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Literary Criticism

Strange Likeness Description and the Modernist Novel

Zhang Dora

ISBN: PB: 9780226722528, ISBN: HB: 9780226722498, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description – what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool". As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during...

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Literary Criticism

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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Literary Criticism

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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Literary Criticism

Lyric Now

Longenbach James

ISBN: PB: 9780226716046, ISBN: HB: 9780226715995, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers int...

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Literary Criticism

Cartesian Poetics The Art of Thinking

Gadberry Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226723020, ISBN: HB: 9780226722979, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of Rene Descartes and finds them in the philosopher's implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was...

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Literary Criticism

Vampire A New History

Groom Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300254839, ISBN: HB: 9780300232233, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 35 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of "The Vampyre", Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century,...

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Literary Criticism

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Popoff Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300255379, Yale University Press, September 2020
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, "Life and Fate", had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and before Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag". But "Life and Fate" was seized by the KGB. W...

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Literary Criticism

Coming To Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England

Harrison Timothy M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226725123, ISBN: HB: 9780226725093, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea change in the English seventeenth century, when, over the course of a half century, "conscience" made...

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Literary Criticism

Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

Chapman Alison A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226729299, ISBN: HB: 9780226729152, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts betwee...

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Literary Criticism

Skull Cathedral A Vestigial Anatomy

Wiley Melissa

ISBN: PB: 9781938769566, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exal...

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