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Literary Criticism

Letters from Spain A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court

Gigault de Bellefonds Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781649590107, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
98 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates

Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars was a well-regarded figure in Parisian salons and esteemed by King Louis XIV, and she traveled internationally to accompany her ambassador husband, playing significant diplomatic roles at the court of...

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Infinitely Determinable Children and Childhood in Modern Literature

Giuriato Davide

ISBN: PB: 9783035803167, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Upon the "discovery of childhood", as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse...

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Speaking Stone Stories Cemeteries Tell

Griffith Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781947602304, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, March 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 86 halftones

The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, fo...

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Cartesian Poetics The Art of Thinking

Gadberry Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226723020, ISBN: HB: 9780226722979, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of Rene Descartes and finds them in the philosopher's implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was...

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Culture Studies

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Vampire A New History

Groom Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300254839, ISBN: HB: 9780300232233, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 35 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of "The Vampyre", Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century,...

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Women Studies

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Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Gilbert Sandra M., Gubar Susan, Appignanesi Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780300246728, Yale University Press, May 2020
784 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwor...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Five Words Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Greene Roland

ISBN: PB: 9780226709710, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over t...

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Samizdat Past & Present

Glanc Tomas

ISBN: PB: 9788024640334, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
250 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature – the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others – has, in fact,...

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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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