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Department of Comparative Literature Hyperboles
Book SynopsisThis book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English drama, and French philosophy, Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation.
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Red Brush
Book SynopsisOne of the most exciting developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of a rich, diverse tradition of women's writing of the imperial period. This anthology differs from previous works by offering a glimpse of women's writings not only in poetry but in essays and letters, drama, religious writing, and narrative fiction.
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Scottish Text Society Andrew Crawfurds Collection of Ballads and Songs
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Edinburgh University Press DickensS Clowns
Book SynopsisThis book reappraises Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist.
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Princeton University Press Prose Poetry An Introduction
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English"
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University of Toronto Press The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of
Book SynopsisHomeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that like cures like, counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniar’s engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism sheds light on issues that continueTrade Review‘Excellent history… This text provides interesting insight into the history of homeopathy and how this history affects the way homeopathy is viewed today.’ -- J. Saxton * Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017 *"The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism is an important study that increases our understanding of both Romantic Naturphilosophie and homeopathy in a very significant way. " -- Asko Nivala * European Romantic Review 29:5 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: The Law of Similars Chapter Two: The Law of the Single Dose Chapter Three: The Law of Minimum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Random House USA Inc The Idiot
Book SynopsisRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.
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Columbia University Press The Apparitional Lesbian
Book SynopsisIn essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries.
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Penguin Putnam Inc East of Eden
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC General Introduction to Persian Literature: History of Persian Literature A, Vol I
Book SynopsisPersian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic.The first volume offers an indispensable entree to Persian literature's long and rich history, examining themes and subjects that are common to many fields of Persian literary study. This invaluable introduction to the subject heralds a definitive and ground-breaking new series.Table of ContentsForeword Chapter 1: Classical Persia n Literature as a Tradition (J. T. P. de Bruijn) 1. Preliminary Remarks 2. Documentation 3. The Birth of a Tradition 4. Writers, Poets, Minstrels and Patrons Writers Poets Minstrels Patronage Alternatives to Court Poetry 5. Religious Inspiration 6. The Transmission of Literature 7. The Individuality of the Writer and the Poet 8. Views on Poetry CHAPTER 2: THE OR IGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LITER ARY PERS IAN (J. Perry) 1. The Fall of Middle Persian and the Rise of Persian 2. The Language Arena, ca. 570-900 3. Pârsi and Dari 4. Arabic and Persian: A Fortunate Conjunction 5. Building a Literary Language 6. Expansion and Standardization 7. Classical Persian Chap er 3: the history of literature (W. Hanaway) Chap ter 4: Prosody : mete r and rhyme (B. Utas) 1. Meter in Persian Poetry 2. Rhyme in Persian Poetry 3. The Pre-Islamic Prosodic Heritage 4. Khalil’s Analysis of Arabic Metrics 5. The Persian Version of the aruz System 6. Scansion 7. Caesura 8. Pitch and Stress 9. Special Features of Persian Rhyme and Verse Forms 10. The robâ’i and the Prosody of Folk Poetry 11. The Role of Meter and Rhyme in PersianPoetical Genres Chapter 5: Traditional Literary Theory: The Arabic Backg round (G. J. Van Gelder) . . . . 1. Arabic Theory and Persian Literature 2. Origins and Early Developments 3. The Scholastic Study of balâgha 4. From Arabic Legacy to Persian Theory 5. The Deficiencies of Arabic Theory Chapter 6: Persian Rhetoric: Elme badi ’and elme bayân (N. Chalisova) 1. The Persian Theory of Rhetoric Embellishment 2. Râduyâni’s Tarjomân al-balâgha 3. Vatvât’s Hadâ’eq al-sehr 4. Shamse Qeys’ Mo’jam 5. The qaside-ye masnu’ 6. Commentaries of the Hadâ’eq 7. Hoseyni’s Badâye’ al-sanâye’ 8. Postclassical Treatises 9. Concluding Remarks Chapter 7: Poetic Imagery (R. Zipoli) Inventory of Persian Poetic Imagery The Natural World Animals Plants and Flowers Precious Substances The Sky, Planets, Stars, and Constellations Other Natural Elements Colors The Measurement of Time The Human World The Body Other Bodily Components Actions and Emotions The Social Context Life at Court War Feasting Games Hunting Fabrics and clothes Perfumes and cosmetics Wounds and medicine Various objects Writing Numbers Characters Places around the Court Countries and Peoples The Cultural Tradition Islam Characters and Motifs Mentioned in the Qor’an Other Characters from the Qor’an Other Characters and Motifs from Islamic Culture Ritual Elements Ancient Persian Traditions Flouting Islamic Values Chapter 8: Genres of Court Literature J. Meisami) Introduction 2. Panegyric and Related Types of Poetry 3. “Informal” Lyrics 4. History 5. Epic and Romance 6. Wisdom Literature; Mirrors for Princes 7. Didactic, Religious and Philosophical Poetry and Prose 8. Epistolography and Works on Style 9. Satire and Humorous Writing 10. Conclusion Chapter 9: Genres of Religious Literature N. Pourjavady) 1. Commentaries on the Qor’an and Stories of the Prophets 2. Manuals 3. Short Works on Mystical States and Stages nd on Spiritual Conduct 4. Hagiographies 5. Sermons 6. Allegories 7. Treatises on Love 8. Didactic and Theoretical Works in Prose 9. Didactic Mathnavis Chapter 10: Ri ddles (G. Windfuhr) 1. Pre-Islamic Period 2. The Islamic Period 3. Loghaz and mo’ammâ 4. Indigenous Tradition and Scholarship 5. Modern Scholarship 6. The Theory of the mo’ammâ 7. Hesabe abjad 8. Târikh 9. The Gnostic-Mystical Factor Appendix Chapter 11: Pre-Islamic Iranian and Indian Influences on Persian Literature (F. de Blois) . 1. Kalile and Demne 2. The Book of Kings 3. The Book of Sendbâd 4. Belawhar and Budhâsaf 5. Vis and Râmin 6. The Letter of Tansar Chapter 12: Hell enistic Influences in Classical Persia n L
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran:
Book SynopsisI.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture. The result is a seminal work which illuminates important, yet largely neglected, aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Iran and the Middle East. Its scope, from the era of Ferdowsi, Iran's national epic poet and the author of the Shahnameh to the period of the Mongols, Timurids, Safavids, Zands and Qajars, examines the interaction between mythology, history, historiography, poetry, painting and craftwork in the long narrative of the Persianate experience. As such, Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran is essential reading and a reference point for students and scholars of Iranian history, Persian literature and the arts of the Islamic World.Table of Contents1. Charles Melville and Persian Pembroke. Miguel Kuczynski STUDIES ON HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY Iran and the Ancient World 2. On the Epithets of Two Sasanian Kings in the Mujmal al-Tawarikh wa-l-Qisas. Touraj Daryaee 3. The Changing Face of an Iranian Sacred Place: The Takht-i Sulayman. Josef Wiesehöfer 4. Legitimating Greece. Lynette Mitchell History and Historiography in the Early Islamic East 5. Between Persian Legend and Samanid Orthodoxy: Accounts about Gayumarth in Bal‘ami’s Tarikhnama. Maria Subtelny 6. Recent Contributions to the History of the Early Ghaznavids and Seljuqs. Edmund Bosworth 7. Idris ‘Imad al-Din and Medieval Ismaili Historiography. Farhad Daftary 8. The Kimiya-yi sa‘adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) of al-Ghazali: A Misunderstood Work? Carole Hillenbrand 9. ‘Help Me If You Can!’ An Analysis of a Letter Sent by the Last Seljuq Sultan of Kirman David Durand-Guédy 10. Imad al-Din al-Isfahani’s Nusrat al-fatra, Seljuq Politics and Ayyubid Origins. A.C.S. Peacock 11. The Rise and Fall of a Tyrant in Seljuq Anatolia: Sa‘d al-Din Köpek’s Reign of Terror, 1237-8. Sara Nur Y?ld?z Mongol Iran and its neighbours 12. ‘It is as if their aim were the extermination of the species’: The Mongol Devastation in Western Asia in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century. Peter Jackson 13. Juvayni’s Historical Consciousness. Beatrice Forbes Manz 14. Persian and Non-Persian Historical Writing in the Mongol Empire. David Morgan 15. Ruling from Tents: Some Remarks on Women’s Ordos in Ilkhanid Iran. Bruno de Nicola 16. Mamluks, Franks and Mongols: A Necessary but Impossible Triangle. Reuven Amitai 17. Protecting Private Property vs. Negotiating Political Authority: Nur al-Din b. Jaja and his Endowments in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia. Judith Pfeiffer Nomads, Rulers and Historians after the Mongols 18. The Mongol Puppet Lords and the Qarawnas. Michele Bernardini 19. Remarks on Steppe Nomads and Merchants. Thomas T. Allsen 20. Loyalty, Betrayal and Retribution: Biktash Khan, Ya‘qub Khan and Shah ‘Abbas I’s Strategy in Establishing Control over Kirman, Yazd and Fars. Rudi Matthee 21. Reading Safavid and Mughal Chronicles: Kingly Virtues and Early Modern Persianate Historiography. Sholeh A. Quinn British views of Qajar Iran 22. Sir John Malcolm and the Idea of Iran. Ali M. Ansari 23. Edward Granville Browne amongst the Qalandars. Jan Just Witkam STUDIES ON PERSIAN LITERATURE Literary Culture in the Persianate world 24. From Zulaykha to Zuleika Dobson: The Femme Fatale and her Ordeals in Persian Literature and Beyond. Firuza Abdullaeva 25. A Pictorial Aetiology of Ferdowsi as a Transcendent Poet. Olga Davidson 26. The Armenian Poet Frik and his Verses on Arghun Khan and Bugha. Theo van Lint 27. An Epic for Shah ‘Abbas. Gabrielle van den Berg The Theory and Practice of Persian verse 28. A Note on Form and Substance in Classical Persian Poetry. Homa Katouzian 29. Stringing Replica Pearls: Translations of Persian Verse into Verse. Barbara Brend PERSIAN AND ISLAMIC ART Aspects of Religion 30. The Prophet Muhammad’s Footprint. Christiane Gruber 31. Non-Islamic Faiths in the Edinburgh Biruni Manuscript. Robert Hillenbrand 32. A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids. Bernard O’Kane The Arts of the Book 33. Illuminating Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnameh. Sheila Canby 34. Rethinking Persian Painting: The Silsila of Sultan Muhammad. Layla S. Diba 35. Composite Figures in the Hadiqat al-haqiqa wa Shari‘at al-tariqa of Sana’i. Francis Richard 36. A Medieval Representation of Kay Khusraw’s jam-i giti namay. Marianna Shreve Simpson 37. The ?uraqqa‘ Album of the Zand period (PNS 383) in the National Library of Russia. Olga Vasilyeva and Olga Yastrebova 38. Interrogating Marks in a Persian Painting from Fifteenth-Century Herat: A Note. Barbara Bre
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University of Washington Press Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory
Book SynopsisConsiders the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causesTable of ContentsForeword by William CrononPrefaceIntroductionThe Literary HeritageThe Tehological DilemmaNew PhilosophyThe Geological DilemmaA Sacred Theory of the EarthThe Burnet ControversyThe Aesthetics of the InfiniteA New Descriptive PoetryEpilogueIndex
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Zone Books Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc Sensational Vancouver
Book SynopsisHistory books typically show Vancouver as a pioneer city built on forestry, fisheries, and tourism, but behind the snow-capped mountains and rain forests, the Vancouver of the first half of the 20th century was a seething mass of corruption. The top job at the Vancouver Police Department was a revolving door with the average tenure for a police chief of just four years. In those early years, Detective Joe Ricci's beat was the opium dens and gambling joints of Chinatown, while LurancyHarris-the first female cop in Canada-patrolled the high-end brothels of Alexander Street. Later, proceeds from rum running produced some of the city's iconic buildings, cops became robbers, and the city reeled from a series of unsolved murders. But Vancouver is more than bookies, brothels, and bootleggers-the city also produced legendary women, world-class entertainers and ground-breaking architecture. Sensational Vancouver is a fully illustrated popular history book about Vancouver's famous and infamous, the ordinary and the extraordinary, filtered through the houses in which they lived. Sensational Vancouver covers legendary women including Elsie MacGill, Phyllis Munday, Nellie Yip Quong and Joy Kogawa; high-end brothels, unsolved murders, and the homes and buildings of artists, architects and entertainers including Frederick Varley, Arthur Erickson, Bryan Adams, and Michael Bublé. Includes a Walking Tour map of historic Strathcona and Chinatown. Praise for At Home with History: "You might call her the Sherlock Holmes of home history. Lazarus's stories bring Vancouver's past back to life." -the Outlook "A mix of old black-and-white street-scene photos, jovial stories, and unique neighbourhood profiles, the book crushes the idea that Vancouver is a city without history." -The Georgia Straight "exceptional incidents in ordinary houses and ordinary people in exceptional houses." -The Vancouver Sun "Lazarus reveals the hidden stories of a number of Vancouver's heritage homes, setting each within the larger context of its neighbourhood bootleggers rub shoulders with financiers, prostitutes with police, murderers with mayors." -The Vancouver Courier
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No Exit Press F SCOTT FITZGERALD The Pocket Essential Series
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Creativity in its Contexts
Book SynopsisTwo poets, a playwright and a novelist – Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai – explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing creativity and its contexts. MICHAEL LONGLEY writes with remarkable candour of his years – 1970 to 1991 – as arts administrator in Northern Ireland. Transforming anecdote into parable, this noted poet measures the cost of ‘trying to remain true to yourself facing the ”dark tower”‘ while being part of an essential but often soul-destroying bureaucracy. EAVAN BOLAND, merging the personal and the theoretical, contends that the place of women as writers in Irish society have been shaped by a ‘ fusion of the national and the feminine’. FRANK MCGUINESS, the internationally acclaimed playwright, offers a radically innovative reading of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, while calling into being the material contexts of creativity – in this instance, a prison cell. The Indian novelist ANITA DESAI looks at her country’s colonial heritage and a shared background that gave rise to the work of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the film-maker Satyajit Ray. Her fascinating lecture shows how a vibrant indigenous culture, coming into fruitful contact with the West at the end of the nineteenth century, blossomed into artistic creation – yielding parallels with Ireland.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching the Literature of Todays Middle East
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Princeton University Press Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""Learned and lengthy . . . Lewis’s deeply researched monograph repays close attention."---Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement"Rhodri Lewis’s absorbing and original Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is the first major reinterpretation of the play in some time. . . . Lewis’s brilliant analysis here gives fresh meaning to long-familiar if half-understood phrases."---James Shapiro, New York Review of Books"Rhodri Lewis has taken one of the most studied plays of this and earlier centuries, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and turned on their head many of the grand notions we have all had about Shakespeare. Lewis's ideas are breathtakingly original."---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective"A striking account . . . fresh and compelling." * The Australian Book Review *"Lewis has written a wonderful book: one that breaks free of the 'many confines, wards and dungeons' of the solely scholarly or academic. It’s a volume that all prospective producers of the play should examine assiduously."---Barry Gillard, The Australian"Lewis does a great service to Hamlet scholarship. . . . Highly recommended."---Anthony DiMatteo, Choice"Lewis uses his book as a broad canvas, tracking Shakespeare’s themes and characterizations across a huge number of discursive, visual, and historical examples, not only Ciceronian moral philosophy but also rhetoric and political writing, painting, the early English humanism of Erasmus and More, Philip Sidney, and too many Shakespearean examples to mention."---Henry Turner, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900"It made me look at the play and the character of Hamlet with fresh eyes, and showed me that modern productions of the play ignore or miss a lot of the play's true substance, even though it's right there in the text. Perhaps the main lesson I've learned here when it comes to Hamlet is: Look again – nothing is as it seems."---Pat Reid, Shakespeare Magazine"A work of tremendous erudition, channeling a formidable range of classical and humanist texts as well as contemporary criticism into chapters on Hamlet’s sustained engagement with early modern discourses of selfhood, hunting, cognitive theory, poetics, and moral and speculative philosophy. With highly original but also extensively documented discussions of nearly every line and textual crux, it has the impact of a variorum."---Heather Hirschfeld, Modern Philology"It is an original take on what must be the most written-about play in literary critical history, and the result is an erudite yet absorbing book that is as refreshingly unwilling to patronize the possibilities of Shakespeare's learning as it is willing to uphold the status of his creative genius."---Joe Jarrett, Journal of British Studies"Extraordinary learning and critical insight. . . . Endlessly productive, exciting, and original."---David Bevington, Renaissance Quarterly"A new and startling perspective on a familiar subject. . . . Lewis supports his ground-breaking theories with a critical approach that is both thorough and systematic. . . . His argument certainly convinced this reader."---Bríd Phillips, Parergon"Page for page, this book offers more gripping textual insights than any other book on Hamlet since de Grazia’s. . . . The close readings are beautiful, interesting, and insightful."---Joshua R. Held, Sixteenth Century Journal"Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is an original and valuable addition to the critical field, and compelling reading for those interested in expanding their understanding of the intersection between early modern drama and contemporary moral philosophy."---Anna Hegland, Symbolism"Bold and impressive. . . . Lewis deserves the gratitude of scholars for his sensitive close readings and contextualizations of those readings. . . . His book, no doubt, will encourage new debates about issues that were previously thought settled."---Benjamin V. Beier, Moreana"The pleasure of reading this book comes not only from being constantly stimulated by the freshness of ideas and the acuity with which they are generated, and by the connections and associations that Lewis establishes, but also from the author’s display of the gift of bridging expansive micro-analysis of the play with compelling macro-analysis of ideas from moral philosophy that underlie the dramatic text."---Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation"A major new interpretation of the play."---Vanessa Lim, The Year's Work in English Studies
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Jameson Reader
Book Synopsisaeo Provides a vital introduction to one of the centurya s major thinkers. aeo Reveals Jamesona s systematic vision of the contemporary world. aeo Represents the broad spectrum of Jamesona s work, including major seminal texts to lesser--known works.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Paradigms of Interpretation:. 1. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981). 2. Towards Dialectical Criticism (1971). 3. T.W. Adorno (1971). 4. Roland Barthes and Structuralism (1972). 5. Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan (1977). Part II: Marxism and Culture: . 6. On Jargon (1977). 7. Base and Superstructure (1990). 8. Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979). 9. Marxism and the Historicity of Theory: An Interview by Xudong Zhang (1998). 10. Five Theses on Actually Existing Marxism. Part III: Postmodernism:. 11. Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism (1975). 12. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Login of Late Capitalism (1984). 13. The Antinomies of Postmodernity (1994). 14. Culture and Finance Capital (1997). Part IV: Exercises in Cognitive Mapping: . 15. Cognitive Mapping (1998). 16. Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977). 17. National Allegory in Wyndham Lewis (1979). 18. Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism (1986). 19. Totality as Conspiracy (1992). Part V: Utopia: . 20. Introduction/Prospectus: To Reconsider the Relationship of Marxism to Utopian Thought (1976). 21. World-Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative (1975). 22. Utopian and Anti-Utopianism (1994). Bibliography. Index.
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Pearson Education Limited Jane Eyre York Notes Advanced everything you
Book SynopsisThe most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
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John Wiley & Sons Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
Book SynopsisThe act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shall Not Speak My Language explores this tension in his address of the dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition.
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Random House USA Inc A Room with a View Vintage Classics
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor. In the end, however, Lucy takes control of her own fate and finds love with a man whose free spirit reminds her of “a room with a view.”
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Princeton University Press Paradoxia Epidemica
Book SynopsisParadoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the universe, God, nature, and man himself. The book consiTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xix*Introduction: Problems of Paradoxes, pg. 1*1. "The Puny Rhypographer": Francois Rabelais and His Book, pg. 43*2. "Pity the Tale of Me": Logos and Art's Eternity, pg. 72*3. John Donne and the Paradoxes of Incarnation, pg. 96*4. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: the Infinite, pg. 145*5. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: Eternity, pg. 169*6. Logos in The Temple, pg. 190*7. "Nothing is but what is not": Solutions to the Problem of Nothing, pg. 219*8. Le pari: All or Nothing, pg. 252*9. Still Life: Paradoxes of Being, pg. 273*10. Being and Becoming: Paradoxes in the Language of Things, pg. 300*11. Being and Becoming in The Faerie Queene, pg. 329*12. "I am that I am": Problems of Self-Reference, pg. 355*13. The Rhetoric of Transcendent Know ledge, pg. 396*14. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Structure of Paradox, pg. 430*15. "Reason in Madness", pg. 461*16. "Mine own Executioner", pg. 482*Epilogue, pg. 508*Bibliography, pg. 521*Index, pg. 543
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Princeton University Press Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Book SynopsisIt would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. This book demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association Co-winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association Winner of the 14th Annual (2012) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "In this at times disturbing and often provocative book, Gikandi seeks to bring together two seemingly disparate areas of experience, African slavery and European high culture... This impressive, and in places startling, book is sure to redirect the tide of contemporary 18th-century studies; it exemplifies critical inquiry into the 'global 18th century' at its best."--Choice "[T]his is an absorbing and otherwise well-executed study. It is nuanced, erudite and wide-ranging, shedding much valuable new light on the vexed relationships between eighteenth-century aesthetic culture and the outrageous history that shadows it."--Carl Plasa, Review of English Studies "Among the many strengths of this study is that it will engage scholars and students from a variety of disciplines, including the Atlantic world, British history and/or literature, colonial history both North American and Caribbean--and the slave trade. Gikandi is an engaging author, but he assumes some prior knowledge of the materials that he so intricately weaves into his remarkably detailed narrative."--Dorothy Potter, Sixteenth Century Journal "Interdisciplinary in approach, Slavery and the Culture of Taste is a virtuoso performance that mobilizes a vast amount of secondary literature and deploys a dazzling array of theory."--Ryan Whyte, Journal of Curatorial Studies "Slavery and the Culture of Taste is an important book that should be widely read by students of slavery and the modern world."--Ed Rugemer, Literature & HistoryTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1: Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery 1 Chapter 2: Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self 50 Chapter 3: Unspeakable Events: Slavery and White Self-Fashioning 97 Chapter 4: Close Encounters: Taste and the Taint of Slavery 145 Chapter 5: "Popping Sorrow": Loss and the Transformation of Servitude 188 Chapter 6: The Ontology of Play: Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste 233 Coda: Three Fragments 282 Notes 287 Bibliography 321 Index 353
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Liverpool University Press Rococo Echo Art History and Historiography from
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘an impressive and authoritative volume addressing the complex and various ways in which the eighteenth-century style persists as an alluring echo long after it was deemed redundant.’Ceræ: an Australian journal of medieval and early modern studies‘Uprootedness, global dislocations, and eccentric visions of time are at the centre of this edited collection, which seeks to reframe the rococo as a discursive style perennially reactivated and reformulated from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries […] Ranging in scope beyond painting and interior decoration, the subjects discussed are refreshingly diverse’.French Studies‘Le lecteur est invité à s’interroger tout d’abord au niveau méthodologique, sur les limites et les potentialités propres à certaines catégories historiographiques, puis au niveau philosophique, à remettre en question la notion d’art elle même, notamment dans ses liens avec la politique et la société’.Dix-huitième siècleTable of ContentsForeword. Rococo echo: style and temporality, Katie ScottI. Rococo revivals: the nineteenth century1. The uncomfortable Frenchness of the German Rococo, Michael Yonan2. Rococo republicanism, elizabeth mansfield3. Scavenging Rococo: trouvailles, bibelots and counter-revolution, Tom Stammers4. Vive l’amateur! The Goncourt house revisited, Andrew McClellan5. Pierrot’s periodicity: Watteau, Nadar and the circulation of the Rococo, Marika T. Knowles6. Remembrance of things past: Robert de Montesquiou, Emile Gallé and Rococo revival during the fin de siècle, Meredith Martin7. Irregular rococo Impressionism, Anne HigonnetII. Rococo: the eighteenth century8. Was there such a thing as rococo painting in eighteenth-century France?, Colin B. Bailey9. ‘A wild kind of imagination’: eclecticism and excess in the English rococo designs of Thomas Johnson, Brigid von Preussen10. Out of time: Fragonard, with David, Satish Padiyar11. Rococo and spirituality from Paris to Rio de Janeiro, Gauvin Alexander BaileyIII. New Rococo: the twentieth century and beyond12. Sedlmayr’s Rococo, Kevin Chua13. Warhol’s Rococo: style and subversion in the 1950s, Allison Unruh14. The new Rococo: Sofia Coppola and fashions in contemporary femininity, Rebecca Arnold15. Post-colonial Rococo: Yinka Shonibare MBE plays Fragonard, Sarah Wilson16. The Rococo revival and the old art history, Carol DuncanAfterword. The Rococo dream of happiness as ‘a delicate kind of revolt’, Melissa Lee HydeList of illustrationsSummariesSelect bibliographyIndex
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Cornell University Press Things of Darkness
Book SynopsisThe Ethiope, the tawny Tartar, the woman blackamoore, and knotty Africanismsallusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall''s eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern England. Her work reveals the vital link between England''s expansion into realms of difference and othernessthrough exploration and colonialism-and the highly charged ideas of race and gender which emerged.How, Hall asks, did new connections between race and gender figure in Renaissance ideas about the proper roles of men and women? What effect did real racial and cultural difference have on the literary portrayal of blackness? And how did the interrelationship of tropes of race and gender contribute to a modern conception of individual identity? Hall mines a wealth of sources for answers to these questions: travel literature from Sir John Mandeville''s Travels to Leo Africanus'
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Stanford University Press Writing and Madness
Book SynopsisWriting and Madness is Shoshana Felman''s most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis through brilliant studies of Balzac, Nerval, Flaubert, and James, as well as Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida, this book seeks the specificity of literature in its relation to what culture excludes under the label madness. Why and how do literary writers reclaim the discourse of the madman, and how does this reclaiming reveal something essential about the relation between literature and power, as well as between literature and knowledge?Every literary text continues to communicate with madnesswith what has been excluded, decreed abnormal, unacceptable, or senselessby dramatizing a dynamically revitalized relation between sense and nonsense, reason and unreason, the readable and the unreadable. This revelation of the irreducibility of the relation between the readable and the unreadable constitutes what Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1 PART ONE: 2 PART TWO: 3 4 5 PART THREE: 6 7 8
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John Ashbery
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Edinburgh University Press James Boswells Life of Johnson
Book SynopsisThe third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.
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Edinburgh University Press Gothic Literature
Book SynopsisOutlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature, this revised edition includes a chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at new critical developments. It features an updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Gothic Heyday, 1760-1820; Chapter 2. The Gothic, 1820-1865; Chapter 3. Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900; Chapter 4. Twentieth Century; Chapter 5. Contemporary Gothic; Conclusion; Student Resources.
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Edinburgh University Press The Animal Question in Deconstruction
Book SynopsisExplores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the ''animal question''How does deconstruction understand relations between humans and other animals? This collection of essays reveals that across Jacques Derrida''s work as a whole, as well as that of Hélène Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality. In this collection, for example, Cixous asks after human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat. Kelly Oliver pursues Derrida''s analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the autopsy of an elephant. Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. Across this collection authors bring to attention the politics and the ethics of a less anthropocentric world. Even when this world is graspedTable of ContentsIntroduction: This Animal Question in Deconstruction, Lynn Turner; 1. A Refugee, Helene Cixous; 2. Swans of Life (External Provocations & Autobiographical Flights That Teach Us How to Read), Sarah Wood; 3. Love of the Lowe, reading Derrida with a Roar, Marie-Dominique Garnier; 4. Insect Asides, Lynn Turner; 5. S P O N G E Inc, Laurent Milesi; 6. Elephant Eulogy: The Exorbitant Orb of an Elephant, Kelly Oliver; 7. Troubling Resemblances, Anthropological Machines & the Fear of Wild Animals: following Derrida after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 8. Derrida, Rousseau, Cixous and Tsvetaeva: Sexual Difference and the Love of the Wolf, Judith Still; 9. Deconstructing Sexual Difference, A Myopic Reading of Helene Cixous' Mole, Marta Segarra; 10. Your Worm, Peggy Kamuf; 11. Mole, Nicholas Royle.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The World of All Souls
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University of Toronto Press The Hidden History of South Africas Book and
Book SynopsisThe Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners.Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and booTrade Review'Archie Dick's Hidden History offers us a fine example of a historian working in an imaginative way to show how, at various junctures in the South African past, book and reading cultures have arisen, survived or even thrived despite the ways in which controlling and repressive regimes have sought to destroy or limit the impact of reading and writing for their own purposes.' -- Charles van Onselen Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 66:03:2012 'The scholarship is exemplary, and the book opens up new areas of research.' -- Anthony Olden Information and Culture: A Journal of History, October 2013 'Engaging and path breaking book...Rarely, if ever, is a work on South African history published that covers such a vast stretch of time, and is based on such a truly remarkable range of primary sources.' -- Gerald Groenewald Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa; vol 19:1:2014 'Trailblazing study.' -- Daniel Magaziner American Historical Review - vol 119:03:2014 'This is an inventive and engaging book that will do much to advance studies of southern African print culture and reading and their broader significance. Richly researched and lucidly written, the book will lend itself well to classroom use.' -- Isabel Hofmeyr African Studies Review vol 57:03:2014 'This wide ranging book contains a treasure-trove of stories about print cultures in South Africa between the mid-seventeenth century and mid-1990s... Dick has produced a study that is informative as well as ambitious.' -- Stephanie Newell SHARP News vol 24:04:2015Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Significance of Common Readers in South Africa 1 Early Readers at the Cape, 1658-1800 2 Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800-1850 3 The Women's Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century 4 Books for Troops in the Second World War 5 Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950-1971 6 Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships 7 Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978-1992 8 Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers Notes Index
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A Study Guide for Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart
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James Currey Fortress Conservation
Book SynopsisChallenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people.Many conservationists insist that conservation that ignores local costs cannot be sustained. For if conservation is greeted with hostility locally then guards and patrols will simply not prevail against determined, and more numerous, rural opponents. This is welcome thinking. It is vital to recognise the problems that conservation policies can pose, and it makes sense strategically to build local alliances. But this thinking also risks overstating thepower of rural groups, and under-estimating the power of the state. It also fails to realise how some conservation visions can become powerful, and the role of international finance and sponsorship in imposing injustice. FortressConservation is a detailed look at a dark underbelly of international wildlife conservation. By exploring one, now famous case of 'successful' conservation, the Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania, it shows how complex and messy thehistory of conservation initiatives can be, how uncertain the ecological theories underpinning particular policies, and how problematic the social consequences. But it also shows how little all of this matters when the fund-raising machines that sustain these fortresses kick in. Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U PressTrade ReviewThis is a book well worth reading. It covers a lot of very interesting material, ranging from a consideration of conservation as both ideology and practice (Chapter 1) and of fortress and community conservation (Chapter 6) to a detailed study of Mkomazi and its people and the history of the reserve, its land alienation and evictions and their impact on livelihoods. - -- Dan Taylor * DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mkomazi - HISTORIES The history of the plains - 'We just left it': contest over the plains up to 1953 - The history of the reserve - ENVIRONMENTS Environmental degradation - Biodiversity - PEOPLE Livelihoods - Regional conequences - Benefits & resistance - A desert strange
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Macmillan Learning A Writers Reference with Writing About Literature
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New York University Press Old Futures
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we rTrade ReviewAmassing an impressive and eclectic archive of utopian and dystopian writings under the fantastic heading of Old Futures, Alexis Lothian offers the most detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of Queer, Black, and feminist speculative fictions to date. Offering an array of futures, non-futures, un-futures, and no futures, this book shows us the precarious foundations upon which our own sense of the present sits. Lothians book is a marvel and will, I promise, never get old. -- Jack Halberstam,author of In A Queer Time and PlaceLothian's central concept of old futuresthe cast-off remains of speculations pastis both entertaining fodder and theoretically rich terrain for making queer theory new again. Theres something wonderfully bold about the books willingness to let & the future become concrete by turning to its many past versions, bringing them to light as commentary on where we are, and are not, now. -- Elizabeth Freeman,author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer HistoriesLothian does something else entirely and opens up a new vantage point on the future by looking at it sideways, from outside its own timeline. That vantage point allows her (and us) to see the continuities, to see the way the leftover stuff of the past’s futures persists in and enlivens our present. * Science Fiction Studies *Lothian's insistence that many speculative texts contain both liberating queer images and unsettling normative messages is one of the strongest aspects of Old Futures . . .a book that is filled with unexpected yet crucial connections. -- Melanie E.S. Kohnen, * Transformative Works and Cultures *Through thoughtful analysis of a number of speculative stories from the last hundred years or so, Old Futures offers a solid contribution to both geek and queer studies. Lothian asks what we can learn from women, people of color, and queer-identifying people when they imagine futures for themselves free of oppression. * The Geek Anthropologist *It would be easy for Old Futures to feel scattered, covering as it does a century’s worth of source material, three different forms of media, and theory ranging from traditional SF criticism to fan studies. Yet somehow Lothian not only pulls it off, but makes it seem effortless. * SFRA Review *Overall, Lothian has constructed an admirable volume that I have already begun recommending to colleagues. This is her first book, and it bodes well; I look forward to seeing what Lothian does next. * SFRA Review *
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Captain America Masculinity and Violence The
Book SynopsisReveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America's fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. The book outlines the history of Captain America's adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America's varying political culture.
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Ugly Duckling Presse I Mean
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Princeton University Press The Mind in Exile
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Corngold offers a shrewd and balanced take on a much-studied figure. This sharp, focused work will impress historians and scholars of German literature." * Publishers Weekly *"Corngold documents, in depth and with an excellent eye for detail, [an] important stage in Mann’s American life. . . . The picture of Mann that emerges from his book is rich, multilayered and always fascinating."---Costica Bradatan, Washington Post"[The book] shows how great novelist Thomas Mann fared after fleeing Hitler’s Germany. He understood how German conservatives feared Communism, backed Hitler as a bulwark against the Bolsheviks, and learned too late that the Fuhrer’s fury was as deadly as Stalin’s."---Marvin Olasky, World"This well-written study provides an in-depth account of Thomas Mann’s tenure at Princeton. . . . Corngold’s book is a welcome contribution." * Choice Reviews *"A vivid testimony to the profound disconcertions of a life and mind in transit and offers an immensely insightful account of the intellectual and personal quandaries that preoccupied Thomas Mann in Princeton."---Margarete Tiessen, German History"Absorbing."---Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise
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Boydell and Brewer Keorapetse Kgositsile the Black Arts Movement
Book SynopsisKey study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, jazz studies, politics, and creativity.The cultural configurations of the Black Atlantic cannot be fully understood without recognising the significant presence of writers and artists from the African continent itself. Among the most influential was South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, or 'Bra Willie', as he was affectionately known. Yet, until now, there has been no full-length study of his work. Uhuru Phalafala's wide-ranging book reveals the foundational influence of Kgositsile's mother and grandmother on his craft and unveils the importance of the oral/aural traditions, indigenous knowledge systems, and cosmologies he carried with him into and after exile. It illuminates a southern African modernity that was strongly gendered and deployed in anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, and civil rights struggles. Using the original concept of 'elsewhere', the author maps the sources of Kgositsile's transformative verse, which in turn generated 'poetics of possibility' for his contemporaries in the Black Arts and Black Power Movements and beyond - among them Maya Angelou, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tom Dent, members of The Last Poets, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and rapper Earl Sweatshirt - who all looked to his work to model their identities, cultural movements and radical traditions.
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Columbia University Press Extreme Domesticity
Book SynopsisSusan Fraiman reformulates domesticity, freeing it from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.Trade ReviewIn Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman continues to perform the crucial task of challenging—in lucid, fervent prose—the "habitual, unthinking" conflations and repudiations that keep women, or the feminized, at the bottom of hierarchies of value. Using a refreshing range of sources, which includes queers, immigrants, and the homeless alongside the more usual "domestic" suspects, Fraiman sets forth a rethinking of domesticity's nature, purpose, location, and creators. It's a timely rethinking that we truly need now. -- Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsExtreme Domesticity brilliantly explores the homemaking practices that provide sustenance and shelter for the fierce and fragile lives of gender rebels and queer pioneers (even during times of homelessness). It is a lesson in how people find the tools for life-making amongst the ordinary and disregarded materials that surround them; and it is a dazzling excursion across dissident domesticities -- Ben Highmore, author of Ordinary Lives: Studies in the EverydayThis spirited book rescues housekeeping from its presumed ideological trappings by bringing a host of marginalized subjects back into view. Susan Fraiman demonstrates domesticity's strong creative pull for many working-class, immigrant, queer, divorced, or homeless subjects. Carefully probing a diverse array of homemaking experiences, along with the distinct challenges, comforts, and compensations domestic life can bring, Fraiman honors the rich meanings of home for those too often denied it. A surprising and welcome book. -- Diana Fuss, author of The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that Shaped ThemExtreme Domesticity is a startlingly original work that not only offers a contemporary updating of feminist studies on domestic and sentimental fiction, but also establishes provocative new frameworks for understanding modern gender formations. A brilliant and important book! -- Thomas Foster, author of Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at HomeAn imaginative and eye-opening reconceptualization of the idea of home. . . . Fraiman’s close readings of detailed descriptions of housework give ordinary daily operations both dignity and value. * Contemporary Women’s Writing *While amply acknowledging domesticity’s historic constraints on women . . . Fraiman advocates for the empowering potential of homemaking for those who struggle to attain a home or who find it healing after trauma. * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *A fresh view of domesticity . . . that comes out of dispossession and precarity, a domesticity carefully made out of wreckage and loss by those cast away or cast out. * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *Fraiman’s nuanced readings reveal that domesticity can be, and has been, 'reconfigured as a language of female self-sufficiency, ambition, and pleasure.' * 4Columns *Insightful and lively. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *Highly recommended. * Choice *In spirited and welcoming prose, Fraiman makes us rethink the ideological baggage the domestic realm carries. . . . She leaves us contemplating how we—and various others—value, occupy, and adorn both real and imagined dwelling places. * ALH *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Doing Domesticity1. Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye2. Behind the Curtain: Domestic Industry in Mary Barton3. Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce4. Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart5. Undocumented Houses: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction6. Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the UnshelteredConclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-DwellingNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press March 1917
Book SynopsisThe Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about just four of the most important periods, or “nodes"". This is the first time that the monumental March 1917–the third node–has been translated into English.Trade Review"This third installment of The Red Wheel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's narrative of the events leading to the Russian Revolution, is remarkable in its complexity. The novel presents a polyphonic kaleidoscope of people, places, and events, some real, some fictitious." —Society Journal"In The Red Wheel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn produced a masterpiece, and proved himself a worthy companion of Dostoevsky and rival of Tolstoy." —Law and Liberty"Marian Schwartz's new translation is the first time the expansive and resonant March 1917: Node III: Book 2 has been published in English. . . . Solzhenitsyn captures the chaos of the time, when a centuries-old order fell and the factions that would fight to replace it were still forming." —Foreword Reviews"Here we see how a millennium-old nation ruled by a monarchy that had lasted a good three centuries fell apart in three days. Book 2 of March 1917 powerfully reveals how a decent if flawed political and social order collapsed 'with incredible alacrity,' as Solzhenitsyn writes elsewhere." —The New Criterion"Of all his novels so far, this one feels the most immediate, the most current. The freneticism, violence, confusion, and disorientation of Russians in Petrograd from March 15 through March 17 of 1917 can also be seen in minds and actions of Chinese in Hong Kong, right now. . . . No one surpasses Solzhenitsyn in conveying a sense of what it feels to live at and near the center of this kind of vortex." —Law and Liberty"March 1917 is haunted by 'what-ifs.' Indeed, Solzhenitsyn suggests, the revolution was less likely than other outcomes, and all retrospective attempts to describe it as inevitable are fallacious. In his view, events might just as easily followed a different course. As we contemplate what transpired, we regret the Russia that might have been." —The American Scholar"March 1917, Book 2, covers the three days of the February Revolution, which is shown as an immense national unraveling that corrupted public morality and destroyed social cohesion, often with sadistic brutality, and that inevitably led to the Bolshevik takeover eight months later. This historical catastrophe, Solzhenitsyn believed, was due to the fecklessness of the imperial elites all the way up to the terminally mediocre Czar Nicholas II; the revolutionaries’ blind lust for destruction; and the estrangement of the bulk of the people from God and country." —National Review"[B]ook 2 of the March 1917 node . . . dramatizes the tumultuous events of the March Revolution—a workers’ strike in Petrograd; abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and house arrest of the Romanov family; establishment of a provisional government to rule over Russia. Although The Red Wheel is fiction, Solzhenitsyn prided himself on the historical accuracy of his work. He spent ten years writing the March 1917 node, adding psychological depth, descriptive details, and, occasionally, his own views to bring well-known personalities and events to life." —Choice
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Ariadne Press Elfriede Jelinek: Framed by Language
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the
Book SynopsisJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women''s shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin''s finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.
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Oxford University Press Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this Very Short Introduction Bernard O'Donoghue explores the many different forms of writing which have been called 'poetry', from the Greeks to the present day. He considers the varying status and uses of poetry, and engages with contemporary debates as to what value poetry holds today.Trade Review...achieves an air of indispensability, as both a guidebook for the enquiring beginner, and as a handbook of poetic values for the determined practitioner. * Simon Armitage *Everyone near the beginning of their life in poetry will want to have this book, and everyone further down the track will value it as a stimulation. * Andrew Motion *A bold encounter with the questions that make his subject so compelling. * Professor Stephen Regan, Durham University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Truths universally acknowledged 2: Poetry's areas of authority and aptitude 3: The language of poetry and its particular devices 4: The kinds of poetry and their contexts 5: Poets and readers Conclusion Further Reading Index
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