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Literary Criticism

Limits of Critique

Felski Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226294032, ISBN: HB: 9780226293981, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of i...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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Literary Criticism

The Swiss List

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook

Frisch Max

ISBN: HB: 9780857421692, Seagull Books, December 2013
104 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

"New York... I HATE IT... I LOVE IT... I DON'T KNOW..." These are the reflections of Max Frisch (1911-1991) writing from his apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and continuing until his death at the age...

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Flaubert's "Gueuloir" On Madame Bovary and Salammbo

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300187052, Yale University Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15.5 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Gustave Flaubert, one of the key figures in literary modernism, is famous for his determined pursuit of stylistic perfection. This notably involved the attempt to eliminate from his prose all sorts of assonances, consonances, and repetitions, in larg...

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Medieval

Reading the World Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age

Franklin-Brown Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226260686, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
424 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 21 halftones, 5 colour illus.

The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias". Variously referred to as a "speculum", "thesaurus", or "imago mundi" – the term encyclopedia was no...

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Theory of Literature

Fry Paul H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300180831, Yale University Press, May 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlyi...

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The Swiss List

Correspondence

Frisch Max, Durrenmatt Friedrich

ISBN: HB: 9781906497910, Seagull Books, October 2011
240 pp., 17x10 cm, 15 halftones

Together Max Frisch and Friedrich Durrenmatt are not only two of the most esteemed Swiss writers of the twentieth century, but arguably two of the most important European writers since World War II. The remarkable letters gathered here document their...

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Ideas in Things Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

Freedgood Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226261638, ISBN: HB: 9780226261553, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
208 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 11 halftones

While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages".The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequen...

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Brothers Karamazov Worlds of the Novel

Feuer Miller Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780300125627, Yale University Press, July 2008
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel, "The Brothers Karamazov", in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today "remains harrowingly alive in the f...

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England and the English

Ford Ford Madox

ISBN: PB: 9781857545838, Carcanet, November 2003
280 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"England and the English" is Ford Madox Ford's three-volume exploration of what it means to be English, here published in a single volume for the first time in the United Kingdom. Starting with the brilliantly impressionistic evocations of the chaoti...

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