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Oxford University Press Women Beware Women and Other Plays
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; Women Beware Women and The Changeling (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare -- studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; A Game at Chess was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical exposé of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. The best-value collection available with the most officially up-to-date introduction; all the play texts are newly edited with richly informative annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most aTrade ReviewDutton presents an accessible and balanced assessment of the particular difficulties which Middleton poses for a modern audience (and critics) * Years Work in English Studies *Table of ContentsA Chaste Maid in Cheapside ; Women Beware Women ; The Changeling ; A Game at Chess
£10.79
Oxford University Press, USA Fiery Shapes Celestial Portents and Astrology in
Book SynopsisA study of the representation of astrology and celestial portents in the medieval and later literature of Ireland and Wales, Fiery Shapes examines the mysterious figure of the druid, who was allegedly able to read the future from rainclouds; Taliesin and Merlin; and the Welsh gentleman poet of the later Middle Ages and beyond.Trade Review...an important contribution to an under-studied, and often marginalised, area of literary-historical study. * Marginalia *Recommended for all university libraries and gives students and scholars of medieval literature and the history of science a good survey of the prevailing views and controversies of the fields without firmly resolving many of them except in a provisional way. It is also a potential gold mine for writers of medieval fantasy, since there is so much material with enormous lacunae to be filled in imaginatively. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *this is a well-produced, well-written work not only of professional scholarship but of love, for which both Mr Kenyon and his publishers can be congratulated. * Gerald Morgan, Welsh History Review *Mark Williams has given us a new, serious, and painstaking study * Andrew Breeze, Mediaevistik *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; PREFACE: LITERATURE, PORTENTS, AND ASTROLOGY ; 1. Celestial portents and apocalypticism in medieval Ireland ; 2. Druids, cloud-divination, and the portents of Antichrist ; 3. Taliesin and Geoffrey of Monmouth's astrological portents ; 4. Comets, portents, and astrology in late medieval Wales ; 5. Morgan Llwyd and the spiritualization of astrology ; AFTERWORD ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; GLOSSARY OF CELTIC AND ASTROLOGICAL TERMS ; GENERAL INDEX
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Oxford University Press The Concise Oxford Companion to English
Book SynopsisA new edition of the bestselling Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, this wide-ranging, compact guide has been fully revised and updated. In over 5,500 A-Z entries, it covers all aspects of English literature and constitutes an indispensable reference for English students, teachers, and anyone else who loves literature.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This is a scrupulously produced, smartly laid-out, academically serious and at the same time relishably browsable book. * Henry Hitchings, The Times Literary Supplement *a work of extraordinary value ... No library, no matter how small, can claim not to be able to afford at least one copy of this invaluable and almost incomparable, reference book. Another authoritative reference work of remarkable value will be welcome news to those libraries which found themselves unable to purchase the full edition. * Library Review *No guide could come more classic than The Oxford Companion to English Literature ... the literary reference source of first resort ... indispensable ... . Contemporary international writing is excellently covered ... excellent chronology * Malcolm Bradbury, The Times *Always good company * Ian Sansom, Guardian *Everybody with an interest in English literature will want to own it * David Sexton, Evening Standard *Remains irresistible * Sue Gaisford, Harpers & Queen *Continues to stand out as distinctive, authoritative, and a work of excellence * Reference Reviews *Increasing user-friendliness and a nice "up to date" feel * Reference Reviews *Sumptuous volume. * Ferdinand Mount, Standpoint *Detailed, clear and lively accounts. * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *A classic now made contemporary, this really is a boon companion. * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *Birch and the contributors have done an excellent job. * Sameer Rahim, Daily Telegraph *Excellence is in the details. * Times Literary Supplement, Henry Hitchings *It offers companionable assistance; it's your pal in literary need. * John Sutherland, Sunday Times *It is a fascinating, compact and readable reference work. * Day by Day *accessible, readable * Mail on Sunday *If you are at all interested in literature, then this is your essential reference book * Writers News *Table of ContentsPREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE TO THE READER; CONCISE COMPANION; APPENDICES
£15.74
Oxford University Press Inc Native American Literature
Book SynopsisIn North America, the Indigenous literature we know today reaches back thousands of years to when the continent''s original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales of emergence and creation, journey and quest, heroism and trickery. Sean Teuton tells the story of Indigenous literature, from the time when oral narrative inspired the first Indigenous writers in English, through later writers'' appropriation of genres to serve the creative and political needs of the times. In this lucid narrative he leads readers into the Indigenous worlds from which the literatures grows, where views about land and society and the role of humanity in the cosmos continue to enliven western understanding. In setting Indigenous literature in historical moments he elucidates its various purposes, from its ancient role in bringing rain or healing the body, to its later service in resisting European invasion and colonization, into its current place as a world literature that confronts dominance while it celebrates imagination and the resilience of Indigenous lives.Along the way readers encounter the diversity of Indigenous peoples who, owing to their differing lands, livelihoods, and customs, evolved literatures adapted to a nation''s specific needs. While, in the nineteenth century, public lecture and journalism fortified eastern Indigenous writers against removal west, nearly a century later autobiography enabled western Indigenous authors to tell their side of the winning of the west. Throughout he treats Indigenous literature with such complexity. He describes the single-handed invention of a written Indigenous language, the first Indigenous language newspaper, and the literary occupation of Alcatraz Island. Returning to contemporary poetry, drama, and novel by authors such as D''Arcy McNickle, Leslie Silko, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Craig Womack, Teuton demonstrates that, like Indigenous people, Indigenous literature survives because it adapts, honoring the past yet reaching for the future.ABOUT THE SERIES:The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Review"Teuton does a remarkable job of providing critical historical, cultural, and political background on a variety of tribal populations to prepare readers to enter into the study of Native American literatures ... this volume serves as a brief but informative survey that will provide valuable background for readers new to the field." -- J. J. Donahue, CHOICETable of ContentsList of illustrations ; 1. The man made of words ; 2. Oral literatures ; 3. To write in English ; 4. From artifact to intellectual ; 5. Indigenous literary studies ; 6. The indigenous novel ; 7. Indigenous futurity ; Further reading
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University of Chicago Press Workings of the Spirit The Poetics of
Book SynopsisTurning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.
£76.00
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The University of Chicago Press Fictions of Sappho 15461937 Women in Culture
Book SynopsisConsidering Sappho as a creature of translation and interpretation, a figment whose features have changed with social mores and aesthetics, Joan DeJean constructs a fascinating history of the sexual politics of literary reception. The association of Sappho with female homosexuality has made her a particularly compelling and yet problematic subject of literary speculation; and in the responses of different cultures to the challenge the poet presents, DeJean finds evidence of the standards imposed on female sexuality through the ages. She focuses largely though not exclusively on the French tradition, where the Sapphic presence is especially pervasive. Tracing re-creations of Sappho through translation and fiction from the mid-sixteenth century to the period just prior to World War II, DeJean shows how these renderings reflect the fantasies and anxieties of each writer as well as the mentalite of his or her day.
£94.05
The University of Chicago Press The Bedtrick
Book SynopsisBrings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the items in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people get into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands.Trade Review"Doniger seduces the reader with her casual erudition, tempering the dizzying accumulation of evidence with wry asides." - Edward Rothstein, New York Times "A triumph.... The numerous glittering parts of The Bedtrick are ultimately held together by the unanswerable, endlessly fascinating questions to which it keeps returning." - Katharine Eisaman Maus, Times Literary Supplement"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Threads of Life Autobiography the Will
Book SynopsisThis work offers an account of how changing theological, philosophical and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of how autobiography in its turn has helped to shape various understandings of the will.
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Beyond Solidarity
Book SynopsisThis text looks at the difference that differences make in a globalized world. Gunn uses the work of Henry James, John Dewey and others, as well as postcolonial writings, literature on the Holocaust and other literature to show how pragmatism can better account for the consequences of diversity.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Thinking Across the American Grain Paper Ideology
Book SynopsisA consideration of pragmatism in America that demonstrates how it provides the most critically resilient and constructive response to the intellectual challenges of postmodernism.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Readings at the Edge of Literature
Book SynopsisMyra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real.Trade Review"Readings at the Edge of Literature explores the contradictions that emerge whenever the ideal called America tries to identify itself in our literature. This collection is alert and alive, full of intellectual energy, stunning perceptions, and analytical brilliance." - Richard Poirier, author of Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press William Blake and the Impossible History of the
Book SynopsisTaking into account Blake's unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order of the old regime.
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The University of Chicago Press Novels Arguments Inventing Rhetorical Criticism
Book SynopsisIn this absorbing studythe first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novelZahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and rhetorics to devise a systematic means of dealing with the structure of prose works as communicative objects. Using the vocabulary and conceptual resources of Aristotle and Cicero, she pursues this exploration to discover the kinds of arguments that characterize novels, to find a way of distinguishing novels from other discursive wholes, and to discriminate different genres of the novel. McKeon's arguments are supplemented by readings of a variety of texts, including the novels and stories of Gunter Grass, John Fowles, Robert Coover, and Flannery O'Connor.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press What Happens in Literature A Guide to Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this text, the author lays out the basics that can help us become sharper, more proficient readers. Looking at poems, novels and plays, this critical guide raises questions and offers suggestions designed to make us enjoy more fully what we are reading.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Posthumous Love Eros and the Afterlife in
Book SynopsisFor Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry.Trade Review"Posthumous Love sets out a compelling case about a large and important point about English Renaissance love literature-one that perhaps should have been obvious for a long time but has never been brought into such sharp focus. The material may be familiar, but Targoff's treatment is genuinely fresh, and her well-researched book traces a clear narrative arc from Petrarch to the carpe diem poems of the seventeenth century, with nuanced assertions about the sonneteers of the 1590s, the poetry of Donne, and Shakespeare in between." (Gordon Braden, University of Virginia)"
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The University of Chicago Press Lovers Clowns Fairies Paper An Essay on Comedies
Book SynopsisThrough dreams and shadows and strangeness, through blinding charms and eye-opening counter-charms, through moments of mortification and laughterthus Stuart M. Tave traces the journey of the lovers, clowns, and fairies who populate comedies from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Waiting for Godot. Tave avoids the pitfalls of theory, taking instead a close look at particular works to give us a sense of the relations between certain dramas and novels that are called comedies. The result is a wonderfully readable book that renews our delight in the enchanting possibilities of literature. A Midsummer Night's Dream, in its perfection, is Tave's point of departure. Its characters fall neatly into the three groups of Tave's title and fulfill to perfection their functions of desire, foolishness, and power. From the magical concord of Shakespeare's resolution, Tave moves to works whose character face ever greater difficulties in reaching a happy conclusion. From Jonson and Austen to Chekhov and Beck
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The University of Chicago Press Crossing Ocean Parkway
Book SynopsisGrowing up an Italian American in New York, Marianna De Marco associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighbourhood from the middle-class Jewish neighbourhood into which she married. This book is her account of crossing cultural boundaries.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. 1: Crossing Ocean Parkway 1: On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst 3 2: Crossing Ocean Parkway 19 3: Slasher Stories 35 4: The College Way 59 Pt. 2: Readings by an Italian American Daughter 5: Dr. Dolittle and the Acquisitive Life 75 6: The Paglia Principle 91 7: The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel 109 8: The Politics of the "We" 137 Epilogue
£19.00
University of Chicago Press Sovereign Fictions
Book SynopsisAn exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian realism's distinctive construals of sociality through a broad range of texts from the 1830s to the 1870s, including major works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Goncharov, and Turgenev, and several lesser-known but influential books of the period, including Alexander Druzhinin's Polinka Saks (1847), Aleksei Pisemsky's One Thousand Souls (1858), and Vasily Sleptsov's Hard Times (1865). Challenging much current scholarly consensus about the social dynamics of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Sovereign Fictions offers an impor
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews with more than two dozen writers and literary scholars, including several Stasi informants, provides a survey of the motivations, compromises and illusions of East German intellectual life.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. 1: Introduction Pt. 2: The Scholarly Life Norbert Krenzlin Heinz-Uwe Haus Eva Manske Marianne Streisand Frank and Therese Hornigk Simone and Karlheinz Barck Irene Selle Dorothea Dornhof Petra Boden Christa Ebert Brigitte Burmeister Klaus Michael Pt. 3: The Literary Life Hermann Kant Rainer Kirsch Karl Mickel Renate Feyl Richard Pietrass Helga Schubert Christoph Hein Kerstin Hensel Hans Joachim Schadlich Reiner Kunze Katja Lange-Muller Uwe Kolbe Sascha Anderson, I Rainer Schedlinski Bert Papenfuss-Gorek Gerhard Wolf Pt. 4: After the Surprising Revelations Sascha Anderson, II Adolf Endler and Gabriele Dietze Jan Faktor Conclusion Notes Photo Credits Index
£89.30
Palgrave MacMillan UK Politics and Political Culture in the Court
Book SynopsisPolitics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.Trade Review“Knowles’s book is a rich, engaging, and deeply thorough study of the court masque and its potential for multifaceted and complicated readings of Jacobean culture … . For musicologists, this provides invaluable background and context for any musical study of the period. … Knowles’s impressive text and its problematization of masque culture is necessary and should serve as a useful starting point for any scholar interested in masques of the period.” (Samantha Bassler, NABMSA Reviews, 2018)“This monograph is a remarkable achievement both for the originality of its approach to the study of the masque and for the breadth of scholarship that is required to meet the demands of that approach.” (Richard Allen Cave, Early Theatre, Vol. 19 (1), June, 2016)“Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque is a splendid achievement. It succeeds in bringing the reader closer to the people who once shaped masquing occasions. The book reveals fascinating glimpses of family ties and political loyalties. Knowles’s forte is his extensive knowledge of archives, which enables him to trace rare copies of masque texts and their provenance. … Masque booklets travelled widely within Britain and abroad; they were read by provincial gentlemen, academics, and antiquarians.” (Barbara Ravelhofer, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, June, 2016)“This interesting study explores the political culture of the Jacobean and Caroline masques and their relationship to the articulation of political criticism. … Knowles’s book will appeal to those interested in early modern English literature and culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (C. S. Cox, Choice, Vol. 53 (8), April, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction: 'Friends of all Ranks?' Reading the Masque in Political Culture 2. 'Vizarded impudence': challenging the regnum Cecilianum 3. Crack Kisses Not Staves: sexual politics and court masques in 1613-14 4. 'No News': News from the New World and Textual Culture in the 1620s 5. 'Hoarse with Praising': Gypsies Metamorphosed and the politics of masquing 6. 'Tis for kings, / Not for their subjects, to have such rare things': The Triumph of Peace and Civil Culture Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sakuntala
Trade ReviewThrough a timeless character of legend and literature, we are allowed a ringside view of our most fascinating cultural--and gendered--history. India Today Thapar shows how it is possible to express complex ideas, rooted in philosophy and hermeneutics, without recourse to jargon. This book is a frontrunner for the prize of the best book on Indian history. Telegraph As fascinating as Sakuntala's journey is Thapar's retelling of it and her careful assumption of the role of a literary detective. Hindu Thapar's wide-ranging essays and monographs make a strong case for the urgency to historicize traditions and highlight the changing meanings of texts and oral cultures. Hindustan Times A virtuoso feat of historical and cultural analysis. Biblio Professor Thapar's book is not only significant in uncovering the historical impulses, often multiply driven, that empower certain readings or receptions of the story but also gives us in the process many of those forgotten stories -- Saswati Sengupta Religions of South AsiaTable of ContentsPreface 1. Preliminaries 2. The Narrative from the Mahabharata 3. The Abhijnana-sakuntalam of Kalidasa Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection-the play by Kalidasa 4. Popular and high culture as historical parallels 5. Adaptations: another popular tradition and its role in another court 6. Translations: Orientalism, German romanticism and the image of Sakuntala 7. Translation: colonial views 8. Sakuntala from the perspective of middle-class nationalism 9. Conclusion Endnotes
£82.80
Columbia University Press Learning to Kneel
Book SynopsisLearning to Kneel locates noh drama’s influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J. Preston’s work has been profoundly shaped by her training in noh performance. While her subjects are often criticized for Orientalist tendencies, Preston’s own journey reflects a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.Trade ReviewWhat drew Western writers to an arcane, highly stylized form of Japanese court theater? As a scholar, Carrie J. Preston answers this question by way of the archive, unearthing a global network of dancers and writers. But she also pursues this question as a student, subjecting herself to the rigors of noh training. The result is an unusual blend of both approaches, a magisterial study in cultural history that is also a compelling story of teaching and learning. -- Martin Puchner, Harvard University Eloquently, movingly, and persuasively, Preston traces modernism's fascination with noh through European and Japanese histories of poetry, drama, and performance. She asks us to reflect on the project of cross-cultural learning, what it means to know another culture as well as what it means to know one's own. A tour de force of memoir and scholarship, at once entertaining and erudite, Learning to Kneel shows us why mistranslation, partial fluency, and failing to understand have been crucial to the transnational history of modernism. -- Rebecca Walkowitz, Rutgers University Kneel before this humbling account of submission and, at times, personal but never sentimental antidote to both easy celebrations of multiculturalism and easy critiques of cultural appropriation. Sitting with calm strength at the intersections of performance, pedagogy, and the politics of 'global modernism,' Preston successfully reinvents the modernist reinvention of noh as a timely, urgent topic by asking what it means to succeed or fail. Don't fail to read it. -- Christopher Bush, Northwestern University In Learning to Kneel, Preston tells the story not only of the influence of Japanese culture and noh theater on modernist writers from Yeats to Beckett but also of her personal experience as a neophyte practitioner of noh. Together, these narratives brilliantly reframe received ideas about cross-cultural aesthetic transformation, the relation of success and failure in art, and the tension between subversion and tradition that underlies any form of training or pedagogy. -- Scott Klein, Wake Forest UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction to Noh Lessons 1. Ezra Pound as Noh Student 2. Theater in the "Deep": W. B. Yeats's At the Hawk's Well 3. Ito Michio's Hawk Tours in Modern Dance and Theater 4. Pedagogical Intermission: A Lesson Plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions 5. Noh Circles in Twentieth-Century Japanese Performance 6. Trouble with Titles and Directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/Pas Coda Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Penguin Books Ltd The Happy Reader 19
Book SynopsisFor avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.The concept of the magazine is simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one classic work of literature from an array of surprising and invigorating angles.
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A Study Guide for Ayad Akhtars Disgraced
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for John Knowless Peace Breaks Out
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University of Washington Press Transforming Monkey
Book SynopsisAble to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West (Xiyou ji) and lives on in literature and popular culture internationally. In this far-ranging study Hongmei Sun discusses the thousand-year evolution of this figure in imperial China and multimedia adaptations in Republican, Maoist, and post-socialist China and the United States, including the film Princess Iron Fan (1941), Maoist revolutionary operas, online creative writings influenced by Hong Kong film A Chinese Odyssey (1995), and Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese. At the intersection of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, film studies, and translation and adaptation studies, Transforming Monkey provides a renewed understanding of the Monkey King character as a rebel and trickster, and demonstrates his impact on the Chinese self-Trade Review"Sun’s well-executed book deserves the attention not only of the fans of the Monkey King, but also of those interested in the broad questions of the techniques, the status, and the implications of adaptation, rewriting, and representation more generally." * Journal of Asian Studies *"A delightful work of literary history with the advantage of incorporating several media. . . . Sun’s study deploys the Monkey King to bridge the gap between classical and modern/contemporary literature in a way that allows students of traditional Chinese and modern popular literature and media to connect." * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"[R]ecommend[ed]... as a contribution to the scholarly literature on European–Asian cultural interaction in an important period of modern history." * Asian Studies Review *
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Senegal Abroad Linguistic Borders Racial
Book SynopsisExplores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking interdisciplinary book that breathes fresh air into the study of migration, which has been dominated by economic perspectives. It brings together migration studies, the practice of strategic multilingualism, and racialized identity formation."" - Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester""The wonderful story told here about the Senegalese diaspora in three cities of different languages is one that will be of interest to all Africanists and postcolonial critics regardless of discipline."" - Jarrod Hayes, author of Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family TreeTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Global Senegalese Identity Formation through Language and Movement 1 What’s Language Got to Do with It? Language Attitudes and Identity Formation 2 Speaking while Black: The Quest for Legitimacy in Exclusionary Spaces 3 Neither Here nor There: Reflections on National and Transnational Belonging 4 Leveraging Language: Multilingualism and Transnational Identity Formation Epilogue Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
£67.16
St Martin's Press The Book of Intimate Grammar
Book SynopsisWith The Book of Intimate Grammar, leading Israeli novelist David Grossman gives us the story of the greatest and most universal tragedy, the loss of the world of childhood. At twelve, Aron Kleinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, their inspiration in dreaming up games and adventures. But as his friends begin to mature, Aron remains imprisoned for three long years in the body of a child. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and the voices of his friends change and become strange to him, Aron lives in his child body as though in a nightmare. Like a spy in enemy territory, he learns to decipher the internal codes of sexuality and desire, to understand the unyielding bureaucracy of the human body. Hurled between childhood and adulthood, between the pure and the profane, he is like a volcano of emotions and impulses. But, like his hero Houdini, Aron still struggles to escape from the trap of growing up. T
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ABC-CLIO The Critical Response to Ann Radcliffe
Book SynopsisThis book brings together, for the first time, almost one hundred documents on her work, including contemporary reviews, letters, diary entries, the most important critical assessments, and several new pieces. The chapters that follow consist of chronologically arranged critical analyses of particular works by Radcliffe.Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Cameron Northouse Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) A Sicilian Romance (1790) The Romance of the Forest (1791) The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (1795) The Italian (1797) Gaston de Blondeville; St. Alban's Abbey (Posthumously, 1826) General Responses, 1789-1826 General Responses, 1827-1899 General Responses, The 20th Century Selected Additional Readings Index
£60.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Casebooks Series
Book SynopsisA. E. DYSON general editor of the series, is Honorary Fellow of the University of East Anglia, where he has taught for many years. His publications include Yeats, Eliot and R. S. Thomas (1981), as well as titles in the Casebook series.
£27.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare New
Book SynopsisMARTIN COYLE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Myth of Elizabeth
Book SynopsisSUSAN DORAN isa Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, UK.THOMAS S. FREEMAN is the Research Officer for the British Academy John Foxe Project and is affiliated with the University of Sheffield.
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Palgrave Macmillan Early Modern Womens Letter Writing 14501700
Book SynopsisThis landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century.Trade Review'...a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history, early modern British history, and the history of language...' - Carrie F. Klaus, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J .Daybell Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women; R.Dalrymple Letter Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century; J.Ward Commanding Communications: The Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women; A.Truelove Female Literary and the Social Conventions of Women's Letter Writing in England, 1540-1603; J.Daybell Deference and Defiance in Women's Letters of the Thynne Family; A.Wall Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: The Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574-1618); V.Larminie 'How Subject to Interpretation': Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness; S.J.Steen Tudor and Stuart Women: Their Family Lives Through Their Letters; R.O'Day Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643); J.Eales 'Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world': Letter Writing in Early Modern English Convents; C.Walker Gentle Companions: Single Women and Their Letters in Late-Stuart England; S.Whyman 'Begging Pardon for all mistakes and errors in this writing I being a women and doing it myself': Family Narratives in Some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters; A.Laurence Notes and References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Nature Beyond Dualism in Gender Body
Book SynopsisWomen and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships.In 1974, Françoise d'Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism to raise awareness about interconnections between women's oppression and nature's domination in an attempt to liberate women and nature from subordination. Since then, ecofeminism has attracted scholars and activists from various disciplines and positions to assess the relationship between the cultural human and the natural non-human through gender reconsiderations. The contributors to this volume present critical and constructive perspectives on ecofeminism throughout its history, from the beginnings of ecofeminism in the 1970s through to contemporary and emerging developments in the field, drawing on animal studies, postcolTrade Review"This innovative and engaging anthology on women and nature reveals the ongoing relevance of ecofeminism in today’s global world by emphasizing postcolonialism, ecocriticism, queer ecology, animality, and feminist materialism. Anyone interested in the nuances and complexities of the women-nature connection across histories, belief-systems, and regions will want to buy this book." — Carolyn Merchant of the University of California at Berkeley has written on the connections between ecofeminism and feminist theory and is the author of Earthcare: Women and the Environment, among other books."The myriad ways that Earthly bodies – both human and nonhuman – continue to be bound by structures of patriarchy and domination requires sustained analysis. This transnational, transdisciplinary volume brings the lens of ecofeminism to bear on timely topics, including transgender studies, animal studies, and the new materialism." — Elizabeth Allison is the Program Chair of Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies."This fresh and exciting collection identifies privileges and invisibilities overlooked in earlier ecofeminist thinking. Authors call for ethical self-reflexivity and deep questioning of heteronormative assumptions reflecting a wide range of interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and cross-cultural perspectives. From ecosickness narratives to borderlands ecofeminism, this set of papers provides a rich and timely offering by deeply thoughtful scholars across the globe." — Stephanie Kaza, Professor Emerita, University of Vermont"Woman and Nature: Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body and Environment provides an innovative and captivating perspective on the continued relevance of ecofeminism, especially given today’s ecological crisis. Contributing to the evolution of ecofeminism and highlighting the movement towards interdisciplinary engagement via the inclusion of contemporary theoretical methods such as transgender studies, animal studies, new materialism, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism this book is an absolute must for students and scholars across disciplines with particular relevance to those in the environmental humanities, environmental and sustainability studies, philosophy, theology, religious studies, and international relations." - Sarah O'Brien, Drew Theological SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Editor’s Foreword Sam MickeyPart I: Overview Introduction Karen Ya-Chu Yang 1. Françoise d’Eaubonne and Ecofeminism: Rediscovering the Link between Women and Nature Luca Valera Part II: Rethinking Animality 2. A Retreat on the "River Bank": Perpetuating Patriarchal Myths in Animal Stories Anja Höing 3. Visual Patriarchy:PETA Advertising and the Commodification of Sexualized Bodies Stephanie Baran 4. Ethical Transfeminism: Transgender Individuals’ Narratives as Contributions to Ethics of Vegetarian Ecofeminisms Anja Koletnik Part III: Constructing Connections 5. The Women-Nature Connection as a Key Element in the Social Construction of Western Contemporary Motherhood Adriana Teodorescu 6. The Relationship of Women’s Body Image and Experience in Nature Denise Mitten and Chiara D’Amore 7. Writing Women into Back-to-the-Land: Feminism, Appropriation, and Identity in the 1970s Feminist Magazine Country Women Valerie Padilla Carroll Part IV: Mediating Practices 8. Bilha Givon as Sartre’s "Third Party" in Environmental Dialogues Shlomit Tamari 9. "Yo soy mujer" ¿yo soy ecologista? Feminist and Ecological Consciousness at the Women’s Intercultural Center Christina Holmes 10. The Politics of Land, Water, and Toxins: Reading the Life-narratives of Three Women Oikos-carers from Kerala R. Sreejith Varma and Swarnalatha Rangarajan 11. Ecofeminism and the Telegenics of Celebrity in Documentary Film: The Case of Aradhana Seth’s Dam/Age (2003) and the Narmada Bachao Andolan Reena Dube 12. AfterwordIzabel F. O. Brandão
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Furetieres Roman Bourgeois and the Problem of
Book SynopsisThis book, focusing on the nature of representation and exchange in the seventeenth century, shows how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Antoine Furetiere was placed to explore a changing literary economy marked by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet.Table of ContentsPreliminaries 1. Liminaries 2. Definitions: From Allegory to Antanaclasis 3. Numismatics: Representations of Title 4. Mediations: The Title of Mæcenas 5. Names, Titles, Keys 6. Gifts 7. Envoi liminaire
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Digital Humanities
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Digital Humanities is designed for researchers, teachers, and learners in humanities subject areas who wish to align their work with the field of digital humanities. Trade Review"Introduction to Digital Humanities provides a concise and accessible guide… the volume would be a valuable reference for humanities researchers and practitioners aiming to further enhance their work by digital approaches, for novices trying to embark on a DH project, as well as for teachers and students in humanities disciplines seeking to keep up with the DH trend in their instruction and learning."--Yali Shi, School of Foreign Studies, Jiangnan University, ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1: Reasons to engage with the digital humanitiesChapter 2: Dealing with digital ephemerality Chapter 3: Possibilities and limitations of digital toolsChapter 4: Working with textChapter 5: Working with images and visualizationsChapter 6: Working with performancesChapter 7: Expanding your project’s reachChapter 8: Making space and time for digital humanities projectsFurther readingBibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Populism
The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity, examining its manifestations on both the political left and the right while tracing its dangerous association with nativism, racism and xenophobia. Established socio-political theories are questioned and challenged, giving way to fresh philosophical or cultural perspectives. At the heart of this collection lies a concern with the capacity of the humanities and especially literary studies to interpret, evaluate and intervene in this populist moment. Literary discussion ranges from Henry James and William Faulkner to Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Ali Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates. These essays demonstrate the pertinence and value of enquiries from multiple perspectives if we are to come to terms with the impact of populist rhetoric on m
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Taylor & Francis Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
Book SynopsisIn this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contemporary evocations of and pleas for unity. This book has three main aims. Firstly, it establishes that Marloweâs tragedies exhibit a profound interest in the process of reduction and the ideal of unity. Duxfield shows this interest to manifest itself in different ways in each of the plays. Secondly, it identifies this interest in unity and unification as an engagement in a cultural discourse that was particularly prevalent in England during Marloweâs writing career; during the late 1580s and early 1590s heightened inter-confessional tension, the Trade Review"Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify represents an original, well researched thesis investigating overlooked historical and critical sources. Undergraduates, academics, and interested readers will find in Duxfield’s book invaluable and entertaining insights into Marlowe’s plays."- Frank Swannack, University of Salford, UK"Duxfield’s argument that the plays of Christopher Marlowe show a tendency towards and an ultimate subversion of unity remains strong throughout the monograph and in his extensive coverage of the entirety of Marlowe’s dramatic works. While drawing on past scholarship in order to situate the thesis, Duxfield’s argument remains strong and clear throughout, and adds a fresh texture to the scholarly conversation on Marlowe’s plays."- Hayley Coble, University of Minnesota, USA"This is a significant and welcome addition to the canon of key critical interventions on the work of Christopher Marlowe."- Adam Hansen review: English, 66:252 (2017), pp. 88–91Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Building a Statelier Troy: Dido, Queen of Carthage2 Reduced to a Map: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two3 "Resolve me of all ambiguities": Doctor Faustus4 Individual and Multitude: The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris5 True Contraties: Edward IIAfterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Metre Rhythm and Verse Form The New Critical
Book SynopsisPoetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from the iambus to the bob-wheel stanza, and forms from the Spenserian sonnet to modern 'rap', with clarity and comprehensiveness. It is an essential guide through the terminology which will be invaluable reading for undergraduates new to the subject.Trade Review'An excellent guidebook.' - EnglishTable of ContentsChapter 1 Metre and rhythm; Chapter 2 Blank verse; Chapter 3 The heroic couplet; Chapter 4 Rhyme and pararhyme; Chapter 5 Sprung verse; Chapter 6 Quantity and syllabics; Chapter 7 Free verse; Chapter 8 Verse forms (I); Chapter 9 Verse forms (II);
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Taylor & Francis Daniel Defoe The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Henry Fielding
Book SynopsisThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer''s work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.Table of ContentsThe Author's Farce (30 March 1730), I JOHN PERICIVAL first Earl of Egmont, from diary entry, 24 April 1730, 2 Letter signed IBAVIUS' {JOHN MARTYN], II June 1730, 3 The Modern Husband (14 February 1731-2) 4 Letter signed 'DRAMATICUS' [SIR WILLIAM YONGB (1), 5 .[THOMAS COOKU], from The Comedian or Philosophical The Covent-Garden Tragedy (I June 1732.) 6 Letter signed 'PUBLICUS', The Grub-street Journal. 5 June 1732, 7 Letter signed 'DRAMATICUS' [SIR WILLIAM YONGB, 8 Letters signed 'PROSAICUS' 29June 1732, 9 Letters signed 'DRAMATICUS' WILLIAM YONCE July 1732 /Part Contents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Laurence Sterne The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Tobias Smollett The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Language of Fiction Essays in Criticism and
Book SynopsisNow including a new introduction from the author, this major work from one of England's finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and appreciation of literature.Trade Review'Perhaps because he is a good novelist himself, Mr Lodge's subjection of various writers to detailed linguistic analysis is illuminating and exciting.' - Daily Telegraph'Perhaps because he is a good novelist himself, Mr Lodge's sujection of various writers to detailed linguistic analysis is illuminating and exciting.' - Daily Telegraph'Something of a milestone in English criticism ... an important addition to English critical writing about the genre of the novel' - Tony Tanner, The Modern Language Review'... in many ways the most interesting of recent books on the novel, knowledgeable and closely argued.' - William Righter, The Listener'readable, sensitive, perceptive' - Robert Scholes, Contemporary LiteratureTable of ContentsForeword to Routledge Classics Edition, Preface, PART I The Novelist’s Medium and the Novelist’s Art: Problems in Criticism, PART II, Afterword to the Second Edition (1984), References, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexuality
Book SynopsisTheories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a historical account of sexuality from the Victorians to the present discussions of the most influential theorists including Freud, Lacan, Bataille, Baudrillard, Cixous, Deleuze, Irigaray and Kristeva a new and extended discussion of queer and transgender theory, race, ethnicity and desire a new preface summarising changes in the field since the first edition a new glossary, annotated further reading section and bibliography. Considering all of the major movements in the field, this new edition is the ideal guide for students of literary and cultural studies.Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition Introduction 1. Sexological Types Sexual Classifications Feminist Contentions Consuming Passions 2. Psychoanalytical Drives Freud’s Complexes Lacan’s Orders Feminist Interventions 3. Libidinal Economies (De)generating Pleasures Pornographic Materials 4. Discursive Desires Foucault’s Bodies Foucault’s Exclusions Foucault’s Followers 5. Diverse Eroticisms Queer (Non)Identities Global Sexualities Glossary Further Reading Bibliography Index Further Reading Works Cited
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Gothic Routledge
Book SynopsisIn a wide-ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this book is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date guides on the diverse and murky world of the gothic in literature, film and culture.Table of ContentsGothic Traditions. Pre-Gothic. Eighteenth Century Gothic. Gothic and the Romantics. Victorian Gothic. Gothic and Modernism. Contemporary Gothic. Gothic Locations. Gothic London. American Gothic. Scottish Gothic. Irish Gothic. Gothic and Empire. Canadian Gothic. Australian Gothic. Gothic Concepts. The Uncanny. Abject and Grotesque. Trauma and Memory. Gothic. Masculinities. Gothic Femininities. Desire and Sexuality. Masks, Veils and Disguises. Gothic Culture. Gothic Children. Gothic Media. Gothic and Film 1: Adaptations. Gothic and Film 2: Horror. Gothic and TV. Gothic and the Graphic Novel. Gothic Music and Subculture. Gothic and New Technologies.
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