Literary studies: from c 2000 Books

Book SynopsisDuring the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to ?pandemic fictions? or started to produce their own ?Corona Fictions? across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.

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Book SynopsisAmerican ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and can thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. Judith Rauscher analyses the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in this study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.

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Book SynopsisClaire O'Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.Trade ReviewO'Callaghan's analysis of both [feminism and queer theory] in Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics shows that a great deal of careful negotiation is, in fact, required to navigate their often contradictory perspectives ... She unpicks the nuances of each novel with sensitive political and literary insight. * Times Literary Supplement *O’Callaghan successfully maps out manifold feminist and queer theories at play in Waters’s works, and this book’s approach to Waters’s gender and sexual politics from both feminist and queer perspectives will be useful for further research on how lesbianism is expressed in contemporary society. * Contemporary Women’s Writing *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Queer and Feminist Contexts of Sarah Water's Gender and Sexual Politics 1. Female Subjects: Feminists, Queer Theories and the Contemporary 'Woman' Question in Tipping the Velvet 2. A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in Affinity 3. Beyond the 'Sex Wars': Sex, Pleasure and Pornography in Fingersmith 4. 'Back to Normal': Lost Histories/ Affective Archives - The Night Watch 5. The Little Stranger–A Study of the Heteropatriachal Male and the Dynamics of Masculine Domination 6. 'I'd Had Terrific Plans': The Return of the Gendered and Sexual Oppression in The Paying Guests Afterword: Telling it Straight? Water's Afterlives on Stage and Screen Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJ. M. Coetzee novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work. The volume covers a wealth of topics, including: The full span of Coetzee's work from his poetry to his essays and major fiction, including Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and the Jesus novels Biographical details and archival approaches Coetzee's sources and influences, including engagements with Modernism, South African, Australian, Russian and Latin American literatures Interdisciplinary perspectives, including on visual cultures, music, philosophy, computational systems and translation. The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee provides indispensaTrade ReviewThis book offers an extraordinary and exciting array of information, ideas, insights, as well as assessments and unexpected contexts, about Coetzee’s life and works. Its comprehensiveness is really quite remarkable. The perceptive, thoughtful essays quickly challenged me into thinking afresh and anew—I found myself immediately propelled back to Coetzee’s books on my shelves and starting to reread them. Every admirer of Coetzee will want to have this book by their side. * Robert J.C. Young, Professor of English, New York University, USA *Like many innovative writers, J. M. Coetzee has always been wary of what he once called the critic’s ‘games handbook.’ Thankfully, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee heeds this caution. Assembling an impressive array of established and emergent critics, this welcome, even game-changing collection opens Coetzee’s astonishing oeuvre for a new generation of readers in myriad productive ways * Peter D. McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsPart One: Life, Institutions, Reception 1. On the idea of a handbook to the works of J. M. Coetzee: ‘Preposterous [?]’ Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Valerie Graham 2. Life & times of J. M. Coetzee Jane Poyner 3. Autobiographies/autrebiographies/biographies Alexandra Effe 4. J. M. Coetzee and his publishers Andrea Thorpe Part Two: Early Coetzee 5. Coetzee’s poetry Jarad Zimbler 6. Dusklands Rita Barnard 7. In the Heart of the Country Ian Glenn 8. Waiting for the Barbarians Jennifer Wenzel 9. Life & Times of Michael K Eckard Smuts Part Three: Late- and post-apartheid Coetzee 10. Foe Patrick Flanery 11. Age of Iron Katherine Hallemeier 12. The Master of Petersburg Derek Attridge 13. Disgrace Chris Holmes 14. J. M. Coetzee’s apartheid-era criticism Xiaoran Hu Part Four: Late-style Coetzee 15. The Costello project Andrew van der Vlies 16. Diary of a Bad Year Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice 17. The Jesus novels Timothy Bewes 18. Later criticism and correspondence Nick Mulgrew Part Five: Style, Form, Ideas 19. Coetzee’s style Carrol Clarkson 20. Coetzee, religion and philosophy Alice Brittan 21. Coetzee, gender and sexuality Laura Wright 22. Coetzee and the nonhuman Daniel Williams 23. Coetzee, computers and binary thinking Rebecca Roach 24. Coetzee’s humour Huw Marsh 25. Education and the novels of J. M. Coetzee Aparna Mishra Tarc Part Six: Contexts, Intertexts, Influence 26. Coetzee and the history of the novel Andrew Dean 27. Coetzee’s South Africans Jan Steyn 28. Coetzee’s modernists Paul Sheehan 29. Coetzee’s Mitteleuropa and Austro-Hungary Russell Samolsky 30. Coetzee, Israel, Palestine Louise Bethlehem, Dalia Abu-Sbitan and Shir Dannon 31. Coetzee’s Russians Jeanne-Marie Jackson 32. Coetzee’s Latin America Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra 33. Coetzee’s Australians Michelle Cahill Part Seven: Intermediation, adaptation, translation 34. Coetzee and photography Hermann Wittenberg 35. Coetzee and the visual arts Sean O’Toole 36. J. M. Coetzee and the work of music Graham K. Riach 37. Adapting Coetzee for the stage and screen Ed Charlton 38. Coetzee and translation Jan Wilm Index

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Trade ReviewA book that focusses on the precarity of grief work in the lives of marginalised peoples. Read this to learn about the elegiac work of women of colour, trans* writers, and Two-Spirit writers. * Susan Rudy, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction—Elegy: Binaries and Hierarchies Chapter 1: Intellectual Feats and Ornate Absences: Receptions and Response to Elegies by Black American Women Poets Chapter 2: ‘White Ways are the Way of Death’: Elegies for Racial Injustice Chapter 3: Abstracted Grief, Precarious Grief: Rethinking Elegy via Trans* and Two-Spirit Necropoetics Coda: Where do we Go From Here Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is a book of full-length interviews with the poets Karen Mac Cormack, Caroline Bergvall, Jennifer Moxley and Andrea Brady carried out between 2008 and 2009 in the UK and USA by Scott Thurston. During the course of these conversations, the poets explore a huge range of topics likely to interest anyone concerned with the state of innovative poetry today. Each interview considers the complete oeuvre of each writer and includes detailed engagements with selected texts as well as unfolding themes such as the role of innovation, the politics of poetry and reflections on lyric and autobiography. Each interview is footnoted and there is an extensive bibliography.

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Book SynopsisTranscending 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, inter alia, 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. In so doing, it interrogates the ethics, aesthetics and politics of the contemporary novel in English. Trade Review"This book stands out as an unyielding and timely repositioning of paradigms in the domains of philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism and cultural theory through the lens of contemporary literature in English…the ten chapters of the book succeed in producing a close view of how themes such as postcolonialism, subalternity, eco-criticism, feminist criticism, etc. fall into the transmodern pattern." Sorin Cazacu, University of Craiova, British and American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transcending the PostmodernSusana Onega and Jean-Michel GanteauPART IThe Poetics of Transmodernity The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Generic Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality Susana Onega Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-Narrative: An Alternative Reading of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Sara Villamarín-Freire The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island Angelo Monaco PART II Ethical Perceptions Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGregor’s Ethics of Consideration Jean-Michel Ganteau Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm: Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Matthias Stephan Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant Laura Colombino PART III Migrancy and the Possibility of Re-enchantment A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist as a Narrative of the Limit Bárbara Arizti Diversity, Singularity, Re-Enchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Merve Sarıkaya-Şen PART IV Perspectives on Biopolitics Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey’s Novel Archipelago Julia Kuznetski A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

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Book SynopsisA study of Darwin's Legacy for relegion, ecology and the arts. It argues that poetry can have a profound impact on how we think and feel about the human condition in a Darwinian world. It includes over 50 complete poems and substantial extracts from several more, Holmes shows how poets have responded to the discovery of evolution.Table of ContentsA. R. Ammons: 'Questionable Procedures'; Philip Appleman: 'How Evolution Came to Indiana', 'Waldorf-Astoria Euphoria'; D. M. Black: 'Kew Gardens'; Mathilde Blind: The Ascent of Man [extracts]; Robert Browning: 'Caliban upon Setebos' [extracts]; William Canton: 'The Latter Law' [sonnet from a sequence]; Stephen Crane: 'A man said to the universe'; Richard Eberhart: 'Sea-Hawk'; Robert Frost: 'Design', 'The Oven Bird', 'The Most of It', 'Our Hold on the Planet'; Thom Gunn: 'Adultery', 'The Garden of the Gods'; Thomas Hardy: 'Hap', 'Your Last Drive', 'Rain on a Grave', 'At Castle Boterel', 'An August Midnight', 'The Darkling Thrush', 'Shelley's Skylark', 'The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House', 'To Outer Nature', 'On a Fine Morning'; Robinson Jeffers: 'Vulture', Cawdor [extract], 'Rock and Hawk'; George Meredith: 'The Woods of Westermain' [opening lyric], 'In the Woods' [8 lyrics out of a sequence of 9], 'The Lark Ascending' [extracts], Modern Love [3 sonnets from a sequence], 'Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn' [extracts]; Edna St Vincent Millay: 'The Fawn', 'I shall forget you presently, my dear', Fatal Interview [2 sonnets from a sequence]; Edwin Morgan: 'Eohippus', 'The Archaeopteryx's Song', 'Trilobites'; Lewis Morris: 'Ode of Creation' [extract]; Constance Naden: 'Natural Selection'; Agnes Mary Robinson: 'Darwinism'; Pattiann Rogers: 'Against the Ethereal', 'The Possible Suffering of a God During Creation', 'Geocentric'; Neil Rollinson: 'My Father Shaving Charles Darwin'; John Addington Symonds: 'An Old Gordian Knot' [sonnet from a sequence]; Alfred Tennyson: 'Flower in the Crannied Wall', 'By an Evolutionist', 'The Dawn', 'The Making of Man', 'Frater Ave atque Vale', 'Lucretius' [extracts].

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Fairy Tale in the Modern Age Andrew Teverson 1. Forms of the Marvelous Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman 2. Adaptation Mayako Murai 3. Gender and Sexuality Jeana Jorgensen 4. Humans and Non-humans: Nature, Anima, Matter Amy Greenhough 5. Monsters and the Monstrous Christa Jones and Claudia Schwabe 6. Spaces: The Magically Real Spaces of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Fairy Tale Sara Upstone 7. Socialization: Traditional Wonder Tales and Other Guides for Growing Up Jill Terry Rudy 8. Power: The Archaeology of a Genre Kimberly J. Lau Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present. Including an extended critical introduction that positions the individual chapters in relation to broader conceptual questions, chapters combine close reading and engagement with the latest theories and concepts to engage with the complex regionalities of the United Kingdom, with representation of writers from all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland. Including specific focus on the most challenging issues for community in the past five years, notably Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis, with a broader understanding of themes of local and national belonging, this book offers detailed discussions of writers including Ali Smith, Niall Griffiths, John McGregor, Max Porter, Amanda CTable of ContentsIntroduction Peter Ely and Sara Upstone, Introduction: ‘Rewriting Community in an Age of Crisis and Nostalgia’. Section One: National Community 1. Robert Eaglestone, ‘“The little links are broke”: Ethnocentrism, Englishness and Loneliness in Contemporary Political Science, Political Theory and Contemporary British Fiction’. 2. Alison Garden, ‘“Our uneasy mixed community”: Cross-community Romance, Magic Realism and Northern Ireland’. 3. Timothy Baker, ‘Incomers and Settlers: Nomadism and Entanglement in Contemporary Scottish Fiction’. Section Two: Speculative Community 4. Peter Ely, ‘Beyond the Multicultural: Queer Community in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet’. 5. Caroline Lusin, ‘Neoliberalism and (Sub)Urban Identities in 21st-Century London Novels’. 6. Devon Campbell-Hall, ‘Writing Othered Asian British Skins: Interrogating Racism in Fictional Asian British Communities’. Section Three: Precarious Community 7. Kristian Shaw, ‘Performing the Nation: A Disunited Kingdom in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England’. 8. Emily Horton, ‘“Why would you play a game like that?”: Community and the Pandemic in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun’. 9. Sara Upstone, ‘Even the Ghosts: Community in the Wake’.

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Trade ReviewWhile describing how writers have used items of clothing in neo-Victorian narratives, this book also does much more. It helps us to appreciate gloves, gowns, veils, and jewels in fiction as active agents; it illuminates beautifully their lives as individual characters with their own memorable stories and emotional baggage. * Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Delaware, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Re-Fashioning the Victorians Re-Fashioning the Past Reading and Writing Dress: Texts and Textiles (Neo-)Victorian Sartorial and Material Culture Neo-Victorian Fashions: Chapter Outlines 2. Gowns Neo-Victorianism and New Materialism Dynamic Dresses in The Master Sartorial Entanglements in Alias Grace 3. Gloves Fashioning Identity, Agency, and Desire in Waters’s Neo-Victorian Trilogy ‘The impress of her hand’: Victorian Gloves Neo-Victorian Gloves: Touch, Materiality, and Queer Desire Material Traces of the Past 4. Veils Victorian Veils Neo-Victorian Veils Veils and Canvases in The Ghost Writer: Revealing the Past Veils, Bindings, Skin: Concealing Bodies and Books in The Journal of Dora Damage 5. Jewellery Ornamenting the Victorian Woman Heirlooms and Afterlives: Jewellery in Great Expectations and Havisham ‘Talisman’ Turquoises and ‘Poisoned’ Diamonds in Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself.During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the health humanities has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical workthe worldly workof healthcare. Such a project aims at developing healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering. Literary Studies and Well-Being turns this inside out by examining the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare in a manner which allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline of literary studies in new ways. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded Trade ReviewThis book is a beautiful discussion of what it means to have lived experiences, how humans use these events to understand the narrative that is their life, and how literature can influence the definition of wellness in our modern society. I would encourage anyone interested in living well or helping others to do so to pick up this book and take the chance to expand their knowledge, deepen their experience, and start a conversation about well-being. * World Literature Today *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Thesis and Contexts Chapter 2: Introduction: On the Discipline of Literary Studies Chapter 3: Disciplined Knowledge and the Experience of Meaning Chapter 4: The Nature of Value and the Nature of Language Chapter 5: The Discipline of Death Chapter 6: Action and Ethics in Literary Studies Works Cited

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Book SynopsisProviding an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. 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. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.Trade ReviewThe volume provides an excellent resource for anyone interested in this topic, and will doubtless remain so as the field grows further in the coming years. * Modern Language Review *This is a book about how to approach comics that in itself approaches comics with finesse. The different complementary sections draw upon uses of critical theory, historical contextualisation, artists and audiences, and what the comics themselves say, directly as well as implicitly. The work is a masterclass in applied method and will be of use to all who study comics, be it professionally, for the fun of it, or both. * Laurence Grove, Professor of French and Text/Image Studies and Director of the Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Part 1: Approaching Comics Chapter 2: Formalist Approaches Chapter 3: Ideological and Material Approaches Part 2: Histories and Cultures Chapter 4: Early Criticism and Legitimation Chapter 5: Historical Approaches Part 3: Production and Reception Chapter 6: Creators, Imprints and Titles Chapter 7: Audiences and Fan Cultures Part 4: Themes and Genres Chapter 8: Thematic Approaches Chapter 9: Popular Genres Chapter 10: Outside the Mainstream Chapter 11: General Reference Guides and Textbooks Chapter 12: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction proposes an insight into the ways in which Virginia Woolf engaged with the questions of how class influences working women's occupation of private and public space and how material privilege or economic distress inhibits or encourages their likelihood of obtaining their intellectual, spiritual, and physical desires. This groundbreaking book uses class as the determining factor to assess how servants and working class women occupy private and public space and articulate or fail to realize their desires. Drawing upon published and unpublished holograph and typescript drafts of the shorter fiction in The Monks House Papers as well as the Berg Collection, this book examines Woolf's oscillating patterns of elision, idealization, and contempt for the voices and desires of female servants, lesbians, gypsies, and other disenfranchised women. The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction also assesses how the

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

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

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Book SynopsisApocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of last things in Don DeLillo's worksthings like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and the end of the world more generally. 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 Americana (1971) up through Zero K (2016) and The Silence (2020), and perhaps like no other American author,Trade ReviewMichael Naas's Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America 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 contrabanding, 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 *In Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America, 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 *Table of ContentsAbbreviations 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

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Book SynopsisA 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 KazTrade Review"[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 *“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 Novels by Aliens 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 *“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. With an ambitious scope and synthetic skill, this book connects classic literary texts by writers such as Stephen Crane and Frank Norris to contemporary work by novelists such as Teju Cole, Colson Whitehead, and Marilynne Robinson. Novels by Aliens succeeds at making our world feel weirder and more alien in ways that ultimately make it far more available to thought.” * Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago *“Dense yet expansive, this study illuminates whole worlds—and the very edges of the known world. Marshall has a preternatural gift for getting to the point. Read this whole book for a surefooted survey of the novel’s most exorbitant possibilities presented with peerless critical depth and balance. 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 *“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. Novels by Aliens 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 *“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" *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dispatches from the Extinguished World 1 The Old Weird 2 Cowboys and Aliens 3 Cosmic Realism 4 The Novel in Geological Time 5 Pseudoscience Fictions 6 After Extinction Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the author’s oeuvre from 1967 to the present. In twenty essays, contributors explore Ondaatje’s poetry, novels, and work in film, highlighting the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues apparent in his writings.Trade Review“Chock full of complex theoretical language, Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? will likely appeal to academic audiences (and determined CanLit enthusiasts). But general readers may find this insightful analysis a welcome supplement to their continued enjoyment of Ondaatje’s enduring works.” Literary Review of Canada

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