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This Is Not a Tragedy
The Works of David Markson
Françoise Palleau-Papin
The very first book-length study to focus on this seminal American author, This Is Not a Tragedy reviews David Markson's entire body of work . . .
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The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction
Suzanne Jill Levine
To most of us, "subversion" means political subversion, but The Subversive Scribe is about collaboration not with an enemy, but with texts and between writers. Though Suzanne Jill Levine is the translator of some of the most inventive...
Horizon Review
Levine (at)tends most to Borges, Joyce and Eco as her fellow travellers in carrying over (as excess, rather than aiming for a zero-sum game) words and ideas. Running through her delight in linguistic fecundity, like a river through Eden, is a fierce awareness of the political exigency of destabilising meaning, authenticity, canonicity, pomposity and the authoritarian pronouncementality.
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot
Viktor Shklovsky, Shushan Avagyan
One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls "loiterature"—writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the...
Russian Review
"Perhaps because he is such an unlikely Tolstoyan, Viktor Shklovsky's writing on Tolstoy is always absorbing and often brilliant."
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Eros the Bittersweet
Anne Carson
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with: "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.'
Guy Davenport
Eros the Bittersweet [is] a work of great charm in itself, an intellectual exercise that dazzles ... without stunning, flashes without blinding, and concludes leaving us brighter and smarter.
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Pop Poetics: Reframing Joe Brainard
Andy Fitch
Pop artists (painters and poets) often get praised or criticized for their use of low-brow commercial iconography. Yet either appraisal obscures the rigors of Pop serial design . . .
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The House of Ulysses
Julián Ríos, Nick Caistor
Julián Ríos's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's Ulysses . . .
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When Blackness Rhymes With Blackness
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling "our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry."
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A Community Writing Itself
Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area
Sarah Rosenthal interviews contemporary experimental American writers about art and life.
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A Philosophy of Evil
Lars Svendsen, Kerri A. Pierce
Despite the overuse of the word in movies, political speeches, and news reports, "evil" is generally seen as either flagrant rhetoric or else an outdated concept: a medieval holdover with no bearing on our complex everyday reality. Svendsen, however...
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Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form
Neil Murphy
Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins’s body of work almost fifty years after the...
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