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Literary Criticism

Loving Literature A Cultural History

Lynch Deidre Shauna

ISBN: PB: 9780226598390, ISBN: HB: 9780226183701, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common – and perhaps the most wounding – is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studi...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought

Lysaker John Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780226569567, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought". Whether in Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, or Derrida, philosophy has come in many forms, and those forms...

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Paper Minds Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness

Kramnick Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226573151, ISBN: HB: 9780226573014, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that address problems of consciousness? In "Paper Minds", Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relation...

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Worldmakers Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe

Ramachandran Ayesha

ISBN: PB: 9780226598871, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, excitin...

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Linguistics

Enumerations Data and Literary Study

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...

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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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Christianity

Philology of the Flesh

Hamilton John T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226572826, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh". Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to t...

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Literary Criticism

Views from the Inside Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948-1989)

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635927, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the later twentieth century displayed an astonishing, and unheralded, variety. This fasc...

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Literary Criticism

Ecology

Beasts at Bedtime Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature

Heneghan Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226431383, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many childr...

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Philosophy

Cultural Graphology Writing after Derrida

Fleming Juliet

ISBN: PB: 9780226565194, ISBN: HB: 9780226390420, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

"Cultural Graphology" could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida's speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertoo...

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