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Literary Criticism

City Beneath the Snow Stories

Kowalski Cole Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781602231559, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
230 pp., 23x15 cm

The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, "The City Beneath the Snow" is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans, their interactions, and their foibles. These stories reveal the moral decisions that lurk at unexpecte...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Fabulous Feminist A Suniti Namjoshi Reader

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789381017333, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2013
252 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"The Fabulous Feminist" brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, "Feminist Fables", and including excerpts from "Saint Suniti and...

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Literary Criticism

Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger

Simpson David

ISBN: HB: 9780226922355, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm

In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger – the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor – carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments abou...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Poetics of Trauma The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Szobel Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9781611683554, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
198 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-le...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Holocaust Literature A History and Guide

Roskies David G., Diamant Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611683585, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East,...

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Literary Criticism

Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

Shannon Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226924175, ISBN: HB: 9780226924168, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "animal" itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in "The Accommodated Ani...

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Literary Criticism

Popular Science

Loving Faster than Light Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

Price Katy

ISBN: HB: 9780226680736, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 9 line illus.

In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein's theory quickly became a rich c...

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Literary Criticism

Air's Appearance Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794

Lewis Jayne Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226476698, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

In "Air's Appearance", Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern...

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Performing Arts

Literary Criticism

Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue

Logan Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226006314, ISBN: HB: 9780226491158, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as "chanson", "phantasime", or "quaestor", many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. "The Eloquent Shakespeare" aims to untie those tongues a...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Hammill Graham, Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226314983, ISBN: HB: 9780226314976, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones

Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sa...

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