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Literary Criticism

End of the World Poetry and Prose

Jirous Ivan M.

ISBN: PB: 9788024645278, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet "Magor" (which translates roughly to "fool" or "madman"), Ivan Jirous was one of the most significant figures in t...

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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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Leavetakings Essays

Cook Corinna

ISBN: PB: 9781602234246, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not onl...

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Polonica

Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel

Szary-Matywiecka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024645322, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely co...

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Fat New and Uncollected Prose

Di Piero W. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...

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Strange Likeness Description and the Modernist Novel

Zhang Dora

ISBN: PB: 9780226722528, ISBN: HB: 9780226722498, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description – what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool". As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during...

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Weak Planet Literature and Assisted Survival

Dimock Wai Chee

ISBN: PB: 9780226477107, ISBN: HB: 9780226477077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature...

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Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

Der-Wei Wang David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...

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Lyric Now

Longenbach James

ISBN: PB: 9780226716046, ISBN: HB: 9780226715995, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers int...

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Cartesian Poetics The Art of Thinking

Gadberry Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226723020, ISBN: HB: 9780226722979, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of Rene Descartes and finds them in the philosopher's implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was...

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