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Swarnalata

Misra Tilottoma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932458, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Set in mid-nineteenth-century Assam, when new concepts of modernity are increasingly challenging tradition, "Swarnalata" tells the story of three women from very different social backgrounds. Each of them swept up in the whirlpool of change, they her...

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Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

Dulac Edmund, Warner Marina

ISBN: HB: 9781851245017, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
256 pp., 24.2x19 cm, 23 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.

The much-loved tales from "The Thousand and One Nights" first appeared in English translation in the early nineteenth century. The popularity of these ancient and beguiling tales set against the backdrop of Baghdad, a city of wealth and peace, stoked...

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Fiction

The German List

Sex of the Angels, the Saints in their Heaven A Breviary

Schrott Raoul

ISBN: HB: 9780857425553, Seagull Books, October 2018
152 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm, 33 colour plates

Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular denominations, are a familiar genre with a long pedigree. But you've definitely never seen a breviary like this one. "The Sex of the Angels" is a playful, often ironic take on the brevia...

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Fiction

Selected Essays

Pater Walter

ISBN: PB: 9781784106263, Carcanet, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

An annotated edition of selected essays by the major Victorian writer and aesthete Walter Pater. This volume brings together a generous selection of Pater's non-fiction writings on literature, art, history, philosophy and mythology, supported by a c...

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Poetry

Selected Poems

Heath-Stubbs John

ISBN: PB: 9781784106478, Carcanet, September 2018
144 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm

John Heath-Stubbs was one of the defining poets of his age, a legendary performer (being blind, he recited even his major narrative poems from memory). This new selection by the young poet and critic John Clegg essentialises an abundant poet and cele...

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Jewish Studies

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto

Pick J. R.

ISBN: HB: 9788024636993, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2018
212 pp., 19x14 cm, 30 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places – and even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Pick's novella "Society for...

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Poetry

Spill

Smith Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226570419, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

"There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil... It ruins everything you have ever saved". "Spill" is a...

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Literary Criticism

Christianity

Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...

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Performing Arts

Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Saga of Satisar

Chandrakanta, Kaul Ranjana

ISBN: PB: 9789381017630, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...

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