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Literary Criticism

Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

Gonzalez Echevarria Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300198645, Yale University Press, May 2015
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The novel "Don Quixote", written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deepl...

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Vise and Shadow Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226254333, ISBN: HB: 9780226254166, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones

Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three".I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination", he writes in the preface...

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The French List

Abysses

Quignard Pascal

ISBN: HB: 9780857422446, Seagull Books, May 2015
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, "neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration", but comes, rather...

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Dante A Life in Works

Hollander Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300212594, Yale University Press, April 2015
240 pp., 21x14 cm

How did Dante come to create his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, a work unrivaled by any of his other writings? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar analyzes the only real biography of the poet that we have-his body of works-to illuminate this qu...

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Romantic Things A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

Jacobus Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226271347, ISBN: HB: 9780226390666, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
240 pp., 25x15 cm, 28 halftones

Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In "Romantic Things", Mary Jacobus explores the world...

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Poetry

Animal Part Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination

Payne Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226272320, ISBN: HB: 9780226650845, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and oth...

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Little Magazine in Contemporary America

Morris Ian, Diaz Joanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226120492, ISBN: HB: 9780226240558, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, these idiosyncratic, small-circulation outlets have served the dual functions of representing the avant-garde of literary expression while also helping many emerging...

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Laughter at the Foot of the Cross

Screech Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226245119, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it". So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is ac...

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Philosophy

Animal Claim Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226239392, ISBN: HB: 9780226239255, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws...

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Marks of Genius Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries

Hebron Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781851244034, ISBN: HB: 9781851242665, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2015
360 pp., 28.5x24.4 cm, 200 colour illus.

What sets Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" apart from so many other famous works of fiction? What special combination of creativity and vision made possible the drafting of "Magna Carta"? When describing exceptional accomplishments like these – and the...

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