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The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512827941
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which often include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance.
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825961
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Jennifer Rushworth argues for a new approach to Proust’s novel, reading it as a “songbook” because of its intermittent but intense engagement with song. She uncovers multiple Proustian uses of song, and shows how these are linked by desire, memory, repetition, and different kinds of resistance.
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism
Chapters in Literary Politics
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825077
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the literature of the hasidic movement, the Jewish Enlightenment, and the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century form the foundation of fierce debates about how Hebrew literature should challenge modernity.
For the Pleasure of His Company
An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512823875
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Charles Warren Stoddard’s only novel features a protagonist who is an aspiring writer living among the Bohemian artistic circles of nineteenth-century San Francisco—the same circles Stoddard himself inhabited. This Q19 volume includes three of Stoddard’s Hawaiian travel sketches, a critical introduction, and extensive annotations.
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512823776
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel not only offers new insights about the effect of a growing secularization and commodification of death on the culture and its productions but also reassesses the eighteenth-century response to and representation of the dead and dead-like body, and its material purpose and use in fiction.
The Difference Is Spreading
Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812253238
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
In The Difference Is Spreading, Al Filreis, creator and lead teacher of the open online course on modern and contemporary poetry known as ModPo, and Anna Strong Safford invite fifty poets to select and comment upon a poem by another writer, demonstrating how poetry happens when a reader and a poet come in contact with one another.
The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512827941
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which often include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance.
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825961
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Jennifer Rushworth argues for a new approach to Proust’s novel, reading it as a “songbook” because of its intermittent but intense engagement with song. She uncovers multiple Proustian uses of song, and shows how these are linked by desire, memory, repetition, and different kinds of resistance.
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism
Chapters in Literary Politics
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825077
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the literature of the hasidic movement, the Jewish Enlightenment, and the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century form the foundation of fierce debates about how Hebrew literature should challenge modernity.
For the Pleasure of His Company
An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512823875
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Charles Warren Stoddard’s only novel features a protagonist who is an aspiring writer living among the Bohemian artistic circles of nineteenth-century San Francisco—the same circles Stoddard himself inhabited. This Q19 volume includes three of Stoddard’s Hawaiian travel sketches, a critical introduction, and extensive annotations.
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512823776
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel not only offers new insights about the effect of a growing secularization and commodification of death on the culture and its productions but also reassesses the eighteenth-century response to and representation of the dead and dead-like body, and its material purpose and use in fiction.
The Difference Is Spreading
Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812253238
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
In The Difference Is Spreading, Al Filreis, creator and lead teacher of the open online course on modern and contemporary poetry known as ModPo, and Anna Strong Safford invite fifty poets to select and comment upon a poem by another writer, demonstrating how poetry happens when a reader and a poet come in contact with one another.