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Poetry

Westerly

Schutt Will, Phillips Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780300188516, ISBN: HB: 9780300188509, Yale University Press, May 2013
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A young soldier dons Napoleon's hat. An out-of-work man wanders Berlin, dreaming he is Peter the Great. The famous exile Dante finally returns to his native city to "hang his crown of laurels up". Familial and historical apparitions haunt this dazzli...

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Sign Language

Literary Criticism

Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community

Sayers Edna Edith, Moore Diana

ISBN: PB: 9781563685576, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father's employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at he...

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Fiction

Song Seekers

Sengupta Saswati

ISBN: PB: 9789381017036, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "The Song Seekers", the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marr...

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Literary Criticism

Mary Shelley

Spark Muriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847772374, Carcanet, March 2013
266 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm

In the summer of 1816, aged nineteen, Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein". A pioneering work of science fiction, it captured the popular imagination from the start. The daughter of radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollsto...

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Literary Criticism

Cast of Characters

Schwaber Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300194678, Yale University Press, January 2013
258 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this boo...

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Literary Criticism

Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

Shannon Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226924175, ISBN: HB: 9780226924168, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "animal" itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in "The Accommodated Ani...

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Literary Criticism

Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger

Simpson David

ISBN: HB: 9780226922355, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm

In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger – the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor – carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments abou...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Poetics of Trauma The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Szobel Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9781611683554, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
198 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-le...

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Fiction

Book of Monelle

Schwob Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9780984115587, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2012
136 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stephane Mallarme, Alfred Jarry and Andre...

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Sign Language

Literary Criticism

Outcasts and Angels The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature

Sayers Edna Edith

ISBN: PB: 9781563685392, Gallaudet University Press, September 2012
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora W...

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