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Literary Criticism

Shadow of a Great Rock A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Bloom Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780300187946, Yale University Press, October 2012
256 pp., 21x14 cm

"The King James Bible" stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English", sharing the honour only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significa...

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Shimmering Beast

Reinke Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780945323211, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2012
120 pp., 18.3x11.7 cm

By turns funny and abstruse, "The Shimmering Beast" is the newest book by accomplished video artist Steve Reinke, which brings together his best pieces of prose. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essays, each chapter takes on another's work...

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Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction

Gardner John

ISBN: PB: 9780226283289, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
218 pp., 20.5x14 cm

The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet J...

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Shakespeare Only

Knapp Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226445724, ISBN: HB: 9780226445717, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22x14 cm

Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare's timeless preeminence as an...

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Philosophy

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Stupefaction A Radical Anatomy of Phantoms

Sutherland Keston

ISBN: HB: 9781906497972, Seagull Books, August 2011
262 pp., 18x11 cm

From Shakespeare to Beckett, the contradictory figure of the fool who possesses unexpected wisdom has been a popular and effective literary trope and rhetorical figure for centuries. Philosophy needs idiots too, argues Keson Sutherland in "Stupefacti...

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Fiction

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Surprising Adventures of Balthazar

Orrego Vicuna Claudio

ISBN: HB: 9781589662186, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm

A parable rich in imagery and meaning, "The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar" provides readers of all ages with profound insights into the nature of authority, power, and freedom. The tale begins when a polar bear named Balthazar is captured by hun...

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Philosophy

Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella A Bilingual Edition

Campanella Tommaso

ISBN: HB: 9780226092058, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his hetero...

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Performing Arts

Sophocles' Antigone

Sophocles

ISBN: HB: 9780892366378, Getty Publications, March 2006
28 pp., 25.5x19.7 cm, 8 colour illus.

The enduring story of Antigone – the Greek princess who braved the wrath of a king and sacrificed her own life in order to honor her slain brother – is retold here for contemporary readers. Through the words of the blind prophet Teiresias, we watch t...

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Travel

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Scott's Last Biscuit A History of Polar Exploration and its Writing

Moss Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781902669878, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.5x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! Arctic and Antarctic travel writing has fascinated the popular imagination for the last three hundred years. Emphasizing themes of endurance and obsession, tales from the poles are testimony to scientific dedication, ambition,...

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