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Book SynopsisPostcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.Trade ReviewOne of Times Higher Education's Books of 2013 "Bridging the gap between Jewish and postcolonial studies, Stef Craps's new postcolonial reading of the work of Sindiwe Magona, David Dabydeen, Fred D'Aguair, Caryl Phillips and Anita Desai covers exciting new ground in trauma theory. Challenging the hegemonic framings of the dominant 'trauma aesthetic,' Craps broadens our understanding of traumatic experience by examining literary works that depict life under South African apartheid, the Middle Passage, the links between histories of black and Jewish suffering and those between the Holocaust and colonialism. This is a fine study and a welcome addition to the field of trauma studies." - Dr Victoria Burrows, English Department, The University of Sydney, Australia "In this beautifully and clearly written book, Stef Craps leads trauma theory away from its Eurocentric past and towards a decolonized future. Arguing that the traumas of non-Western populations should be acknowledged for their own sake and on their own terms, Postcolonial Witnessing demonstrates through its exemplary discussion of literary texts including the works of Anita Desai and Caryl Phillips, how literary analysis can become a part of that process. Timely, provocative and destined to be widely read, this book makes a path-breaking contribution to memory, trauma, and literary studies." - Professor Susannah Radstone, University of East London, UK "'Stef Craps's excellent study calls for the decolonizing of trauma theory and begins from the premise that its founding texts have failed to live up to the promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement. In a carefully argued thesis, he accuses trauma theory of Eurocentric bias in four crucial ways . . . Overall, this short book advances an eloquent plea to rethink trauma from a postcolonial perspective in order to listen to the suffering of Others beyond the western purview and, thereby, in Craps's words, "remain faithful to the ethical foundation of the field"." - Journal of Postcolonial Writing 'Despite the seriousness of the topic, the clarity and flow of Craps's writing makes Postcolonial Witnessing a joy . . . This is a book that engages with current debates in a lively and interesting way and is sure to be of interest to scholars of trauma, postcolonialism, cultural memory studies and related fields. Its clear structure and thorough consideration of foundational and recent literature, including an excellent index and bibliography, will also make it a useful text to those who are new to the topic. In fact, the book's strong argument, clear structure and engaging prose make Postcolonial Witnessing an example of what an academic text should be.' - Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory ''Stef Craps' Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds is a text that has, without a doubt, pushed the field of trauma studies towards a more positive and critical direction of analysis and ethical engagement . . . A fundamental leap in the right dirction, Postcolonial Witnessing opens a path for new, more generative theorizations of trauma.'' - Emmanuel Martinez, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, US "Stef Craps' Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds is a timely and much needed corrective to the polarised debate - particularly in postcolonial studies - around the uses and abuses of trauma theory. . . . I strongly recommend Postcolonial Witnessing to anyone interested in future applications of trauma theory in various fields of study, especially postcolonial literature.' - Fred Ribkoff, Postcolonial Text "Stef Craps's Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds attempts to adapt the rather recent advances of trauma theory to postcolonial theory and despite its flaws, it is one of the more important texts on trauma theory in recent time... overall it is a very strong look at trauma studies." Henry James Morello, The Comparatist Shortlisted for the 2014 ESSE Book Award "Craps makes a compelling case for the need to expand the current event-based model to 'alternative conceptualizations of trauma' proposed by postcolonial critiques, such as 'insidious trauma,' 'continuous traumatic stress,' 'cumulative trauma,' or 'oppression-based trauma.'... His skillful analysis of these texts is particularly relevant for scholars of literature, but Craps also weaves into his readings insights gained from the theoretical literature... Craps' fine study..." Björn Krondorfer, theologie.geschichte 'Stef Craps's Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds serves as a wonderful starting point for anyone interested in recent critical paths in trauma studies. Not only does it give a good overview and critique of foundational early work by such scholars as Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub, Dominic LaCapra, and Geoffrey H. Hartman, but it also brings together the work of many recent scholars who, like the author of this monograph, have noted trauma studies' exclusions of various groups and types of traumatic experiences. In covering this vast amount of critical territory and doing so with adept and cogent arguments, Postcolonial Witnessing proves itself a particularly useful and important introduction to the field for both students and other scholars seeking entry." - Veronica Austen, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée ". . . successful engagement with postcolonial theory and memory studies . . . There is an unquestionable sincerity of critical engagement with the very vast body of literature both critics discuss. They explain theoretical ideas with a clarity and conciseness that indicates their extensive knowledge of scholarship in the area. In the tradition of effective postcolonial critique, the authors also mention the literary and social implications of their work. For Craps this involves an 'inclusive and culturally sensitive trauma theory' that opens up the possibility of 'a more just future' . . . Scholars and students of contemporary postcolonial literature will find these books useful as maps of the fields of cross-cultural and memory studies." - Kanika Batra, WasafiriTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Trauma of Empire The Empire of Trauma Beyond Trauma Aesthetics Ordinary Trauma in Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen's 'Turner' and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts Cross-Traumatic Affiliation Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips Entangled Memories in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUsing case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature.Trade Review“This hugely informative, clearly written, book will be of obvious interest to scholars of African literature, postcolonial theory, and material cultures of the book. … While demonstrating what archival material can bring to the study of inequalities in the global literary marketplace, Davis’s study will encourage its readers to question and explore, in fresh ways, how the experience of literature is underpinned by the material conditions of its production and circulation.” (Ruth Bush, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 47 (1), Spring, 2016)CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014 "Not since Graham Huggan's The Postcolonial Exotic has there been a book that so comprehensively examines the ways in which international publishers attempt to shape the literary expectations of readers of African literatures. This book will inspire postcolonial scholars to research the material conditions in which authors work, and to expand the framework of literary scholarship beyond 'close reading' to ask questions about how African literatures were brought to print in the mid- to late- twentieth century." - Professor Steph Newell, Co-Director (Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies), University of Sussex, UK "Caroline Davis makes an eloquent and for the most part compelling case for her arguments, and this is a fascinating, meticulously researched, and richly documented study that sheds new light on the emergence of postcolonial African literary publishing, and at the same time offers an exhaustive analysis of the historical, political and economic context of British publishing in Africa in general" - African Research & Documentation, Journal of SCOLMA "I need a higher count of words to praise this essential study, which contains excellent case studies I cannot account for here studies of the acquisition, editing, and marketing of a variety of types of works. The whole book is indispensable. I cannot recommend it more highly." - Sarah Brouillette, Postcolonial Studies "Creating Postcolonial Literature makes a valuable contribution to both African and postcolonial literary studies for its careful and nuanced exploration of a too-often neglected example of early Europhone publishing from the continent. Throughout its course, Davis identifies numerous continuities and discrepancies from previous studies of postcolonial publishing, enabling the study to illustrate deftly the creation and persistence of a hierarchical system of literary relations. The study is particularly insightful in its consistent and in-depth use of archival sources, demonstrating the complexity which negotiating African literatures has entailed in its early years, both between African writers and British publishers, as the title of the study supposes, but also among editorial staff themselves... a significant entry into the emerging field of postcolonial book history, with clear implications for how we conceptualize the consecration of literary value in world literatures." - Madhu Krishnan, Interventions "Davis (Oxford Brookes University, UK) makes a significant contribution to African studies, the history of book culture, and literacy studies with this volume. She documents, in fascinating detail, the often neocolonial relationship between Oxford University Press (OUP) and postcolonial African writers, with specific focus on OUP's "Three Crowns Books" series. By virtue of meticulous research in archives in England, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa, along with interviews, she writes authoritatively about OUP's financial strategy in working with African writers; which authors are approved for publication and why; what kind of revisions/censorship OUP editors impose; why certain texts were selected for marketing to schools and to the Bantu education system in South Africa; and what one can learn from paratextual material, e.g., exotic book covers, blurbs, publicity. By way of case studies, she provides specific information about several writers, including Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, Raymond Sarif Easmon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Obi Egbuna, and several others. She underpins her sophisticated analysis with the theories of Edward Said, Pascale Casanova, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume is enriched by 20 illustrations, an extensive bibliography, and a thorough index. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers." - E. R. Baer, Gustavus Adolphus College, CHOICE "...this is a fascinating, meticulously researched, and richly documented study that sheds new light on the emergence of postcolonial African literary publishing, and at the same time offers an exhaustive analysis of the historical, political and economic context of British publishing in Africa..." - Hans Zell, African Research and Documentation "[R]evealing... meticulously told" - James Currey, African Literature Today "There exists today a considerable body of research, which is constantly being augmented, on provision of what is read from publishing houses in Africa... The most recent addition to this body of literature is Caroline Davis' excellent book Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers" - Walter Bgoya, speaking at the Africa Studies Association UK conference, Sussex University, September 2014 "Davis's approach to her material, which includes paratextual analysis, interviews, and extensive archival work, is rigorous but also judicious, especially in the portraits she draws of the various series editors and branch managers and the different ways they interpreted and in some cases contested the OUP's African 'mission.' In providing such an exhaustive but also nuanced critical history, this fine book demands that we rethink the vexed issue of neocolonialism in British publishing in postcolonial Africa." James Graham, SHARP News "The history of publishing in Africa has not received sufficient academic attention... This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the nature of OUP's contribution to that process, and identifies the tensions and ambiguities of an enterprise that was caught between the desire to bring quality literature to the African reading public and the need to secure the profits of a 'charitable organisation' that was committed to providing major financial support for its parent university." Peter Kallaway, Journal of Southern African Studies "Davis's close work in the OUP archive represents a very welcome contribution to postcolonial book history." Asha Rogers, Wasafiri "Creating Postcolonial Literature is an excellent addition to a growing body of scholarship on postcolonial literary production... Davis weaves an engaging portrait of the people, decisions and strategies that account for the success of OUP in Africa through sophisticated analyses of archival information, including letters, financial reports and interviews." Grace A. Musilah, AfricaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction PART I: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS IN AFRICA, 1927-1980 2. The Vision for OUP in Africa 3. 'The Obligation to be Profitable': OUP in West Africa 4. 'The Call to Duty': OUP in East Africa 5. Publishing under Apartheid: OUP in South Africa 6. Conclusion to Part I PART II: THE THREE CROWNS SERIES, 1962-1976 7. The History of Three Crowns 8. Judging African Literature 9. Editing Three Crowns 10. Publishing Wole Soyinka 11. Publishing Athol Fugard 12. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Brendon Nicholls revisits old issues such as gender and nationalism in African literature with freshness and deploys historical context in his reading of Ngugi's texts with amazing discrimination. His book compels us to look at the politics of translation in African literature with new insights and to see translation as a source of creative energy and agency, rather than the space within which "original" meaning or the autochthon is violated'. James Ogude, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and author of Ngugi’s Novels and African History ’... the book provides readers with a clear grasp of the subject matter... Recommended.’ Choice 'A well-researched and highly theoretical monograph...' Review of English Studies '... very informed and illuminating analysis.' WasafiriTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; A topography of 'woman'; Clitoridectomy and Gikuyu nationalism; The landscape of insurgency; Reading against the grain (of wheat); Paternity, illegitimacy and intertextuality; The neocolony as a prostituted economy; Conclusion - prostituting translation: an ethics of postcolonial reading; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMedieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as: What is medieval literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century? Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to tTable of ContentsIntroduction: Manuscripts, Castles, and Quests: Diving into Medieval Literature 1. How to Wield a Sword in the Middle Ages: Medieval Literature and War 2. Chivalry is not Dead: Medieval Literature and Love 3. Meeting Monsters on the Map: Medieval Literature of Space and Time 4. Touching Heaven: The Literature of Religion 5. The Most Extreme: Iconic Authors of the Middle Ages 6. Game of Texts: The Magic of Medieval Literature Today

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a complete guide to Nietzsche's writings, which draw on two and a half millennia of literary and philosophical history and have inspired a further century of responses from literary writers and philosophers.

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Book SynopsisThrough extensive Romance Languages archival and field research, this book challenges eurocentric notions of World Literature to create a 'Latin-African' literary history that interweaves the influential voices of African, Caribbean, and Latinx/Chicanx authors. This book bridges the long-neglected distance between hemispheric and African studies.Trade Review'By rehabilitating and privileging the African archive in her account of Latinx/Caribbean relations, Sarah Quesada's book provides a fresh and very welcome instalment to debates about Pan-Africanism. But here, Pan-Africanism is more than just an aspirational political project, long distracted by the cynical pragmatism of political leaders. Rather, it is a work of re-animation that will redefine African and African diasporic relations through a well-grounded and nuanced humanities perspective. This book is a magnificent gift offering.' Ato Quayson, Stanford University'Beautifully written, well researched and bold in its formulations, The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature is an important intervention in the reading of Latinx and Latin American literature, widely defined. The brilliance of the book is manifest in the analysis, in which the Sarah Quesada unearths discreet connections to Africa and unfolds them into an ambitious and successful re-cartography of the Atlantic through a Latin America-Africa axis that is very persuasive and unique.' Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis'Sarah Quesada has written a BIG book, both in its scholarly import and geographic scope. Quesada finally centers Africa in study of the Black Atlantic. She also redresses its exclusion of Latin America - a region that received three-quarters of enslaved Africans during the colonial period - while making plain why Latinx literature has always been a world literature. Reading comparatively and with laser focus across four languages, dozens of colonial archives, and three continents, Quesada traces the textual memory and political internationalism that has thrived for over eighty years among authors and political actors from the US Southwest, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, and Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Quesada presents the reader with the beating nexus of cultural, political, and aesthetic Latin-Africa, in vivid and engaging prose, such as only a generational thinker can accomplish. Afrolatinidad is redefined in her capable hands.' María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University'Quesada's The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature transforms Paul Gilroy's notion of The Black Atlantic into an Afro-Latino Atlantic…Quesada is able to make a hopeful argument for the possibility of fiction - whether traditional print novels or heritage site oral storytelling - to helpfully respond to and potentially transform the path wrought by this real and symbolic violence.' Tom McEnaney, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. Fear: Junot Díaz's zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in 'Monstro'; 2. Commodification: Badagry and the African safari of Achy Obejas's Ruins; 3. Obliteration: Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a 'Latin-African' death foretold; 4. Archival distortion: The Chicano-Congo Relación of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya.

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Book SynopsisModernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.Trade Review"Modernist Nowheres addresses an enduring and wide-ranging set of canonical modernist writers in Conrad, Lewis, Lawrence, Wells and Ford, and delves into the archives to mobilize less well-known material to support the argument. It is an engaging and provocative contribution to this burgeoning branch of modernist studies." - Andrew Frayn, Ford Madox Ford Society newsletterTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Maps Worth Glancing At Meliorism and Edwardian Modernity Questions of Perfectibility Forlorn Hopes and The English Review Magnetic Cities and Simple Lives Individualism, Happiness, and Labour Vorticism and the Limits of BLAST Satire, Impressionism, and War Idealisms and Contingencies Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period''s most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic period''s most contentious issues.Trade Review'The meticulous research and probing readings in Michael Tomko's book show how unsettling the issue of Catholic Emancipation was for the major writers of the Romantic periods. It is a stunning contribution to our larger sense of the complexity surrounding issues of toleration and secularization; still more, it makes the most convincing case yet for Catholicism's centrality in Romantic politics and literary production.' - Professor Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 'This is a rich and rewarding study...The reader comes away with a refreshed, more complicated picture of nineteenth-century romanticism, a thorough understanding of the "Catholic Question" and its controversial nature, and much encouragement to consider the role of religious identity in the formation of nation-states.' - Maria Lamonaca, New Books on Literature 19 '...thoughtful study...' -True Principles 'Though not the final word on the subject, Tomko's book has the clear merit of persuading readers of its importance. It will also provide them with a strong encyclopaedic basis and with possible reading strategies on which to base their own investigations into an unduly neglected aspect of British Romantic culture.' - Raphaël Ingelbien, University of LeuvenTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Spirits of the Age The Purgatorial Politics of the Catholic Question History, Sympathy, and Sectarianism in Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story Wordsworth and Superstition Shelley's Conflicted Campaign for Catholic Emancipation Scott's Ivanhoe and the Saxon Question Conclusion: 'The Anxious Hour'— England in 1829 Works Cited Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy.Trade Review'Novel Minds delivers a nuanced understanding of the instabilities and uncertainties of the consciousness shaped by reading imagined in eighteenth-century philosophy and narrative prose. In a lively and engaging style, Tierney-Hynes brings the writings of significant writers into interesting conversation with each other.' - Ros Ballaster, Professor of 18th Century Studies, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: From Passions to Language: The Transformation of the Imagination Locke: Metaphorical Romances Behn: Romance from the Stage to the Letter Shaftesbury: Conversation and the Psychology of Romance Hume: Reading Romances, Writing the Self Richardson: How to Read Romance Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D''Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, and celebrity.Trade Review'American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative makes an important and timely contribution to criticism through a careful, well-informed exploration of the relationships between authorship and celebrity in the contemporary United States. D'Amore offers shrewd analyses of the contested intersections of privacy and publicity inherent in the life writing of Norman Mailer, John Wideman, and Dave Eggers and in their ascension to iconic status in the literary world.' - William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsNorman Mailer's Existential Autobiography Process and Play in 'Great Time': John Edgar Wideman's Interactive Autobiographical Project 'But Self-Awareness Is Sincerity': Authorship and Exposure, Irony and Earnestness, Dave Eggers and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Book SynopsisThis highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day.Trade Review'Donovan is to be praised both for the care and detail of his excavation of popular culture in Conrad's oeuvre and for the lucidity with which he presents his results...Not only does this volume provoke renewed interest in its subject matter, but it also stands as a paradigm in its meticulous research, so that the combination provides that novel and most welcome thing - a riveting new work of Conrad scholarship.' - The Conradian 'What strikes the reader in this volume is Donovan's appreciation of Conrad's life and works, and his ability to bind together Conrad's innumerable subtle reflections on the emerging dominance of popular culture. This work is one of the most readable and informative studies of Conrad to appear in many years, an example of what rigorous scholarship and fine writing can achieve.' - English Literature in Transition 'Donovan's rewarding new study .... successfully demonstrates how thoroughly Conrad's fiction is permeated by the material traces of popular culture. ... Each of its extended readings and biographical anecdotes serves both to consolidate and to invite reconsideration of the new face of Conrad that has emerged in Victorian and modernist studies over the past few decades. The aura of this new face deserves many more such studies.'- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Visual Entertainment Tourism Advertising Magazine Fiction Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was formulated in the Renaissance to describe the affective power of literature.Trade Review'Reading Sensations in Early Modern England is a slim volume, but a valuable one...its clear argument and elegant execution make it a rewarding read.' - Erin Sullivan, Medical HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Word and the Flesh in Early Modern England Beneath the Skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the Experience of English Poetry Arming the Reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the Literature of Choler 'These Spots are but the Letters': John Donne and the Medicaments of Elegy Eating his Words: Thomas Coryat and the Art of Indigestion Touching Stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the Origins of English Pornography Afterword Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIncorporating the most recent discoveries concerning Blake's heritage and cultural context, Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiricism proposes a radical new reading of his early works, that sees them taking enlightenment ideas to heights never dreamed of by Locke and Priestley.Trade Review'This work can serve as an excellent resource for scholars interested in Blake's materialism, and it also demonstrates the necessity of value of conjectural leaps in humanities research.' - Marcel O'Gorman, RomanticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements- A Note on Texts and Illustrations Introduction: Blake and his Traditions PART 1: EXPERIENCES OF EMPIRICISM Blake and Locke: Friendship and Enmity Closet and Cavern Priestley and the Material Soul PART 2: THE TREE OF MYSTERY Obscurity and the Sublime Infinity: Causes and Consequences The Corporealisation of Thought 'Surgeing Sulphureous Fluid': The Case of Urizen PART 3: RIGHT REASON AND 'SENSE SUPERNATURAL' 'Where Else is Heaven': The Ranting Impulse and Inner Light The Spiritual Substance The Abyssal Eye PART 4: THE OPENING EYE 'He Conversed with Angels' Divine Vision as Political Force PART 5: THE ARK OF GOD 'What is Man!' The First Principle Perception, Liberty and Organic Light The Bounding Line Outlining the Vessels of Eternity PART 6: THE SUBLIME ACT Incarnations and Inheritance Index

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Book SynopsisThis much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips and Alison Donnell discuss the textual, political and cultural history of black British and the term 'black British' itself.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: G.Low & M.Wynne-Davies Foreword: Migration, Modernity and English Writing: Reflections on Migrant Identity and Canon Formation; M.Phillips PART I: INTERROGATING THE CANON 'The Ghost of Other Stories': Salman Rushdie and a Black British Canon?; J.Procter Not Good Enough or Not Man Enough?: Beryl Gilroy as the Anomaly in the Evolving 'Black British Canon'; S.Courtman In the Eyes of the Beholder: Diversity and the Cultural Politics of Canon Re-Formation in Britain; F.Folorunso in conversation with G.Low & M.Wynne-Davies PART II: NEW LANGUAGES OF CRITICISM Fantasy Relationships: Black British Canons in a Transnational World; J.McLeod 'New Forms': Towards a Critical Dialogue with Black British 'Popular' Fictions; A.Wood PART III: GENEALOGIES AND INTERVENTIONS Texts of Cultural Practice: Black Theatre and Performance in the UK; M.McMillan Canon Questions: Art in 'Black Britain'; L.R.Wainwright 'Sharing Connections': From West Indian to Black British; G.Low Afterword: In Praise of a Black British Canon and the Possibilities of Representing the Nation 'Otherwise'; A.Donnell Index

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Book SynopsisOutlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources.Trade Review'Thoughtful, well written and offering fresh perspectives on writers as diverse as A. C. Bradley and Virginia Woolf...[a] delightful book.' - Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: INSTITUTIONS Histories of English: The Critical Background English in the Universities PART TWO: PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTITIONERS Critics and Professors Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis PART THREE: CURRENT DEBATES Revising English: Theory and Practice Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni MorrisonTrade Review'This is a solid study of 'the complexities of interracial friendship' among black and white women in a variety of American literary texts. Reames presents a sobering argument about the lasting legacies of racial antagonism as well as the ways in which a range of American women writers work to critique and reimagine ideas and practices of racial difference.' - Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University 'In this important new work, Reames presents cogent analysis of relationships between African American and white women, both in and through American literature.By examining an impressiverange of texts, Reames demonstrates how the tensions between black women and white women cannot begin tobesolved until white women work to become more aware of their whiteness.By interrogating literary depictions of relationships between black and white women, she exploreshow thoughtful readers - especially white feminists - can learn to raise their consciousnesses as they read works by and about black women and thus seek to prevent a reinscription of racist hegemony.While engaging her predecessors, Reames's original perspectives provide a needed addition to scholarship on race and gender dynamics in American literature.' - Kristine Yohe, Associate Professor of English, Northern Kentucky UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 'Sisters in Sin' : William Faulkners's Requiem for a Nun 'The Image of you, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime' : Lillian Hellman's Memories of Black Women 'The Very House of Difference' : Audre Lorde's Autobiographies 'Just This Side of Colored' : Ellen Foster and Night Talk 'Girl from a Whole Other Race' : Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif,' Beloved, and Paradise Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTraber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture.Trade Review"How does the marginalized individual become the national type? Through a series of nuanced readings of key American texts, Daniel Traber expertly traces the ambiguous cultural politics where outlaws confirm mainstream culture, and otherness is re-appropriated and reconfigured as the heart of the national project. A deft and discerning application of recent cultural theory - itself implicated in the romanticization and neutralization of otherness - this book has telling consequences for American and literary studies, as well as for the fields of cultural studies and whiteness studies." - Nick Mansfield, Macquarie University; Author of Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway 'This book makes a very clear, and even relentless, argument about the long history of literatures which present instances of White characters 'evading whiteness' and seeking common ground elsewhere (amongst Native Americans, African Americans, the rural and urban poor, etc.). Not only are some of the largest theoretical names of the last thirty years front and center, but Traber has successfully understood these works to the point where he can offer critiques and new insights of them. I love the reach of this book: each and every chapter has been carefully researched on its own, and made to fit within the parameters of the broader idea. It is as if a hidden America has been revealed in these pages.' - Scott Michaelsen, Michigan State University; Author of The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology 'Through trenchant readings of celebrated American narratives from Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Alex Cox's Repo Man, Traber traces the paradoxical power of liberal individualism, an ideology that celebrates autonomy and individuality even as it serves as the grounds for conformity. Traber shows how writers and thinkers who attempt to dramatize alternatives to individualist ideology often find the ground of resistance shifted out from under them by US culture's uncanny ability to incorporate otherness and marginality. Traber's study offers a cautionary tale to those critics and theorists who would celebrate the power of hybridity and marginality without sufficiently acknowledging the continuing cultural efficacy of individualist modes of thought and representation." - Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University; Author of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal IdeologyTable of ContentsThey're After Us!': Criminality and Hegemony in Huckleberry Finn Stephen Crane and Maggie's White Other One of None: Quasi-Hybridity in The Sun Also Rises Back to the Future: Suttree (and The Pioneers) L.A. Punk's Sub-Urbanism Repo Man, Ambivalence, and the Generic Mediation Whither Agency?

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Book SynopsisThe first extensive study of gay and lesbian historical fiction, this book demonstrates how the highly popular sub-genre helps us understand gay and lesbian history. It shows not only why the sub-genre should be taken more seriously by historians but also how it implicitly works to ameliorate divisions between Christianity and homosexuality.Trade Review"Considered the first full-length study of its kind, Norman W. Jones's Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction defends its subject matter from criticisms of anachronisms, like including gay characters before such terms existed . . . Jones's study is a foundational step in the right direction." - Modern Fiction Studies"An astute reader, prodigiously well-read, Jones discovers inside queer historical novels the powerful ghosts of Christianities pronounced dead - ghosts who guard still the mysteries of articulate desire.He urges us not to exorcise them.He shows instead how to coax such scorching angels with the riddles of re-imagined memories." - Mark D. Jordan, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion at Emory University; Author of The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology and The Ethics of Sex "This book succeeds splendidly on several different fronts. Jones has internalized every arcane turn in queer studies of the past fifteen years, yet writes with scrupulous clarity. More than an engaging and incisive analysis of gay and lesbian historical fiction, it is an original and significant contribution to gay and lesbian histories, and even to religious studies, Jones brilliantly uncovering the intimate interconnections between coming-out and conversion narratives. The result is a transdisciplinary and post-theoretical tour de force." - Stephen D. Moore, Author of God s Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible and God s Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and around the BibleTable of ContentsCan We Talk? Spot the Homo: Definitions Revisionist Histories from Mysterious Hauntings Coming-Out Stories as Conversion Narratives Chosen Communities: Familiar Stories from Strange Bedfellows Romancing the Past: The Uses of Identification

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Book SynopsisThe Idolatrous State of Exception in John Donne's Poetry and Prose God's Extimacy: Divine Excess and Baroque Monads in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Tarrying with Chaos: Radical Evil and John Milton's Paradise Lost God beyond Essence: The Event of Love in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas TraherneTrade Review'This new work pushes the 'return to religion' into a 'return to theory,' pursued via exegetical and philosophical frameworks firmly located in the period of study, but with their roots and branches leading far wider than any 'contextual' approach could adequately map. In Cefalu's study, engagement with theology brings forward concepts, concerns and modes of reading that are born out of specific historical situations, traumas and debates, but are not reducible to them, modeling a theoretical approach to literature that is hermeneutically grounded in the very stuff of Western literariness (namely, its religious tropes, rhythms, and figures). Cefalu's chosen paradigm for encountering 'the sublime objects of theology' is Lacanian psychoanalysis, in the cultural and ethical spin given to it in the masterful work of Slavoj i ek and other members of the Slovenian school, including Mladen Dolor and Alenka Zupancic. This is a very timely book.' - Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative LiteratureTable of ContentsThe Idolatrous State of Exception in John Donne's Poetry and Prose God's Extimacy: Divine Excess and Baroque Monads in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Tarrying with Chaos: Radical Evil and John Milton's Paradise Lost God beyond Essence: The Event of Love in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Traherne

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the cross-cultural reception of Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with word deconstruction. It is the first book to consider the cultural reception of Derrida's works, its accessible language and structure help to make this a benchmark amongst introductory Derrida studies.Trade Review'Through offering...an 'introduction' to Derrida's work in the context of literary studies, it also provides the advanced student of Derrida and researchers who specialize in the field of literary theory, poststructuralism, and 'deconstruction' much to consider, and equally much to reassess...one can only wish that there were more books of this quality on Derrida.' - Professor Julian Wolfreys, Department of English, University of Florida, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Task of the Translator: Translation as Transformation Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Deconstruction in America The Deconstruction of a Pedagogical Institution: Derrida and the 'Principle of Reason' The Postmodern Political Condition: Deconstruction and Enlightenment The Politics of the Proper Name: Nietzsche, Derrida and De Man Disfigured Maintaining the Presence of Marx: Marxism and Deconstruction Afterword: Legacy Bibliography Index of Works by Jacques Derrida Index

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Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of ''Eastern barbarity''.Trade Review'Overall this is an impressive book which synthesizes disparate narratives of discovery, morality, and gender differentiation to illuminate the role of women in early modern culture.' - Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Renaissance Crossings; Widows, Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations Instructions for Christian Women: The Sati and European Widows Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers Civility and "dying" to Speak: the Sati, Fetish, and History

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Book SynopsisWhat is the value of literature? In this important new work, Thomas Docherty charts a new economic history of literary culture and its institutions in the modern age. From the literary patronage of the early modern period, through the colonial exploitation of the 18th and 19th centuries to the institutionalisation of literature in the neoliberal university of the 21st century, Literature and Capital explores the changing ways in which literary culture has both resisted and become complicit with exploitative economic notions of value. Drawing on the work of economic and political thinkers such as Thomas Piketty, Naomi Klein, Edward Said and Raymond Williams, the book includes readings of work by a wide range of canonical authors from Shakespeare, Donne and Swift to Tolstoy, Woolf and Ishiguro.Trade ReviewAn impassioned critique of financial capitalism and its relationship to the institution of literature ... [The] breadth in literary selection no doubt reveals Docherty’s mastery over this canonical corpus ... Literature and Capital is written in a clear, accessible language. * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *A radical reappraisal of the ways in which literary study challenges and is challenged by the ascent of money. This is a work of panoptic precision, in which intellectual passion is matched by sound scholarly scruple. * Declan Kiberd, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA *Literature and Capital is a wonderful wide-ranging and erudite study. At once tolerant and angry, and written with great perception and persuasion, it details with a powerful intelligence the relationships between literature, land, education, enquiry and the various cultural organisations of capital. Thomas Docherty is a critical provocateur for our times and this book is the kind of urgent and committed scholarship that the present requires. * Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, University of Leeds, UK *An impassioned and cogent analysis of the entwining of literature and capital that continually impresses on account of its historical depth and critical vigilance. Above all, a compelling argument for why a radical study of literature is needed to engage with the multiple challenges of our times. * Michael Rossington, Professor of Romantic Literature, Newcastle University, UK *This is a very important book in the backdrop of our contemporary thinking around literature, marketplace, survival, funds and capital. Through a deeply meshed intervention involving human, cultural, institutional and financial capital, Docherty has pulled off a stunning achievement where credit and literary creditilization and credibility have come into a formidable play. * Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India *Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: Land and Letters 1. Capital and the Embrace of Letters 2. On the Credibility of Writing: Material Promise 3. The Career of English Part 2: Culture and Capital 4. Governing the Tongue 5. Inequality, Management and the Hatred of Literature 6. Cultural Capital and the Shameful University Part 3: Institutional and Human Capital 7. The Privatization of All Interests 8. Radical Geography Index

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Book SynopsisShakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized around clusters of key metaphors, the book explicates the principal theories informing the field of Shakespearean adaptation and surveys the growing field of case studies by Shakespeare scholars. Each chapter also looks anew at a specific Shakespeare play from the perspective of a prevailing set of theories and metaphors. Having identified the key critics responsible for developing these metaphors and for framing the discussion in this way, Iyengar moves on to analyze afresh the implications of these critical frames for adaptation studies as a whole and for particular Shakespeare plays. Focusing each chapter around a different play, the book contrasts comic, tragic, and tragicomic modes in Shakespeare''s oeuvre and within the major genres of adaptation (e.g., film, stage-production, novelTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Note on Texts and Sources Used Introduction: Much Ado About Adaptation What or Whom are we Adapting? Metaphors We Adapt By Adaptation as Annotation in Much Ado 1. Plants, Off-shoots, Genes: Rhizomes Plants Off-shoots Genes Rhizomes: Plantation in some Tempests 2. Art, Property, Theft: Appropriation Art Property Theft Appropriation as Revisioning: Othello without Othello (and Desdemona) 3. Fidelity, Families, Ethics: Derivatives Fidelity Families: Lear among the Editors Ethics and Editing Derivatives: Lear’s Progeny 4. Transfer, Remediation, Broadcast: Intermedia Transfer Remediation Broadcast and Podcast Intermedia: Audio Hamlets 5. Memes, Networks, Fans: Transformations Memes Networks Fans Transformations: A Gender-Agenda in Twelfth Night 6. Relocation, Translation, Hybridization: Tradaptation Relocation Translation Hybridization Tradaptation: The Peregrinations of Pericles 7. Accidents, Remains, Traces: Accommodations Accidents Remains Traces Accommodations: Romeo and Juliet Glossary of Selected Terms, Philip Gilreath with Sujata Iyengar Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one of these passages in Aesthetic Theory, So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to say: I am a rhinoceros', this book explores the life of this animal in Adorno's texts, and articulates the nuanced interconnections between art, nature and critique in his thought.By thus illuminating key elements of Adorno's work, this volume reveals the invaluable contributions that this classical' thinker can make to our current reflections on the various pressing natural and political crises of our times.Trade ReviewIn these probing, eloquent, and sometimes lacerating essays, Adorno’s continuing fascination with the rhinoceros is the occasion for commentary on his claim that art, at least now, emerges as the stand-in for an absent nature, for a nature facing extinction. A surprising and demanding addition to both Adorno studies, and human reflection on art and the approaching disaster. * J.M. Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA *Taking Adorno’s enduring interest in the enigmatic rhinoceros as its starting point, this volume gives us a multi-faceted exploration of crucial dialectics in Adorno’s thought, from the place of artworks in the dialectic of culture and nature to the distance between language and selfhood and the utopian promise in animals. * Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Psychoanalyst in private practice, USA *Adorno’s Rhinoceros is a modern day bestiary of a single and singular animal, whose presence in art and culture stands in stark contrast to its imminent absence from the natural world. At once a marvelous collection of essays, and a collection of marvelous essays, each chapter has an intriguingly tight focus on one motif in Adorno's philosophy, and one line of his Aesthetic Theory. Yet the essays radiate into the diverse topics of 'dumb' animal nature, of the enigmatic nature of artworks and their muteness, and explore philosophical questions of selfhood, transcendence, metaphysics and secularization. * Gordon Finlayson, Professor of Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, UK *Centring on the enigmatic image of the rhinoceros, this brilliant volume of essays by established and emerging scholars explores how Adorno's bestiary dialectically configures an anticipation of the as yet unrealized promise of culture as well as the memory trace of its catastrophic failure. * Samir Gandesha, Professor of Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Introduction: The enigma of the rhinoceros, Antonia Hofstätter, (University of Warwick, UK) 2. In the name of the rhinoceros: expression beyond human intention, Camilla Flodin (Uppsala University, Sweden) 3. The rhinoceros at the bottom of the sea: Adorno, Dürer and the silent eloquence of artworks, Antonia Hofstätter (University of Warwick, UK) 4. Just one line: reading T. W. Adorno on humans, artworks and animals, Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, USA) 5. The mute animal, Alexander García Düttmann (Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany) 6. The speaking animal: on a metaphor of humanity, Sebastian Tränkle (Freie Universität, Germany) 7. The gaze of the rhinoceros and the ‘it’ of Aesthetic Theory, Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar, Austria) 8. The muted animal, Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA) 9. Epilogue: On the actuality of Adorno’s rhinoceros – extraction, extinction and dignity, Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar, Austria) Index

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Book SynopsisWriting against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and deeply affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the critical medical humanities, extending beyond individual pathology and the medical institution to think about subjective and social perspectives, and to open up the various sites, scenes and interactions with which suicide is associated. Suicide is related forward from the point of death, rather than taking a retrospective view. Combining critical and textual analysis with personal reflection based on her own experience of her sister's suicide, Whitehead examines the days, months, and years following a death by suicide. This pivoting of attention to what happens in the wake of suicide brings to light the often-surprising ways in which suicide is woven into the everydTrade ReviewThe taboos surrounding suicide run deep. I couldn’t speak about my brother’s death for over a decade. This poignant book creates a space to challenge and rethink our own perceptions of suicide and mental health - both as individuals, and as a society as a whole. * Orlando von Einsiedel, Filmmaker *Weaving personal experience together with extensive research, Relating Suicide bears witness to what it means to live beside suicide. It calls for the need to not only talk more about suicide, but also to listen more to a diversity of voices, and to accommodate for what resides between what we can and cannot know about suicide. This is an absolute must read for students and researchers focusing on the topic of suicide and for those who work in suicide prevention and want to understand suicide in more expansive terms. * Katrina Jaworski, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of South Australia *With her own sister’s death as poignant provocation, Anne Whitehead attends to the materiality of suicide’s aftermath and makes a compelling contribution to the emerging field of critical suicide studies. A watch, a coroner’s court room, a stretch of seaside beach, a memorial bench become the objects and spaces that allow her to sit with the everyday and ongoing presence of suicide without trying to explain or prevent it. Through deeply felt and creative forms of thinking and writing, Whitehead gently but forcefully forges a path for us to relate to suicide rather than turning away from it. -- Ann Cvetkovich, Professor, Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaThis is a wonderful book. Entirely original, beautifully written, hugely wide ranging. At last a serious and profound engagement with what comes after suicide: the extraordinary disturbances of time and perception for those remaining; the mundane and often forgotten judicial, religious and cultural processes that have sought to contain and circumscribe an event; the historical and ongoing resonances and effects of stigmatisation. Lyrical, analytic, philosophical and factual, this is also achieves that very difficult feat of being personal without being confessional and of being philosophical and political without relegating the profoundly experiential. -- Pat Waugh, Professor Emeritus, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why? Chapter 1: When? Chapter 2: How? Chapter 3: Where? Coda: Who? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFor those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge assumptions about how we remember and tell the truth of our lives when we write about it. Innovative in approach and making new critical ideas accessible, each chapter maps out the key principles of such writers as Barthes, Lacan, Derrida, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Philippe Le Jeune and Joseph Campbell, invokes literary examples to show how other writers have mastered the idea before reflecting on how you can practically apply the theory to your writing. With original exercises and prompts for further reading that bridge the gap between the theoretical and how it might be put into practice, the book is attentive to the multiple facets of the genre of nonfiction writing generally, covering such topics as: - The writer/ reader contract- How to embark on a thematic/ symbolic exploration of thTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is radical memoir? Chapter one: The reader/writer contract: how do we write ‘truth’? Chapter two: Memoir as cartography: mapping your life Chapter three: Your life as a hero’s journey Chapter four: Memory and neuroscience Chapter five: Turning real people into characters Chapter six: Writing memoir as decolonial, genre-busting and rule-bending act Chapter seven: Memoir as erasure Chapter eight: Collective memoir: writing with others Chapter nine: Autrebiography Chapter ten: Biographemes Conclusion: The magnificent risk of memoir

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Book SynopsisA thorough account of the engagements with the Gothic mode by Irish artists from the eighteenth century to today.

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Book SynopsisSubstantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena.Trade Review"To say that Rebecca Duncan's The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is cutting edge doesn't do it justice. It is an astonishing collection that will reconfigure the field of Gothic studies and define its direction for years to come. It is an absolutely essential work.?" -Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

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