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Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine Yale French Studies, Number 128
ISBN: PB: 9780300214192, Yale University Press, December 2015
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916-1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond. While...
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On the Edge of the Holocaust The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781611688566, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment...
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Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...
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For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226068374, ISBN: HB: 9780226068367, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imagination...
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Literature Incorporated The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
ISBN: HB: 9780226291123, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'...
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Setting Plato Straight Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780226307008, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars – most of them Catholic – read, digested, a...
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Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780300216806, ISBN: HB: 9780300164985, Yale University Press, November 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day – the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums – and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologica...
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Proust The Future's Secret
ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...
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I'll Tell You Mine Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program
ISBN: PB: 9780226306476, ISBN: HB: 9780226306339, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers' Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting progra...
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Philip Sparrow Tells All Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist
ISBN: PB: 9780226304687, ISBN: HB: 9780226304540, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
Samuel Steward (1909-1993) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared his considerable range of experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer of everything from scholarly articles to gay ero...
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