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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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Fiction

Stories for the Years

Pirandello Luigi, Jewiss Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9780300150964, Yale University Press, September 2020
352 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Regarded as one of Europe's great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable sense of the crushing burdens of class, gender, and social conventions. Set in the author's birthplac...

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Culture Studies

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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Poetry

Arrow

Chakraborty Sumita

ISBN: PB: 9781784109929, Carcanet, September 2020
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Arrow" is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is "Dear, beloved", a more-than-elegy for her younger sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the poem, much else came into play: "it was m...

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Poetry

Fiction

Barbarians Arrive Today Poems & Prose

Cavafy C. P.

ISBN: PB: 9781784109943, Carcanet, September 2020
352 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

With "The Barbarians Arrive Today", Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering uniqu...

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Fiction

Captain's Verses

Neruda Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9781784109240, Carcanet, September 2020
208 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia – a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il Postino. Originally published anonymously in 1952 to spare his...

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Poetry

Runaway

Graham Jorie

ISBN: PB: 9781784109950, Carcanet, September 2020
96 pp., 23.5x18.7 cm

A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Ide...

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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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