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Middle East
Literary Criticism
Jerusalem City of the Book
Mack Merav, Balint Benjamin, Brenner Frederic
ISBN: HB: 9780300222852, Yale University Press, June 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
In this enchanting book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world o...
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Literary Criticism
Packing My Library An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Manguel Alberto
ISBN: PB: 9780300244526, ISBN: HB: 9780300219333, Yale University Press, June 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and ree...
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Literary Criticism
Delicate Aggression Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Dowling David O.
ISBN: HB: 9780300215847, Yale University Press, May 2019
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
As the world's preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners,...
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Jewish Studies
Literary Criticism
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? And Other Essays
Kirsch Adam
ISBN: HB: 9780300240139, Yale University Press, May 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Adam Kirsch is one of today's finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus on Jewish literature. He explores the definition of Jewish literature,...
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Literary Criticism
Construction of a National Vernacular Literature in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Edwin M. Duval Yale French Studies, Number 134
DeVos Jessica, Hayes Bruce
ISBN: PB: 9780300235999, Yale University Press, March 2019
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
French literature underwent radical changes in the sixteenth century. Edwin (Ned) M. Duval's scholarship focuses on teasing out hidden structures and symmetries in French Renaissance poetry and prose. In honor of Duval's literary "sleuthing", the con...
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Literary Criticism
Culture Studies
Promise of the Suburbs A Victorian History in Literature and Culture
Bilston Sarah
ISBN: HB: 9780300179330, Yale University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Literature has, from the start of the nineteenth century, cast the suburbs as dull, vulgar, and unimaginative margins where, by definition, nothing important takes place. Sarah Bilston argues that such attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural...
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Biography & Memoires
Literary Criticism
Henrik Ibsen The Man and the Mask
de Figueiredo Ivo
ISBN: HB: 9780300208818, Yale University Press, February 2019
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.
Henrik Ibsen (1820-1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", and "Ghosts" are all masterpieces of...
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Literary Criticism
Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 20 Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings
Johnson Samuel, Brack O. M., DeMaria Robert
ISBN: HB: 9780300228281, Yale University Press, February 2019
672 pp., 22.2x14.3 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The English critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth century. This twentieth and final volume of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson presents the author's occasional writing, inc...
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Literary Criticism
Africa
Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013
Wicomb Zoe, van der Vlies Andrew
ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...
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Literary Criticism
Culture Studies
Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Williams Abigail
ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...
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