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2nd textbook 2nd textbook English in Practice edition How to Read Texts edition In Pursuit of English Studies A Student Guide to Critical Peter Barry Approaches and Skills “I cannot imagine a better way for a student Neil McCaw of English to start his or her studies than by “How to Read Texts is filled with a passion for reading and for reading English in Practice. The best thing about authorship. Lively and approachable, this is a great book for Peter Barry’s book is that issues of fundamental anyone interested in how we approach the texts we encounter in

importance are introduced by means of detailed our lives.” Graeme Harper, Bangor University, UK L iterary examples, so that the student reader never need feel lost or out of his or her depth. But at the same • Updated second edition helps students analyse a wide range of time it is a book that forces the reader to think multi-media texts beyond the literary rather than merely to absorb facts and opinions.” • Now includes additional guidance on writing critical essays and tips Jeremy Hawthorn, Norwegian University of Science for independent research and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. • A practical and accessible student guide to critical reading skills, “Students will find Barry’s style clear, honest and informative” including practice exercises Times Higher Education • Now covering multi-media texts and practical advice on essay- S tudies • A key foundation book for those at the outset of their courses in writing and independent research, this is an essential guide to English critical reading at university level • Rooted in the realities of day-to-day practice and engaged with Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students theoretical debates to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical • The author is well known for his immensely successful Beginning introduction for students developing their own critical and close- Theory, now in its third edition reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: • Aimed at those who are taking or teaching English degrees, this book is a reflective overview of the discipline’s core and why we study it • Debates around critical theory Fully revised and updated, this new edition of English in Practice aims • The role of history and context to define or redefine our purposes for studying English. Including five • The links between creativity and criticism new chapters, English in Practice outlines key topics such as literary criticism and theory, English as language, online resources and advice • The relationship between author, reader and text. on writing a dissertation. The book works through a series of fully Neil McCaw is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University developed examples rather than abstract exposition, encouraging of Winchester, UK. student readers to think for themselves. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 Peter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University, UK. His has 192 pages published on twentieth and twenty-first-century literature (especially modern PB 9781441190666 • £14.99 / $24.95 and contemporary poetry) and literary theory. HB 9781441174307 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441142221 • £14.99 / $19.99 UK September 2013 • US November 2013 224 pages PB 9781780930336 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781780931074 • £14.99 / $19.95

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textbook 2nd textbook Studying English Literature Studying Literary Theory edition bestseller An Introduction bestseller Ashley Chantler and David Higgins

S tudies Roger Webster “Studying English Literature contains literary and social history and a glossary of terms, balances “The explanations are lucid, helpfully contrasting the various ­CHOICE, of 1st Edition thoughtful generalizations with careful case theories.” studies, and explains how best to use literary Like its previous edition, this book provides an accessible introductory theory and secondary criticism (and how not to use guide to some of the most important aspects of literary theory, linking it). This excellent guide will be consulted often them to more traditional terms and approaches. In doing so, it offers a by undergraduates studying literature, if they are fuller introduction to a wider range of literary theories, including post- wise.” Merritt Moseley, Professor of Literature and structuralism, post-modernism, New Historicism, post-colonial theory,

L iterary Language, The University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA and theories of sexual identity. Additional theories are revised and • Chronological structure introduces history of English literature extended in this edition with additional illustrative material. from Renaissance to the present, each chapter focusing on a key Roger Webster is Professor of Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores period and introducing the historical context, key authors and texts, University, UK. criticism and theory UK October 1995 • US October 1995 • Practical case studies on major texts commonly studied at level one 144 pages provide analyses demonstrating the critical techniques, tools and PB 9780340584996 • £14.99 / $45.00 terms introduced Series: Studying... Ashley Chanter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK. David Higgins is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. Modern Literary Theory 4th textbook edition I ntroductory UK February 2010 • US April 2010 bestseller 264 pages A Reader PB 9780826497505 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9780826497499 • £60.00 / $110.00 Edited by Patricia Waugh and Philip Rice • Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, this book offers an authoritative selection of essays and documents with helpful introductory commentary Studying the Novel 6th textbook edition • Includes texts which do not deal directly with literature yet have a bestseller Jeremy Hawthorn fundamental importance to the discipline from thinkers including “A model of compact exposition” The Times Marx, Freud and de Beauvoir Educational Supplement Patricia Waugh is Professor of English Literature at Durham University, UK. • The most established and well-thought-of Philip Rice was formerly Principal Lecturer in Communication Studies at introduction to the novel, first published in 1985 Coventry University, UK. and updated every four years since UK May 2001 • US May 2001 • Includes coverage of film adaptation, of fiction and 512 pages electronic media and of cyberfiction PB 9780340761915 • £19.99 / $39.95 • Sophisticated enough to appeal to Masters students, while lightly- written and engaging enough to entice reading-group members • Includes topics for discussion and practical tips on writing essays and answering exam questions • The section on the ‘short story’ and the ‘novella’ have been developed into two separate chapters to reflect the increasing popularity of these areas Jeremy Hawthorn is Professor of British Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

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2nd textbook bestseller The Poetry Toolkit edition Literary Theory The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry A Guide for the Perplexed Rhian Williams Mary Klages “Whether you’re a new-comer to poetry or a This Guide for the Perplexed provides an advanced longtime reader, Rhian Williams’ The Poetry introduction to literary theory from basic information Toolkit offers welcomed guidance. The book ranges and orientation for the uninformed leading on to from the introductory (what does “stress” mean?) more sophisticated readings. It engages directly with the difficulty many students find intimidating, to the sophisticated and complex. Throughout, the L iterary author provides clear frameworks for interpreting asking ‘What is “Literary Theory’’?’ and offering a how poetry’s formal structures participate in the clear, concise, accessible guide to the major theories work of meaning-making. This book will relieve and theorists, including: humanism; structuralism; students’ anxiety and deepen their understanding.” Jason R. poststructuralism; psychoanalytic approaches; feminist approaches; Rudy,Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, College queer theory; ideology and discourse; new historicism; race and Park, USA postcolonialism; postmodernism. The final chapter points to new directions in literary and cultural theory. • Now in its 2nd edition, this guide helps students build the knowledge and tools needed to tackle poetry with confidence Mary Klages is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. S tudies • Now includes practice comparative readings and more contemporary examples in the expanded close reading section UK November 2006 • US January 2007 192 pages • Easy to use reference format allows students to find key information PB 9780826490735 • £14.99 / $22.95 quickly HB 9780826490728 • £45.00 / $80.00 • Including exercises and practice readings, this guide helps students Individual eBook 9781441165404 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441167811 • £45.00 / $80.00 master the study of poetry Series: Guides for the Perplexed Rhian Williams is Lecturer in Nineteenth-century Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 288 pages From Language to textbook PB 9781441182784 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441116215 • £55.00 / $100.00 Creative Writing An Introduction On Modern Poetry Philip Seargeant and Bill Greenwell • The only book of its kind to combine the study of From Theory to Total Criticism English language with practical creative writing Robert Rowland Smith exercises All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the • It draws on The Open University’s expertise in 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While ‘Lit creating market-leading textbooks and guides for crit’ pored over the author’s every line, ‘Theory’ students, tutors and aspiring writers stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the • Includes practical exercises to develop and refine metaphysical mists. Drawing on the key insights of writing skills both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to get beyond the opposition between them, proposing • This textbook examines the ways that language is used in different instead a ‘total criticism’ that draws on all resources contexts and combines it with the study and practice of creative available. It combines ‘analytic irony’ with ‘imaginative empathy’ in writing strategies order to generate fresh insights. The themes discussed in the first part Developed by The Open University, this textbook offers an innovative of the book include tradition, voice, rhyme, rhetoric, and objects, introduction to the study of the English language and the practices, bringing in critics such as Eliot, Heidegger, Empson, Blackmur, and De skills and strategies of creative writing. For anyone studying English Man. The second part examines texts by Tennyson, Symons, Hopkins, Language or Creative Writing at tertiary level or in higher education, Larkin and Prynne. or for developing writers and those interested in the nature of Robert Rowland Smith is Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, UK. linguistic creativity, it offers a uniquely integrated approach. Readers will better understand the structure and uses of language and be able UK July 2012 • US September 2012 to use a full range of strategies in crafting and developing their own 208 pages writing. PB 9781441174222 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9781441165725 • £60.00 / $110.00 Philip Seargeant is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language Individual eBook 9781441148520 • £18.99 / $23.99 and Communication, The Open University, UK. Library eBook 9781441149763 • £60.00 / $110.00 Bill Greenwell is Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University, UK. He is co-author of A Creative Writing Handbook: Developing Dramatic Technique, Individual Style and Voice (Bloomsbury, 2009).

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Maurice Blanchot and Style in Theory Adaptation Studies Fragmentary Writing Between Literature and Philosophy New Challenges, New Directions T heory A Change of Epoch Edited by Ivan Callus, Edited by Jorgen Bruhn, James Corby, and Gloria Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Leslie Hill Lauri-Lucente Frisvold Hanssen “Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing is a “Does style matter? It Extending the boundaries remarkable study of the is a question that goes of contemporary adaptation most extraordinary and right to the heart of studies, this book enduring literary figure the traditionally fraught brings together leading L iterary in twentieth-century relationship between international scholars to France. An acknowledged literature and philosophy. survey new directions in the authority on Blanchot [This] is an important and timely collection field. Re-thinking the key questions at the and his peers, Leslie Hill guides the reader of essays that answers this question with heart of the discipline, Adaptation Studies: through some of the most difficult and an emphatic and compelling ‘yes’. Offering New Directions, New Challenges explores a exciting writing produced after the Second an impressive range of profound and wide range of perspectives and case studies in World War: his remarks on the imbrications engaging reflections on the question of cross-media transformation. of literature and philosophy are never less style in its various literary and philosophical Jorgen Bruhn is Associate Professor in the School than illuminating. Any new book by Leslie manifestations, Style in Theory shows us of Language and Literature at Linneaus University, Hill is an event in French Studies, and this why we ought to be thinking about style Sweden. Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas one is no exception.” Kevin Hart, Edwin B. differently.” Anne Gjelsvik is Professor of Media Studies at the Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University Professor of Philosophy, The New School, New Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology. York, USA of Virginia, USA Eirik Frisvold Hanssen is Associate Professor of Ivan Callus is Associate Professor and Head of the For the first time in any language, this book Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science Department of English at the University of Malta. and Technology. explores in detail Blanchot’s own writing in fragments in order to understand the stakes James Corby is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Malta. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 of the fragmentary within philosophical and 208 pages literary modernity. Gloria Lauri-Lucente is Director of the Institute PB 9781441192660 • £21.99 / $34.95 of Anglo-Italian Studies, Head of the Department of HB 9781441194671 • £65.00 / $120.00 Leslie Hill is Professor of French Studies at the Italian and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Individual eBook 9781441127969 • £21.99 / $23.99 University of Warwick, UK. University of Malta. Library eBook 9781441106476 • £65.00 / $120.00

UK September 2012 • US July 2012 UK January 2013 • US November 2012 400 pages 288 pages PB 9781441166227 • £22.99 / $39.95 PB 9781441128935 • £21.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441125279 • £70.00 / $130.00 HB 9781441122186 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441171276 • £22.99 / $24.99 Individual eBook 9781441159007 • £21.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441186980 • £70.00 / $110 Library eBook 9781441118592 • £65.00 / $120.00 The Transformative Humanities Filmspeak A Manifesto How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies Mikhail Epstien Edward Tomarken Edited by Igor E. Klyukanov Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which Foreword by Caryl Emerson uses specific examples to show how once arcane literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular Mikhail Epstein outlines the ‘desirable’ disciplines culture. Issues such as the nature of knowledge and methodologies that may emerge in the or truth, the function of personal response in humanities in response to the new realities of the interpretation, the nature of the forces of politics, twenty-first century. Are the humanities a purely the female alternative to the male view of the world, scholarly field, or should they have some active, are fundamental for all of us. And intelligent analysis constructive supplement? We know that technology of the relationship between literary theory and popular culture can serves as the practical extension of the natural sciences, and politics help us to understand our fast-changing world. Here, experienced as the extension of the social sciences. Both technology and politics literary scholar and teacher Edward L. Tomarken explains how it is are designed to transform what their respective disciplines study possible to study the rudiments of literary theory by watching and objectively. The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto addresses the analyzing contemporary mainstream movies ­– from The Dark Knight to question: Is there any activity in the humanities that would correspond The Devil Wears Prada. to the transformative status of technology and politics? Edward Tomarken is an emeritus professor of English at Miami University, Ohio, Mikhail Epstein is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and USA. Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK. UK November 2012 • US September 2012 Igor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington 208 pages University, USA. PB 9780826428936 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9780826428929 • £55.00 / $100.00 Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Individual eBook 9781623562908 • £17.99 / $23.99 Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University, USA. Library eBook 9781623563790 • £55.00 / $100.00

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Contagious Metaphor Mindful Aesthetics The Constitution of open Peta Mitchell Literature and the Science of Mind English Literature “Peta Mitchell’s highly Edited by Chris Danta Ideology, State and Nation readable Contagious and Helen Groth T heory Metaphor explores medical Michael Gardiner In the last few decades, and popular beliefs and In this extended essay, literary critics have practices about contagion Michael Gardiner argues that increasingly drawn insights – and the metaphors that English Literature emerges from cognitive neuroscience shape them. Reaching back from the development of the to deepen and clarify our through the nineteenth state and that consequently understanding of literary century and then ranging widely through it has suppressed the idea of representations of mind. more recent decades, she shows how the nation. His claim is that While cognitive literary studies has reinforced ambivalence about figurative language and English Literature has lost how central the concept of mind is to misunderstanding of metaphor itself has its form since its methodology and canonicity aesthetic practice from the classical period shaped our responses to epidemics both depended so heavily on a constitutional to the present, critics have questioned its imagined and experienced. From miasma to form which can no longer be defended. literalism and selective borrowing of scientific Dionysian frenzy to memes on the internet, His view is that a lack of appreciation of authority. Mindful Aesthetics presents both Mitchell challenges our assumptions about ‘hard-edged’ political factors have led to a these perspectives as part of a broader both language and contagion, providing ‘continuant’ and regressive form of English consideration of the ongoing and vital engaging and provocative analyses of Literature which tends to hang on to stifling importance of shifting concepts of mind to examples from film, philosophy, linguistics methodologies. In its place, he appeals for both literary and critical practice. and literature.” Pamela K. Gilbert, the creation of a more open-ended, inclusive, Department of English University of Florida, Chris Danta is Senior Lecturer in English in the internationalist, and comparative ‘literature USA School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the of England’. University of New South Wales, Australia. In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers Michael Gardiner is Professor of English and Helen Groth is an Associate Professor and ARC Comparative Literary Studies at the University of an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the Future Fellow in the School of English, Media and Warwick, UK. metaphor of contagion and its relationship to Performing Arts at the University of New South the workings of language. Wales, Australia. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 Peta Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in the School 160 pages of English, Media Studies in Art History at the UK May 2013 • US March 2013 HB 9781780930367 • £50.00 / $90.00 University of Queensland, Australia. 224 pages Individual eBook 9781780931104 • £16.99 / $22.95 HB 9781441102867 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781780931081 • £60.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781441162526 • £18.99 / $23.99 UK September 2012 • US November 2012 Series: The WISH List Library eBook 9781441181916 • £60.00 / $110.00 208 pages HB 9781441132734 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441104212 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441197436 • £60.00 / $110.00

Reading Theory Now Aesthetic Sexuality An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller A Literary History of Sadomasochism Eamonn Dunne Romana Byrne Foreword by J. Hillis Miller To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality Afterword by Julian Wolfreys is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault’s seminal The History Reading Theory Now explores movements in critical thinking through of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault’s assertions a host of radical theorists, and channels those movements through that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern the work of one of the most influential proponents of critical Western culture while ars erotica belongs to Eastern interpretation in the world today, J. Hillis Miller. It enables its readers and ancient societies, Byrne suggests that modern to see how and why theoretical models of reading are of use only in Western culture has indeed witnessed a form of the practical event of reading literary and philosophical texts, that ars erotica, encompassed in what she calls ‘aesthetic sexuality’. To the politics and poetics of interpretive paradigms are constantly argue for the existence of aesthetic sexuality, Byrne examines mainly shifting, changing and evolving as present day perspectives transform works of literature to show how, within these texts, sexual practice those traditions unalterably. it seeks to invite its readers to challenge and pleasure are constructed as having aesthetic value, a quality that the concept of the paradigm, the school, the movement, even the marks these experiences as forms of art. In aesthetic sexuality, value sequence, by presenting them with a choice to read in their own way, and meaning are located within sexual practice and pleasure rather to ‘dip’ in and out of singular events of interpretation from A to Z. than in their underlying cause; sexuality’s raison d’être is tied to its Eamonn Dunne teaches English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in the aesthetic value, at surface level rather than beneath it. Republic of Ireland. Romana Bryne is Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia. J. Hillis Miller is currently Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, USA. UK August 2013 • US June 2013 192 pages UK August 2013 • US June 2013 HB 9781441100818 • £60.00 / $110.00 144 pages Individual eBook 9781441158796 • £18.99 / $23.99 PB 9781441115140 • £14.99 / $24.95 Library eBook 9781441183583 • £60.00 / $110.00 HB 9781441174581 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441190512 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441108425 • £45.00 / $65.00

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Feminist 4th bestseller The Seven bestseller The City of Words bestseller edition Theory textbook Basic Plots Alberto Manguel T heory The Intellectual Traditions Why We Tell Stories In this most original and stimulating study Alberto Josephine Donovan Christopher Booker Manguel, award winning “A masterful survey of “This book ... has mind- author of A History of the philosophical and expanding properties. Not Reading, sets out to intellectual roots of only for anyone interested investigate the ways in contemporary feminism. in literature, but also for which stories can lend an The author provides those fascinated by wider identity to a whole society. L iterary lucid comprehensive questions of how human From Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don discussions of the main beings organise their Quixote to The Fast Runner, Manguel explores intellectual traditions societies and explain the how books can hold the secret to what binds of feminist theory. Intelligent, balanced, outside world to their inmost selves, it is us together. His thesis is argued here in an accurate, and informed, Feminist Theory fascinating.” Financial Times engrossing and highly personal book that is a major addition to the canon of feminist encompasses narratives of autobiography, Using a wealth of examples, from ancient literature.” Choice mythology, history and theology. He myths and folk tales via the plays and novels also raises concerns that technological • This first major study of feminist theory, of great literature to the popular movies and developments – the internet, for one – may which is revised and completely reset, now TV soap operas of today, this book shows that well fatally undermine the publishing industry takes the reader into the twentieth century there are seven archetypal themes which and threaten the survival of the individual recur throughout every kind of storytelling. • Updated and revised edition of a classic around whom the entire literary industry Drawing on a vast array of examples, from work in feminist theory was originally constructed: the beleaguered Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis author. Do innovations like CD-Rom replace • Incorporates recent developments, de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then creative readers with passive viewers? This including the renewed interest in feminism leads us through the extraordinary changes in book is also about the art of reading, at a following the 2008 US Presidential the nature of storytelling over the past 200 time when Manguel argues that it is still campaign years. possible for stories to change us and the Josephine Donovan is Professor Emerita of English Christopher Booker is a columnist for the Sunday world we live in. at the University of Maine, USA. Telegraph in the UK. Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires but UK May 2012 • US March 2012 UK November 2005 • US September 2006 moved to Toronto early on in his life. He now lives in 304 pages 736 pages France. He is the author of some hugely successful PB 9781441168306 • £17.99 / $29.95 PB 9780826480378 • £17.99 / $29.95 books including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and HB 9781441163653 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441116512 • £17.99 / $23.99 A History of Reading. Individual eBook 9781441173256 • £17.99 / $23.99 UK November 2009 192 pages PB 9781441163707 • £11.99 World All Languages excluding Australia/Canada/New Zealand/USA

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The Anatomy of Bloom Narrative Care Harold Bloom and the Study of Influence and Anxiety Biopolitics and the Novel Alistair Heys Arne De Boever Here at last is a comprehensive introduction to the The twenty-first century has been marked by a series T heory career of America’s leading intellectual. The Anatomy of crises in which life’s vulnerability was brutally of Bloom surveys Harold Bloom’s life as a literary exposed. As a result, care has moved to the forefront critic, exploring all of his books in chronological of ethical and political debates. Narrative Care order, to reveal that his work, and especially his shows that care is also an aesthetic issue: through classic The Anxiety of Influence, is best understood close-readings of J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man, Kazuo as an expression of American Protestantism and yet Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster’s The Book haunted by a Jewish fascination with the Holocaust. of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder, it / contemporary Heys traces Bloom’s intellectual development from his formative investigates how literary representations of care are shaped by and years spent as a poor second-generation immigrant in the Bronx to his have helped shape discussions about the welfare state and pastoral later eminence as an international literary phenomenon. He argues care; about the concentration camps and bare life; about Sadism and that, as the quintessential living embodiment of the American dream, the realist aesthetic; and about how the rise of the novel as a genre is Bloom’s career-path deconstructs the very foundations of American related to all of the above. Protestantism. Arne De Boever is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the Alistair Heys is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Paisii MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies, California Hilendarski, Bulgaria. Institute of the Arts, USA.

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Andrea Levy Salman Rushdie Contemporary Critical Perspectives Contemporary Critical Perspectives Edited by Jeannette Baxter and David James Edited by Robert Eaglestone and Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most Martin McQuillan significant and popular voices in contemporary black Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant

L iterature British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight’s on a familial history of emigration, her critically- Children, is regularly cited as the ‘Booker of Bookers’ acclaimed novels — including the multiple award- and its impact is still being felt in world literature. winning Small Island — attempt to bring a variety His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, is a very of voices and perspectives to the representation of major, possibly epoch-defining work, which led to black experience in post-war Britain. the ‘Rushdie Affair’, certainly the most significant With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the literary-political event since the Second World War. book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to- value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. The book also date critical guide to Rushdie’s writing from his earliest works up includes a new interview with Levy herself, a timeline of her life, to the most recent, his memoir of the Fatwa Years, Joseph Anton. chapter summaries and guides to further reading and online resources, Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse voices in contemporary fiction. of the canon; the ‘Rushdie Affair’; his responses to 9/11 and to the C ontemporary Jeannette Baxter is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, ‘War on Terror’; and issues of more complex philosophical weight specializing in modern and contemporary fiction. arising from his fiction. David James is Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature at the Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at University of Nottingham, UK. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and UK June 2013 • US August 2013 Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and 208 pages Co-Director of the London Graduate School. 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Although primarily a novelist, he has also of the most critically and commercially successful written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, children’s book and a film adaptation. Across these Tipping the Velvet, and The Night Watch, her writing many forms his work retains a distinctive character has played compellingly with popular and generic that explores questions of morality, place and history, nationhood, forms and narrative techniques and covered a sexuality and gender. number of important contemporary themes. Now fully updated for its second edition, this guide brings together This critical guide is the first book to offer a wide a collection of new critical perspectives on McEwan’s oeuvre, not range of current critical perspectives on Waters’ work. The book only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but explores issues such as gender, sexuality, class, time and space in also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, Waters’ fiction, as well as her appropriation of a range of genres including a new ecocritical reading of his book, Solar. With an updated from the historical and neo-victorian novel to the gothic. The book and extended guide to further critical reading on McEwan, the book also includes a new interview with Waters herself, a timeline of her also includes an interview with the author himself and a chronology of life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading, making this his life, work and times. an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in Sebastian Groes is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. contemporary fiction. 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Angela Carter: Kipling’s Japan New Critical Readings Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb Edited by Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long Bringing together leading international scholars of in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling’s contemporary fiction and modern women writers, newspaper despatches from Japan were described this book provides authoritative new critical readings by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as

of Angela Carter’s work from a variety of innovative ‘the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter’. L iterature theoretical and disciplinary approaches. Angela Previously published in 2000, these vivid pen- Carter: New Critical Readings both evaluates Carter’s pictures, together with Kipling’s other writings about Japan, are now legacy as feminist provocateur and postmodern collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb, carefully edited with stylist, and broaches new ground in considering Carter as, variously, a an introduction wand Notes. poet and a ‘naturalist’. Including coverage of Carter’s earliest writings and her journalism as well as her more widely studied novels, short Hugh Cortazzi was British Ambassador to Japan from 1980-1988. stories and dramatic works, the book covers such topics as rescripting George Webb is Editor of the ‘Kipling Journal’. the canon, surrealism, and Carter’s poetics. UK December 2012 • US February 2013 Sonya Andermahr is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, UK. 304 pages HB 9781780939575 • £75.00 / $140.00 Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English and Cultural Criticism at the University Individual eBook 9781780939582 • £23.99 / $34.99 of Northampton, UK. Library eBook 9781780939599 • £75.00 / $140.00

UK August 2012 / US October 2012 272 pages HB 9781441169280 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441177766 • £18.99 / $23.99 Literature After Globalization Library eBook 9781441141118 • £60.00 / $110.00 Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State Philip Leonard Literature after Globalization offers a detailed Contemporary Caribbean study of recent literary and theoretical responses Writing and Deleuze to technology, globalization, and national identity. Focusing on texts of the 1990s and 2000s, particularly Literature Between Postcolonialism and novels and other writing by Mark Danielewski, Hari Post-Continental Philosophy Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts Lorna Burns a departure from narratives of globalization which declare the collapse of national cultures, and it Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented and reasserted maps a new intellectual and literary history of in the face of technology’s transnational effects. Drawing upon recent postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning theoretical responses to technology and culture (including work by from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, crossing the region’s language blocs, and focused N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will on the interconnected principles of creativity and explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, has been replaced by a sense of national globalism. Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Philip Leonard is Reader in Literary Studies and Critical Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing. UK January 2013 • US March 2013 Uniting for the first time two major schools of contemporary thought - 208 pages postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy - this study establishes HB 9781441190710 • £60.00 / $110.00 a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and Individual eBook 9781441105783 • £18.99 / $23.99 postcolonial theory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and Library eBook 9781441155733 • £60.00 / $110.00 colonized. Lorna Burns is a Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK.

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Ian McEwan’s Atonement Maggie Gee: Writing the Julie Ellam Condition-of-England Novel The Continuum Contemporaries series gives readers Mine Özyurt Kιlιç accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most In the first critical study of Gee’s work, Mine Özyurt influential novels of recent years. This guide to Kιlιç identifies the specific social problems her L iterature Atonement features a biography of the author, a novels address and explains the social consciousness full-length analysis of the novel, a summary of the similarities Gee shares with the Victorians. Analyzing novel’s popular and critical reception, a discussion how Gee adjusts the condition-of-England novel to of the recent film adaptation and a great deal more. reflect contemporary Britain enables Özyurt Kιlιç If you are studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you to reveal the accuracy of Gee’s rich portraits of simply want to know more about it, you’ll find this guide informative, Britain. She focuses on Gee’s ability to cut across the intelligent, and helpful. boundaries of race, class and gender, mix voices from the margin with the majority and challenge and change the idea of the mainstream. Julie Ellam is a freelance writer. She previously taught at Hull University, UK. Gee paints a panoramic view of society. Her critiques of class, race and the world of publishing, allow Özyurt Kιlιç to cover a wide range UK September 2009 • US November 2009 96 pages of topics and detail how English fiction shapes and influences, and is PB 9780826445384 • £9.99 /$14.95 shaped and influenced by, the contemporary literary market. Individual eBook 9781441135773 • £9.99 /$11.99 Mine Özyurt Kiliç is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language C ontemporary Library eBook 9781441146311 • £30.00 / $45.00 and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey. Series: Continuum Contemporaries UK November 2013 • US October 2013 192 pages HB 9781441108784 • £60.00 / $110.00 J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Individual eBook 9781441162779 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441100870 • £60.00 / $110.00 Andrew van der Vlies One of the most widely read novels by a South African-born writer or ‘about’ South Africa, Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s (second) Booker Prize- winning novel, Disgrace (1999), is a firm favourite with reading groups and a fixture on many university- level courses on postcolonial or international literatures in English. Sometimes regarded as offering a bleak picture of post-apartheid South Africa, Disgrace has also been read as an ultimately hopeful novel about renunciation and redemption. This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Andrew van der Vlies was born in South Africa and educated both there and at the University of Oxford, UK. He teaches in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

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Salman Rushdie and Translation Scenes of Intimacy Jenni Ramone Reading, Writing and Theorising Contemporary Literature Salman Rushdie’s writing is engaged with translation Edited by Jennifer Cooke in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary for climactic events. Covering his major novels literature, the affect this has upon readers, and as well as his often-neglected short stories and the ways these representations resonate with, writing for children, Salman Rushdie and Translation complement, and challenge the concerns of explores the role of translation in Rushdie’s work. contemporary theory. Opening with an in-depth L iterature In this book, Jenni Ramone draws on contemporary interview with literary critic, Derridean, and novelist translation theory to analyse the part translation plays in Rushdie’s Nicholas Royle, the volume contains eleven further appropriation of historical and contemporary Indian narratives of essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic independence and migration. legacy, on to representations of love, of sex, and finally to scenes Jenni Ramone is Senior Lecturer in English at Newman University College, UK. of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy, and draw upon new and notable UK September 2013 • US November 2013 theoretical positions and critics from queer theory, affect studies, 208 pages psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult HB 9781441144355 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441106612 • £18.99 / $23.99 and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation. Library eBook 9781441128164 • £60.00 / $110.00 Across the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters, short stories and novels, Scenes of Intimacy shows that contemporary literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities, their failures and their futures. Jennifer Cooke is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK.

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Succeeding Postmodernism The Return of the Storyteller in Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Fiction Contemporary Fiction Mary Holland Areti Dragas Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels Focusing on the figure of the storyteller, this study by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others breaks new ground in the approach to reading conceptualize threats to individuals and communities contemporary literature by identifying a growing posed by a poststructural culture of mediation interest in storytelling. Only since the rise of and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the postcolonialism have academic critics been overtly disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately interested in stories, where high theory frameworks it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets are less applicable. However, as we move through aside the postmodern problem of how language does various contemporary contexts engaging with or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of postcolonial identities and hybridity, to narratives of disability and what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language evolutionary accounts of group and individual survival, a common as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way feature of all is the centrality of story, which posits both the idea of of reading ‘antihumanist’ late postmodern fiction, and a framework survival and the passing on of traditions. This book closely examines for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as this preoccupation with story and storytelling through a close reading participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and of sixteen contemporary international novels written in English which realism in literature. are about actual ‘storytellers’, revealing how death of the author has Mary Holland is Assistant Professor of contemporary literature at The State given birth to the storyteller. University of New York, New Paltz, USA. Areti Dragas works as a visiting lecturer and associate tutor at Durham University and the University of Sunderland, UK. UK June 2013 • US April 2013 240 pages HB 9781441130617 • £60.00 / $110.00 UK April 2013 • US June 2013 Individual eBook 9781441121899 • £18.99 / $23.99 240 pages Library eBook 9781441159342 • £60.00 / $110.00 HB 9780826439901 • £60.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781623561949 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441143549 • £60.00 / $110.00

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The Decades Series Series Editors: Philip Tew, Professor of English, Brunel University, UK Nick Hubble, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature, Brunel University, UK

L iterature Leigh Wilson, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster, UK Moving beyond a survey approach, this major series places British fiction among the cultural shifts and headline events of a decade. From the collapse of communism, through the rise of Thatcher to the shifts in global power, each volume evaluates the impact of social, cultural and political history on the fiction of the respective period. Breaking British fiction into its four constituent decades, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s and using social, cultural and political contexts to understand its chronology means changing literary themes are properly accounted for and traditional readings opened up. Alongside the national reception, the series looks closely at how British fiction has been received internationally. Approaching the subject from the perspective of its disciplinary formation, The Decades Series is a crucial reference point for the progressive development of contemporary British fiction, not only a literary and cultural phenomenon, but as an academic field.

The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary

C ontemporary British Fiction British Fiction Edited by Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and Edited by Leigh Wilson, Philip Tew John McLeod and Emily Horton How did social, cultural and political events in Britain Setting the fiction squarely within the context of during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Conservative politics and questions about culture Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, and national identity, this volume reveals how the miners’ strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work charts the transition of British fiction from post-war of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, to contemporary. Chapters outline the decade’s of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular McEwan and Iain Sinclair interacted with the experimental work of B.S. psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Johnson. Close contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, and English novels map the steady break-up of Britain. This volume contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics also examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic writers. ‘heritage industry’ during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at also considered against broader cultural changes. Brunel University, UK. Leigh Wilson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Philip Tew is Professor of English at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel’s Westminster, UK. Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, Fiction Studies. UK, Director of Brunel’s Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK John McLeod is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures in the School Network for Modern Fiction Studies. of Englist at the University of Leeds, UK. Emily Horton is Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK and at the University of Westminster, UK. UK March 2013 • US May 2013 256 pages UK March 2013 • US May 2013 HB 9781441133915 • £75.00 / $140.00 256 pages Individual eBook 9781441156716 • £23.99 / $34.99 HB 9781441126498 • £75.00 / $140.00 Library eBook 9781623563851 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781623563509 • £23.99 / $34.99 Series: The Decades Series Library eBook 9781441168535 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: The Decades Series

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