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Yale University Press Samuel Johnson
Book SynopsisA one‑volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth‑century Britain's pre‑eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel JohnsonTrade Review“A crowning achievement, reflecting an actual improvement on many of the volumes in terms of scholarship, including currency of materials, accuracy, and skill in compression.”—Pat Rogers, University of South Florida“An essential and judicious selection of Johnson’s writings compiled by three distinguished Johnson scholars that will enable readers to sample his compelling prose style and his probing and deeply original intellect. “—John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania“Wisely selected, edited, and annotated, this volume presents the ideal collection for the 21st century of works by the 18th century’s most inspiriting author.”—John Sitter, University of Notre Dame, emeritus“Ideal for the classroom and for people who can’t imagine how to approach Johnson. The impossible selection of topics is boldly made: a myriad launch-pads for seriously enquiring thought.”—Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta“This selection from the recently-completed Yale Edition of the writings of the last great figure of the English Augustan tradition brings Johnson’s finest works together in a single, masterfully-annotated volume. A triumph of scholarly editing for the general public.”—Claude Rawson, Yale University
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The University of Michigan Press Empire and Environment
Book SynopsisArgues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the work of activists, artists, and intellectuals.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface: Out of the Ruins Macarena GÓmez-Barris Introduction Rina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Zhou Xiaojing PART I: (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific from Family Trees (poem) Craig Santos Perez 1 Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Confronting Ecological Ruination and Imperialist Nostalgia in Han Ong’s The Disinherited Jeffrey Santa Ana 2 Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space Kathleen Gutierrez 3 Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films Chitra Sankaran 4 “If We Return We Will Learn:” Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge in Papua New Guinea John Charles Ryan PART II: Militarized Environments Nuclear Family (poem) Craig Santos Perez 5 Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in le thi diem thuy’s The Gangster We Are All Looking For Emily Cheng 6 Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire Heidi Amin-Hong 7 Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Eco-Poetry Against Colonial Ruination Zhou Xiaojing PART III: Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance Praise Song for Oceania (poem) Craig Santos Perez 8 Risk and Resistance at Po\\ōhakuloa Rebecca Hogue 9 “Disentrancing” the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry Rina Garcia Chua 10 Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature Tihan Chang PART IV: Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities Age of Plastic (poem), Craig Santos Perez 11 Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel Amy Lee 12 Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha Emalani Case 13 Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli Artists Chad Shomura Afterword: “A New Way Beyond the Darkness” Priscilla Wald Contributors Index
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The University of Michigan Press Fictions of Affliction Physical Disability in
Book SynopsisReveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?'Trade ReviewHighly recommended... Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. - Choice ""An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."" - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University ""Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability... We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."" - Victorian Studies
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University of California Press Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Book SynopsisA beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finnwasthe only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume features the gorgeous original illustrations that Twain commissioned from Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley and also includes historical notes, a glossary, maps, selected manuscript pages, and even a gallery of letters, advertisements, and playbills from Twain's first book tour to promote the original publicationeverything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.
£22.50
Harvard University Press Dialogues: Volume 2
Book SynopsisDialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full treatment of the Latin hexameter in the history of philology, and a discussion of style and method in history writing. This is a new critical edition of the Actius and the first translation into English.Trade ReviewVolume Two of the I Tatti edition of Pontano’s five dialogues epitomizes the three volumes as a whole. The Latin text and editions are of the highest quality. The translation of the Actius, and the other dialogues, is eloquent and accurate. This accomplishment is particularly noteworthy because of the challenges present in these dialogues…It is truly masterful work. -- Brian Maxson * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Harvard University Press The Battle of Lepanto
Book SynopsisThe defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity.
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Princeton University Press Literature for a Changing Planet
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Erudite and provocative."---Oliver Balch, Financial Times "A book about climate and storytelling that is not only upbeat but downright jaunty."---Aaron Matz, New York Review of Books"A stirring manifesto, and Puchner’s arguments are impressive. He effectively inspires fresh ways of reading, and climate-minded bookworms, especially, will find plenty to savor." * Publishers Weekly *"This cogent, passionate text argues for a comprehensive reenvisioning of our relationship with the natural world to mitigate the accelerating climate crisis.. . . . [Literature for a Changing Planet is a] challenging, important work of literary criticism [that] stretches our ideas of what it is to be human and where we fit in the natural world." * Foreword Reviews *"Martin Puchner’s Literature for a Changing Planet is an urgent call for rereading the stories that have shaped our world. . . . This text will be most useful to teachers of world literature looking to diversify their reading lists and pedagogical practices. It will be useful to literary critics seeking to newly engage with ecocriticism. And it just might prompt a new generation of writers—and spoken-word artists—to create the works that will move us into health and balance with the small blue marvel that is our species’ only home."---Greg Brown, World Literature Today
£15.19
Princeton University Press Poetrys Data
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Stanford University Press The Words of Selves Identification Solidarity
Book SynopsisIn this extended meditation on the language of the self within contemporary social politics, the author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She studies why the requirement to be a something-or-other should be so hard to satisfy in a manner that rings true in the ears of its own subject.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book, eloquent and imaginative, witty and learned, brilliant and intellectually nuanced. It redefines a knot of difficult issues concerning language, subjectivity, and politics that have claimed critical attention for many years. Riley offers a new vocabulary and a new problematic for approaching these topics and thus rewrites some of the most seemingly intractable debates in contemporary cultural theory in an inventive and persuasive way." -Ellen Rooney,Brown UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Who me?' self-description's linguistic affect; 2. Linguistic unease; 3. Lyric selves; 4. 'The wounded fall in the direction of their wound'; 5. Echo, irony, and the political; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Lautreamont and Sade
Book SynopsisIn Lautréamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautréamont and Sade, these unique figures in the histories of literature and thought, are as crucially relevant to theorists of language, reason, and cruelty as they were in post-war Paris.Sade''s Reason, in part a review of Pierre Klossowski''s Sade, My Neighbor, was first published in Les Temps modernes. Blanchot offers Sade''s reason, a corrosive rational unreasoning, apathetic before the cruelty of the passions, as a response to Sartre''s Hegelian politics of commitment.The Experience of Lautréamont, Blanchot''s longest sustained essay, pursues the dark logic of Maldoror through the circular gravitation of its themes, the grinding of its images, its repetitive and transformative use of language, and the obsessive metamorphosis of its mTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface: What is the Purpose of Criticism? i @toc2:Sade's Reason 00 The Experience of Lautreamont 00 @toc4:Notes 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Lautr eamont, comte de, 1846-1870, Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814
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Louisiana State University Press The Soldiers Two Bodies
Book SynopsisInvestigates an overlooked genre of early American literature - the Revolutionary War veteran narrative - showing that it by turns both promotes and critiques a notion of military heroism as the source of US sovereignty.
£37.56
Louisiana State University Press Southern Comforts
Book SynopsisMoving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.
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LSU Press Shakespeare and Faulkner
Book SynopsisExplores the moral and ethical dilemmas that characters face inside themselves and in their interactions with others in the works of these two famed authors. Karl Zender's characterological study offers insightful, critically rigorous analyses of the complicated figures who inhabit several major Shakespeare plays and Faulkner novels.
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Louisiana State University Press Faulknerista
Book SynopsisFaulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book''s nine chapters place Faulkner''s work in the context of current debates concerning the politics of white authors who write about race, queer sexualities, and the use of the N-word in literature and popular culture. The Faulknerista of the title is a critic who tackles these debates without fear or favor, balancing admiration with skepticism in a manner that establishes a new model for single-author scholarship that is both historically grounded (for women have been writing about Faulkner, and talking back to him, since the beginning of his career) and urgently contemporary. Beginning with an introduction that argues for the critical importance of women''s engagement with Faulkner
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Northwestern University Press Behold an Animal Four Exorbitant Readings 32
Book SynopsisAs animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply - literally or metaphorically - an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing.Trade ReviewTo 'behold an animal' Thangam Ravindranathan suggestively argues, is literature’s temptation and taunt; the animal is always slightly ‘out of focus’ and so a token of literature’s own unrealness. Deeply theoretical and written in a prose that renders the animal at once palpable and unknowable, her readings demonstrate how dogs, horses, crabs, and hedgehogs mark the limits of representation even as they give life and breath to language." — Kari Weil, author of Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now"The question of the animal, revolving as it does on paradoxes of otherness and exteriority, allows Thangam Ravindranathan to catch the ‘soul’ of some of the best recent French novels. The horses, dogs, wolves, hedgehogs, and hermit crabs that populate their works reveal the inner pulse of today’s literature. Once brought into conversation with thinkers like Agamben, Baudrillard, Derrida, Deleuze, or Heidegger, they animate these novels and open vistas on the divide between humans and animals so as to invent a new ontology of fiction." — Jean-Michel Rabate; author of Think, Pig! Beckett at the limit of the human"Behold an Animal makes an original and major contribution to animal studies by arguing for a deconstructive approach that counters the call to read animals literally and by revealing surprising connections between primary and secondary texts." — Stephanie Posthumus, author of French EcocritiqueTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. Melancholy of Horsepower Chapter Two. Man of the Forest Chapter Three. Vague Dog Chapter Four. "Barely a hedgehog, strictly speaking" Epilogue: The Case of the Hermit Crab Notes
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Rutgers University Press Recovering the Black Female Body
Book SynopsisRecovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.Trade ReviewAlthough feminists have studied the social construction of the female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering collection of original writings by academics and artists on æhow African-American women, from slavery to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of the dominant culture.Æ. * Publishers Weekly *A collection of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to æamplifyÆ African American women writersÆ attempts to ætake back their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of impropriety and crime.Æ. * WomenÆs Review of Books *By examining African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a body of scholarly work but also attempts to ærecoverÆ a more accurate representation of the African American female body. * DePauw Magazine *A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity. -- Claudia Tate * Princeton University *Table of ContentsFrances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric / Michael Bennett "The deeds done in my body": black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken / Daphne A. Brooks The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona / Dorri Rabung Beam Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton / Ajuan Maria Mance Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world / Yvette Louis Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman / Doris Witt Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction / Vanessa D. Dickerson On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture / Margaret K. Bass Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman / Mark Winokur Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body / Jacqueline E. Brady Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield / Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins) Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals / Deborah E. McDowell
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Wayne State University Press The Enchanted Boot
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms there was already a rich and sophisticated tradition that included hundreds of tales, including many of those today considered classic. The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities. The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a st
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Wayne State University Press Salvage Poetics
Book SynopsisSalvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East European Jewish identity in the construction of a post-Holocaust American one. In her analysis of a variety of hybrid texts-those that exist on the border between ethnography and art-Jelen traces the gradual shift from verbal to visual Jewish literacy among Jewish Americans after the Holocaust.S. Ansky''s ethnographic expedition (1912-1914) and Martin Buber''s adapTrade ReviewIn a series of brilliant readings of the works of photography, ethnography, and anthropology that emerged from the devastations of the Holocaust and the deracination of assimilation, Sheila Jelen uncovers the ‘salvage poetics’ that mobilized Jewish cultural fragments against the ruins. Salvage Poetics thus sheds light on both the past and present and how the two are entwined through a Jewish poetics of salvage as well as loss." - Naomi Seidman, author of The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature"The absence felt noticeable because this stimulating and impressive book has an impact— and deserves to have a readership—far beyond its topic. While Salvage Poetics will primarily and valuably be of use for scholars examining the reconstruction of Jewish cultural life and identity after the Holocaust, it has much to say to folklorists more generally considering the interactive incorporation and adaptive use of literary material in the ongoing shaping of our own disciplinary thinking." - Paul Cowdell, Folklore"This is a thorough academic work with a fresh approach to our understanding of pre-war Europe. It contains a number of images, beautifully reproduced in color and black-and-white. For academic collections of Jewish history and ethnography" - Beth Dwoskin, AJL News and Reviews
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University of Alabama Press Immersive Words Mass Media Visuality and American
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The University of Alabama Press Mark Twain and Money Language Capital and Culture
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life. Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America's most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens's often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with the complexity of nineteenth-century economics informs much of Mark Twain's writing. While most readers are familiar with Mark Twain the worldly wise writer, fewer are acquainted with Samuel Clemens the avid businessman. Throughout his life, he sought to strike it rich, whether mining for silver in Nevada, founding his own publishing company, or staking out ownership in the Paige typesetting machine. He was ever on the lookout for investment schemes and was intrigued by inventions, his own and those of others, that he imagined Trade ReviewMark Twain and Money is based on sound research and scholarship and offers interesting reassessments of familiar works and valuable new treatments of lesser-known works. This book should be appealing not only to students of Twain but also to Americanists generally and to anyone interested in interdisciplinary studies of American literature and culture."" - Robert Sattelmeyer, coeditor of One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture""Mark Twain and Money is a provocative collection of essays on a subject that is both central to understanding Twain's life, thought, and writing, and, at the same time, focusing on an under-examined aspect of the man and his writing."" - Tom Quirk, author of Mark Twain and Human Nature and Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction
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University of Alabama Press American Culture Canons and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard
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The University of Alabama Press Canons by Consensus Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series
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The University of Alabama Press Rhetorical Machines
Book SynopsisAddresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.Trade ReviewRhetorical Machines provides an extension of current work in digital rhetoric, and helps to add a nuanced and more usable framework than more surface contentions about whether rhetoric and rhetorical agency is limited to humans or can be inhabited and deployed by machines/algorithms/software agents."" - Douglas Eyman, author of Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice""Rhetorical Machines is a timely, interesting, and important collection of essays that makes a valuable contribution to rhetorical studies as well as to the study of technology—especially in terms of questions of computation."" - Brenton J. Malin, author of Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in AmericaTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu Part I: Emergent Machines Chapter 1. A Conversation with A.L.I.C.E. Chapter 2. Engines of Rhetoric: Charles Babbage and His Rhetorical Work with Mechanical Computers by Jonathan Buehl Chapter 3. Definitive Programs: Rhetoric, Computation, and the (Pre)history of Controversy over Automated Essay Scoring, 1954–1965 by J. W. Hammond Chapter 4. Treating Code as a Persuasive Argument by Kevin Brock Part II: Operational Codes Chapter 5. A Conversation with Mitsuku Chapter 6. The Mathematical Assumptions within Computational Literacy by Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Joseph Warfel Chapter 7. Inventing Rhetorical Machines: On Facilitating Learning and Public Participation in Science by Ryan M. Omizo, Ian Clark, Minh-Tam Nguyen, and William Hart-Davidson Chapter 8. Race within the Machine: Ambient Rhetorical Actions and Racial Ideology by Joshua Daniel-Wariya and James Chase Sanchez Part III: Ethical Decisions and Protocols Chapter 9. A Conversation with Elbot Chapter 10. Metis in Code: CV Dazzle and the Wily Encounter with Code Libraries by Anthony Stagliano Chapter 11. Good Computing with Big Data by Jennifer Helene Maher, Helen J. Burgess, and Tim Menzies Chapter 12. Nasty Women and Private Servers: Gender, Technology, and Politics by Elizabeth Losh Part IV: Responses Chapter 13. Rhetorical Devices by James J. Brown Jr. Chapter 14. Full Stack Rhetoric: A Response to Rhetorical Machines by Annette Vee Bibliography Contributors Index
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The University of Alabama Press The Spaces of Violence
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI enjoyed reading The Spaces of Violence and learned a lot from it. . . . One of the most important contributions it makes to the wider discussion of violence and American literature is its insistence that violence is not a characteristic of urban life only, but permeates all regions—urban, suburban, and rural."—Robert Rebein, author of Hicks, Tribes, & Dirty Realists: American Fiction after Postmodernism"Giles explores in literary terms our national desire ‘to immerse ourselves in gore."—American Book ReviewThe Spaces of Violence is a welcome contribution to scholarship on American preoccupation with cyclical carnage."—Rocky Mountain ReviewTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Violence and Space 2. Discovering Fourthspace in Appalachia: Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God 3. Russell Banks’s Affliction: “All Those Solitary Dumb Angry Men” 4. Of Vultures, Eyeballs, and Parrots: Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle 5. The Myth of the Boatright Men: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina 6. Playing for Death: Don DeLillo’s End Zone 7. Drifting through Urantia: Greyhound Space in Denis Johnson’s Angels 8. The Return of John Smith: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer 9. “The Battle of Bob Hope” and “The Great Elephant Zap”: Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers 10. “I Hope You Didn’t Go into Raw Space without Me”: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho 11. Violence and Family Structures Notes Works Cited Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Poets Charles Williams
Book Synopsis`I believe this volume will give to scholars of Williams expanded vistas from which to view his work, and to the general reader glimpses of Camelot'. MYTHPRINT Includes Taliessin through Logres and The Regionof the Summer Stars - complex and haunting works which constitute the major imaginative writings about the Grail this century in addition to much previously unpublished material. Charles Williams's two cycles of poems, Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars, constitute the major imaginative work about the Grail of the 20th century. Williams's vision of spiritual reality is expressed through symbols of great originality, and the complex patterns of sound and haunting rhythms make his poems deeply rewarding.In this new edition David Dodds collects together for the first time twenty-four of Williams's earlier poems on Arthurian themes, many never published before. They are from Williams's collection The Advent of Galahad, which both grew into and gave way to the Taliessin cycle. There are also later poems showing this transmutation in process, and fragments, designed to form a sequel to The Region of the Summer Stars, which appear for the first time. Besides the publication of this important new material, the present edition will serve to introduce new readers to the magic of these rich and lyrical pieces, which evoke a spiritual world in keeping with the highest ideals of Arthurian literature. DAVID LLEWELLYN DODDS, of Merton College, was a Rhodes Scholar and Richard Weaver Fellow. He has lectured in English at Harlaxton College, worked at the Houghton and Regenstein Libraries, and is now Curator of C.S. Lewis's house, The Kilns. He is currently working on a complete critical edition of Charles Williams's unpublished Arthurian poetry and prose. Other poets in this series: Edwin Arlington Robinson; A.C. Swinburne; William Morris & Matthew Arnold.Table of ContentsPart 1 The published volumes: "The Region of the Summer Stars"; "Taliessin through Logres". Part 2 Uncollected and unpublished poems: "The Advent of Galahad" and intermediate poems; poems after "Taliessin through Logres".
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisContributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe--and whose experiences demonstrate--that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others. Contributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.
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University Press of Mississippi Open at the Close
Book SynopsisContributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick McCauley, Jennifer M. Reeher, Jonathan A. Rose, and Emily Strand Despite their decades-long, phenomenal success, the Harry Potter novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. While popular books, articles, blogs, and fan sites for general readers proliferate, and while philosophers, historians, theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and even business professors have taken on book-length studies and edited essay collections about Harry Potter, literature scholars, outside of the children''s books community, have paid few serious visits to the Potterverse. Could it be that scholars are still reluctant to recognize popular novels, especially those with genre labels children''s literat
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University Press of Mississippi Robert Williams
Book SynopsisA legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in in this volume attest to his rhetorical powers, which match the high level of energy evident in his underground comix and action-filled canvases.
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Sarah Schulman
Book SynopsisThe twenty-four interviews collected in Conversations with Sarah Schulman, roughly a fifth of those that exist, have enabled Schulman to expound upon her distinctive fusion of art and social commitment. These interviews provide full evidence of Schulman's value as a pivotal player in the intellectual life of her time.
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Cornell University Press The Plastic Turn
Book SynopsisThe Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this concept, traces the emergence and development of plastic polymers along the same historical trajectory as literary modernism. Plastic''s growth as a product in the culture industry, its formation through multiple application and chemical syntheses, and its circulation via oceanic movements, Ghosh argues, correspond with, and offers novel insights into, developments in modernist literature and critical theory.Through innovative readings of canonical modernist texts, analyses of art works, and accounts of plastic''s devastating environmental impact, The Plastic Turn proposes plastic''s unique properties and destructive ubiquity as a theory machine to explain literature and life in tTrade ReviewGhosh uses plastic metaphorically and in an innovative way to advance understanding of literature, art, and life in the present. In so doing, he develops a new material aesthetic, one that offers a new way to view history, ontology, and ecology as well as literature and the arts. * Choice *Ecocriticism's ongoing heterogenization mirrors broader strides in the environmental humanities, including advances in green postcolonial analysis, ice humanities, plant studies, waste studies, and related ecohumanistic domains. As a case in point, a significant contribution to ecocritical examinations of waste is Ranjan Ghosh's The Plastic Turn. Through a material-aesthetic optic, Ghosh genealogizes the impact of the plastic polymer on critical theory and literary modernism * The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory *An original and worthwhile reading experience for all those concerned with the humanities, the Anthropocene, the written word and the ecology of good and bad ideas. Ghosh's The Plastic Turn not only breaks the mold of literary criticism but asks others to refashion critical literature in elastic, versatile and plastic ways. * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsTurn to... 1. The Plastic Turn 2. Plastic Literary 3. Plastic Touch 4. Plastic Literature 5. Plastic Affect Turn on...
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Fordham University Press The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language,
Book SynopsisCritics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system? The Worlding of Arabic Literature argues that an ethical translation of a work of Arabic literature is one that transmits the literariness of the source text by engaging new populations of readers via a range of embodied and sensory effects. The book proposes that when translation is conceived of not as an exchange of semantic content but as a process of converting the affective forms of one language into those of another, previously unrecognized modalities of worldliness open up to the source text. In dialogue with a rich corpus of Arabic aesthetic and linguistic theory as well as contemporary scholarship in affect theory, translation theory, postcolonial theory, and world literature studies, this book offers a timely and provocative investigation of how an important literary tradition enters the world literary system. The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsNote on Translations and Transliterations | ix Introduction: From Embargo to Boom: The Changing World of Arabic Literature in English | 1 1 Sonics of Lafz. : Translating Arabic Acoustics for Anglophone Ears | 27 2 Vulgarity of Sajʿ: The Scandalous Pleasures of Burton’s The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night | 56 3 Ethics of the Muthannā: Caring for the Other in a Mother Tongue | 83 4 ʿAjamī Politics and Aesthetic Experience: Translating the Body in Pain | 113 Conclusion: Beyond Untranslatability | 140 Acknowledgments | 157 Notes | 161 Bibliography | 197 Index | 219
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Purdue University Press On Emerging from Hyper-Nation: Saramago's
Book SynopsisOn Emerging from Hyper-Nation represents Ronald W. Sousa’s attempt to answer the question, “Why do I smile on reading one of Saramago’s ‘historical’ novels?” Why that reaction of emotional release? To answer the “smile question” the book engages in a critical mode that could be described as “discourse analysis.” It combines several critical strains and relies on basic concepts from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Adlerian psychology, and contemporary cognitive psychology for their discourse-analytical value rather than as entrées into psychoanalytical reading per se.The introductory chapter presents some of the concepts that underlie that compound analytical modality and sets out an overview of twentieth-century Portuguese social and economic history. Then, with an eye to answering the “smile question,” the book reads Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s three novels, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989). Or, better, it seeks to read Sousa’s own reading of the three works, since focus falls on how each novel seeks to construct both its own reading and also Sousa as its reader.The discussion brings to light a number of textual phenomena that bear upon the “smile question.” Among them are that the novels invoke, often subtly, the fascist hermeneutical heritage remaining from before the revolution of 1974 as a constituent part of their communication with the reader; that they summon up historical trauma; that they function as Freudian-style “tendentious jokes”; and that, through these various invocations, they seek to constitute a postrevolutionary Portuguese subject. The reading of Sousa’s reading, then, ends up being a reading of some of the cultural forces at work in postrevolutionary Portugal.
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Purdue University Press Propuestas par (re)construir una nación: El
Book SynopsisPropuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain's colonial losses, when Spain's male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain's fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain's place in the international arena (emphasizing the nation's civilizing mission), critiques the intoxicating power of the so-called golden legend (Spain's glorious past), and sees the origin of the nation's hardship in the lack of education of its inhabitants and in the inequality between men and women. Pardo Bazán's vision of Spain is forward looking,and she imagines a future in which new social configurations will be possible. Instead of locating her plays in an ancestral Castile, she situates several ofher works in her native Galicia. For the author, Spain's regional issues are inseparable from the country's national issues and these can all be traced back to the woman question. The playwright appeals to the spectators/readers' reasonand emotions in order to let them think and feel that the problems the nation faces can all be attributed to the Spanish men. For Pardo Bazán, Spain's potential for national regeneration resides in the inner strength of women. In cross-fire with the main male players in the literary field of her time, Pardo Bazán offers her critique of national decadence in plays that cleverly subvert a broad range of by then outdated theatrical conventions, and that introduce the public to new currents of theatrical innovation (Ibsen, Maeterlinck, d'Annunzio). Propuestas offers a new perspective on the participation of female authors in the contentious debate about the Spanish nation. Pardo Bazán's theater is an overlooked area in the author's extensive creative production, and Propuestas challenges the so often repeated topic of the backwardness of the Spanish stage and the alleged lack of innovation during the fin de siècle.Table of Contents Prefacio Introducción: El teatro de Emilia Pardo Bazán Capítulo uno: El vestido de boda (1898). Mujer y nación en un monólogo teatral Capítulo dos: Destino y muerte en La Suerte (1904) y La Muerte de la Quimera (1905) Capítulo tres: Violencia, perversidad y horror en Verdad (1906) Capítulo cuatro: Cuesta abajo (1906) y el problema de España Capítulo cinco: De/Regeneratión en El becerro de metal (1906) Capítulo seis: Juventud o las (des)ilusiones del deseo (1909) Capítulo siete: Imperio, darwinismo y responsabilidad moral en Las raíces (1909) Epílogo: La Malinche (esbozo de un drama) Apéndices Apéndice uno: Artículos escritos por Emilia Pardo Bazán y consultados en este estudio Apéndice dos: Las obras teatrales de Emilia Pardo Bazán comentadas en este libro Notas Obras citadas Índice alfabético
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University of Massachusetts Press Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical
Book SynopsisFor pious converts to Christianity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New England, all reality was shaped by religious devotion and biblical text. It is therefore not surprising that earnest believers who found themselves marginalized by their race or sex relied on their faith to reconcile the tension between the spiritual experience of rebirth and the social ordeal of exclusion and injustice.In ""Piety and Dissent"", Eileen Razzari Elrod examines the religious autobiographies of six early Americans who represented various sorts of marginality: John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano, and Jarena Lee, all of African or African American heritage; Samson Occom (Mohegan) and William Apess (Pequot); and Abigail Abbott Bailey, a white woman who was subjected to extreme domestic violence. Through close readings of these personal narratives, Elrod uncovers the complex rhetorical strategies employed by pious outsiders to challenge the particular kinds of oppression each experienced. She identifies recurrent ideals and images drawn from Scripture and Protestant tradition - parables of liberation, rage, justice, and opposition to authority - that allowed them to see resistance as a religious act and, more than that, imbued them with a sense of agency.What the life stories of these six individuals reveal, according to Elrod, is that conventional Christianity in early America was not the hegemonic force that church leaders at the time imagined, and that many people since have believed it to be. Nor was there a clear distinction between personal piety and religious, social, and political resistance. To understand fully the role of religion in the early period of American letters, we must rethink some of our most fundamental assumptions about the function of Christian faith in the context of individual lives.Trade ReviewThis book accomplishes much in short compass.... One of Elrod's goals is to return an understanding of religion to the center of scholarship about early American texts, and she does that capably and imaginatively.... Spiritual autobiography remains one of the most 'teachable' genres in early American literature, and Elrod's book will extend how we conceive and follow through on such instruction. - Philip F. Gura, author of Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical
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Kent State University Press We Wear The Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality
Book SynopsisAn anthology of the best scholarship on the celebrated African American writer.A prolific nineteenth-century author, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national recognition. Praised by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Frederick Douglass, who called him “the most promising colored man in America,” Dunbar intrigued readers and literary critics with his depictions of African Americans' struggle to overcome a legacy of slavery and prejudice. His remarkably large body of work—he wrote eleven volumes of poetry, four short story collections, five novels, three librettos, and a play before his death at thirty-three—draws on the oral storytelling traditions of his ex-slave mother as well as his unconventional education at an all-white public school to explore the evolving identity of the black community and its place in post–Civil War America.Willie Harrell has assembled a collection of essays on Dunbar's work that builds on the research published over the last two decades. Employing an array of approaches to Dunbar's poetic creations, these essays closely examine the self-motivated and dynamic effect of his use of dialect, language, rhetorical strategies, and narrative theory to promote racial uplift. They situate Dunbar's work in relation to the issues of advancement popular during the Reconstruction era and against the racial stereotypes proliferating in the early twentieth century while demonstrating its relevance to contemporary literary studies.We Wear the Mask will appeal to scholars and students of African American literature and poetry, as well as those interested in one of the most celebrated and widely taught African American authors.
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University of Massachusetts Press Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality
Book SynopsisFrom the marginalia of their readers to the social and cultural means of their production, books bear the imprint of our humanity. Embodying the marks, traces, and scars of colonial survival, Indigenous books are contested spaces. A constellation of nontextual components surrounded Native American–authored publications of the long nineteenth century, shaping how these books were read and understood—including illustrations, typefaces, explanatory prefaces, appendices, copyright statements, author portraits, and more. Centering Indigenous writers, Book Anatomy explores works from John Rollin Ridge, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Pretty Shield, and D’Arcy McNickle published between 1854 and 1936. In examining critical moments of junction between Indigenous books and a mainstream literary marketplace, Amy Gore argues that the reprints, editions, and paratextual elements of Indigenous books matter: they embody a frontline of colonization in which Native authors battle the public perception and reception of Indigenous books, negotiate representations of Indigenous bodies, and fight for authority and ownership over their literary work.Trade ReviewGore’s writing is consistently clear and engaging, a pleasant, informative read. In fact, I was frequently struck by the ease with which Gore made her points." - Cari M. Carpenter, author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians"In this eloquently argued study, Gore reveals how Native American authors used not just their words but also book covers, dust jackets, copyright statements, illustrations, and even blank space to contest negative stereotypes and claim a kind of publishing sovereignty over their narratives. This book opens pathways for teachers, students, tribes, and scholars to see Native-authored texts in richer ways." - Matt Cohen, author of The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was ColonizedTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Material Matters Chapter One Dispossessed Editorial Dismemberments, Copyright, and Property Rights in John Rollin Ridge’s Murieta Chapter Two: Whiteness, Blank Space, and Gendered Embodiment in Winnemucca’s Life among the Piutesand Callahan’s Wynema Chapter Three: Pretty Shield’s Thumbprint Body Politics in Paratextual Territory Chapter Four: Citational Relations and the Paratextual Vision of D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded Conclusion Paratextual Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Epic Modernist Alfred Döblin
Book SynopsisProvides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Döblin, a major figure in German and European literary modernism.Alfred Döblin was born into a Jewish family in 1878 and grew to become a leading German literary figure before he had to flee from the Nazis in 1933. His big-city novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) is often compared to Joyce's Ulysses, but Döblin had been exploring modern narrative techniques since the early 1900s, and his themes were entirely his own. In view of the highly diverse character of his fictions and their settings-ranging from Europe to China and South America, and from the sixteenth century to the twenty-seventh-the first four chapters of this book present them according to broad thematic concerns-Person, Power, Nature and Culture-rather than chronological sequence. The aim is to encourage readers to identify aspects of his writing that they would like to investigate further for themselves. The introduction provides initial orientation in Döblin's early thinking and the way he conceived the writer's task, and that is followed by a concise description of his family background and his subsequent personal biography. The final two chapters focus respectively on the development of his skill in the deployment of specific narrative techniques and on how historical circumstances affected his philosophical and religious orientation in the course of his adult life, from the language skepticism of his early years and his professed agnosticism in the 1920s to his late conversion to Catholicism.
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Boydell and Brewer Joan of Arc
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd English: Shared Futures
Book SynopsisEssays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education. The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is an important and dynamic enterprise. English: Shared Futures celebrates the discipline's intellectual strength, diversity and creativity, explores its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world, and brings together the huge scholarly, cultural and social energy of the biggest subject in the Arts and Humanities in Higher and in Secondary education: the most staff, the most students. It represents the synergies produced when practitioners and students from across the discipline come together, and aims to enable new understanding of the challenges that the discipline faces within schools and universities, the vital cultural and political role that English plays, and a renewed appreciation of the intellectual vitality and commitment of its scholars and students. Overall, it demonstrates the rich ecosystem of a subject crucial to social, cultural, and economic well-being, and offers ways in which its vitality can be ensured in the face of new challenges within and beyond the academy. ROBERT EAGLESTONE is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London; GAIL MARSHALL is Head of the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Reading. Contributors: James Annesley, Katherine Baxter, Barbara Bleiman, Elleke Boehmer, Kirsti Bohata, Benjamin A. Brabon, Linda Bree, Susan Bruce, Billy Clark, Stefan Collini, Jane Davis, Sarah Dillon, Clare Egan, Elizabeth English, Emily Ennis, Martin Paul Eve, Corinne Fowler, Bárbara Gallego Larrarte, Marcello Giovanelli, Diya Gupta, Rob Hawkes, Ann Hewings, Keith Jarrett, Clara Jones, Seraphima Kennedy, Ben Knights, Simon Kövesi, Clare A. Lees, Alison Lumsden, Andrea Macrae, Lewi Mondal, Paul Munden, Daniel O'Gorman, Lynda Prescott, Ilse A. Ras, Catherine Redford, Rick Rylance, Helen Saunders, Jenny Stevens, Marion Thain, Stephen Watkins, Harry WhiteheadTable of ContentsIntroduction The Changing Picture of School English - Barbara Bleiman From A Level to HE: Working Towards a Shared Future? - Jenny Stevens English Outreach: Academics in the Classroom - Catherine Redford From Provider to Stager: The Future of Teaching English in HE - Benjamin A. Brabon Pedagogic Criticism: an introduction - Ben Knights Exquisite Tensions - Narrating the BAME ECA Experience - Keith Jarrett Postgraduate Futures: Voices and Views - Clare Lees and Lewis Mondal and Helen Saunders and Emily Ennis and Susan Bruce Shared Futures: Early Career Academics in English Studies - Clara Jones and Clare Egan and Elizabeth English and Ilse A. Ras and Stephen Watkins Some Reflections on the Funding of English Departments - Rick Rylance English: the Future of Publishing: 'Journal Publishing' - Katherine Baxter English: the Future of Publishing: 'The Future of Open Access' - Martin Paul Eve English: the Future of Publishing: 'Monograph Publishing' - Linda Bree Digital Futures - Ann Hewings and Lynda Prescott A View from the United States: the Crisis in the Humanities; the Liberal Arts; and English in the Military Academy - Marion Thain The Future of Borders - Daniel O'Gorman 'Between and Across Languages': Writing in Scotland and Wales - Kirsti Bohata and Alison Lumsden Exploring intersections between creative and critical writing: an interview with Elleke Boehmer - Elleke Boehmer Exploring intersections between creative and critical writing: an interview with Elleke Boehmer - Diya Gupta Exploring intersections between creative and critical writing: an interview with Elleke Boehmer - Bárbara Gallego Larrarte Integrating English - Billy Clark and Marcello Giovanelli and Andrea Macrae Employability in English Studies - James Annesley and Rob Hawkes Creative Living: How creative writing courses help to prepare for life-long careers - Paul Munden Practice at Large: How Creative Writing can Enhance University Research Environments - Corinne Fowler Practice at Large: How Creative Writing can Enhance University Research Environments - Harry Whitehead 'And who can turn away?' Witnessing a shared dystopia - Seraphima Kennedy English and the Public Good - Sarah Dillon 'Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? / Or Love in a golden bowl?' On not defending the humanities - Simon Kovesi 'Something Real to Carry Home When Day Is Done': The Reader in Future - Jane Davis Afterword - Stefan Collini
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Boydell and Brewer Convention and the Individual in Medieval English
Book SynopsisOffers a nuanced reading of character and subjectivity in medieval romance via an exploration of its conventions.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Picturing Divinity in John Donnes Writings
Book SynopsisA new approach to the visual arts in the work of John Donne
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Boydell and Brewer Federico Garc237a Lorca The Poetry in All Things
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Rutgers University Press Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical
Book SynopsisEvidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This blackness amazes because it refuses the limits of anti-blackness. As put to work in this project, fantastical blackness is an ethical praxis that centers black self-knowledge as a point of departure rather than as a reaction to threatening or diminishing dominant narratives. Mystery, romance, fantasy, mixed-genre, and science fictions’ unrestrained imaginings profoundly communicate this quality of blackness, specifically here through the work of Barbara Neely, Colson Whitehead, Nalo Hopkinson, and Colin Channer. When black writers center this expressive quality, they make fantastical blackness available to a broad audience that then uses its imaginable vocabularies to reshape extra-literary realities. Ultimately, popular genres’ imaginable possibilities offer strategies through which the made up can be made real. Trade Review"Evidence of Things Not Seen is a thoughtful and welcome examination of contemporary Black fantastic literature that expands our understanding of the liberatory ways that Black authors creatively imagine and write against the ongoing perniciousness of global anti-blackness."— Michelle D. Commander, author of Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic "With the brilliance of James Baldwin's cultural criticism as a conceptual frame, Frederick's 'fantastical blackness' defies the limitations offered by colonial attempts at diminishing African subjectivities. Instead, Frederick shows us how Black writers of fantastical blackness explore the contours of African identities made possible without the dehumanization of the colonial project. This contribution to scholarship on Black speculative fiction is a tour de force, for sure."— Meredith Gadsby, author of Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and SurvivalTable of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1 First—Mystery: Fantastically Black Blanche White: BarbaraNeely’s Blanche on the Lam 2 Second—Urban Romantica: Making Black and Jamaican Love: Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities 3 Third—Fantasy: Fantastic Possibilities: Theorizing National Belonging through Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring 4 Fourth—Multigenre: Seeing White: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad 5 Fifth—Fantasy, Short Story: Fantastically Black Woman: Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste” Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The Chinese University Press Facility Siting in the Asia-Pacific: Perspectives on Knowledge Production and Application
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the management of conflicts that involve the siting of unwanted projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Contributors are renowned scholars in environmental policy and write from actual experience with the region, employing theoretical, comparative, and policy-based approaches to an analysis of environmental conflict, risk management, and public participation. The collection therefore will function as an invaluable resource for policymakers, environmentalists, and scholars of the Asia-Pacific and elsewhere.
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The Chinese University Press Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies
Book SynopsisThis edited volume investigates translations from the languages of China into the languages of Western societies, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Rather than focusing solely on the activity of translation, the authors extend their explorations to cover the contexts within which the translators worked from different perspectives, touching on various aspects of the institutional and intellectual backgrounds that informed their writings. Studies of translation from literary Chinese into English constitute the majority of the contributions, but the volume is also illuminated by excursions into Latin, French and Italian, while the problems of translating the Naxi script are confronted as well. In addition, the wider context of the rendering of Chinese into other languages is explored through a survey of recent Japanese translation series. Throughout the volume, translation is presented not simply as a linguistic exercise but rather as a key element in world history, well worthy of further interdisciplinary investigation.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction by T. H. BARRETT Conflicting Interpretations on the Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty: The Debate between Navarrete and Brancati on the Ritual to Confucius in Canton in 1668 - Thierry MEYNARD Beijing as a Missionary Translation Center in the Eighteenth Century - Eugenio MENEGON Thomas Manning (1772–1840): Spiritual Intuitions and Sinological Visions in the Case of an English Eccentric - Edward WEECH Learning and Outcomes in Early Anglophone Sinological Translation: The Case of Thomas Manning (1772–1840) - T. H. BARRETT Two Cousins: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s and Stanislas Julien’s Translations of Yu jiao li - Roland ALTENBURGER Sinologists as Diplomatic Translators: Robert Thom (1807–1846) in the First Opium War and His Translation of the Supplementary Treaty (Treaty of the Bogue), 1843 - Lawrence Wang-chi WONG When Sinology Encountered Ethnology: S. Wells Williams’ Translation of Chinese Death Rituals in Jiali Tieshi Jicheng - Siyang SHUAI The First Translations of Daoist Religious Texts - Benjamin PENNY Literary Translation and Sinological Knowledge: The Case of Herbert Allen Giles’ (1845–1935) Gems of Chinese Literature (1884) - Lingjie JI A Literary Experiment of “Mahayana Christianity”: On Timothy Richard’s English Translation of Xiyouji - Xiaofang WU Widow as Trustee: George Jamieson’s Translation of Qing Widow “Inheritance Rights” - Rui LIU Translations of Chinese Fiction in Italy at the End of the Nineteenth Century - Alessandra BREZZI “Naxiology” and Translation in the Works of Joseph Rock - Duncan POUPARD Forging a New Epistemology about Philosophy and Science: Joseph Needham’s Translation of Zhu Xi’s Concept of Li 理 - I-Hsin CHEN Appendix: Sinology in Japan and the Translation of Chinese Texts - Joshua FOGEL Contributors
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Oxford University Press The Mirror and the Lamp
Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.Trade Review"One of the five works published within the last thirty years which in the opinion of representative scholars and critics have contributed most to the understanding of literature."--Contemporary Literary Scholarship "Abrams has written a remarkable book on the history of criticism, the most distinguished contribution of American scholarship in that field since the work of J.E. Spingarn."--Comparative Literature "The book is so rich in thought that it is invaluable for students of the romantic movement and indeed of the whole theory of criticism. I regard it as one of the most distinguished achievements of American literary scholarship of our day."--Modern Philology "With this book, M.H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields--for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism, and aesthetics."--Modern Language Journal "The past forty years have seen many attempts at ordering our ideas about literature; The Mirror and the Lamp stands out among them as a unique combination of rich historical scholarship and hard-won clarity of thought."--The Times Literary Supplement (London)
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Taylor & Francis Childrenâs Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisChildrenâs Literature & Culture: An Introduction guides readers in the study of culture in, around, and through childrenâs literature. Childrenâs literature has long been used as a mechanism by which a culture passes its values from one generation to the next. Because of this culturally didactic purpose, childrenâs literature can be viewed as one of the most fruitful areas of study of any given culture, while attending to the cultures from which works of childrenâs literature emerge and in which they circulate can also help better understand not only the ideas of childhood that underpin individual texts for children, but the role they play in the construction and transmission of different cultural ideologies. This book teaches readers this double work of using culture to understand childrenâs literature and vice versa. This volume traces the scholarly methodologies and histories that have attended the study of each of the twenty chaptersâ given subject - from the representation of race in and around childrenâs literature to questions of censorship to how libraries can and do shape childrenâs literature. In the process, it prepares readers to confidently enter and forward scholarly debates and to teach such debates to their own students.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel
Book SynopsisDrawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history. A glossary of key terms and a guide to further reading are included, making this an ideal accompaniment to introductory courses on the novel.Table of ContentsAbout this book; 1. Why the novel matters; Interchapter: Don Quixote; 2. Origins of the novel; Interchapter: Tristram Shandy; 3. Narrating the novel; Interchapter: Justified Sinner; 4. Character and the novel; Interchapter: The Scarlet Letter; 5. Plotting the novel; Interchapter: Madame Bovary; 6. Setting the novel; Interchapter: Bleak House; 7. Time and history; Interchapter: To the Lighthouse; 8. Genre and subgenre; Interchapter: The Ministry of Fear; 9. Novel and anti-novel; Interchapter: The Crying of Lot 49; 10. Novel, nation, community; Interchapter: Midnight's Children; 11. Concluding; Glossary; Further reading.
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