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Poetry

On Balance

Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781784103606, Carcanet, May 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Teetering on the brink of various crises, Sinead Morrissey's poems consider spectacular feats of human engineering – ships, planes, robots – from our radically unstable perspective, struggling for poise. Poems become pliable; the dead speak.

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Literary Criticism

Revolution of the Ordinary Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

Moi Toril

ISBN: PB: 9780226464442, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy – a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell – to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Mo...

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Fiction

River Runs through It and Other Stories

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226472065, ISBN: HB: 9780226475592, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of "A River Runs through It and Other Stories" to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it". Forty years later, the title novella is rec...

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Fiction

Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...

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Literary Criticism

History

Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Morgan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...

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Children's Books

Fiction

"Catarina the Wise" and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales

Pitre Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780226462790, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again... So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France

McCracken Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226458922, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet – whether as friends or foes – issues of mastery and submission are often at stake".In the Skin of a Beast" shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting lar...

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Fiction

King in the Golden Mask

Schwob Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9781939663238, DAP, Wakefield Press, May 2017
176 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, "The King in the Golden Mask" gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, t...

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Poetry

The French List

Poetry and Photography

Bonnefoy Yves

ISBN: HB: 9780857424259, Seagull Books, May 2017
64 pp., 19.6x14 cm

The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and publish...

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Poetry

Love Poems Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435162334, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, May 2017
128 pp., 18.4x10.9 cm, illus.

One of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound Classic Editions, this anthology of love poems features a durable bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging.

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