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Literary Criticism

Education

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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Poetry

I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets

Sexton Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602231191, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
59 pp., 22.6x15 cm

This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry – which has been a key influence on his work – into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. The...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

In the Demon's Bedroom Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern

Dauber Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300141757, Yale University Press, January 2011
384 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm

A study that looks at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks – and their writers and readers – focusing on their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.

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Literary Criticism

Noeuds De Memoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture Yale French Studies, Number 118/119

Rothberg Michael, Sanyal Debarati, Silverman Max

ISBN: PB: 9780300118858, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

Focuses on postwar approaches to the past, the nature of collective memory, and issues of cultural memory in a transnational age. This title includes essays that probe points of contact between memories and legacies of genocide, colonialism, and slav...

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Poetry

New Collected Poems

Smith Iain Crichton

ISBN: PB: 9781857549607, Carcanet, January 2011
500 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Iain Crichton Smith's "Collected Poems" was awarded the Saltire Prize when it was published in 1992. This completely revised and enlarged edition includes seventy additional poems, mostly from the four books the poet published in the 1990s: "Ends and...

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Fiction

Literary Criticism

Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative

Weir Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780300153842, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a look at his most famous works of fiction.

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Poetry

Collected Contraptions

McCarey Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781847770738, Carcanet, January 2011
120 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Peter McCarey's first full collection, comprising work from his five pamphlets, is an exhilarating journey on the U-bahns and runways of language: "In a matter of hours / they can take you anywhere". Collected Contraptions opens with water, rain and...

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Fiction

Parade's End, Volume II No More Parades: A Novel

Ford Ford Madox

ISBN: PB: 9781847770134, Carcanet, January 2011
426 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country... Nor for the world, I dare say...", says Christopher Tietjens to a war-damaged fellow officer, under fire on the Western Front. "No More Parades" continues "...

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Poetry

New Letters to a Young Poet

Margarit Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780974888194, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 19.8x13.2 cm

In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem – the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic "Letters to a Youn...

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Poetry

In Spite of the Dark Silence

Volpi Jorge

ISBN: HB: 9780974888187, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice". So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders...

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