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Literary Criticism

Thinking in Circles An Essay on Ring Composition

Douglas Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300167856, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a techn...

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Literary Criticism

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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Philosophy

Incidents

Barthes Roland

ISBN: PB: 9781906497590, Seagull Books, September 2010
184 pp., 19.3x15.2 cm, 144 colour illus.

French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century literary thought, and some of his best-known works, like S-Z, speak directly to the essential and indivi...

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Environment at the Crossroads

Rui Vilar Emilio

ISBN: PB: 9781847771193, Carcanet, August 2010
206 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Environment at the Crossroads", the theme of the 2009 Gulbenkian Conference, addresses the most urgent crisis confronting the world today, in its four essential aspects: How deeply is the current economic malaise rooted in failing systems? Do we hav...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Hesiod's Calendar

Saxton Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781906188030, Carcanet, August 2010
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod is best known for two poems, the "Theogony" and the "Works and Days". The "Theogony" gives an account of the creation of the universe andthe war between the Titans and Olympians, while "Works and Days" offers plain-speak...

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Film Studies

Literary Criticism

Typhus

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781906497422, Seagull Books, August 2010
212 pp., 20.1x23 cm

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre's "Typhus" centres on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nig...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Literary Criticism

Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention

Junker Carsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593390994, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2010
294 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "Frames of Friction", Carsten Junker maps out a dazzling panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to explore the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking...

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Literary Criticism

Narration Four Lectures

Stein Gertrude

ISBN: PB: 9780226771540, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
96 pp., 20.5x15.5 cm

Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", Gertrude Stein delivered her "Narration" lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935. Stein had not been back to her home coun...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism

Baudrillard Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781906497200, Seagull Books, May 2010
92 pp., 18.3x11.9 cm

In "Carnival and Cannibal", distinguished French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) reflects on many of his most significant ideas concerning the significance of language and the relationship between the technological and the social. In this,...

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