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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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No Fear Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9781454928034, GMC Group, Spark Notes, December 2017
208 pp., 19x13.3 cm

Each "No Fear Shakespeare" contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary.

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Poetry

Joy

Dugdale Sasha

ISBN: PB: 9781784105037, Carcanet, November 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Dugdale's fourth collection displays an increasingly urgent approach to historical and current geopolitics . It combines an open interest in the historical fate of women, particularly women-creators, and an interest in the fictional and dangerous sha...

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Poetry

Love in Another Language Collected Poems and Selected Translations

Davis Dick

ISBN: PB: 9781784105075, Carcanet, November 2017
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

An abundant, moving collection by the leading formal poet and Persian translator of our time. Including poems from eight previous collections, new poems, and excerpts of Davis verse translation from medieval Persian poetry (some over 700 years old).

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Poetry

Magic of What's There

Morley David

ISBN: PB: 9781784104948, Carcanet, November 2017
112 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

The Ted Hughes Award-winning poet David Morley explores the suffering and tragedy of his Romany childhood through fiercely personal poems. Known for writing about myth and fable, Morley reinvents his poetic with a formally rich, thematically challeng...

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Poetry

On Trust A Book of Lies

Womack James

ISBN: PB: 9781784104160, Carcanet, November 2017
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"On Trust" is a collection of poems organised around the idea of telling the truth. Inspired by the idea that poetry is often seen as being a vehicle for the articulation of individual truths, or as a medium for unvarnished and unprocessed confession...

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Literary Criticism

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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Literary Criticism

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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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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