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Literary Criticism

Forms of Attention Botticelli and Hamlet

Kermode Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780226431758, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
112 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic".Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the arti...

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Fiction

Blue Octavo Notebooks

Kafka Franz

ISBN: PB: 9781878972040, DAP, Exact Change, September 2011
120 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, publi...

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Fiction

The German List

Summer Resort

Kinsky Esther

ISBN: HB: 9781906497880, Seagull Books, June 2011
128 pp., 21x14 cm

"Summer Resort", the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in Udulo, a summer resort on a r...

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Poetry

Finger of a Frenchman

Kinloch David

ISBN: PB: 9781847770745, Carcanet, April 2011
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Finger of a Frenchman" explores looking, and writing about looking: looking at surfaces and beyond them, at what is depicted and what is hidden in shadow, at how a transient chemistry of light may be fixed in colour and words. Kinloch's poems are...

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Poetry

"Plague Lands" and Other Poems

Karim Fawzi

ISBN: PB: 9781847770639, Carcanet, February 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Born in Baghdad in 1945, now living in London, Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. In the first collection of his poetry to appear in English, his long sequence "Plague Lands" is an elegy for th...

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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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Fiction

Seagull World Literature

Kyoto List

Koyama Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9781906497583, Seagull Books, September 2010
334 pp., 24.1x16 cm

If it takes only a few rogue financiers to collapse the economy, can one earnest investment officer save the dollar from collapse? Ken Murai, the protagonist of this fast-paced novel by Michael S. Koyama, is a young officer in the Japanese ministry o...

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Poetry

Flower and Song Poems of the Aztec Peoples

Kissam Edward, Schmidt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780856464232, Carcanet, September 2009
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. In this new edition of their translations, Edward...

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Poetry

Alphabets of Sand Selected Poems

Khoury-Ghata Venus

ISBN: PB: 9781857549775, Carcanet, May 2009
232 pp., 21.6x15.5 cm

Translated by notable American poet Marilyn Hacker, Lebanese-French poet and novelist Venus Khoury-Ghata explores the formal and mythic attractions, congruencies and incompatibilities of the French and Arabic imaginations and poetic traditions in poe...

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Poetry

One Eye'd Leigh

Kilalea Katharine

ISBN: PB: 9781857549928, Carcanet, April 2009
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"One Eye'd Leigh" is a book of portraits, experiments and objects made of words. They find their locations between Cape Town and London, between the dawn of the new millennium and the present day. Guided by a biographical thread, in her first collect...

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