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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784106874, Carcanet, December 2018
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, and ser...
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£16,99
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Shakespearean Territories
ISBN: PB: 9780226559193, ISBN: HB: 9780226559056, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In "Shakespearean Territories", Stuart Elden reveals just how much S...
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£62,00
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Paraliterary The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
ISBN: PB: 9780226473970, ISBN: HB: 9780226473833, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers – attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tong...
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£20,50
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£68,00
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Impostors Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity
ISBN: PB: 9780226591001, ISBN: HB: 9780226590950, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, "Impostors" examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not,...
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£62,00
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Mahuldiha Days
ISBN: HB: 9789385932175, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2018
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Set deep in the forests of Bengal, India, "Mahuldiha Days" is the moving story of a young woman coming of age in her personal and professional life. Anita Agnihotri paints a vivid picture in this novel of life in a rural Indian setting that is quickl...
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£15,00
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Bad Words Selected Short Prose
ISBN: HB: 9780857424761, Seagull Books, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"I now no longer use the better words" Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga esca...
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£18,50
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Dancing Other
ISBN: HB: 9780857424792, Seagull Books, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Dancing Other" takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana, a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when...
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Swimming Chenango Lake Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784106799, Carcanet, November 2018
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
William Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinson's poetry: 'He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life.' Of all...
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Guermantes Way In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3
ISBN: PB: 9780300186192, Yale University Press, November 2018
680 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 3 black&white illus.
Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time" is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. This edition of volume three, "The Guermantes Way", is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William...
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English Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784105747, Carcanet, November 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
I was born in Belgium, I'm Belgian. / But Belgium was never born in me.' So writes Leonard Nolens in 'Place and Date', which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this sel...
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