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Epidemic Empire Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
ISBN: PB: 9780226739359, ISBN: HB: 9780226739212, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this tro...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Teaching Archive A New History for Literary Study
ISBN: PB: 9780226736136, ISBN: HB: 9780226735948, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. In Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's literary history, we watch T. S. Eliot and his working-class students revise...
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£76,00
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Letters on Natural Philosophy The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts
ISBN: PB: 9781649590022, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates
In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her new theory of the natural causes of the universal flood in the biblical book of Genesis. Erculiani weaves together her understanding of Arist...
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£34,00
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Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer
ISBN: HB: 9780857427823, Seagull Books, December 2020
120 pp., 19.7x13.9 cm
Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective – "calibrated" – against...
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Land Like You
ISBN: HB: 9780857427885, Seagull Books, December 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effor...
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Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow Safeguarded Notes, 1952-2005
ISBN: HB: 9780857427915, Seagull Books, December 2020
342 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of "Seedtime", his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry "n...
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
ISBN: HB: 9780300247282, Yale University Press, November 2020
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death – completed weeks before Harold Bloom died – shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called "a universe of death". Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of li...
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That Light, All at Once Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300214208, Yale University Press, November 2020
232 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm
Equal parts dramatic and symphonic, the poetry of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen provides acute insight into the European consciousness of the first half of the twentieth century. With energetic innovation and imaginative depth, Dadelsen extols the somber bea...
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Fabulous Monsters Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
ISBN: PB: 9780300255355, ISBN: HB: 9780300247381, Yale University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 38 black&white illus.
Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love...
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Letters to America
ISBN: PB: 9781800170087, Carcanet, November 2020
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Letters to America" the Guyanese-British poet, novelist and playwright Fred D'Aguiar has some difficult things to say. The twenty-two poems are full of lived tales and memories – of Britain, the Caribbean and the United States – and of specific a...
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