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Four Shakespearean Period Pieces
ISBN: PB: 9780226785226, ISBN: HB: 9780226785196, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anach...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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B After Dante
ISBN: PB: 9781784109592, Carcanet, March 2021
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
After seven centuries, the "Divine Comedy" reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut "Unearthly Toys", Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.
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£16,99
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Wonderama Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880822, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Wonderama is a collection of cinematic, surprising, and at times harrowing poems that capture 1960s Paterson, New Jersey, as experienced by the poorest, most vulnerable children living there. With candor, ferocity, and stunning imagery, Catherine Dot...
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£15,00
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Chastity Plot
ISBN: HB: 9780226741468, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Chastity Plot", Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been...
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£36,00
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Samuel Johnson Selected Works
ISBN: HB: 9780300113037, Yale University Press, January 2021
856 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
Samuel Johnson was eighteenth?century Britain's pre?eminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson's works fully...
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£30,00
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Letters to America
ISBN: PB: 9781800170087, Carcanet, November 2020
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Letters to America" the Guyanese-British poet, novelist and playwright Fred D'Aguiar has some difficult things to say. The twenty-two poems are full of lived tales and memories – of Britain, the Caribbean and the United States – and of specific a...
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£10,99
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That Light, All at Once Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300214208, Yale University Press, November 2020
232 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm
Equal parts dramatic and symphonic, the poetry of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen provides acute insight into the European consciousness of the first half of the twentieth century. With energetic innovation and imaginative depth, Dadelsen extols the somber bea...
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£25,00
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Radium of the Word A Poetics of Materiality
ISBN: PB: 9780226743561, ISBN: HB: 9780226743424, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China
ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...
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£28,00
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£72,00
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Fat New and Uncollected Prose
ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...
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