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Literary Criticism

Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies

Tatschner Florian

ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature

Scranton Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...

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Literary Criticism

Wordsworth's Fun

Bevis Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226652191, ISBN: HB: 9780226652054, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage", William Hazlitt recalled, "He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like... there was a convulsive inclination to laughte...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz

Kiefer Anselm, Dermutz Klaus

ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates

"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...

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Literary Criticism

The French List

Mydriasis Followed by "To the Icebergs"

Le Clezio J. M. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780857426543, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Clezio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization". In M...

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The Italian List

Class

Cavalletti Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9780857424372, Seagull Books, September 2019
136 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and under the spell of anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small, that sad figure returns –...

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Fiction

Literary Criticism

Science Fiktion

Fuhmann Franz

ISBN: HB: 9780857426017, Seagull Books, September 2019
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

When a young reader once asked Franz Fuhmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that make up this volume, however, he found himself coming...

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The German List

Correspondence

Celan Paul, Bachmann Ingeborg

ISBN: PB: 9780857426420, ISBN: HB: 9781906497446, Seagull Books, September 2019
373 pp., 20x16.4 cm, 23 halftones

Paul Celan (1920-1970) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of pos...

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Fiction

Literary Criticism

Upright Revolution Or Why Humans Walk Upright

wa Thiong'o Ngugi

ISBN: HB: 9780857426475, Seagull Books, September 2019
48 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in "The Upright Revolution". Blending myth and folklore with an...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

On Tarrying

Vogl Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780857427243, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy, and political...

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