{"title":"Literary studies: from c 2000 Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-book-about-everything-eighteen-artists-writers-and-thinkers-on-james-joyces-ulysses-9781803289359","title":"The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo celebrate the centenary of the publication of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. \u003c\/b\u003e  Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cb\u003eJoseph O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e considers the music-saturated Sirens episode and \u003cb\u003eDavid McWilliams\u003c\/b\u003e writes about the bigotry and violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops. 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For Marshall. . . the Weird, in its many manifestations, stands at the center of contemporary literary culture — so long as we know where and how to see it.\" -- Jess Keiser * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e“To a novelistic landscape populated by zombies, trees, amnesiacs, robots, and geological traces of an unimaginable past, you'll find no surer guide than Kate Marshall. But \u003ci\u003eNovels by Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e is an introduction to far more than the semi-human wilds of recent fiction. As we learn in these beautifully argued pages, the novel has been weird for centuries—indeed, perhaps never more than when it has most aimed to be realist. In retheorizing the form itself, Marshall demonstrates the importance of fictional thinking to contemporary dilemmas that themselves prove to be less novel than we often assume.” * Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University Bloomington *\u003cbr\u003e“Marshall’s electrifying book takes us on a tour of early twenty-first-century novels that want to be narrated by Martians—but also landscapes, animals, monsters, artificial intelligences, and myriad other nonhuman entities. Though this desire for a radically external perspective often fails, novel forms of sentience, and the worlds they inhabit or imagine, come to structure thought experiments that speculate their way through problems as seemingly unrepresentable as human extinction. 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Ranging across the Wild Wests of capitalism before 1900 and after 2000, Marshall shows us novels aiming to cut loose from the human subject while remaining tethered to the genre histories of frontier naturalism and the old weird.” * Jed Esty, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e“Marshall remains the same scholar whose ‘The Old Weird’ made such a suggestive genealogy between the spooky aspects of Naturalism and the twenty-first century revival of gothic horror. \u003ci\u003eNovels by Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive account that gives readers a way to consider the irony of the Anthropocene being an era both of exaggerated human agency (to mar the planet) and also an era where the truly picayune nature of human agency and importance within a vaster world\/universe comes more clearly into view.” * John Plotz, English, Brandeis University *\u003cbr\u003e“A timely and insightful study. . . 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Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural. Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. 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Michael Naas untangles complex themes in short, witty chapters that highlight and celebrate DeLillo's inventive and playful writing, employing a novel approach to literary criticism. Making no use of secondary sources, the book is entirely a discussion of DeLillo''s work, accessible to any level of readership while maintaining a firm grasp of the theory necessary to make this unique argument.And yet, this book is also about all the things that double or shadow those last things in the very same works, like the wonder of language or the radiance of everyday events. From \u003ci\u003eAmericana\u003c\/i\u003e (1971) up through \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), and perhaps like no other American author,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Naas's \u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America\u003c\/i\u003e displays a thorough knowledge and an impressive thematic cartography of Don DeLillo's oeurve. This invaluable synthesis, which consider's DeLillo's work through the lens of \u003ci\u003econtrabanding\u003c\/i\u003e, illuminates the contradictions that make America what it is and confirms DeLillo's magisterial and uninterrupted examination of America as a country and as an idea. * Karim Daanoune, Associate Professor in American Literature, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, France *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Naas artfully delineates the dense web of thematic crosscurrents and connections that run through DeLillo’s entire oeuvre. Naas foregrounds the pleasure of reading DeLillo, allowing the humour of the works to be reflected in his own distinctive and accessible writing style. Naas reads DeLillo’s fiction as a body of theoretical enquiry in itself rather than applying existing theory and criticism, making this an innovative and necessary addition to scholarship. * Rebecca Harding, Independent Scholar, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations of Works by Don DeLillo Preface: Last Things  1. Countermovements America…New York, New York…“USA! USA! USA!”…The West, the Desert, and, Inevitably, California…Automobiles…Airplanes…Beyond America 2. Countercurrents Sports, Games, Sports Gaming…Academia…Philosophy…Technologies of Life and Death 3. Counterproductions Empire, Capital, the Corporation…Money…Advertising…Consumerism and Waste 4. Counterhistories American History 2.0…Terrorism…9-11, The Twin  Towers…Creation and Ruin…War and Peace 5. Countermeasures Self and Others…The Individual and the Crowd…Prophylactics and Purifications...The Shit, the Shower, the Shave, and the Haircut 6. Counterforces Life and Death…Mourning…The Afterlife…The Apocalypse…The Omega Point, the Death Drive 7. Counterworlds Space…Time…Space-Time…Religion… Miracles…The Everyday…Earth, Moon, Sun…Radiance Conclusion: Silent Mode (The Future of Contraband)  Acknowledgements","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739790520663,"sku":"9781501390685","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501390685.jpg?v=1720053151"},{"product_id":"ireland-migration-and-return-migration-the-returned-yank-in-the-cultural-imagination-1952-to-present-9781786941800","title":"Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination, taking as its point of departure the most exhaustively discussed Returned Yank narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Man \u003c\/i\u003e(dir. John Ford, 1952). Often dismissed as a figure that embodies the sentimentality and nostalgia of Irish America writ large, this study argues that the Returned Yank’s role in the Irish cultural imagination is much more varied and complex than this simplistic construction allows. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, s\/he has been widely discussed in broadcast and print media, and depicted in plays, novels, short stories and films. The imagined figure of the Returned Yank has been the driving impetus behind some of Ireland's most well-known touristic endeavours and festivals. In the form of U.S. Presidential visits, s\/he has repeatedly been the catalyst for questions surrounding Irish identity. Most significantly, s\/he has been mobilised as an arbiter in one of the most important debates in post-Independence Ireland: should Ireland remain a \"traditional\" society or should it seek to modernise? His\/her repeated appearances in Irish literature and culture after 1952 – in remarkably heterogeneous, often very sophisticated ways – refute claims of the “aesthetic caution” of Irish writers, dramatists and filmmakers responding to the tradition\/modernity debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An incisive and impressively contextualized study of the trope of \"the Returned Yank\" in Irish culture. This fascinating and outstanding book will make an invaluable and timely contribution to Irish and American Studies, as well as to diaspora studies more widely.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDr Tony Murray, Director of the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Extremely commendable in its scope and ambition, this book offers a valuable contribution to Irish cultural studies, in particular to research on the complex relationship between \"tradition\" and \"modernity\" in Irish culture. It fills a genuine gap in existing scholarship, and its sustained analysis across several decades and multiple forms of representation is especially impressive, as it allows the reader to track a complex and historically-informed narrative arc for the \"Returned Yank\" figure.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDr Stephanie Rains, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews 'Sinéad Moynihan’s \u003ci\u003eIreland,  Migration and Return Migration \u003c\/i\u003eis an impressively wide-ranging and insightful study of migration to and from the United States in Irish literature, film, and culture. This book pushes beyond simplistic models of deracination, exile or the émigré, to think about the recurring nature of migration and return migration, and raises questions about decolonization, neo-colonialism, and the  nature of “modern” Ireland both before and after the Celtic Tiger. Moynihan's work interrogates gendered mythologies about maternity and return, and similarly reworks  notions of return in relation to literary forebears and genres. She combines an impressive range of cultural sources with nuanced close readings in an important and timely contribution to Irish Studies.'\u003cbr\u003e 2019 ACIS Michael J. Durkan Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - “The Meanest Form of Animal”?: The Returned Yank in the Cultural Imagination\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. “Quiet Men”: Film and Filmmaking in Returned Yank Fictions of the Troubles\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. “Mother Macree \u003ci\u003ead nauseam\u003c\/i\u003e”: Maternity, Modernity and the Female Returned Yank \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Erin’s Acres: The Returned Yank, Property Disputes and the Rise and Fall of the Irish Economy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. “The Secret Dotted Line”: Return, Roots Journeys and Irish Literary Genealogies\u003cbr\u003eCoda - “We are where we are”: Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741489049943,"sku":"9781786941800","price":82.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786941800.jpg?v=1720057741"},{"product_id":"maps-and-territories-global-positioning-in-the-contemporary-french-novel-9781786942012","title":"Maps and Territories: Global Positioning in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of senses of place, identity, and belonging, as once familiar, local environments are increasingly de-localized and made porous to global trends and planetary preoccupations. \u003ci\u003eMaps and Territories\u003c\/i\u003e identifies such preoccupations as a fundamental underlying impetus for the contemporary French novel. Indeed, like France itself, the protagonists of its best fiction are constantly called upon to renegotiate their identity in order to maintain any sense of belonging within the troubled territories they call home. \u003ci\u003eMaps and Territories\u003c\/i\u003e reads today’s French novel for how it re-maps such territories, and for how it positions its protagonists vis-à-vis the pressures of globalization, uncovering previously unseen affinities amongst, and offering fresh readings of—and offering exciting new perspectives on—a diverse set of authors: namely, Michel Houellebecq, Chloé Delaume, Lydie Salvayre, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Virginie Despentes, Philippe Vasset, Jean Rolin, and Marie Darrieussecq. In the process, it sets the literary works into dialogue with a range of today’s most influential theorists of postmodernity and globalization, including Paul Virilio, Marc Augé, Peter Sloterdijk, Bruno Latour, Fredric Jameson, Edward Casey, David Harvey, and Ursula K. Heise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book importantly addresses questions that are at the very heart of contemporary debates about our relationship to space and places in a world where borders and distance are being redefined by the forces of globalization.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJean-Xavier Ridon, University of Nottingham\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Its wide-ranging corpus, ambitious scope, and nuanced readings make Armstrong’s study an essential starting point for anyone interested in the current state of contemporary French fiction, and a persuasive account of the concerted way in which that fiction is capturing the profound social, physical, and psychical effects of globalization.'\u003cbr\u003e Edward Welch, \u003cem\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[The book] provides insightful examples of how the French view their own sense of belonging within the dynamics of new territories and realities. [...] \u003ci\u003eMaps and Territories\u003c\/i\u003e is extremely useful for scholars of contemporary French novels. His clear prose and thoughtful commentary help explain the unease that a changing postwar France experiences today. Thanks to Armstrong's thoughtful analysis, we better understand pressures facing an ever-increasing urbanized society in France and the world.'\u003cbr\u003eKory Olson, \u003ci\u003eL'Esprit Créateur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Watching the World Go By\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Absolute Clarity: Michel Houellebecq’s \u003ci\u003eLa carte et le territoire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: \u003ci\u003eDérive psychose géographique\u003c\/i\u003e: Chloé Delaume’s \u003ci\u003eJ’habite dans la télévision\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Getting Up to Speed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Planetary Ambitions: Lydie Salvayre’s \u003ci\u003ePortrait de l’écrivain en animal domestique\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: \u003ci\u003eDécalage Permanent\u003c\/i\u003e: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s \u003ci\u003eFuir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Falling Through the Cracks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: A Tale of Two Frances: Virginie Despentes’s \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex \u003c\/i\u003eTrilogy\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Deep \u003ci\u003eDérive\u003c\/i\u003e: Philippe Vasset’s \u003ci\u003eLa conjuration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. 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Erin’s Acres: The Returned Yank, Property Disputes and the Rise and Fall of the Irish Economy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. “The Secret Dotted Line”: Return, Roots Journeys and Irish Literary Genealogies\u003cbr\u003eCoda - “We are where we are”: Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084429828439,"sku":"9781800854758","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800854758.jpg?v=1725552137"},{"product_id":"wendy-cope-9781802077872","title":"Wendy Cope","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWendy Cope is one of Britain’s most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted Hughes died, she was the BBC listeners’ choice to succeed him as Poet Laureate. She is also contrarian and sometimes controversial, and has been celebrated as one of the finest parodists of her, or any, generation. It is perhaps surprising, then, that her popular appeal has been met with critical near-silence. After five major collections, Cope has received only piecemeal critical attention, mostly confined to book reviews. This is the first in-depth study of her poetry. 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Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the gutter of complete critical disregard, it stages a copernican revolution in how we understand the world of letters: it's the stuff of high literature - Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, and Amitav Ghosh - that revolve around the star of countless unknown writers trying to forge a career by untraditional means, Adult Baby Diaper Lover erotica being just one fortuitous route. In opening the floodgates of popular literary expression as never before, the Age of Amazon shows a democratic promise, as well as what it means when literary culture becomes corporate culture in the broadbest but also deepest and most troubling sense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a cliché to say that a book so changes your view of a particular historical period or problem that you never see it the same old way again. But this is the kind of book that warrants such praise. McGurl has brought deep learning, sweeping ambition, and stylistic brio together here to produce a whole new story of postwar American fiction. There is nothing else like it on the shelves of contemporary literary criticism -- Jim English, author of The Economy of Prestige, in praise of McGurl's The Program Era\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Program Era\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant book of great ambition and originality. It will be rightly regarded as a landmark work and will shape the critical understanding of postwar American literature and culture for many years to come -- Sean McCann, author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government, in praise of McGurl's The Program Era\u003cbr\u003ean impressive and imaginative book -- Louis Menand, New Yorker, in praise of McGurl's The Program Era\u003cbr\u003eAs Mark McGurl suggests in this deep dive into the ubiquitous reach of \"the world's biggest bookstore,\" in the age of Amazon, \"every novel is a genre novel.\" * Lit Hub (Most Anticipated Books of 2021) *\u003cbr\u003eProvocative ... [McGurl] raises significant questions about the state of publishing. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eIn Everything and Less, accomplished literary critic Mark McGurl makes the case that the online superstore has also changed the way that we read. -- Jeva Lange * The Week *\u003cbr\u003eConsumers might find in McGurl's book a warning to stay as far away as possible and seek out better forms of discovery than Amazon's website, like visiting an indie bookstore, asking a friend, or reading a magazine-looking for anything but what rises to the top of the feed. -- Kyle Chayka * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eThe point here - and I think it's the most profound in McGurl's very entertaining book - is that Amazon is refashioning the novel as an object. -- Christopher Webb * Review 31 *\u003cbr\u003eFierce ... 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McGurl argues that Amazon's outsize role in serving readers' needs has had a profound impact, not just on well-documented matters of retailing and warehousing, but on what we read, and to an extent, the content of the books themselves. -- Mark Athitakis * On the Seawall *\u003cbr\u003e[Mark McGurl is] the most exhaustive scholar to track US fiction's myriad paths from Henry James to Chuck Tingle ... a man who has read a lot, and, in the end, very earnestly. -- Dan Sinykin * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing ... McGurl's object of study is not just the literary Age of Amazon but the place of the novel within it. -- Megan Marz * The Baffler *\u003cbr\u003e[McGurl] is attuned to America's signature queasiness about class, pleasure, and mass culture that constellates around reading and education. In Everything and Less, this takes the form of wild anthropological delight as he explores genres, and micro-genres, long dismissed by most mainstream scholarship and criticism. -- Parul Sehgal * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eProbing ... 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McGurl's theory of the novel is a romp, keyed to his compelling account of the genre system as it is being driven by Amazon and refined by Kindle Direct Publishing. -- Lisa Gitelman * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003eMcGurl is above all a literary sociologist, and a brilliant one at that: it seems unlikely that any recent or forthcoming book can rival Everything and Less as a survey, at once brashly comprehensive and nimbly speculative, of the contemporary literary world. -- Benjamin Kunkel * Bookforum *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084501623127,"sku":"9781839763854","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839763854.jpg?v=1725552367"},{"product_id":"osip-mandelstam-a-biography-9781839761584","title":"Osip Mandelstam: A Biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre-revolutionary Russia to his final fate as a victim of Stalinism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe myth has grown up that Mandelstam was a gloomy, miserable figure; Dutli deconstructs this, stressing Mandelstam's enjoyment of life. 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Nujeen Mustafa: Syrian Refugee Defying Labels on TEDx.- 7. Nadia Murad: Yazidi Survivor’s Written vs Audiovisual Testimony.- 8. Conclusion: Victim Girls Becoming Activist Women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372688482647,"sku":"9783030464226","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030464226.jpg?v=1730163814"},{"product_id":"novels-by-aliens-9780226827827","title":"Novels by Aliens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird.     Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and criticism are avidly experimenting with strange, even alien perspectives and protagonists. Kate Marshall's Novels by Aliens explores this development broadly while focusing on problems of genre fiction. She identifies three key generic hybrids that harness a longing for the nonhuman: the old weird, an alternative tradition within naturalism and modernism for the twenty-first century's cowboys and aliens; cosmic realism, the reach for words legible only from space in otherwise terrestrial narratives; and pseudoscience fiction, which imagines speculative futures beyond human life on earth. Offering sharp and surprising insights about a breathtaking range of authors, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] excellent new book. . . . For Marshall. . . the Weird, in its many manifestations, stands at the center of contemporary literary culture — so long as we know where and how to see it.\" -- Jess Keiser * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e“To a novelistic landscape populated by zombies, trees, amnesiacs, robots, and geological traces of an unimaginable past, you'll find no surer guide than Kate Marshall. But \u003ci\u003eNovels by Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e is an introduction to far more than the semi-human wilds of recent fiction. As we learn in these beautifully argued pages, the novel has been weird for centuries—indeed, perhaps never more than when it has most aimed to be realist. In retheorizing the form itself, Marshall demonstrates the importance of fictional thinking to contemporary dilemmas that themselves prove to be less novel than we often assume.” * Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University Bloomington *\u003cbr\u003e“Marshall’s electrifying book takes us on a tour of early twenty-first-century novels that want to be narrated by Martians—but also landscapes, animals, monsters, artificial intelligences, and myriad other nonhuman entities. Though this desire for a radically external perspective often fails, novel forms of sentience, and the worlds they inhabit or imagine, come to structure thought experiments that speculate their way through problems as seemingly unrepresentable as human extinction. 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Ranging across the Wild Wests of capitalism before 1900 and after 2000, Marshall shows us novels aiming to cut loose from the human subject while remaining tethered to the genre histories of frontier naturalism and the old weird.” * Jed Esty, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e“Marshall remains the same scholar whose ‘The Old Weird’ made such a suggestive genealogy between the spooky aspects of Naturalism and the twenty-first century revival of gothic horror. \u003ci\u003eNovels by Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive account that gives readers a way to consider the irony of the Anthropocene being an era both of exaggerated human agency (to mar the planet) and also an era where the truly picayune nature of human agency and importance within a vaster world\/universe comes more clearly into view.” * John Plotz, English, Brandeis University *\u003cbr\u003e“A timely and insightful study. . . This book has the potential to transform novel theory and literary criticism generally and to illustrate the important contribution both fiction and literary theory have to make to debates concerning humanity’s most urgent and pressing issues.” * Priscilla Wald, author of \"Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative\" *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Dispatches from the Extinguished World\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Old Weird\u003cbr\u003e 2 Cowboys and Aliens\u003cbr\u003e 3 Cosmic Realism\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Novel in Geological Time\u003cbr\u003e 5 Pseudoscience Fictions\u003cbr\u003e 6 After Extinction\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400135450967,"sku":"9780226827827","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226827827.jpg?v=1730469844"},{"product_id":"hear-us-out-9780231128667","title":"Hear Us Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews,Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work. -- David McConnell Lambda Book Report Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews -- Christopher Hennessy The Gay and Lesbian Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Indiana Bernard Cooper Christopher Bram Michael Cunningham Jim Grimsley Stephen McCauley Colm Toibin Paul Russell Peter Cameron Matthew Stadler Philip Hensher Dale Peck","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400212914519,"sku":"9780231128667","price":83.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231128667.jpg?v=1730470079"},{"product_id":"after-the-american-century-9780231174008","title":"After the American Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Egyptian cyberpunk to dubbed versions of Shrek in Iran, this book examines the emergence of new forms of culture in circulation and their geopolitical implications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the American Century offers a fascinating tour of the appropriation and deployment of American popular culture in a globalized, restless Middle East. From cinema and novels to hip-hop and comic books, this wonderfully written and richly observed book presents novel and exciting readings of familiar cultural forms in new political environments. -- Marc Lynch, author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East After the American Century is a book of exquisite audacity. Bold in its detailed precision and daring in its imaginative topography of topics, Brian T. Edwards's writing cuts through much noise and nuisance to lay bare what lies ahead. Its arguments do not just dismantle the imperial fantasy of an 'American century,' but point to the uncharted worlds far beyond its captured imagination. -- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University This book is a rich account of what happens when cultural objects, literary texts, and films circulate between the Middle East and the United States: how they are interpreted and reinvented, in the process engendering new publics and counterpublics. A nuanced analysis of cultural politics that extends our understanding of the forms and limits of Western domination of the Middle East. -- Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject In After the American Century, Edwards has devised subtle, ethnographically informed reading methodologies to explain how anomalous logics of transnational circulation have radically undermined plans for a 'new American century.' The book will fast become indispensable to an understanding of the genealogy of transnational American studies. -- Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College Edwards plunges into the cultural lives of Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran to illustrate the demise of one aspect of \"the American century\": the outsize influence that U.S. popular culture exercised in the Middle East. -- John Waterbury Foreign Affairs Edwards' background and considerable expertise shine... making the book a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the region. Middle East Journal Now that American power is receding across the globe it is a good time to ask how... methodologies might adapt to these new circumstances, and what we might name such an academic adaptation. Brian T. Edwards' important new book... provides us with a possible answer to this arguably urgent question. Post45 Ambitious, wide-ranging, and highly valuable. European Journal of American Culture Edwards challenges traditional narratives of US cultural imperialism... Highly recommended. CHOICE Edwards is to be commended for his ethnographic methods, his command of local languages, and the originality of his archive. International Journal of Middle East Studies A genuinely important contribution to our understanding of how American literary studies circulates internationally in the twenty-first century. American Literature A welcome work, valuable for its rich readings of unfamiliar yet important Middle Eastern artists and for its stimulating arguments about the transnational circulation of American culture in our global, digital age. Journal of American History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 1. After the American Century: Ends of Circulation 2. Jumping Publics: Egyptian Fictions of the Digital Age 3. \"Argo Fuck Yourself\": Iranian Cinema and the Curious Logics of Circulation 4. Coming Out in Casablanca: Shrek, Sex, and the Teen Pic in Contemporary Morocco Epilogue: Embracing Orientalism in the Homeland Acknowledgments Notes Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400297783639,"sku":"9780231174008","price":69.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231174008.jpg?v=1730470317"},{"product_id":"alexander-hamilton-on-finance-credit-and-debt-9780231174015","title":"Alexander Hamilton on Finance Credit and Debt","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Egyptian cyberpunk to dubbed versions of Shrek in Iran, this book examines the emergence of new forms of culture in circulation and their geopolitical implications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the American Century offers a fascinating tour of the appropriation and deployment of American popular culture in a globalized, restless Middle East. From cinema and novels to hip-hop and comic books, this wonderfully written and richly observed book presents novel and exciting readings of familiar cultural forms in new political environments. -- Marc Lynch, author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East After the American Century is a book of exquisite audacity. Bold in its detailed precision and daring in its imaginative topography of topics, Brian T. Edwards's writing cuts through much noise and nuisance to lay bare what lies ahead. Its arguments do not just dismantle the imperial fantasy of an 'American century,' but point to the uncharted worlds far beyond its captured imagination. -- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University This book is a rich account of what happens when cultural objects, literary texts, and films circulate between the Middle East and the United States: how they are interpreted and reinvented, in the process engendering new publics and counterpublics. A nuanced analysis of cultural politics that extends our understanding of the forms and limits of Western domination of the Middle East. -- Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject In After the American Century, Edwards has devised subtle, ethnographically informed reading methodologies to explain how anomalous logics of transnational circulation have radically undermined plans for a 'new American century.' The book will fast become indispensable to an understanding of the genealogy of transnational American studies. -- Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College Edwards plunges into the cultural lives of Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran to illustrate the demise of one aspect of \"the American century\": the outsize influence that U.S. popular culture exercised in the Middle East. -- John Waterbury Foreign Affairs Edwards' background and considerable expertise shine... making the book a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the region. Middle East Journal Now that American power is receding across the globe it is a good time to ask how... methodologies might adapt to these new circumstances, and what we might name such an academic adaptation. Brian T. Edwards' important new book... provides us with a possible answer to this arguably urgent question. Post45 Ambitious, wide-ranging, and highly valuable. European Journal of American Culture Edwards challenges traditional narratives of US cultural imperialism... Highly recommended. CHOICE Edwards is to be commended for his ethnographic methods, his command of local languages, and the originality of his archive. International Journal of Middle East Studies A genuinely important contribution to our understanding of how American literary studies circulates internationally in the twenty-first century. American Literature A welcome work, valuable for its rich readings of unfamiliar yet important Middle Eastern artists and for its stimulating arguments about the transnational circulation of American culture in our global, digital age. Journal of American History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 1. After the American Century: Ends of Circulation 2. 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Peter Morey offers readings of novels that show how their portrayal of difference both reflects and refutes the ideological preoccupations of the post-9\/11 West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his characteristic brilliance and integrity, Peter Morey, a noted public intellectual, illustrates the impact of surging Islamophobia on mainstream literature in this masterful study. A man whose career has centered on building bridges between divided cultures, his is a voice to heed in these confusing and troubled times. -- Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University\u003cbr\u003eIn a series of brilliantly astute and subtle readings, Peter Morey shows us how the contemporary novel has the capacity to expose the rifts and contradictions in Islamophobic discourses, thereby unsettling conventional frames for seeing Islam and Muslims. 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In this remarkably creative and entrancing work, she shows how an aesthetic engagement with this information exposes the nature of the knowledge it produces not to reject it, but to allow for a profound grappling with it.  With her magnificent prose and elegant analyses, Houser conveys the pleasure as well as the insights these artistic experiments produce, as we work to make sense of the “infowhelm” of the contemporary moment. This book is a must-read for anyone who has experienced that phenomenon, which is to say for us all. -- Priscilla Wald, author of \u003ci\u003eContagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be nice if the accumulated ill effects of the positivist scientific mindset on the natural environment could be cancelled out by a simple turn to more innocent modes of thought. 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[\u003ci\u003eInfowhelm\u003c\/i\u003e’s] synthesis of multiple artistic—literary and visual—works not only offers new ways of seeing environmental change, but also challenges traditional types of knowledge. * Orion Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious and dazzling scholarly work . . . \u003ci\u003eInfowhelm\u003c\/i\u003e pushes environmental humanities scholarship forward by leaps and bounds. * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *\u003cbr\u003eA virtuosic reappraisal of art and information, during our era of ecological catastrophe . . . \u003ci\u003eInfowhelm\u003c\/i\u003e is ambitious, timely, and dynamic. It should take its place alongside the most consequential recent studies in ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and contemporary literature. * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Environmental Art in the Infowhelm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. 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She shows how data and science narratives interweave with literature, visual arts, and media arts to create new modes of thinking about the world that depend as much on feeling as ratiocination. Along the way she discusses \"entangled epistemologies of the Infowhelm\": how the arts help us to visualize hyperobjects and massive shifts in environment that seem beyond our understanding when couched only in scientific data. This book is a polished and mature work of scholarship that adds wonderful new ideas to the discussion of how science and the arts mutually influence one another. -- Amy J. Elias, author of \u003ci\u003eSublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmidst the swirl of data and other forms of information about the environment that saturate the contemporary world, Heather Houser finds a refuge of sorts in the work of artists who, making art of “scientific information,” help us make sense of it. In this remarkably creative and entrancing work, she shows how an aesthetic engagement with this information exposes the nature of the knowledge it produces not to reject it, but to allow for a profound grappling with it.  With her magnificent prose and elegant analyses, Houser conveys the pleasure as well as the insights these artistic experiments produce, as we work to make sense of the “infowhelm” of the contemporary moment. This book is a must-read for anyone who has experienced that phenomenon, which is to say for us all. -- Priscilla Wald, author of \u003ci\u003eContagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be nice if the accumulated ill effects of the positivist scientific mindset on the natural environment could be cancelled out by a simple turn to more innocent modes of thought. Heather Houser models an approach to the intertwined problems of quantification, scientific representation, and ecological consciousness at once more realistic and more imaginative than that. Assembling a fascinating constellation of artworks that conjure the perplexities of the contemporary informational condition in exciting new ways, she makes a strong case for rethinking the relation between aesthetic experience and epistemology from the ground up. This book will be of interest to a vast range of scholars working on contemporary culture and the environmental humanities. -- Mark McGurl, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHouser uncovers how artists alchemize scientific information into aesthetic material in contemporary environmental art. Her writing method reveals that wonder is the essence of inquiry . . . [\u003ci\u003eInfowhelm\u003c\/i\u003e’s] synthesis of multiple artistic—literary and visual—works not only offers new ways of seeing environmental change, but also challenges traditional types of knowledge. * Orion Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious and dazzling scholarly work . . . \u003ci\u003eInfowhelm\u003c\/i\u003e pushes environmental humanities scholarship forward by leaps and bounds. * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *\u003cbr\u003eA virtuosic reappraisal of art and information, during our era of ecological catastrophe . . . \u003ci\u003eInfowhelm\u003c\/i\u003e is ambitious, timely, and dynamic. It should take its place alongside the most consequential recent studies in ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and contemporary literature. * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Environmental Art in the Infowhelm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Cultural Climate Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. Making Data Experiential\u003cbr\u003e2. Coming-of- Mind in Climate Narratives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. The New Natural History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e3. Classifictions\u003cbr\u003e4. Visualizing Loss for a “Fragmented Survival”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Aerial Environmentalisms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e5. Environmental Aftermaths from the Sky\u003cbr\u003e6. The Afterlives of Information in Speculative Fiction\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Can Thinking Make It So?\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400329404759,"sku":"9780231187336","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231187336.jpg?v=1730470405"},{"product_id":"make-it-the-same-9780231190022","title":"Make It the Same","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. \u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e explores how poetry is increasingly made from other texts through sampling, appropriation, and other forms of repetition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e rebuts the notion that formal word-games are a decadent first-world hobby. It is an empirically broad, thoughtfully constructed, well-written, timely book about an important subject: a technical \"mode of production\" prominent in contemporary poetry, with its effects on content and reception. -- Haun Saussy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e offers a global perspective on cultural iteration, triangulating English-language poetry with Russian and Chinese practices. Edmond immediately underscores the unintended irony with which those in the United States speak of \"the poetry world\" to mean precisely the opposite of the global: a micro, naval-gazing echo chamber. Given how parochial literary communities around a genre can be, this is an especially important contribution to literary studies. -- Craig Dworkin, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Medium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its revisionist echoes of Pound’s ‘make it new,’ \u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e is theoretically generative for thinking about modernist, contemporary, and world literature. Edmond powerfully demonstrates how the new media of repetition have generated a poetics of the same, a ‘copy poetry’ that remixes prior poetries in global trajectories outside Eurocentric, center\/periphery literary studies. A path-breaking book for post-1950s literature! -- Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003cbr\u003eA radical contribution to poetry studies. . . . \u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e should be celebrated not only for what the book does well—its subtle analyses of poems, its detailed knowledge of technology, its easy movement between English, Chinese, and Russian—but also for what it makes possible for scholars of poetry to do next. -- Walt Hunter * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThe flexibility of [Edmond’s] approach, his uncanny ability to extend the meanings of writing and reading, and his willingness to participate in the numerous digital frontier forms that poets in recent decades have sought to explore bear rich fruit. . . . Only a supremely creative and passionate scholarly approach could have yielded such a timely vision. -- Martin Dyar * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e is lucidly written and meticulously researched....[and] establishes the terms for a vital reappraisal of cultural production in our present age. As such, it will be of close interest to scholars of contemporary literature and cultural studies, comparative and world literature, media studies, and the cultural history of information. * Modernism\/Modernity *\u003cbr\u003eA breakthrough work of analysis, drawing from a range of critical fields to substantiate its case for the copy as a dominant global cultural form. It is a measure of Edmond’s contribution that \u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e will be required reading across the fields of modernist studies, contemporary historical poetics, and world literature, and a salient model for future transnational literary studies. * Review of English Studies *\u003cbr\u003eAn important, fascinating and timely discussion of poetry of the iterative turn. * Landfall *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating look at what poetry is becoming in the 21st century: it is subversive and regenerating like the tendrils of an octopus, always alive and seeking more ideas. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e shows the author’s globe-spanning grasp of emergent and established poetries, understanding of a combination of theoretical persuasions, and persuasive deployment of a range of interpretive methods. * Cha *\u003cbr\u003eEdmond’s \u003ci\u003eMake It the Same\u003c\/i\u003e offers a significant rewriting of world literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, raising a series of important questions about language, form, circulation, and comparativity that will no doubt prove enabling for future scholarship. -- Sarah Dowling * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *\u003cbr\u003eEdmond’s engaging and exciting book merits a wide readership by scholars\u003cbr\u003eand students across literary and cultural studies. Innovative, thoroughly researched,\u003cbr\u003eand well-argued, this book is a remarkable study. * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eStudents and scholars of literary conceptualism, experimental translation, cross-cultural collaboration, multilingualism, performance writing, visual poetry, artistic plagiarism, and digital poetics among other nonnormative modes of poiesis are bound to benefit from Edmond’s rich contextualizations and his method of what we might call “comparative iterature.” * Contemporary Literature *\u003cbr\u003eEdmond makes a compelling case for the contemporary avant-garde as a counterweight to more mainstream codex-based poetics that often privilege notions of original authorship. * Journal of Modern Periodical Studies *\u003cbr\u003eA new moment in poetry criticism, one in which studies of form refigure the archive, undoing longstanding divisions between experimentation and expression. * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Copy as Global Master Trope\u003cbr\u003e1. Postcolonial Media: Kamau Brathwaite’s Reel Revolution\u003cbr\u003e2. The Art of Samizdat: Dmitri Prigov, Moscow Conceptualism, and the Carbon-Copy Origins of New Media Poetics\u003cbr\u003e3. Making Waves in World Literature: Yang Lian and John Cayley’s Networked Collaboration\u003cbr\u003e4. Shibboleth: The Border Crossings of Caroline Bergvall, Performance Writing, and Iterative Poetics\u003cbr\u003e5. Copy Rights: Conceptual Writing, the Mongrel Coalition, and the Racial Politics of Digital Media\u003cbr\u003e6. Chinese Rooms: The Work of Poetry in an Age of Global Languages, Machine Translation, and Automatic Estrangement\u003cbr\u003eRecapitulations: Repetition and Revolution in World Poetry\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400335860055,"sku":"9780231190022","price":80.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231190022.jpg?v=1730470424"},{"product_id":"barefoot-9780268103149","title":"Barefoot","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHart's eight collection of poems, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarefoot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e draws on Christianity and the rich heritage of American Blues, creating a blend of religious poetry and love poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kevin Hart’s \u003ci\u003eBarefoot\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent book. Hart’s poetry has always been marked by a tenderness and sensuality and an openness to existence, and it remains so here, but that openness now extends to the negative aspects of existence, which make the book both exhilarating and harrowing. I think that \u003ci\u003eBarefoot\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Kevin Hart’s finest achievements.” —John Koethe, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the finest poets now writing in English, Kevin Hart beautifully and indelibly surveys the human position—not only our body-life in time, but also our apprehensions of what lies beyond us. The title of his marvelous new collection, \u003ci\u003eBarefoot,\u003c\/i\u003e perfectly expresses its openness, freedom, power, and delight.” —David Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sound: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the strengths of this book is Hart’s penetrating lucidity and his passionate ideas. He is a master craftsman with a visionary imagination and these are his finest poems.” —Robert Adamson, CAL Chair in Poetry, University of Technology Sydney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When I read Kevin Hart, I feel less alone, which is to say that I feel that someone understands my own desire to be alone. I feel a companion spirit, out there wandering barefoot in the darkness, looking for God. But this does not mean that the experience is entirely comforting; this is not some faux-poetry of greeting-card consolation.\" —\u003ci\u003eMarginalia, Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Kevin Hart’s eighth book of poetry, he uses poetry to talk to the absent or, rather, the ambiguously present: his late father, God, past lovers, and versions of himself. . . . Like many mystics before him, Hart often speaks of the divine in erotic terms.\" —\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kevin Hart’s Christianity is ever present even as he writes passionately of young love, titillation, and ‘thin girls who taste of Beaujolais at night.’ That he is comfortable with grief, mystery, solemnity, biblical and classical history, and humility instills his work with rare depth.” —\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400749261143,"sku":"9780268103149","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780268103149.jpg?v=1730471466"},{"product_id":"transcending-the-postmodern-the-singular-response-of-literature-to-the-transmodern-paradigm-routledge-studies-in-contemporary-literature-9780367860554","title":"Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranscending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on the theories of Transmodernity propounded by Rosa MarÃa RodrÃguez Magda, Enrique Dussel, Marc Luyckx Ghisi and Irena Ateljevic, \u003ci\u003einter alia\u003c\/i\u003e, it investigates the links between Transmodernity and such categories as Postmodernity, Postcolonialism and Transculturalism with a view to help define a new current in contemporary literary production. The chapters either follow the main theoretical drives of the transmodern paradigm or problematise them. In so doing, they branch out towards various issues that have come to inspire contemporary novelists, among which: the presence of the past, the ascendance of new technologies, multiculturalism, terrorism, and also vulnerability, interdependence, solidarity and ecology in a globalised context. 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