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Literary Criticism

Telling It Like It Wasn't The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

Gallagher Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780226512419, ISBN: HB: 9780226512389, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives a...

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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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Bande Dessinee: Thinking Outside the Boxes Yale French Studies, Number 131/132

Grove Laurence, Syrotinski Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300225983, Yale University Press, August 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....

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Uncomfortable Situations Emotion between Science and the Humanities

Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226485034, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 1 line drawing

What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was "happily situated" as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask. Science and the humanities typically offe...

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The Italian List

Fear, Reverence, Terror

Ginzburg Carlo

ISBN: HB: 9780857424358, Seagull Books, August 2017
208 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 73 colour plates

We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding u...

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Writers and Rebels The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus

Gould Rebecca Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300200645, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca...

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Gender Studies

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Foucault and the "Kamasutra" The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India

Gautam Sanjay K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348445, ISBN: HB: 9780226348308, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The "Kamasutra" is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In "Foucault and the Kamasutra"...

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Palace of Books

Grenier Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226378909, ISBN: HB: 9780226308340, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

For decades, Roger Grenier has been charming readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between our lives and our love of the arts. Whether he's turning to literature and philosophy to help us see our canine companions anew in...

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Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine Yale French Studies, Number 128

Glover Kaiama, Benedicty-Kokken Alessandra, Vieux-Chauvet Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300214192, Yale University Press, December 2015
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916-1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond. While...

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Poetry

How Poems Think

Gibbons Reginald

ISBN: PB: 9780226278001, ISBN: HB: 9780226277950, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways – guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed artic...

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