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Classic War Fiction

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Gristwood Arthur Donald

ISBN: PB: 9781612003801, Casemate, May 2016
208 pp., 19x13.2 cm

"The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it...

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Gender Studies

Literary Criticism

Foucault and the "Kamasutra" The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India

Gautam Sanjay K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348445, ISBN: HB: 9780226348308, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The "Kamasutra" is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In "Foucault and the Kamasutra"...

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Literary Criticism

Palace of Books

Grenier Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226378909, ISBN: HB: 9780226308340, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

For decades, Roger Grenier has been charming readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between our lives and our love of the arts. Whether he's turning to literature and philosophy to help us see our canine companions anew in...

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Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine Yale French Studies, Number 128

Glover Kaiama, Benedicty-Kokken Alessandra, Vieux-Chauvet Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300214192, Yale University Press, December 2015
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916-1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond. While...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

How Poems Think

Gibbons Reginald

ISBN: PB: 9780226278001, ISBN: HB: 9780226277950, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways – guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed artic...

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Songbook How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226270050, ISBN: HB: 9780226280516, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 colour illus.

Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poe...

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Literary Criticism

Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

Gonzalez Echevarria Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300198645, Yale University Press, May 2015
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The novel "Don Quixote", written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deepl...

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Why X Matters

Why the Romantics Matter

Gay Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300144291, Yale University Press, February 2015
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

With his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of...

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Fiction

Jebel Marra

Green Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9781905583546, Carcanet, December 2014
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

When war breaks out, a swarm of other industries quickly surrounds the battlefield; aid agencies, NGOs, international media corporations, mercenaries and private investors... all descend on the conflict like a second wave of invaders. Never was this...

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Fiction

Emperor of Ice-Cream

Gunn Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780857422231, Seagull Books, December 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" tells the moving tale of an Italian family living in Scotland during the rise of Mussolini and his rule in Italy. The story is told from the point of view of Lucia, the family's daughter, who, at 83, reflects on her childho...

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