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Conde Maryse

ISBN: PB: 9780857427557, ISBN: HB: 9780857420978, Seagull Books, February 2020
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For nearly four decades, Maryse Conde, best known for her novels "Segu" and "Windward Heights", has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challe...

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The French List

Suspended Passion Interviews

Duras Marguerite

ISBN: PB: 9780857427564, ISBN: HB: 9780857423290, Seagull Books, February 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews – hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession" – offers r...

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Winter Stories

Rishoi Ingvild

ISBN: HB: 9780857426109, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "Winter Stories", Norwegian author Ingrid H. Rishoi gives us three contemporary tales about personal resilience in the face of adversity. We meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow; a yo...

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Philosophy

Mood and Trope The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

Brenkman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226673264, ISBN: HB: 9780226673127, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 figures

In "Mood and Trope", John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

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Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space

Kornbluh Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...

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Five Words Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Greene Roland

ISBN: PB: 9780226709710, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over t...

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To Love Is to Act Les Miserables and Victor Hugo's Vision for Leading Lives of Conscience

Barnett Marva A.

ISBN: PB: 9780997228762, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

"To love is to act" – "Aimer, c'est agir". These words, which Victor Hugo wrote three days before he died, epitomize his life's philosophy. His love of freedom, democracy, and all people – especially the poor and wretched – drove him not only to wri...

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Europe

Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...

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Thinking with Shakespeare Essays on Politics and Life

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226710198, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions – bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life – animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard...

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