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Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on , Copyright and Creativity

Edited by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember

Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether. The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as , copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing PB £25.95 9781783746484 in a new light. HB £36.95 9781783746491 EPUB £5.99 9781783746514 MOBI £5.99 9781783746521 PDF FREE 9781783746507 XML FREE 9781783746538 The Life and Letters of William Sharp and https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0159 “Fiona Macleod” 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 460 pp. | 21 colour ill. 1: 1855–1894

William F. Halloran

William Sharp (1855–1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade “Fiona Macleod” duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in PB £22.95 9781783745005 authorship and identity. HB £34.95 9781783745012 EPUB £5.99 9781783745036 MOBI £5.99 9781783745043 PDF FREE 9781783745029 XML FREE 9781783746606 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0142 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 710 pp. | 18 colour ill.

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Exploring the Interior Essays on Literary and Cultural History

Karl S. Guthke

In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im Hof called “the grand opening-up of the wide world”, especially of the interior of the non-European continents. This outward turn was PB £16.95 9781783743933 complemented by a fascination with “the world within” as anthropology and ethnology HB £27.95 9781783743940 focused on the humanity of the indigenous populations of far-away lands – an interest in EPUB £5.99 9781783743964 human nature that suggested a way for Europeans to understand themselves, encapsulated MOBI £5.99 9781783743971 in Gauguin’s Tahitian rumination “What are we?”. Written by a scholar of international PDF FREE 9781783743957 XML FREE 9781783745289 repute, it is eye-opening for all those with an interest in the literary and cultural https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0126 history of (and since) the Enlightenment. 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 366 pp. | 1 b&w ill.

Love and its Critics From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden

Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to PB £27.95 9781783743483 restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that HB £39.95 9781783743490 EPUB £5.99 9781783743513 literature must be outwitted. MOBI £5.99 9781783743520 PDF FREE 9781783743506 XML FREE 9781783746163 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0117 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 576 pp. | 16 colour ill.

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The Classic Short Story, 1870–1925 Theory of a Genre

Florence Goyet

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the short story—sometimes seen as the ultimate test of an author’s creativity—was at its most popular. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet’s influential La Nouvelle, 1870–1925: Description d’un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing— particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov PB £17.95 9781909254756 and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke—Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant HB £32.95 9781909254763 and successful short stories using the very simple ‘tools of brevity’ of that period. EPUB £5.95 9781909254787 In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the MOBI £5.95 9781909254794 context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers, higher-end periodicals PDF FREE 9781909254770 and intellectual journals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these XML FREE 9781783744206 stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0039 2014 | 234 x 156 mm | 210 pp. | 1 b&w ill. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this ‘forgotten’ genre.

Letters of Blood and Other Works in English

Göran Printz-Påhlson. Edited by Robert Archambeau

Göran Printz-Påhlson will go down in history as the author of some classic poems… and one of Sweden’s most learned, innovative and sharp-witted literary critics. — The Independent

This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic Göran Printz-Påhlson. It was Printz-Påhlson who PB £15.95 9781906924560 introduced poetic modernism to Scandinavia, and his essays and poems delve deeply HB £29.95 9781906924577 into English, American, and continental modernist traditions. EPUB £5.95 9781906924591 As well as Letters of Blood, the collection includes the full text of The Words of the Tribe, MOBI £5.95 9781906924607 a major statement on modern poetics, in which Printz-Påhlson explores the significance PDF FREE 9781906924584 of primitivism in Romanticism and Modernism, and the nature of metaphor and literary https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0017 materialism. The collection also includes essays on style, irony, realism, and the relationship 2011 | 234 x 156 mm | 210 pp. between historical drama and historical fiction, as well as studies of American poetry. Printz-Påhlson’s poetry in English continues to explore these themes by different, often surprisingly innovative, means.

www.openbookpublishers.com 46 Literature, Language and Culture The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity Volume 1: The Middle Ages

Jan M. Ziolkowski

Funny, erudite, compelling, ‘The Juggler of Notre Dame’ stretches every boundary of what an academic book is. It has given me—and will give all its readers—further permission to extend the definition of the scholarly book. Imaginative, well-researched, genre-bending, this book makes multiple contributions to the fields of medieval history, philology, art history, performance studies, reception theory, and medievalism. PB £28.95 9781783744336 —Prof. Kathryn Rudy, University of St Andrews HB £38.95 9781783744343 EPUB £5.99 9781783744367 This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying MOBI £5.99 9781783744374 story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the PDF FREE 9781783744350 nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of XML FREE 9781783745708 Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0132 centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post) 2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 406 pp. | 153 colour ill. modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards.

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism

Jan M. Ziolkowski

A lifetime’s knowledge has been poured into these pages with passion and dedication, and the reader feels, and shares, the author’s enthusiasm along the Juggler’s journey from the PB £28.95 9781783745067 Middle Ages to the present. From medieval French manuscripts we follow the tale through HB £38.95 9781783745074 early modern religious literature, post-Romantic editorial endeavours, anthologies of national EPUB £5.99 9781783745098 literature and children’s fiction, to modern adaptations in ballet, opera, and the visual arts. MOBI £5.99 9781783745104 PDF FREE 9781783745081 Such wide-ranging enterprise is matched by a fluent, witty narrative which succeeds in making XML FREE 9781783745715 complex terminology and concepts accessible to non-specialist readers. As such, the work is https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0143 a major achievement. 2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 354 pp. | 190 colour ill. —Prof. Barbara Ravelhofer, Durham University

Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism deals with the influence of the tale in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe and America, and the development of literary medievalism at this time.

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity Volume 3: The American Middle Ages

Jan M. Ziolkowski

Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry PB £28.95 9781783745210 HB £38.95 9781783745227 Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed EPUB £5.99 9781783745241 to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the MOBI £5.99 9781783745258 architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West PDF FREE 9781783745234 Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. XML FREE 9781783745265 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0146 2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 492 pp. | 346 colour ill.

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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur

Jan M. Ziolkowski

Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleu examines the famous Le jongleur de Notre Dame by the French composer Jules Massenet, which took Europe by storm after premiering in 1902 and then crossed the Atlantic to the impresario Oscar Hammerstein and the diva Mary Garden, who gave the opera new legs as a female juggler. PB £28.95 9781783745296 HB £38.95 9781783745302 EPUB £5.99 9781783745326 MOBI £5.99 9781783745333 The Juggler of Notre Dame and the PDF FREE 9781783745319 XML FREE 9781783745722 Medievalizing of Modernity https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0147 Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century 2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 520 pp. | 340 colour ill. Jan M. Ziolkowski

Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century. This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows The Juggler of Notre Dame PB £28.95 9781783745340 as it cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely HB £38.95 9781783745357 associated with Christmas and embedded in children’s literature. EPUB £5.99 9781783745371 MOBI £5.99 9781783745388 PDF FREE 9781783745364 XML FREE 9781783745739 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0148 The Juggler of Notre Dame and the 2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 408 pp. | 267 colour ill. Medievalizing of Modernity Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence

Jan M. Ziolkowski

Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest inThe Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this concluding volume, Ziolkowski explores the popularity of The Juggler of Notre Dame from the 1930s through the Second World War, especially in the Allied Resistance. Its popularity in the United States was subsequently maintained by figures as diverse as Tony Curtis and W. H. Auden, and although recently the story and medievalism have lost ground, the future of PB £26.95 9781783745395 HB £36.95 9781783745401 both holds promise. EPUB £5.99 9781783745425 MOBI £5.99 9781783745432 PDF FREE 9781783745418 XML FREE 9781783745746 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0149 2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 332 pp. | 171 colour ill. www.openbookpublishers.com 48 Literature, Language and Culture Literature, Language and Culture American Studies

Henry James’s Europe Heritage and Transfer

Edited by Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding

Taken both as a whole and individually this collection of essays makes a real contribution to James studies. — Professor Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge

As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New Worlds. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James’s perception of Europe—of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics—which ultimately lead to a profound reevaluation of his writing.

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Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays Hans Walter Gabler

This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses PB £23.95 9781783743636 arts of composition in literature and music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in HB £33.95 9781783743643 , and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors. EPUB £5.99 9781783743667 MOBI £5.99 9781783743674 Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the concerns of the community of critics PDF FREE 9781783743650 and scholars. Gabler responds innovatively to the issues involved and often endeavours to re- XML FREE 9781783744879 think their urgencies by bringing together the orthodox tenets of different schools of textual https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0120 criticism. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 410 pp. | 46 colour ill. the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of scholarly editing in the digital age.

An Anglo-Norman Reader Jane Bliss

This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience.

PB £18.95 9781783743131 HB £29.95 9781783743148 The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of which are EPUB £5.99 9781783743162 not anthologised or translated anywhere else. It explores little-known byways of Arthurian MOBI £5.99 9781783743179 legend and stories of real-life crime and punishment; women’s voices tell history, write PDF FREE 9781783743155 letters, berate pagans; advice is offered on how to win friends and influence people, how to XML FREE 9781783746125 cure people’s ailments and how to keep clear of the law; and stories from the Bible are retold https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0110 with commentary, together with guidance on prayer and confession. 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 416 pp. Tennyson’s Poems New Textual Parallels

R. H. Winnick

Roy Winnick effectively updates the annotations so vital to scholarship in Christopher Ricks’s 1987 of Tennyson to create an important new reference work. Particularly significant are the echoes of women poets that Winnick locates in Tennyson’s poetry in addition to new biblical and classical allusions. In its print version Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels is a handbook for systematic study of Tennyson; in digital form it is a highly useful searchable database. —Prof. Linda K. Hughes

PB £17.95 9781783746613 In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand HB £28.95 9781783746620 previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several EPUB £5.99 9781783746644 words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries MOBI £5.99 9781783743179 PDF FREE 9781783746637 aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search XML FREE 9781783746668 tools over the three decades since the most recent major edition of Tennyson’s poems was https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0161 published. 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 308 pp.

www.openbookpublishers.com 50 Literature, Language and Culture Dickens’s Working Notes for Dombey and Son

Tony Laing

This book is the result of a huge amount of scholarly labour, is comprehensively thought through, clearly and scrupulously presented, and genuinely useful to Dickens scholars. Dickens’s Working Notes for Dombey and Son is more accessible than the equivalent portion of Harry Stone’s PB £21.95 9781783742233 expensive standard publication, Dickens’s Working Notes (1987), and superior in the quality and HB £34.95 9781783742240 detail of the presentation, and the useful commentary, both to Stone and the various paperback EPUB £5.99 9781783742264 editions of this pivotal novel in Dickens’s career. MOBI £5.99 9781783742271 PDF FREE 9781783742257 —Prof. Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge XML FREE 9781783746149 This critical edition of the working notes forDombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wish https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0092 2017 | 273 x 210 mm | 224 pp. | 62 colour ill. to know more about Charles Dickens’s craft and creativity. Drawing on the author’s manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London—and containing hyperlinked facsimiles—Dickens’s Working Notes for Dombey and Son offers a new digital transcription with a fresh commentary by Tony Laing. Unique and innovative, this is the only edition to make Dickens’s working methods visible.

Literature Against Criticism University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict

Martin Paul Eve PB £16.95 9781783742738 Martin Paul Eve is one of the most brilliant scholars of his generation. His ground-breaking HB £29.95 9781783742745 ‘Literature Against Criticism’ combines new and insightful readings of contemporary novelists EPUB £5.99 9781783742769 (from Jennifer Egan to Tom McCarthy and from Sarah Waters to Percival Everett) who are in MOBI £5.99 9781783742776 animated competition with university English. There are very few authors who can combine ethical, PDF FREE 9781783742752 XML FREE 9781783746231 political and aesthetic readings of the contemporary novel with an encyclopaedic knowledge of https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0102 the modern university. 2016 | 234 x 156 mm | 248 pp. | 11 b&w ill. —Bryan Cheyette, Chair in Modern Literature, University of Reading

Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel’s contribution tothe ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it. WINNER OF THE KATHARINE BRIGGS FOLKLORE AWARD The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts PB £17.95 9781783740277 David Atkinson HB £32.95 9781783740284 EPUB £5.95 9781783740307 MOBI £5.95 9781783740314 The depth of Atkinson’s research is impressive and his conclusions will provide ballad scholars with PDF FREE 9781783740291 much food for thought. The author quite elegantly makes the case for an interaction between https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0041 written and oral transmission of ballads for over half a millennium, effectively challenging many 2014 | 234 x 156 mm | 227 pp. | 11 b&w ill. of the received tropes of ballad studies. — James Revell Carr, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The End of the World Apocalypse and Its Aftermath in Western Culture

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This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves PB £15.95 9781906924508 effortlessly from classic novels including Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s HB £29.95 9781906924515 Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, to blockbuster films such as Blade EPUB £5.95 9781906924614 MOBI £5.95 9781906924621 Runner, Armageddon and The Terminator. The author also takes into account religious doctrine, PDF FREE 9781906924522 scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinary study that provides https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0015 profound insight into one of Western culture’s darkest and most enduring preoccupations. 2011 | 234 x 156 mm | 219 pp.

Literature, Language and Culture 51 www.openbookpublishers.com Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation

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Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to- earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical PB £15.95 9781906924331 background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, HB £29.95 9781906924348 PDF FREE 9781906924355 the far and the near. Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan’s fascinating https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0012 2011 | 234 x 156 mm | 343 pp. | 41 b&w ill. study sets our present conventions into cross-cultural and historical perspective.

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Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English children’s stories during the nineteenth century and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive study of the impact of Germany on English children’s PB £15.95 9781906924096 books, covering the period from 1780 to the First World War. Beginning with The Adventures HB £29.95 9781906924102 of Baron Munchausen PDF FREE 9781906924119 , moving through the classics and including many other collections of fairytales and legends, it covers a wealth of translated and adapted material. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0004 2009 | 234 x 156 mm | 470 pp. | 33 b&w ill. Related Titles

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Yeats’s Legacies Yeats Annual No. 21

Warwick Gould (ed.)

The admirable ‘Yeats Annual’ . . . a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats. — Bernard O’Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement

The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman addresses Yeats’s responses to the Rising’s appropriation of his symbols and myths, the daring Yeats Annual, No. 21 artistry of his ritual drama developed from Noh, his poetry of personal utterance, and his vision ISSN: 0278-7687 (Print); 2054-3611 (Online) of art as a body reborn rather than a treasure preserved amid the testing of the illusions that PB £21.95 9781783744541 HB £31.95 9781783744558 hold civilizations together in ensuing wars. Warwick Gould looks at Yeats as founding Senator EPUB £5.99 9781783744572 in the new Free State, and his valiant struggle against the literary censorship law of 1929 (with MOBI £5.99 9781783744589 its present-day legacy of Irish anti-blasphemy law still presenting a constitutional challenge). PDF FREE 9781783744565 Drawing on Gregory Estate documents, James Pethica looks at the evictions which preceded https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0135 Yeats’s purchase of Thoor Ballylee in Galway; Lauren Arrington looks back at Yeats, Ezra Pound, 2018 | 216 x 140 mm | 684 pp. | 43 colour ill. and the Ghosts of The Winding Stair (1929) in Rapallo. Having co-edited both versions of A Vision, Catherine Paul offers some profound reflections on ‘Yeats and Belief’. Grevel Lindop provides a pioneering view of Yeats’s impact on English mystical verse and on Charles Williams who, while at Oxford University Press, helped publish the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Stanley van der Ziel looks at the presence of Shakespeare in Yeats’s Purgatory. William H. O’Donnell examines the vexed textual legacy of his late work, On the Boiler while Gould considers the challenge Yeats’s intentionalism posed for once-fashionable post-structuralist editorial theory. John Kelly recovers a startling autobiographical short story by Maud Gonne. While nine works of current biographical, textual and literary scholarship are reviewed, Maud Gonne is the focus of debate for two reviewers, as are Eva Gore-Booth, Constance and Casimir Markievicz, Rudyard Kipling, David Jones, T. S. Eliot and his presence on the radio.

Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell Yeats Annual No. 20 Yeats Annual, No. 20 Edited by Warwick Gould ISSN: 0278-7687 (Print); 2054-3611 (Online) PB £18.95 9781783740178 This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB HB £39.95 9781783740185 International Annual W. B. Yeats Lectures Series (2003–2008) by Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, John EPUB £5.95 9781783740208 Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Bernard O’Donoghue and Helen Vendler. These revised essays cover such MOBI £5.95 9781783740215 PDF FREE 9781783740192 themes as Yeats and the Refrain, Yeats as a Love Poet, Yeats, Ireland and Europe, the puzzles he https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0081 created and solved with his art of poetic sequences, and his long and crucial interaction with the 2016 | 216 x 140 mm | 510 pp. | 56 colour ill. emerging T. S. Eliot.

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Yeats’s Mask Yeats Annual No. 19

Edited by Margaret Hill Harper and Warwick Gould

Yeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written as ‘texts for exposition’ of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights ‘The Mask before The Mask’ in numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King’s Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in Yeats Annual, No. 19 March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats’s friendship with the ISSN: 0278-7687 (Print); 2054-3611 (Online) Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his PB £18.95 9781783740178 writing of ‘Lapis Lazuli’ and his self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and the key HB £39.95 9781783740185 occult epistolary exchange ‘Leo Africanus’, edited from MSS by Steve L. Adams and George Mills EPUB £5.95 9781783740208 Harper, is republished from the elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982). MOBI £5.95 9781783740215 PDF FREE 9781783740192 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0038 2013 | 216 x 140 mm | 495 pp. | 25 b&w llus. The Living Stream Yeats Annual No. 18

Edited by Warwick Gould

Yeats Annual No. 18 is another special number in this renowned research-level series offering a tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares. Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a of Jeffares’s work. Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Warwick Gould, Joseph M. Hassett, Phillip L. Marcus, Ann Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey and Helen Vendler offer essays on such topics as Yeats and the Colours of Poetry, Yeats’s Shakespeare, Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy, Raftery’s work on Yeats’s Thoor Ballylee, Edmund Dulac’s portrait of Mrs George Yeats, The Tower as an anti-Modernist monument, with close studies of ‘Vacillation’, ‘Her Triumph’, and ‘The Cold Heaven’. Throughout, the essays are inflected with memories of Jeffares and his critical methods. The volume is rounded with further essays onA Vision by Neil Mann and Matthew de Forrest, as well as reviews of recent editions and studies.

Yeats Annual, No. 18 ISSN: 0278-7687 (Print); 2054-3611 (Online) PB £18.95 9781909254350 HB £39.95 9781909254367 EPUB £5.95 9781909254381 MOBI £5.95 9781909254398 PDF FREE 9781909254374 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0028 2013 | 216 x 140 mm | 396 pp. | 24 b&w ill.

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Bourdieu and Literature John R.W. Speller

Speller’s volume aims not only to provide an account of Bourdieu’s main theories and analyses of literature, but also has the polemical aim of refuting critics who suggest that Bourdieu’s view of literature, grounded as it is in an analysis of the social relations of the cultural field, is deterministic and reductive. — Helen Finch, Journal of Contemporary European Studies

One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Pierre Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his long-standing interest in literature has often been overlooked. This wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu’s intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. Bourdieu and Literature is the first full-length study of Bourdieu’s work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology. PB £15.95 9781906924423 HB £29.95 9781906924430 EPUB £5.95 9781783740055 MOBI £5.95 9781783740062 Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell PDF FREE 9781906924447 Edited by Murielle Lucie Clément https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0027 2011 | 234 x 156 mm | 203 pp. Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell a créé l’événement de la rentrée littéraire 2006. Selon l’auteur, la portée du roman dépasse le seul génocide des Juifs pour revêtir une dimension universelle. Les angles d’approche dans Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell sont aussi nombreux que variés sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité. Ce recueil n’est pas un jugement de l’œuvre, ni une interrogation sur sa recevabilité, pas plus qu’une assertion sur les limites de sa légitimité en tant que roman ou une justification, mais ce recueil est novateur puisque le premier à se concentrer sur le texte des Bienveillantes. Le présent recueil offre un riche éventail d’angles d’approches. Ainsi les analyses ont-elles accentué les personnages qu’ils soient historiques ou fictifs. Mais aussi, les aspects formels, comme la vision du narrateur, le style, la composition, l’esthétique et les influences littéraires. Et encore, les thèmes tels le parricide, l’homosexualité, l’antisémitisme et la Shoah. L’idéologie impliquée se devait d’être interrogée également. Un autre thème crucial du roman est la question qu’il pose entre le Bien et le Mal et sa banalisation. La réception de l’œuvre et les raisons de son succès qui lui valu plusieurs grands prix littéraires a été abordée ainsi que les éléments du grotesque que certains n’ont pas manqué de remarquer.

Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as ‘deliberately repellent’ by The New York Times, Jonathan Littell’s novel tells the story of World War II through the eyes of former SS officer Maximilien Aue. This is the first academic study of this controversial, best-selling work. Twenty-one leading scholars discuss the aesthetics, themes and characters of the novel, PB £15.95 9781906924225 as well as formal aspects of Littell’s writing. They tackle ideas surrounding parricide, HB £29.95 9781906924218 PDF FREE 9781906924232 genocide, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, as well as Littell’s portrayal of both historical and fictional characters. The collection offers a deeply varied range of approaches to https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0006 2009 | 234 x 156 mm | 344 pp. | 4 b&w ill. Littell’s work and is essential reading for anyone interested in representations of World War II, the Holocaust and contemporary French literature.

All the essays in this collection are written in French.

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These fresh and informative translations recover texts that have not recently been revived, or do not exist at all in a critical edition in English. Including cutting-edge interactive and multimedia resources, the literature is brought to life using musical recordings, hypertext annotations and vivid illustrations.

L’idée de l’Europe au Siècle des Lumières

Textes réunis par Rotraud von Kulessa et Catriona Seth

Face aux défis – entre autres politiques – auxquels sont confrontés différents pays européens, les chercheurs dix-huitiémistes ont souhaité revenir sur des expressions anciennes de valeurs partagées et les interrogations passées sur des questions qui restent souvent d’actualité. Au Siècle des Lumières, nombre d’hommes et de femmes de lettres ont envisagé l’avenir du continent en particulier pour entériner leur souhait de garantir la paix en Europe. Les textes, réunis dans cette anthologie, et signés des grands écrivains du temps (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume ou encore Staël), comme d’oubliés de l’histoire, présentent, avec quelques Open Book Classics, Vol. 6 excursus chronologiques (de Sully à Hugo) les réflexions de penseurs d’un dix-huitième siècle ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) aux bornes chronologiques étendues – l’émergence et la chute de l’Empire engendrent des bouleversements nombreux –, sur l’Europe, son histoire, sa diversité, mais aussi sur ce qu’ont en PB £14.95 9781783743438 commun les nations qui composent, dans leur variété, un ensemble géographique. Ils mettent HB £26.95 9781783743445 en évidence les origines historiques d’un projet d’union européenne, le souhait de consolider EPUB £2.99 9781783743469 MOBI £2.99 9781783743476 les liens du continent avec le Maghreb ou la Turquie, l’importance accordée au commerce et les PDF FREE 9781783743452 inquiétudes suscitées par les sursauts de l’histoire, mais aussi l’espoir placé dans les générations XML FREE 9781783746156 futures. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0116 This book is written in French. 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 174 pp. | 63 colour ill.

Denis Diderot Rameau’s Nephew—Le Neveu de Rameau A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

Editor M. Hobson. Translators K.E. Tunstall and C. Warman. Music Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, director P. Duc

It is no exaggeration to say that Hobson, Tunstall, and Warman, with the aid of Pascal Duc and his students at the aforementioned Conservatoire have attempted something truly remarkable: reconstructing the cultural context of one of the most complex and important works in eighteenth- century literature. [...] poring over the richness of this critical edition unquestionably allows for a deeper understanding of what is arguably Diderot’s most multifaceted and brilliant text.

Open Book Classics, Vol. 4 —Andrew S. Curran, H-France Review, 17 (January 2017), 1–3. ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) Probably completed in 1772–73, Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, PB £18.95 9781909254909 Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot HB £32.95 9781909254916 shares. This interactive, multi-media and bilingual edition offers a brand new translation of EPUB £5.95 9781909254930 Diderot’s famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies MOBI £5.95 9781909254947 of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text provide a window onto the complex social PDF FREE 9781909254923 XML FREE 9781783746316 and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces specially https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0098 selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire national supérieur de 2016 | 234 x 156 mm | 257 pp. musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far 101 colour ill. | 18 embedded audio files beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique. This new edition includes: Introduction| Original text |English translation| Embedded audio-files | Explanatory notes | Interactive material| 100 colour illustrations| Additional online resources

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Tolerance The Beacon of the Enlightenment

Edited by Caroline Warman

Tolerance has attracted widespread media coverage on its launch on the 1st anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks on 7 January 2016, with articles on BBC News, The Guardian, Times Higher, MashableUK, and Bookanista.

Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, Open Book Classics, Vol. 3 and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as PB £14.95 9781783742035 HB £26.95 9781783742042 an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the EPUB £2.99 9781783742066 support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over MOBI £2.99 9781783742073 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University. PDF FREE 9781783742059 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0088 2016 | 234 x 156 mm | 144 pp. | 38 colour ill.

Related Titles

On History Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)

Jules Michelet. Transl. by F. Kimmich and E.K. Kaplan. Introduction by L. Gossman Open Book Classics, Vol. 1

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Love and Intrigue Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich

Written between 1782 and 1784, Kabale und Liebe bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fraught liaison he entered shortly after his flight. It tells the tale of a love affair that crosses the boundaries of class, between a fiery and rebellious young nobleman and the beautiful and dutiful daughter of a musician. Their affair becomes entangled in the competing purposes of malign and not-so-malign figures present at an obscure and sordid princely Open Book Classics, Vol. 11 court somewhere in Germany. It all leads to a climactic murder–suicide Love and ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) Intrigue, the third of Schiller’s canonical plays (after The Robbers and Fiesco’s Conspiracy PB £16.95 9781783747382 at Genoa), belongs to the genre of domestic tragedy, with a small cast and an action HB £26.95 9781783747399 indoors. It takes place as the highly conventional world of the late eighteenth century EPUB £5.99 9781783747412 MOBI £5.99 9781783747429 stands poised to erupt, and these tensions pervade its setting and emerge in its action. PDF FREE 9781783747405 This lively play brims with comedy and tragedy expressed in a colorful, highly colloquial, XML FREE 9781783747436 sometimes scandalous prose well captured in Flora Kimmich’s skilled and informed https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0175 translation. An authoritative essay by Roger Paulin introduces the reader to the play. 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 130 pp. | 7 colour ill. Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece

Howard Gaskill

Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the Open Book Classics, Vol. 10 narrator undergoes a transformation that culminates in the realisation of his true vocation. ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) Though Hölderlin is now established as a great lyric poet, recognition of his novel as a PB £16.95 9781783746552 supreme achievement of European Romanticism has been belated in the Anglophone HB £26.95 9781783746569 world. Incorporating the aesthetic evangelism that is a characteristic feature of the age, EPUB £5.99 9781783746583 MOBI £5.99 9781783746590 Hyperion preaches a message of redemption through beauty. The resolution of the PDF FREE 9781783746576 contradictions and antinomies raised in the novel is found in the act of articulation itself. XML FREE 9781783746675 To a degree remarkable in a prose work of any length, what it means is inseparable from https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0160 how it means. In this skilful translation, Gaskill conveys the beautiful music and rhythms of 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 234 pp. | 1 b&w ill. Hölderlin’s language to an English-speaking reader.

Don Carlos Infante of Spain A Dramatic Poem

Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich

Schiller described Don Carlos as ‘a family portrait in a princely house.’ It interweaves political machinations with powerful personal relationships to create a complex and resonant tragedy. The conflict between absolutism and liberty appealed not only to audiences but also to other artists and gave rise to several operas, not least to Verdi’s Open Book Classics, Vol. 9 great Don Carlos of 1867. The play, which the playwright never finished to his satisfaction, ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) lives on nonetheless among his best-loved works and is translated here with flair and skill PB £15.95 9781783744466 HB £25.95 9781783744473 by Flora Kimmich. Like her translations of Schiller’s Wallenstein and his Fiesco’s Conspiracy EPUB £5.99 9781783744497 at Genoa, this is a lively and accessible rendering of a classic text. As with all books in the MOBI £5.99 9781783744503 Open Book Classics series, it is supported by an introduction and notes that that inform PDF FREE 9781783744480 XML FREE 9781783745944 and enlighten both the student and the general reader. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0134 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 212 pp. | 7 b&w ill. www.openbookpublishers.com 58 Literature, Language and Culture Open Book Classics

Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

Rotraud von Kulessa und Catriona Seth (Hg.)

Angesichts der aktuellen Herausforderungen – nicht zuletzt politischer Natur – mit denen sich viele europäische Staaten konfrontiert sehen, haben sich die Aufklärungsforscher entschlossen, auf Open Book Classics, Vol. 8 die Geschichte der Europaidee zurückzukommen. Bereits im 18. Jahrhundert und zuvor besann ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) man sich auf gemeinsame Werte und eine gemeinsame Geschichte; die damals gestellten Fragen PB £14.95 9781783743988 HB £26.95 9781783743995 ähneln in vielen Bereichen den heutigen. Die Autoren und Philosophen der Aufklärung haben so EPUB £2.99 9781783744015 bereits über die Möglichkeiten einer europäischen Einigung zwecks Sicherung des Friedens auf MOBI £2.99 9781783744022 dem Kontinent nachgedacht. Die Texte der vorliegenden Anthologie, verfasst sowohl von den PDF FREE 9781783744008 großen Denkern der Zeit (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume oder Germaine de Staël) XML FREE 9781783744091 wie auch von weniger bekannten oder gar in Vergessenheit geratenen, präsentieren, mit einigen https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0127 chronologischen Exkursen (von Sully bis Victor Hugo), die Ideen der Denker eines weit gefassten 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 180 pp. | 63 colour ill. 18. Jahrhunderts zu Europa, seiner Geschichte, seiner Vielfalt, aber auch zu den Gemeinsamkeiten der Nationen, die trotz ihrer Vielfalt eine geographische Einheit bilden. Die Texte zeigen uns so die historischen Ursprünge des Projektes der europäischen Einigung, erörtern die Vorteile einer assoziierten Türkei und einer Einbindung des Maghreb sowie die Bedeutung des europäischen Handels. Sie verweisen auch auf die durch die historischen Unruhen verursachten Ängste wie auch auf die Zukunftsperspektiven eines vereinten Europas. This book is written in German.

Wallenstein Open Book Classics Series, Vol. 5 A Dramatic Poem ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich PB £14.95 9781783740420 HB £24.95 9781783740437 EPUB £5.95 9781783740451 The Wallenstein trilogy, formally innovative and modern beyond its time, is a brilliant study of MOBI £5.95 9781783740468 power, ambition and betrayal. In this new translation—the latest in a long line of distinguished PDF FREE 9781783740444 English translations starting with Coleridge’s in Schiller’s lifetime—Flora Kimmich succeeds XML FREE 9781783745883 in rendering what is often a difficult source text into language that is at once accessible and https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0058 enjoyable. Coupled with a complete and careful commentary and a glossary, both of which are 2015 | 234 x 156 mm | 150 pp. | 2 b&w ill. targeted to undergraduates, it is accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger Paulin. Kimmich’s translation will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set of plays for the first time.

Fiesco’s Conspiracy at Genoa Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich. Introduction by John Guthrie

Within two years of the success of his first playDie Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on a rebellion in sixteenth century Italy, its title: The Conspiracy of Fiesco Open Book Classics Series, Vol. 2 at Genoa. A Republican Tragedy. At the head of the conspiracy stood Gian Luigi de’ Fieschi ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) (1524–1547), Schiller’s Count Fiesco, a clever, courageous and charismatic figure, an epicurean PB £14.95 9781783740420 and unhesitant egoist, politically ambitious, but unsure of his aims and principles. With Fiesco HB £24.95 9781783740437 EPUB £5.95 9781783740451 as tragic hero Schiller examines the complex entanglement of morality and politics in his own MOBI £5.95 9781783740468 times that was to preoccupy him throughout his career. There have been some noteworthy PDF FREE 9781783740444 productions on the German stage and television, even if it has remained somewhat inthe XML FREE 9781783746453 shadow of Schiller’ other works. In the English-speaking world it is all but unknown and very https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0058 seldom performed. This translation aims to remedy that oversight. 2015 | 234 x 156 mm | 150 pp. | 2 b&w ill.

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Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy Volume 1

Edited by George Corbett and Heather Webb

This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new PB £17.95 9781783741724 ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an HB £32.95 9781783741731 indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. EPUB £5.95 9781783741755 MOBI £5.95 9781783741762 The Vertical Readings volumes have their origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures PDF FREE 9781783741748 held in 2012–2016 in Trinity College, University of Cambridge, which can be accessed at the XML FREE 9781783746101 ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ website. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0066 2015 | 234 x 156 mm | 288 pp.

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy Volume 2

Edited by George Corbett and Heather Webb

This second volume comes into being as vertical readings are proliferating and becoming part of the language of Dante Studies. ‘Verticality’ offers itself as a tool to engage with methodological concerns about modes of reading the poem, and as another way to ensure PB £17.95 9781783742530 that studies of specific lines or cantos of the poem benefit from a broader consideration HB £32.95 9781783742547 of the structuring concerns of the poem as a whole. The essays in this volume pick up on EPUB £5.95 9781783742561 the theoretical questions of the first volume with the increased depth of reference that the MOBI £5.95 9781783742578 cumulative conversation offers. PDF FREE 9781783742554 XML FREE 9781783746118 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0100 2015 | 234 x 156 mm | 304 pp. | 1 b&w ill.

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy Volume 3

Edited by George Corbett and Heather Webb

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between PB £18.95 9781783743582 same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has HB £32.95 9781783743599 been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. EPUB £5.99 9781783743612 MOBI £5.99 9781783743629 PDF FREE 9781783743605 XML FREE 9781783744534 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0119 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 264 pp. | 10 colour ill.

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Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry Reinventing the Canon

Edited by Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton and Alexandra Smith

Literary canon and national identity are inextricably tied together, the composition of a canon being the attempt to single out those literary works that best express a nation’s culture. This process is, of course, fluid and subject to significant shifts, particularly at times of epochal change. This volume explores changes in the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to the end of Putin’s second term as Russian President in 2008. In the wake of major institutional changes, such as the abolition of state censorship and the introduction of a market economy, the way was open for wholesale reinterpretation of twentieth-century poets such as Iosif Brodskii, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandel′shtam, their works and their lives. Canon revision further reflects contemporary concerns with the destabilising effects of emigration and the internet, and the desire to reconnect with pre-revolutionary cultural traditions through a narrative of the past which foregrounds continuity. Despite persistent nostalgic yearnings in some quarters for a single canon, the current situation is defiantly diverse, balancing both the Soviet literary tradition and the parallel contemporaneous literary worlds of the emigration and the underground. Required reading for students, teachers and lovers of Russian literature, Twentieth-Century PB £25.95 9781783740871 Russian Poetry brings our understanding of post-Soviet Russia up to date. HB £36.95 9781783740888 EPUB £5.99 9781783740901 MOBI £5.99 9781783740918 PDF FREE 9781783740895 XML FREE 9781783745852 Related Titles https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0076 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 512 pp. | 5 b&w ill.

Information and Empire Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600–1850

Edited by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers

In the Lands of the Romanovs An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613–1917)

Anthony Cross

Beyond Holy Russia The Life and Times of Stephen Graham

Michael Hughes

Literature, Language and Culture 61 www.openbookpublishers.com The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 By Nokhem Shtif, translated and annotated by Maurice Wolfthal

Edited by Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton and Alexandra Smith

Between 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless and destitute, including orphaned children. A number of groups were responsible for these brutal attacks, including the Volunteer Army, a faction of the Russian White Army.The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the Holocaust is a vivid and horrifying account of the atrocities committed by the Volunteer Army, written by Nokhem Shtif, an eminent Yiddish linguist and social activist who joined the relief efforts on behalf of the pogrom survivors in Kiev. Shtif’s testimony, published in 1923, was born from his encounters there and from the weighty archive of documentation amassed by the relief workers. This was one of the earliest efforts to systematically record human rights atrocities on a mass scale. PB £14.95 9781783747443 HB £24.95 9781783747450 Originally written in Yiddish and here skillfully translated and introduced by Maurice Wolfthal, EPUB £5.99 9781783747467 The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 brings to light a terrible and historically neglected series MOBI £5.99 9781783747481 of persecutions that foreshadowed the Holocaust by twenty years. It is essential reading for PDF FREE 9781783747467 academics and students in the fields of human rights, Jewish studies, Russian and Soviet XML FREE 9781783747498 studies, and Ukraine studies. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0176 2019| 234 x 156 mm | 118 pp. | 3 b&w ill.

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