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Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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"Detecting" Patrick Modiano Yale French Studies, Number 133

Golsan Richard J., Higgins Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780300228892, Yale University Press, June 2018
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This volume of "Yale French Studies" offers new perspectives on the work of the 2014 Nobel laureate in literature, Patrick Modiano. Including critical reassessments of themes that have informed, indeed haunted, Modiano's fiction from the outset, this...

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Name Me a Word Indian Writers Reflect on Writing

Alexander Meena

ISBN: PB: 9780300222586, Yale University Press, June 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an internati...

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Journeying

Magris Claudio, Appel Anne Milano

ISBN: HB: 9780300218510, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades. He has traveled through these years with many beloved companions, to whom he...

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Politics of Parody A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830

Taylor David Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300223750, Yale University Press, May 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 76 black&white illus.

This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-...

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Elusive Brain Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience

Tougaw Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780300221176, Yale University Press, April 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuro...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Astrid Lindgren The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking

Andersen Jens, Waight Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300226102, Yale University Press, April 2018
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgre...

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Middle East

Other Middle East An Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature

Salameh Franck

ISBN: HB: 9780300204445, Yale University Press, February 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in...

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Anthropology

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

Kamens Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300223712, Yale University Press, February 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.

This generously illustrated volume offers a fresh perspective on classical Japanese poetry (waka), including many poems treated here for the first time in a Western-language publication. Edward Kamens examines these poems both as they relate to mater...

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Jewish Studies

Feeling Jewish (A Book for Just About Anyone)

Baum Devorah

ISBN: HB: 9780300212440, Yale University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm

Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of...

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