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Literary Criticism

Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...

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Literary Criticism

Radium of the Word A Poetics of Materiality

Dworkin Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226743561, ISBN: HB: 9780226743424, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations...

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Literary Criticism

Rhythm Form and Dispossession

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226685878, ISBN: HB: 9780226685731, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders ma...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Animals, Language, Sensation

Hawhee Debra

ISBN: PB: 9780226706771, ISBN: HB: 9780226398174, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: t...

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Literary Criticism

Radical as Reality Form and Freedom in American Poetry

Campion Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226663371, ISBN: HB: 9780226663234, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews

Samuels Maurice

ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...

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Literary Criticism

Africa

Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013

Wicomb Zoe, van der Vlies Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...

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Literary Criticism

Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

Whittier Treat John

ISBN: PB: 9780226545134, ISBN: HB: 9780226811703, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature" tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten...

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Literary Criticism

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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Literary Criticism

Restless Secularism Modernism and the Religious Inheritance

Mutter Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300221732, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a backgrou...

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