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Political Science

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Rose Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780226725789, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
256 pp., 22x14 cm, 4 halftones

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

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Poetry

Cormorant Hunter's Wife

Kane Joan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231573, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
76 pp., 23x15 cm

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Inupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural co...

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Poetry

Rabbits Could Sing Poems

Thomas Amber Flora

ISBN: PB: 9781602231597, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
67 pp., 25x15 cm

The poems included in "The Rabbits Could Sing" delve farther into territory that Amber Flora Thomas visited in her prize-winning book "Eye of Water", showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress wil...

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Literary Criticism

Lucretian Renaissance Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226648491, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
264 pp., 20.5x14 cm

With "The Lucretian Renaissance", Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of t...

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Poetry

Complete Perfectionist A Poetics of Work

Jimenez Juan Ramon

ISBN: PB: 9780983322009, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2012
161 pp., 23x15 cm

Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jimenez brings together th...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Poet's Freedom A Notebook on Making

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226773872, ISBN: HB: 9780226773865, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm

Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freed...

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Literary Criticism

Unrepentant Renaissance From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

Strier Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226777511, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinfor...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...

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Literary Criticism

Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of the Novel

Aravamudan Srinivas

ISBN: PB: 9780226024493, ISBN: HB: 9780226024486, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent q...

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History of Art

Literary Criticism

Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature

Gamboni Dario

ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...

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