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Women Studies

Woman Reader

Jack Belinda Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300197204, ISBN: HB: 9780300120455, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to...

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Divine Love Islamic Literature and the Path to God

Chittick William C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300185959, Yale University Press, July 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this book William C. Chittick provides a first-time look at historic Persian literature and the topic of love, which is at the heart of Islamic spiritual thought. It contains extensive Arabic and Persian material, from the Qur'an up through the tw...

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Watchman in Pieces Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood

Rosen David, Santesso Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780300155419, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood – what constitutes a self – have changed over time,...

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Event of Literature

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300194135, Yale University Press, April 2013
264 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different...

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Education

Promiscuous "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

Avishai Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300192414, ISBN: HB: 9780300151909, Yale University Press, April 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm

The publication of "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers – some delighted, oth...

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Why X Matters

Why Trilling Matters

Kirsch Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300187823, ISBN: HB: 9780300152692, Yale University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual lif...

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Cast of Characters

Schwaber Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300194678, Yale University Press, January 2013
258 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this boo...

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Full Knowing Reader

Pucci Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194661, Yale University Press, January 2013
286 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In this illuminating book, Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of an active and engaged reader. Pucci considers an array of texts from Homer to Pound, showing that the reader has become empow...

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Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Wills Garry

ISBN: PB: 9780300188004, Yale University Press, January 2013
200 pp., 18.9x12.8 cm

Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that a Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his...

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Shadow of a Great Rock A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Bloom Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780300187946, Yale University Press, October 2012
256 pp., 21x14 cm

"The King James Bible" stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English", sharing the honour only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significa...

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