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Literary Criticism

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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Fiction

Not Dead Yet and Other Stories

Moore Hadley

ISBN: PB: 9781938769412, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
216 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm

"Not Dead Yet" studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore's debut collection of short stories presents a contemporary set of narra...

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Literary Criticism

On Interpretive Conflict

Frow John

ISBN: PB: 9780226614007, ISBN: HB: 9780226613956, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings

"Interpretation" is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people's actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the like...

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Literary Criticism

Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies

Tatschner Florian

ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...

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Fiction

Spider Love Song and Other Stories

Au Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781946724205, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, September 2019
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Nancy Au's debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align, whose spirits attempt flight...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature

Scranton Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...

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Poetry

War Makes Everyone Lonely

Barnhart Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226660462, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In his first collection of poems, many of which were written during his years as a US Army Special Forces medic, Graham Barnhart explores themes of memory, trauma, and isolation. Ranging from conventional lyrics and narrative verse to prose poems and...

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Literary Criticism

Wordsworth's Fun

Bevis Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226652191, ISBN: HB: 9780226652054, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage", William Hazlitt recalled, "He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like... there was a convulsive inclination to laughte...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews

Samuels Maurice

ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...

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Fiction

Monsters Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mathilda

ISBN: PB: 9781940939704, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, June 2019
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Monsters: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and 'Mathilda'" presents Mary Shelley's most popular works, accompanied by a critical introduction and commentary by scholar Claire Millikin Raymond. Cultures create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing t...

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