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Bande Dessinee: Thinking Outside the Boxes Yale French Studies, Number 131/132

Grove Laurence, Syrotinski Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300225983, Yale University Press, August 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Jane Austen A Brief Life

Stafford Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300232219, Yale University Press, July 2017
184 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Auste...

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Fiction

Blameless

Magris Claudio, Appel Anne Milano

ISBN: HB: 9780300218480, Yale University Press, June 2017
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

From one of Europe's most revered authors, a tale of one man's obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them. Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human...

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Fiction

Graveyard Clay Cre Na Cille

Cadhain Mairtin, Mac Con Iomaire Liam, Robinson Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300227062, Yale University Press, May 2017
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 6 black&white

In critical opinion and popular polls, Mairtin O. Cadhain's Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish. This bold new translation of his radically original Cre na Cille is the shared project of two fluent speake...

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Poetry

Simulacra

Matthews Airea D., Phillips Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780300223965, ISBN: HB: 9780300223972, Yale University Press, May 2017
104 pp., 19x15.2 cm

A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and...

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Performing Arts

What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

Sweet Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300211443, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 21x14 cm

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists. Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss...

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Medieval

Medievalism The Middle Ages in Modern England

Alexander Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300227307, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 colour illus.

Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England – from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, R...

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Fiction

Polonica

Mountains of Parnassus

Milosz Czeslaw

ISBN: HB: 9780300214253, Yale University Press, March 2017
184 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel-available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding tr...

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Biography & Memoires

Poetry

Hayim Nahman Bialik Poet of Hebrew

Holtzman Avner

ISBN: HB: 9780300200669, Yale University Press, March 2017
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...

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Story Time Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

Young Timothy, Campbell Jill, Marcus Leonard, Maguire Gregory, Martin Michelle, Trumpener Katie, Whyte Padraic, Lyon Clark Beverly, Wasowicz Laura E., Frengel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300218459, Yale University Press, February 2017
248 pp., 20.3x19 cm, 35 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

The history of children's literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the "Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collectio...

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