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Literary Criticism

Literary Life of Things Case Studies in American Fiction

Barbel Tischleder Babette

ISBN: PB: 9783593500065, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2014
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 colour plates

Material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Contemplating the aesthetic and nar...

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Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures

Johnson Claudia L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155036, ISBN: HB: 9780226402031, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 halftones

Jane Austen completed only six novels, but enduring passion for the author and her works has driven fans to read these books repeatedly, in book clubs or solo, while also inspiring countless film adaptations, sequels, and even spoofs involving zombie...

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Poetry

Posthumous Love Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England

Targoff Ramie

ISBN: HB: 9780226789590, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven – Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this...

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Golden Fleece Essays

Spark Muriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847772510, Carcanet, March 2014
248 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm

The essays, reviews, memoirs and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. Grouped into four sections (Art and Poetry; Autobiography and Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Prospero's Son Life, Books, Love, and Theater

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226142234, ISBN: HB: 9780226014418, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
168 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs". ‌ That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son...

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Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Decision Between Us Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

Ricco John Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226717777, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones

"The Decision Between Us" combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension inform...

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Walter Benjamin's Hypothetical French Trauerspiel Yale French Studies, Number 124

Bjornstad Hall, Ibbett Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300194203, Yale University Press, February 2014
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the summer of 1927, Walter Benjamin wrote about a possible future project on what he called French Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this volume of Yale French Studies, an international team of leading scholars of early modern Europe takes its cu...

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Reading Dante

Mazzotta Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780300191356, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem the Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as "La Divina Commedia", or "The Divine Comedy". Guiseppe Mazzotta brings Dant...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Great Charles Dickens Scandal

Slater Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205282, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Charles Dickens was regarded as a pillar of respectability in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered. With the break-up of his marriage that year, rumours about a scandalous relationship he may have conducted with young actres...

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