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Literary Criticism

Linguistics

Grammars of Approach Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

Wall Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9780226467665, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 16 halftones, 7 line drawings, 2 tables

In "Grammars of Approach", Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "ap...

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Literary Criticism

Africa

Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013

Wicomb Zoe, van der Vlies Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...

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Poetry

My Reef My Manifest Array

Wilkinson John

ISBN: PB: 9781784106911, Carcanet, January 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for th...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Fiction

Rockabilly

Wilson Mike

ISBN: PB: 9783035800975, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2018
80 pp., 22.2x14 cm

When a meteor crashes into greaser Rockabilly's backyard, a ripple of strange events ensues. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life and begins to exert her murderous control over the suburb in which he lives. His precocious teenage nei...

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Fiction

The German List

Blue Jewellery

Winkler Katharina

ISBN: HB: 9780857425379, Seagull Books, October 2018
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"'Blue jewellery" is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Blue jewellery is another name for the marks left on women's bodies, inflicted by the men around them....

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Poetry

Complete Poems Volume I: 1909-1939

Williams William Carlos

ISBN: PB: 9781784106713, Carcanet, September 2018
600 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Described by Thom Gunn as "an ideal edition", this first volume of William Carlos Williams' "Collected Poems" is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and his interactions with the major players of Modernism (he never quite...

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Poetry

Rondo

Wallace-Crabbe Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781784106430, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm

Chris Wallace-Crabbe, one of Australia's best-loved poets, writes in "Rondo" a book that distils his life-long themes of nature, time and love; he is civilised but also relentless in his dedication to "troubling the stubborn world for meaning".

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Fiction

The German List

Eulogy for the Living Taking Flight

Wolf Christa

ISBN: HB: 9780857425546, Seagull Books, July 2018
136 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book "Patterns of Childhood", she explained why it was so difficult: "Gradually, over a period of months, the dilemma has emerged: to remain speechle...

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Poetry

The Africa List

Naming the Dawn

Waberi Abdourahman A.

ISBN: HB: 9780857425461, Seagull Books, May 2018
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond – with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets, with the landscapes those poets walked, among which Waberi grew up....

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