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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Lessons of Tragedy Statecraft and World Order

Brands Hal, Edel Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300251760, Yale University Press, April 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and coura...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Henry David Thoreau A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season

Thoreau Henry David

ISBN: PB: 9780226624969, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each". Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passi...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Literary Criticism

Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's Birds

Wolfe Cary

ISBN: PB: 9780226687971, ISBN: HB: 9780226687834, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us...

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Literary Criticism

Different Order of Difficulty Literature after Wittgenstein

Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226677156, ISBN: HB: 9780226677019, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...

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Literary Criticism

Rhythm Form and Dispossession

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226685878, ISBN: HB: 9780226685731, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders ma...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Book of Sleep

El Wardany Haytham

ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...

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Literary Criticism

Existentialism, 70 Years After Yale French Studies, Number 135/136

Du Graf Lauren, Elsky Julia, Faure Clementine

ISBN: PB: 9780300242669, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In 1948, Yale French Studies devoted its inaugural issue to existentialism. This anniversary issue responds seventy years later. In recent years, new critical and theoretical approaches have reconfigured existentialism and refreshed perspectives on t...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Animals, Language, Sensation

Hawhee Debra

ISBN: PB: 9780226706771, ISBN: HB: 9780226398174, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: t...

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Literary Criticism

Glass, Light, and Electricity Essays

McAuliffe Shena

ISBN: PB: 9781602234086, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in "Glass, Light & Electricity" wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations th...

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