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Wesleyan University Press Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Book SynopsisGroundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialism
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Ohio University Press Haunted by Waters
Book SynopsisFour essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? Haunted by Waters is a self-examination by the author as he constructs his own narrative and tries to answer these questions for himself.Trade Review“Haunted by Waters is a landmark book…[Browning’s] brilliant displays of research and erudition in chapters on Old World and New World angling traditions and American Transcendentalism are nonpareil. So, too, is his comprehension regarding the art of fly-fishing in its entirety. What’s more, no one has ever written a literary history of fly-fishing, even a brief one, with more style or insight.” * Bloomsbury Review *“Many anglers can't seem to get enough of their sport, so they make artificial flies and read a lot about fishing when they're not streamside. Browning's book contemplates the strong attraction of this revered pastime and thoughtfully considers the literature that it has inspired…. Chapters that can be categorized as ecocriticism, the new term for environmental literary criticism, are interspersed with ‘Interludes,’ wherein Browning, a devoted fly fisherman, offers first-person confessions and observations about his joyful obsession. Recommended for all large fishing collections.” * Library Journal *“Mark Browning has pioneered the serious literary study of American prose centered on fly fishing—and he has linked it convincingly, admirably, to the major traditions of nature writing that run from Thoreau through Barry Lopez. Bravo!”“In this thoughtful, penetrating…look at the literature of fly-fishing, the author notes that fishermen who write can be likened to our ancient ancestors,`who blazoned portrayals of the hunt on the walls of … caves’…. In scrutinizing Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and his story ‘Big Two-Hearted River' … Browning finds the most profound portrayals of fishing as an`activity where life and death meet and stare at each other.’” * Kirkus Reviews *“Anyone who is genuinely interested in fly-fishing and is also a serious reader will be gratified by Browning's book…. Authors of books in which fly-fishing plays an accompanying role are household words. Browning's book is a better guide to what to read than any other I know.” * The Baltimore Sun *
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Ohio University Press A Room of His Own
Book SynopsisIn nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as clubland in Victorian Londonthe City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs. Why were these associations for men only such a powerful emergent institution in nineteenth-century London? Distinctly British, how did these single-sex clubs help fashion men, foster a culture of manliness, and assist in the project of nation building? What can elite male affiliative culture tell us about nineteenth-century Britishness?A Room of His Own sheds light on the mysterious ways of male associational culture as it examines such topics as fraternity, sophistication, nostalgia, social capital, celebrity, gossip, and male professionalism. The story of clubland (and the literature it generated) begins with Britain's military heroes home from the NapoleonTrade Review“(Black’s) book is an absorbing and enlightening study of the importance of clubs to the formation of upper-and upper-middle class Victorian masculinity…. Black deftly reveals how every club is a statement of both exclusion and inclusion; it needs its outsiders to help to define those whom it chooses to let in.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Barbara Black’s ‘Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland’ fills a notable gap in the existing literature…. She builds a persuasive case for the iconic status of clubs in Victorian literature, drawing on a range of contemporary printed sources, and paying particular attention to the prevalence of clubs in novels. Many novelists chronicling Clubland were also club members and Black effectively connects the real-life club experiences of such writers as Dickens, Galsworthy, Thackeray, Trollope, and Wilde; she highlights their overlapping journalistic, social and personal worlds, while teasing out the broader context of Victorian society.” * Canadian Journal of History *“The strength of (A Room of His Own) lies in establishing Victorian men’s clubs as a culturally specific response to the transformations of British society at a particular phase of modernization.” * Journal of British Studies *“This splendid book boldly lifts the curtain and raises the sash of Victorian private gentlemen’s clubs, which often were more comfortable, intimate, and yet sociable than the prized domestic hearth. According to Professor Black, clubs functioned as heterotopic spaces that were simultaneously apart from and part of the social fabric that constituted them. This is a beautifully conceived, thoroughly researched, and deftly argued book that expands our awareness of the homosocial associations out of which personal and national identities were forged in the nineteenth century and persist, with modifications and adjustments, even today.”“Black credits both her own family background and her students' interest in ‘club culture‘ for this intriguing study, which is a major contribution to scholarship on British clubs and their effect upon society and literature…. Thorough research combined with well-selected anecdotes and a jargon-free style makes this volume a delightful read.” * Review 19 *“Barbara Black has written a valuable examination of the world of Victorian men’s clubs and their importance to some major novelists of the age…. (An) interesting and useful book.” * The Victorian Web *“Barbara Black’s wonderfully informative discussion of nineteenth-century London club culture is something of a revelation. She makes us see how significant were men’s clubs in the social life of the expanding propertied classes of Britain; how ubiquitous, if critically overlooked, are their representations in the Victorian novel and the Victorian press; and how powerfully the sociability they fostered has shaped notions of English masculinity and national identity. That she does so in prose that is itself sociable—often witty and always appealing—is an added pleasure.” * Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Associate Faculty in English, Columbia University *
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University of Hawai'i Press Writing from These Roots Literacy in a
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University of Missouri Press American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the
Book SynopsisBy synthesising Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of ""Being"", this work demonstrates that American fiction has tried to convey the existentialist dimension: the pre-individual totality which defines itself against the mind and its linguistic capacity.
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University of Missouri Press The Present State of Scholarship in the History
Book SynopsisAdopting research methodologies of revision and recovery, this edition is constructed around bibliographical surveys of both primary and secondary works addressing the Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and eighteenth through twentieth century periods within the history of rhetoric. It recasts study in the history of rhetoric.
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University of Missouri Press Literary Alchemist
Book SynopsisEvan S. Connell emerged from the American Midwest determined to become a writer. He eventually made his mark with attention-getting fiction. This first portrait and appraisal of an under-recognized American writer reveals a tender and multidimensional representation of a 20th-century literary master worthy of broader attention.
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University of Exeter Press Mustapha Et Zeangir Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisAn historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright.Trade Review Table of ContentsFrontispice, II; Introduction, VII; Bibliographie sommaire, XXIII; Mustapha et Zeangir; Notes, 71.
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University of Exeter Press Stendhals Italy Themes of Political and Religious
Book SynopsisThe essential thrust of this book is an examination of the origins and development of the satirical element of Stendal's writing in Italy, which culminates with the creation of what many critics consider to be his finest achievement, the novel La Chartreuse de Parme.Trade Review ". . . The work as a whole becomes a kind of Resistance text containing - to pursue the author's comparison - a contrebande message for its contemporary reader, an exhortation to consider the impact of political and spiritual repression not just in Italy but in Europe generally. The links with earlier works, through which Stendhal's view of Italy has already been traced with considerable firmness and cogency, are constantly kept in play and the satirical content of La Chartreuse is thereby restated and reinforced." (Journal of European Studies) Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press The West Country As A Literary Invention Putting
Book SynopsisIs the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing.Trade Review “Trezise convincingly demonstrates with clarity and in painstaking detail that certain authors were highly influential in creating the perception of a West Country that has held sway since Victorian times and in contributing to a sense of region and place . . . a bonus is provided in the numerous entertaining and informative digressions from the central purpose of the book.” (The Devon Historian, Vol. 63, Oct 2001) “This book is a valuable contribution to topoliterary studies and the social history of the region.” (The Totnes Historian, No. 4, 2001/02) “Eight meaty chapters . . . a tour de force of scholarly research . . . I do seriously recommend this book.” (The Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society Newsletter, No 35, 2001) “An exhaustive account . . . probably the most comprehensive single account of the development of the cinema in the nineteenth century.” (Sight and Sound, February 2001) “At last we have a well-crafted critical volume which considers the construction of the “West Country” in literature . . . His research is very thorough in each of the writers considered—so much so that this work is likely to be the definitive regional assessment of these works for some time to come . . . Throughout this brilliant volume Trezise has reassessed many of the classic texts and writers whom we associate with the region. This book has been long overdue. Its research and readability—not to mention its innovation in dealing with a neglected literary landscape—make it one of the essential purchases of the new millennium.” (Cornish History Network Newsletter, December 2000, Issue 9) “A penetrating and challenging examination of the effect of certain landscapes on several writers of eminence and significance, and of the subsequent (and often unforeseen and unintended) effect of these writers on the very landscapes of which they write . . . Simon Trezise’s book will cause us to re-examine some old and favourite authors in a new light.” (Western Morning News, Nov 7, 2000) “The literary and topographical range of this study is comprehensive. Six essays, each devoted to a West Country author, take us from Thomas Hardy at Egdon Heath to Virginia Woolf contemplating the Godrevy Lighthouse . . . Sabine Baring-Gould is summarized as “the amanuensis of West Country people”, and on the evidence of this book, the same could be said of Simon Trezise.” (Times Literary Supplement, December 1, 2000) “Fascinating . . . this is a densely-packed book, animated by enthusiasm and buttressed by meticulous research.” (New Welsh Review, Spring 2001, No 52, 82-3) Table of ContentsContents: Keywords - region, topography, provincial, landscape, chronotope; Parson Hawker's Inventions - Trelawney, Cruel Coppinger and the Cornish King Arthur; Westward Ho! or Charles Kingsley's inventions - Elizabethans viewed through Victorian spectacles; tales from the telling house - the many authors of Lorna Doone; from the West Country into Wessex - Thomas Hardy; Sabine Baring-Gould - novels and folk songs of Devon and Cornwall; conclusion - from the Victorians to the 20th century.
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University of Exeter Press Le Comte dEssex Exeter French Texts CX
Book SynopsisThis is a volume in the series Textes litteraires/Exeter French Texts. If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid herself forever of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by sending him to the scaffold she was very much mistaken, since his name, intertwined with hers, has traversed four centuries.Trade Review 'Wendy Gibson has provided a clear and helpful Introduction, . . . Her annotations and footnotes are both erudite and illuminating.' (New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 24 No 1, 2003) Table of ContentsFrontispice Introduction Le Texte Bibliographie Le Comte D'Essex; Au Lecteur Extrait du Privilege du Roy Acteurs Acte premier Acte II Acte III Acte IV Acte V Notes
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Heinemann USA Blending Genre Altering Sytle Writing Multigenre
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Michigan State University Press Other Eighteenth Century Msu Edition English
Book SynopsisThis anthology of the works of 22 women authors aims to reclaim the tradition of women's writing in England during the 18th-century, and helps to restore this tradition to its rightful place in the present-day canon of late 17th- and 18th-century English literature.
£26.57
Michigan State University Press Hemingway Seven Decades of Criticism
Book Synopsisan important collection of essays that cover some of the more interesting dimensions of Ernest Hemingway's fiction
£21.56
John Wiley & Sons Marking the Magic Circle
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John Wiley & Sons Marking the Magic Circle
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Russell Sage Foundation Labors Love Lost The Rise and Fall of the
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Kent State University Press Rhetorical Drag
Book SynopsisPresenting an examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, this work argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. It is aimed at those interested in early American literary studies and historiography as well as women's and gender studies.
£27.86
Texas Christian University Press,U.S. Literary Austin
Book SynopsisBrings together the history, color, and character of Texas' capital city since 1839 when it was selected as the site for a new capital of the then - Republic of Texas. This work includes essays, fiction, and poetry which reveal the variety of literary responses to Austin through the decades.
£24.65
Texas Christian University Press,U.S. Literary Dallas
Book SynopsisDescribes the merchants who made Dallas a city where haute couture is comme il faut, but, where, it is also possible to live a perfectly happy life and never wear a ball gown.
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University of Iowa Press A Poetry Criticism Reader
Book SynopsisBrings together eleven essays and reviews that constitute some of the poetry criticism. This book gives an overview of poetry criticism and its pluralistic traditions after the high modernist years of T S Eliot. It offers students - the next generation of poets and critics - and their teachers exemplary models of critical writing and thought.
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Mosaic Press Investigating Sherlock Holmes
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Thai and Indic Literary Studies
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The University of Michigan Press A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral
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Slavica Publishers The Russian Context The Culture Behind the
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Bluewood Books,U.S. 100 Authors Who Shaped World History
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Sourcebooks Explore 100 Books That Shaped World History 100 Series
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Phanes Press,U.S. Key of Jacob Boehme Magnum opus hermetic
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Tale of Matsura
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Okagami The Great Mirror
Book SynopsisPresented here in a complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, a historical tale that mirrors a man’s life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Heian period.
£17.18
LUP - University of Michigan Press Studies in Modern Japanese Literature
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Seduction And Betrayal
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The Library of America Henry James Literary Criticism Vol 2 LOA 23
Book SynopsisHenry James, renowned as one of the world’s great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, and masterly critics of modern times. This Library of America volume is one of two volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, with many pieces never before available in book form. It includes reviews of a great number of European writers, especially French writers, along with more general essays and the Prefaces Henry James wrote for the New York Edition of his works, published between 1907 and 1909.More than one hundred reviews and essays are gathered by author, so that readers can trace the development of James’s complex, meditative, and highly volatile attitudes toward a wide spectrum of literature. James reviews the formidable Honoré de Balzac (with his “huge, all compassing, all desiring, all devouring love of reality”), Gustave Flaubert (“a pearl-diver, breathless in the thick elemen
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University of Chicago Press Paradise Translation and Commentary v 3 Dantes
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Bancroft Press Last Call at the 7Eleven Fine Dining at 2am
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Rose Metal Press The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash
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Ohio State University Press I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
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Random House USA Inc Thug Notes
Book SynopsisSparky Sweets, PhD, and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including: Things Fall Apart, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and more! The series Thug Notes has been featured on BET, PBS, and NPR and has been used in hundreds of classrooms around the world. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or straight-up literary gangster like Dr. Sweets, Thug Notes has got you covered. You'll certainly never look at literature the same way again.
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Random House USA Inc Selected Writings of Alexander von Humboldt
Book SynopsisA new hardcover selection of the best writings of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world. Selected and introduced by Andrea Wulf.Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing volcanoes in the Andes, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his time, he recognized nature as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone else that humankind was on a path to destroy it. His visits to the Americas led him to argue that the indigenous peoples possessed ancient cultures with sophisticated languages, architecture, and art, and his expedition to Cuba prompted him to denounce slavery as “the greatest evil ever to have afflicted humanity.” To Humboldt, the melody of his prose was as important as its empirical content, and this selection from his most famous works—including Cosmos, Views of Nature, and Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, among others—allows us the pleasure of reading his own accounts of his daring explorations. Humboldt’s writings profoundly influenced naturalists and poets including Darwin, Thoreau, Muir, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Whitman. The Selected Writings is not only a tribute to Humboldt’s important role in environmental history and science, but also to his ability to fashion powerfully poetic narratives out of scientific observations.
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Random House USA Inc The Life of Saul Bellow Volume 2 Love and Strife
Book SynopsisThe second volume in the life of literary giant Saul Bellow, vividly capturing a personal life that was always tumultuous and career that never ceased being triumphant.Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters--rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing in the latter half of his life some of his greatest fiction (Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in the first. In the public sphere, he is embroiled in controversy over foreign affairs, race, religion, education, social policy, the state of culture, the fate of the novel. In this stunning second volume, Zachary Leader shows
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas. Offers the most thorough and concise coverage of modern Chinese literature to date, drawing attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literatureSeveral chapters explore literature in relation to Sinophone geopolitics, regional culture, urban culture, visual culture, print media, and new mediaThe introduction and two chapters furnish overviews of the institutional development of modern Chinese literature in Chinese and English scholarship since the mid-twentieth centuryContributions from leading literary scholars in mainland China and Hong Kong add their voices to international scholarshipTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv 1 General Introduction 1Yingjin Zhang Part I History and Geography 39 2 Literary Modernity in Perspective 41Zhang Longxi 3 Late Qing Literature, 1890s–1910s 54Hu Ying 4 War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s–1940s 67Nicole Huang 5 Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950–1980 81Chen Xiaoming (translated by Qin Liyan) 6 Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization 98Tao Dongfeng (translated by Angie Chau) 7 Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan 116Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 8 Sinophone Literature 134Ping-hui Liao Part II Genres and Types 149 9 Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies 151Michelle Yeh 10 Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History 167Xiaomei Chen 11 Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu 181Qian Suoqiao 12 Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling 195Yiyan Wang 13 Modern China's Translated Literature 214Zha Mingjian 14 Writing Chinese Feminism(s) 228Amy Dooling 15 The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant 244Yi Zheng 16 Ethnic Minority Literature 261Mark Bender Part III Cultures and Media 277 17 Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political 279Ban Wang 18 The Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China 295Jianhua Chen 19 The Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931–1945 312Haili Kong 20 Writing Cities 326Weijie Song 21 Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter–Poets 343Paul Manfredi 22 All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature 360Nicolai Volland 23 The Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China 379Jin Feng Part IV Issues and Debates 395 24 The Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew 397Carlos Rojas 25 The Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature 411Tze]lan D. Sang 26 Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 424Ari Larissa Heinrich 27 The Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 434Yomi Braester 28 Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday 452Lingchei Letty Chen 29 A Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 465Chen Sihe (translated by Alvin Ka Hin Wong) 30 Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 483Yingjin Zhang Bibliography 501 Glossary 503 Index 548
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Book SynopsisA Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: Harlem as Shorthand: The Persistent Value of the Harlem Renaissance 1Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Part I Foundations 15 1 What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York City 17Carla L. Peterson 2 Postbellum, Pre-Harlem: Black Writing before the Renaissance 35Andreá N. Williams 3 Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance, and the New Negro 51Jayna Brown 4 The New Negro and the New South 65Erin D. Chapman Part II Spotlight: Readings and Genre 81 5 “All the loving words I never dared to speak”: Angelina Weld Grimké’s Sapphic Modernism 83Maureen Honey 6 Modernism and the Urban Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene Johnson 103Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell 7 Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown’s Study Guides 119Sonya Posmentier 8 Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Writing 137Elizabeth M. Sheehan 9 The New Negro Iconoclast, or, The Curious Case of George Samuel Schuyler 155Ivy G. Wilson 10 Nella Larsen’s Spiritual Strivings 171Kathy L. Glass 11 Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows 187Jennifer Chang 12 Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem Renaissance 203Belinda Wheeler 13 Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago’s Zara Wright 219Rynetta Davis 14 “Betwixt and between”: Zora Neale Hurston In—and Out—of Harlem 231Carla Kaplan Part III Salon Culture: The Visual, Performative, and Expressive Arts 249 15 Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture Edification 251André m. Carrington 16 The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer Culture 267Shane Vogel 17 Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and Performance 285Soyica Diggs Colbert 18 Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes 301Lisa Hollenbach 19 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem Renaissance 317Kirsten Pai Buick Part IV Interracialism 337 20 Authenticity and the Boundaries of Blackness 339J. Martin Favor 21 Black Marxism and the Literary Left 351Gary Edward Holcomb 22 “Light, bright and damn near white”: Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem Renaissance 369Michele Elam Part V Beyond Harlem: New Geographies and Lasting Influences 385 23 The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement 387Margo Natalie Crawford 24 The “Lost Years” or a “Decade of Progress”?: African American Writers and the Second World War 403Vaughn Rasberry 25 Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem Renaissance 423Nadia Nurhussein 26 Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the Americas 441Michael Soto 27 Virtual Harlem: Experiencing the New Negro Renaissance 457Bryan Carter Index 473
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A New Companion to Milton
Book SynopsisA New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Preface xvii Note on Editions Used xviii List of Abbreviations xix Part I The Cultural Context 1 1 Genre 3Barbara K. Lewalski 2 The Classical Literary Tradition 22John K. Hale 3 Milton on the Bible 37Regina M. Schwartz 4 Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism 55Graham Parry 5 Milton and English Poetry 71Achsah Guibbory 6 Milton's English 90Thomas N. Corns Part II Politics and Religion 107 7 The Legacy of the Late Jacobean Period 109Cedric C. Brown 8 Milton and Puritanism 124N. H. Keeble 9 Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy 141John Rumrich 10 Milton and Ecology 157Diane Kelsey McColley 11 The English and Other Peoples 174Andrew Hadfield 12 The Literature of Controversy 191Joad Raymond Part III Texts 211 13 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,' 'Upon the Circumcision,' and 'The Passion' 213Thomas N. Corns 14 The Poetic Promise of 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' 230Noam Reisner 15 John Milton's Comus 241Leah S. Marcus 16 'Lycidas' 255Stella P. Revard 17 Milton's Sonnets 270Ryan Netzley 18 Exact Latinity and Excellent English: Milton's Early Poetry 282Sarah Knight 19 Early Political Prose 291Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler 20 Milton, Marriage, and Divorce 308Annabel Patterson 21 Republicanism 323Martin Dzelzainis 22 Late Political Prose 338Laura Lunger Knoppers 23 Milton in Intellectual History 356Stephen M. Fallon 24 The Radical Religious Politics of Paradise Lost 376David Loewenstein 25 Obedience and Autonomy in Paradise Lost 391Michael Schoenfeldt 26 Paradise Lost and the Multiplicity of Time 408Amy Boesky 27 Self-Contradicting Puns in Paradise Lost 421John Leonard 28 A Paradise for Poets 439Maggie Kilgour 29 Milton and his Epic Precursors: Overgoing and Recuperation 450Tobias Gregory 30 'Nor vacuous the space': Milton's Chaos and the Vacuist–Plenist Controversy 460Rachel Trubowitz 31 Samson Agonistes 475Sharon Achinstein 32 Memorial, Performance, and Tragic Action in Samson Agonistes 493Feisal G. Mohamed 33 Paradise Regained 503Margaret Kean 34 Satan, the Son of God, and the Brief Epic 517Thomas N. Corns Part IV Influences and Impact 529 35 Reading Milton, 1674–1800 531Kay Gilliland Stevenson 36 Milton: The Romantics and After 547Peter J. Kitson 37 Milton's Global Impact 566 The Arabic-Speaking World 567Islam Issa China 570Tianhu Hao India 573Malabika Sarkar Japan 576Hiroko Sano Korea 579Byung-Eun Lee Spanish]Speaking America 581Mario Murgia Part V Chronology 585 The Life and Times of John Milton: A Chronology 587Thomas N. Corns Consolidated Bibliography 602 Index 641
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Picador USA What About the Baby
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched virtuoso of language and image (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the bestselling novelist Alice McDermott's pithiest wisdom about her chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing.From technical advice (check that your verbs aren't burdened by unnecessary hads and woulds) to setting the bar (I expect the fiction I read to carry with it the conviction that it is written with no other incentive than that it must be written), from the demands of readers (they'd been given a story with a baby in it, and they damn well wanted that baby accounted for) to the foibles of public life (I've never subscribed to the notion that a film adaptation is the final imprimatur for a work of fiction, despite how ofte
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Bedford Books Arguing about Literature A Guide and Reader
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Random House USA Inc The Piano Tuner
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Random House USA Inc The Keepers of the House
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