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Book SynopsisThe most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyTrade Review“Borowski’s sharp-edged descriptions of life in Nazi concentration camps shatter the limits of even Kafka’s most surreal imaginings . . . conducting a conversation with darkness . . . in an icy style that cloaks hot rage.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal“An excellent new translation. . . . For the first time in English, Borowski’s better-known Auschwitz stories have been placed in the broader context of his short writing career. Far from diluting the horror of his vision, this juxtaposition intensifies it.”—Katherine Lebow, Times Literary SupplementShortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association“Thanks to Madeline Levine’s marvelous translation, we now have in English the most important work of the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz.”—Timothy Snyder, from the forewordPraise for the Author: “Tadeusz Borowski joins the company of such artists as Elie Wiesel and André Schwarz-Bart. Like them, he paints a picture of the horror and madness that ruled the concentration camps, so brilliantly that the immediacy of the experience is almost too much to bear.”—New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisA beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition ofThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the world's best-loved books, was the first version since the original publication to be based directly on the author's manuscript. It includes all of the 200 rattling pictures Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume also contains a wealth of helpful explanatory notes, along with a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publicationeverything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.

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Book SynopsisAldus Manutius (c. 1451–1515) was the most important scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy, and science than any other publisher before or since. This volume presents Aldus’s prefaces to Latin classics and modern humanist writers, translated into English.Trade ReviewThis priceless I Tatti volume collects and translates into English, many for the first time (although with the I Tatti Library, that almost goes without saying), the prefaces Manutius wrote for the volumes that came off his presses, the allurements intended for potential customers, the introductions to often complex subject matters, and, delightfully, some of that extensive correspondence, which lays bare both the artful flattery that comes with the territory when doing business in Venice and the knowingly public confidentiality in which every arriviste revels when they find themselves hob-nobbing with household names…Humanism and the Latin Classics makes the perfect bookend with the earlier Aldus Manutius volume The Greek Classics, and taken together or separately, they bring to the reader the whirring and clacking of the printer’s shop, the wheeling and wheedling of the time’s book industry, and most of all the burbling and rumorous and striving intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance in its full flower, when books and learning and reading and writing seemed to awake from centuries of slumber and begin ferociously multiplying again in every town and city and seat of learning from London to Baghdad. Aldine books were everywhere during that explosion, carried in pockets, bought and traded, discussed by all, and these I Tatti volumes take readers inside the tornado and introduce them to the man in the eye of it all. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *

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Book SynopsisFocuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature Winner of the 2011 Bocas Lit Fest OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Nonfiction Finalist for the 2010 Book of the Year Award in Biography and Autobiography, ForeWord Reviews A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice for 2010 One of Mosaic Magazine's Best Books for 2010 "Danticat is at her best when writing from inside Haiti... As [her] recollections show, her singular achievement is not to have remade the actual Haiti, but to have recreated it. She has wound the fabric of Haitian life into her work and made it accessible to a wide audience of Americans and other outsiders... Danticat's tender new book about loss and the unquenchable passion for homeland makes us remember the powerful material from which most fiction is wrought: it comes from childhood, and place. No matter her geographic and temporal distance from these, Danticat writes about them with the immediacy of love."--Amy Wilentz, New York Times Book Review "A lean collection of jaw-breaking horrors side by side with luminous insights... In Danticat's many remarkable stories and pensees from the gut, one locates the inimitable power of truth. Authorship becomes an act of subversion when one's words might be read and acted on by someone risking his or her life if only to read them."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Danticat's writing is crisp and clear, reminiscent of what the very best essay writing once aspired to be... Not just another writer's book about writing, this volume delves into the suffering that affects artists who suspend themselves from time and place to create... Her book should be read by students, historians and lovers of well-crafted writing."--Nedra Crowe-Evers, Library Journal "Danticat is a marvelous writer, blending personal anecdotes, history and larger reflections without turning the immigrant writer into a victim, misunderstood by all."--Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle "[Edwidge Danticat's] mission as a writer has been to speak from the diaspora for Haiti's disfranchised and silenced... That responsibility weighs heavily in these essays, which dwell on her personal sorrows as much as those of the Haitian masses... Her unlettered Haitian relatives call her a jounalis, a journalist writing with a purpose. She doesn't let them down."--Amanda Heller, Boston Globe "Danticat's prose is spare and piercing; she doesn't waste words. Her ideas are never cloaked in layers of metaphor, yet every sentence has a lyrical, persuasive quality... Within this stirring collection, one theme struck me more strongly than any other: for artists, the drive to create triumphs over everything else. Or it should... Creating dangerously means telling the truth--working without or in spite of fear."--Jennifer Levin, Santa Fe New Mexican "Whether she is profiling a courageous Haitian photojournalist, writing about a visit to relatives in a rural village, or meditating on the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Danticat is always also writing about her responsibilities as a part of what is called, in Creole, the dyaspora... [T]houghtful, powerful."--Adam Kirsch, Barnes and Noble Review "Whether the topic is Haiti's war of independence, 9/11, the artist, musician and actor Jean-Michel Basquiat, the January earthquake and its aftermath, Danticat writes with a compassionate insight but without a trace of sentimentality. Her prose is energetic, her vision is clear, the tragedies seemingly speaking for themselves."--Betsy Willeford, Miami Herald "Danticat's writing is inviting, beautiful and honest."--Color Online "[Danticat] avoids grandiose claims about the insightfulness of the exile--while honouring the complexity of the immigrant artist's role, with its precariousness and its drive to make connections."--Scott McLemee, National "What is best in this collection are the vivid portraits of the author's childhood in Haiti (and then as a book-obsessed teenager visiting the library in Brooklyn), intermingled with return journeys to visit relatives, collect sacks of coffee and observe the nation changing. There are sharp thoughts on Basquiat, Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Haitian earthquake."--Steven Poole, Guardian "Focused on her medium of 'word art,' though incorporating theater and visual arts, Danticat pieces together a multi-essay response to the creatives' lament ... how do, why do and should we create, in this at-best messy and at-worst dangerous world?"--Kristin Theil, Oregonian "Have you ever started reading a book which draws you in within the first few sentences and leaves you unable to put it down until the very last word and then, because it amazed and moved you more than anything you can remember, you immediately read it again? ... Create Dangerously, is one of those books... Danticat is that rare writer who can make you smile as your soul aches. Although Create Dangerously is not an easy book to read it is disturbing and particularly controversial in places it is, nonetheless, a consistently passionate, deeply thought-provoking and highly important book which should be read, reread and then passed on to new hands."--Josh Rosner, Canberra Times "Danticat's voice offers a plaintive, entreating call for recognition of the suffering of so many in the world, and of their irrepressible desire to make life more meaningful by embracing art despite it all, no matter the cost."--Kerri Shadid, Blogcritics.org "Throughout Create Dangerously, Ms. Danticat catalogs through personal narratives many of the dilemmas that immigrant writers face: readers and critics who question the 'veracity' of the stories; the accompanying guilt from the accusation of being a 'parasite,' and my personal favorite, the 'intrusion' into the lives of family and friends."--Geoffrey Philp blog "Danticat's essays and her memoir are highly finessed and subtle. She breaches the vertiginous fault lines between the real and the surreal, between writing and archeiropoietos, between lot bo dlo, and anba dlo... [Create Dangerously] asks us to consider art and literature as vehicles for authenticity and self-expression, however dangerous that might be. This achievement is effortless and utterly compelling, with not one syllable or sentiment below guapa."--Michelle Cahill, Mascara Literary Review "That Danticat engages and re-engages [the] complicated, important, and perennial questions of living and creating is one of the many reasons to read this book."--Danielle Georges, Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1: Create Dangerously: Th e Immigrant Artist at Work 1 CHAPTER 2: Walk Straight 21 CHAPTER 3: I Am Not a Journalist 41 CHAPTER 4: Daughters of Memory 59 CHAPTER 5: I Speak Out 73 CHAPTER 6: The Other Side of the Water 87 CHAPTER 7: Bicentennial 97 CHAPTER 8: Another Country 107 CHAPTER 9: Flying Home 115 CHAPTER 10: Welcoming Ghosts 127 CHAPTER 11: Acheiropoietos 137 CHAPTER 12: Our Guernica 153 Acknowledgments 175 Notes 177 Index 183

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nabokov has not merely rendered the most precious gem of Russia's poetic heritage into limpid, literal poetic translation. He has given Pushkin's wondrous lines the glow and sparkle of their Russian original."—Harrison E. Salisbury, New York Times"Nabokov's translation and commentary, taken together, can best be considered as asui generiswork of art—perhaps his ultimate masterpiece."—J. Thomas Shaw, Slavic and East European Journal"What Nabokov has done is to throw a bridge between Russian and American culture, a bridge built out of his all-informative commentary and agonizingly honest translation."—Virginia Quarterly Review

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Book SynopsisFirst publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.Trade Review"One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bambi is quite remarkable: a meditation on powerlessness and survival told with great economy and sophistication."---Bill McKibben, New York Times"In The Original Bambi, the distinguished translator Jack Zipes, has sought to restore both the dignity and the relevance of Salten’s vision; to rescue it, in a manner of speaking, from Disneyfication. . . . [The book is] bracingly free of the encrustation of sugar that the tale has accumulated over the past 100 years."---Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal"Wonderful black-and-white illustrations. . . . Zipes is knowledgeable about his subject matter."---Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker"A lovely new hardback edition."---Ron Charles, Washington Post"Elegant [and] uncompromising."---Piers Torday, The Spectator"A new translation . . . it's a dark story of brutality, loss and, ultimately, loneliness."---Richard Chin, Star Tribune"A new, more precise translation of [Felix] Salten’s original."---Andrew Stuttaford, Spectator World"Informative. . . . A powerful tale of the destructive side of human nature and our despotic relationship to the environment."---GrrlScientist, Forbes"[Zipes] makes a persuasive argument for rediscovering ‘The Original Bambi.’"---Nan Cohen, Electric Literature"With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story." * The Bookwatch *"This handsomely illustrated unabridged edition of an enchanting and moving fable for adults (and older children) belongs in every library." * Library Journal *"Substantive and thought provoking. . . . Bambi’s well-written particularity offers readers universal relatability."---Melissa Langsam Braunstein, The Dispatch"Zipes’s translation of Bambi reflects Salten’s descriptive prose, bringing the animals and their challenges to life for the reader."---Miriam Kates Lock, Jerusalem Post"The Original Bambi is a poignant story of youth, growth, and humans’ complicated relationship with nature; an enjoyable read for its own sake."---Ceri Houlbrook, Folklore"[A] high quality translation. . . . [with] striking artwork. . . . [The Original Bambi is] a high-quality example of the value added to a text via an attentive publishing process."---Jill O'Neill, The Scholarly Kitchen"Explanatory and illumintating. . . . Zipes’s new translation . . . give[s] us back the whole rich, multilayered complexity of Salten’s story."---Francesca Arnavas, Marvels & Tales

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University""Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, The English Association, University of Leicester""Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The British Academy""Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, The Wolfson Foundation""Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown, Historical Writers’ Association""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association of American Publishers""One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019""One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019""One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: Critics' Picks""Foster’s characteristic brio brings Heaney to life again. . . . On Seamus Heaney, with its abundant account of his life, its illuminating analysis of his work, and the generous quotations from favourite poems, should find a place on bookshelves all over Ireland and beyond."---Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Irish Times"A sparkling memorial to an utterly singular poet."---Sebastian Barry, Sydney Morning Herald"[An] excellent new study."---James Parker, The Atlantic"A compact but comprehensive guide."---Seamus Perry, London Review of Books ​​​​​​"This exploration of Heaney’s oeuvre, and the tumultuous times that inspired it, is an immensely enjoyable step towards giving Ireland’s great poet his due."---Maria Crawford, Financial Times"There will be longer, fatter biographical and critical books about Seamus Heaney, but none will be better written, more knowledgeable, more generously understanding than this one."---Anne Chisholm, The Tablet ​​​​​​​"One of the most elegant works of criticism I have ever read."---David Mason, Hudson Review"Engrossing. . . . Undeniably impressive."---Hilary A. White, Irish Independent"Foster brings long-felt passion and measured scholarship to his welcome analysis of the poetry of Seamus Heaney." * RTE *"A concise, meticulously researched account. . . . Foster couples forensic attention to detail with engaging prose."---Tara McEvoy, Times Literary Supplement"More than [in] any other writing on Heaney, you actually get a sense of Heaney’s own personality, his charisma, his friendliness, his warmth, his humour and it’s a hugely respectful biography in that way because you get the sense of Heaney’s own words about himself that have not been made public before and you’ve got the impression, at least, of being in his company and that’s one of the things I was hoping for in the book and it certainly comes across."---Peter Mackay, BBC Radio 3 "Free Thinking""As one would expect of Foster, the suavest Irish historian of his generation, the handling of Irish contexts . . . is impeccable."---David Wheatley, Literary Review"Foster's painstakingly researched and affectionately penned On Seamus Heaney offers an illuminating bite-sized refresher course on one of our greatest literary talents."---David Roy, Irish News"[A] succinct but insightful critical biography that puts the poetry of Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) firmly in the context of his life and times. . . . This reflective and incisive study works both as an academic research aid and as an accessible primer for general poetry readers." * Publishers Weekly *"[A] careful and attentive poetic biography."---Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald"A brief and brilliant study that weaves together the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet."---Sunil Khilnani, Open Magazine"The joy of this book emanates from the sense of intimacy that Foster captures in each epoch, enabling readers to get a sense of Heaney’s personality. . . . This book is an essential complement to any study of Heaney’s poetry, as it creates a more comprehensive understanding of how life informs art." * Choice *"A timely perspective on the Northern Irish troubles as experienced and responded to in Heaney’s work."---Fiona O'Connor, Morning Star"If a book on poetry can teach, Roy Foster’s new book about Ireland’s Nobel Prize poet Seamus Heaney shares it all."---Ronn Hartviksen, Chronicle Journal"It is difficult to imagine how a brief, general, fair-minded introduction to Heaney might be bettered . . . . The book is more literary criticism than biography, although it effortlessly combines the two so that it’s difficult to say where one starts and the other ends, which suits Heaney down to the ground. Foster’s trademark elegance, clarity, and skill in shaping a narrative are to the fore, and he remains a more lucid and nuanced reader of Irish poetry than many specialized critics."---Alan Gillis, Irish University Review"Writing with the restraint of the professional academic but with all the vim of a youthful enthusiast, R. F. Foster has published On Seamus Heaney, his take on the life and writings of one of Ireland’s famous poets . . . Foster has captured the young Heaney in a manner that readers can grasp fully, and the description is written in elevated language that is appropriate to the status of its subject. . . . I recommend this book very highly indeed."---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective"[On Seamus Heaney] adds welcome layers to our understanding of Heaney as a poet and of the kind of public intellectual who attains moral standing in the wider world. . . . I hope that others who care about our literary inheritance will use On Seamus Heaney as a standard for writing about writing. Its combination of meticulousness and soul can only enrich our understanding."---Denise Provost, Somerville Times"One of the finest books to date on Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney."---Daniel Picker, New Ulster"A very good 'short book essay' on one of my favorite poets."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"[Foster’s] knowledge of Heaney is nothing short of encyclopedic. . . . An excellent roadmap for readers."---John Austin Gray, Fare Forward"It’s not the done thing to choose a book of which I’m the dedicatee: even so, RF Foster’s On Seamus Heaney, which is short but runs deep, was for me the richest food for the spirit in 2020."---Jan Dalley, Financial Times"R. F. Foster has herein written an altogether focused, and most vivid account of quite possibly the most important Irish poet of the postwar era."---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews

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Book SynopsisBannet demonstrates which issues joined and separated different camps of eighteenth-century women, tracing the origins of debates that continue to shape contemporary feminist thought.Trade ReviewAn important and provocative treatment of the politics of domesticity, and the domesticity of politics, or the reciprocal relationship between two allegedly estranged spheres that formed the very foundation for early feminism. -- Julie Park Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 2002Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Domestic Novel Chapter 1. The Question of Domestic GovernmentChapter 2. Domestic Fictions and the Pedagogy Example Chapter 3. Sexual Revolution and the Hardwicke Marriage ActChapter 4. "The Public Uses of Private Families"Chapter 5. Governing Utopias and the Feminist Rousseau Conclusion: The Domestic RevolutionNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisOther essays explore such topics as the aesthetics of novelty in Addison and Sterne, the influence of the religious lyric on Richardson's Clarissa, feminine authority in Eliza Haywood's spectatorial fiction, and the issue of male effeminacy in English dance history.Table of ContentsContents and Contributors:The Geography of Enlightenment (special section): The Ruins and the Construction of Time: Geological and Literary Perspectives in the Age of Goethe," Heather I. Sullivan * "Constructing the Subaltern: White Creole Culture and Raced Captivity in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Suriname," Laura Laffrado * "Gendering the 'Union of Hearts': Irish Politics between the Public and Private Spheres," Mitzi Myers * "Fair Trade: The Language of Love and Commerce in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters (Written during a Short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark)," Cynthia RichardsOther Essays: "John Adams Confronts Turgot," A. Owen Aldridge * "Swift's Servant Problem: Livery and Hypocrisy in the Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Directions to Servants," Jenny Davidson * "Clarissa's Relics and Lyric Community," G. Gabrielle Starr * "Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785," James Tierney * "Officer and Lady: Pants and Politics in Caroline de la Motte-Fouque's Das Heldenmadchen aus der Vendee (1816)," Elisabeth Krimmer * "Spying, Writing, Authority: Eliza Haywood's Bath Intrigues," Juliette Merritt * "'Is He No Man?' Toward an Appreciation of Male Effeminacy in English Dance History," John Bryce Jordan * "Lancashire Spiritual Culture and the Question of Magic," David Paxman * "Parallel Forces: Identity and Authority in Roland Barthes and Tristram Shandy," Katharine M. Morsberger * "Addison's Aesthetics of Novelty," Scott Black

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Book SynopsisToo often, the lives and works of authors who called Upstate New York home are overshadowed by the icons of New York City. Resting among Us uncovers the region’s rich literary heritage through Steven Huff’s journeys to the graves of writers both famous and celebrated as well as those that have been forgotten.Trade ReviewOne of the many virtues of this book is that it will spark a renewed and deserved interest in some of these writers." - Bill Kauffman, author of Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-ImperialismTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1East 1. Albany: Charles Fort 2. Auriesville: Daniel Berrigan 3. Austerlitz: Edna St. Vincent Millay 4. Cooperstown: James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Fenimore Cooper 5. Kingston: Walter B. Gibson 6. Roxbury: John Burroughs 7. Saratoga Springs: Mansfield Tracy Walworth, Charles Brackett 8. Stamford: Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson) 9. Woodstock: Howard Koch, Hervey White, Paula Danziger, Janine Pommy VegaCentral 10. Clinton: Alexander Woollcott 11. Elmira: Mark Twain 12. Fayetteville: Matilda Joslyn Gage 13. Geneva: Sarah Hopkins Bradford 14. Hamilton: Walter R. Brooks 15. Interlaken: Rod Serling 16. Ithaca: Carl Sagan, Deborah Tall, A. R. Ammons, William Strunk Jr.17. Lakemont: Paul Bowles 18. Newark: Charles R. Jackson 19. Ontario / Furnaceville: Jane Roberts 20. Port Byron: Clara Barrus 21. Syracuse: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Edward Noyes Westcott 22. Pulaski: Claude Bragdon 23. Utica: Harold Frederic 24. Watertown: Frederick ExleyWest 25. Allegany / Olean: Robert Lax 26. Arcade: Fran Striker 27. Batavia: John Gardner 28. Brockport: A. Poulin Jr., Mary Jane Holmes 29. Buffalo: Al Boasberg, Shirley Chisholm, Leslie Fiedler, Anna Katherine Green, Edward Caleb Randall, Edward Streeter 30. Canandaigua: Austin Steward, John Chapin Mosher 31. Coldspring: Governor Blacksnake 32. Fredonia: Grace S. Richmond, Olive Risley Seward 33. Geneseo: Carl Carmer 34. Kendall: Anthony Piccione 35. Mayville: Albion Tourgée 36. Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, Adelaide Crapsey, Algernon Crapsey, Frederick Douglass, Lewis Henry Morgan, Lillian Wald, Edward R. Crone, Louise Brooks, Henry Clune, Arch Merrill 37. Rushford: Philip Wylie

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Book SynopsisA collection of the letters of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr, tracing the history of the transfer of the Rockefeller fortune over the course of 50 years.Trade Review"A collection of previously unpublished letters between the Rockefeller generations, tracing the history of the transfer of the family's fortune over the course of 50 years. The correspondence sheds light on the family's values that led to the conception of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the restoration of colonial Williamsburg, and other philanthropic projects. " -Book News Inc.

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Book SynopsisA window onto one of the most consequential friendships in philosophical history, that of Sartre and Camusand on its end. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in twelve newly designed and affordable editions. Sartre met Albert Camus in Occupied France in 1943, and from the start, they were an odd pair: one from the upper reaches of French society; the other, a pied-noir born into poverty in Algeria. The love of freedom, however, quickly bound them in friendship, while their fight for justice united them politically. But in 1951 the two writers fell out spectacularly over their literary and political views, their split a media sensation in France. This volume holds up a remarkable mirror to that fraught relationship. It features an early review by Sartre of Camus's The Stranger; his famous 1952 letter to Camus that begins, Our friendship was not easy, but I shall miss it; and a moving homage written after Camus's sudden death in 1960.Table of Contents1.Reply to Albert Camus2.Albert Camus3.The Outsider Explained

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Book SynopsisAdoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only happy moments, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child, the racism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay and Jane Jeong Trenka experienced, and the unexpected complexities of child-rearing adoptive parents Emily Prager and Jesse Green encountered. Novy considers 45 memoirs, mostly from the twenty-first century, by birthmothers, adoptees, and adoptive parents, about same-race and transracial adoption. These adoptees, she recounts, wanted to learn about their ancestry and appreciated adoptive parents who helped. Birthmother Amy Seek shows why open adoption is not simple, and many other memoirs tell stories that continue past reunion. Adoption Memoirs will enlighten readers who lack experience with adoption and help those looking for a shared experience to also understand adoption from a different standpoint.

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Book SynopsisIn A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, René Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these authors'' women characters enact practices of freedom that privilege the self in ways unmediated and unrestricted by group affiliation. The women of these texts offend, disturb, and reorder the world around them. They challenge the primacy of the community over the individual and propose provocative forms of subjecthood. Highlighting the style and the stakes of these women''s radical ethics of self-regard, Glover reframes Caribbean literary studies in ways that critique the moral principles, politicized perspectives, and established critical frameworks that so often govern contemporary reading practices. She asks readers and critics of postcolonial literature to question their own gendered expectations and to embraTrade Review“Kaiama L. Glover's magnificently written A Regarded Self recovers voices long relegated to the margins. It is also a new and thrilling kind of criticism, uncompromising in its resistance to generalities about Afro-Atlantic and Caribbean Studies. Seamlessly joining literary reflection and oral history, it unveils a new understanding of the aesthetic and the political. For once returned to their significant histories in the Caribbean, these magisterial terms gain force and momentum. Glover's unparalleled analyses of Maryse Condé, René Depestre, and Jamaica Kincaid make readers rethink the nature of mastery and subjection, as well as the false divide between sacred and profane.” -- Colin Dayan, author of * Haiti, History, and the Gods *“In this rigorous and elegantly executed book, Kaiama L. Glover performs the disorderly womanness that she theorizes by offering feminist challenges to established Caribbean scholarly practices, tropes, and readings that reinforce masculinist valorizations of ‘community.’ Offering innovative, unconventional perspectives on well-known literary texts, A Regarded Self stands to be an important work.” -- Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, author of * Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders *"Readers should be able to work their ways out of the boxes that define texts and approach them closely from less controlled zones. As such, Glover’s A Regarded Self is a timely and much-needed book, in these times when readers may feel compelled to pay allegiance to the labels and theories in vogue before actually regarding the source book itself." -- Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika * Public Books *“In her groundbreaking new book, A Regarded Self, Kaiama Glover proposes an innovative theoretical framework for reappraising the role of Caribbean women in literature and literary criticism.... This book will appeal to both specialist and general readers, but it is particularly compelling in its enactment of a new way of approaching literature from the region.” -- Bonnie Thomas * L'Esprit Créateur *“Kaiama L. Glover’s A Regarded Self is a thought-provoking and innovative contribution to Caribbean literary criticism as it subversively engages with Caribbean ideological idiosyncrasies and self-reflexively unsettles established academic positions. . . . Its combination of textual and extra-textual analysis provides a comprehensive insight into anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature, culture and scholarship.” -- Isabella Kalte * KULT Online *“A Regarded Self is about disorderly women who endlessly unsettle any given structure. . . . Glover invites us to think through what it would mean to endlessly unsettle ourselves and everything around us.” -- Marietta Kosma * Ideas *“Reading across some of the linguistic barriers within the Caribbean, [Glover] offers a text essential to scholars of Caribbean studies and which may be used to facilitate conversations across the islands (and scholarly departments). Always reading against the grain, always illuminating (the costs of ) our own readerly proclivities, [A Regarded Self] does not disappoint.” -- Jocelyn Sutton Franklin * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“Glover’s writing style remains fun and engaging throughout, her thoughts informative, and her thesis well-plotted. . . . ARegarded Self delivers a compelling analysis of Caribbean women writers and their traditionally unlikeable heroines, devoting itself to intersectionality and avoiding reiterations of previous scholarship.” -- Kieran Leeds * European Journal of American Studies *"A Regarded Self therefore serves as an invaluable example of a study in self-disorientation, in being nimbly reactive and empathetic against the ossifying tendencies of many identity-based politics, while simultaneously opening up a more inclusive discursive space for selfhood that refuses to exclude any desires, no matter how selfish they may seem." -- Jake J. McGuirk * Ariel *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Self-Love | Tituba 39 2. Self-Possession | Hadriana 68 3. Self-Defense | Lotus 111 4. Self-Preservation | Xuela 146 5. Self-Regard | Lilith 188 Epilogue 219 Notes 225 Works Cited 249 Index

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Book SynopsisElizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and offering a fresh account of the development of Negro literature focused on the never published, the barely read, and the unconventional.Trade Review“From the title to the final words of her coda, Elizabeth McHenry provokes, persuades, and prods readers to apply thought to the knowledge presented in this book. It is a nuanced and wise offering of immaculate research and righteous rumination to anyone—whether the casual browser who never once thought about the topic or the most sophisticated scholar of Black culture generally and print culture particularly.” -- Frances Smith Foster, author of * ’Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America *“In this revelatory study, Elizabeth McHenry argues that the turn of the twentieth century, so often lamented as a nadir of race relations, was in fact the pivotal era when the infrastructure for the African American literary tradition was built. Looking behind the scenes to efforts that at first glance might seem perfunctory or crassly commercial (subscription bookselling services, printing presses, reading rooms, bibliographies), she unearths the enormous labor—albeit sometimes aborted or thwarted or unfinished—undertaken by writers and intellectuals in the period to create the very concept of ‘Negro literature’ as a viable publishing category as much as an ideological project linked to uplift and civil rights.” -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of * Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination *"This reviewer found especially engaging the author's assessment of Mary Church Terrell’s efforts to publish short stories and the records she kept (for posterity) of publishers’ rejections. Other chapters are equally engaging, revealing surprising information about the interstices of the African American literary tradition. In sum, this is a riveting, much needed account of the spaces between recognized African American literary success and the scaffolding that enables it. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- A. S. Newson-Horst * Choice *"McHenry teaches how to read the past in order to glean the lessons to be learned from defeat. If we study failure, we can learn about process, creativity, and the makings of literary culture in the US alongside the country’s history of racialized and gendered violence. . . . By reading in this way, McHenry invites failure to speak and us to admit how it has made and shaped this literary history. Such reading reveals how Black authors have wrestled with and against 'what is.'" -- Tara A. Bynum * Public Books *"A richly innovative archive of under-researched, though vital textual practices alongside defamiliarizing and thus generative readings of better-known ones. . . . The timely analytical and methodological interventions in To Make Negro Literature emerge from McHenry homing in on failed, unrefined, and workaday black texts." -- Douglas A. Jones, Jr. * American Literary History *"McHenry’s detailing of African American genres and authors that are commonly overlooked offers readers a more comprehensive view of African American literature during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Readers of McHenry’s book are called to appreciate noncanonical African American literature through her clear explanations. . . . This book will interest scholars of African American literature, especially those who wish to learn more about unfamiliar writers and works." -- Courtney Walton * European Journal of American Studies *"A luminous venture into a little-known corner of African American literary history." -- Sara Rutkowski * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. To Make Negro Literature 1 1. "The Information Contained in This Book Will Never Appear in School Histories": Progress of a Race and Subscription Bookselling at the End of the Nineteenth Century 23 2. Thinking Bibliographically 78 3. Washington's Good Fortune: Writing and Authorship in Practice 129 4. The Case of Mary Church Terrell 188 Coda. Underground Railroads of Meaning 235 Notes 239 Bibliography 269 Index 285

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Book SynopsisWhat does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This alternative history of reading tells the stories of "atypical" readers and the impact had on their lives by neurological conditions affecting their ability to make sense of the printed word: from dyslexia, hyperlexia, and alexia to synesthesia, hallucinations, and dementia. Rubery's focus on neurodiversity aims to transform our understanding of the very concept of reading. Drawing on personal testimonies gathered from literature, film, life writing, social media, medical case studies, and other sources to express how cognitive differences have shaped people's experiences both on and off the page, Rubery contends that there is no single activity known as reading. Instead, there are multiple ways of reading (and, for that matter, not reading) despite the ease with which we use the term. Pushing us to rethink what it means to read, Reader's Block moves toward an understanding of reading as a spectrum that is capacious enough to accommodate the full range of activities documented in this fascinating and highly original book. Read it from cover to cover, out of sequence, or piecemeal. Read it upside down, sideways, or in a mirror. For just as there is no right way to read, there is no right way to read this book. What matters is that you are doing something with it—something that Rubery proposes should be called "reading."Trade Review"By constructing a detailed map of mis-reading, Rubery argues for the value of non-normative reading experiences. Some differences are disabling, he recognizes, but others make visible aspects of reading that go unnoticed and unappreciated when they function smoothly."—Paul Armstrong, author of Stories and the Brain"Rubery uncovers the hidden history of neurodiverse reading (and non-reading). Drawing upon everything from clinical studies to life writing, this is a brilliant and remarkably original work that challenges and subverts a whole set of received wisdoms about how readers engage with books. After Reader's Block, you will never again make cozy assumptions about how and why people read."—Shafquat Towheed, coeditor of The History of Reading"An inclusive, beautifully formulated invitation to think of reading as a cluster of practices as prolific as the minds and the texts nourished in their combination. Rubery is one of the most sensitive and original scholars working with literature today."—Christina Lupton, author of Love and the Novel"This is a fascinating, innovative, and skillful book which presents its deep research and learning fluently and lightly. Thought-provoking, timely, and moving, Reader's Block is essential reading for those interested in disability studies and the history of the book."—Sophie Ratcliffe, author of The Lost Properties of Love"A thoughtful and timely survey of neuro-divergent readers' singular, complex, sometimes fraught relationship with the written word."—Daniel Tammet, author of Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing"Rubery gives us fresh eyes to grasp the semi-miraculous nature of the reading act in all its complexity and potential for transforming the life of every reader and the species itself."—Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home"By its very nature, Reader's Block is designed for casual reading—and particularly for people interested in science, history, literature and neurodiversity."—Matthew Rozsa, Salon"Thinking about reading in terms of the different reading behaviors these essays about atypical readers document can help one achieve a broader, more inclusive understanding of what read actually means.... Recommended."—J. F. Andrews, CHOICE"Matthew Rubery's... remarkably well-researched catalogue of neurodivergent reading experiences reveals how many different ways brains can engage with texts, demonstrating that this seemingly quotidian activity is neither unitary nor widely understood."—Timothy Aubry, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Unideal Reader 1. Dyslexia 2. Hyperlexia 3. Alexia 4. Synesthesia 5. Hallucinations 6. Dementia Epilogue

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Book SynopsisHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most enduring works of southern fiction ever written. Although a literary phenomenon - tens of millions of copies have sold worldwide - there is surprisingly little secondary literature on Lee and her novel. On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections is the first collection of original essays on the author and her magnum opus. Written for scholars as well as general readers, it is an accessible collection on one of America's most important novels and its often enigmatic creator.Trade Review"On Harper Lee is a compilation of everything you wanted to know about one of the greatest writers ever." - Bookwoman/Bookman "Teachers and scholars will pick up new ideas here, as I did, and will find them well argued and documented appropriately. On Harper Lee will be a godsend to students who need sources for their research papers." - Merrill Skaggs, Baldwin Professor of Humanities, Drew University

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Book SynopsisA dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Grünbein’s work over the past two decades. Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens—a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in—Grünbein has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into dozens of languages. In 2005 the volume Ashes for Breakfast introduced Grünbein to English-language readers for the first time by sampling poetry from his first four collections. Psyche Running picks up where that volume left off and offers a selection of poems from his nine subsequent collections, which shows how Grünbein has developed from his ironic take on the classical into an elegiac exploration of history through dream fragments and poems with a haunting existential unease. Table of ContentsConfigured Night From: Der Misanthrop auf Capri: Historien / Gedichte (2005)The Misanthrope on Capri: Histories / PoemsThe Misanthrope on CapriA Colonist in OctodurusJulia LivillaFantasy on the Public Lavatories“Siv me amas”Epiphany with CentaursActiveFrom: Porzellan: Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt (2005)Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my CityFrom: Strophen für übermorgen (2007)Verses for the Day after TomorrowChildhood in the DioramaNée WachtelWhat I amCrossing the AlpsThe AstronomerExaltations in SleepEcho will now say a word or twoMimosaFrom: Aroma: ein römisches Zeichenbuch (2010)Aroma: A Roman SketchbookAromaXIII (Little Sun Song) XIV (The Accident)XXIII (Lyceum)XLIX (Swarms of Starlings)Torso of PolyphemusBehind Trajan’s MarketRoman HousesAgaveFrom: Koloss im Nebel (2013)Colossus in the MistInterior with Owl ITeapot with Persimmon FruitDragonflies in DahomeyInspector KoboldCalypso DeepWhen no Credo is LeftIsland without SirensTurkish BathsInterior with Owl IIFrom: Cyrano oder Die Rückkehr vom Mond (2014).Cyrano or the Journey back from the MoonRiccioliCarnetPhocylidesIbn FirnasOenopides DescartesRabbi LeviEndymionHertzTacchiniPontormoFrom: Die Jahre im Zoo. Ein Kaleidoskop (2015)The Zoo Years. A KaleidoscopeThe Doctrine of PhotographyFrom: Zündkerzen (2017)SparkplugsFrom a Book of WeaknessesHotel PanamaPsyche RunningDécolletéCertain SpotsArtichokesTransitThe Aviary of PaintingThe Stillness torn apart at noonVacanciesPine CopseOn learning old VocabularyDangerous AbsencesSeven Pines ConferencierInner EmptinessKiosk by the SeaMisanthropic HumanistUnder the SurfaceThe ProjectorAsked what it isFrom: Äquidistanz (2022)EquidistanceNot the WoodpeckerExpressionist FilmEast-West-AxisSchlachtenseeDreilindenContemplation, clear as tearsIn Cold Arms of WaterLobus frontalis23rd August 1939Flea Market1962HypothesisLumièreQuantum FoamTheory of SignsEquidistanceFootnote to Myself

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOdd Girls reverberates with the powerful voices of people speaking for themselves... Faderman empowers her subject; instead of allowing lesbian lifestyles to be defined from the outside, her voice and those of other women transcend destructive stereotypes and misconceptions. Odd Girls offers a lucidly written and moving narrative of lesbian culture and community during its formative years. The Village Voice Fascinating... poignant and moving... Odd Girls is full of facts and wonderful details that readers may not have encountered, things that are a pleasure to learn and that seem valuable to know. Los Angeles Times Book Review One has to respect the tenacity of Lillian Faderman for making sense of the evolution of lesbian life in twentieth-century America... This is a remarkable social history... Her study attains the depth and evenhandedness of a scholarly classic. -- Susan Brownmiller The Washington Post Book World An important and challenging work for lesbians and heterosexuals alike... Odd Girls is a key work, the point of reference which all subsequent studies of twentieth-century lesbian life in the United States will begin. San Francisco Examiner Faderman's sweeping, mesmerizing prose accentuates the magnificent scholarship in this definitive account of lesbian life in the past 100 years... Faderman has combined her talent and experience to accomplish this wonder. -- Barbara Grier Lambda Book Report Nothing odd about Odd Girls--it combines clear prose with meticulous research. This book is an important contribution to understanding America and its people in our time. -- Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle A grand narrative synthesis of the cultural, social, and political history of lesbian life since the late nineteenth century... Engaging and deeply moving stories. New York Times Book Review A splendid, uplifting achievement. The IndependentTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1. "The Loves of Women for Each Other": "Romantic Friends" in the Twentieth Century 2. A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women 3. Lesbian Chic: Experimentation and Repression in the 1920s 4. Wastelands and Oases: The 1930s 5. "Naked Amazons and Queer Damozels": World War II and Its Aftermath 6. The Love that Dares Not Speak Its Name: McCarthyism and Its Legacy 7. Butches, Femmes, and Kikis: Creating Lesbian Subcultures in the 1950s and '60s 8. "Not a Public Relations Movement": Lesbian Revolutions in the 1960s Through '70s 9. Lesbian Nation: Creating a Women-Identified-Women Community in the 1970s 10. Lesbian Sex Wars in the 1980s 11. From Tower of Babel to Community: Lesbian Life in the 1980s Epilogue: Social Constructions and the Metamorphoses of Love Between Women Notes Index

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Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The poems Part 3: Critical approachs Part 4: Critical history Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms

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Book SynopsisThese essays are a testimony to the polymathic reach of Aldous Huxley's intellect, as well as to the relish with which he entered into some of his more surprising enthusiasms.

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Book SynopsisHuman beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations, considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to âre-presentâ time, space and identity.This second, revised and fully updated edition of the successful guidebook to narrative covers a range of narrative forms and their historical development from early oral and literate forms through to contemporary digital media, encompassing Hellenic and Hebraic foundations, the rise of the novel, realist representations, narratives of imperialism, modernism, cinema, postmodernism and new technologies. A final chapter reviews the way that narrative theory in the last decade has re-orientated definitions of narrative.Written in a clear, engagTable of ContentsChapter 1. In the beginning: the end Chapter 2. Early narrative Chapter 3. The rise and rise of the novel Chapter 4. Realist representation Chapter 5. Beyond realism Chapter 6. Modernism and the cinema Chapter 7. Postmodernism Chapter 8. In the end: the beginning Chapter 9. What is narrative?

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Book SynopsisA look at how much, and how little, has changed about class in AmericaOne century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the ?rotten crowd,? Jazz Age Americans with far more money than morals. In ?A Rotten Crowd?: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby, John Marsh welcomes us back to Fitzgerald?s world to examine the rich and their reckless approach to human relationships, their poor taste in friends, and the harm they cause. Marsh leads us to wonder: What kinds of waste?economic, environmental, emotional?accompany a culture of wealth? What kinds of relationships do the wealthy form with those they rely upon to maintain their power?and how does capitalism and the need for the accumulation of wealth influence the bonds the rest of us form? On a surface level, how do the clothes people wear signal their status?and how do those fashions trickle down to the rest of us? And on a deeper level, how does racism drive a wedge between those who might otherwise stand up to the rich? As we move between 2025 and 1925 to consider how much?or little?has changed in the interim, A Rotten Crowd helps us discover what we can do about the obscene concentration of wealth in America today.

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Book SynopsisThis first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by reading her comparatively alongside her contemporaries, especially Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Doris Lessing. Taking Kavan's fiction as pivotal to understanding trends of experimentalism that emerged across the middle of the twentieth century, it offers close readings of her distinctive prose including her early Helen Ferguson texts, her writing of asylum incarceration, her wartime stories, and her postwar novels. Observing how her fiction challenges perceived divisions between experimental and realist writing, literary and popular genre and (late) modernist and postwar literatures, it focuses on the ways that Kavan's writing undermines fixed or knowable identity and explores the relationship between reality and fiction. This study not only brings necessary attention to a neglected writer, but also suggests new taxonomies for read

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Book SynopsisAs early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories. Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, she reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments. Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remTrade Review"Part Afrofuturistic, part academic, this book will make you rethink how you understand Black history and storytelling." --BookRiot"Essential." --Ms. Magazine"Author Badia Ahad-Legardy finds unique ways to explore the beauty, positivity, and triumph of people descended from Africa, creating an archival collection of visual art and culture, literature and performance to demonstrate how the Black experience is not just a depressing string of incidents that drives us through our lives. " --New York Amsterdam News"If you’ve been waiting for a book that steps out of trauma-time and the perpetual present of slavery clear-eyed and with its critical faculties alight, you’ve found it. Badia Ahad-Legardy breathes gentle and sweet smelling fresh air into stale corners in her book on Afro-Nostalgia, which cogently analyzes and affectively affirms Black cultural producers and chefs who treat the past less as an ongoing traumatic wound and more as a surrealistic space of black historical regenerative possibility and happiness. A gem."--Avery Gordon, author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination"An important dissection of looking beyond the traumas of the past to find the happiness that existed (and exists) within the Black community. " --Library Journal"This thoroughly researched book seeks and sheds light on the spaces where Black joy can live and flourish. Though its tone is academic, its insights reach far beyond the classroom.... a worthy addition to any multicultural studies library and to readers interested in American culture." --Museum of Americana"Afro-Nostalgia does an excellent job of making visible the operation of Afro-nostalgia in contemporary Black culture as a counter to the negative affect produced by Black history as trauma." --American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Ten Thousand Recollections: Afro-Nostalgia and Contemporary Black Aesthetics 1. (Nostalgic) RETRIBUTION: The Power of the Petty in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery 2. (Nostalgic) RESTORATION: Utopian Pasts and Political Futures in the Music of Black Lives Matter 3. (Nostalgic) REGENERATION: Absent Archives and Historical Pleasures in Contemporary Black Visual Culture 4. (Nostalgic) RECLAMATION: Recipes for Radicalism and the Politics of Soul (Food) Postscript: A Future of Black Nostalgia Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWriters and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This book explores some of their most provocative connections in the volatile years of the 1920s to 1950s, revealing unexpected intersections of literature, ideas, and politics in a global transwar context.

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Book SynopsisNow in its sixth edition, A Concise Introduction to Linguistics provides students with a detailed introduction to the core concepts of language as it relates to culture. The textbook includes a focus on linguistic anthropology, unpacking the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and culture. Aimed at the general education student, the textbook also provides anthropology, linguistics, and English majors with the resources needed to pursue advanced courses in this area. Written in an accessible manner that does not assume previous knowledge of linguistics, this new edition contains expanded discussions on linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics (including an expanded section on trans and nonbinary language), and pragmatics. The textbook incorporates a robust set of pedagogical features, including marginal definitions, a substantial glossary, chapter summaries, and learning exercises. Brand new to this edition are a full InternatioTable of ContentsPreface1 Introduction: The Nature of Communication 2 Phonetics: The Sounds Used in Languages 3 Phonology: The Sound Patterns Used in Languages 4 Morphology: Words and How they are Formed 5 Syntax: The Larger Patterns of Language 6 Semantics: The Study of Meaning 7 Pragmatics: How Language is Used and The Effect of Context on Meaning 8 Sociolinguistics: Language and Society 9 Linguistic Anthropology: Language and Culture10 Language Acquisition: How Children (and others) Learn Language 11 Sign Language: The Language of the Deaf Community 12 Writing Systems: The Graphic Representation of Language 13 Nonverbal Communication: Communicating Without Words 14 Historical Linguistics: The History of Languages Appendix A: Answers to Reviews of Terms and Concepts Appendix B: Answers to Selected Exercises Appendix C: Fieldwork ExercisesAppendix D: Chart of full International Phonetic Alphabet (revised 2020) Glossary

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Book SynopsisThe Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.In the early years of the Mongol empire, the Quanzhen Daoist master Qiu Chuji (1148-1227, religious name Changchun) made an arduous three-year round-trip journey from north China to the Hindu Kush in 1221-23 in response to a summons by Chinggis Qan. The record of this journey compiled by Li Zhichang (1193-1255), one of Qiu''s disciples, offers a detailed eyewitness account of travel across the Mongolian plateau as well as Central Asia in the immediate aftermath of Mongol conquest. It stands out from other thirteenth-century Chinese travel narratives in length, quality, and thoroughness of detail, endowing it with unique historical, geographical, cultural, and literary value. Ruth Dunnell, Stephen West, and Shao-yun Yang''s new, complete, and annotated translation of the text for the first time renders all of Qiu Chuji''s poems in the original Chinese. Omitted from older translations as insipid or irrelevant, Qiu''s poetry opens a window into the Quanzhen practice of self-cultivation and its proselytizing mission and captures an educated Chinese observer''s impressions of a vast, unfamiliar world of grasslands, deserts, and towering mountain ranges. This book includes an appendix with translations of related documents (such as the edicts of Chinggis Qan to Qiu), and concise yet detailed notes drawing upon a wealth of recent scholarship to guide both general and specialist readers. In addition to an introduction that situates the reader in the worlds inhabited by Qiu Chuji and his patron, the Mongol Qan, the translators have provided a digital StoryMap of Changchun''s journey.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Table of Weights and Measures of the Early Thirteenth Century Table of Dynasties Finding List for Qiu Chuji's Poems Maps Introduction Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West Preface The First Volume In Shandong Departing Shandong At Yanjing Through Juyong Pass to Stay at Longyang Monastery To the Camp of Great Prince Otegin at Hulun Buir Across the Mongolian Plateau to the Qatun's Ordo To the City of Chinqai and into the Yinshan (Tian Shan) Range Through the Yinshan (Tian Shan) Range to Samarkand and the Imperial Camp With the Qan in Afghanistan, Samarkand, and Central Asia The Second Volume Return to the East Return to Yanjing Death and Apotheosis Text-Critical Notes Additional Note Appendices 1. Chinggis Qan's rescript requesting Qiu Chuji to journey to the West 2. Qiu Chuji's request to remain in the Yanjing and Dexing area 3. Edict: Chinggis Qan's response to Qiu Chuji's request for delay 4. Emperor Chinggis Qan's sage directive to all officials 5. Chinggis Qan's sage directive delivered by Alixian 6. Imperial edict from Chinggis Qan conveyed by Jia Chang 7. Shimo [Xiandebu] invites Qiu Chuji to take charge of Tianchang monastery 8. Wang [Juchuan] invites Qiu Chuji to take charge of Tianchang monastery 9. Shimo [Xiandebu] invites Qiu Chuji to reside permanently in Tianchang monastery 10. Disciples who accompanied the Master 11. Four Mongols ordered to escort and protect the Master 12. Record of the Felicitous Encounter with the Mysterious Wind 13. Excerpt from A Disputation of Contrived and False Records 14. Wang Guowei's Preface to his edition of Changchun's Journey List of Sources Consulted and Cited Index

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Book SynopsisJane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson's daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests, work and sense of humour often brought them within touching distance, and sets them side by side in the world of the Regency and Romantic period. Using some little-known sources and new research, it illustrates how they were distantly related by marriage; how they knew about each other even though they probably never met; the acquaintances they had in common and how their literary work often came close in subject-matter, approach, technique and tone.Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, this book will inform and delight scholars and Austen and Byron fans alike, showing that these two great authors were closer than you might think, even in their own day.

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