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Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella A Bilingual Edition

Campanella Tommaso

ISBN: HB: 9780226092058, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his hetero...

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Literary Criticism

Radical Coherency Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005

Antin David

ISBN: PB: 9780226020976, ISBN: HB: 9780226020969, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
384 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

"We got to talking" – so David Antin begins the introduction to "Radical Coherency", embarking on the pursuit that has marked much of his breathless, brilliantly conversational work. For the past forty years, whether spoken under the guise of perform...

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Education

Conversations with John L'Heureux

Karagueuzian Dikran

ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...

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Literary Criticism

Ideas in Things Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

Freedgood Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226261638, ISBN: HB: 9780226261553, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
208 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 11 halftones

While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages".The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequen...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention

Junker Carsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593390994, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2010
294 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "Frames of Friction", Carsten Junker maps out a dazzling panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to explore the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking...

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Narration Four Lectures

Stein Gertrude

ISBN: PB: 9780226771540, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
96 pp., 20.5x15.5 cm

Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", Gertrude Stein delivered her "Narration" lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935. Stein had not been back to her home coun...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Mark Twain God's Fool

Hill Hamlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226336473, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm

After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain's last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. Contrary to the myth perpetrated...

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Literary Criticism

Oedipus the King

Sophocles

ISBN: PB: 9780226768687, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
88 pp., 20x13 cm

Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Compl...

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Children's Literature A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226473017, ISBN: HB: 9780226473000, University of Chicago Press, September 2009
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from "Aesop's fables to Mother Goose", from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "Peter Pan"...

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