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Poetry

Silver and Information

Smith Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780887486456, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
72 pp., 23.4x13.9 cm

The title of "Silver and Information" comes from a photographer's statement, "My work is becoming more and more and more silver and less and less information". This book swings between the poles of aboriginal working-class Philadelphia, where a fathe...

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Fiction

Respectable Woman

Kire Easterine

ISBN: HB: 9789385932472, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The Second World War has just ended. The Japanese have departed. In Nagaland in northeast India – one of the key theaters of the battle – political unrest and tremendous social changes have generated new social problems. For returning soldiers and ot...

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Fiction

Shop on Main Street

Grosman Ladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024640228, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
150 pp., 19x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, "The Shop on Main Street" is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Mood and Trope The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

Brenkman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226673264, ISBN: HB: 9780226673127, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 figures

In "Mood and Trope", John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

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Fiction

Lifelines New Writing from Bangladesh

Ghuznavi Farah

ISBN: PB: 9789381017845, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The first collection of its kind, "Lifelines" presents new work by young female writers from Bangladesh. Their stories portray multifaceted characters trying to take control of their own destinies, challenging stereotypes that cast the complex countr...

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Poetry

Memoir

Moore Honor

ISBN: PB: 9780887486449, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 24.1x13.9 cm

At the funeral the priest said, our sister enters the gates of paradise in a company of angels. Mom, were you waiting? I have no mother, your mother's gone, and the you that lives on, me, I must learn she is enough. From this room I see snow. Snow. T...

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Poetry

Mistress

Sebree Chet'la

ISBN: PB: 9781936970629, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, January 2020
80 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm

This book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in whic...

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Women Studies

Poetry

Mystic and the Lyric Four Women Poets from Kashmir

Mattoo Neerja

ISBN: HB: 9789385932717, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For the first time, "The Mystic and the Lyric" brings together the classic work of four women poets from Kashmir who have shaped its literary imagination: Lalded, Habba Khatun, Arnimal, and Rupa Bhavani. These women inhabit not just the collective me...

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Literary Criticism

Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space

Kornbluh Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...

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Literary Criticism

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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