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Literary Criticism

Ridolfo Jim, Hart-Davidson William

ISBN: PB: 9780226176697, ISBN: HB: 9780226176550, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton's annotations, use social media to engage academic and public...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Decision Between Us Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

Ricco John Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226717777, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones

"The Decision Between Us" combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension inform...

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Literary Criticism

Citizen-Saints Shakespeare and Political Theology

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226143521, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who repres...

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Ancient World

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Oedipus and the Sphinx The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

Renger Almut-Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780226048086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 1 table

When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle – he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myt...

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Literary Criticism

Watchman in Pieces Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood

Rosen David, Santesso Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780300155419, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood – what constitutes a self – have changed over time,...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Holocaust Literature A History and Guide

Roskies David G., Diamant Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611683585, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East,...

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Literary Criticism

Fuenteovejuna Lope De Vega

Racz G. J., Gonzalez Echevarria Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300181524, Yale University Press, June 2012
144 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Lope de Vega "single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre", writes Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria in the introduction to this new translation of "Fuenteovejuna". Often compared to Shakespeare, Moliere, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the...

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Literary Criticism

Shimmering Beast

Reinke Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780945323211, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2012
120 pp., 18.3x11.7 cm

By turns funny and abstruse, "The Shimmering Beast" is the newest book by accomplished video artist Steve Reinke, which brings together his best pieces of prose. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essays, each chapter takes on another's work...

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Political Science

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Rose Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780226725789, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
256 pp., 22x14 cm, 4 halftones

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

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Literary Criticism

Kiss My Relics Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages

Rollo David

ISBN: HB: 9780226724614, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of t...

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