. The Creator of “Anne” (1942) 77. [L.M. Montgomery’s Last Poem] (1942) 78. L.M. Montgomery / Mrs. (Rev.) Ewen Macdonald (1942) 79. L.M. Montgomery as a Letter-Writer (1942) E. WEBER 80. L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” (1944) E. WEBER Epilogue: Anne of Green Gables – The Story of the Photoplay (1920) ARABELLA BOONE Sources Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. The second volume, A Critical Heritage, narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s critical reputation in the years since her death. It traces milestones and turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a scholarly field. The introduction also considers Montgomery’s publishing history in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom at a time when her work remained in print not because it was considered part of a university canon of literature, but simply due to the continued interest of readers. Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading MoTrade Review‘Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers.’ -- Anne Furlong * University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015 *“Both scholars and devoted readers of this complex Canadian author will find it fascinating.” -- Barbara L. Talcroft * Children's Literature LLC *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Critical Heritage BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE A Note on the Text 1. Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942 (1966) ELIZABETH WATERSTON 2. The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973) HELEN PORTER 3. Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983) T.D. MACLULICH 4. Little Orphan Mary: Anne’s Hoydenish Double (1989) >ROSAMOND BAILEY 5. Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery’s “Room of Her Own” (1992) MARY RUBIO 6. Women’s Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Fiction, 1918–1939 (1993) DIANE TYE 7. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994) OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS 8. Decoding L.M. Montgomery’s Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women’s Private Literature (1994) HELEN M. BUSS 9. “Fitted to Earn Her Own Living”: Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995) CAROLE GERSON 10. “Pruned Down and Branched Out”: Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995) LAURA M. ROBINSON 11. Finding L.M. Montgomery’s Short Stories (1995) REA WILMSHURST 12. L.M. Montgomery’s Manuscript Revisions (1995) ELIZABETH EPPERLY 13. “My Secret Garden”: Dis/Pleasure in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999) IRENE GAMMEL 14. Writing with a “Definite Purpose”: L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000) CECILY DEVEREUX 15. Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002) MONIQUE DULL 16. The Maud Squad (2002) CYNTHIA BROUSE 17. “The Golden Road of Youth”: L.M. Montgomery and British Children’s Books (2004) JENNIFER H. LITSTER 18. Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008) ANDREA MCKENZIE 19. Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008) EMILY AOIFE SOMERS 20. Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, “As Long as the Leaves Hold Together” (2012) VANESSA BROWN AND BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE Sources Bibliography Index
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Hidden Paradigms
Book SynopsisBuilding on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known epic stories while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Summarizing an Epic Legend, The Legend of Ponnivala Nadu 2. Character and Plot Structures, The Mahabharata 3. Human Life as a Balancing Act, The Epic of Gilgamesh 4. Seven Great Phases of History, The Bible’s Old and New Testament Stories 5. Landscapes and Identity Formation, The Vatsendaela Saga 6. Human versus Extra-Human Powers, The Nanabush Legend Cycle 7. Hidden Paradigms, Additional Themes and Some Overview Theories 8. The Story Told by the Stars, Babylonian Star-lore and the Hindu Nakshatras 9. An Epic Story Visualized as a Lotus Plant, The Lotus Plant in Barabudur, Central Java Conclusion Annotated Bibliography Listing Sources for Specific Epics Discussed General Bibliography
£52.70
University of Toronto Press In the House of the Hanged
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by Sasha Sokolov one of the most important living Russian novelists presents his ideas on art, literature, writing, and culture.Trade Review"Sasha Sokolov’s writing, celebrated in the Soviet Union as among the best of tamizdat, continues to attract serious readers in post-Soviet Russia … For the serious reader, and student, of Sokolov’s writing, there is much to be gleaned in this collection." -- Cynthia Simmons * Slavic & East European Journal *"This is a welcome addition to English-language resources on this important and inventive Slavic writer." -- B.M. Sutcliffe, Miami University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. On Secret Tablets 2. In the House of the Hanged 3. Having Discovered It – Opened It Wide – Given It Wings 4. Palisandre – C'est Moi? 5. The Key Word of Belles-Lettres 6. A Portrait of an Artist in America: Waiting for the Nobel 7. The Anxious Pupa 8. The Shared Notebook or a Group Portrait of SMOG 9. A Mark of Illumination 10. An Abstract 11. About the Other Encounter 12. Discourse 13. Gazebo 14. Philornist Notes Index of Names and Places
£22.49
University of Toronto Press Beyond the Family Romance
Book SynopsisGiovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascoli’s literature and Freud’s theories, with a particular focus on each author’s interrogation of origins. Through close readings and historical contextualization, themes of regression, memory, and other manifestations of ‘origins’ are analyzed, moving Pascoli’s poetry beyond the biographical strictures that have hitherto confined it.Truglio’s post-structuralist readings question the dichotomy between ‘safety within the home’ and the ‘threatening outside world,’ revealing the ambivalences with which images of the home are fraught in Pascoli’s poetry. In addition to the sustained comparison w
£26.99
University of Nebraska Press Perla
Book SynopsisTells the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her son, who, not long after losing her, learns that he is about to become a father. These two events become the impetus for reconstructing Perla's past and for understanding gestation.Trade Review“[Frédéric Brun’s] first novel strikes its reader by its questioning, its humility, and its necessity.”—Alexandre Fillon, Livres-Hebdo “Startling in its resplendent gentleness.”—Valérie Marin La Meslée, Le Point “Simple and clear in its language yet still capable of spanning a large and complicated subject. . . . A beautiful book and a glowing bright epitaph. But also—in all its beauty—a defiant act against the great darkness. In all its shapes.”—Jeppe Krogsgaard Christensen, Berlinske “Luminous pages, the beauty of well-written phrases, the delicate and pure style of an author one absolutely must discover.”—Mohammed Aïssaoui, Le Figaro Littéraire
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University of Nebraska Press Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism
Book SynopsisWhile news reports about Pakistan tend to cover Taliban attacks and bombings, and academics focus on security issues, the environment often takes a backseat in media reportage and scholarship. In particular, Pakistani women’s attachment to their environment and their environmental concerns are almost always ignored. Shazia Rahman traces the ways in which Pakistani women explore alternative, environmental modes of belonging, examines the vitality of place-based identities within Pakistani culture, and thereby contributes to evolving understandings of Pakistani women—in relation to both their environment and to various discourses of nation and patriarchy. Through an astute analysis of such works as Sabiha Sumar’s Khamosh Pani (2003), Mehreen Jabbar’s Ramchand Pakistani (2008), Sorayya Khan’s Noor (2006), Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing (2003), and Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (2009),Rahman illumTrade Review"Boldly focusing on eco-cosmopolitanism, vernacular and official landscapes, animalization, and bioregionalism, Rahman highlights the tensions between ecocriticism and feminism that have produced a vulnerable position for ecofeminism. The author's new perspective on postcolonial Pakistani studies is welcome."—M. Roy, Choice"As a welcome infusion of a new and urgent critical voice into Pakistani literary criticism, Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism makes its most significant contribution to ecocriticism through its focus on the environments of Pakistan."—Cara Cilano, Bloomsbury Pakistan"Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism fills an important gap in scholarship in not only Pakistani Literatures specifically, but South Asian Studies in general. It also significantly extends the scope of both feminist and ecocritical scholarship, offering an alternative vision of empowerment for women and the subdominant sections of society that eschews two competing, hegemonic, and limiting, frameworks based on religious nationalism and US imperialism. . . . This pioneering approach from an ecofeminist perspective is sure to pave the way for more such explorations."—Chitra Sankaran, ISLE"[Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism] offers much to think about and discuss, including a greater engagement with social and ecological issues so important to Pakistan's development and climate change."—Muneeza Shamsie, Dawn“Shazia Rahman brings a fine literary critical sensibility to a postcolonial, ecofeminist reading of contemporary Pakistani novels and films. Her ethically charged book offers a fresh . . . engagement with cultural production from Pakistan, an enormously important part of South Asia that is nevertheless often neglected in postcolonial studies.”—Ananya Jahanara Kabir, author of Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia“This is an urgent and consequential book on the deep entanglements between gender politics and environmental justice. Shazia Rahman brings into conversation for the first time an impressive array of ecological thought leaders and Pakistani writers and film makers. Impressive, vital work.”—Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor“By foregrounding attachments to Pakistan as a place—comprising land, sea, plants, and animals—Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism probes the important but overlooked relationship between women and the environment through a critical analysis of patriarchal structures of land ownership and social control that underpin the political and moral economy of Pakistan. Reading novels and feature films against the grain from an ecological perspective reveals the myriad ways of environmental belonging experienced by women at key moments in Pakistan’s history. Innovative in its use of methodologies in environmental humanities and postcolonial analysis, Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism is a welcome intervention to the incipient debate on women and ecological degradation in Pakistan and will enrich understandings of self, place, and belonging beyond the narrow confines of the postcolonial state’s official nationalism.”—Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History and director of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University “This book addresses the silence in the environmental humanities and in the academy regarding Pakistani women’s literary and cinematic fictions. Rahman conducts a nuanced analysis of Pakistani women’s lives, particularly in terms of how they engage with land, animals, ecology, and sense of place. She delves into the ways that Pakistani literature and cinema are revealing alternative, environmental ways of belonging that women create to counter dominant discourses of religious nationalism and global Islam. This book will be required reading not only among ecocritics, but among feminist, postcolonial, ethnic, Pakistani, and American studies scholars as well.”—Joni Adamson, professor of English and director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University“Shazia Rahman constructively redirects much current scholarship on Pakistani literature and film. Her focus on women’s narratives, understood broadly, and the environment is not only timely in terms of scholarly trends but also necessary, given the increasingly stark risks Pakistanis and others around the world face due to environmental neglect and degradation.”—Cara Cilano, professor of English at Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Place That Is Pakistan 1. Punjab: Eco-cosmopolitan Feminism 2. Thar: Bioregionalism 3. Bengal: Vernacular Landscape 4. Karachi: Pakistani Eco-cosmopolitanism 5. Displacement: Animalization Conclusion: Justice for All Notes References Index
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism
Book SynopsisWhile news reports about Pakistan tend to cover Taliban attacks and bombings, and academics focus on security issues, the environment often takes a backseat in media reportage and scholarship. In particular, Pakistani women’s attachment to their environment and their environmental concerns are almost always ignored. Shazia Rahman traces the ways in which Pakistani women explore alternative, environmental modes of belonging, examines the vitality of place-based identities within Pakistani culture, and thereby contributes to evolving understandings of Pakistani women—in relation to both their environment and to various discourses of nation and patriarchy. Through an astute analysis of such works as Sabiha Sumar’s Khamosh Pani (2003), Mehreen Jabbar’s Ramchand Pakistani (2008), Sorayya Khan’s Noor (2006), Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing (2003), and Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (2009),Rahman illumTrade Review"Boldly focusing on eco-cosmopolitanism, vernacular and official landscapes, animalization, and bioregionalism, Rahman highlights the tensions between ecocriticism and feminism that have produced a vulnerable position for ecofeminism. The author's new perspective on postcolonial Pakistani studies is welcome."—M. Roy, Choice"As a welcome infusion of a new and urgent critical voice into Pakistani literary criticism, Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism makes its most significant contribution to ecocriticism through its focus on the environments of Pakistan."—Cara Cilano, Bloomsbury Pakistan"Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism fills an important gap in scholarship in not only Pakistani Literatures specifically, but South Asian Studies in general. It also significantly extends the scope of both feminist and ecocritical scholarship, offering an alternative vision of empowerment for women and the subdominant sections of society that eschews two competing, hegemonic, and limiting, frameworks based on religious nationalism and US imperialism. . . . This pioneering approach from an ecofeminist perspective is sure to pave the way for more such explorations."—Chitra Sankaran, ISLE"[Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism] offers much to think about and discuss, including a greater engagement with social and ecological issues so important to Pakistan's development and climate change."—Muneeza Shamsie, Dawn“Shazia Rahman brings a fine literary critical sensibility to a postcolonial, ecofeminist reading of contemporary Pakistani novels and films. Her ethically charged book offers a fresh . . . engagement with cultural production from Pakistan, an enormously important part of South Asia that is nevertheless often neglected in postcolonial studies.”—Ananya Jahanara Kabir, author of Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia“This is an urgent and consequential book on the deep entanglements between gender politics and environmental justice. Shazia Rahman brings into conversation for the first time an impressive array of ecological thought leaders and Pakistani writers and film makers. Impressive, vital work.”—Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor“By foregrounding attachments to Pakistan as a place—comprising land, sea, plants, and animals—Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism probes the important but overlooked relationship between women and the environment through a critical analysis of patriarchal structures of land ownership and social control that underpin the political and moral economy of Pakistan. Reading novels and feature films against the grain from an ecological perspective reveals the myriad ways of environmental belonging experienced by women at key moments in Pakistan’s history. Innovative in its use of methodologies in environmental humanities and postcolonial analysis, Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism is a welcome intervention to the incipient debate on women and ecological degradation in Pakistan and will enrich understandings of self, place, and belonging beyond the narrow confines of the postcolonial state’s official nationalism.”—Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History and director of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University “This book addresses the silence in the environmental humanities and in the academy regarding Pakistani women’s literary and cinematic fictions. Rahman conducts a nuanced analysis of Pakistani women’s lives, particularly in terms of how they engage with land, animals, ecology, and sense of place. She delves into the ways that Pakistani literature and cinema are revealing alternative, environmental ways of belonging that women create to counter dominant discourses of religious nationalism and global Islam. This book will be required reading not only among ecocritics, but among feminist, postcolonial, ethnic, Pakistani, and American studies scholars as well.”—Joni Adamson, professor of English and director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University“Shazia Rahman constructively redirects much current scholarship on Pakistani literature and film. Her focus on women’s narratives, understood broadly, and the environment is not only timely in terms of scholarly trends but also necessary, given the increasingly stark risks Pakistanis and others around the world face due to environmental neglect and degradation.”—Cara Cilano, professor of English at Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Place That Is Pakistan 1. Punjab: Eco-cosmopolitan Feminism 2. Thar: Bioregionalism 3. Bengal: Vernacular Landscape 4. Karachi: Pakistani Eco-cosmopolitanism 5. Displacement: Animalization Conclusion: Justice for All Notes References Index
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University of Nebraska Press Salvific Manhood
Book Synopsis2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhoodforegrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels.Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences.InSalvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwin’s novels.Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach thatviewsredemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality. Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions,Salvific Manhoodtheorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces in between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love.PosTrade Review"The author finds an edifying connection between the sanctuary the black church offered and the potential space of intimacy the body offered. Gibson engages in close readings of five seismic novels in the Baldwin canon, masterfully walking readers through the journey of John's forgotten birthday in Go Tell It on the Mountain and the streets of David's Paris in Giovanni's Room. This excellent study may interest those studying religion as well those in the disciplines of literature and cultural studies."—A. P. Pennino, Choice“Ernest L. Gibson III has given us a beautifully crafted, truly imaginative, and fresh approach to James Baldwin’s work. . . . [It] will be of interest to students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, queer studies, and even religious studies. This is truly an incredibly rich and creative work of scholarship that is not to be missed!”—Dwight A. McBride, coeditor of the James Baldwin Review “Salvific Manhood pioneers a timely and provocative discussion of James Baldwin’s revolutionary ideas on black masculinity. Professor Gibson reenvisions Baldwin’s novels through fraternal bonds between lovers, kin, and friends, elaborating politics of salvation that simultaneously trouble and bridge spirituality and the erotic.”—Magdalena J. Zaborowska, author of Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in FranceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: In Search of the Fraternal 1. Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing, and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain 2. Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni’s Room 3. Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country 4. Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone 5. Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in If Beale Street Could Talk Conclusion: Somewhere in That Wreckage Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Speculative Wests
Book SynopsisLooking across the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, its literature, film, television, comic books, and other media, we can see multiple examples of what Shelley S. Rees calls a “changeling western,” what others have called “weird westerns,” and what Michael K. Johnson refers to as “speculative westerns”—that is, hybrid western forms created by merging the western with one or more speculative genres or subgenres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history.Speculative Wests investigates both speculative westerns and other speculative texts that feature western settings. Just as “western” refers both to a genre and a region, Johnson’s narrative involves a study of both genre and place, a study of the “speculative Wests” that have begun to emerge in contemporary texts such as the zombie-threatened California of Justina Ireland’s Deathless Divide (202Trade Review"This book will be of interest to readers from genre studies and beyond, notably those from ecocriticism, migration studies, Black studies, Indigenous studies, and even trauma studies."—Adrianna Michell, H-Environment"Johnson manages to give form, and conceptual cohesion to what most current criticism has only examined in studies with a narrower focus. For this, scholars and readers of westerns, science fiction, and speculative fiction, owe him a debt of gratitude."—Christopher Conway, Journal of Popular Culture"Johnson's book is eye-opening and could be useful for writers or readers who want to be challenged by perspectives on Western fiction that they might not have previously considered."—Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Roundup Magazine“Michael K. Johnson’s Speculative Wests has a unique feel in its cogent analysis of the western motif in recent speculative fiction written by BIPOC authors between 2016 and 2020. He reinvigorates frontier mythology with politically charged genre critiques regarding time travel, alternate history, and future wars linked to the American West and its history.”—Isiah Lavender III, author of Race in American Science Fiction and Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement“A timely and astute study that enlarges our understanding of U.S. ethnic futurisms through conceptualizing ‘speculative westerns’: new hybridized forms suturing the western and speculative genres. Through incisive close readings, Michael K. Johnson charts alternative spatial and temporal trajectories of the American West and U.S.-Mexico borderlands.”—Cathryn J. Merla-Watson, coeditor of Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture“The deft analysis of race as it intersects with and challenges genre traditions—the western and speculative fiction—makes this an extremely timely and important book.”—Sara L. Spurgeon, author of Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier“By looking at speculative wests that ‘disrupt’ authenticity and truth claims latent in the mythos of the western, this book provides another example of the contemporary relevance of the western as part of a hybrid genre that enables meditations on past, present, and future.”—Rebecca M. Lush, professor of literature and writing studies at California State University–San MarcosTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Race, Time Travel, and the Western 2. Trauma, Time Travel, and Legacies of Violence 3. Alternate Cartographies of the West(ern) in Indigenous Futurist Works 4. Speculative Borderlands I: Mestizaje, Temporality, and History 5. Speculative Borderlands II: Time Travel and Cartographies of Trauma 6. Speculative Slave Narrative Westerns Afterword Notes Index
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University of Nebraska Press The New Nancy
Book SynopsisIn The New Nancy Jeff Karnicky explores how today’s successful daily comic strips are flexible and relatable, and he uses Olivia Jaimes’s 2018 reboot of the long-running comic strip Nancy to illustrate the ways that contemporary comics have adapted to twenty-first-century technology and culture. Because comic creation has become part of the gig economy, flexible comics must be accessible to both online and print readers, and they must quickly grab readers’ attention. Flexible comic creators like Jaimes must focus both on the work of producing comics and on building an audience. Daily comics also must form a relatable connection with readers. Most contemporary comic creators cultivate an online persona through which they engage readers with specific identities, beliefs, and expectations. This work might form a mutually beneficial bond that results in a successful daily comic strip, but it risks becoming fraught, toxic, and sometimeTrade Review“Extremely impressive. Jeff Karnicky demonstrates why Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy is a work of central importance. The book offers insights on the materiality of contemporary comics, including their labor conditions, their publication practices, and the ways they reflect current events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. . . . An important advance in the scholarly conversation about comics.”—Aaron Kashtan, author of Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the FutureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction. “Going In on That Cornbread”: Becoming Flexible, Becoming #Relatable (April 9, 2018) 1. “Cash Preferred”: Olivia Jaimes’s Working Persona (November 8, 2019) 2. “New Year, New Me!”: Nancy’s Representations (June 4, 2018) 3. “But I Broke the Fourth Wall!”: Nancy’s Object Humor (January 20, 2019) 4. “You’ve Got Your Mask, Right?”: Nancy’s Pandemic (November 3, 2020) Notes Bibliography Index
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The British Superhero
Book SynopsisReveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there were a great many in Britain and that they were often used as a way to comment on the relationship between Britain and America.Trade ReviewMurray writes in an engaging, fluid manner and from a clearly evident base of knowledge and experience. . . . The British Superhero is an easy book to recommend for those interested in gaining a somewhat different perspective on superhero comic history.""- Bill Capossere, Fantasy Literature;""Chris Murray’s The British Superhero does a superb job of chronicling the surprisingly compelling history of comics in England and defining the industry’s origins in nineteenth-century pop culture (boys’ weeklies, penny dreadfuls) and in the sci-fi/fantasy ‘protosuperheroes’ of 1930s pulp-fiction protagonists: the Scarlet Bat, the Black Whip, the Flaming Avenger, and Karga the Clutcher.""- Jarret Keene, Popular Culture Review
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Larry Hama Conversations
Book SynopsisLarry Hama (b. 1949) is the writer and cartoonist who helped develop the 1980s G.I. Joe toyline and created a new generation of comic book fans from the tie-in comic book. Through many interviews with Hama, this volume reveals that G.I. Joe is far from his greatest feat as an artist.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Comics Trauma and the New Art of War
Book SynopsisFocusing on representations of conflict in American comics after the Vietnam War, Harriet Earle claims that the comics form is uniquely able to show traumatic experience by representing events as viscerally as possible.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Superman in Myth and Folklore
Book SynopsisMany studies have examined the ways in which folklore has provided inspiration for other forms of culture, especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of Steel's origins but on the culture he has helped create.
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University Press of Mississippi Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
Book SynopsisContributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and Donna R. WhiteFor centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal, autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophical approach, posthumanism, has questioned these assumptions, asserting that being human is not a fixed state but one always dynamic and evolving. Restrictive boundaries are no longer in play, and we do not define who we are by delineating what we are not (animal, machine, monster). There is no one aspect that makes a being human--self-awareness, emotion, artistic expression, or problem-solving--since human characteristics reside in other species along with shared DNA. Instead, posthumanism looks at the ways our bodies, intelligence, and behavior connect and interact with the environment, technology, an
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book SynopsisNigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: 'I have things to say and I'll say them.'Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the first collection of interviews with the writer. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene. As both scholars and passionate readers of the author's work are bound to find out, the opinions shared by Adichie in interviews over the years coalesce into a fascinating portrait that presents both abidin
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Colum McCann
Book SynopsisConversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation of McCann''s interests. The number and length of the later conversations attest to his star-power. Let the Great World Spin earned him the National Book Award and promises to become a major motion picture. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, has awed readers with its dynamic yoking of the 1845-46 visit of Frederick Douglass to Ireland, the 1919 first nonstop transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, and Senator George Mitchell''s 1998 efforts to achieve a peace accord in Northern Ireland. An extensive interview by scholar Cécile Maudet is included here, as is an interview by John Cusatis, who wrote Understanding Colum McCann, the first extensive critica
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with George Saunders
Book SynopsisBesides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in this volume, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author provides insight into his writing process and craft, alongside nuanced interpretations of his own work.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Critical Essays on William Faulkner
Book SynopsisPresents scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. The twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer - particularly in his treatment of race - the essays examine his work in relation to American and even international contexts.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Critical Essays on William Faulkner
Book SynopsisPresents scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. The twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer - particularly in his treatment of race - the essays examine his work in relation to American and even international contexts.
£26.06
University Press of Mississippi Comics and Catharsis
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University Press of Mississippi Comics and Catharsis
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Cornell University Press Who What Am I
Book SynopsisGod only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do... Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although he knew that this narrative utopiaturning the totality of his life into a bookwould remain unfulfilled, Tolstoy would spend the rest of his life attempting to achieve it. Who, What Am I? is an account of Tolstoy''s lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, anTrade ReviewOffers a rare exploration into the internal world of Tolstoy by examining his nonfictional, first-person writings, including diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, and essays.... Paperno makes an invaluable contribution to Tolstoy scholarship. -- R. A. Erb * CHOICE *Paperno reads all his [Tolstoy’s] writings in relation to the central project of his life: the transformation of his life into a book that would teach others how to live.... ‘Who, What Am I?’ is an important book that will become a standard source for students, general readers and scholars alike. * SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW *Paperno deftly shows how Tolstoi's attempt to write an autobiography failed, but his perceived failure at capturing the moral, philosophical, and technical issues accurately becomes a testament to his literary honesty (102). "Who, What Am I?" is highly important for any Tolstoi researcher, as it brings together the whole of his writings dealing with the exploration of the self. -- Radha Balasubramanian * Slavic Review *This is a relatively short book, yet it is rich in content, taking on some of the most important and challenging problems Tolstoy faced as a writer and thinker. [Irina Paperno] draws on a full range of Tolstoy's nonfiction writings from the 1850s until his death in 1910: diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, essays, and religious tracts. In addition, her book is informed by vast reading in other sources, primary and secondary. -- Randall A. Poole * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. "So That I Could Easily Read Myself": Tolstoy's Early DiariesTolstoy Starts a Diary—The Moral Vision of Self and the Temporal Order of Narrative—What Is Time? Cultural Precedents—“A History of Yesterday”— Time and Narrative—The Dream: The Hidden Recesses of Time—What Am I? The Young Tolstoy Defines Himself—What Am I? Cultural PrecedentsInterlude: Between Personal Documents and FictionFrom Diaries to Childhood: Tolstoy Becomes a Writer (1852)—“I Think I Will Never Write Again”: Tolstoy Attempts to Renounce Literature (1859)—“I . . . Don’t Even Think about the Accursed Lit-t-terature and Lit-t-terateurs”: Tolstoy Renounces Literature Again (1870); and Again (1874–75)Chapter 2. “To Tell One’s Faith Is Impossible. . . . How to Tell That Which I Live By. I’ll Tell You, All the Same. . . .” Tolstoy in His Correspondence“What Is My Life? What Am I?”: Tolstoy’s Philosophical Dialogue with Nikolai Strakhov—“I Wish that You, Instead of Reading Anna Kar [ enina ], Would Finish It. . . .”—“In the Form of Catechism,” “In the Form of a Dialogue”—To Tell One’s Life—Rousseau and His Profession/Confession—The Parting of Ways: Tolstoy Writes His Confession, and Strakhov Continues to Confess in His Letters to TolstoyChapter 3. Tolstoy’s Confession : What Am I?Tolstoy Publishes his Confession—The Conversion Narrative: Excursus on the Genre—Tolstoy’s Confession : Step by Step—Tolstoy’s Confession Related to Rousseau’s and Augustine’s—After Confession: “Presenting Christ’s Teaching as Something New after 1,800 Years of Christianity”—Coda: Tolstoy’s InfluenceChapter 4. “To Write My Life ”: Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or AutobiographyThe Author Biography—“My Life”: “On the Basis of My Own Memories”—“Reminiscences”: “More Useful Than All That Artistic Prattle with Which the Twelve Volumes of My Works Are Filled”—“Reminiscences”: “I Cannot Provide a Coherent Description of Events and States of Mind”—“The Green Stick”: “Où Suis-Je? Pourquoi Suis-Je? Que Suis-Je?”—Tolstoy and the Autobiographical TraditionChapter 5. “What Should We Do Then?”: Tolstoy on Self and Other“Why Have You, a Man from a Different World, Stopped near Us? Who Are You?”—Master and Slave: Tolstoy Rewrites Hegel—Tolstoy and the Washerwoman—The Order of Things: The Church, the State, the Arts and Sciences—“Master and Man”—Coda: Nonparticipation in EvilChapter 6. “I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality”: Tolstoy’s Late DiariesTolstoy Resumes his Diary—The Temporal Order of Narrative: The Last Day—“On Life and Death ”—The Diary as a Spiritual Exercise—“I, the Body, Is Such a Disgusting Chamber Pot”—“I Am Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself. . . .”—“I Have Lost the Memory of Everything, Almost Everything. . . . How Can One Not Rejoice at the Loss of Memory?”—Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening—Tolstoy’s Dreams—Dreams: The World beyond Time and Representation—The Book of life: “It Is Written on Time”—The Circle of Reading: “To Replace the Consciousness of Leo Tolstoy with the Consciousness of All Humankind”—“The Death of Socrates”—Tolstoy’s DeathAppendix: Russian QuotationsNotesIndex
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