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Literary Criticism

Climate and the Making of Worlds Toward a Geohistorical Poetics

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226776286, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world-m...

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Literary Criticism

Fabulous Monsters Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300255355, ISBN: HB: 9780300247381, Yale University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 38 black&white illus.

Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love...

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For Now

Myles Eileen

ISBN: HB: 9780300244649, Yale University Press, October 2020
96 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm

In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, fr...

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Culture Studies

Literary Criticism

Under the Red White and Blue Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby

Marcus Greil

ISBN: HB: 9780300228908, Yale University Press, July 2020
176 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of...

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Glass, Light, and Electricity Essays

McAuliffe Shena

ISBN: PB: 9781602234086, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in "Glass, Light & Electricity" wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations th...

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Europe

Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...

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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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Polonica

Crises of the Sentence

Mieszkowski Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780226617190, ISBN: HB: 9780226617053, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the wor...

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Literary Criticism

Impostors Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity

Miller Christopher L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591001, ISBN: HB: 9780226590950, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, "Impostors" examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not,...

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