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Asia

Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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Fiction

Little Horse

Steen Thorvald

ISBN: HB: 9780857422156, Seagull Books, November 2014
202 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic politician, writer, and historian living during the twelfth century. He was a man of great political influence, and his writings are still researched and valued today. Snorri was killed on September 22, 1241, in Reyk...

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Fiction

Family Secret And Other Stories

Sawian Bijoya

ISBN: PB: 9789383074068, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
160 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm

On a rainy afternoon in Cherrapunji, the postman arrives with a letter for fourteen-year-old Saphira, and her life will never be the same. Dalinia, meanwhile, seems to have the perfect life: successful husband, cute children, a beautiful home. But he...

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Literary Criticism

Trance-Migrations Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis

Siegel Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780226185323, ISBN: HB: 9780226185293, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out...

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Literary Criticism

Prose of Things Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

Sundberg Wall Cynthia

ISBN: PB: 9780226215273, ISBN: HB: 9780226871585, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in "Robinson Crusoe" is an object – a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the em...

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Readings

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty

ISBN: HB: 9780857422088, Seagull Books, October 2014
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading....

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Literary Criticism

Essence of the Brontes A Compilation with Essays

Spark Muriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847772466, Carcanet, September 2014
328 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Muriel Spark always regarded the Brontes with a novelist's eye. As Boyd Tonkin argues in his lively introduction, written for the new edition, the Brontes inspired Spark at the very beginning of her own career, but not in a straightforward way. Throu...

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Poetry

War Poet

Stallworthy Jon

ISBN: PB: 9781847772442, Carcanet, August 2014
80 pp., 17.8x13.5 cm

Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the poems of Wilfred Owen, whose biography he would la...

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Little Histories

Little History of Literature

Sutherland John

ISBN: PB: 9780300205312, Yale University Press, August 2014
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

This "little history" tackles a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from "The Epic of Gilgamesh" to "Harry Potter". John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task, having researched, taught and writte...

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Literary Criticism

Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles

Seale David

ISBN: PB: 9780226181745, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
270 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this study, David Seale argues that Sophocles's use of stagecraft, which has thus far received little attention, was as sophisticated as that of Aeschylus or Euripides. His discussions of the physical and visual elements of Sophocles's seven plays...

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