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Book SynopsisDr John Brannigan is lecturer in Irish Studies and Literary Studies at the University of Luton. He is the co-editor of Re: Joyce, a collection of essays which reflects contemporary responses and appraoches to Joyce. He has also published work on contemporary literary theories, the literature of 1950s Britain, and a number of Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats and Brendan Behan.

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Book SynopsisThis collection features 60 classic haiku by masters such as Basho, Kyoshi and Shiki, arranged by season and covering all the most popular subjects. The text features an introduction explaining the background to Japanese haiku and a short biographical note about each of the major poets.

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Book SynopsisA poetry collection that reflects on intimate aspects of Black history, culture, and identity, revealing an uncommon gaze on working-class Philadelphia from the 1960s to the present dayIn 55 poems, Migration Letters straddles the personal and public with particular, photorealistic detail to identify what, over time, creating a home creates in ourselves. Drawn from her experiences of being born in Philadelphia into a Black family and a Black culture transported from the American South by the Great Migration, M. Nzadi Keita's poetry sparks a profoundly hybrid gaze of the visual and the sensory. Her lyrical fragments and sustained narrative plunge into the unsung aspects of Black culture and explore how Black Americans journey toward joy.Propelled by the conditions that motivated her family's migration north, the poems pull heavily from Keita's place in her family, communities, and the world at large. They testify to her time and circumstances growing up Blac

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Book SynopsisThis collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century USOriginally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays The Harlem Ghetto, Journey to Atlanta, and Notes of a Native Son will appeal to those interested in the personal and political turmoil of Baldwin's life.“The Harlem Ghetto” introduces readers to the extremities of life in Baldwin’s native city. “Journey to Atlanta” depicts the faulty relationship between the Black community and the politician, following a quartet called The Melodeers on a trip to Atlanta under the auspices of the Progressive Party. Baldwin concludes this collection with “Notes of A Native Son,” a powerful autobiographical essay about his fractured relationship with his father.The Harlem Ghetto: Essays explores the American condition through a mix of analytic and autobiog

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Book SynopsisThe sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced far beyond their moment. For scholars and students of English literature, this volume shows why Renaissance culture cannot be rightly understood when women writers are ignored.Trade Review'This fine compilation of essays should prove of interest to scholars in numerous fields, especially literary scholars.' Heidi Olson Campbell, Renaissance and ReformationTable of ContentsIntroduction; The literary contours of women's world-making Brandie R. Siegfried and Pamela S. Hammons; Part I. Early Modern Women Framing the Modern World: 1. Erotic origins: genesis, the passion, and Aemilia Lanyer's Queer temporality Erin Murphy; 2. Aphra Behn's fiction: transmission, editing, and canonization Paul Salzman; 3. From aisling vision to Irish queen: the reimergence of Gráinne Ní Mháille in Europe's revolutionary period Brandie R. Siegfried; 4. Reframing the picture: screening early modern women for modern audiences Lisa Walters and Naomi Miller; Part II. Remaking the Literary World: 5. Uncloseted: geography and early modern women's dramatic writing Marion Wynne-Davies; 6. Lucy Hutchinson's memoirs as auto-biography Laura DeFurio; 7. Commonplace genres, or women's interventions in non-traditional literary forms: Madame de Sablé, Aphra Behn, and the maxim Victoria E. Burke; 8. Form, formalism, and literary studies: the case of Margaret Cavendish Lara Dodds; Part III. Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy: 9. Royalism and resistance: the personal and the political in Anne, Lady Halkett's Meditations, 1660–1699 Suzanne Trill; 10. Hester Pulter's dissolving worlds Marshelle Woodward; 11. The feminist worlds of Margaret Cavendish David Cunning; 12. Augustus reigns, but poets still are low: Aphra Behn's world in the emperor of the moon (1687) Elaine Hobby; Part IV. Rethinking Early Modern Types and Stereotypes: 13. Learning to imitate women: male education and the grammar of female experience Catherine Loomis; 14. Mothers and widows: world-making against stereotypes in early modern English women's manuscript writings Pamela Hammons; 15. Queer virgins: nuns, reproductive futurism, and early modern English culture Jaime Goodrich; 16. Defensor Feminae: Aemilia Lanyer and Rachel Speght Elizabeth Hodgson; 17. Margaret Cavendish's Melancholy identity: gender and the evolution of a Genre Tina Skouen and Henriette Kolle.

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Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeistOne In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation.Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious, Kate navigates the complicated nature of celebrating and criticizing the culture that shaped her as a woman, while arguing that great depths can come from surface-level interests.With her trademark style and vulnerability, One In a Millennial is sharp, hilarious, and heartwarming all at once. She tackles AOL Instant Messenger, purity culture, American Girl Dolls, going out tops, Spice Girl feminism, her feeli

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Book SynopsisThe Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today.Trade Review?This is a good guide to Greek tragedy. It makes agreeable reading during which one can learn a lot from the various aspects of this genre.? (SHT Reviews, October 2009) "This book is an impressive achievement, and will be of permanent value to everyone interested in Greek drama. The editor has done an excellent job in finding exactly the right scholar for each topic, including many leading experts from all over the world. Every chapter is lucid and informative, and each has a valuable guide to further reading." Michael Lloyd, University College Dublin ?This book should earn itself a place as a principal reference tool for a wide range of courses in Greek tragedy; it offers a solid synthesis for specialist and nonspecialist alike of the many and vexed issues the subject presents.? Choice "This new volume, like others in the excellent Blackwell's 'Companion' series, stands apart from the crowd. It is not just a boring re-hash of well-known material but a superb, lively, genuinely stimulating collection of essays which make the plays come alive. Reading this book is rather like listening to a series of cracking lectures by some of the best scholars in the business ... This Companion will surely become required reading for university students who want an accessible but learned introduction to the texts. The essays are (without exception) so well written and entertaining that they can also be recommended to actors, producers, audience members, and general readers. It is well edited and attractively produced." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "There is no lack of good reference works on Greek tragedy. None the less, Gregory?s Blackwell companion is a very welcome addition ? There can be no doubt that the volume will establish itself as extremely useful for many students of Greek Tragedy. Most school and university libraries will want a copy." Journal of Classics Teaching "This is a substancial and well-planned collection ... most chapters are heavily referenced, and so provide a good point of entry to the scholarly literature." Greece and Rome "The Companion is obviously intended as a reference work and will be a very valuable addition to library shelves of universities with students of Classical Civilisation. In fact, several contributions are truly excellent and will undoubtedly serve as introductory reference points for a long time" Scholia ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations x Note on Contributors xi Preface and Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations and Editions xvii PART I CONTEXTS 1 1 Fifth-Century Athenian History and Tragedy 3 Paula Debnar 2 Tragedy and Religion: The Problem of Origins 23 Scott Scullion 3 Dithyramb, Comedy, and Satyr-Play 38 Bernd Seidensticker 4 Tragedy’s Teaching 55 Neil Croally 5 Tragedy and the Early Greek Philosophical Tradition 71 William Allan 6 Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Performance Culture 83 Christopher Pelling 7 Pictures of Tragedy? 103 Jocelyn Penny Small PART II ELEMENTS 119 8 Myth 121 Michael J. Anderson 9 Beginnings and Endings 136 Deborah H. Roberts 10 Lyric 149 Luigi Battezzato 11 Episodes 167 Michael R. Halleran 12 Music 183 Peter Wilson 13 Theatrical Production 194 John Davidson PART III APPROACHES 213 14 Aeschylean Tragedy 215 Suzanne Saïd 15 Sophoclean Tragedy 233 Ruth Scodel 16 Euripidean Tragedy 251 Justina Gregory 17 Lost Tragedies: A Survey 271 Martin Cropp 18 Tragedy and Anthropology 293 Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood 19 Values 305 Douglas Cairns 20 The Gods 321 Donald Mastronarde 21 Authority Figures 333 Mark Griffith 22 Women’s Voices 352 Judith Mossman 23 Marginal Figures 366 Mary Ebbott PART IV RECEPTION 377 24 Text and Transmission 379 David Kovacs 25 Learning from Suffering: Ancient Responses to Tragedy 394 Stephen Halliwell 26 Polis and Empire: Greek Tragedy in Rome 413 Vassiliki Panoussi 27 Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy 428 Salvatore Di Maria 28 Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic 444 Albert Henrichs 29 Greek Tragedy and Western Perceptions of Actors and Acting 459 Ismene Lada-Richards 30 The Theater of Innumerable Faces 472 Herman Altena 31 Justice in Translation: Rendering Ancient Greek Tragedy 490 Paul Woodruff Bibliography 505 Index 541

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Book Synopsis‘An absolute gem . . . I was delightfully lost by the river throughout’ Paul Whitehouse ‘Marvellous . . . The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"’ Robert Macfarlane ‘Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism’ The Times A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and a son. _______________ It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes. He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was Ted Hughes’s way of breathing – and because the poet's writing has made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing, too. Using Hughes’s poetry collection River and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished. At times, he uses Ted's fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit. But it is also a release and a consolation, as Mark fishes after the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his father.Trade ReviewPenetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism. -- Cal Flyn * The Times *Astute and fluent, The Catch wears its learning lightly… Compelling -- David Profumo * Country Life *Way above a mere fishing book, combining nature, personal recollections, biography, poetry, imagination and much more - BOOK OF THE YEAR * Classic Angling Magazine *Whilst Hughes’s love for angling is relatively well-known, Wormald makes a deep and sustained claim for the link between Hughes’s poetic thinking process and the act of fishing. … [But] The carrying streams of this book are not only those of Hughes’s life, and those of his family and friends, but of Wormald’s too. … Wormald’s own prose is sprung and striking [and] The Catch becomes a subtle meditation on what it is to be a father, a son, a brother. -- Rob St. John * Caught by the River *Wormald’s scene-setting and imaginative, close reading of the poems uncover new aspects of Hughes and his work, which is no easy task … Hughes thought the all-absorbing experience of fishing was much like writing poetry, and such descriptions will have the fishermen among this book’s readership nodding along. -- Richard Benson * The Mail on Sunday *Electrifyingly good -- John Clegg * London Review Bookshop *A beautiful book … Wormald is excellent at prising apart Hughes the myth from Hughes the man. -- Alex Diggins * The Critic *A profoundly reflective examination of Hughes’s fishing life, layered over with Wormald’s own … Wormald has an engaging, lyrical style, by which it’s easy to be beguiled into appreciative enjoyment and even wonder. -- Ettie Neil-Gallacher * The Field *As a feat of scholarship, angling, and creative empathy, this book is an extraordinary achievement -- Seán Lysaght * Dublin Review of Books *Beyond biographical and instead a complete immersion into the mind and life of one of our greatest writers … A dip well worth taking -- Kevin Parr * Fallon's Angler *What a marvellous book The Catch is: a time-slipping, genre-shifting exploration of lives and landscapes, in which poetry, memoir and biography swirl and braid most beautifully together. Obsessive, passionate and deep-pooled, Wormald's pursuit of Hughes becomes, over its course, unexpectedly and movingly personal: a journey inwards in spirit as well as backwards in time, moving against the flow. The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader - to borrow a phrase from the book itself - wonderfully "lost in water". -- Robert MacfarlaneHere is a book and a writer and a sense of the world and of language which are all as marvellous as the subject deserves. -- Adam NicolsonAn absolute gem ... Mark Wormald's love of angling and of Ted Hughes’s poetry come together beautifully. I was delightfully lost by the river throughout. -- Paul WhitehouseMark Wormald takes what is, on the face of it, a meaningless act – the pursuit of exact, often remote places where a famed poet and fisherman has stood, floated, angled – and makes of it a parable of what angling and poetry share. The act of stalking, the stalking of fish by man, but also the stalking by man of his true self in poetry, the moment of the catch, at the instant of self-forgetfulness. -- Harry CliftonI’m perhaps more fish than fisher, but like Ted Hughes’s River, this book tugs at an atavistic, aquatic consciousness at the base of my brain. Wormald’s quest has me swimming in the same brilliant flows, settled in the same rooty riverside nooks, vividly drowsy, deeply awake. I loved it. -- Amy-Jane BeerA torrent of a book, its swirling deeps and dark backwaters lit with hard-won insight. -- Luke JenningsEngaging and enlightening, a new and convincing key to Hughes’s extraordinary poetic gifts. -- Richard BeardA brilliant book. Complex, kaleidoscopic, brilliant in its originality, The Catch is a love song to a lifelong obsession. -- Katharine NorburyA rare piece of work - modest, brilliant, moving. Quietly profound -- Ian SansomA wonderfully beguiling and enjoyable literary pilgrimage - full of surprises and insights, to delight anyone (fisherman or not) who loves reading poetry. Truly, a remarkable book -- David Profumo

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Book SynopsisA biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette. The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to her inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Her 1893 marriage to Prince Edmond de Polignac, an amateur composer, brought her into contact with the most elite strata of French society. After Edmond's death in 1901, she used her fortune to benefit the arts, science, and letters. Her most significant contribution was in the musical domain: in addition to subsidizing individual artists (Boulanger, Haskil, Rubinstein, Horowitz) and organizations (the Ballets Russes, l'Opéra de Paris, l'Orchestre Symphonique de Paris), she made a lifelong project of commissioning new musical works from composers, many of them unknown and struggling, to be performed in her Paris salon. The list of works created as a result is long and extraordinary: Stravinsky's Renard, Satie's Socrate, Falla'sEl Retablo de Maese Pedro, and Poulenc's Two-Piano and Organ Concertos are among the best-known titles. In addition, her salon was a gathering place for luminaries of French culture such as Proust, Cocteau, Monet, Diaghilev, and Colette. Many of Proust's memorable evocations of salon culture were born during his attendance at concerts in the Polignac music room. Sylvia Kahan brings to life this eccentic and extravagant lover of the arts, whose influence on the 20th Century world of music and literature remains incalculable.Trade ReviewA splendid biography of the munificent princess. --Alex Ross [online at http://www.therestisnoise.com/2011/04/merci-beaucoup-domo-arigato.html] Superb new biography. . . The list of her achievements -- music dedicated to her, works commissioned by her, artists supported by her -- are all scrupulously recorded here. . . a dazzling and inspiring array. . . In Sylvia Kahan Winnaretta [Singer-Polignac] has a biographer able to explain her special mixture of arrogance, intelligence and bravery. -- Margaret Reynolds * THE TIMES *Her book is magnificently readable. The reader's complaint might be that it stopped after 550 pages and has not yet been made into a movie. * THE VILLAGER *A pleasure to read and a good reference book to keep. . . . [Winnaretta's] beautiful kingdom created a musical reality that we enjoy to this day. -- Julie Cross * JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC *The list of those who owed much to [the Princesse de Polignac] is simply breathtaking. . . . This biography by Sylvia Kahan [now available . . . in paperback] is easy to read as an adventure story just as much as it is a sideways glance at over half a century's cultural history. -- Geraint Lewis * GRAMOPHONE *This is a book to be referred to again and again. . . an authoritative study that will give any interested reader an overview of a fascinating artistic epoch with a complex and intriguing survivor at its helm. Underneath the forbidding exterior, 'Aunt Winnie' was a sensitive and selfless philanthropist, both acutely perceptive of genuine talent in others and wide-ranging in her patronage. These aspects shine clearly through the mine of detailed information in Sylvia Kahan's important new study. -- Robert Orledge * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Kahan appears to have gotten as close to Singer-Polignac as any scholar could in the many years she worked on this good book. * NOTES, March 2005 *Kahan does justice to this inspiring woman's legacy by crafting a biography that is heartfelt and stimulating. -- Eileen M. Angelini * FRENCH REVIEW, 2006 *Wonderfully researched. . . . Sensitively sets Singer Polignac's vibrant lesbianism in the context of the times. -- Andrew Green * CLASSICAL MUSIC *A pleasure to read and a good reference book to keep. . . . [Winnaretta's] beautiful kingdom created a musical reality that we enjoy to this day. -- Julie Cross * JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC *Table of ContentsAn International Child Life with Mother A Woman of the World The Sewing Machine and the Lyre Marriage and Music La Belle Epoque Renovations Modern Times The Astonishing Years Shelter from the Storm The Magic of Everyday Things Cottages of the Elite, Palaces of the People A Pride of Protégés Mademoiselle All Music is Modern The Beautiful Kingdom of Sounds

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Book SynopsisAcclaimed British historian examines the layers of craft and insight in Tobias Smollett, and discusses the particular nature of his genius and influence on British culture. Once again, Black acquaints the reader with the full range of a prolific writer's works and offers a backstage tour of the meaning and context of Britain's most beloved stories and story-tellers.

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Book SynopsisGershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century''s most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship—which was to remain crucial for both men—is both a celebration of his friend''s spellbinding genius and a lament for the personal and intellectual self-destructiveness that culminated in Benjamin''s suicide in 1940. At once prickly and heartbroken, argumentative and loving, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel. As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and Kabbala, Europe and Palestine that he shared with Benjamin, it is as if he sought to summon up his lost friend''s spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life.

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Book SynopsisA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak volumes.Willis Barnstone’s vivid, contemporary translation, along with his introduction and notes, sheds new light on the spirit and mystique of this ancient Greek poet.This edition is an abridgment of The Complete Poems of Sappho.

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativityThis issue of Alif explores the ways in which humans have come to confront their mortality across time and space. Contributions question the nature of loss, grief, and the possibility of an afterlife. Is death only an interlude? Perhaps simply the end? How have people used literature and the arts to conceptualize its relentless presence in our existence?The articles in this issue decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativity. They provide a wide scope of responses to mortality, anthropologically, philosophically, and psychologically. They shed light on different cultural receptions of loss, annihilation, and mortality, ranging from India to Yemen, Palestine to Iraq, the Island of Lampedusa to the war-ravished city of Beirut, among many other locales. Death is dealt with in an intimate fashion through the exploration and reinterpretation of modern and classical elegiac poetry, children’s picturebooks, fictional accounts of war, grief, and displacement, and dramatic treatments of dying and the afterlife.Contributors: Hajjaj Abu Jabr, Egyptian Academy of Arts, Cairo, EgyptKaram AbuSehly, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, EgyptHala Amin, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, EgyptShaimaa El-Ateek, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaMohamed Birairi, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt, and American University in Cairo, Cairo, EgyptElliott Colla, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USASaeed Elmasry, Cairo University, Cairo, EgyptShaimaa Gohar, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EgyptWalid El Khachab, York University, Toronto, CanadaYasmine Motawy, American University in Cairo, Cairo, EgyptDani Nassif, University of Münster, Münster, GermanyAndrea Maria Negri, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, GermanyMarwa Ramadan, Zagazig University, Zagazig, EgyptCaroline Rooney, University of Kent, Kent, United KingdomTania Al Saadi, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenMay Telmissany, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaShahla Ujayli, American University of Madaba, Madaba, JordanTable of ContentsEnglish and French SectionCaroline Rooney: Shakespeare’s Hermetic Lampedusa: From Colonial Fantasies to the Afterlife in The TempestAndrea Maria Negri: Representations of Death in al-Maqāmāt al-HindiyyaShaimaa El-Ateek: Thanatogenos: Photographing Death and Writing Mourning in Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Mourning DiaryElliott Colla: Elegy and Mobilization: Poetry, Mourning, and the Student Uprising of January 1972Marwa Ramadan: On the Threshold of Death: Liminality and Transformation in Margaret Edson’s WitTania Al Saadi: La mort dans la littérature irakienne de l’exil : L’exemple d’Inaam KachachiShaimaa Gohar: Taming the Terror of Death in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the BardoHala Amin: Frankenstein’s Monster, Past and Present: Writing Against Death in Frankenstein in BaghdadArabic SectionSaeed Elmasry: Cultural Approaches to Mortality: A Critical Overview of the Anthropology of DeathMohamed Birairi: Confronting Annihilation: Readings in Pre-Islamic PoetryKaram AbuSehly: Literature as Archive of Mortality: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of TrauerspielMay Telmissany: Death and the Annihilation of History in Egyptian SurrealismHajjaj Abu Jabr: Death of God Theology: The Holocaust of Paul Celan and Mahmoud DarwishShahla Ujayli: ‘Abd al-Salām al-‘Ujaylī’s Stories of Illness between Culture and the Medical InstitutionWalid El Khachab: Mystic Annihilation in Sufi Art: Death as a Form of LifeDani Nassif: Traumatic Past and Fantasy: Testimonies of the Undead in Rabī‘ Jābir’s BīrītūsYasmine Motawy: “Normal Grief”: Death in Children’s Picturebooks

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Book SynopsisA playful, ecstatic, and invigorating collection of lyrical work by one of America''s finest young poets.Farnoosh Fathi?s poetry has been admired for its ?riot of associations and sonic improvisations? (Christine Hume, Boston Review); its commitment to fathoming language as what it is?an unfathomable depth. Granny Cloud, Fathi?s second book of poems, showcases her gifts both in short works of prodigious concentration and in a long poem, ?Anyone?s Don?tanelle,? composed of the drafts and do-overs that led to ?Fontanelle??a wild reimagining of the dispirited court tumbler said to have inspired St. Francis?s ?Jugglers of God.? Granny Cloud is a portrait of ecstatic decisions and revisions, constantly reversed, constantly renewed.

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Book SynopsisThe follow-up to the bestselling Wanderers, Kerri Andrews' Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present day, and across poetry, letters, diaries, novels and more, this anthology traces a long tradition of women's walking literature. Walking is, for the women included in this anthology, a source of creativity and comfort; it is a means of expressing grief, longing and desire. It is also a complicated activity: it represents freedom but is also sometimes tinged with danger and fear. What cannot be denied any longer is that walking was, and continues to be, an activity full of physical and emotional significance for women: this anthology is testament to the rich literary heritage created by generations of women walker-writers over the centuries.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION by Kerri Andrews Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 1746 Frances Burney, Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World (1778) Ann Yearsley, 'Clifton Hill', from Selected Poems (1785) Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790 (1790) Charlotte Smith, Rural Walks: In Dialogues: Intended for the Use of Young Persons (1795) Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin, 10 September 1796 Dorothy Wordsworth, The Alfoxden Journal (1798) Sarah Murray, Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland (1799) Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal (1800) Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland (1817) Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Dorothy Wordsworth to William Johnson, 21 October 1818 Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, The Journal of Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 16 May 1822 Ellen Weeton, Miss Weeton's Journal of a Governess (1825) Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on My Sick-Bed' (1832) Charlotte Bronte to Emily Jane Bronte, 2 September 1843 Harriet Martineau, A Year at Ambleside (1845) Emily Bronte, 'Loud Without the Wind was Roaring', from Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) Christina Rossetti, 'The Trees' Counselling' (1847) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847) Harriet Martineau to Mr H. G. Atkinson, 7 November 1847, from Autobiography 'Often Rebuked, yet Always Back Returning', from Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, ed. Charlotte Bronte (1850) Harriet Martineau, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes (1855) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856) Charlotte Bronte, The Professor (1857) Eliza Keary, 'Through the Wood', from Little Seal-Skin (1874) Kate Chopin, 'Beyond the Bayou' (1893) Gwen John to Ursula Tyrwhitt, 3 September 1903, La Reole Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield, Sunday, 16 May 1915 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting: A London Adventure (1927) Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Coire Etchachan', from In the Cairngorms (1934) Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Tuesday, 2 October 1934 Frieda Lawrence, 'Not I, But the Wind . . .' (1935) Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show (1936) Nan Shepherd to Neil Gunn, 14 May 1940 Flora Thompson, Heatherley (1944) Jessie Kesson, 'Blaeberry Wood' (1945) Jessie Kesson, 'To Nan Shepherd' (1945) Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945) Janet Adam Smith, Mountain Holidays (1946) Anais Nin, 'The Labyrinth', from Under a Glass Bell (1948) C. C. Vyvyan, Down the Rhone on Foot (1955) Eleanor Farjeon, Walking with Edward Thomas (1958) Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life, trans. Peter Green (1960) Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain (1977) Jenny Nimmo, The Snow Spider (1986) Alexandra Stewart, Daughters of the Glen (1986) Muriel Gray, The First Fifty: Munro-Bagging Without A Beard (1991) Kathleen Jamie, 'At Point of Ness', from The Queen of Sheba (1994) Alice Oswald, 'Another Westminster Bridge', from Woods, etc (2005) Gwyneth Lewis, 'Imaginary Walks in Istanbul', from Sparrow Tree (2011) Cheryl Strayed, Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found (2012) Linda Cracknell, Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory (2014) Linda Cracknell, 'Assynt's Rare Animals?' (2015) Lauren Elkin, Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (2016) Melissa Harrison, Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (2016) Helen Mort, 'Kinder Scout', from No Map Could Show Them (2016) Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (2017) Kate Davis, 'She teaches herself to walk across a limestone landscape', from The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk (2018) Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing (2018) Raynor Winn, The Salt Path (2018) Nancy Gaffield, Meridian (2019) Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing (2019) Anita Sethi, I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021) Sasha Dugdale, 'The Fall of the Rebel Angels', from Deformations (2020) Sarah Moss, The Fell (2021) Polly Atkin, 'Unwalking', from Much With Body (2021) Sonia Overall, Heavy Time (2021) Merryn Glover, Of Stone and Sky (2021) WORKS INCLUDED PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Book Synopsishe twelve chapters collected in the volume criticise, analyse, and discuss the issue of peace in Arab literature, philosophical and theological thought, and both institutional and grassroots practices of intercultural and interreligious mediation.

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Book SynopsisUlrike Almut Sandig’s second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence in these poems from Ulrike Almut Sandig. Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm, the collection explores the darker side of their fairy tales as a backdrop for very contemporary concerns: Migration, war, the rise of the new right, ecological threat, information overload, and political apathy. At the same time, Sandig plays with the German meaning of the word “Grimm”: rage. That emotion permeates the collection as a reaction to the darkness in the collective German consciousness. Yet the book is also animated by passionate, expansive empathy—and reminds us what it is to be human. Always inventive, Sandig teases us here with multiple versions of the self, and multiple voices all in search of the origins of poetry in hidden places: in the silence before language, in the wings, in the field of rapeseed deep in the snow. Trade Review"Reading this book is a powerful experience. For me it meant full immersion into a unique world, filled with vivid, or even lurid colours, and strong tastes and smells. . . . [A] truly masterful job of the translator, Karen Leeder." * European Lit Network *"Rage underscores much of the collection as a whole, as an invigorating energy that refuses to be silenced. There is beauty and ugliness here, balanced against anger and hope: a collection as strange and strangely intriguing as its wonderfully eccentric title." * Rough Ghosts *

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Book SynopsisOne of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles in which large masses took sides against one another. The new millennium, by contrast, appears to have opened under the guise of generalized insecurity, which pertains not only to the historical and social situation, or to one’s personal psychological predicament, but to our very being. The Earth’s current faltering and the twilight of every convention that might govern it—where roles, images, and languages become confused by a lack of direction and distance—were already powerfully prophesied in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and later in the works of Kafka and Beckett. In Hamletics, Massimo Cacciari, one of Italy’s foremost philosophers and leftist political figures, establishes a dialogue between these fateful authors, exploring the relationship between European nihilism and the aporias of action in the present.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and novelist and literary director Adam Biles have hosted several hundred interviews with writers, ranging from prize-winning novelists to visionary non-fiction writers. The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews is a selection of the best of these interviews from the last decade. Packed with warmth, sensitivity and humour, it's a celebration of the greatest writers of our age and an insight into the lives and thoughts behind some of today's most talked-about books.Trade ReviewThis handsome hardback comprises a series of interviews with authors that took place on the shopfloor over the past decade or so * * Times Literary Supplement * *A tantalising glimpse into the thoughts of some of our most vital writers . . . This is a refreshing approach to a text that, in other hands, could have felt stuffy and inaccessible * * Arts Desk * *A collection of talks with an impressive range of writers that celebrates its heritage as a focus of cultural conversation . . . Thanks to this collection, you can settle into a corner of Shakespeare and Company even if you can't make it to Paris * * Harper's Bazaar * *Biles is a skilled interviewer, soliciting reflections that shed light on how successful authors approach their craft and think about the world. The result is an illuminating glimpse inside the minds of writers * * Publisher's Weekly * *

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Book SynopsisUntil the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a popular literary genre, but without concrete political effects. However, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed from an entertaining thought experiment to a socialist project. Imagining the ideal city took on the task of articulating revolutionary transformation of society towards equality and social justice.In Utopia, Stéphanie Roza explores the nascent ideal of a community of property and labour, not yet called communism, and the thinkers who engaged with it in the lead-up to the French Revolution. These philosophers included Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, a fierce critic of private property and the mysterious author of the Code de la Nature; the Abbé de Mably, a radical republican and interlocutor of Rousseau; and Gracchus Babeuf, who, from the 1780s onwards, defended the natural right to subsistence and dreamed of a more fraternal world.Together, they laid the foundations for modern socialist movements. In the crucible of the French Revolution, ‘real equality’ became the goal of a handful of conspirators gathered around Babeuf, who had meanwhile become the ‘tribune of the people’. The Conspiracy of Equals was considered by Marx to be ‘the first active communist party’: the hopes and questions that ran through the group prefigured those of the militants of later periods, including today.

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Book SynopsisFor as long as humans have existed, they have asked: What if? Science fiction was a defining genre of the postwar era, and its current boom across books, film and TV shows no sign of slowing. Space ships, time travel, aliens and artificial intelligence continue to obsess us, and dreams of the apocalypse haunt our own post-pandemic age. But what is it that compels writers to imagine the future? Writing the Future gathers some of the best contemporary writers of science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopia and eco-fiction to explain their craft and explore the many worlds upon which our imaginations might land. Authors such as Toby Litt, Nina Allan, Adam Roberts and Una McCormack reveal how to balance scientific research with creative freedom, examine the different forms the written text might evolve into, and offer practical advice on giving life to your own vision of the future. Whether you're a reader, a seasoned writer looking to hone your skills, or a beginner who's just starting out, Writing the Future provides valuable insights into the craft of imagining the worlds of tomorrow.

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Book Synopsis"All folktales have in common that they are the remains of a faith going back to the earliest times, a faith, a religion, that speaks of supersensible things in pictures. These pictures are like fragments of a shattered jewel that lie strewn on the ground overgrown with grass and flowers. Only the sharpest eye can discover them. Their meaning is long lost but can still be felt and gives the folktales their substance." -- Wilhelm Grimm In The Picture Language of Folktales, Friedel Lenz explores the meaning of twenty-five of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, originally collected and retold between 1812 to 1857. Lenz's interpretation draws on the ideas of anthroposophy and considers the stories in relation to the development of human consciousness. The tales considered range from the familiar, including Cinderella and Snow White, to the less well-known, including The Three Feathers, The Goose Girl and The Seven Ravens. Lenz's commentary illuminates the significance of these texts, making this a useful resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers sharing these stories in the kindergarten and lower school, as well as for interested readers who want to understand these classic stories in a new way.

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Book SynopsisBlack artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anaïs Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Through a series of lyric essays, interviews with contemporary artists and writers of color, and ekphrastic poetry, Duplan deconstructs how creative people frame their relationships to the word, “liberation.” With a focus on creatives who use digital media and language-as-technology—luminaries like Actress, Juliana Huxtable, Lawrence Andrews, Tony Cokes, Sondra Perry, and Nathaniel Mackey—Duplan offers three lenses for thinking about liberation: the personal, the social, and the existential. Arguing that true freedom is impossible without considering all three, the book culminates with a personal essay meditating on the author’s own journey of gender transition while writing the book. Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based in Iowa City. He has worked as an adjunct poetry professor at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, and St. Joseph’s College. He was a 2017–2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem.Trade Review“Duplan skillfully models radical listening in the relationship he cultivates between the text and its audience, prompting us to reimagine our interactions with artistic tradition and our lives in language.” — Ploughshares“In Duplan’s exquisite (and exquisitely bizarre) vision, survival is effortful; it is massy; it is textural; it is en masse, dependent on group and swarm bodies; it is swarmed with contradiction; yet it is marvelous because it somehow persists.”—Fanzine

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Book SynopsisWe bear deep wounds, individually and collectively. All have been worsened by a period of destructive politics that left us ill-equipped to respond to a global health catastrophe. As we struggle to recover our footing and grieve our dead, we believe that the arts must have a voice in the conversation about how we heal.This anthology draws together a wide range of artists and thinkers, established and emerging. In essays, memoir, poetry, fiction, and comics, contributors explore what it might look like to repair. Topics include the Salem witch trials, climate catastrophe, the January 6 siege of the Capitol, gender identity, the failures (and hope) of Western medicine, and the entwined horrors of racial, sexual, and colonial violence.No single text in this volume offers a definitive answer for what it means to repair. But together, they reveal a promising vision for where to go from here.

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Book SynopsisRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a collection of Persian poems, originally written by Omar Khayyam in the 11th century. The book is composed of quatrains, also known as rubaiyat, that explore themes such as love, mortality, and the meaning of life. The poems are written in a simple yet profound style and are often filled with references to nature, wine, and the pleasures of life. Khayyam also questions the traditional beliefs of his time, including the idea of an afterlife and the role of religion in human affairs. One of the most notable features of the book is its use of imagery, which ranges from the beauty of a rose to the vastness of the universe. Khayyam's poems also contain a sense of melancholy and a recognition of the fleeting nature of life, which adds to the book's timeless appeal. The Rubaiyat has been translated into many languages and has become a beloved classic throughout the world. It continues to inspire readers with its timeless wisdom and its celebration of the beauty and impermanence of life.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Carlisle has done a beautiful job editing George Eliot’s translation and providing a scholarly apparatus. . . . This is the edition that George Eliot’s translation of Spinoza’s Ethics has long deserved, and that we have long needed."---Steven Nadler, La Vie des Idées"This edition will be of most interest to scholars of Eliot seeking more insight into the influence of Spinoza’s thought on her literary work." * Choice *"Readers and lovers of George Eliot owe a large debt of gratitude to Clare Carlisle and Princeton University Press for their fine new edition of Eliot’s translation of Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics (1677)."---Thomas Albrecht, Women's Writing"For this volume to be truly worthwhile, the significance of the translation must be revealed, and to do this, the biographical, literary, and philosophical context in which the translation came to be needs to be explored and analysed. And Carlisle succeeds splendidly in all these respects."---Michael Della Rocca, Mind"Carlisle offers us an outstanding introductory essay in which she contextualizes the slow travel of Spinoza among English intellectuals in the early to mid-decades of the nineteenth century. . . . With her philosophical and poetic sensitivity to these two seventeenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers, Carlisle reminds us that rather than tracing direct lines of influence, today’s historical criticism might be ready to think in terms of ‘cosmic affinities’. . . . The notion of a ‘spiritual friendship’ is not what I expected to find in this new edition of a long-translated Spinoza, but Carlisle inspires and challenges us to recognize and value ‘the subtle power of a certain tie between two human beings, which is somehow sacred, a rich source of meaning.’"---Ilana M. Blumberg, George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies

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Book SynopsisRembrandt Is in the Wind by Russ Ramsey is part art history, part biblical study, part philosophy, and part analysis of the human experience; but it's all story. An invitation to discover some of the world’s most celebrated artists and works, it presents the beauty of the gospel in a way that speaks to our most common struggles and longings.Trade Review'Art and the act of creating is essential. We must remember that without it, we would not be here. To notice beauty is to be fully alive and without the act of intimately engaging life, we are numb to ourselves and to the world around us. Ramsey points us towards God through the raw, sensual power of the art, disrupting our unconscious lives that often want to grasp for whatever makes us un-feel.' * Wayne Brezinka, award-winning artist and illustrator *'Encountering paintings drawings and sculpture as a little boy set me up for my life arc. Encountering Christ set me up for a lifelong love affair with my creator. Russ has gone to great lengths to examine art and faith in a way that helps us define our path forward. Art making is sometimes a lonely experience relying on one's own imagination and talent. This book illustrates the tight wire one must balance on to find the peace and beauty in expression. It's often difficult to maintain balance with all life offers is pulling on us. Rembrandt in the wind helps us find a way forward by the examples and stories of art makers who have gone before us.' * Jimmy Abegg, visual artist and musician with Rich Mullins and the Ragamuffin Band, Charlie Peacock, and Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil *'Here's what I love about Russ Ramsey's latest project--it understands down deep that Truth is exclusive to no party or sect; that Goodness arrives in the form of the lonely, the ill, and the outcast; and that Beauty, amid the church's moral twilight, might be the last apologetic that holds.' * Leif Enger, Bestselling Author of Virgil Wander and Peace Like A River *'In days fractured by those who aim to seize power, darkened by those who play dirty politics, and clouded by those who use platforms to polarize, perhaps the artists can lead us home. The artists featured in these pages, artists who devoted their life and work to what is good, true, and beautiful, remind us that we can--and should--do the same.' * Karen Swallow Prior, Research Professor of English and Christianity & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books *'It is easy to believe that enjoying and understanding 'Art' is only for those who have a PhD in Art History. Russ Ramsey reminds us how simple and holy it is to be stirred by the mystery of images.' * John Hendrix, author/illustrator of The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler *'Ramsey is a deep lover of art and a student of art history. In this book he takes the reader on an amazing guided tour through an art museum that doesn't exist. In this carefully curated collection of art from around the world, he offers you an experience that only someone who really loves art can. This book inspires the reader to engage art in an eye-opening way and understand how these famous works of art bring glory to God.' * Ned Bustard, is the illustrator of the Every Moment Holy series, Creative Director of Square Halo Books, and the artist and author of History of Art: Creation through Contemporary *'Ramsey leads us well into one of the best possible uses of our time--engaging with art and beauty.' * Mark Maggiori is an award-winning painter of the American West *'Russ Ramsey doesn't just see some of the wonders seen and painted by great artists of the past, but even more wonderfully, he helps us see them too. Yet it is full of surprises. What he offers is never a matter of beauty for its own sake, although we are drawn into a glorious journey of beauty down the ages; nor is it one of artistic skills and accomplishments, although every one of the artists he focuses on could easily claim to have mastered their art; nor even can this book be distilled into a mere, fascinating overview of five centuries of human creativity (even though the story told provides a superb entry-point to the novice keen to learn more). The greatest joy of this book, however, is that the accumulative effect of these nine artists has helped me glimpse something of the world and of humanity as God our Creator sees us. And what a gift that is!' * Mark Meynell, Director (Europe & Caribbean), Langham Partnership, writer and cultural critic: A Wilderness of Mirrors and When Darkness Seems My Closest Friend *'Russ Ramsey has gone deep into the histories of nine artists and their masterworks, revealing how each struggled--in both their giftedness and fallenness--to create beauty. I am reminded anew of how beauty leads us to God, 'the Author of beauty.' I cannot wait to share this book!' * Debbie Taylor, visual artist *'Russ Ramsey was kind enough to give me an early chapter of this book a few years ago when I was preparing to go on a silent retreat and asked him for a work of art I might spend some time meditating on during my weekend away. Thanks to Russ's recommendation, I spent hours contemplating Rembrandt's painting, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. I was shaken by the depiction of this scene and the disciples' question to Jesus, 'Do you not care that we are perishing?' Russ's gentle shepherding of my understanding regarding the painting and the Biblical story behind it was a balm in my life just when I needed it. I know that this book will be the same for you.' * Shawn Smucker, author of The Day the Angels Fell and The Weight of Memory *'Sometimes, when standing at a museum, I think to myself 'I wish somebody who knows something would explain this to me.' And I look around and see, on one side of me, someone expertly pointing out every intricacy in the painting and, on the other, someone bored and looking at a phone in hand. Somehow this book is able to captivate people in all those categories. In this book, Russ Ramsey walks us through a museum of artists and art works, showing how each of them illuminates something about God, humanity, and the meaning of life. And this book does so in a way that won't bore the expert or intimidate the novice. Those who love art will find here new paths to the gospel. And those who love the gospel will find that they can love art. That's a lot to ask from a book, and this one delivers.' * Russell Moore, Director of Christianity Today’s Public Faith Project *

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Book SynopsisUnravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare''s plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works.Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare''s canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were written and first performed, his works still remain fresh and relevant today. Discover the work of the world''s most celebrated playwright with:- A clear and accessible format- Act-by-act plot summaries of all of his 39 plays with lists of characters- Guidance on how to read and interpret his great sonnets and narrative poems- Plays ordered by time and genre, helping readers to trace the development of Shakespeare''s topics, themes, and artistry- Sidebars that clarify the mythological, geographical, and historical context of each play and decode its language, dramatic action, and themesShakespeare fans will revel in the marvellous depiction of the Stratford-upon-Avon-born Bard hiTrade Review"Should one attempt a complete front-to-back reading, the result would be a thorough grounding in Shakespeare's work and an enlarged astonishment at the range of his imagination." (Previous Edition, 2004) * The New York Times *

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Book SynopsisA glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year. Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life, it contains snippets from some of the greatest writers and book collectors from throughout history, including: Charles Dickens on the smell of books Maya Angelou on the pleasures of reading aloud Virginia Woolf on finding space for writing Nick Hornby on reading for pure enjoyment and much more. Along the way, you’ll find advice on how to look after your most precious volumes, what to do when books start taking over your home, and where to find the most atmospheric libraries and bookshops around the world. Keep this beautifully illustrated book by your bedside and wander into a magical world of books every night of the year.Trade Review‘This would be a much-loved and treasured gift for bookworms! From fact and fiction, to letters and diaries, be greeted by the beauty of the written word’ Love Reading ‘The perfect gift for any book lover, with a mix of letters and diaries, both fact and fiction’ Prima ‘This is the perfect book for any bookworm… a real classic in the making’ Miranda Mills YouTubeTable of ContentsJanuary: An Illimitable Choice 10February: Frivolous and Idle Books 46March: A Stroke of the Pen 78April: Something Sensational to Read 112May: Encouraging Early Bookishness 146June: The Poet and the Dreamer 182July: I Always Took a Book 216August: Bibliomania, or Book-madness 252September: In an Elbow-chair at Ease 288October: The Art of Bookbinding 324November: An Abundant Library 358December: The Craft of Genius 394Index: 430Acknowledgements 444

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Book SynopsisA radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.Trade ReviewThe publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions. * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsTHE BLIND SPOT OF AN OLD DREAM OF SYMMETRYWoman, Science's Unknown How Can They Immediately Be So Sure?; The Anatomical Model; A Science That Still Cannot Make Up Its Mind; A Question of Method; What Is Involved in (Re) production, and How It Aids and Abets the Phallic Order; A Difference Not Taken into Account; The Labor "to Become a Woman"The Little Girl Is (Only) a Little Boy An Inferior Little Man; The Cards Turned Over; The Dream Interpreters Themselves; Penis Masturbation: A Necessarily Phallic Auto-eroticism; The Change of "Object" or the Crisis of a Devaluation; The Law of the Self-sameIs Her End in Her Beginning? An Unsuspected Love; The Desire to Have a Child by the Mother; The Father's Seduction: Law but Not Sex; The "Reasons" Why a Girl Hates Her Mother and a Boy Goes on Loving His; An Economy of Primal Desire That Cannot Be Represented; One More ChildAnother "Cause"—Castration As Might Be Expected; The Gaze, Always at Stake; Anatomy Is "Destiny"; What the Father's Discourse Covers Up; The Negative in Phallocentric Dialectic; Is Working Out the Death Drives Limited to Men Only?"Penis-Envy" Waiting in Vain; An Indirect Sublimation; "Envy" or "Desire" for the Penis?; Repression, or Inexorable Censorship?; Mimesis ImposedA Painful Way to Become a Woman And the Father, Neutral and Benevolent, Washes His Hands of the Matter; A (Female) A-Sex?; Is the Oedipus Complex Universal or Not?; Free Association on OnanismA Very Black Sexuality? Symptoms Almost Like Those of Melancholia; A Setback She Cannot Mourn; That Open Wound That Draws Everything to Itself; That Necessary Remainder: HysteriaThe Penis = the Father's Child The Primacy of Anal Erotism; Those Party to a Certain Lease; Woman Island Also Mother; Forbidden Games; The Hymen of Oedipus, Father and SonThe Deferred Action of Castration Capitalism without Complexes; The Metaphorical Veil of the Eternal Feminine; The Other Side of History; The Submission of a Slave?; A Super-ego That Rather Despises the Female SexAn Indispensable Wave of Passivity A Redistribution of Partial Instincts, Especially Sadistic-anal Instincts; "There Is Only One Libido"; Idealization, What Is One's Own; The (Re)productive Organ; Confirmation of FrigidityFemale Hom(m)osexuality The "Constitutional Factor" Is Decisive; Homosexual Choice Clearly Expounded; A Cure Fails for Lack of Transference(s); Female SamenessAn Impracticable Sexual Relationship An Ideal Love; Were It Not for Her Mother?; Or Her Mother-in-law?; Squaring the Family Circle; Generation Gap, or Being Historically out of Phase?; Woman's Enigmatic Bisexuality"Woman Is a Woman as a Result of a Certain Lack of Characteristics" An Ex-orbitant Narcissism; The Vanity of a Commodity; The Shame That Demands Vicious Conformity; Women Have Never Invented Anything but Weaving; A Very Envious Nature; Society Holds No Interest for Women; A Fault in Sublimation; "La Femme de Trente Ans"SPECULUM Any Theory of the "Subject" Has Always Been Appropriated by the "Masculine" Kore: Young Virgin, Pupil of the Eye On the Index of Plato's Works: Woman How to Conceive (of) a Girl Une Mère de Glace "... and if, taking the eye of a man recently dead... " La Mystérique Paradox A Priori The Eternal Irony of the Community Volume-FluidityPLATO'S HysteriaThe Stage Setup Turned Upside-down and Back-to-front; Special Status for the Side Opposite; A Fire in the Image of a Sun; The Forgotten Path; Paraphragm/Diaphragm; The Magic Show; A Waste of Time?; A Specular CaveThe Dialogues One Speaks, the Others Are Silent; Like Ourselves, They Submit to a Like Principle of Identity; Provided They Have a Head, Turned in the Right Direction; What Is = What They See, and Vice Versa; The A-letheia, a Necessary Denegation among Men; Even Her Voice Is Taken Away from Echo; A Double Topographic Error, Its ConsequencesThe Avoidance of (Masculine) Hysteria A Hypnotic Method; That Buries and Forbids "Madness"; A Remainder of Aphasia; The Misprison of Difference; The Unreflected Dazzle of SeductionThe "Way Out" of the Cave The "Passage"; A Difficult Delivery; Then Whence and How Does He Get Out?; A World Peopled by GhostsThe Time Needed to Focus and Adjust the Vision Impossible to Turn Back (or Over); Were It Not, Right Now, for a Sophistry Played with Doubles; A Frozen Nature; The Auto... Taken in by the A-letheia; Bastard or Legitimate Offspring?The Father's Vision: Engendering with No History of Problems A Hymen of Glass/Ice; The Unbegotten Begetter; Exorcism of the Dark Night; Astrology as Thaumaturgy: A Semblance (of a) Sun; A Question of PropertyA Form That Is Always the Same The Passage Confusing Big and Little, and Vice Versa; The Standard Itself/Himself; Better to Revolve upon Oneself-But This Is Possible Only for God-the-Father; The Mother, Happily, Does Not Remember; A Source-mirror of All That Is; The Analysis of That Projection Will Never Take (or Have Taken) PlaceCompletion of the Paideia The Failings of an Organ That Is Still Too Sensible; A Seminar in Good Working Order; An Immaculate Conception; The Deferred Action of an Ideal Jouissance; The End of ChildhoodLife in Philosophy Always the Same (He); An Autistic Completeness; Love Turned Away from Inferior Species and Genera/Gender; The Privilege of the Immortals; The Science of Desire; A Kore Dilated to the Whole Field of the Gaze and Mirroring HerselfDivine Knowledge The Back Reserved for God; The Divine Mystery; This Power Cannot Be Imitated by Mortals; How, Then, Can They Evaluate Their Potency?; Except over Someone Like Themselves?; The Father Knows the Front Side and Back Side of Everything, at Least in Theory; The Meaning of Death for a PhilosopherAn Unarticulated/Inarticulate Go-Between: The Split between Sensible and Intelligible A Failure of Relations between the Father and Mother; A One-way Passage; Compulsory Participation in the Attributes of the Type; A Misprized Incest and an Unrealizable IncestReturn to the Name of the Father The Impossible Regression toward the Mother; A Competition the Philosopher Will Decline to Enter; Two Modes of Repetition: Property and Proximity; Better to Work the Earth on the Father's Account Than to Return to It: Metaphor/Metonymy; The Threat of Castration"Woman's" Jouissance A Dead Cave Which Puts Representation Back into Play; That Marvelously Solitary Pleasure of God; A Diagonal Helps to Temper the Excessiveness of the One; The Infinite of an Ideal Which Covers the Slit (of a) Void; Losing Sight of "the Other"; The Vengeance of Children Freed from Their Chains

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Book SynopsisCarefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works from his first novel "Poor Folk" to "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" by setting them in their personal, historical, and ideological context.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the Etkind Prize, European University at St. Petersburg "A monumental achievement... This is not a literary biography in the usual sense of the term... It is, rather, an exhaustive history of Dostoyevsky's mind, an encyclopedic account of the author as major novelist and thinker, essayist and editor, journalist and polemicist... Wrought with tireless love and boundless ingenuity, it ... [is] a multifaceted tribute from an erudite and penetrating cultural critic to one of the great masters of 19th-century fiction."--Michael Scammell, New York Times Book Review "It is unquestionably the fullest, most nuanced and evenhanded--not to mention the most informative--account of its subject in any language, and it has significantly changed our understanding of both the man and his work."--Donald Fanger, Los Angeles Times Book Review "In his aim of elucidating the setting within which Dostoevsky wrote--personal on the one hand, social, historical, cultural, literary, and philosophical on the other--Frank has succeeded triumphantly."--J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books "Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time thus immediately becomes the essential one-volume commentary on the intellectual dynamics and artistry of this great novelist's impassioned, idea-driven fiction... To understand Dostoevsky's often savage satire or nightmarish visions or just the conversations among the Karamazov brothers, one needs to grasp not only the text but also the ideological context. To both of these there is no better guide than Joseph Frank."--Michael Dirda, Wall Street Journal "Magnificent... A deeply absorbing account."--James Wood, New Republic "The ideal one-volume biography of Dostoevsky could only come through a distillation of the much-acclaimed five-volume biography (1976-2002) by Joseph Frank. In compressing his longer work, editor Mary Petrusewicz tightens the rigor of a narrative that already departed from traditional biography by focusing chiefly on the ideas with which the Russian author wrestled so powerfully, providing the details of his personal life only as incidental background. Thus, for example, while readers do learn of formative incidents during Dostoevsky's four years in tsarist prison camp, what they see most clearly is how the prison experience deepened the author's faith in God while dampening his zeal for political reform. In a similar way, Frank limns only briefly the life experiences surrounding the writing of the major novels--Crime and Punishment, Demons, and Brothers Karamazov--devoting his scrutiny largely to how Dostoevsky develops the ideological tensions within each work. Readers consequently see, for instance, how Napoleonic illusions justify Raskolnikov's bloody crimes, how the Worship of Man dooms Kirillov to suicide, and how deep Christian faith enables Alyosha to resist Ivan's corrosive rationalism. Yet while probing Dostoevsky's themes, Frank also examines the artistry that gives them imaginative life, highlighting--for example--perspectival techniques that anticipate those of Woolf and Joyce. A masterful abridgement."--Bryce Christensen, Booklist (Starred Review) "Frank displays a brilliant command of Dostoyevsky's heroic endeavors, and his biography reads readily, especially for such a scholarly work. It compares nicely with Leon Edel's multivolume biography of Henry James. Highly recommended."--Robert Kelly, Library Journal "It is wonderfully lucidly written and a marvellous portrait of the man behind the books."--Nadine Gordimer, Independent "This extraordinary biography succeeds in making both irony and great ideas wholly alive, immediately accessible to us. It is a great work, both of scholarship and of art."--A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times (London) "A narrative of such compelling precision, thoroughness and insight as to give the reader a sense not just of acquaintanceship, but of complete identification with Dostoevsky, of looking through his eyes and understanding with his mind."--Helen Muchnic, Boston Globe "One of the finest achievements of American literary scholarship."--Rene Wellek, Washington Post Book World "Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time at last offers non-specialist readers access to the definitive biography of an important figure in the history of the novel... Patient, cautious, critical but not judgmental, using clear language and a chronologically ordered narrative structure, Frank neutralises the unreliable and hysterical self-constructions of which his subject was capable. The result is like watching an artist building an intricate, large-scale painting around a single figure... Frank's great insight is that, just as no one aspect of Dostoevsky's complex personality can be separated from the others, no part of his writing--whether aesthetic, moral, religious or political--can be quarantined from the others. Frank's biography honours the polyphony of Dostoevsky's novelistic imagination: even in truncated form, it is a rare triumph."--Geordie Williamson, Australian "Frank's monumental five-volume study of Dostoevsky deserves to be read, if only as an inspiring lesson about how much more thrilling a focus on ideas can be than the standard biography's obsession with the connections between creativity and the subject's personal life. The series has been condensed with incisive care and respect, giving those with limited time (and budget) a chance to engage with a revelatory vision of the Russian writer's enduring greatness."--Bill Marx, PRI's "The World" "This is the Dostoevsky we encounter in Joseph Frank's superb Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, a one-volume, 984-page condensation of Frank's five-volume biography of the author, written over the course of a long and distinguished career... Few biographers could muster the intelligence and imagination needed to capture all this in a single tome. We should be grateful for Joseph Frank."--Peter Savodnik, Commentary "With the publication of Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time earlier this year, a massive abridgement of five volumes written over three decades, Frank breaks once and for all with his early critic's stilted categories in portraying the human subject. His innovative method of biography, influenced heavily by literary criticism, starts with artistic expression and moves backward, seeking to carefully situate his subject within ideological context... Without a doubt, the genius of Frank's form is in combining three modalities in crafting his narrative: literary criticism, social and intellectual history, and biography."--Aaron Stuvland, Politics and Culture "Joseph Frank's magisterial five-volume biography of Dostoevsky--one of the exemplary achievements of our era--has invaluably been published in an abridged one-volume edition."--Jeff Simon, Buffalo News "The depth of Frank's achievement is to put the writer and his work in social, political, ideological and historical context."--Jeff Baker, Oregonian "Most of us spend much of our life trying to understand only a handful of people we know and love, in a span of time usually extending just three generations (from our parents to our children). Imagine, then, devoting your life to trying to make sense of one other person long dead, whom you had necessarily never met, with whom you may have nothing in common, and whose times and works must always seem elusive, encoded and frustratingly out of your reach. In a pursuit of that kind, Leon Edel trudged through five volumes on Henry James, Robert Caro is working away on his fourth installment of Lyndon Johnson's biography, and Edmund Morris is finalizing his third book on Teddy Roosevelt. Joseph Frank, though, trumps them all. After writing Feodor Dostoevsky's biography in five volumes, Frank and a gifted editor (Mary Petrusewicz) have now turned that massive, interminable endeavour into an abridged, accessible one-volume edition."--Mark Thomas, Canberra Times "Joseph Frank, emeritus professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton universities, fully grasped the pressure of the political and religious issues seething in and around the visionary author to whom he dedicated his career. It took him five highly praised volumes and 26 years (1976-2002) to give a full account of Dostoevsky's life, works and times; this new, hefty condensation was done in collaboration with editor and Russian scholar Mary Petrusewicz, on condition that the original five volumes remain in print, available to anyone 'wishing for a wider horizon.' ... Frank's magisterial homage deserves no less recognition."--Judith Armstrong, The Age "Frank's five-volume biography has been called 'magisterial' and monumental,' as well as 'nuanced,' 'lucid' and 'penetrating.' The same might be said of this shorter version."--Marilyn McEntyre, Christian Century "Frank's contribution to understanding Dostoevsky is no less than Dostoevsky's own gift to the world of literature."--Sarthak Shankar, Organiser "Interspersed with others, it took me a while to read this altogether majestic book--but I'm so glad I did. [T]his tomb more than illuminates Dostoevsky's life vast array of brilliant writing."--David Marx, David Marx "One of the greatest literary biographies ever written, Frank's five-volume account details the nearly unfathomable life and literary career of a writer who endured epilepsy and exile."--Jonathon Sturgeon, FlavorwireTable of ContentsList of I llustrations xi Preface: Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time xiii Acknowledgments xix Transliteration xxi Abbreviations xxiii PART I: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 Chapter 1: Prelude 3 Chapter 2: The Family 5 Chapter 3: The Religious and Cultural Background 23 Chapter 4: The Academy of Military Engineers 38 Chapter 5: The Two Romanticisms 51 Chapter 6: The Gogol Period 61 Chapter 7: Poor Folk 76 Chapter 8: Dostoevsky and the Pleiade 86 Chapter 9: Belinsky and Dostoevsky: I?94 Chapter 10: Feuilletons and Experiments 104 Chapter 11: Belinsky and Dostoevsky: II?119 Chapter 12: The Beketov and Petrashevsky Circles 129 Chapter 13: Dostoevsky and Speshnev 145 PART II: The Y ears of Ordeal, 1850-1859 Chapter 14: The Peter-and-Paul Fortress 163 Chapter 15: Katorga 185 Chapter 16: "Monsters in Their Misery" 196 Chapter 17: Private Dostoevsky 223 Chapter 18: A Russian Heart 243 Chapter 19: The Siberian Novellas 255 Chapter 20: Homecoming 273 PART III: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 Chapter 21: Into the Fray 281 Chapter 22: An Aesthetics of T ranscendence 298 Chapter 23: The Insulted and Injured 317 Chapter 24: The Era of Proclamations 330 Chapter 25: Portrait of a Nihilist 341 Chapter 26: Time: The Final Months 358 Chapter 27: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions 372 Chapter 28: An Emancipated Woman, A Tormented Lover 384 Chapter 29: The Prison of Utopia 399 Chapter 30: Notes from Underground 413 Chapter 31: The End of Epoch 441 PART IV: The Miraculous Y ears, 1865-1871 Chapter 32: Khlestakov in Wiesbaden 455 Chapter 33: From Novella to Novel 472 Chapter 34: Crime and Punishment 483 Chapter 35: "A Little Diamond" 509 Chapter 36: The Gambler 521 Chapter 37: Escape and Exile 531 Chapter 38: In Search of a Novel 549 Chapter 39: An Inconsolable Father 564 Chapter 40: The Idiot 577 Chapter 41: The Pamphlet and the Poem 590 Chapter 42: Fathers, Sons, and Stavrogin 601 Chapter 43: Exile's Return 616 Chapter 44: History and Myth in Demons 626 Chapter 45: The Book of the Impostors 650 PART V: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 Chapter 46: The Citizen 669 Chapter 47: Narodnichestvo: Russian Populism 682 Chapter 48: Bad Ems 694 Chapter 49: A Raw Youth 706 Chapter 50: A Public Figure 723 Chapter 51: The Diary of a Writer, 1876-1877 738 Chapter 52: A New Novel 760 Chapter 53: The Great Debate 779 Chapter 54: Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor 788 Chapter 55: Terror and Martial Law 804 Chapter 56: The Pushkin Festival 813 Chapter 57: Controversies and Conclusions 835 Chapter 58: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 1-4 848 Chapter 59: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 5-6 867 Chapter 60: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 7-12 886 Chapter 61: Death and Transfiguration 912 Editor's Note 933 Index 935 Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included.Trade Review"Thought provoking, at times arguably paradigm shifting" Slavic and Eastern European Journal "Internal Colonization might be said to inject postcolonial theory into Russian studies. This, however, would be to understate the case. Russia, in Etkind's account, is no mere latecomer to the postcolonial feast: in so many ways, it got there first. Etkind has confirmed what Russianists have suspected for a while without quite being able to prove the point: that Russia's peculiarly vocal subalterns have at least as much to bring to 'Western' cultural theory as they stand to gain from it." Times Literary Supplement "The cumulative power of Etkind's argument constitutes an impressive scholarly achievement, offering a coherent yet richly detailed account of Russia's centuries-long experience of internal colonisation." Times Higher Education "A coherent and cogent, as well as an original and witty investigation … the text itself teems with intriguing Tristram Shandean excursions." Journal of European Studies "Etkind highlights what is at the core of the Russian Empire building process. Beyond objective specific facts [Etkind] goes deep into Russian history and culture to emphasize and explain the heuristic idea 'how to colonize oneself'." The Global Journal "A thought-provoking work of scholarship that will inspire both controversies and useful new approaches to Russian history and culture: to paraphrase Levi-Strauss, it is good to think with." The Russian Review "A gripping read. Etkind combines an energetic pace with a multitude of sources … Etkind has succeeded in presenting an entirely readable text that will appeal to anyone interested in Russian imperial history, Russian literature, or the literature and culture of a colonial and postcolonial society." Melbourne Historical Journal "A fresh and entertaining work that is beautifully written … Etkind persuasively demonstrates that post-Soviet postcolonial studies should shift their focus from chasing the unresolvable historical justice to pursuing original, creative and challenging research to support competennt discussion of the controversial issues." Ideology and Politics "Not only useful but also very enjoyable...It is safe to consider this as one of the best books of 2011 in its category and it will definitely have an impact on Russian studies for many years to come." Journal of Eurasian Studies "An exhaustingly original book, beautifully written and crafted so as to be eminently quotable. It will stand for decades to come as the central volume in the larger debates on empire." Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh "An erudite and incisive interpretation of Russian history and culture. Indeed, one of the great virtues of this book is its sweeping range, covering several centuries of history and culture. It is well-known that Russia was a great and expansive empire. Etkind provides a striking new lens for seeing Russian culture and history, one that stresses the enduring process of internal colonization. Beyond scholars of Russia, this book should appeal to those interested in questions of colonialism and post-colonialism and in issues of comparative empire." Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania "Combining literary and historiographical evidence, Alexander Etkind elucidates the processes of 'self-' or 'internal colonization' the Russian imperial state carried out in its heartland in tandem with colonizing practices deployed in its farthest corners. With wit and erudition, Internal Colonization provides an original and fascinating account of Orientalism's genealogies, the complexity of its global enactments, and the fantasia of its imperial, 'self-colonizing' logic on the newly-illuminated stage of the Second World." Nancy Ruttenburg, Stanford Center for the Study of the NovelTable of ContentsIntroductionPart One. The Non-Traditional OrientChapter 1. Less than One and DoubleChapter 2. WorldlinessPart Two. Writing from ScratchChapter 3. Chasing RurikChapter 4. To Colonize OneselfChapter 5. Barrels of FurPart 3. Empire of the TsarsChapter 6. Occult InstabilityChapter 7. Disciplinary GearsChapter 8. Internal AffairsPart 4. Shaved Man's BurdenChapter 9. Philosophy under Russian Rule Chapter 10. Sects and Revolution Chapter 11. Re-Enchanting the DarknessChapter 12. Sacrificial Plotlines Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and termssuch as the implied author, the postulated reader, and the unreliable narratorhave become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty yearstwo decades that Booth describes as the richest in the history of the subject.

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Book SynopsisA personal essay on exposure, auto-fiction, internet feminism and the anxiety epidemic. Last year Olivia Sudjic published Sympathy, a novel about surveillance and connection in the internet age. If a debut novel is written by a woman, it is often read and discussed as if it were a memoir. Suddenly Sudjic found herself shoved under the microscope, subject to same surveillance apparatus she had dissected in her novel. In this incisive personal essay, Olivia Sudjic draws on her experience to examine the damaging expectations that attend any young female artist, as well the strategies by which they might be evaded.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015 "Challenging and original."--Michael Wood, London Review of Books "This impressive, innovative book connects art and politics by way of forms."--Andrew Sturgeon, Flavorwire, from "10 Must-Read Academic Books of 2015" "Levine proposes a fresh way to think of formalism in literary studies... To illustrate her methodology, Levine turns her sights in many directions, from 19th-century classics by writers such as Dickens to contemporary television (The Wire). Throughout, Levine's prose is lucid and engaging."--Choice "Forms is a genuinely interdisciplinary book, and Levine exhibits considerable ambition and intellectual dexterity in her integration of different disciplinary perspectives."--Gregory Tate, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowldgements xv I Introduction The Affordances of Form 1 II Whole 42 III Rhythm 49 IV Hierarchy 82 V Network 112 VI The Wire 132 Notes 151 Index 169

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Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer 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, introducing them to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms

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Book SynopsisTake Note for Exam Success! York Notes offer an exciting approach to English literature. This market leading series fully reflects student needs. They are packed with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. York Notes, The Ultimate Literature Guides.Table of Contents- Intro – How to Study a Play, Novel- Author Profile – Historical timeline, context with dates, author life, works , historical events.- Map/family tree/character tree- Summaries (numbered summaries for every scene)- Commentary – covering themes, characters, language analysis, style- exam questions end of each section- Answers to Checkpoints and exam questions- Exam questions with annotated model answers (D grade – B grade)- Coursework assignments/resources/top marks/advice- Key Quotations – how to use them.- Glossary/Literary terms- Timeline of events- Other titles in the Series

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Book SynopsisThe definitive translation of the seminal treatise on the code of the samurai. Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of Hagakure, a series of over 1,300 short texts written by eighteenth-century samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo. These texts illuminate the classic Japanese concept of bushido (the Way of the Warrior), which dictated how samurai were expected to behave, conduct themselves, live, and die. Acclaimed translator William Scott Wilson has selected and translated here three hundred of those texts to create an accessible distillation of this guide, making it one of the most thorough and astonishing windows into the captivating world of the samurai available. This edition includes an introduction that delves into the Zen concept of muga, or ?death? of the ego, giving an in-depth historical and philosophical background for the more metaphorical reading of Hagakure that is based on Tsunetomo?s reference to bushido as ?the Way of death.? Through this lens, which has held a morbid fascination for readers through the years, the classic takes on a fresh and nuanced appeal. This book was previously published under the title Hagakure. This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts.The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman.The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compactformat that is collectible, reader-friendly, andapplicable to everyday life.

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Book SynopsisSeminal, inspired translations of one of the greatest poets of all time by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon, now available in a sleek new edition.It''s no exaggeration to say that Charles Baudelaire invented modern poetry. Flowers of Evil has been a bible for poets from Rimbaud to T.S. Eliot to Edna St. Vincent Millay, who, with Georges Dillon, brought out an inspired rhymed version of the book in 1936. Here it is reprinted, with the French originals, for the first time in many years. Millay and Dillon''s versions are virtuosic in their handling of rhyme and meter, and their take on the Flowers of Evil as a whole is among the most persuasive English, capturing in flowing lines comparable to Baudelaire''s the tortured consciousness and troubling sensuality that are his opulent music''s counterpart. The book also allows readers a new appreciation of the range of Millay''s own achievement as a poet and translator.

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Book SynopsisThe lives and achievements of eight women writers – a startling and unconventional history of literatureTrade Review‘A smart, funny and highly readable journey through the lives of women writers and the challenges they and their works face. It’s an informative, enthusiastic and rightly enraging tour de force.’ —A.L. Kennedy'Essential reading.' —Claire Tomalin'In this splendid alternative history of English literature, Anna Beer shows that "simply by putting words together on the page" women authors have for centuries fought back… [an] excellent study: "let’s scavenge and rebuild in the face of the destruction of women’s work…Let’s find the precious gems amidst the rubble."' —Guardian'Eve Bites Back isn’t pleading for justice for female writers, it’s indicting a system that has long ignored them and, to some extent, still does… Part polemic, part revisionist criticism, Eve Bites Back, as its title suggests, is sharp and aggressive, a book that will irritate, enlighten, persuade and provoke argument. It’s a work of correction, in every sense of the word.’ —Washington Post'A totally absorbing and enlightening tour through the work of eight significant women authors – with one of the funniest introductory chapters ever.' —Sarah Bakewell'Writing with energy, wit and at times barely suppressed fury, Anna Beer brings to life the struggle to be heard of eight women writers over 500 years. Her subtle literary excavations are both informative and a gripping read.' —David Goodhart, founder editor of Prospect'Startling stories and facts on every page. Written with a clear and authoritative voice, this is both a very entertaining and very important book about the many obstacles that women have overcome to be writers, and the long struggles even the most gifted and well-connected women authors have encountered in order to be taken seriously.' —Yasmin Khan, associate professor of history, University of Oxford'Anna Beer is one of those very rare writers who are able to combine rigorous research with a gripping and thoroughly accessible style. This is an ambitious, authoritative, feisty book and a worthy successor to her inspirational Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music.' —Kate Kennedy, author of Dweller in Shadows'Eve Bites Back … is shaped by the same principles [as Beer’s earlier work] – feminist indignation, certainly, but also a drive to share ideas and observations about a diverse body of achievement, emerging from historical periods radically different from our own … invigorating.' —Dinah Birch, TLS'A delightful, and challenging read.' —New York Journal of Books'A thorough, wide-reaching overview of women’s literary accomplishments viewed through a fresh, modern lens … Eve Bites Back is an exemplary work of literary criticism.' —Foreword Reviews'In her alternative history of English literature, Eve Bites Back, cultural historian and biographer Anna Beer takes up arms against the patriarchy… extensive and meticulous.' —Washington Independent Review of Books

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Book SynopsisAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural worldTrade Review“With . . . tender attentiveness to the non-human, [this] narrative speaks of more compassionate and resilient modes of existence than those devised by the perennially agitated makers of history.”—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian, “Summer Reading”“Sumana Roy has written—grown—a radiant and wondrous book, which roots and branches in complex, provocative ways, helping us recognize trees for the ‘strange strangers’ they are, companion-citizens with which we think and remember, yes, but also alien beings that draw love, hate, indifference, and even lust from us humans.”—Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot“This is one of the most original, delightful, inspiring books I have read in a long time. It will enchant and move the reader with its unique imaginative mindset, its humorous touches, and its defiance of convention.”—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University“A poetic, probing meditation on how trees are, to paraphrase Lévi-Strauss, ‘good to think with.’ Sumana Roy gives us a fresh and surprising look at a topic as old as the Epic of Gilgamesh, or to put it another way, almost as old as the oldest living trees.”—Robert Moor, bestselling author of On Trails: An Exploration“A genuinely exceptional work that is as poetic as it is scholarly—quirky, enlightening and enriching.”—Chandak Sengoopta, Birbeck College, University of LondonPraise for Sumana Roy: “A one-of-its-kind meditation. . . . Deliciously engaging.”—Supriya Sharma, Hindustan Times “Sumana Roy’s writing brims with rare originality.”—Areeb Ahmad, The Medley “An ode to all that is unnoticed, ill, neglected and yet resilient. . . . Roy’s true spiritual ancestor . . . is Annie Dillard. . . . Both Roy and Dillard craft remarkable, poignant sentences. Both have the ability to make mundane situations lead up to profound, even apocalyptic consequences.”—Rini Barman, Wire India “Sumana Roy’s book shimmers like silver poplar leaves.”—Sylvia Straube, Frankfurter Rundschau “A book like a jungle: from the wide sky to sticky leaves and unsightly thorns, everything is included.”—Susanne Billig, Deutschlandfunk Kultur

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