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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

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy The Twilight of the Ancient World

Cantor Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226462516, ISBN: HB: 9780226462486, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays – "Coriolanus", "Julius Caeser", and "Antony and Cleopatra" – in his landmark "Shakespeare's Rome" (1976). With "Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy", he now argues that these plays form an integrated tri...

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Shakespeare's Rome Republic and Empire

Cantor Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226468952, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's "Shakespeare's Rome" has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the fi...

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Sweet Science Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life

Jo Goldstein Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226484709, ISBN: HB: 9780226458441, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In "Sweet Science", Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Roma...

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Story Time Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

Young Timothy, Campbell Jill, Marcus Leonard, Maguire Gregory, Martin Michelle, Trumpener Katie, Whyte Padraic, Lyon Clark Beverly, Wasowicz Laura E., Frengel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300218459, Yale University Press, February 2017
248 pp., 20.3x19 cm, 35 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

The history of children's literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the "Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collectio...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Substance of Shadow A Darkening Trope in Poetic History

Hollander John

ISBN: HB: 9780226354279, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons...

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Shakespeare and the Law A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions

Cormack Bradin, Nussbaum Martha C., Strier Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226378565, ISBN: HB: 9780226924939, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
344 pp., 25x15 cm

William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philos...

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Shakespeare's Dead

Smith Emma, Palfrey Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781851242474, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
192 pp., 21x21 cm, 80 colour illus.

Pyramus: "Now die, die, die, die, die". [Dies] "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "Shakespeare's Dead" reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for th...

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The French List

Signs and Images. Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography Essays and Interviews, Volume 4

Barthes Roland

ISBN: HB: 9780857422415, Seagull Books, April 2016
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they'll bring the five-volume set to completion with the publication of "Masculine, F...

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Europe

Setting Plato Straight Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance

Reeser Todd W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226307008, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars – most of them Catholic – read, digested, a...

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