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Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine Yale French Studies, Number 128
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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£27,50
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On the Edge of the Holocaust The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781611688566, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment...
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£32,00
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Ragdoll for my Heart
ISBN: PB: 9789383074099, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2015
142 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
First published in 1966 by award-winning Marathi writer Anuradha Vaidya, "A Ragdoll for My Heart" is a unique free verse novella now making its English debut. The lyrical work, translated by Shruti Nargundkar, tells an age-old story: that of a woman'...
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£11,50
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Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...
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£44,00
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For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226068374, ISBN: HB: 9780226068367, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imagination...
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£70,00
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Literature Incorporated The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
ISBN: HB: 9780226291123, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'...
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£36,00
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Setting Plato Straight Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780226307008, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars – most of them Catholic – read, digested, a...
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Luna Park
ISBN: PB: 9781857549874, Carcanet, November 2015
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Drawing on themes of magic, dreams and the nocturnal, Grevel Lindop's new collection of poems ranges in subject from the hidden histories of words to the folklore of yew trees, and in place from a haunted English library to a derelict Australian funf...
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Last Days of Mankind The Complete Text
ISBN: HB: 9780300207675, Yale University Press, November 2015
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 black&white illus.
One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, "The Last Days of Mankind" remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War...
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W. H. Davies, The True Traveller A Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781784100872, Carcanet, November 2015
280 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was popularly though reductively known as the "tramp-poet" due to his remarkable journey from vagrancy, in Britain and the United States, to considerable literary success. "Discovered" in part by Edward Thomas, who admired hi...
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