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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Louise Erdrichs Love Medicine
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Political Theories for Students
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Lulu.com PlayMaking
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Edinburgh University Press Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic
Book SynopsisSubstantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena.Trade Review"To say that Rebecca Duncan's The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is cutting edge doesn't do it justice. It is an astonishing collection that will reconfigure the field of Gothic studies and define its direction for years to come. It is an absolutely essential work.?" -Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University
£135.00
Edinburgh University Press The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies
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Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare Against War
Book SynopsisThroughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays towards a desire for peace
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Reimagining Constancy in the Literature of the
Book SynopsisExposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history
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Edinburgh University Press Reading the River in Shakespeares Britain
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Edinburgh University Press Early Modern Womens LifeWriting and English Law
Book SynopsisReconstructs the everyday life of women in the early modern period through the traces they left in the records of English courts of law.
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Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare the Sea and the Stage
Book SynopsisExplores the idea that Shakespeare's dramatic writing, which powerfully represents the sea, also resembles it.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mastering the Language of Literature
Book SynopsisMastering the Language of Literature provides students of English Literature with a clear guide to the linguistic analysis of literary texts. Drawing on modern linguistics and traditional approaches, it shows how the study of language provides valuable tools for literary criticism. Important linguistic concepts are explained, and there are sections on Phonology, Lexis and Syntax, supported by examples from a wide range of texts. The book complements and extends the traditional close reading approach of Practical Criticism, and introduces students to an exciting and fast-growing area of advanced literary studies.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd How to Read a Poem
Book SynopsisLucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. * Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.Trade Review"The wit he brings to the task of helping readers read poems will, for some readers (myself included), be a source of pleasure." (Notes and Queries, June 2010) “From the first page, the reader of How to Read a Poem realises that this, at last, is a book which begins to answer Adrian Mitchell's charge: 'Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people'. Eagleton introduces himself as 'a politically minded literary theorist'. The remarkable achievement of this book is to prove that such a theorist is the only person who can really show what poetry is for. By a brilliant and scrupulous series of readings - of Yeats and Frost and Auden and Dickinson - framed in a lively account of the function of criticism as perhaps only he could expound it, Eagleton shows how literary theory, seriously understood, is the ground of poetic understanding. This will be the indispensable apology for poetry in our time.” Bernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford "With energy and wit, Eagleton proves once and for all that close readers and theoretical readers should be partners rather than enemies." John Redmond, Liverpool University "...lucid and engaging...Eagleton's book 'designed as an introduction to poetry for students and general readers', is a breath of fresh air." Marjorie Perloff, TLS, Books of the Year “Eagleton raises many interesting points” Choice “A how-to book with an agenda. Smart, witty and provocative ... How to Read a Poem challenges us not only to look again at poetic form, but also to bring aesthetics back into our discussions fo what makes a poem worth studying. We may not agree with Eagleton, but we would do well to accept his challenge." College Literature "Illuminating." The Times Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgements viii 1 The Functions of Criticism 1 1 The End of Criticism? 1 2 Politics and Rhetoric 8 3 The Death of Experience 17 4 Imagination 22 2 What is Poetry? 25 1 Poetry and Prose 25 2 Poetry and Morality 28 3 Poetry and Fiction 31 4 Poetry and Pragmatism 38 5 Poetic Language 41 3 Formalists 48 1 Literariness 48 2 Estrangement 49 3 The Semiotics of Yury Lotman 52 4 The Incarnational Fallacy 59 4 In Pursuit of Form 65 1 The Meaning of Form 65 2 Form versus Content 70 3 Form as Transcending Content 79 4 Poetry and Performance 88 5 Two American Examples 96 5 How to Read a Poem 102 1 Is Criticism Just Subjective? 102 2 Meaning and Subjectivity 108 3 Tone, Mood and Pitch 114 4 Intensity and Pace 118 5 Texture 120 6 Syntax, Grammar and Punctuation 121 7 Ambiguity 124 8 Punctuation 130 9 Rhyme 131 10 Rhythm and Metre 135 11 Imagery 138 6 Four Nature Poems 143 1 William Collins, 'Ode to Evening' 143 2 William Wordsworth, 'The Solitary Reaper' 149 3 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'God's Grandeur' 153 4 Edward Thomas, 'Fifty Faggots' 157 5 Form and History 161 Glossary 165 Index 169
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Pearson Education Macbeth York Notes Advanced everything you need
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Jew of Malta
Book SynopsisThe Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire, to bloody revenge tragedy, to melodramatic intrigue, to dark farce and grotesque comedy. Although set in the Mediterranean island of Malta, the play evokes contemporary Elizabethan social tensions, especially the highly charged issue of London''s much-resented community of resident merchant foreigners. Barabas, the enormously wealthy Jew of the play''s title, appears initially victimized by Malta''s Christian Governor, who quotes scripture to support the demand that Jews cede their wealth to pay Malta''s tribute to the Turks. When he protests, Barabas is deprived of his wealth, his means of livelihood, and his house, which is converted to a nunnery. In response to this hypocritical extortion, Barabas launches a horrific (and sometimes hilarious) course of violence that goes well beyond revenge, using murTrade ReviewA farce of terribly serious, even savage comic humour. * T.S Eliot *Table of ContentsIntroduction List of Illustrations The Jew of Malta Appendices Further Reading Index
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Pearson Education Revision Express AS and A2 English Language and
Book SynopsisWith its succinct, focussed and easy-to-follow approach covering both AS and A2, Revision Express is the fast and effective route to exam success. This new edition has been fully revised and updated for the new A-levels.
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Pearson Education Lyrical Ballads York Notes Advanced everything
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renaissance Drama on the Edge
Book SynopsisRecurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I What is an Edge?: Walls: the edge of territory; Peter or Paul? The edge of the state. Part II The Edge of the Nation: Sex on the edge; ’Gate of Spain’: the southern edge of France; ’Pas de Calais’: the northern edge of France. Part III Invisible Edges: The edge of heaven; Jewels and the edge of the skin; The edge of the world. Conclusion; Works cited; Index.
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University Press of the Pacific Tales of Sevastopol
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Johns Hopkins University Press My Silver Planet
Book SynopsisBy exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.Trade ReviewTiffany is persuasive in arguing that the now ubiquitous idea of 'kitsch' originates in poetry, poetic language, and the articulated views of many players in the greater culture... The value of the book lies in application: understanding the origins of poetic 'kitsch' allows one to understand elite culture better and to use that knowledge as a link between elite culture and vernacular culture. Choice My Silver Planet offers a thrilling new way to read poetry from the past two hundred years. -- Mike Chaser Poetry Magazine A strength of Tiffany's book as a whole is that its history of the relationship of lyric poetry and kitsch from graveyard gothic to Pound reveals the pleasures and anxieties of an art forever seeking to justify its artifices in a natural authority, whether in the rhythms of labor, the rhythms of the sexual body, an essentialism of blood or land, or a totalitarian politics. -- John Wilkinson Modern PhilologyTable of Contents1. Arresting PoetryUnpopular PopMissing VersesBogusTwice MadeMass Ornament2. Poetic Diction and the Substance of KitschDreams, Mottos, GossipChatter and VirtuosityPhraseologyMorbid Animation3. MiscreantDoppelgängerSynthetic VernacularsPoetry vs. LiteratureCommonplaceLyric FatalityThieves' Latin4. The Spurious Progeny of Bare NatureBalladry and the Burden of Popular CultureExploded Beings and After-PoetsLive Burial5. IlliteratureRefrainLullaby LogicThe Cult of SimplicityPets, Trifles, ToysGothic Verse and MelodramaSilver Proxy6. Queer IdyllsTopologies of PrivacyReliquesPoetasterKitsch, Camp, and Homo-fascism1800 WordsPoison7. Kitsching the CantosVortex and Cream PuffContrabandThe Kitsch of ApocalypseEpic, Rhapsody, SeizureBad InfinityEthnofascist Souvenirs8. JunkThermofaxDada KitschAfter After-PoetsCoterie and MelodramaThe Metaphysics of Kitsch9. Inventing ClichésPlastic PoetryLiar, LiarAfterwordIn the Poisonous Candy FactoryCounterfeit CapitalNotesIndex
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Tellers Tale Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers
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State University of New York Press Black Cultural Mythology
Book SynopsisOffers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.Winner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language Association Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensively surveys more than two hundred years of figures, moments, ideas, and canonical works by such visionaries as Maria Stewart, Richard Wright, Colson Whitehead, and Edwidge Danticat to map an expansive yet broadly overlooked intellectual tradition of Black cultural mythology and to provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing this tradition. In so doing, she at once reorients and stabilizes the emergent field of Africana cultural memory studies, while also staging a much broader intervention by challenging scholars across disciplines-from literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, and beyond-to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of the inheritance of survival.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Literature An Introduction to Theory and Analysis
Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Literature An Introduction to Theory and Analysis
Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare and Gender
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in- hand with diverse contextual materials, the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue to read and perform them with this in mind.Topics and themes discussed include gendering madness, paternity and the patriarchy, sexuality, anxious masculinity, maternal bodies, gender transgression, and kingship and the male body politic.Trade ReviewThis volume provides a thoughtful approach to a wide range of relevant issues through a combination of close reading, contextual non-fiction materials, and attention to recent performance and film. It will give students the tools they need to engage with the plays and will encourage them to make their own connections across traditional genres and periods. * Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK *This book revitalizes Shakespeare for contemporary readers. Its case study format situates the plays in both early modern and current performance contexts, setting up an urgent, ongoing dialogue between ideas of sex and gender available to Shakespeare and to us. Teachers and students alike will find it indispensable. * Coppélia Kahn, Professor Emerita of English, Brown University, USA *Reading Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama constitutes a rewarding experience. Aughterson and Grant Ferguson write in a style that is both clear and didactic, which significantly contributes to engage readers from the very first page. * Sederi Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter one The Woman’s Voice Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing, with The Winter’s Tale Chapter two Kingship and the Male Body politic Key Text: Richard II, with Henry IV part I, Henry V, Richard III Interlude: Interview with Adjoa Andoh Chapter three Testing the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends Well Chapter four Cross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s) Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like It Interlude: Interview with Lucy Phelps Chapter five Gendering Madness Key Text: Hamlet, with Two Noble Kinsmen Chapter six Paternity and Patriarchy Key Text: King Lear, with The Tempest Chapter seven Sexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender Key Texts: Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles Chapter eight Anxious Masculinity Key Texts: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, Chapter nine Maternal Bodies: Female Powers Key Texts: Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale References Index
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Edinburgh University Press DickensS Clowns
Book SynopsisThis book reappraises Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist.
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Edinburgh University Press Tales of the Troubled Dead
Book SynopsisFollow this vividly recounted ghostly trail through spooky stories from the past and present by Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill.
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Edinburgh University Press Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
Book SynopsisOffers new vistas for reading, understanding and interpreting Arabic literature as well as the culture in which it was produced.
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Edinburgh University Press The Vampire
Book SynopsisComprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon.
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Commemorative Modernisms
Book SynopsisThis book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.
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Edinburgh University Press The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir
Book SynopsisThis volume, tenth in the Yale Boswell Editions Research Series of correspondence, collects the letters exchanged between James Boswell (1740 1795) and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739 1806), eminent banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's 'English Episcopal' community.
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McFarland & Co Inc Children Beware
Book Synopsis How does a culture respond when the limits of childhood become uncertain? The emergence of pre-adolescence in the 1980s, which is signified by the new PG-13 rating for film, disrupted the established boundaries between childhood and adulthood. The concept of pre-adolescence affected not only America''s pillar ideals of family and childhood innocence but also the very foundation of the horror genre''s identity, its association with maturity and exclusivity. Cultural disputes over the limits of childhood and horror were explicitly articulated in the children''s horror trend (1980-1997), a cluster of child-oriented horror titles in film and other media, which included Gremlins, The Gate, the Goosebumps series, and others. As the first serious analysis of the children''s horror trend, with a focus on the significance of ratings, this book provides a complete chart of its development while presenting it as a document of American culture''s adaptation to pre-adol
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McFarland & Co Inc American Gadfly
Book Synopsis The American cultural historian, literary and social critic and college professor Paul Fussell (1924-2012) is primarily noted for his famous work The Great War and Modern Memory, but he also wrote and edited 21 books on a wide variety of topics, ranging from 18th century British literature to works on World War II and sardonic critiques of American society and culture. This book offers a thorough introduction to his writings and thought, and argues for Fussell''s importance and relevancy. Covering Fussell''s traumatic experience in World War II and the important influence it had on his life and outlook, this intellectual biography puts in context Fussell''s perspectives on ethics, the human experience, war, and literature as an evaluative and critical endeavor.
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McFarland & Co Inc Reading the Short Story
Book Synopsis Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O''Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.Table of Contents Acknowledgments (Anna Wing-bo Tso) Foreword (Andrew Parkin) Preface Part I Short Stories: Genre and Literary Criticism 1. A Brief History of the Short Story as a Literary Genre 2. Practical Literary Criticism Part II Close Reading for Short Stories 3. Religion and Redemption in O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 4. Consumerism, Alienation and Digital Dystopia in Bradbury's "The Veldt" 5. Masculinity and Sexuality in Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" 6. Fantasy and Fan Fiction in Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan" Part III Literary and Comparative Analyses of Short Stories 7. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" 8. Irony and Paralysis in Joyce's "Grace" and Trevor's "Of the Cloth" 9. Civil Rights and Prejudice in Walker's "Everyday Use" and Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia" 10. Femininity and Social Pressures in Lessing's "To Room Nineteen" and Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Afterword Index
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McFarland & Co Inc Italian Crime Fiction in the Era of the AntiMafia
Book Synopsis Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread backlash against the Mafia-sponsored murders of Sicilian magistrates which culminated with the assassinations of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. Though beginning in the Italian language, this prolific, popular movement has more recently found its way into the English language and hence it has found a much wider international audience. Following a brief, yet detailed, history of the cultural and economic development of Sicily, this book provides a multilayered look into the evolution of the New Italian Epic genre. The works of ten prominent contemporary writers, including Andrea Camilleri, Michael Dibdin, Elena Ferrante, and Massimo Carlotto, are examined against the backdrop of various historical periods. TTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viIntroduction 11: Ancient Origins 132: Roberto Saviano (b. 1979) 223: Norman-Arab Feudal Code 314: Wu Ming (b. 1970?) 415: Spanish Black Legend 506: Gianrico Carofiglio (b. 1961) 587: Risorgimento Roots 668: Maurizio de Giovanni (b. 1958) 749: Little Hell 8310: Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956) 9111: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre 9912: Giancarlo de Cataldo (b. 1956) 10713: Unlikely Allies 11614: Elena Ferrante (b. 1953?) 12415: Cosa Nostra Resurgence 13216: Michele Giuttari (b. 1950) 14117: Falcone and Borsellino 14918: Michael Dibdin (1947–2007) 15719: Sicilian Backlash 16620: Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) 173Summary 183Chapter Notes 189Selected Reading (English Language) 217Index 221
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform O Mito de Viriato na Literatura Portuguesa
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform A Critical Study of Junot Diazs The Brief
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University of Nebraska Press Paradoxes of Stasis
Book SynopsisParadoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regime's supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajicanalyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. InParadoxes of Stasis,Gajic argues that the combination of Francoism's long duration and the uncertainty surroundingits ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regime's politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genreslegal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoirGajic examines the different responses to the underlying tensionsof the Francoist erain the context of the regime's attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositionalTrade Review"Paradoxes of Stasis: Literature, Politics, and Thought in Francoist Spain, by cultural critic and theorist Tatjana Gajić, is a sophisticated exploration of political ideas about the (desired, feared, impossible, necessary) continuity of Francoism as a political culture."—Carlos Varon Gonzalez, Public Books“Given the novelty, the historical and philosophical importance, and the brilliance of this project, I don’t have any doubt that it will be of much relevance, indeed, a very influential book, for the field of Spanish and European Studies. Tatjana Gajić shows outstanding scholarship, erudition in the European philosophical traditions, sophistication in her literary, historical, and political analysis, and a very approachable writing style.”—Cristina Moreiras-Menor, professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan“Remarkable. Paradoxes of Stasis sheds important new light on the Iberian archive, a topic of continuing debate within the field of peninsular studies. Written with great facility, clarity, theoretical ambition, archival depth, and intellectual rigor, this book represents a solid contribution to the field and is a major piece of serious scholarship.”—Germán Labrador Méndez, associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Unstable Stasis 1. Legislating Francoism 2. The Movement of Divergence: Dionisio Ridruejo from Totalitarianism to Liberalism 3. Paradoxes of Francoist Stasis: Miguel Espinosa and the Art of Protest 4. Standstills of History: Nothingness, Tragedy, and Exile in María Zambrano’s Thought Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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University Press of Mississippi Friendship and Devotion or Three Months in
Book SynopsisParisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelogue meant for a young adult readership of the time. Lebrun''s novel is one of the few perspectives we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France''s former Louisiana colony. E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, extensive endnote annotations, and period illustrations. After a short preface meant to educate young readers about the geTrade ReviewThere are not many female voices from this time period in French literature and none that I am aware of who write about Louisiana. Through the eyes of a French woman, Friendship and Devotion offers a new and necessary perspective to the history of antebellum Louisiana and Louisiana French history and culture. Friendship and Devotion stands apart from others of the time because it is written by a female author of note in the 1800s, Camille Lebrun, and because it has, until now, only ever appeared in French. This will be the first chance English readers have to engage with this material—a text representative of what young, educated people would have read at the time that highlights the notion that nineteenth-century writers were very much aware of the injustice of the enslavement system in the US.
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Lexington Books Rhetorical Animals
Book SynopsisFor this edited volume, the editors solicited chapters that investigate the place of nonhuman animals in the purview of rhetorical theory; what it would mean to communicate beyond the human community; how rhetoric reveals our "brute roots." In other words, this book investigates themes that enlighten us about likely or possible implications of the animal turn within rhetorical studies. The present book is unique in its focus on the call for nonanthropocentrism in rhetorical studies. Although there have been many hints in recent years that rhetoric is beginning to consider the implications of the animal turn, as yet no other anthology makes this its explicit starting point and sustained objective. Thus, the various contributions to this book promise to further the ongoing debate about what rhetoric might be after it sheds its long-standing humanistic bias.Trade ReviewIn the excellent collection Rhetorical Animals, Bjørkdahl and Parrish have collected a range of robust investigations on the persuasive capacities of animals. These chapters expand existing conversations on ethics, rhetorics, and materiality, while pointing to new directions for exploring intra-animal persuasions, human-animal relationships, and the biotic bases for persuasion. Further, the scholars assembled here trouble longstanding assumptions about what rhetoric is, how it functions, and who has access to it, all while being critical and personal in equal measure. -- Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Expanding Boundaries – InternallyChapter 1: Multiple Rhetorical Animals: Motivation and Fairness in a Paradigm of Rhetoric as Emotive ConsciousnessDavid GruberChapter 2: A Humanimal Rhetorics of Biological MaterialityHayley Zertuche Chapter 3: Let’s Listen With Our Feet: Animals, Neurodivergence, Vulnerability, and Haptic RhetoricityKelin LoeChapter 4: Human Boundary Seepage and Bacterial RhetoricsJennifer Saltmarsh Part II: Expanding Boundaries – ExternallyChapter 5: The Biotic Turn in Rhetoric: Ethical Internatural Communication as Suasory PeacebuildingEllen Gorsevski Chapter 6: Towards an Ethological RhetoricDustin GreenwaltChapter 7: Beyond a Patriarchal Rhetorical Economy: Nonhuman Animals as Agents in Turkic Legends and Political CultureIklim GokselChapter 8: Human, Dolphins, and Other PeopleAlex Parrish Part III: Further Expansion: Cross-Species and Across CulturesChapter 9: Learning to Howl: An Exercise in Internatural AbductionEmily Plec and Susan HafenChapter 10: Touring the Sixth Persona: Dodos and the Rhetorical Effects of Missed CommunicationJake DionneChapter 11: How Dogs (and Other Nonhuman Animals) Become Interesting)Marilyn CooperChapter 12: How to Understand a Parrot’s Words and What You Can Learn from Him: Early Indian Writers on Animal Speech Andrea GutierrezChapter 13: The Rhetoric of Nonanthropocentric RhetoricBjørkdahl, Kristian
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Mexican Literature as World Literature
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-AuthorChapter 15 by Carolyn Fornoff is Winner of the 2022 Best Article in the Humanities Award, Latin American Studies Association, MexicoMexican Literature as World Literature is a landmark collection that, for the first time, studies the major interventions of Mexican literature of all genres in world literary circuits from the 16th century forward. This collection features a range of essays in dialogue with major theorists and critics of the concept of world literature. Authors show how the arrival of Spanish conquerors and priests, the work of enlightenment naturalists, the rise of Mexican academies, the culture of the Mexican Revolution, and Mexican neoliberalism have played major roles in the formation of world literary structures. The book features major scholars in Mexican literary studies engaging in the ways in which modernism, coTrade ReviewEven so, Mexican Literature as World Literature is an important book as part of the discussion that has been expanding for several years now. The effort that the editor has put into the study of Mexico as part of world literature is worthwhile, including the opening up of discourses and locations, as well as the continuous updating of epistemologies from those who address the materiality of Mexican literature locally and internationally. The volume represents one more stage in the constant progression that is the study of cultural and literary productions—both from the past and those that will continue to appear—which will have to transform in parallel with the world and its terms of possibility. (Bloomsbury Translation) * Ciberletras *The 15 essays are engaging and readable, revealing Mexico’s participation in world literature: Mexican authors are read internationally, and Mexico has a deep and sustained literary, cultural, economic, and political engagement with the world. * CHOICE *At this present moment the public and the academy are opening up to a fulsome evaluation of why we have centered a limited cultural perspective and what forces of history have pushed others to the periphery. This book advances this debate with contributions from a range of brilliant scholars who extend readings of Mexican literature and proposes new models for a richer understanding of world literature as a category. * Niamh Thornton, Reader in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK, and author of Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures (2020) *The brilliantly argued Mexican Literature as World Literature offers an illuminating new viewpoint on the Eurocentric debate of world literature. The volume exposes the world-literature dimensions of a centuries-old literary tradition and shows how Mexico only attained its place on the stage of world literature with the establishment of literary institutions in the post-Revolutionary period of the 20th century. * Gesine Müller, Professor of Romance Philology, University of Cologne, Germany *Groundbreaking scholarship from pre-eminent scholars of Mexican literature and culture, for students and scholars at every stage alike, brings Mexican literature into conversation with world literature from Conquest to the present, touching on multiple genres. * Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish & Comparative Literature, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 1. World-Making and the Poetics of the New World Jorge Téllez (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 2. Global Sor Juana Stephanie Kirk (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 3. World-Making in the New Spain of the Eighteenth Century Karen Stolley (Emory University, USA) 4. On (Re)productive Worlds: Transpacific Materiality and Mexican World Literature Laura Torres-Rodríguez (New York University, USA) 5. World-Making in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Shelley Garrigan (North Carolina State University, USA) 6. Rethinking Mexican Modernismo and World Literature Adela Pineda Franco (Boston University, USA) 7. World-Making in the Twentieth Century: The Rise of Mexican World Literary Institutions Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 8. From Post-Revolutionary Cosmopolitanisms to Pre-Bolaño Infrarealism: Mexican Avant-Garde Literatures in/as World Literature Sara Potter (University of Texas in El Paso, USA) 9. Beyond the Literary Field: Octavio Paz in World Literature Manuel Gutiérrez Silva (University of California-Los Angeles, USA) 10. Brief History of an Anthology of Mexican Poetry Gustavo Guerrero (Cergy Paris Université, France) 11. Juan Rulfo’s World Literary Consciousness Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork, Ireland) 12. Uno se sale de uno para verse viendo: Mexican Countercultural Literature as Psychedelic Interventions of World Literature Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou (University of California-Riverside, USA) 13. Carlos Fuentes and World Literature Pedro Ángel Palou (Tufts University, USA) 14. Neoliberalism, Distinction, and World Literature in Mexico in the Twenty-First Century Oswaldo Zavala (College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) 15. Planetary Poetics of Extinction in Contemporary Mexican Poetry Carolyn Fornoff (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA) Notes on Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Presidents of American Fiction
Book SynopsisMichael J. Blouin is Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Milligan University, USA, where he co-founded and now directs the Honors Program. He serves as chair for Literature, Politics, and Society for the Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA), and is the author of Stephen King and American Politics (2021) and Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972 2017 (2018).Trade ReviewMichael Blouin has written a truly remarkable, and remarkably important, study of the American presidency here, treating major representations of the chief executive in works of fiction over nearly two centuries but looking beyond these visions as well. He takes into account the notion of ‘presidentialism’ itself, inviting us to see the office itself as a kind of necessary fiction, one that functions oddly in a supposedly democratic nation. Blouin’s book is, I think, a hugely interesting and important contribution to the aesthetics of politics, and it sheds light on how we live our corporate lives – not something one often sees in an academic study. This book deserves a wide and appreciative audience. * Jay Parini, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Middlebury College, USA, and author Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal (2016) and Borges and Me (2021) *In this wide-ranging analysis of fictional US presidents, Michael Blouin shows how literary authors—highbrow and low—have countered the gravitational force of US presidentialism. The Fictional POTUS lets readers focus and practice their desires for US democracy on historical and imagined presidents in ways that, as he urges, are good for democracy. Literary presidents serve as a 'vital catalyst that reminds readers of their dissatisfaction' with presidential failures and democratic shortcomings, letting them practice wanting more and imagining better. The fictional POTUS teaches readers that 'dissatisfaction [is] one of democracy’s greatest gifts' thus serving as a powerful corrective to the anti-democratic symbolics and practices of the US presidency. * Dana D. Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair of English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University, USA *A remarkable achievement, this investigation into Presidentialism - both as an actual figure and idea - is a more than timely reminder of the schisms that persist at the heart of American democracy. This is an important study of some of the fictions that American presidents have both engendered and capitalized on throughout history; in other words, a must read for serious students of American cultural history, literature, and politics. * Caroline Blinder, Reader in American Literature and Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Moving Portraits of the President 1. James Fenimore Cooper’s Exceptional Presidents 2. George Lippard and the Gothic President 3. Williams Wells Brown and the Disembodied President 4. The President in Books for Boys 5. The President in Books for Girls 6. Hamlin Garland, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Tortured Heart of American Realism 7. Gore Vidal and the Performative Presidency 8. The Imperial Presidents of American Literature Epilogue: George Saunders and Presidential Melancholia References Index
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Stanford University Press American Graphic: Disgust and Data in
Book SynopsisWhat do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically streamlined in the form of graphs, diagrams, and user interfaces. Clark's innovation is to ask what happens when the same moment in a work of literature is graphic in both ways at once. Her answer suggests the graphic turn in contemporary literature is intimately implicated in the fraught dynamics of identification. As Clark reveals, this double graphic indexes the unseemliness of a lust—in our current culture of information—for cool epistemological mastery over the bodies of others. Clark analyzes the contemporary graphic along three specific axes: the ethnographic, the pornographic, and the infographic. In each chapter, Clark's explication of the double graphic reads a canonical author against literary, visual and/or performance works by Black and/or female creators. Pairing works by Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon with pieces by Mat Johnson, Kara Walker, Fran Ross, Narcissister, and Teju Cole, Clark tests the effects and affects of the double graphic across racialized and gendered axes of differences. American Graphic forces us to face how closely and uncomfortably yoked together disgust and data have become in our increasingly graph-ick world. Trade Review"This stylishly written book offers a series of masterful examples of the value of close reading, opening up provocative connections between formality and filthiness, detachment and disgust."—Eugenie Brinkema, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"A smart, lively, consistently unsettling book. Clark's superb analysis of works that are at once grotesque and clinical boldly charts the sentimental politics of affect and identification for our age of data-driven cool."—Justus Nieland, Michigan State University"Clark has written a groundbreaking and timely book, one that interrogates the social implications of the flat registers that digital and visual culture create. She disrupts our relationships with sleek digital artifacts and the consequential flat affects that shape our everyday lives. And in doing so, she pushes on the limits of what the digital humanities can be and do."—Liliana M. Naydan, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Graphic and the Graph-ick 1. The American Grotesque: A Graphic Digest 2. The Ethnographic 3. The Pornographic 4. The Infographic Conclusion: Identification and Its Discontents
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Literature: Why It Matters
Book Synopsis‘Facts alone are wanted in life,’ exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens’ Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and – despite two and a half thousand years of arguments – no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But, argues Robert Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature that makes it such a rewarding and useful subject. Eaglestone shows that studying literature can change who you are, turning you from a ‘reader’ into a ‘critic’: someone attuned to the ways we make meaning in our world. Literature is a living conversation which provides endless opportunities to rethink and reinterpret our societies and ourselves. With examples ranging from Sappho to Skyrim, this book shows how literature offers freer and deeper ways of thinking and being.Trade Review"This is a fantastic book - important and ground-breaking in the way that it both examines and explains the most important practices and principles underlying the study of English Literature. Highly readable as well as hugely enjoyable, it is essential reading for those studying and teaching the subject at advanced level."—Barbara Bleiman, English & Media Centre "Eaglestone argues fiercely and lucidly: literary studies can inspire an ongoing conversation, further each and every one of us, and test and shape values and beliefs. Nor does he lose sight of the key role that pleasure plays in the pursuit of understanding literature. This is an admirably judicious and persuasive manifesto."—Marina Warner, Birkbeck College, London, and President of the Royal Society of Literature "This lively book makes a persuasive, entirely un-preachy, case for caring about literature – the case that for so long we have not known how to make. Literature, for Eaglestone, is both intensely useful and happily useless. We can't get away from literature even if we try, and this book firmly shows us why we shouldn't be trying."—Michael Wood, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: What is Literature? Chapter 2: Studying Literature Chapter 3: Why Does Literature Matter? Chapter 4: What Does Literature Teach? Notes Index
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Pan Macmillan The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse
Book SynopsisThe Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.It is arranged chronologically in four books which each celebrate a different era in the evolution of English poetry, from Elizabethan to the 19th century. All the greats are here, including Shakespeare and Milton, Marvell and Pope, Wordsworth and Keats. First published in 1861, it became the standard anthology for over 100 years.This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition includes a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and is published to mark Macmillan’s 175th anniversary.Table of ContentsSection - i: Foreword by Carol Ann Duffy Section - ii: Dedication Section - iii: Preface Unit - 1: Book I: Elizabethan Unit - 2: Book II: 17th Century Unit - 3: Book III: 18th Century Unit - 4: Book IV: 19th Century Index - iiii: Index of Writers Index - v: Index of First Lines
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Manchester University Press Addressing the Other Woman: Textual
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words and images of subordination. The book explores this dimension of their work through the concept of ‘the other woman’, a utopian wish to reach women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. To make the artwork’s aspirations more concrete, it places the artists in correspondence with three writers – Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey – who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible.Trade Review'In looking at the decade that occupies a unique place in the ongoing history of the transnational feminist movement, [Lamm has] uncovered hitherto unassessed materials and proposed insightful new readings in the archives of feminism, whilst also presenting us with an archival rearrangement that produces new objects with which to think about art history.'Association for Art History -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresIntroduction: addressing the other womanPart I: Writing the 'I' otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis 1 Adrian Piper’s textual address2 Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela DavisPart II: Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression 3 Writing the drives in Nancy Spero’s Codex Artaud4 Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto and the texts of aggression Part III: Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey5 Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document6 Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura MulveyConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press The Correspondence of John Dryden
Book SynopsisThe correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century. He defined an age and his newly transcribed disparate correspondence is placed in the context of contemporaneous and current debates about literature, politics and religion. It is also the most important account of the relationship between an author and his bookseller of the time.The illustrated correspondence contains a full biographical, textual introduction and calendar of letters. It is transcribed diplomatically and structured chronologically, with contextualising sections about particular correspondences.The readership will be undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and academics with an interest in seventeenth century literature, politics, religion and culture.The editor won the MLA Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters.Trade Review'It is astounding to learn that only sixty-two letters, now collected with wonderfully thorough notes by Stephen Bernard and John McTague, survive from such a prolific and public hand. But the molehill is a mountain. Anyone remotely interested in this era will want to know … England’s greatest living poet … Dryden did for English literature what Augustus did for Rome, “He found it brick, and left it marble.' The New Criterion'Perhaps the most unheralded literary event of recent months was an item titled The Correspondence of John Dryden, published by Manchester University Press and edited by two worthies unlikely to be household names, although they’ve done a masterly job. … Stephen Bernard and John McTague have made sure not to slight in any way what they deem relevant textual commentary … It’s not pedantry, just good scholarship. The Hudson Review''The new generous edition of The Correspondence of John Dryden, edited by Stephen Bernard with John McTague, is full of gifts. Many of the letters themselves are gifts of news and writing, and news of writing, and as many others cover or record the grateful receipt of other objects passing between correspondents. ‘I always thought my Verses to my Cousin Driden were the best of the whole’, Dryden wrote … in his last surviving letter, ‘& to my comfort the Town thinks them so; & He, which pleases me most, is of the same Judgment as appears by a noble present he has sent me, which surprised me, because I did not in the least expect it’ … That sometimes surprising generosity extends happily into the ample editorial apparatus supplied to the seventy-eight letters making up the edition …Headnotes, sometimes to individual letters and on other occasions to groups of letters … helpfully locate them in their contexts; and end notes to each letter annotate them in a detail that often extends to the inclusion of whole texts to which only passing reference is made in the letter ... A gift, too, is the scrupulous and accurate attention that has been dedicated to the text of the letters, which where possible are freshly transcribed from manuscript witnesses.'The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 'The editors of this volume have made superb transcriptions of an extremely difficult text. They provide a general introduction to the book and to each of the letters, with valuable explanatory notes and portraits of the correspondents … contain[ing] 63 letters from Dryden, including 16 to his publisher Jacob Tonson, 17 to his young cousin Elizabeth Steward, and 15 letters to him … striking phrases and witty retorts leap out of the dull sentences … His biographer Sir Walter Scott dismissed them as “singularly uninteresting.” But the editors defend them—and justify their book … the letters “represent Dryden in his many facets: wit, man of letters, bon vivant, patron, client, a politically and religiously conscientious family man.' The Article -- .Table of ContentsNotes on the textList of abbreviationsCalendar of lettersJohn Dryden (1631–1700): an introductionThe correspondenceBibliographyIndex
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