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Literary Criticism

Character Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

Anderson Amanda, Felski Rita, Moi Toril

ISBN: PB: 9780226658667, ISBN: HB: 9780226658520, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, "Character"...

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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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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Bohumil Hrabal A Full-Length Portrait

Pelan Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024639093, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
130 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 32 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover o...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Jane Austen A Year of Quotes

Austen Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226655444, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit a...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Sherlock Holmes A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective

Doyle Arthur Conan

ISBN: PB: 9780226659640, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

"Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes", said Stamford, introducing us."How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive". "How on earth did you kno...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth

Stern Josef, Robinson James T., Shemesh Yonatan

ISBN: HB: 9780226457635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables

Moses Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation – i...

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Political Science

Literary Criticism

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Kennedy Liam, Shapiro Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...

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Literary Criticism

On Interpretive Conflict

Frow John

ISBN: PB: 9780226614007, ISBN: HB: 9780226613956, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings

"Interpretation" is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people's actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the like...

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Literary Criticism

Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies

Tatschner Florian

ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...

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Europe

Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature

Scranton Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...

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