Literary studies: general Books

Book SynopsisDetective Fiction for Young Readers is an examination of contemporary mystery stories for children and young adults. This volume explores how the conventions, rules, and expectations of adult mystery fiction have filtered down, so to speak, especially in the past several decades, to writing for younger readers. The book is organized into three sections that explore the whodunit, the hardboiled, and the metaphysical styles of mystery fiction. Furthermore, this text analyzes how each style has been adapted for a younger audience, acknowledging and exploring representative novels most in keeping with that style. This volume is ideal for students, academics, and readers interested in childrenâs mystery fiction that adheres to formulas made popular after the golden age of classic detective fiction.

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Book SynopsisA Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B), statements simultaneously true and false.Bogel explores a broad range of literary theory and philosophy: from Aristotle to ÅiÅek, Augustine to Wittgenstein, Richards to Ricoeur and Blumenberg. The book analyzes a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, including popular forms such as graveyard epitaphs, sermons, cartoons (Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury), and a haunting episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It extends the central concept of truth and falsity to the reader's encounter with metaphor, figural interpretation of scripture, entire poems as metaphors, the aesthetics of obliquity and textual impurity, and Freudian psychoanalysis--in particular, links between metaphor and the uncanny.This rigorously and eloquently argued book will be invaluable to students of metaphor across such fields as literary criticism and theory, philosophy, linguistics, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and media studies. Its arguments are enriched by numerous concrete examples and analyses that bring theory to life and help to reach beyond an academic audience. Bogel's ground-breaking study takes our understanding of metaphor in new and important directions.

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Book SynopsisLiterary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.Trade Review"In addition to her acknowledgement of critics and theorists who have come before, Sanders generously opens up new avenues-paths-waterways for future inquiry. One can imagine a raft of scholarship that will draw on her insights and apply them elsewhere." -Gavin Hollis,The City University of New York, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama; 1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period; 2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest; 3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household; 4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation; 5. Neighbourhoods and networks; 6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating volume discusses a wide range of children's fantasy literature from the sixteenth century to the present, analysing key themes and ideas in important texts from across the English-speaking world. It features the work of Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling.Trade Review'Levy and Mendlesohn give a convincing explanation for a distinctively post-Second World War literature where children are unprotected, where they have agency and responsibility, where they face true and terrible evil. As time goes on, the stakes continue to rise. Compare Nesbit's world to Narnia - do our young protagonists have a small, limited quest to complete, or do we expect them to save the world?' Daniel Hahn, The Spectator'Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction is an immense work in scope and scholarship. As befits its authors, Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn - two prominent figures in the world of children's literature criticism - this latest work is a far-reaching feat that grasps the tenuous strings of the inception of both fantasy and children's literature and weaves them from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries into a tremendous narrative tapestry.' Joli Barham McClelland, Children's Literature Association Quarterly'Sharing their extensive knowledge of the topic, Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn have made a relevant contribution to the study of this field with their monograph Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction. Published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press, the book is a result of the continuing collaboration of the authors, their colleagues, and students … Levy and Mendlesohn have succeeded in finding a manner of expression which can easily be understood by scholars and experts, but also those whose knowledge of fantasy is not yet extensive.' Katarina Kralj, Libri & LiberiTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. How fantasy became children's literature; 2. Fairies, ghouls and goblins: the realms of Victorian fancy; 3. The American search for an American childhood; 4. British and Empire fantasy between the wars; 5. The changing landscape of post-war fantasy; 6. Folklore, fantasy and indigenous fantasy; 7. Middle-earth, medievalism and mythopoeic fantasy; 8. Harry Potter and children's fantasy since the 1990s; 9. Romancing the teen; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging and accessible account of the history of the book from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, within local, national and global contexts. Includes a practical section on methods, sources and approaches, together with a chronology and a guide to further reading.Trade Review'Francis Bacon said 'some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly'. This book is firmly in the latter category. My own copy is already looking somewhat mauled and well used, with ample marginalia, highlighted lines and references, and bookmarks sticking out of key sections. I cannot think of a better way to show how highly I recommend it.' Samantha J. Rayner, English'As a whole, the collection accomplishes what it sets out to do: it is an effective introduction to the field and its issues and practices, and it points the way toward new and exciting developments.' Marta Kvande, Papers of the Fall Bibliographical Society of CanadaTable of ContentsChronology; 1. The study of book history Leslie Howsam; Part I. Book Cultures, Local, National and Global: 2. Books in the library Karen Attar; 3. Books in the nation Trish Loughran; 4. Books in global perspectives Sydney Shep; Part II. The Material Book and the Mutable Text: 5. Materials and meanings Peter Stoicheff; 6. Handwriting and the book Margaret J. M. Ezell; 7. The coming of print to Europe Adrian Johns; 8. The authority and subversiveness of print in early modern Europe Cyndia Clegg; 9. The industrial revolution of the book James Raven; 10. The book in the long twentieth century Alistair McCleery; 11. The digital book Jon Bath and Scott Schofield; Part III. Methods, Sources and Approaches to the History of the Book: 12. Book history from descriptive bibliographies Michael F. Suarez, S.J.; 13. Book history from the archival record Katherine Bode and Roger Osborne; 14. Book history in the reading experience Mary Hammond; 15. Book history in the classroom Leslie Howsam; Glossary of technical terms; Guide to further reading.

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Book SynopsisComprising thirty-two fresh essays and a detailed chronology, this collection presents Ralph Waldo Emerson in the philosophical, aesthetic, theological, scientific, familial, social and political contexts in which he thought and wrote, and surveys the popular and critical reception that made him a complex national and international icon.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Chronology Sterling F. Delano; Part I. Emerson and a Sense of Place(s): 1. Boston and Concord Jacob Risinger; 2. America Roger Thompson; 3. Britain Wesley T. Mott; 4. Europe Jan Stievermann; 5. Asia Alan Hodder; 6. Travel Jason Berger; Part II. Emerson and Ideas: 'The Wide World': 7. Reading Jennifer Gurley; 8. Literature Albert J. von Frank; 9. Poetry and poetics Saundra Morris; 10. Nature David Greenham; 11. Divinity David M. Robinson; 12. Human mind Kristin Boudreau; 13. History Neal Dolan; 14. Democracy Daniel S. Malachuk; 15. Revolution Daniel Koch; 16. Science and technology Jennifer J. Baker; Part III. Emerson and Society: 'Hodiernal Circles': 17. Life against death Ronald A. Bosco; 18. Family Noelle Baker; 19. Friendship John Lysaker; 20. Ethics Susan L. Dunston; 21. Clubs Alfred G. Litton; 22. Gender Leslie Elizabeth Eckel; 23. Race Len Gougeon; 24. Reform Todd H. Richardson; 25. Money Joel Myerson; 26. Publishers David O. Dowling; Part IV. Emerson and his Legacies: From Infidel to Icon: 27. Portraits Leslie Perrin Wilson; 28. Fame Bonnie Carr O'Neill; 29. Biography Robert D. Habich; 30. Critics: 1836–1948 Glen M. Johnson; 31. Critics: 1948–2013 Randall Fuller; 32. A national icon Jillmarie Murphy; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic eddic poetry, written in accessible terms and featuring the latest research on poetics. It foregrounds the poetry's role in transmitting Scandinavian myths from the Viking Age and its value in the study of pre-Christian religions, as well as the poetry's influence on later writers.Trade Review'Once again, Larrington has stepped up to the plate, with her co-editors Judy Quinn and Brittany Schorn, to provide this very welcome compendium of scholarly commentary, not on the whole of the mythology, but on the medieval Icelandic poetry in which it is recorded - poetry of the kind that was used by Snorri as the basis for his first in the line of many prose retellings … The volume as a whole will encourage many readers in a renewed engagement with these wonderful poems, preferably in the original language, and make them realize how much deeper and richer these 'sources' are than even the best modern retelling.' Judith Jesch, The Times Literary Supplement'… a skillfully edited book that will serve the intended purpose to present a wide range of contemporary eddic studies to researchers and students. It is interesting to read such diverse approaches to a single area of Old Norse studies, and it is fascinating to see proponents of oral theory juxtaposed with advocates of New Philology in a single book.' Lukas Rösli, Scandinavian Studies'Calling into question previously established categorizations, including the binary classification system of Old Norse poems into either skaldic or Eddic, the book provides the opportunity to discuss poems that have rarely been thought of as Eddic alongside those that are standard exemplars.' J. Sundquist, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Carolyne Larrington; 1. The transmission and preservation of eddic poetry Margaret Clunies Ross; 2. Traditions of eddic scholarship Joseph Harris; 3. The editing of eddic poetry Judy Quinn; 4. The dating of eddic poetry Bernt Ø. Thorvaldsen; 5. Eddic performance and eddic audiences Terry Gunnell; 6. Eddic poetry and mythology John Lindow; 7. Eddic poetry and the religion of pre-Christian Scandinavia Jens Peter Schjødt; 8. Eddic poetry and heroic legend Carolyne Larrington; 9. Place names in eddic poetry Stefan Brink and John Lindow; 10. Eddic poetry and the imagery of stone monuments Lilla Kopár; 11. Eddic poetry and archaeology John Hines; 12. Eddic modes and genres Brittany Schorn; 13. Eddic metres R. D. Fulk; 14. Eddic style Brittany Schorn; 15. Kennings and other forms of figurative language in eddic poetry Judy Quinn; 16. Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry Maria Elena Ruggerini; 17. The representation of gender in eddic poetry David Clark and Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir; 18. The reception of eddic poetry Heather O'Donoghue.

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Book SynopsisThis 2007 study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating how Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Wyndham Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire and others presented their modernist projects.Trade Review'Winkiel's book offers a rich corrective to what she sees as a major blind spot in contemporary understandings of how the genre exposes political and aesthetic tensions along the color line and what they say about the process of modernity … fresh material and perspectives that have the ability to inform Woolf scholarship's commitment to continually resituating Woolf's life and work to reveal new possibilities in understanding it as studies in literature embrace an increasingly global reach.' Woolf Studies AnnualTable of Contents1. Introduction: manifestos, race, and modernity; Part I. Cosmopolitan London, 1906–14: 2. Women's suffrage melodrama and burlesque; 3. Futurism's music hall and India docks; 4. Vorticism's cabaret modernism and racial spectacle; Part II. Transnational Modernisms, 1934–8: 5. Nancy Cunard's negro and black transnationalism; 6. Reading across the Color Line: Virginia Woolf, C. L. R. James, and Suzanne and Aimé Césaire; Epilogue: manifestos: then and now; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the various geographic, political, social and literary contexts through which Hemingway crystallized his narrative voice. Written by forty-four experts in Hemingway studies, this comprehensive and accessible text will appeal to scholars, students and fans of Hemingway hoping to gain a fuller understanding of this iconic American author.Trade Review'Moddelmog and del Gizzo have given us a concise, content-rich collection that functions as a one-volume seminar on the life and work of the author. The contributor's list is a Who's Who of Hemingway scholars and represents the most recent work being done in the field. Any student, scholar, or teacher of Hemingway will find something beneficial in this book; it is a testament to the contributors that the writing is accessible, lively, and informative … this collection is as close to a fully contextualized portrait of the author as we have. Ernest Hemingway in Context is a valuable contribution to this field; it gathers a variety of voices and viewpoints into a single, handsome volume that adds another level of depth to an already nuanced conversation. Regardless of their critical perspectives, newcomers and veterans alike will appreciate the range of topics and resources available in the text.' Michael D. DuBose, The Hemingway Review'Ernest Hemingway in Context provides an invaluable guide for 21st century readers and scholars to explore the intricacies of Hemingway, a commanding and complicated figure in modern literature whose well-known persona is constructed along fault lines of gender, sexuality, race, and nationality that shift and rumble beneath our feet.' Scott Donaldson, author of Hemingway vs Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship'Every student or reader of Hemingway's writing must own this book. From the brilliant new critics to the long-established ones, Professors Moddelmog and del Gizzo have included a range of perspectives that are consistently illuminating - and often unexpected. Forty-four newly-conceived essays comprise Ernest Hemingway in Context and lead readers to a number of expanded and interesting conclusions. Wars and oceans, films and magazine coverage - this book is truly useful.' Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'The study of Hemingway as author and fascinating cultural icon continues unabated and is continually being refreshed by new scholars and their expanding insights as this reference so fully exemplifies.' Scott Schwar, La BuscaTable of ContentsPart I. Biography and Life: 1. Chronology Verna Kale; 2. Biography John Raeburn; 3. Critical overview of biographies Lisa Tyler; 4. Letters Sandra Spanier; 5. Reading Gail Sinclair; Part II. Representations: In His Time: 6. Contemporary reviews Albert J. De Fazio, III; 7. Photos and portraits James Plath; 8. Cinema adaptations Jill Jividen; 9. Magazines David M. Earle; Part III. Representations: In our Time: 10. Critical overview Kelli A. Larson; 11. Styles Milton A. Cohen; 12. Cult and afterlife Suzanne del Gizzo; 13. Houses and museums Frederic Svoboda; 14. Posthumous publications Robert W. Trogdon; Part IV. Intellectual and Artistic Movements and Influences: 15. Modernist Paris and the expatriate literary milieu J. Gerald Kennedy; 16. Literary friendships, rivalries and feuds Kirk Curnutt; 17. Literary movements Carl Eby; 18. Visual arts Lisa Narbeshuber; 19. Music Hilary K. Justice; Part V. Popular, Cultural, and Historical Contexts: 20. Ailments, accidents, and suicide Peter L. Hays; 21. Animals Ryan Hediger; 22. Bullfighting Miriam B. Mandel; 23. The environment Susan F. Beegel; 24. Fishing Mark P. Ott; 25. Food and drink Peter Messent; 26. Hunting Kevin Maier; 27. Masculinity Thomas Strychacz; 28. Politics Robert E. Fleming; 29. Publishing industry and Scribner's Leonard J. Leff; 30. Race and ethnicity: African Americans Gary Edward Holcomb; 31. Race and ethnicity: Africans Nghana Lewis; 32. Race and ethnicity: American Indians Amy Strong; 33. Race and ethnicity: Cubans Ann Putnam; 34. Race and ethnicity: Jews Jeremy Kaye; 35. Religion Matthew Nickel; 36. Sex, sexuality, and marriage Debra A. Moddelmog; 37. Travel Russ Pottle; 38. Travel writing Emily Wittman; 39. War: World War I Alex Vernon; 40. War: Spanish Civil War Stacey Guill; 41. War: World War II James H. Meredith; 42. Women Nancy R. Comley; Part VI. Resources: 43. Manuscripts and collections Susan Wrynn; 44. The Hemingway Review and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society Charles M. Oliver; Further reading.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1901, this book contains twenty six folk tales from the Malay peninsula. The text is illustrated with photographs and drawings of Malaysian settings and animals, and the stories are accompanied by explanatory notes at the end of the text to clarify points of local history, religion and language.Table of Contents1. Father lime-stick and the flower-pecker; 2. The king of the tigers is sick; 3. The mouse-deer's shipwreck; 4. Who killed the otter's babies? (A 'clock' story); 5. A vegetarian dispute; 6. The friendship of Tūpai the squirrel and Rūan the creeping fish; 7. The pelican's punishment; 8. The tiger gets his deserts; 9. The tiger's mistake; 10. The tune that makes the tiger drowsy; 11. The 'tigers' fold'; 12. The tiger and the shadow; 13. Wit wins the day; 14. The king-crow and the water-snail; 15. Father 'follow-my-nose' and the four priests; 16. The elephant-princess and the prince; 17. The elephant has a bet with the tiger; 18. Princess Sādong of the caves; 19. The saint that was shot out of his own cannon; 20. The saints who grave-stones moved; 21. Nakhōda Rágam who was pricked to death by his wife's needle; 22. The legend of Pătāni; 23. A Malayan deluge; 24. King Solomon and the birds; 25. The outwitting of the Gĕdembai; 26. The silver prince, and Princess lemon-grass; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1905 as part of the Cambridge English Classics series, this three-volume collection presents the poems of George Crabbe (1754â1832). Volume One contains mostly juvenilia, as well as notes on the text and variants of certain lines drawn from the many editions of Crabbe's works. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Crabbe's poetry and his earlier works.Table of Contents1. Juvenilia; 2. Inebriety; 3. Juvenilia; 4. Midnight; 5. Juvenilia; 6. The candidate; 7. The library; 8. The village; 9. The newspaper; 10. The parish register; 11. The birth of flattery; 12. Reflections; 13. Sir Eustace Grey; 14. The hall of justice; 15. Woman!; 16. The borough.

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Book SynopsisPioneering exciting methodologies, in this book Grenby looks at the first users of the new children's literature that developed in the eighteenth century. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of reading, of childhood, and of children's literature.Trade Review'Fascinating … [a] very readable scholarly work.' The Herald'For the specialist, it is an original and scholarly resource; for the non-specialist, it is an intriguing and often entertaining piece of detective work.' Carousel'Grenby's focus on the traces revealing how children actually used their books provides an astute counterbalance to current approaches to imagining the child reader.' Times Higher Education Supplement'A wonderful book - and beautifully produced … a very important contribution to children's literature, the history of the book, and the history of reading … it's certainly the kind of book which scholars in the field will want to buy … but also some dissertation students in literature and history.' Helen Rogers'… a welcome and long-awaited contribution to the historical study of children's literature. [This] thoroughly researched volume demonstrates that it is essential to extend the horizon of children's literature studies, endorsing a more decidedly cultural studies approach which considers all actors in the literary field.' Anja Müller, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'Grenby's study marks a turning point in children's literature scholarship.' SharpTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Owners; 3. Books; 4. Acquisition; 5. Use; 6. Attitudes; 7. Conclusions; Select bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the various ways in which Milton's works and experiences emerged from the culture and events of his time. In a series of concise, engaging essays, an international group of scholars examines both the social conditions and the broader intellectual currents that shaped his writings and reputation.Trade Review'… the quality of the essays in Milton in Context is almost uniformly high, with each essay providing a stimulating point of departure for further investigation.' Annotated Bibliography of English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Annabel Patterson; 2. Composition: process and chronology Juliet Lucy; 3. Early lives Edward Jones; 4. Letters, verse letters, and gift-texts Cedric C. Brown; 5. Milton on himself Stephen M. Fallon; 6. Poetic tradition, dramatic Ann Baynes Coiro; 7. Poetic tradition, epic Anthony Welch; 8. Poetic tradition, pastoral Barbara K. Lewalski; 9. Prose style Walter S. H. Lim; 10. Verse and rhyme John Creaser; Part II. Critical Legacy: 11. Critical responses, early John Rumrich; 12. Critical responses, 1825–1970 P. J. Klemp; 13. Critical responses, recent J. Martin Evans; 14. Later publishing history John T. Shawcross; 15. Translations Christophe Tournu; 16. Visual arts Wendy Furman-Adams; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 17. Astronomy Dennis Danielson; 18. The book trade Stephen B. Dobranski; 19. The Caroline court Nicholas McDowell; 20. Catholicism Joan S. Bennett; 21. The civil wars James Loxley; 22. Classical literature and learning Stella P. Revard; 23. Education Gregory Chaplin; 24. The English Church Neil Forsyth; 25. The Interregnum David Loewenstein; 26. Italy Catherine Gimelli Martin; 27. Law Lynne Greenberg; 28. Literary contemporaries Albert C. Labriola; 29. Logic Phillip J. Donnelly; 30. London Ian W. Archer; 31. Manuscript transmission Randall Ingram; 32. Marriage and divorce Shigeo Suzuki; 33. Music Diane McColley; 34. The natural world Karen L. Edwards; 35. The New World Amy Boesky; 36. Pamphlet wars N. H. Keeble; 37. Philosophy Pitt Harding; 38. Reading practices Elizabeth Sauer; 39. The Restoration Joad Raymond; 40. Theology William Poole; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisLiterary disability studies is a new and growing critical subject area. This student-centered collection is a vital contribution to the field, providing the most comprehensive overview of disability representation across literatures in English.Trade Review'… an excellent collection of writing on representation.' Amanda Tink, Sydney Review of Books'… is an essential resource for scholars, academics and those with personal interest in the depiction and portrayal of disability narratives both historical and contemporary.' Heather Lacey, British Society for Literature and Science ReviewsTable of Contents1. Introduction: on reading disability in literature Clare Barker and Stuart Murray; Part I. Across Literatures: 2. Monsters, saints, and sinners: disability in Medieval literature Edward Wheatley; 3. Early modern literature and disability studies Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood; 4. Disability and deformity: function impairment and aesthetics in the long eighteenth century Essaka Joshua; 5. Embodying affliction in nineteenth-century fiction Martha Stoddard Holmes; 6. Paralyzed modernities and biofutures: bodies and minds in modern literature Michael Davidson; 7. The ambiguities of inclusion: disability in contemporary literature Stuart Murray; 8. 'Radiant affliction': disability narratives in postcolonial literature Clare Barker; Part II. Across Critical Methods: 9. Disability and the edges of intersectionality Alison Kafer and Eunjung Kim; 10. The world-making potential of contemporary crip/queer literary and cultural production Robert McRuer; 11. Race and disability in US literature Michelle Jarman; 12. Disability and women's writing Sami Schalk; 13. Disability in genre fiction Ria Cheyne; 14. Signifying selves: disability and life writing G. Thomas Couser; 15. Disability rhetorics Jay Dolmage; 16. Afterword Petra Kuppers.

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Book SynopsisLina Wilder argues that the 'places' and 'objects' of the memory arts inform Shakespeare's conception of theatre, and vice versa. Ranging from Yorick's skull to Desdemona's handkerchief, Shakespeare's mnemonic objects help audiences to recall, or imagine, staged and unstaged pasts.Trade Review'Wilder makes a convincing argument that invention and recollection were frequently figured as feminine reproductive activities.' The European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Staging memory; 1. Mnemonic desire and place-based memory systems: body, book, and theatre; 2. 'I do remember': the nurse, the apothecary, and Romeo; 3. Wasting memory: competing mnemonics in the Henry plays; 4. 'Baser matter' and mnemonic pedagogy in Hamlet; 5. 'The handkerchief, my mind misgives': false past in Othello; 6. 'Flaws and starts': fragmented recollection in Macbeth; 7. Mnemonic control and watery disorder in The Tempest; Conclusion. A 'most small fault': feminine 'nothings' and the spaces of memory; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This Companion surveys the critical methods brought to bear on the Folio and equips readers with the tools to understand it and to develop their skills in early modern book culture more generally. A team of international scholars surveys the range of bibliographic, historical and textual material relating to the Folio, its editors, collectors and critical reception. This revealing volume will be of wide interest to scholars of Shakespeare, the history of the book and early modern drama.Trade Review'… takes the reader on a journey through the history of perhaps the book world's most famous literary edition. … Readers of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio are lucky. Not only because they have in their hands an excellent resource that will elucidate many aspects of the edition, but also because modern digital renderings of the First Folio are now more accessible than ever.' William J. Humphries, The Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsPreface Emma Smith; 1. Shakespeare in print before 1623 Tara L. Lyons; 2. Publishing the First Folio Eric Rasmussen; 3. Printing the First Folio B. D. R. Higgins; 4. The prefatorial material Chris Laoutaris; 5. The provenance of the Folio texts Gabriel Egan; 6. 'Complete' works: the Folio and all of Shakespeare Peter Kirwan; 7. Early buyers and readers Jean-Christophe Mayer; 8. Editors Edmund G. C. King; 9. Collectors Steven K. Galbraith; 10. Reading the First Folio Emma Smith; 11. Digital First Folios Sarah Werner; 12. Afterword: the Folio as fetish Adam G. Hooks.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and engaging analysis of a wide range of Antarctic fiction - from lost-race romances to espionage thrillers to travellers' tales to horror fantasies - is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, literature and culture of Antarctica and the polar regions.Trade Review'Encyclopedic in its scope, creative in its organization, and lucidly written, Antarctica in Fiction is a solid, lively, and at times surprising study that encompasses everything from Gothic and utopian treatments of the continent in fiction and film to the literature produced by Antarctic explorers and researchers themselves … [it] is a model of meticulous scholarship that should certainly be part of any university library's holdings.' Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Journal of the Fantastic in the ArtsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Speculation visions of the south polar regions; 2. Bodies, boundaries and the Antarctic gothic; 3. Creative explorations of the heroic era; 4. The survival value of literature at high latitudes; 5. The transforming nature of Antarctic travel; 6. Freezing time in far southern narratives; Coda.

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. This volume shows how much is learned when historians of scholarship, like contemporary historians of science, focus on earlier scholars'' practices, and when Western scholarly traditions are treated as part of a much larger, cross-cultural inquiry.Trade Review'… this transcultural investigation is the fruit of comparative and collaborative scholarship at its best. It is, to use the editors' coinage, a 'symphilological' achievement that will leave its readers with a habit of stopping to think about the particularity of scholarly practices and its implications for the history of ideas. All the contributions are lucidly written with a cross-disciplinary audience in mind and beautifully documented with images, tables, and transcriptions of the evidence discussed … the choice to let the individual contributions speak for themselves, along with the work of comparison and juxtaposition germane to the textual practice of the essay collection, seems a forceful methodological statement for a project that places the case study at the heart of its epistemic undertaking.' Tania Demetriuo, Isis ReviewTable of ContentsHow to do things with texts: an introduction Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most; 1. Reliable books: Islamic law, canonization, and manuscripts in the Ottoman Empire (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) Guy Burak; 2. Obscurity Ineke Sluiter; 3. Allegoresis and etymology Glenn W. Most; 4. Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: the deity-of-the-formula system Paolo Visigalli; 5. Maryādām Ullanghya: The boundaries of interpretation in early modern India Christopher Minkowski; 6. Making sense of Suetonius in the twelfth century Robert A. Kaster; 7. From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi as a reader-annotator Lianbin Dai; 8. Gods on clay: ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions Aaron Tugendhaft; 9. An unknown medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies Ronny Vollandt; 10. Picturing as practice: placing a square above a square in the central Middle Ages Megan McNamee; 11. Inimitable sources: canonical texts and rhetorical theory in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions Filippomaria Pontani; 12. Excerpts versus fragments: deconstructions and reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana András Németh; 13. Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg; 14. World bibliographies: libraries and the reorganization of knowledge in late Renaissance Europe Paola Molino.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Shakespeare wrote his plays and how the players revised them by examining manuscripts that have survived from use in early modern theatres. Looking at collaboration, theatre practice and the Shakespeare canon, it will greatly interest researchers and advanced students of Shakespeare studies, manuscript studies, and textual history.Trade Review'This is a temperate, scrupulous and exhaustive study, which deserves a longer review. … [Purkis's] meticulously detailed analyses, which represent a significant advance in our understanding of dramatic manuscripts generally, and Shakespeare's professional activities in particular.' Paul Dean, English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Text, Collaboration, Evidence: 1. The theatrical text and the new bibliography: John a Kent and John a Cumber; 2. 'Foul papers', 'prompt books', and textual sufficiency: The Captives; 3. Attribution, collaboration, and The Second Maiden's Tragedy; Part II. Shakespearean Coincidences: 4. Curious coincidences: the collaborations of Sir Thomas More; 5. Singularly Shakespearean: attributing the Hand-D addition of More; 6. Canon, apocrypha, and Sir Thomas More; Works cited; Index.

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Book SynopsisLiterature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as the 'next big thing' in literary studies, many students and scholars remain perplexed as to what a DH approach to literature entails, and skeptical observers continue to see literature and the digital world as fundamentally incompatible. In its argument that digital and traditional scholarship should be placed in dialogue with each other, this book contextualizes the advent of the digital in literary theory, explores the new questions readers can ask of texts when they become digitized, and investigates the challenges that fresh forms of born-digital fiction pose to existing models of literary analysis.Table of Contents1. Is literature dying in the digital age?; 2. Digitization; 3. Born digital; Coda: print in the digital age.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature provides a thorough yet accessible overview of a literary phenomenon that has been rapidly globalizing over the past two decades. It takes an innovative approach that underscores the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not merely as an ethnic phenomenon in the United States, but more broadly as a crucial element of a trans-American literary imagination. Leading scholars in the field present critical analyses of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts, from the early nineteenth century to the present. They engage with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature. This Companion will be an invaluable resource, introducing undergraduate and graduate students to the complexities of the field.Trade Review'The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature is a comprehensive compilation of literary criticism regarding Latin literature. González … opens the volume with a chronology of significant historical events affecting the Latin community and of seminal texts within the Latin canon.' Choice'… the comprehensive account of the complexities of Latina/o American identity politics and dynamic literary production over a vast period of time also offers a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.' Elizabeth Anne Jacobs, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction John Morán González; Part I. Early Trans-American Contacts and Conflicts: 1. The trans-American literature of conquest and exile, 1836–85 Rodrigo Lazo; 2. The trans-American literature of conquest and revolution, 1881–1938 Laura Lomas; 3. Between ethnic Americans and racial subjects: Latina/o literature, 1936–59 John Morán González; Part II. Latina/o Literature since 1960: 4. The aesthetics of politics: cultural nationalist movements and Latina/o literature Richard T. Rodríguez; 5. The Cold War in the Americas and Latina/o literature Ricardo L. Ortíz; 6. The 1980s: Latina/o literature during the 'decade of the Hispanic' Tiffany Ana López; 7. Trans-American Latina/o literature of the 1990s: resisting neoliberalism Lucía M. Suárez; 8. From 'Latinidad' to 'Latinid@d': imagining the twenty-first century Paul Allatson; Part III. Critical Methodologies and Themes: 9. Latin@ poetics: voices Norma Elia Cantú; 10. Latino/a life writing: autobiography, memoir, testimonio Isabel Dúran; 11. Queering Latina/o literature Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes; 12. Latinos and the like: reading mixture and deracination Claudia Milian; 13. Mestizaje and cyborgism on either side of the line Thea Pitman; 14. Historias transfronterizas: contemporary Latina/o literature of migration Marta Caminero-Santangelo.

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Book SynopsisIntroducing linguistic concepts and applying them to literary analysis, this undergraduate textbook enables English and literature students to become knowledgeable in both the fields of linguistics and literature. Providing numerous examples and exercises throughout, the book covers a wide range of topics in both linguistics and literary criticism.Trade Review'Making linguistics interesting and easy to understand, Adamson helps readers learn about linguistics at the same time that they are applying linguistic concepts to the study of literature and other cultural texts. He shows students that linguistics and literature are both about life and how language is used to represent life, reflect on life, and live life.' Duane Roen, Dean, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. The sounds of English; 3. Metaphor and metonymy; 4. Syntax; 5. The rhythms of poetry and speech; 6. Varieties of English; 7. Morphology, semantics and pragmatics; 8. Discourse analysis; 9. Alternative texts; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. By taking a historical perspective, the book reveals the grotesque to be a complex and continuous tradition comprising several distinct strands: the ornamental, carnivalesque, traumatic and profound.Trade Review"This short book on the grotesque offers an interesting contribution to the thematic reconfiguration of more conventional art history." --ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction: entering the Spielraum; 2. Improvisation I: grottesche; 3. Improvisation II: arabesques; 4. Subversion: the carnivalesque body; 5. Trauma: the failure of representation; 6. Revelation: profound play.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1943, this book was written using a variety of evidence from archaeology and literature concerning Norse funeral customs to reconstruct their conception of future life, the soul of man, the cult of the dead, and the journey to the land of the dead. The text is notable as one of the first comprehensive treatments of these areas, showing how knowledge could be forwarded by correlation of the evidence from various academic fields. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Norse history, archaeology and literature.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Funeral customs: the evidence from archaeology; 2. Funeral customs: the evidence of literature; 3. The conception of the future life; 4. The cult of the dead; 5. The conception of the soul; 6. Necromancy; 7. The journey to the land of the dead; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisThere has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought. This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning. Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience. Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency.Table of ContentsIntroduction: feeling Romanticism Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha; 1. The motion behind Romantic emotion: towards a chemistry and physics of feeling Richard C. Sha; 2. 'A certain mediocrity': Adam Smith's moral behaviourism Thomas Pfau; 3. Like love: the feel of Shelley's similes Julie Carlson; 4. Jane Austen and the persuasion of happiness Joel Faflak; 5. The general fast and humiliation: tracking feeling in wartime Mary A. Favret; 6. A peculiar community: Mary Shelley, Godwin, and the abyss of emotion Tilottama Rajan; 7. Emotion without content: primary affect and pure potentiality in Wordsworth David Collings; 8. Kant's peace, Wordsworth's slumber Jacques Khalip; 9. Living a ruined life: De Quincey's damage Rei Terada.

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Book SynopsisPeter Boxall's The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the ethical, political and literary value of the novel as a genre at turning point in the history both of literature and of criticism. As the dominant critical concerns of the twentieth century faded, and new cultural and technological environments emerged, Boxall argues that we lost our collective sense of the purpose of the novel. This book responds to this predicament by demonstrating why and how the novel matters to us today. Ranging from Daniel Defoe to Zadie Smith, Boxall shows how the formal properties of the novel allow us to imagine the worlds in which we live. This is a vibrant, compelling and richly informed critical perspective that asks us to see anew how central fiction is to our idea of the world, and how richly the novel informs our attempts to understand our present and our future.Trade Review'The Value of the Novel is a triumph. Peter Boxall offers us a sweeping, stimulating revision of critical and literary history that looks forward to the novel's future even as it looks no less to its past. And his book is as moving as it is persuasive, because of the quality of its analysis and of Boxall's writing. This volume, the first of a new series, sets the highest standard for subsequent installments. Boxall re-establishes criticism as a comprehensive exploratory dialogue about every aspect of the art and rhetoric of fiction. His work reminds us of the value of the intellectual distinction that is, as much as the value of the novel, our common pursuit.' Robert Caserio, Pennsylvania State University'Peter Boxall's invigorating new book aims to articulate anew the work the novel does in a world marked by the pressure points of virtual reality and environmental calamity.' Studies in the Novel'In The Value of the Novel … Boxall traverses a vast terrain, offering compelling close readings of more than a dozen novelists and connecting them with dozens more from around the world. His prose is lush and lyrical, his readings subtle and intellectually demanding. Sentence by sentence, both books are pleasure-reads for anyone who cares deeply about literary criticism.' Andrew Lanham, Notes and Queries'… Offers a deft, timely, and persuasive argument for reexamining some of our most intuitive assumptions about the novel, including how it functions, how it has evolved, and what we can expect from it moving forward. … That Boxall's little book raises so many large questions is not, I think, a weakness but one of its many strengths. … For scholars and students interested in digging into the structural 'code' of the novel form … Boxall's volume will be indispensable.' R. John Williams, NovelTable of Contents1. The novel voice; 2. Is this really realism?; 3. The novel body; 4. Making time matter; 5. The novel, justice and the law.

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Book SynopsisThe story of Irish modernism constitutes a remarkable chapter in the movement's history. This volume serves as an incisive and accessible overview of that brilliant period in which Irish artists not only helped to create a distinctive nationalist literature but also changed the face of European and anglophone culture. This Companion surveys developments in modernist poetry, drama, fiction and the visual arts. Early innovators, such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Jack B. Yeats and James Joyce, as well as late modernists, including Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, MÃirtÃn à Cadhain and Francis Bacon, all appear here. Significantly, however, this volume ranges beyond such iconic figures to open up new ground with chapters on Irish women modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish language modernism and the critical reception of modernism in Ireland.Trade Review'The list of contributors is a who's who of scholars working in the field. A comprehensive time line in the first few pages provides a thorough historical grounding in the socioeconomic, political and cultural events that contributed to the formation of Irish modernism. If this book is treated as the first window into the wider world of scholarship, then Cleary has more than ably accomplished his task.' A. P. Pennino, Choice'… remarkably successful … wide-ranging yet remarkably coherent, a notable achievement … Canadian Journal of Irish StudiesTable of Contents1. Intellectual and aesthetic influences Jean-Michel Rabate; 2. European, American, and imperial conjectures Joe Cleary; 3. The Irish revival and modernism Ronan McDonald; 4. Style and idiom Barry McCrea; 5. W. B. Yeats and modernist poetry Laura O'Connor; 6. James Joyce and the mutations of the modernist novel Emer Nolan; 7. Modernist experiments in Irish theatre Ben Levitas; 8. Visual modernisms Luke Gibbons; 9. Women and modernism Anne Fogarty; 10. Irish language modernisms Louis de Paor; 11. Irish American modernisms Joe Cleary; 12. Critical receptions of literary modernism Enda Duffy; 13. Irish modernist imaginaries Michael Valdez Moses.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1928, this book gathers together a selection of John Ruskin's relatively neglected writings on literature and aesthetics. As noted in the textual preface, 'Interesting themes, original treatment, suggestive ideas which warm and stimulate the mind, are set out in a more easily readable form than is usual in Ruskin's works.'Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. On the study of literature and language; 2. Literature and morals; 3. Poetry and teaching; 4. Faith in literature; 5. The beautiful; 6. The imagination; 7. The grotesque in literature; 8. The pathetic fallacy; 9. Landscape in literature; 10. Style; 11. Women in literature; 12. Enigmas in literature; 13. Dante - the Divina Commedia; 14. Shakespeare's names; 15. Dr Johnson; 16. Sir Walter Scott; 17. Blake; 18. Wordsworth; 19. Coleridge; 20. Byron; 21. Dickens; 22. George Eliot; Definitions and aphorisms; Index of proper names and classical references; Subject index.

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