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Book SynopsisThe dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle, the book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public’s understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of defining a person’s character by way of the bumps on their skull. Highly relevant to the study of the many authors – Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them – whose fiction was informed by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.Table of ContentsPreamble ‘This far-famed skull’: exhumation and the autopsy of talent1 ‘Dr Gall, the anatomist, who gives lectures on the skull’: phrenology in Britain during the first decade of the nineteenth century2 ‘A field for quacks to fatten in’: phrenology in the British Isles3 ‘The doctrines of phrenology shall spread over Britain’: George Combe and the rise of British phrenology4 ‘That strange amalgamation of the two sciences’: mesmerism, celebrity practitioners and the schism of 1842-3Conclusion: The decadence of phrenology: materiality and meaninglessness in modern BritainCoda The phrenology of Donald J. TrumpBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPerception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the period, drawing novel connections between treatments of perception as an embodied phenomenon and the creative methods employed by natural philosophers. Covering a wealth of literary, theological, and pedagogical texts that engage with astronomy, optics, ophthalmology, and the body, it argues for the significance of analogies for conceptualising and explaining new scientific ideas. As well as identifying their use in religious and topographical poetry, the book addresses how analogies are visible in material culture through objects such as orreries, camera obscuras, and aeolian harps. It makes the vital claim that scientific concepts become intertwined with Christian discourse through reinterpretations of origins and signs, the scope of the created universe, and the limits of embodied knowledge.Trade Review'The strength of Perception and Analogy comes in its detailed catalogue of how analogies are used to affirm religious beliefs during this period. Scholars working in disability studies will find the chapters on human limitation particularly useful, as Powell’s close readings affirm the centrality of disabled bodies for linking medical and religious discourses during the eighteenth century.'Annika Mann, Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Celestial speculations 2. Light, perception and revelation 3. Seeing in colour 4. Understanding the eye 5. Perception and the body Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions. Drawing from book history and relying on close reading and textual criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written, published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe, and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets presumably by Sidney and Spenser.Trade Review'This remarkable volume is a fine addition to the current body of scholarship on the sonnet form. Scholars of English lyric would benefit from a look at this volume, as would those who have especial interest in the structure and material production of early modern verse miscellanies.'The Spenser Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionLaetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica ZaninShaping the sonnet, from Italy and France to England1 English Petrarchism: From commentary on poetry to poetry as commentaryWilliam J. Kennedy2 Early modern theories of the sonnet: Accounts of the quatorzain in Italy, France and England in the second half of the sixteenth centuryCarlo Alberto Girotto, Jean-Charles Monferran, Rémi VuilleminPerforming the English sonnet3 Sonnet-mongers on the early modern English stageGuillaume Coatalen4 In and out: Shakespeare's shifting sonnets. From Love's Labour's Lost to The Passionate PilgrimSophie ChiariPlacing the sonnet: Sonnets isolated or sequenced5 'Small parcelles': Unsequenced sonnets in the sixteenth centuryChris Stamatakis6 ' ... and sweetly nectarize this bitter gall': Gabriel Harvey's sonnet therapyElisabeth Chaghafi7 Barnabe Barnes's sonnet sequences: Moral conversion and prodigal authorshipRémi VuilleminEditing the sonnet8 The Muses Garland (1603): Fragment of a printed verse miscellanyHugh Gazzard9 Sonnet sequence as sound continuum: How we read Shakes-speares SonnetsAndrew Eastman

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Book SynopsisThis book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’ correspondence, handwritten newspapers and graffiti in streets and prisons, analysing the major genres of ‘ordinary writings’. The studies draw on different disciplines, including cultural history, sociology and ethnography, folklore studies, palaeography and socio-historical linguistics. They range from the early modern Hispanic Empire to twentieth-century Australia, including studies of modern Britain, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, South Africa and the USA. The book demonstrates the importance of studying manuscript culture to give a voice, a presence and dignity to the ordinary protagonists of history.Table of ContentsNotes on contributors1 The common writer in history – Martyn Lyons2 Writings on the walls: approaches to graffiti in the early modern Hispanic world – Antonio Castillo Gómez3 ‘No more for Now or Praps Never’: the meaning and function of pauper writing in Britain, 1750s to early 1900s – Steven King4 Common writers in German-speaking countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century as agents of a language history from below – Stephan Elspaß5 Narrating injuries and injustices: life stories in the struggle for working-class rights in Britain, 1820-1945 – T. G. Ashplant6 Music and affective signalling in an immigrant letter from 1844 – David A. Gerber7 Pen, paper and peasants: the rise of vernacular literacy practices in nineteenth-century Iceland – Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson8 Questioning ‘the common writer’: ordinary writings from the Emagusheni trading station, Pondoland, 1880-84 – Liz Stanley9 Madlands: Vincenzo Rabito as a writer – David Moss10 Copying, citing and creative rewriting: the transmission of texts and ideas in Finnish handwritten newspapers – Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Risto Turunen11 Choreographing correspondences: how the state shaped soldiers’ mail in the US and Red Armies during the Second World War – Brandon Schechter12 ‘Dear Prime Minister’: the rhetoric of apology and affiliation in letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-66 – Martyn LyonsSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisGeoffrey Bullough’s The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare’s plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based. Shakespeare’s Resources revisits and interrogates the methodology that has prevailed since then and proposes a number of radical departures from Bullough’s model. The tacitly accepted linear model of ‘source’ and ‘influence’ that critics and scholars have wrestled with is here reconceptualised as a dynamic process in which texts interact and generate meanings that domesticated versions of intertextuality do not adequately account for. The investigation uncovers questions of exactly how Shakespeare ‘read’, what he read, the practical conditions in which narratives were encountered, and how he re-deployed earlier versions that he had used in his later work.Trade Review'Drakakis finds the idea of ‘source’ or ‘authority’ too narrow. The sheer scope of materials to which Shakespeare had access, the the circumstances in which the playwright utilized them, he argues, mean that ‘source’ and ‘authority’ imply a ‘quasi-theological’ concept of creation. Instead of ‘source’ or ‘authority’, Drakakis offers ‘resources’, a term that, as he uses it, is much more open-ended. A resource could be a book, but it could also be a half-forgotten encounter or, in Shakespeare’s case, the experience of having written an earlier play ... Each of his chapters is deeply engaged with the history of Shakespeare scholarship, on which he commentates with generosity and from which he quotes at length ... He closes on a musical metaphor, presenting Shakespeare as one who could ‘repeat tunes, recall motifs to mind, imitate themes and memes, improvise on existing material and, on a number of occasions, innovate’.Times Literary SupplementTimes Literary Supplement -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The legacy of Geoffrey Bullough 2 Myths of origin3 Textual economies4 Trafficking in intertextuality5 The nature of con-text 6 From formula to text: Theatre, form, meme and reciprocity7 The Thorello Plays: Shakespeare, Jonson and the circulation of theatrical ideas8 Shakespeare as resource Conclusion – The elephant in the graveyardBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book considers melancholy language in representative works by several British women writers in late Stuart England. To understand how these women writers understood and reframed the discussion about melancholy and women’s experience of suffering in their art, it turns to the twentieth-century French feminist theorist Julia Kristeva, whose radical work on melancholy in Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989) provides an alternative psychoanalytic perspective for considering melancholy discourse created by women experiencing alienation, depression, and anguish in earlier periods. Kristeva offers a theoretical lens for understanding loss as a significant and ongoing perspective on life experience that finds expression through art and language. This text argues that early women writers created a new expressive mode, revising existing models to account for their own losses during a time of cultural and political transitioning in England. These writers provide a melancholy aesthetic in their works or depict depressed female figures reflecting artistic angst and a new discourse within language for articulating pain.

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Book SynopsisWhat stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds a bridge between visual culture and sound studies. Kaleidophonic Modernity places the poet and inventor Charles Cros and his lover, the celebrated concert pianist and salonnière Nina de Villard at the heart of modern aesthetic and scientific vanguards. Cros's scientific endeavors ranged from color photography, to telecommunications, to mechanical sound reproducibility. In his poetry the Surrealists found an ancestor and inspiration. His literary and scientific works prove startling and relevant to predicaments of technological media in his own time and ours. For nearly twenty years Nina de Villard presided over a supremely daring intellectual salon. There, she welcomed manifold literary, artistic, and musical luminaries into a veritable crucible of the artistic avant-garde and precursor to the famous Chat Noir cabaret. Together, these two forgotten but pivotal figures, Cros and Villard, help reframe our thinking on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman, icons of urban modernity who can now be seen and heard in a kaleidophonic light, one that offers a compelling new perspective on modern mediascapes. In elaborating this transatlantic phenomenon, Kaleidophonic Modernity illuminates the prehistory of the phonograph as it intersects with the aesthetics of sound reproducibility, Franco-American literary exchange, Poe’s aesthetic and intellectual legacy, the sounds of modern cities and technologies, and the genealogy of audiovisual experimentation found in such movements as Dada, Futurism, and the sound art of today.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Acoustic Spectra | 1 1 Paleophonics: Charles Cros’s Audiovisual Worlds | 27 2 Poe’s Tintamarre: Transatlantic Acoustic Horizons | 74 3 Tattered Sound: Baudelaire’s Paris, Noise, and the Protophonographic | 102 4 The Amazing Chorus: Whitman and the Sound of New York City | 136 5 Nina’s Song: Music, Sound, and Performance in the Salon of Nina de Villard | 155 Conclusion: Pyrophonica and the Rhythms of Inspiration | 193 Acknowledgments | 205 Notes | 209 Bibliography | 253 Index | 269

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Book SynopsisTwenty-five years of Charles Cantalupo's writing, collected in one title for the first time.

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Book SynopsisDon Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of the self considered more extrinsic, such as appearance and social disguise. While not directly mentioning the Mexican wars of independence, Don Catrín offers a vivid representation of the political and social frictions that burst into violence around 1810 and gave birth to the independent countries of Latin America.Trade ReviewThe work offers a complex portrait of negotiated identities, and, despite its ending on a moralizing note, a modern audience will find it delightfully subversive." —Kelly Washbourne, Kent State University

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Book SynopsisThis panorama of a distinctly American literary world details a persistent pattern of plot and characterization in the work of a significant group of women writers. Starting with the nineteenth-century domestic novel, many women authors have challenged the male literary icon of the womanless, free-standing male adventurer who shapes the natural world to his individual vision. Instead, works by Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Gloria Naylor envision a semidivine female figure who brings into being an alternative community which honors female worth and female creativity. The works of these writers offer the empowerment of female authorship and acknowledge the woman's community whose collective experience shapes their narratives.

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Book SynopsisIn this book on the relationship between pícaro and cortesano, Felipe E. Ruan argues that these two cultural figures are linked by a shared form of deportment centered on prudent self-accommodation. This behavior is generated and governed by a courtly ethos or habitus that emerges as the result of the growth and influence of the court in Madrid. Ruan posits that both pícaro and cortesano, and their respective books, conduct manual and picaresque narrative, tacitly engage questions of identity and individualism by highlighting the valued resources or forms of capital that come to fashion and sustain self-identity. He places the books of the pícaro and cortesano within the larger polemic of early modern identity and individualism, and offers an account of the individual as agent whose actions are grounded on objective social relations, without those actions being simply the result of mechanistic adherence to the social order.Trade ReviewThis book addresses topics relevant not only for our understanding of literary forms in early modern Spain, but for all those critical periods that forced a reconsideration of human forms of identity. ... The texts chosen for analysis are ideal, both for their literary importance as for the editorial impact they had when they were published. Ruan’s theoretical approach can also be considered adequate, since the network of concepts Bourdieu weaves around “habitus” and “capital” allows for the consideration of the individual and social dimensions most influential in the construction of identity. Most importantly, perhaps, is the emphasis on a number of mechanisms and types that underscore, from the early modern period to the social and technological revolution we live today, that the construction of identity is both individual and social. Ruan successfully analyzes how these early modern forms of identity are produced and developed. * Revista Hispanica Moderna *This is a solid study, informed by social theory and by the work of an eminent group of Hispanists. The operative juxtapositions are revealing and rewarding. By judiciously navigating similitude and difference, Ruan expands and enriches the parameters of social and literary history. * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *

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Book SynopsisThis book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the key Bakhtinian concepts that will serve as a theoretical framework. A primary objective was therefore to articulate, relying on the concept of re-accentuation, that the history of the novel has benefited enormously from the re-accentuation of Don Quixote helping us to shape countless iconic novels from the eighteenth century, and to see how Cervantes’s title character has been reinterpreted to suit the needs of a variety of cultures across time and space.Trade ReviewThe 17 essays in this volume, which also includes an introduction by Gratchev (Marshall Univ.) and Mancing (Purdue Univ.), take as their point of departure the concept of re-accentuation, initially proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin in The Dialogic Imagination (1975; Eng. tr., 1981). The interpretive and analytical openness of key works of prose fiction allow for re-reading and re-imagination in subsequent ages and through different media and approaches. In particular cases, the possibilities seem infinite. A primary example for Bakhtin was Cervantes’s Don Quixote and its eponymous protagonist. The present collection is divided into sections on imagery and ideology, literature, film, and theater and television. The great majority of the contributors are academics (in various fields), but one is a professional puppeteer and another a marketing consultant. A special pleasure of this text lies in the diversity of references and juxtapositions: Doré, Dalí, Fielding, Unamuno, Borges, Thomas Mann, Waldo Salt, Kathy Acker, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the Chinese director Ah Gan, Orhan Pamuk, multiple Russian connections, and so on. The essays are intriguing in their range and methodologies, and they become testaments to the afterlife—what Bakhtin termed the “unfinalizability”—of Don Quixote in both public and artistic spheres. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction by Howard Mancing and Slav N. Gratchev Part I: Re-accentuation: Theoretical Introduction Chapter I: On Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote by Tatevik Gyulamiryan Part II: Imagery and Ideology Chapter 2: Don Quixote Re-depicted by Eduardo Urbina & Fernando González Moreno Chapter 3: Don Quixote in the Rise of Modern Novel: The Satirical Interpretation by Emilio Martínez Mata Chapter 4: Don Quixote and the Chivalric Ideal in Classics Illustrated Comics (1941-1971) by Ricardo Castells Chapter 5: A Horse of a Different Color: Salvador Dalí and the Re-imagining of Clavileño by S. Alleyn Smythe Chapter 5: Image not Found: Portraiture, Identity, and the future of Cervantismo by Stephen Hessel Part III: Literature Chapter 6: Borges and the Hermeneutics of the Novel by J. A. Garrido Ardila Chapter 7: World War and the Novel: Responding to Don Quixote in 1914 and 1934 by Rachel Schmidt Chapter 8: The Don Quixotes of Science Fiction by Howard Mancing Part IV: Film Chapter 9: The Art of re-accentuation: Don Quixote by Grigori Kozintsev by Slav N. Gratchev Chapter 10: Surviving the Hollywood Blacklist: Waldo Salt's adaptation of Don Quixote by William Childers Chapter 11: Crouching Squire, Hidden Madman: Ah Gan’s Don Quixote and Postmodern China by Bruce Burningham Chapter 12: Amélie as Re-accentuation of Cervantes by Jonathan Wade Chapter 13: Extracting the Essence of Don Quixote for a Puppet film by Steven Ritz-Barr Part V: Theater and Television Chapter 14: The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer by Margarita Marinova & Scott Pollard Chapter 15: A Russian Lancelot and His Don Quixote by Victor Fet Part VI: Don Quixote in The New World Chapter 16: The Visionary’s Quixote by Roy H. Williams Bibliography Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisPrint culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites is organized around these sometimes chaotic and often generative forms and their most famous practitioners: Edgar Allan Poe and the magazine review; Ralph Waldo Emerson and the quarterly essay; Rufus Wilmot Griswold and the literary anthology; Margaret Fuller and the newspaper book review; and Frederick Douglass's editorial repurposing of criticism from other sources. Revealing the many and frequently competing uses of criticism beyond evaluation and aesthetics, this insightful study offers a new vision of antebellum criticism, a new model of critical history, and a powerful argument for the centrality of literary criticism to modern life.

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Book SynopsisThe essays presented in Not just Porridge address both the scholar and the bold, adventurous cook. They offer the crumbs of what might be found in great and famous works of literature. Concocted in Italy by scholars of English and sifted through the judgement of the English editor, this volume traces a curious history of English literature, from the tasty and spicy recipes of the Middle Ages down to very recent times, threatened as they are by junk food and microwaved dinners. The authors of the essays have lingered on the threshold of the kitchen rather than in the library. Each chapter provides the recipes that best describe the writers involved, and their culinary times.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Food tasted and described: a kind of literary history (Francesca Orestano) ; Roger of Ware: a medieval masterchef in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (Cristina Paravano) ; Caliban’s dinner (Margaret Rose) ; At table with Dr Johnson: food for the body, nourishment for the mind (Giovanni Iamartino) [Open Access: Download] ; Jane Austen: appetite and sensibility (Chiara Biscella) ; Romantic food at Dove Cottage: Dorothy Wordsworth’s cookery and kitchen garden (Anna Rudelli) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley, a vegetarian poet (Marco Canani) ; Mrs Beeton: cooking, science, and innovations in the Victorian kitchen (Beatrice Moja) ; Charles Dickens from street food to the restaurant (Claudia Cremonesi) ; Henry James goes on a diet: a chronicle of a private drama (Elena Ogliari) ; Bennett, Strachey and the preparation of the omelette (Karin Mosca) ; Leopold Bloom’s grilled mutton kidneys (Maria Cristina Mancini) ; Virginia Woolf and the cooking range (Francesca Orestano) ; A. A. Milne: Tea (and lots of honey) in the Hundred Acre Wood (Francesca Gorini) ; Roald Dahl’s revolting food fantasies (Angela Anna Iuliucci) ; Bridget Jones and the temptations of junk food (Ilaria Parini) ; Coraline: frozen food vs a warm-hearted family? (Dalila Forni) ;

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Book Synopsis‘Locating Australian Literary Memory’ explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon – who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers’ houses and assorted objects. Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded.Trade ReviewBrigid Magner explores this strange and idiosyncratic feature of Australian cultural expression, in an informative study of literary heritage, offering a comprehensive account of the ways in which Australians remember ten now absent authors, beginning with Adam Lindsay Gordon and moving through a range of writers, to finish with a focussed consideration of monuments to David Unaipon, one at Raukkan in South Australia and another still in the making, to be installed at Tailem Bend. — Anne Pender, University of Adelaide, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/14655/12940, accessed 19 August 2020‘Brigid Magner’s fascinating study sets out the ways in which a nation can build an identity by actively constructing a literary memory, and then using those memories to paper over the deep history of our First Nations and their stories. In doing so she helps us understand both how fragile Australian culture is and also the ways in which literature is a powerful force.’ —Sophie Cunningham"Magner's book is an innovative addition to Australian literary studies, and will hopefully inspire further efforts to memorialise more recent Australian authors. —Webby, Elizabeth. ‘Review of Locating Australian Literary Memory, by Brigid Magner.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2020, doi: 10.20314/als.d589b6304"Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Remembering Absent Authors; 1. Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Grave; 2. Joseph Furphy in the Riverina; 3. Henry Handel Richardson and the Haunting of Lake View; 4. Henry Lawson Country; 5. The Multiple Birthplaces of A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson; 6. Nan Chauncy’s Sanctuary; 7. Living Memorials: The Houses of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark; 8. Statue: Mania: P. L. Travers and the Appeal of Mary Poppins; 9. Kylie Tennant’s Hut; 10. The David Unaipon Monument at Raukkan; Conclusion: Towards an Expanded Repertoire of Literary; Commemorations; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that literary representations of emotion need not be interpreted solely at the level of character, individual psychology, or the contingencies of plotting, but could also be related to broader sociopolitical forces. We thus find episodes of anger that serve as a collective response to the 'modernity' of wartime Cairo, feelings of jealousy that are inspired by the slave economy of imperial Brazil, and an overwhelming sense of boredom that emerges, in the late eighties, out of the bureaucratic procedures of the Indian Administrative Service. Affective Disorders also explores in some detail the formal consequences of these feelings – the way in which affective states such as anger or jealousy can often destabilize narratives, provoking crises of representation, generic ambivalence, and discursive rupture. By emphasizing the social origin of these emotions, and by analysing their influence on literary discourse, this study provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between various sociopolitical forces and the affective and aesthetic 'disorders' to which they give rise.Trade Review‘Affective Disorders is a skilful, impeccably researched contribution, with much to offer to affect studies, narratology, and postcolonial work on emotion.' Alice Millington, Journal of Postcolonial Writing'The project [is] an ambitious one given the author deals with two independent empires, three disparate centuries, and four different countries. As one proceeds through the riveting pages of the book, however, one realizes the scholarly acumen and academic rigor that Scott brings to bear on his work [...] that undoubtedly make it a pleasurable read. [...] One must acknowledge [its] nuanced, compelling, and erudite arguments. [...] The book is certainly a must-read for scholars of narratology, affect studies, and postcolonial criticism.'Shailendra Kumar Singh, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary InquiryTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Anger: Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley2. Reticence: Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy3. Jealousy: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’ Dom Casmurro4. Boredom: Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August: An Indian Story5. Fear: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost6. Stuplimity: Vikram Chandra’s Sacred GamesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisLife as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but more interested in form than content and ultimately disengaged from the world. This book examines a broad corpus of work by Georges Perec, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Roubaud and Anne F. Garréta to show that, despite the group's early devotion to the radical impersonality of mathematics, later generations of oulipians have brought the group's fascination with systems, games and constraints to bear on autobiography. Far from being 'lifeless', oulipian constraints and concepts provide the tools that allow writers to engage critically and creatively with lived experience, and mine the potential of the autobiographical genre. The games played by these writers are not simply pastimes or cunning writing techniques, but modes of survival, self-examination, self-invention, and relating to the world and to others. As the title of Georges Perec’s masterpiece suggests, they are a mode d’emploi for life.Trade Review“This is an engaging, beautifully written, and carefully evidenced book. Written with great verve and confidence, Anna Kemp’s voice is lively, limpid, and persuasive. The book shines in its close textual analysis and fiercely intelligent interpretations."Amanda Crawley Jackson, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Playing and Being in Georges Perec2. The Potential Lives of Marcel Bénabou3. Personal Identity in Jacques Roubaud’s La Boucle4. Self-exposure and Self-erasure in Anne Garréta’s Pas un jourConclusion

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Book SynopsisIberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones offers fertile reflection on the dynamics of linguistic diversity and multifaceted literary translation flows taking place across the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and on a historically diverse body of case studies, the volume’s sixteen chapters explore the key role of translation in shaping interliterary relations and cultural identities within Iberia. Mary Louise Pratt’s contact zone metaphor is used as an overarching concept to approach Iberia as a translation(al) space where languages and cultural systems (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish) set up relationships either of conflict, coercion, and resistance or of collaboration, hospitality, and solidarity.In bringing together a variety of essays by multilingual scholars whose conceptual and empirical research places itself at the intersection of translation and literary Iberian studies, the book opens up a new interdisciplinary field of enquiry: Iberian translation studies. This allows for a renewed study of canonical authors such as Joan Maragall, Fernando Pessoa, Camilo José Cela, and Bernardo Atxaga, and calls attention to emerging bilingual contemporary voices. In addition to addressing understudied genres (the entremez and the picaresque novel) and the phenomena of self-translation, indirect translation, and collaborative translation, the book provides fresh insights into Iberian cultural agents, mediators, and institutions.Trade Review‘This publication is a fundamental reference for any scholar looking to investigate intra-Iberian translations in the near future.’ - Santiago Pérez Isasi, Universidade de Lisboa‘Positioning the collection of essays that the book brings together between two disciplinary spaces, Translation studies and Iberian studies, Fernandes, Pacheco Pinto, and Gimeno Ugalde propose to forge… a new field of research, “Iberian Translation studies.”’ - Patricia López-Gay, Bard College‘As we can attest after reading this book, studying the Iberian space as a translation zone undermines the restrictive framework of the nation-state, while questioning conventional binaries such as language/culture of origin vs. target language/culture, creation vs. translation, or author vs. translator, which opens up a promising future for this field of research.’ - Rexina Rodríguez Vega, Universidade de VigoTable of ContentsIntroducing Iberian Translation Studies as a Literary Contact ZoneEsther Gimeno Ugalde, Marta Pacheco Pinto, ngela FernandesPART I: Iberian and Translation Studies: Theoretical Contact Zones1. Paradoxes and Mediation Pitfalls of the Translational Contact ZoneEsther Gimeno Ugalde2. Literary Translation from Catalan within the Framework of the Iberian and Global Gravitational SystemsPere Comellas Casanova3. Theoretical Contact Zones between Translation and Iberian StudiesAna Belén Cao4. A (De)construction of Modern Literary Iberia: Translating Eugénio de CastroMiguel Filipe Mochila5. Between Recognition and Co-Optation: Translations of Present-day Galician Poetry in the Spanish Literary SystemIsaac LouridoPART II: Fluid Contact Zones: Indirect Translation, Self-Translation, Intersemiotic Translation6. The Picaresque Novel as Eclectic Translation: Composing HeteroglossiaRita Bueno Maia7. Estima de Oliveira’s Otoño en Pequín: Genetic Translation Approaches to Poetic AuthorshipAriadne Nunes and Marta Pacheco Pinto8. The Double Face of Translation in Joan MaragallRobert Newcomb9. Heterolingualism in the Novel. Soinujolearen semea and Its Adaptations for Theater and CinemaElizabete ManterolaPART III: Iberian Contact Zones: Crossing Times and Genres10. The Spanish Translations of Fernando Pessoa in the First Francoism: Ideological and Aesthetic FactorsAntonio Sáez Delgado11. Literary Tourism in a Contact Zone: The Spanish Translation of Lisbon – What the Tourist Should See, by Fernando PessoaSara Rodrigues de Sousa12. The Translations of Camilo José Cela’s La familia de Pascual Duarte into Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and BasqueMaria Dasca Batalla13. ‘Minotauro’ and ‘Confluências’: Two Portuguese Series Dedicated to Literature from Spain in the Twenty-First CenturyIsabel Araújo Branco14. The Nutcrackers: Iberian Variations on a Short FarceJosé Pedro Sousa and Andresa Fresta Marques15. Catalan and Spanish Drama in Contact (1890–1939)Enric Gallén and Miquel M. Gibert16. Iberian Theatre Translated into Portuguese in the Twenty-First Century ngela Fernandes

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Book SynopsisSex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. Using a feminist lens, this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by Black writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, making the analysis of some of these texts available to readers of English for the first time. This interdisciplinary study of female and male authors reconsiders their political strategies and the critical role of French creoles in the creation of their own history. This approach recalibrates overly simplistic understandings of the victimization and alienation of French Caribbean people. In the systems of cultural production under consideration, sexuality constitutes an instrument of political and cultural consciousness in the chaotic period between 1924 and 1948. Studying sexual imagery constructed around female bodies demonstrates the significance of agency and the legacy of the past in cultural resistance and political awareness. Sex, Sea, and Self particularly highlights Antillean women intellectuals’ theoretical contributions to Caribbean critical theory. Therefore, this analysis illuminates debates on the multifaceted and conflicted relationships between France and its overseas departments and expands ideas of nationhood in the Black Atlantic and the Americas.Trade Review‘Sex, Sea and Self brings cutting-edge critical analyses of overlooked texts to a broad scholarly audience. It is a timely and original contribution to French Caribbean studies.’ Anny Dominique Curtius, University of Iowa‘Couti’s book is essential reading for students and scholars of French Caribbean literature from the early to mid twentieth century.’ Antonia Wimbush, French Studies‘Couti weaves a richly detailed historical tapestry… Her work offers example after example of how reading against the grain, and in pointed suspension of our own critical value judgments, can nuance and expand our understanding of transformative periods in postcolonial history, elucidating the diverse notions of citizenship and identity held by Black French subjects prior to and immediately following departmentalization.’ Kaiama L. Glover, Small AxeTable of ContentsIntroduction – On ne vous a pas oubliés: Re-Scripting and (Re-)Gendering French Antillean DiscoursesPart I – She Says: Nascent Black French Feminist Thought and the Theorization of “New” Epistomologies of Self from the Interwar Period to the Aftermath of DepartmentalizationChapter 1 – The Doudou Strikes Back: Dissecting Doudouisme during the Interwar PeriodChapter 2 – Transatlantic Women’s Voices: The Doudou Writes BackChapter 3 – Mayotte Capécia: From “I am Martinican” to “I am becoming French”Part II – He Says: Black Male Recolonization of Space in the TropicsChapter 4 – Deconstruction of the White Creole Myth: Creole Desire and the Flip Side of the CoinChapter 5 – Whiteness and Masculinity Gone Wild: Impossible RedemptionCoda – Who Speaks for Whom?BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRecorded during Jorge Luis Borges’s final years, this second volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a wide-ranging reflection on the life and work of Argentina’s master writer and favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 2, Borges and Ferrari engage in a dialogue that is both improvisational and frequently humorous as they touch on subjects as diverse as epic poetry, detective fiction, Buddhism, and the moon landing. With his signature wit, Borges offers insight into the philosophical basis of his stories and poems, his fascination with religious mysticism, and the idea of life as a dream. He also dwells on more personal themes, including the influence of his mother and father on his intellectual development, his friendships, and living with blindness. These recollections are alive to the passage of history, whether in the changing landscape of Buenos Aires or a succession of political conflicts, leading Borges to contemplate what he describes as his “South American destiny.” The recurrent theme of these conversations, however, is a life lived through books. Borges draws on the resources of a mental library that embraces world literature—ancient and modern. He recalls the works that were a constant presence in his memory and maps his changing attitudes to a highly personal canon. In the prologue to the volume, Borges celebrates dialogue and the transmission of culture across time and place. These conversations are a testimony to the supple ways that Borges explored his own relation to numerous traditions.Trade Review“The English edition is good in that the translator has captured many twists in the old man’s Spanish and in his Argentine quirks. . . . For those of us who knew the grand old man, or heard him frequently, Boll’s version has almost captured the soft, gravelly voice, the pauses that sometimes sounded like a gentle stutter and the ever-present deceptive hint of doubt in asking an interlocutor if an opinion or detail is correct.” * Literary Review *"Conversations cannot and must not be missed by all lovers of Borges and readers of literature. The three beautifully produced books also feel like collector’s items. . . . The existence of these three volumes of Conversations with Borges will perhaps also calm the storms on Jupiter, change the colours of the hexagonal cloud formation on Saturn’s North Pole, spark a fresh burst of high energy gamma rays from the galactic centre and make our world a bit more imaginative, wondrous, wiser and happier." * Scroll India *Table of ContentsPrologue by Forge Luis Borges Prologue by Osvaldo Ferrai Socrates On the United States The Cult of Books Argentina’s Past, Present and Future On Philosophy On Borges’ Mother, Leonor Acevedo Suárez Prologues Flaubert On Uruguay Poetic Intelligence Almafuerte Buddhism ‘Epic Flavour’ Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo and Feminism The Conspirators Teaching Bertrand Russell The ‘Conjectural Poem’ New Dialogue on Poetry The Moon Landing Russian Writers Spinoza New Dialogue on Alonso Quijano Celtic Culture Quevedo The Mystic Swedenborg Painting Voltaire The Nineteenth Century Virgil On Friendship Chesterton The Book of Heaven and Hell Lucretius On France Mark Twain, Güiraldes and Kipling ‘Buddha and Personality’ Irish Literature Góngora The Poets of New England On Metaphor Edgar Allan Poe Paul Groussac Shakespeare New Dialogue on The Conspirators

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Book SynopsisA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume five, Simply a Particular Contemporary includes four interviews Barthes conducted between 1970 and 1979, varying widely in style and content.Table of ContentsAnswers An Interview with Jac ques Chancel (Radioscopie) For the Liberation of a Pluralist Thinking A Meeting with Roland Barthes

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Book SynopsisIn Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time. In Scialabba's hands, literary criticism becomes a powerful tool for expressing political passion and demonstrating the generative power of argument and an inquisitive mind. Drawing together a diverse group of thinkers, artists, activists, and philosophers-including Edward Said, D. H. Lawrence, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ellen Willis, and Noam Chomsky-Scialabba tours western intellectual history to find that no matter the stakes, critical thought remains a necessary precondition for politics.Every writer, Scialabba writes, faces the choice of whether "to tilt at the state and capital or ignore them" - and the world now is too dire not to choose the former.Trade ReviewEssays from across the storied career of 'critic's critic' George Scialabba. Forthright yet charitable, Scialabba gleans his greatest insights from those he disagrees with and is a model for the practice of independent criticism. -- Ryan Ruby * The Millions *Never has a writer of such enviable talents displayed such evident and unpretentious pleasure in good prose. -- Sam Adler-Bell * Commonweal *Scialabba is as lively as ever...Only a Voice is filled with provocative arguments that make the reader want to argue right back. -- Daniel Lazare * Arts Fuse *A celebrated critic and essayist * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisA discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.Trade ReviewOctavio Paz is one of the great European cultural icons of the 20th century before whom we all perforce bow down and worship. -- Richard Gott * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisWomen's literary expressions of war have long been neglected and at times forgotten in Irish scholarship. In Women Writing War: Ireland 1880-1922 many of these forgotten women are revealed through their writings as culturally active and deeply invested in the political and military struggles of their turbulent times. From the Land Wars to the Boer Wars, from the First World War to the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, the fascinating women considered in this volume-grapple with the experiential representation of conflicts. The diverse range of topics explored include: women's eye- witness accounts of 1916, Winifred Letts's First World War poetry, the political rhetoric and experiences of Anna Parnell and Anne Blunt during the Land War, Peggie Kelly's fiction and Cumann na mBan activism, the cultural nationalism of northern. Protestant "New Women" of the Glens of Antrim, Una Ni Fhaircheallaigh's Irish language activism in and beyond the Gaelic League, Emily Lawless's Boer War diary as well as the dramatic collaboration of sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz.The book also includes a preface by historian Margaret Ward and an extract from Lia Mills's award-winning historical novel Fallen, set in Dublin during the Easter Rising (selected as the 2016 'One City One Book' choice for both Dublin and Belfast). Engaging with recent Scholarly debates on sexuality, war writing, and the politics of Irish warfare, the authors of Women Writing War explore the ways in which conflict narratives have been read - and interpreted - as deeply gendered. Radicals, revolutionaries and queer activists, as well as women who remained attached to the domestic sphere, are all represented in this original and provocative volume on the relationship between women and conflict.Trade Review'This book comprises essays by female writers about war, from the Land War to the Civil War, from Anna Parnell's Ladies Land League to the early years of the Irish Free State and subsequent disillusionment. Heidi Hansson's essay is a delight, showing how unionist Emily Lawless's gardening diary mixed concern about the progress of the Boer War with concern about her budding shoots, often in the same sentence. Jody Allen Randolph is particularly interesting on Peggie Kelly, who wrote under the pen name of Garrett O'Driscoll.' Irish Times, 10 June 2017 'Lucy Collins examines the war poetry of Winifred Letts and in a splendid piece of literary criticism shows how she sheds new light on the moral ambiguities of violent conflict.' The Irish Catholic, June 2017 'Some thought-provoking books about 1916 and all that have been published this year, both fiction and non-fiction. Women Writing War edited by Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O'Cinneide (University College Dublin Press) is one of my favourites.' Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, 25 December 2016Table of ContentsMargaret Ward: Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Diane Urquhart: 'The Ladies" Land, League have [sic] a crust to share with you": The Rhetoric of the Ladies' Land League's British Campaign, 1881-2; Muireann O'cinneide: Anne Blunt, Arabi Pasha and the Irish Land Wars; Heidi Hansson: Battles in the Garden: Emily Lawless's A Garden Diary 1899-1900 and the Boer War; Lucy Collins: Winifred Letts and the Great War: A Poetics of Witness; Tina O'toole: The New Women of the Glens: Writers and Revolutionaries; Maureen O'connor: Eva Gore-Booth's Art of War; Riona Nic Congail: 'An Cros-Bhethar': Agnes O'Farrelly's Political Poetry (1918-27); Lucy Mcdiarmid: Uncomfortable Bodies in Women's Accounts of 1916; Jody Allen Randolph: 'If No one Wanted to Remember': Margaret Kelly and the Lost Battalion; Writing the Rising: Lia Mills on Fallen (2014).

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Book Synopsis This new book by the eminent critic provides an informative and timely survey of contemporary approaches to Joyce and modern Irish writing over almost 40 years. In a fresh opening survey Pierce explores the new departure for fiction heralded by A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and this is followed by essays on the hybrid landscape in Ulysses and on the distinctive style and humour of the ''Eumaeus'' episode. Other pieces focus on the appeal of Irish short-story writer, Benedict Kiely, anthologies of Irish writing, and Irish writing in the years 2006-9. The second half of The Joyce Country is devoted to twenty-six reviews of books about Joyce written from the 1980s to the present and grouped under several headings including ''Joyce''s European Cities'', ''Joyce, Yeats and the Matter of Ireland'', ''Ulysses in Perspective'', and ''Joyce and Modernism''.

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