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Steiner George, Adler Laure

ISBN: HB: 9780226350387, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm

George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else "writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing", while the N...

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Literary Criticism

History as a Kind of Writing Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography

Carrard Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780226427966, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables

In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the "posts" – postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism – which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In "History as a Kind of Writing",...

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Literary Criticism

Counternarrative Possibilities Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns

Dorson James

ISBN: PB: 9783593505541, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2017
360 pp., 21.4x14 cm

"Counternarrative Possibilities" reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin land (from the 1950s) and homeland (after 9/11). Looking at McCarthy's westerns in the context of Ame...

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Sign Language

Literary Criticism

Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning A Comparative Perspective

De Clerck Goedele A. M.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686702, Gallaudet University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 illus., 3 figures

Goedele A. M. De Clerck presents cross-cultural comparative research that examines and documents where deaf flourishing occurs and how it can be advanced. She spotlights collective and dynamic resources of knowledge and learning; the coexistence of l...

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Literary Criticism

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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Literary Criticism

Voynich Manuscript

Clemens Raymond, Harkness Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217230, Yale University Press, February 2017
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 268 colour illus.

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. "The Voynich Manuscript" is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understan...

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Placing John Haines

Perrin Warren James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Wittgenstein and Modernism

LeMahieu Michael, Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226420400, ISBN: HB: 9780226420370, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry", and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary". But few books have really followed up on these claims...

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Legal Epic "Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law

Chapman Alison A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226435138, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, "The Legal Epic" is the first book to s...

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Philosophy

Aftermath of War

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424471, ISBN: HB: 9781905422883, Seagull Books, February 2017
368 pp., 20.4x13.2 cm

"The Aftermath of War" brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contempora...

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