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Philosophy

Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

Benjamin Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226042381, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
674 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A "natura...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Curious World of Dickens

Hurst Clive, Moller Violet

ISBN: HB: 9781851243846, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2012
112 pp., 19x19 cm, 95 colour illus.

Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter expl...

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Literary Criticism

The Swiss List

Correspondence

Frisch Max, Durrenmatt Friedrich

ISBN: HB: 9781906497910, Seagull Books, October 2011
240 pp., 17x10 cm, 15 halftones

Together Max Frisch and Friedrich Durrenmatt are not only two of the most esteemed Swiss writers of the twentieth century, but arguably two of the most important European writers since World War II. The remarkable letters gathered here document their...

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Literary Criticism

Conflagration of Community Fiction before and after Auschwitz

Miller J. Hillis

ISBN: PB: 9780226527222, ISBN: HB: 9780226527215, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm

"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric".The Conflagration of Community" challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extrem...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Conversations with John L'Heureux

Karagueuzian Dikran

ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism

Baudrillard Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781906497200, Seagull Books, May 2010
92 pp., 18.3x11.9 cm

In "Carnival and Cannibal", distinguished French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) reflects on many of his most significant ideas concerning the significance of language and the relationship between the technological and the social. In this,...

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Literary Criticism

Children's Literature A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226473017, ISBN: HB: 9780226473000, University of Chicago Press, September 2009
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from "Aesop's fables to Mother Goose", from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "Peter Pan"...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Correspondence Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Stein Gertrude, Picasso Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780857425850, ISBN: HB: 9781905422913, Seagull Books, November 2008
390 pp., 21.3x19.6 cm

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for ar...

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Cuts and Bruises Personal Terms 3

Raphael Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781857547085, Carcanet, July 2006
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The first volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, "Personal Terms", was greeted in the TLS as "a small masterpiece". With the publication of "Cuts and Bruises", the third volume, we can see the sequence unfolding into a major literary achievement. C...

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Literary Criticism

Reference

Critical Terms for Literary Study Second Edition

Lentricchia Frank, McLaughlin Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226472034, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
496 pp., 23x15 cm

Since its publication in 1990, "Critical Terms for Literary Study" has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory – giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Signi...

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