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Walnut Mansion

Jergovic Miljenko, Dickey Stephen M., Pavetic-Dickey Janja

ISBN: PB: 9780300226980, Yale University Press, September 2017
456 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of th...

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Poetry

The Swiss List

Second Seedtime Notebooks, 1980-94

Jaccottet Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780857424341, Seagull Books, August 2017
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of...

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Literary Criticism

Sweet Science Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life

Jo Goldstein Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226484709, ISBN: HB: 9780226458441, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In "Sweet Science", Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Roma...

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Gender Studies

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

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Saturnin

Jirotka Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....

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Teller and the Tale Essays on Literature and Culture

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781784102128, Carcanet, October 2016
200 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

"We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes", writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Henry James A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

James Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226408545, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
208 pp., 18.4x12.7 cm

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, "The Daily Henry James" is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom – a limited edition quo...

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Literary Criticism

Little Review "Ulysses"

Joyce James, Gaipa Mark, Latham Sean, Scholes Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300181777, Yale University Press, July 2016
480 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 26 black&white, 26 colour illus.

James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed...

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Literary Criticism

Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 19 Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends

Johnson Samuel, Brack O. M., DeMaria Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300210958, Yale University Press, May 2016
672 pp., 22.2x14.3 cm

Well before publishing the "Lives of the Poets", Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians (including Peter Burnham, Sir Thomas Browne, and Confuci...

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Midway on Our Life's Journey

Jedlicka Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024631271, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
150 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, "Midway on Our Life's Journey" flew in the face of the reigning aesth...

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