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Literary Criticism

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226527451, ISBN: HB: 9780226015842, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
264 pp., 23x15 cm

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft and meaning. In "Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ag...

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Making Medieval Manuscripts

de Hamel Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781851244683, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
176 pp., 21.5x20 cm

Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscri...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

Gallope Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226483696, ISBN: HB: 9780226483559, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 20 line drawings

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In "Deep Ref...

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Stendhal Fiction and the Themes of Freedom

Brombert Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226519357, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors – Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels "The Red and the...

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Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

Eden Kathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226526645, ISBN: HB: 9780226184623, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
180 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancien...

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Great William Writers Reading Shakespeare

Leinwand Theodore

ISBN: PB: 9780226527628, ISBN: HB: 9780226367552, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

"The Great William" is the first book to explore how seven renowned writers – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes – wrestled with Shakespeare in the very moments when they...

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Crossing between Tradition and Modernity Essays in Commemoriation of Milena Dolezalova-Velingerova (1932-2012)

Denton Kirk A.

ISBN: PB: 9788024635132, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
318 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity" presents thirteen essays written in honor of Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova (1932-2012), a member of the Prague School of Sinology and an importan...

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Construction of Tower of Babel

Benet Juan

ISBN: PB: 9781939663320, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2017
88 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The titular essay is a meditation on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1563 painting of the Tower of Babel: the first painting in European art history to feature a building as a protagonist. An engineer by trade, Benet brings his...

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History of Art

Unpacking My Library Artists and Their Books

Steffens Jo, Neumann Matthias, Proust Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300216981, Yale University Press, October 2017
184 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 270 colour illus.

Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin's seminal 1931 essay, the "Unpacking My Library" series charts a spirited exploration of the reading and book collecting practices of today's leading thinkers. "Artists and Their Books" showcases the person...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Difficult Death The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jensen Morten Hoi, Wood James

ISBN: HB: 9780300218930, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. H...

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