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Literary Criticism

de Grazia Margreta

ISBN: PB: 9780226785226, ISBN: HB: 9780226785196, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anach...

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Chastity Plot

During Lisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226741468, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Chastity Plot", Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been...

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Radium of the Word A Poetics of Materiality

Dworkin Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226743561, ISBN: HB: 9780226743424, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations...

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Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

Der-Wei Wang David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...

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Fat New and Uncollected Prose

Di Piero W. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...

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Weak Planet Literature and Assisted Survival

Dimock Wai Chee

ISBN: PB: 9780226477107, ISBN: HB: 9780226477077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature...

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Why X Matters

Why Writing Matters

Delbanco Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300245974, Yale University Press, May 2020
296 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and Jam...

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Existentialism, 70 Years After Yale French Studies, Number 135/136

Du Graf Lauren, Elsky Julia, Faure Clementine

ISBN: PB: 9780300242669, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In 1948, Yale French Studies devoted its inaugural issue to existentialism. This anniversary issue responds seventy years later. In recent years, new critical and theoretical approaches have reconfigured existentialism and refreshed perspectives on t...

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The French List

Suspended Passion Interviews

Duras Marguerite

ISBN: PB: 9780857427564, ISBN: HB: 9780857423290, Seagull Books, February 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews – hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession" – offers r...

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Daily Sherlock Holmes A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective

Doyle Arthur Conan

ISBN: PB: 9780226659640, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

"Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes", said Stamford, introducing us."How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive". "How on earth did you kno...

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