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"The 'Scandal' of Marxism" and Other Writings on Politics Essays and Interviews, Volume 2

Barthes Roland

ISBN: HB: 9780857422392, Seagull Books, August 2015
112 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went...

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Machado de Assis A Literary Life

Jackson K. David

ISBN: HB: 9780300180824, Yale University Press, July 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-l...

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Qur'ans Books of Divine Encounter

Small Keith E.

ISBN: PB: 9781851242566, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2015
176 pp., 19x19 cm, 58 colour illus.

This book provides a unique visual history of the Qur'an using fifty-five rare, beautiful and significant Qur'an manuscripts. A general introduction guides the reader through the Qur'an's entry into the world of late near eastern antiquity, a world...

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Preserving the Spell Basile's "The Tale of Tales" and Its Afterlife in the Fairy-tale Tradition

Maggi Armando

ISBN: HB: 9780226242965, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous – in t...

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Songbook How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226270050, ISBN: HB: 9780226280516, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 colour illus.

Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poe...

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Culture Studies

Cartoon Art

Mutants and Mystics Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271484, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
376 pp., 21.5x15 cm, 60 colour illus.

In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men", th...

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Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare

Mullaney Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226547633, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformatio...

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Beyond Decadence Exposing the Narrative Irony in Jan Opolsky's Prose

Butler Peter

ISBN: PB: 9788024625713, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
300 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolsky's prose, however, Peter...

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War That Used Up Words American Writers and the First World War

Hutchison Hazel

ISBN: HB: 9780300195026, Yale University Press, May 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

In this provocative study, Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War. From the war's opening salvos in Europe, American writers recognized the impact...

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Those Who Write for Immortality Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame

Jackson H. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300174793, Yale University Press, May 2015
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. Or ...might there be other reasons that account for...

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