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North African Poetry in French Yale French Studies, Number 137/138

Connolly Thomas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300250374, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of "Yale French Studies" sho...

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Novel Houses Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings

Hardyment Christina

ISBN: HB: 9781851244805, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.

"Novel Houses" visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer...

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Political Science

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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Kennedy Liam, Shapiro Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...

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Name Me a Word Indian Writers Reflect on Writing

Alexander Meena

ISBN: PB: 9780300222586, Yale University Press, June 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an internati...

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Media Studies

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Network Aesthetics

Jagoda Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226346519, ISBN: HB: 9780226346489, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain".Network Aesthetics", in exploring how popular culture...

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Novelty A History of the New

Michael North

ISBN: PB: 9780226325309, ISBN: HB: 9780226077871, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new – new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come...

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Norman Maclean Reader

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226500270, ISBN: HB: 9780226500263, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim – as well as the devotion of rea...

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Noeuds De Memoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture Yale French Studies, Number 118/119

Rothberg Michael, Sanyal Debarati, Silverman Max

ISBN: PB: 9780300118858, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

Focuses on postwar approaches to the past, the nature of collective memory, and issues of cultural memory in a transnational age. This title includes essays that probe points of contact between memories and legacies of genocide, colonialism, and slav...

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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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Philosophy

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Now Don't Try to Reason with Me Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065809, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
398 pp., 23x15 cm

In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason – a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. F...

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