The Rub of Time
An expansive and incisive collection of essays and reportage from one of England's celebrated writers.Martin Amis spent decades turning his forensic intellect toward the absurdities, vanities, and occasional triumphs of modern life, and capturing it in inimitable prose. In The Rub of Time, a collection of his sharpest nonfiction from over twenty years, he trains his gaze on politics, literature, sports, and the spectacle of celebrity with a wit as lethal as it is precise. Here, Amis dissects the rise of Donald Trump with mordant amusement, penetrating the theatrical bluster and ominous undertones of American politics. He revisits literary titans Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, parsing their genius with the awe of a disciple and the rigor of a peer. From the war on terror to Brexit, from the British Royal Family to the modern American West, Amis blends personal reflection with razor-sharp cultural critique, always with his signature mix of erudition and dark comedy. The Rub of Time is Amis at his most incisive, irreverent, and unmissable.
Leonard Cohen's Book of Mercy
Leonard Cohen's Book of Mercy is a modern classic, appreciated by a wide readership, used in liturgy, and translated into more than a dozen languages. It is Leonard Cohen's modern psalter, in which he exposes his dialogue with the divine and the deepest struggles of his soul in its attempts to find peace, side by side with his erotic yearning and his concern for the world at large. Its intricate poetic language combines imagery from the wealth of the Jewish tradition in which the poet was raised, as well as his practice of Zen Buddhist meditation and his absorption in Christian imagery and in old and modern poetry. This book offers a detailed interpretation of Cohen's prose-poems, identifying the sources utilized by him in creating his unique take on the Psalms for our day and age. It is a book that will allow all readers to gain deeper understanding of Cohen's ideas and language in ways that will enrich their own spiritual lives.
Love and Need
A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost's life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work. By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us on wooded roads and articulating our hopes and fears. After Frost's death, these clich矇s gave way to equally broad (though opposed) portraits sketched by his biographers, chief among them Lawrance Thompson. When the critic Helen Vendler reviewed Thompson's scathing biography, she asked whether anyone could avoid the conclusion that Frost was a "monster." In Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry, Adam Plunkett blends biography and criticism to find the truth of Frost's life--one that lies between the two poles of perception. Plunkett reveals a new Frost through a careful reading of the poems and the people Frost knew best, showing how the stories of his most significant relationships, heretofore only partly told, mirror dominant themes of Frost's enduring poetry: withholding and disclosure, privacy and intimacy. Not least of these relationships is the fraught, intense friendship between Frost and Thompson, the major biographer whose record of Frost Plunkett seeks to set straight. Moving through Frost's most important work and closest relationships with the attention to detail necessary to see familiar things anew, Plunkett offers an original interpretation of Frost's poetry, tracing Frost's distinctive achievement to an engagement with poetic tradition far deeper and more extensive than he ever let on. Frost invited his readers into a conversation like the one he sustained with his literary forebears, intimate and profound, yet he kept his private self at a remove. Here, Plunkett brings the two together--the poet and the poetry--and draws us back into conversation with America's poet.
Unexpected and Unexplained Intellectual Exchanges between British and Indian Women Writers 1840-1940
What intellectual exchanges occurred between British and Indian women writers during the colonial period? Why does recovering these conversations fundamentally challenge our understanding of empire, nationalism, and gendered subalternity? And what methodological interventions does archival recovery demand of postcolonial scholarship? Purna Banerjee's archival investigation began with a revealing discovery: deteriorating issues of The Indian Ladies Magazine in Kolkata's National Library-never catalogued, never preserved, never analysed. What emerged from these crumbling pages rewrites the historiography of colonial modernity. Drawing on travel narratives, New Woman novels, and periodical correspondence, Banerjee documents a transnational 'female counter-public sphere' where women engaged in complex intellectual exchanges. From Mary Frere's subversive retellings of Indian folklore to Victoria Cross's provocative Anna Lombard, from Pandita Ramabai's strategic Christian conversion to Krishnabhabini Das's critical ethnography-these writers negotiated what Simon Gikandi terms the 'complicity/resistance dialectic', simultaneously inhabiting and critiquing colonial and nationalist patriarchies. Theorising through Habermas, Bhabha, and Spivak, Banerjee demonstrates how women constructed hybrid identities that resist metropolitan/peripheral binaries. Their fragmented narratives-spanning the 1835 Minute on Indian Education to the 1929 Sarda Act-reveal collaborative activism shaping social reform, educational policy, and women's rights across national boundaries. This study makes crucial interventions in postcolonial literary studies, subaltern historiography, and transnational feminism. By radically reorganising the colonial archive, Banerjee recovers the intellectual labour that traditional scholarship has systematically marginalised, offering new methodologies for reading women's agency in the empire. Purna Banerjee is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Constance Fulmer Award in Mentorship, conferred by the British Women Writers Association (BWWA), USA. She has published on Victorian novels, nineteenth-century travel literatures, periodicals, twentieth-century displaced women's narratives from Indo-Bangladesh border and contemporary social-media-driven protest movements. Feminist, postcolonial, and subaltern theories are the lenses through which she critiques all cultural and literary texts. Purna returned home to Kolkata (India) and joined Presidency University, as an Associate Professor of English. For the previous two decades she lived and taught in the USA (Associate Professor of English, the Co-Director of Gender Studies, Millikin University, 2005 to 2013 & again in 2015). She received her MA degree (1999) from the University of Rochester (NY, USA) and her PhD (2005) from Texas Christian University (TX, USA).
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov brings together the whirlwind journalistic adventures that, alongside his seismic novels, transformed Martin Amis into England's brightest literary star. It was the golden age of magazine assignments: expense accounts, free-ranging cultural criticism, and eclectic mischief. In these short, hilarious pieces, Amis visits with literary heroes and rivals, follows Elton John's soccer team to China, and reflects on everything from nuclear weapons to televised darts. With his signature caustic wit, he skewers all before him--including himself--as he revisits the dissipations of his youth and some hair-raising near misses: an emergency plane landing, a crush of bodies at a street carnival, and being stood up by Madonna. Whether from the set of RoboCop 2 or the 1988 Republican National Convention, Amis presciently traces the shape of the coming future. As subversive now as they were then, and with a timeless linguistic flair, these dispatches entertain, provoke, and entertain again. Visiting Mrs. Nabokov is perfect for newcomers or longtime fans looking for that spark of insight that only Martin Amis can provide.
New Orleans
The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town - Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles - to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.
Dublin
The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another Nobel Laureate, W. B. Yeats, was born. Just down the coast is the pier linked to yet another, Samuel Beckett, from which we can see the Martello Tower that is the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses. But these are only a few. Step-by-step, Dublin: A Writer's City unfolds a book-lover's map of this unique city, inviting us to experience what it means to live in a great city of literature. The book is heavily illustrated, and features custom maps.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature. Gulliver's adventures with the tiny but spirited Lilliputians, the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag, the flying island of Laputa, and the rational horses of Houyhnmhnmland have become globally famous for their satirical wit and visionary creativity. Early editions credited Gulliver himself as the author, and many readers believed him to be a real person. Later commentators have variously described the work as proto-science fiction, as inspired children's literature and as a forerunner of the modern novel. The editor's introduction to this celebratory anniversary edition contextualises Gulliver's Travels in Swift's life and work as a whole while exploring its rich and remarkable afterlife. All the original illustrations and maps are included, as are the frontispiece portraits. Generous annotation explains textual details which might now seem obscure, and appendices contain additional documents and images to enhance contemporary understanding and enjoyment.
Love and Limerence
First released twenty years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion. As relevant today as it was then, this book offers insight into love, infatuation, madness, and all flavors of emotion in between.
Poems
Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is a significant collection of nineteenth-century poetry addressing themes of freedom, faith, justice, and human dignity. Through lyrical verse and moral reflection, Harper gives voice to the experiences, hopes, and struggles of African Americans during a period of profound social change.Her poetry blends spiritual insight with social conscience, confronting slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality while affirming resilience and moral strength. This collection highlights Harper's role as one of the earliest and most influential African American poets, whose work helped shape Black literary and abolitionist traditions.This book is ideal for readers interested in African American poetry, abolitionist literature, women's writing, and nineteenth-century American literary history.
McSweeney's Issue 81 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Step inside the stunningly illustrated bugs-at-dusk pages of McSweeney's 81 to devour a portfolio of paintings by Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure Percival Everett; new stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa, Ashley Nelson Levy, Sam Munson, and Shruti Swamy; a queer Dracula comic by Michael DeForge; and an essay by octogenarian Suzanne Rhodenbaugh in which the story of her life is told in devastatingly brief, decade-long increments; alongside letters by Katie Peterson, Susanna Kwan, Simon Han, and so much more. In this issue, there are swans, mermaids, a Frankenstein with daddy issues, poorly adjusted angels, the afterlife told from three different angles, the gig economy, collage theory, meme theory, murdered uncles, stillbirths, the Berlin wall, closeted lesbians studying abroad in Florence, Gypsy camps in Switzerland, bikini lines, the Chicago Seven, treehouses, and the draft. The iridescent worlds of this issue are manifold and teeming. Flip open the gorgeous cover illustrated by Sean Lewis and start reading.
Experimental Criticism
Experimental Criticism offers a series of close critical engagements with one of the world's most innovative literary thinkers. Franco Moretti, author of such major works as Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World, Modern Epic, Atlas of the European Novel and The Bourgeois, may be best known for his 'distant reading' of vast numbers of literary texts at the Stanford Literary Lab. Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano Ercolino lead a lively exploration of his work as a springboard for rethinking the fundamentals of literary studies. Topics include literary theory and method, problems of scale and canonisation, the evolution of literary forms, abstract modelling and the digital humanities, comparative versus world literature, Marxism and literary history, and tragedy and the novel. There are essays from Moretti himself on Luk獺cs and the tensions between close and distant reading, plus a 'provisional epilogue' in which he reflects on his intellectual itinerary and the challenges posed by contributors to this volume. 'Why study literature?' he asks. For the pleasure of reducing complex things to their simple elements; to bring them back to earth. This key retrospective amounts to a critical manifesto for an experimental literary materialism, one unafraid to test radical new hypotheses.
The Dawn
This moving collection of short stories, essays and poems makes you wonder deeply about everything in this world.The stories are deep and eye catching makes you feel like you are the one who lived them.Then you come to the essays; you realise that you don't know much about the world you live in.Then the poetry plays with your heart rhythms, making you smile for no reason.
Leonard Cohen's Book of Mercy
Leonard Cohen's Book of Mercy is a modern classic, appreciated by a wide readership, used in liturgy, and translated into more than a dozen languages. It is Leonard Cohen's modern psalter, in which he exposes his dialogue with the divine and the deepest struggles of his soul in its attempts to find peace, side by side with his erotic yearning and his concern for the world at large. Its intricate poetic language combines imagery from the wealth of the Jewish tradition in which the poet was raised, as well as his practice of Zen Buddhist meditation and his absorption in Christian imagery and in old and modern poetry. This book offers a detailed interpretation of Cohen's prose-poems, identifying the sources utilized by him in creating his unique take on the Psalms for our day and age. It is a book that will allow all readers to gain deeper understanding of Cohen's ideas and language in ways that will enrich their own spiritual lives.
Journal of Translation Practice and Research (IV)
Journal of Translation Practice and Research is a quarterly international academic journal sponsored by Shaanxi Translators Association in a scholarly peer reviewed manner. It is the platform for translations of the "Shaanxi literature works", classic Chinese literature, and translation studies on Chinese literature. Journal of Translation Practice and Research invites original, previously unpublished research papers written in English or Chinese on theoretical or practical aspects of translation studies from academics, professionals, educators, practitioners and students in the field.
The Eternal Moment
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and often left unfinished on the nightstand. The Eternal Moment: Marcel Proust and the Architecture of Memory offers a readable, idea-rich companion for libraries, classrooms, and serious general readers.Hamon de Quillan approaches Proust as an architect of consciousness. He shows how the novel cycle is built from recurring materials-sensations, habits, social rituals, works of art-and how these materials construct identity across time. From the madeleine episode to the cork-lined room, from Belle ?poque Paris to the disruptions of World War I, the book places Proust's internal drama in its cultural and historical frame without reducing the work to biography.Organised in sixteen thematic chapters, The Eternal Moment examines the formation of Proust's artistic vision; the social "tapestries" of class, salons, and ambition; the mechanics of involuntary memory and sensory recall; love, jealousy, and the illusions of desire; the philosophical currents of Bergson and Schopenhauer; the impact of war on time, perception, and social order; Proust's influence on modernist narrative; and the continuing debates around elitism, style, and accessibility. A final section engages archival materials-letters, photographs, drafts-to show what scholarship can illuminate and where it should remain cautious.Key figures-Swann and Odette, the narrator and Albertine, and the Baron de Charlus-are read as case studies in how society performs itself and how desire distorts perception. Recurrent images (music, flowers, names, rooms) are treated as structural beams that carry meaning from volume to volume, helping readers track continuity across the cycle's celebrated nonlinearity. Ideal for curated literature collections.Clear, interpretive, and generous, de Quillan's study is designed to be used alongside any volume of Proust's cycle. It provides signposts for first-time readers, fresh angles for re-readers, and a vocabulary for discussing Proust's techniques in book clubs or courses on modernism, French literature, narrative theory, and memory studies. A selected bibliography supports further reading.At the centre is a simple promise: Proust's world is vast, but it is navigable. Open the door, follow the sensations, and discover how a single moment can hold an entire life.
The Eternal Moment
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and often left unfinished on the nightstand. The Eternal Moment: Marcel Proust and the Architecture of Memory offers a readable, idea-rich companion for libraries, classrooms, and serious general readers.Hamon de Quillan approaches Proust as an architect of consciousness. He shows how the novel cycle is built from recurring materials-sensations, habits, social rituals, works of art-and how these materials construct identity across time. From the madeleine episode to the cork-lined room, from Belle ?poque Paris to the disruptions of World War I, the book places Proust's internal drama in its cultural and historical frame without reducing the work to biography.Organised in sixteen thematic chapters, The Eternal Moment examines the formation of Proust's artistic vision; the social "tapestries" of class, salons, and ambition; the mechanics of involuntary memory and sensory recall; love, jealousy, and the illusions of desire; the philosophical currents of Bergson and Schopenhauer; the impact of war on time, perception, and social order; Proust's influence on modernist narrative; and the continuing debates around elitism, style, and accessibility. A final section engages archival materials-letters, photographs, drafts-to show what scholarship can illuminate and where it should remain cautious.Key figures-Swann and Odette, the narrator and Albertine, and the Baron de Charlus-are read as case studies in how society performs itself and how desire distorts perception. Recurrent images (music, flowers, names, rooms) are treated as structural beams that carry meaning from volume to volume, helping readers track continuity across the cycle's celebrated nonlinearity. Ideal for curated literature collections.Clear, interpretive, and generous, de Quillan's study is designed to be used alongside any volume of Proust's cycle. It provides signposts for first-time readers, fresh angles for re-readers, and a vocabulary for discussing Proust's techniques in book clubs or courses on modernism, French literature, narrative theory, and memory studies. A selected bibliography supports further reading.At the centre is a simple promise: Proust's world is vast, but it is navigable. Open the door, follow the sensations, and discover how a single moment can hold an entire life.
STAND FOR SOMETHING -Or- THE BLOOD NEVER FORGETS
A violent attack can strike anyone at any time, anywhere without clear cause or reason. The third book in our Dani Series begins on a beautiful day in June when Dani has every reason to be happy and not a clue her family's lives are about to be wrecked. The aftermath of the event is traumatic, of course, but trauma is insidious like an illness that spreads in complex ways; but unlike an illness, trauma digs in for the long haul even as the shock fades; it might even fool us and pretend to be gone altogether, when it is only hiding and waiting to strike again unexpectedly like the violence that caused it.As usually happens, victims of violence are left to pick up the pieces and go on with their lives; and that's really the story Dani has written. The picking up part and the going on. There is a morning after, a new day; and that's sometimes where the best part of life can begin. But first, one has to survive the pain of the memories."Shouldn't I be trying to forget?" asks Dani."No," says her Grandpa. "It is a mistake to forget...You cannot snuff out your most powerful memories. Trying to is futile...you can't move on without them and you can't fight them. They always win. What you need to do is keep them alive, give them a portal and a way for them to come and go through that portal, and when they come they will speak to you and give you strength. So it is very important to listen to your memories. That is what the good medicine is. On one side is the memory-speaking one, on the other is you the listening one."At some level, we could say this story, this very book, is the memory speaking, and you the reader are the listener, for, as Dani's story reveals, the trauma belongs to all of us. The story, as told by Dani herself as a third-person observer, threads her narrative tightly through her own character, a technique that creates urgency and tension and, for the reader, a personal sense of experience.
Dickens in Brooklyn
Dickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members; a posthumous lunch with Oliver Sacks; his years as single parent to his three children; his decision as a General Motors executive trainee to violate company policy and hang out with "hourlies;" a thwarted kiss at a teenage summer camp where he was a young Jewish man in exile among Jews. Neugeboren is the author most recently of Whatever Happened to Frankie King and twenty-three other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. His essays have been recently published in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The American Scholar, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tablet, and Commonweal, and are here collected for the first time.
STAND FOR SOMETHING -Or- THE BLOOD NEVER FORGETS
A violent attack can strike anyone at any time, anywhere without clear cause or reason. The third book in our Dani Series begins on a beautiful day in June when Dani has every reason to be happy and not a clue her family's lives are about to be wrecked. The aftermath of the event is traumatic, of course, but trauma is insidious like an illness that spreads in complex ways; but unlike an illness, trauma digs in for the long haul even as the shock fades; it might even fool us and pretend to be gone altogether, when it is only hiding and waiting to strike again unexpectedly like the violence that caused it.As usually happens, victims of violence are left to pick up the pieces and go on with their lives; and that's really the story Dani has written. The picking up part and the going on. There is a morning after, a new day; and that's sometimes where the best part of life can begin. But first, one has to survive the pain of the memories."Shouldn't I be trying to forget?" asks Dani."No," says her Grandpa. "It is a mistake to forget...You cannot snuff out your most powerful memories. Trying to is futile...you can't move on without them and you can't fight them. They always win. What you need to do is keep them alive, give them a portal and a way for them to come and go through that portal, and when they come they will speak to you and give you strength. So it is very important to listen to your memories. That is what the good medicine is. On one side is the memory-speaking one, on the other is you the listening one."At some level, we could say this story, this very book, is the memory speaking, and you the reader are the listener, for, as Dani's story reveals, the trauma belongs to all of us. The story, as told by Dani herself as a third-person observer, threads her narrative tightly through her own character, a technique that creates urgency and tension and, for the reader, a personal sense of experience.
Bad Americans
Summer 2020: the Covid-19 Pandemic is raging. A reclusive billionaire, Olive Mixer, calls twelve diverse & lonely Americans to his mansion complex in the Hamptons: nurses, lawyers, mechanics, social workers, students, financial analysts, soldiers, Uber drivers, engineers, hair salon operators. During the day, the guests meet, compete, date, dine, flirt and fight. Each night, one must tell the group a story.Their tales range widely in subject, style, length and decorum. Many stories respond to each other. They trigger passionate debate and fiery resistance. They change how characters perceive each other and affect the trajectory of the frame narrative. They make us ponder the nature of storytelling itself.Bad Americans is part Boccaccio and part The Bachelor, but it is a creation all its own. Both a novel and short story collection, Bad Americans is at once a powerful portrait of the American pandemic experience and an examination of narrative itself. Bad Americans: Part Iincludes the frame narrative and the first six stories. Bad Americans: Part II will conclude the frame narrative and include six additional stories.These two books are the second and third volumes of the profound and daring anthology series The Human Tragedy, following the subversive classic Good Americans.
Autonomy and Heteronomy of Art
Poetry finds its own reason to be and its own dignity within itself. It does this despite any evaluation of poetry in relation to its range, of any moralistic, pedagogical, or didactic purpose, or any moral, philosophical, or scientific content. Unbound by realism, naturalism, sensualism, or sentiment, looking beyond any concrete, defined content, or any dispersive tendency towards narrative or discourse, poetry disregards any evaluation that places its value in something extraneous.Luciano Anceschi (Milan, 1911 - Bologna, 1995) was a literary critic and aesthetic theorist, one of the leading exponents of Antonio Banfi's "critical rationalism." After earning a degree in aesthetics from the University of Milan, he published Autonomy and Heteronomy of Art (1936), a foundational text in his reflection on the theory of poetics. A university professor, he was the director of the journal Il Verri and a key figure in the debate on the neo-avant-garde. His extensive critical work profoundly influenced the study of literature and aesthetics in the twentieth century.Philip Balma is an Associate Professor of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, specializing in modern Italian literature, film, and translation studies. His translations have appeared in Translation Review, Italian Poetry Review, Italica, and The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories. He has translated works by Ennio Flaiano, Eugenio Montale, Edith Bruck, and others.
Bad Americans
Summer 2020: the Covid-19 Pandemic is raging. A reclusive billionaire, Olive Mixer, calls twelve diverse & lonely Americans to his mansion complex in the Hamptons: nurses, lawyers, mechanics, social workers, students, financial analysts, soldiers, Uber drivers, engineers, hair salon operators. During the day, the guests meet, compete, date, dine, flirt and fight. Each night, one must tell the group a story.Their tales range widely in subject, style, length and decorum. Many stories respond to each other. They trigger passionate debate and fiery resistance. They change how characters perceive each other and affect the trajectory of the frame narrative. They make us ponder the nature of storytelling itself.Bad Americans is part Boccaccio and part The Bachelor, but it is a creation all its own. Both a novel and short story collection, Bad Americans is at once a powerful portrait of the American pandemic experience and an examination of narrative itself. Bad Americans: Part Iincludes the frame narrative and the first six stories. Bad Americans: Part II will conclude the frame narrative and include six additional stories.These two books are the second and third volumes of the profound and daring anthology series The Human Tragedy, following the subversive classic Good Americans.
From Man to Man or Perhaps Only--
"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's early always Africa--Africa that sets it." Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only--, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of two white women born into the racist, society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. One sister remains in the British Cape Colony and finds a way to deal with her husband's infidelities. The other raped at age 15, is hounded out of her insular white South African community, and becomes a kept woman in London's East End. Addressing the ill-effects of a male-dominated imperial capitalism, and positing an equivalence between marriage and prostitution in a society where women's function is primarily sexual, the novel foregrounds the perspective of a young black girl in order to place before its readers the vision of what Schreiner called an "expanded and enlarged humanity". Edited by Dorothy Driver, and based partly on manuscript amendments by Schreiner, reproduces two alternative endings, one apparently told to her husband-editor, and summarised by him, and the other she wrote in a letter to a friend. Driver also provides literary, historical, and linguistic context through an in-depth introduction and expansive notes. This edition includes extracts from Schreiner's letters and journals that cast light on the genesis, composition, and final abandonment of the novel. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around theglobe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of othervaluable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies forfurther study, and much more.
The New Digital Avant-Garde
This work is a study of current migration narratives within the disciplines of Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Digital Humanities. Global culture, the proliferation and pervasiveness of telecommunications technologies and new media, particularly the Internet, have substantially affected the act of narrating. The replacement of traditional written language as the primary means of conveying narrative and storytelling is a distinctive feature in: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013); Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (2017); Warsan Shire's Home (2011, 2016, 2017, 2022) and the narratives produced within the "Refugee Tales" project. These literary and digital projects might well be considered avant-garde manifestos against racism, in favor of gender equality, female empowerment and a humanitarian plea for the compassionate treatment of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Pages Lost and New
Margaret Randall has contributed poetry, essays, translations, and oral histories to the public discourse since the 1960s. Here, she assembles many of the prose works largely lost to time that demonstrate the arc of her thinking, from keynote addresses to informal talks and essays published long ago. More recent work reflects her fierce need to address topics about which she has new things to say. The essays range from photography to translation, social justice to creative expression. This deep collection bridges periods of our history and hers, contributing to the complex weave produced by Randall's generation of thinkers and makers.
Pushing the Wave 2024
Pushing the Wave 2024 brings together a year of essays, reflections and travel writing by L.A. Davenport, enriched with drawings and photo essays from Europe and beyond.This latest volume explores themes of creativity, culture and connection: from finding "flow" in daily life and questioning the allure of awards season, to grappling with limerence, freedom, education and the risks of artificial intelligence. Davenport combines sharp cultural commentary with intimate moments of memory and observation, creating a vibrant mosaic of modern life.Journeys through Paris, Umbria, Antibes, Athens, Cuba, Houston and the northern coast of Ireland deepen the collection, offering fresh perspectives on place, history and belonging.At once thoughtful and lyrical, Pushing the Wave 2024 continues this rich series as a celebration of creativity, curiosity and the search for meaning in a restless world.Perfect for fans of Pico Iyer, Olivia Laing, Alain de Botton and Rebecca Solnit-writers who blend travel, culture and personal reflection with a sharp eye for modern life.
Pushing the Wave 2024
Pushing the Wave 2024 brings together a year of essays, reflections and travel writing by L.A. Davenport, enriched with drawings and photo essays from Europe and beyond.This latest volume explores themes of creativity, culture and connection: from finding "flow" in daily life and questioning the allure of awards season, to grappling with limerence, freedom, education and the risks of artificial intelligence. Davenport combines sharp cultural commentary with intimate moments of memory and observation, creating a vibrant mosaic of modern life.Journeys through Paris, Umbria, Antibes, Athens, Cuba, Houston and the northern coast of Ireland deepen the collection, offering fresh perspectives on place, history and belonging.At once thoughtful and lyrical, Pushing the Wave 2024 continues this rich series as a celebration of creativity, curiosity and the search for meaning in a restless world.Perfect for fans of Pico Iyer, Olivia Laing, Alain de Botton and Rebecca Solnit-writers who blend travel, culture and personal reflection with a sharp eye for modern life.
Literary code switching and beyond
Welcome to a journey into the intricate world of aesthetic multilingualism. This monography delves deep into the realms where diverse linguistic and artistic codes converge to shape the very essence of aesthetic experience. From the authorial motivations to the composition, narrative framework, functional aspects, and multimodal manifestations, it unravels the complexities of code-switching as a powerful aesthetic device. Drawing from a rich tapestry of literary and artistic works, it explores how code-switching transcends linguistic boundaries to create captivating narratives and immersive artistic experiences. The outlined multidimensional approach goes beyond mere linguistic analysis, delving into the intricate interplay of semiotic resources, cultural contexts, and narrative strategies. Through meticulous examination and insightful case studies, it sheds light on the multifaceted nature of aesthetic code-switching, revealing its profound impact on artistic expression and communication. As you embark on this journey, this monography invites you to explore the diverse landscapes of aesthetic multilingualism, where words, sounds, and visuals converge to create art that transcends linguistic and cultural boundaries and captivates the imagination.
THE THREE-SIDED COINS -Or- THE GOOD ZONE PLAN
Dani's a girl who in Book One faced monumental body image issues. But taking the advice from her new friend, and with steely determination, she now faces a whole new set of problems she never bargained for-how to protect herself from herself.The beauty coin seems to have three sides. It seems beauty comes in a package: one side is what you get when you quit with your unhealthy habits, lose seventy pounds, and peel off the mask that hides a girl of the Northeast Tribes; the second part is love and sex, which comes drifting in and tries to swallow you up; and the third part is your dreams and how you and your brand-new beautiful self are a threat to them.
Songs of Ogadi
Hear now the voice of Ogadi, child of shadow and light, whose feet have walked the alleys of sorrow and the plains of silence. Ogadi speaks for the unborn, the forsaken, the children whose cries were never carried to the heavens. In twenty-five songs, the lament of the abandoned rises, trembles, and turns into a heartbeat that will not be silenced.From the whispers of those lost before life, to the footsteps of the orphan, the voiceless, the stolen-each verse carries the weight of grief, yet hums with the pulse of endurance. These are songs of sorrow, yes, but also of fire: the fire of survival, the fire of spirit, the fire that will dance through the darkness and summon hope.In the final dance, "Ogadi's Last Dance", despair lifts its veil, and resilience reigns. The child who knew only neglect rises, dancing a rhythm that calls the continent to remember, to witness, to honor, and to nurture. These poems are a drumbeat of ancestry, a chant of the eternal, a summons to hearts willing to answer the call of the future.Songs of Ogadi is a sacred offering: a voice of the unheard, a song of the resilient, a bridge between the spirits of yesterday and the leaders of tomorrow. Those who read, who listen, who feel, are bound by the invisible cords of memory, hope, and Africa itself."His poetry, like his personality, is at once firm and gentle, able to confront hard truths without losing focus and compassion." - Orji Ogbonnaya Orji
THE THREE-SIDED COINS -Or- THE GOOD ZONE PLAN
Dani's a girl who in Book One faced monumental body image issues. But taking the advice from her new friend, and with steely determination, she now faces a whole new set of problems she never bargained for-how to protect herself from herself.The beauty coin seems to have three sides. It seems beauty comes in a package: one side is what you get when you quit with your unhealthy habits, lose seventy pounds, and peel off the mask that hides a girl of the Northeast Tribes; the second part is love and sex, which comes drifting in and tries to swallow you up; and the third part is your dreams and how you and your brand-new beautiful self are a threat to them.
Dialogue in the Literature of Abu Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī
the dialogues in al-Tawḥīdī's literature formed an interactive system that reveals thecharacteristics of collective imagination, social dynamics, the etiquettes of socialcommunication, and the qualities of collaboration in creating literary knowledge and buildingits social and aesthetic foundations. This is why this study will attempt to clarify thecommunicative and dialogic features of these interactions from the perspective ofcommunicative interaction, and will draw on the human and epistemic anthropologicalsciences to explore the traditions of literary interaction that characterize al-Tawḥīdī's works.This study is limited to the literature of Abu Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, as he represents thequintessential model in dialogical literature.
Emergency Plan -Or- Doomsday List
Fifteen. Seventy pounds overweight. No plan. No boyfriend. No future. I was the girl who settled for a Tom Selleck poster and a dream choked with a hand to mouth life working two jobs like my mom did-until my grocery cart crashed into a woman in a red cape. Not a costume. Not a kid. A grown-up Little Red Riding Hood, eyes sharp as steel and a jaw clenched against a world full of too many cakes and cookies and not enough hard-cutting honesty.What came next wasn't a fairy tale-it was a demolition. Every illusion I clung to-about love, beauty, success, and wealth...and the lie that "someday" fixes everything-got torched. I faced my bulging mirror and saw the mountain I had to climb. I had a choice to make: did I want it? Did I really want it?DO YOU REALLY WANT THIS, DANI?You think it's a simple question and a simple answer, but it's the hardest thing you'll ever have to decide-a great hurt wrapped in the truth that no one is coming to save you.This isn't your safe-space story. It's a wake-up call. And I'm warning you. My journey out of illusions and into honesty will probably piss you off and break your heart. It might even force you to face a few ugly truths about love, loss and a few facts of life about seeking your dreams if you still have any. Let me tell you, life's no equal-opportunity winner's circle. After a few years of bad training or no training at all, life doesn't hand out equal shots-it hands out consequences. Bad habits. Broken homes. Lazy dreams. They stack up fast and most people just keep adding weight to the pile.But you don't have to be like them. The question is the same for you as it was for me: are you tough enough to take advice? Can you put aside your illusions long enough to listen? I stopped. I listened. I fought. I changed.Truth doesn't chase anyone. You have to go after her, catch up and walk with her and talk with her and stop being afraid of her.This is the first of four books full of dreams and doubts, love and learning, facing a mountain and deciding to climb it.
Heart Sick (Discreet Cover)
Piano has always been my one true love.So when the music stops, I do whatever I can to hear it again.But when I wake, all I hear is his heart and the memories that come with it.This is my body.My mind.But not my heart.Each beat hides a secret, and his voice now replaces the music, demanding I uncover the truth.I'm sent to a place to get better, and that's when I meet her.Every artist needs a muse, and Luna allows me to hear the music again. But when her secrets soon become mine, I realize it's because I've lived this life before.Or rather, he has.The man whose heart beats within my chest knows Luna...and everything she's done.
Love Sick (Discreet Cover)
All I want is revenge.But I'm afraid it will destroy me because I'm not a monster.Or maybe I am.And that's thanks to Doctor Alanna Norton.She's tortured me.She's made me forget who I am.And she's done all this in the name of love.But the love I feel for my son, who was stolen from me, will triumph. I won't accept any other outcome.There is another love which I will fight for-Dutch Atwood.But what I find...the sting of betrayal lingers. I look at Dutch through new eyes; he doesn't trust me, and I don't trust him.I'm faced with so many scenarios-I wish I knew how this story ends so I can make the right choice.But there is no right in the hand I was dealt.Alanna wants love so badly, so I intend to show her what true love looks like, because the only thing that matters is getting out of here...but not before I take from Alanna what she took from me.Her heart.
The Wax Persona
The Wax Personaby Yury Tynyanov. Translated by Colin BearneThis book is not an easy read, in whatever language, for those unaquainted with Russian history from the time of Peter the Great, and this book is aimed precisely at Russian intellectuals who do know at least a version of this history.The literary grouping of the 1920s and 1930s, to which Tynyanov loosely adhered, Russian Formalism, did produce some unfamiliar kinds of text of which The Wax Persona is representative. It is a somewhat disconnected narrative consisting more of a set of tableaux with echoes of grotesquerie and ornamentalism.Objects have immense importance in the tale and in particular tactile and sensory reactions to them. The use of archaisms reflects the fact that words themselves for this writer carry an associative and iconic loading.In some ways this is almost the screenplay for a film that was never made and this explains many of the visual techniques used.This translation is offered as an attempt to introduce a non-Russian readership to one of Tynyanov's undeservedly lesser known works.
Raised by Ferns
Born in a Pacific Northwest gas station to itinerant, countercultural parents, Maya Jewell Zeller came of age in a landscape where poverty, wildness, and self-reliance intertwined. Raised by Ferns traces the path of a feral girl craving both freedom and safety to a middle-class adult life shaped by academia, motherhood, and uneasy privilege. Refusing tired narratives of bootstrap triumph, Zeller instead renders rural America with intimate complexity. She writes with sharp lyricism and attention about what it means to live between worlds-material scarcity and cultural wealth, inherited distrust and institutional legitimacy. From leaking rentals to library stacks, from ferns and fire codes to scholarship and marital strife, Zeller's life resists easy packaging yet finds form in layered essays that explore the complicated pursuit of belonging. Raised by Ferns offers a vital, compelling new take on the forces that shape identity and the choices that define home. It is a story of survival, but more importantly, of questioning for what-and who-it is worth surviving for.
Quips of Wisdom
This collection of unique and original writing, is a heartfelt compilation of thoughts, emotions, and insights crafted to inspire, entertain, and provoke contemplation. Within these pages, lives a rich tapestry of original poems, engaging stories, and thoughtful reflections--each piece a glimpse into the facets of the human experience.The original poems are an invitation to pause and reflect on the beauty and complexity of daily life as well as greater existential moments. The stories will transport you to another time and place and reveal the fun, spontaneity, and resilience of the human spirit. The reflective pieces offer a space to ponder and meditate on the lessons life brings.This book will companion your thoughts, spark to your creativity, and leave an indelible mark on your heart, mind, and soul.
Quips of Wisdom
This collection of unique and original writing, is a heartfelt compilation of thoughts, emotions, and insights crafted to inspire, entertain, and provoke contemplation. Within these pages, lives a rich tapestry of original poems, engaging stories, and thoughtful reflections--each piece a glimpse into the facets of the human experience.The original poems are an invitation to pause and reflect on the beauty and complexity of daily life as well as greater existential moments. The stories will transport you to another time and place and reveal the fun, spontaneity, and resilience of the human spirit. The reflective pieces offer a space to ponder and meditate on the lessons life brings.This book will companion your thoughts, spark to your creativity, and leave an indelible mark on your heart, mind, and soul.
Selected Verse of ?mile Nelligan, Qu矇bec's great lyric poet
Nelligan's finest poemsThis collection of 46 poems, translated from French, has been selected for both poetic and psychological interest. ?mile Nelligan, Canada's first truly modern poet, burst upon the scene as a prodigy creating brilliant lyrical poetry in late 19th-century Montr矇al for three years before suffering, at age 19, a breakdown that left him in a mental asylum for the rest of his life Nelligan went on to achieve mythic status in Qu矇bec - no other poet in all Canada has been the subject of so many biographies, films, novels, plays, and critical appraisals. This volume includes Nelligan's key poems, accompanied by robust commentary covering such topics as the women in Nelligan's life, the nature of his breakdown, and the several controversies surrounding his life and work. This collection of 46 poems, translated from French, has been selected for both poetic and psychological interest.In the valley breeze where the moonlight glows Come all ye blonde belles and brown-haired beaus, Where the fiddle plays and the woodwind blows, Dance the villanelle! - Villanelle ViolinA mighty Ship there was, of solid gold 'twas spun, Its masts touched the sky, it sailed on seas unknown, While naked Aphrodite, tresses wildly blown, Reclined along the prow before the blazing sun.- The Ship of Gold
Dunes Review 29.2
The Fall/Winter 2025 issue (29.2) of Dunes Review, northern Michigan's leading independent literary journal. Dunes Review is published by Michigan Writers, Inc., located in Traverse City, Michigan. Edited by Jennifer Yeatts and Teresa Scollon.
International Yeats Studies
International Yeats Studies is an open access, peer-reviewed publication of The International Yeats Society, which was founded in 2015 to promote the study of W. B. Yeats in a global context. The journal features original scholarship of the highest quality from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, as well as book and performance reviews.This issue is a comprehensive, descriptive, and analytical study of the five composition notebooks that Yeats acquired in Italy and used to write many important works in verse and prose between March 1927 and April 1931, including lyrics for his Crazy Jane sequence, major poems such as "Coole Park 1929" and "Byzantium," and draft materials for A Vision and two of his supernatural plays, The Words upon the Window-Pane and The Resurrection. The Rapallo Notebooks bring together a unique record of Yeats's creative processes at a key period of his artistic and personal life. Authors Mann and Chapman have selected nearly forty facsimiles from these notebooks, and they present numerous other photographic and visual aids to assist narration, including transcriptions, charts, and tabular summaries of the notebooks' construction and physical state following conservation efforts undertaken for the National Library of Ireland in 2005.
Fire!! A quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists, Volume 1, Number 1
Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (Volume 1, Number 1) was a groundbreaking literary magazine created by Wallace Thurman and other members of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1926, this single-issue publication gave voice to a new generation of Black writers and artists who challenged traditional racial narratives and explored bold themes of identity, art, sexuality, and modern Black life. Featuring contributions from luminaries such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Bruce Nugent, Fire!! became an emblem of creative rebellion and artistic freedom within the Harlem Renaissance. Though short-lived, its influence endures as a symbol of cultural defiance and youthful artistic expression.
Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman with a penchant for Gothic novels, finds herself in the lively social whirl of Bath and later at the imposing Northanger Abbey. Amid balls, friendships, and mysterious allure, her vivid imagination threatens to obscure reality. As her journey unfolds, Catherine encounters humor, romance, and unexpected revelations about character and love. A sharp and playful commentary on society, this novel blends charm, wit, and suspense into an unforgettable story.
Persuasion
In this elegantly crafted novel, personal growth and romantic misunderstandings intertwine against the backdrop of England's class-conscious society. Our protagonist navigates the treacherous waters of love lost and found, revealing the subtleties of human emotions and social pressures. As past affections resurface amidst societal expectations, she faces the challenge of reconciling heartfelt desires with the rigid confines of her world, leading to a poignant exploration of hope, resilience, and reconciliation.
Emergency Plan -Or- Doomsday List
Fifteen. Seventy pounds overweight. No plan. No boyfriend. No future. I was the girl who settled for a Tom Selleck poster and a dream choked with a hand to mouth life working two jobs like my mom did-until my grocery cart crashed into a woman in a red cape. Not a costume. Not a kid. A grown-up Little Red Riding Hood, eyes sharp as steel and a jaw clenched against a world full of too many cakes and cookies and not enough hard-cutting honesty.What came next wasn't a fairy tale-it was a demolition. Every illusion I clung to-about love, beauty, success, and wealth...and the lie that "someday" fixes everything-got torched. I faced my bulging mirror and saw the mountain I had to climb. I had a choice to make: did I want it? Did I really want it?DO YOU REALLY WANT THIS, DANI?You think it's a simple question and a simple answer, but it's the hardest thing you'll ever have to decide-a great hurt wrapped in the truth that no one is coming to save you.This isn't your safe-space story. It's a wake-up call. And I'm warning you. My journey out of illusions and into honesty will probably piss you off and break your heart. It might even force you to face a few ugly truths about love, loss and a few facts of life about seeking your dreams if you still have any. Let me tell you, life's no equal-opportunity winner's circle. After a few years of bad training or no training at all, life doesn't hand out equal shots-it hands out consequences. Bad habits. Broken homes. Lazy dreams. They stack up fast and most people just keep adding weight to the pile.But you don't have to be like them. The question is the same for you as it was for me: are you tough enough to take advice? Can you put aside your illusions long enough to listen? I stopped. I listened. I fought. I changed.Truth doesn't chase anyone. You have to go after her, catch up and walk with her and talk with her and stop being afraid of her.This is the first of four books full of dreams and doubts, love and learning, facing a mountain and deciding to climb it.
Zumba - The Way Of Life
The messages in this book were channeled from The Divine to help the humanity navigate through the ups and downs of Life. To trust in the Divine, to believe, to let go, to surrender and to live life joyously. Whatever life's lessons, the problems, it's solutions, wisdom which I faced in my life, I have tried to put it down through the guidance of the Universe. It was not me who wrote this precious book, but The Divine. I call it as the Divine's Book. The intention behind this book of the Divine is to help many lives who are going through the same life's challenges that I went through, to empower them, to have full faith in themselves and the Divine. May this book of the Divine: Zumba - the way of life, bring out the bestest version of you, heal you completely and bring you closer to the Divine. Let's navigate this beautiful journey of our lives on our beautiful Planet Earth.
