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Book SynopsisFrom Aristotle to Seneca, ancient philosophers considered anger to be aggressive and incompatible with rational conduct, and later thinkers associated this “illogical” emotion with femininity and its flaws. In Acts of Angry Writing, Alessandra Marino looks at anger differently, as an essential condition for writing in contexts of struggle.

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Book SynopsisA showcase of the best literary essays from Ford Madox Ford.Trade Review"This collection contains more unexpected fun, more delighted, chatty wisdom, than any other book of criticism you could think of." -The Guardian "In Critical Essays, a new selection of Ford's previously uncollected writings on literature and art, there are sweeping dicta aplenty." -The American Scholar "If there is any English critic worth reading on Modernism it is Ford Madox Ford, whose Critical Essays remind us that he was one of the first to admire Joyce's Ulysses and one of the bravest to argue with E.M. Forster." -The Times (London)

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Book SynopsisPostcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. This book addresses the many concerns, forms and 'specializations' of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, and history and politics.Trade ReviewPramod Nayar's survey of postcolonialism covers substantial terrain with consummate ease. It moves from the theoretical and literary engagements with colonialism's cultures, the rise of postcolonial thought in anti-colonial struggles through the major literary themes of space, nationalism, sexuality and gender, to newer postcolonial formations in the cosmopolitan and globalized age we live in. Nayar's close attention to tropes, literary figurations, the politics of postcolonial theory and the continued relevance of postcolonial approaches to terrorism, cybercultures and globalization - all carefully illustrated and evidenced from texts from Africa, Asia, South American and other formerly colonized nations - makes this book at once an indispensable introduction to the field and a critical evaluation of the literary-political discipline of "Postcolonial Studies." The book will be of interest to students in History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies and Theory across the world where questions about race, culture, colonialism and identity continue to productively 'trouble' pedagogy and reading practices. -- Professor SW Perera, University of Peradeniya, Sri LankaTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Postcolonial Thought; 1. Colonial Cultures; 2. Nation and Nationalism; 3. Space and Place; 4. Gender and Sexuality; 5. Cosmopolitanisms; 6. New Concerns; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDespite the upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings are generally under-represented. However, literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Bringing together original essays from a an international group of contributors, this book offers a wide ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking.Trade Review"This elegant and finely argued collection of essays...sends the reader back to the Notes to Literature, in particular, with a sharpened appetite...' 'In a series of scrupulous readings of Adorno's reflections on literature, which have been noticeably neglected in the recent reconsideration of his thought among anglophone scholars, they communicate the sophistication of his criticism and its own critical and utopian potential for literary studies.' Radical Philosophy"Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK) and Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature; 1. Literature, and the Modern System of the Arts: Sources of Criticism in Adorno, Stewart Martin (Middlesex University, UK); 2. Adorno's critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value, Martin Ryle (University of Sussex, UK) and Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University, UK); 3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music, Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, UK); 4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre, Eva Geulen (University of Bonn, Germany); Part II: Poetry and Poetics; 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths, UK); 6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody, Simon Jarvis (University of Cambridge, UK); 7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency, Robert Kaufman (Stanford University, USA); 8. Returning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger, Iain Macdonald (University of Montreal, Canada); Part III: Modernity, Drama and the Novel; 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell, Paul Fleming (New York University, USA); 10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukacs's Theory of the Novel, Timothy Hall (University of East London, UK); 11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment, Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); 12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetic and the Postcolonial Novel, Timothy Bewes (Brown University, USA); 13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK); Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a clear and informative introduction to one of the most important and influential European writers working today. It includes exploration of Cixous' theory of feminine writing, an interview discussing her influences and inspirations, and her thoughts on the nature of writing.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Feminine Writing; 3. Fiction and Theatre; 4. Poetic Theory; 5. Cixous on Others: Others on Cixous; 6. Cixous Live; 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSeeks to defend the role of the public critic. This book argues against claims that all artistic value is simply relative and subjective. It considers why high-profile, public critics, such as William Empson, F R Leavis or Lionel Trilling, become much rarer in the later twentieth century.Trade ReviewMentioned on www.pensioneronline.com -- Pensioneronline"[A] satisfyingly chewy new book" -- Prospect MagazineTitle mentioned in Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2008"The Death of the Critic is a concise and persuasive argument for the necessity of an engaged, evaluative criticism of literature, one in which critics address readers instead of each other." -Post No Ills Magazine"McDonald's argument is witty and persuasive" English Drama Media Journal, October 2008Author review of another book, menion of this book at end credits, The Observer. 4 January 2009."in the best tradition of the incisive criticism, McDonald offers an extreme polemic in order to provoke the discipline to interrogate the consequences of its practice" Edinburgh Review, Dec 2008 -- Ross AllowayThe virtue of this book is that, while it is a strong protest against what has been a prevailing climate in English departments, it is neither blimpish nor complacent. ...his regrets have been expressed with irresistible clarity. --Times Literary Supplement"Whenever you think of this 21st-century world, McDonald's assessment poses serious question that beg for specific application...When McDonald argues that criticism needs to be more evaluative, he isn't talking thumbs up or down. He means criticism that takes seriously the role of engaging with the issues and aesthetics of the work at hand...So that eye-catching but perhaps overstated title is a bit of a misnomer. The critic isn't dead. In fact, the defibrillators that can bring him or her back are all around us, and you can find many of them in this smart, useful little book." —John Freeman, The Boston Globe, March 5, 2008 -- John Freeman"McDonald has penned a passionate four-chapter eulogy for a practice that he believes can be reborn...in a pair of core chapters- about critical value, and science and sensibility- McDonald's phrasing and historical erudition are as sharp as the bloody knife on the cover." -San Francisco Bay Guardian"[A] deft polemic, ... the virtue of this book is that it is neither blimpish nor complacent ... [and it is ] expressed with irresistable clarity." John Mullan, The Times [Web], Thursady 13th March 2008Reviewed in German by Thomas Vaessens, Boeken, 8th February 2008."The thorniest reasons for this cutback, the ones that deal with internal fractures within criticism itself, are just now beginning to be addressed. In his provocative, enormously informative new book, "The Death of the Critic," Rónán McDonald dives into this territory with both sleeves rolled up. He traces the current suspicion of the critic's role to debates that have raged since Plato. Forget about bloggers, cut-rate publishers, and amazon.com (the usual suspects); the critic's killer, McDonald argues, is criticism itself. ...The critic isn't dead. In fact, the defibrillators that can bring him or her back are all around us, and you can find many of them in this smart, useful little book." --John Freeman, Boston Globe -- John Freeman * Boston Globe *"A lively, rigorous argument for the future of criticism." Brian Dillon, Irish Times -- Brian Dillon, Irish Times * Irish Times, The *Author reviews another title, book mentioned. * Irish Times, The *"McDonald argues that crowing blog-based citizen opinionistas, triumphant over shrinking print media coverage of books are simply kicking a dead horse; the lit critic, it seems, was killed already by the an out-of-control sense of cultural relativism, which has over the 20th century wormed its way into literature programs, engendering artistic and aesthetic relativism. McDonald contends that the idea of artistic expression's equanimity, and the subsequent equanimity of opinion regarding that expression, has marginalized the important and difficult work of honestly evaluating artistic worth. Emphasizing literature, his specialty, McDonald illustrates how trendy efforts to make art more scientific, more academic or more cultural ultimately undermine its role as art, making it more difficult (if not impossible) to consider with the language of art. McDonald illustrates how specific movements—including romanticism, fin-de-siecle and radical aesthetic individualism—have obscured and in some cases removed entirely those traditional standards of value. A daring, but fitting, comparison between aesthetics and ethics shows how standards may be relative but are never irrelevant; McDonald's cogent, largely convincing attempt to pin the critic's murder on relativism is sure to raise eyebrows among academics, though it doesn't do much to instill hope of the critic's resurrection." (Dec.) -Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Role of the Critic; The Public Critic in the 20th Century; Anglo American Literary Criticism since 1968; The Value of Criticism and the Criticism of Value.

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Book SynopsisExplores theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental writing, whose work has been celebrated by the likes of Cocteau, Duchamp, Breton, Robbe Grillet, Gide, and Giacometti. This work includes an introduction, chronology and bibliography to Foucault's work.Trade Review"One of the important things about the Roussel book, however, is that it shows that approach to literature in full flight. And reading it is a pleasure, but a pleasure that is not unmixed with pain. Foucault's own enjoyment, not only of the texts of Roussel, but of the process of producing his analyses of those texts, is contagious. And if that makes us go back and read some of Roussel's work, then the book has served an important function... given Foucault's own fondness for subjugated knowledges and forgotten histories, we would be well justified in uncovering this secret love of an anguished and obsessive young philosopher." -Timothy O'Leary, Foucault Studies, February 2009 -- Timothy O'LearyTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction by James Faubion; Chronology of Foucault's Life & Work; 1. The Threshold and the Key; 2. The Cushions of the Billiard table; 3. Rhyme and Reason; 4. Dawns, Mine Crystal; 5. The Metamorphosis and the Labyrinth; 6. The Surface of Things; 7. The Empty Lens; 8. The Enclosed Sun; 9. An Interview with Michel Foucault by Charles Ruas Postscript: "On Raymond Roussel" by John Ashbery Bibliography of primary and secondary works Selective Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.Trade Review"Following on several prominent interventions announcing the arrival of a New Formalism, this collection takes a catholic view of that movement, emphasizing an aesthetic turn, a return to formalism that cooperates with historical and contextual analysis. It recognizes craft, acknowledging the experience of practitioners. It will be widely assigned and debated." - Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University, USA "This exciting collection of essays and manifesti reminds us of the "form" behind "formalism": that it engages society and history, is realized through process, and depends on transactions across the literary work. New Formalisms and Literary Theory will make you think again about both concepts." - Roland Greene, Stanford University, USATable of Contents Foreword; Heather Dubrow Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. New Formalism(s): A Prologue; Verena Theile PART II: THEORY 2. Toward a New Formalism: The Intrinsic and Related Problems in Criticism and Theory; Fredric V. Bogel 3. Doing Genre; Group Phi PART III: PRACTICE 4. Inventing an Ancestor: The Scholar-Poet and the Sonnet; Edward Brunner 5. From Close Reading to Cross-Reading: Sacco-Vanzetti Poetry and the Politics of New Formalism; Bartholomew Brinkman 6. Re-Reading for Forms in Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy ; Corey McEleney and Jacqueline Wernimont 7. Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave: Vasari's Lives and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship; Harry Berger Jr 8. Form as a Pattern of Thinking: Cognitive Poetics and New Formalism; Karin Kukkonen PART IV: PEDAGOGY 9. Reading Like a Writer: A Creative Writer's Approach to New Formalism; Kelcey Parker 10. Punk Bodies, Jorie Graham, and the Draft Itself: Notes Toward a Lyric Formalism; Cynthia Nichols 10. 'One Another's Hermitage': New Formalist Pedagogy; Linda Tredennick Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race.Trade Review"Exciting, often brilliant readings...Outka has made a major contribution to the fields of ecocriticism and race studies, revealing much of their mutual interest." - Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment "At each stopping point, the book sparkles with fascinating insights...powerfully provocative." - Journal of American Ethnic History "Outka's book sets a new precedent for important work to be done in articulating ecocriticism with African-American literature and other related fields." - Journal of Ecocriticism "The most theoretically ambitious and historically inclusive coordinated assessment to date of the traditional ecocritical canon in relation to African-American writing." - Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University, USA and author of The Environmental Imagination and Writing for an Endangered World "This book has the potential to change ecocritical scholarship, and perhaps even American environmental thinking, for the better. It promises to wake us up to the ways race and nature are deeply entangled in American history and ideology. When we can see the majestic mountain, says Outka, as well as the 'strange fruit' hanging from the tree when we can see that white relationship to nature has its roots in the Romantic sublime, while African American relationship to nature has it roots in the traumatic racism of slavery and its aftermath, then we can begin, as scholars and environmentalists, to embrace the true complexity of the American landscape." - Gretchen Legler, Professor, Department of Humanities, BFA Program in Creative Writing, University of Maine at Farmington, USA "A very important book. It will significantly advance the discussion of environmental justice. I strongly recommend it." - James H. Cone, Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary, USATable of ContentsThe Sublime and the Traumatic The Colonial Pastoral, Abolition, and the Transcendentalist Sublime 'Behold a man transformed into a brute': Slavery and Antebellum Nature Trauma, Postbellum Nostalgia, and the Lost Pastoral Trauma and Metamorphosis in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales Strange Fruit White Flight Migrations

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Book SynopsisWhat do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.Trade Review“Nowell Smith begins and ends with Hopkins, giving circular coherence, but each chapter is individually ‘essayistic,’ offering a ‘speculative poetics.’ … what is explored here is explored brilliantly. … this is a fascinating work of animation.” (Rebecca Varley-Winter, The Goose, Vol. 14 (2), February, 2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. 'The Multitudinous Tongue' 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography

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Book SynopsisShakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.Trade Review"Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire is sophisticated, thought-provoking, and intellectually stimulating. Simon Ryle's relation of the Shakespearean text to later films is outstanding; he provides many compelling, unique readings of Shakespeare's language in specific adaptations and in the history of cinema itself. The book is an important addition to existing Shakespeare and film criticism that will appeal to Shakespearean scholars, teachers, and students." Lisa Starks-Estes, University of South Florida, USATable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire 1. Something from Nothing: King Lear and Film Space 2. Body Space: The Sublime Cleopatra 3. Ghost Time: Unfolding Hamlet 4. Re-nascences: The Tempest and New Media Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisStaged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage.Trade Review"Wisely, the editors have not grouped the essays according to categories that one might expect in a book on transgression (race, gender, politics, etc), thereby leaving the reader free to make their own connections in a series of essays well worth reading in their entirety... Scrutinizing different transgressive behaviour produces some fresh insights into familiar plays throughout... overall a very rich, intelligent and rewarding book." Sarah Dustagheer, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: Stages of Transgression; Rory Loughnane.- 1. "On the most Eminent seate thereof is Gouernement Illustrated": staging power in the Lord Mayor's Show; Tracey Hill.- 2. The Transgressive Stage Player; William Ingram.- 3. "Ha, Ha, Ha": Shakespeare and the edge of laughter; Adam Smyth.- 4. "Have we done aught amiss?": Transgression, Indirection and Audience Reception in Titus Andronicus; Darragh Greene.- 5. The King's Three Bodies: Resistance Theory and Richard III; Rob Carson.- 6. Marriage, Politics and Law in The Tragedy of Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi; Christina Luckyj.- 7. Incapacitated Will; Rebecca Lemon.- 8. Transgression Embodied: Medicine, Religion and Shakespeare's Dramatised Persons; Thomas Rist.- 9. The Taming of the Jew: Spit and the Civilizing Process in The Merchant of Venice; Brett D. Hirsch.- 10. 'Edgar I Nothing Am': Blackface in King Lear; Benjamin Minor and Ayanna Thompson.- 11. Marrying the Dead: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest; Lisa Hopkins.- 12. Speaking Out of Turn: Gender, Language and Transgression in Early Modern England; Danielle Clarke.- 13. Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare's Bawds; Edel Semple.- 14. 'Nothing but pickled cucumbers': The Longing Wives of Middletonian City Comedy; Celia R. Caputi.- 15. Lady Macbeth and Othello, Transgression and Convention in Early Modern Tragedy; Andrew J. Power.- 16. "How to vse your Brothers Brotherly": Civility, Incivility and Civil War in 3 Henry VI; Christopher Ivic.- Afterword; Jean E. Howard.- Bibliography.- Index.-

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Book SynopsisNew Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Method, Meaning, Formalism 2. Old and New Formalisms 3. New Formalist Interpretation 4. Textual Infatuation, True Infatuation Coda: New Formalisms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEstablished accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Brontë, Austen and Rossetti.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: THE RETURN OF THE CHILD 1. The Child and the Return: Persuasion 2. The Child and the Letter: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 3. The Child and Transmission: 'Goblin Market' 4. The Child and the Thing: The Mystery of Edwin Drood PART II: HISTORY, ETHICS, AND ANALYSIS 5. The Queer Child: No Future and 'Dickens and the Construction of the Child 6. The Child and History: Strange Dislocations and The Mind of the Child Conclusion: Why Analysis? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.Trade Review“New Directions is thus an important contribution to the burgeoning field of travel writing studies … . It will surely become a basic (re)source in travel writing studies that I recommend to those who have already ventured into the field and are familiar with the basic tenets and approaches, and to those who are encountering the opportunities offered by the study of the genre and are looking for possible ways to become engaged in this field of research.” (Balázs Venkovits, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 (2), 2017)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst PART I: TEXTUALITY 1. 'A Study not a Rapture': Isabella Bird on Japan; Steve Clark 2. On Top of the World: Tourist's Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing; Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski 3. The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literature; Alex Watson PART II: TOPOLOGY 4. Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe; Joseph Gualtieri 5. 'That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China's stupendous mound!' Romantic Period Accounts of China's 'Great Wall'; Peter Kitson 6. 'Habits of a landscape': the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places and The Old Ways; Paul Smethurst PART III: MOBILITY 7. Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies; Charles Forsdick 8. Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious; Caitlin Vandertop 9. 'Take out your machine': Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel; Tim Youngs PART IV: MAPPING 10. 'The Thing which is not': Mapping the Fantastic History of the Southern Continent; Vanessa Collingridge 11. Locating Guam: The Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez's Re-mapping of Unincorporated Territory; Otto Heim 12. Map Reading in Travel Writing: The 'Explorers' Maps' of Mexico, This Month; Claire Lindsay PART V: ALTERITY 13. The Travellee's Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750-1850; Wendy Bracewell 14. Anthropology/ Travel/ Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell; Graham Huggan PART VI: GLOBALITY 15. Travel and Utopia; Bill Ashcroft 16. Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878; Julia Kuehn 17. Afropolitan Travels: 'Discovering Home' and the World in Africa; Maureen Moynagh 18. Revising the 'Contact Zone': William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600-1860; Laurence Williams Index

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it.Table of Contents1. Transformations of the Public Intellectual 2. Conscientious Chronicler; H.M. Enzensberger (1929) 3. Eastern European Voices; Slavenka Drakulic (1949) and Dubravka Ugresic (1949) 4. Public Man as Actor; Bernard-Henri Levy (1948) 5. A Protean Public Figure; Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) 6. Public Intellectual in Brussels; David van Reybrouck (1971) and Geert van Istendael (1947) 7. Responsible Satire; Hamed Abdel-Samad (1972) 8. Popular Fiction; Elif Shafak (1971) Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Lord Dunsany: The Conquering Hours.- 3. E. R. Eddison: Bearing Witness to the Eternal.- 4. J. R. R. Tolkien: More than Memory.Trade Review“This is an important study of two critically undersubscribed authors and an impressive look at a third who benefits from reconsideration in relation to them. It is not the last word on any of its subject texts, but it serves as a robust contribution to a weighty, potentially inexhaustible debate.” (JosephYoung, Gramarye, Issue 19, 2021)“Fantasies of Time and Death makes us hungry to return to the primary worlds it discusses.” (Sarah R.A. Waters, Mythlore, Vol. 39 (2), 2021)“One of the greatest strengths of this study overall is Vaninskaya’s extensive familiarity with the work of each author … . The volume is particularly well suited as a reference for readers who are already well-versed in the works of one or more of these three authors. … Overall, it is a thorough and thoughtful work which will be of value for studies of all three authors.” (Holly Ordway, Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 10 (1), October, 2020)“Vaninskaya’s attentive, detailed, and well-supported claims, which remain strong through the entirety of the text, will likely be a welcome addition to the shelves of academics interested in the subjects of time and death or these authors, as well as libraries looking to expand their selection of volumes on the same.” (R. J. Murphy, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 31 (3), 2020)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Lord Dunsany: The Conquering Hours.- 3. E. R. Eddison: Bearing Witness to the Eternal.- 4. J. R. R. Tolkien: More than Memory.

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Book SynopsisFreud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier, more fundamental ''discoveries'' of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact, the ''cultural Freud'' is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud, as brilliant as ever, was actually revealing the true meaning of his life''s work. And so while The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents, and his final work Moses and Monotheism may be embarrassing to some, they validate beliefs that Freud always held - including the psychobiology that provides the missing link between the individual psychology of the early period and the psychoanalysis of culture of the final period. The result is a lively, balanced, and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis ofTrade Review'A superb book that will count among a handful of landmark works in the field of Freud Studies. Blending close readings of texts, a sustained attention to Freud's rhetoric, and rigorous historical-cum-biographical contextualization, Dufresne provides a major reassessment of Freud's late 'cultural' works.' Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, University of Washington'Dufresne serves as a deft, surefooted guide into the dazzling dark continent of drives explored by Freud's later 'cultural' work. It is an intriguing journey.' Richard Kearney, Boston College'In this provocative and engaging study, Dufresne demonstrates the philosophical relevance of Sigmund Freud's late work – including The Future of an Illusion (1927), Civilization and its Discontents (1927), and the essays leading to Moses and Monotheism (1939) – as well as the strong link between Freud's cultural critique and his psychoanalytic theory.' Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania'This book will provide scholars of Freudian theory with useful and complex considerations of Freud's understanding of culture.' CHOICE'This book is must reading for anyone interested in the history and historiography of psychoanalysis … anyone interested in Freud's life and times will find this an extremely rewarding book.' Daniel Burston, PsycCRITIQUES'The author writes with great wit and impressive conviction; an astonishing wealth and density of his learning, research and extrapolations are on display in these pages … As a reviewer, one can offer no purer praise, perhaps, than to say that the book under review will be picked up again and consulted; and this one will.' David Matthew, Metapsychology Online Reviews (www.metapsychology.mentalhelp.net)'Dufresne's exploration of the key cultural texts mixes a critical reading, intellectual history and biography. In the course of which he attempts to highlight hitherto underemphasised elements of the late Freud.' Matt Dawson, SociologyTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Death and the cultural turn in psychoanalysis; 1. Positivism and the specter of non-existence: the romantic depths of Freud's The Future of an Illusion; 2. Mysticism, war, love, and religion: Civilization and its Discontents, reality, and Romain Rolland; 3. 'The audacity cannot be avoided': Freud and Moses, reality and fiction; Conclusion. Ethics, spirituality, and psychoanalysis: prequel to the 'late Freud'; Coda. 'Undisguised resentment', war, and the challenge of being cultured; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. 'The Multitudinous Tongue' 5. Getting the Measure of Voice BibliographyTrade Review“Nowell Smith begins and ends with Hopkins, giving circular coherence, but each chapter is individually ‘essayistic,’ offering a ‘speculative poetics.’ … what is explored here is explored brilliantly. … this is a fascinating work of animation.” (Rebecca Varley-Winter, The Goose, Vol. 14 (2), February, 2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. 'The Multitudinous Tongue' 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography

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