2015 Columbia UP Literary and Cultural Studies Catalogue

Literary & Cultural Studies New and Noteworthy Titles 2015

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Letter from the editors:

We’re very excited to share with you the Columbia University Press Literary Studies catalog for 2015.

The books listed here reflect the areas of literary studies that we focus on, including Asian literature, global literature, U.S. and African American literature, contemporary literature, modernist studies, and film studies.

Among the many excellent books in this year’s catalog several deserve special attention. Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, by Rey Chow, incorporates a riveting series of stories that portray the biopolitics of speaking and writing in a postcolonial world. Julia Kristeva’s Teresa My Love mixes fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy to reconstruct the life of an ecstatic saint. Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe, by Chris Andrews, is the first major critical study of the Chilean novelist’s remarkable work. In Reading Style: A Life in Sentences, Jenny Davidson draws on her experience as critic, scholar, and reader to investigate the passions that draw us to certain novels. While Davidson looks at a life of reading, Eric Hayot provides a much-­‐needed new approach to scholarly writing in The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities.

In different ways two new books explore recent changes in the literary, cultural, and social landscape. In The Trouble with Post-­‐Blackness, edited by Houston A. Baker and K. Merinda Simmons, scholars, novelists, poets, and journalists revisit the idea of “blackness” and whether it is a concept we can—or should—move beyond. And Minae Mizumura’s The Fall of Language in the Age of English explores the ramifications of what’s at risk with the growing global dominance of the English language.

China’s recent past and its present are represented in two new works: The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis, by David Der-­‐Wei Wang, and Internet Literature in China, by Michael Hockx.

Our two series in literary studies, Modernist Latitudes and Literature Now, continue to grow. New books in Modernist Latitudes include Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-­‐Century Literature and Art, by Nico Israel; Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, by Jennifer Scappettone; and Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print, by Carrie Noland. Much like the books in our modernism series, Literature Now’s new offerings reflect a dual focus on Western and global literature: In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary, by Mrinalini Chakravorty; Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel, by Hector Hoyos; and Eco-­‐Sickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction, by Heather Houser.

Finally, in our award-­‐winning film list, anchored by the Film and Culture series, we present a spate of exciting new books, including such historical works as a biography of Iris Barry, the first curator of the film department at the Museum of Modern Art, and “It’s the Pictures That Got Small,” the extraordinary correspondence between Billy Wilder and his screenwriting partner, Charles Brackett. Additionally, film’s avant-­‐garde past and the lingering influence of surrealism in our digital present are examined in Maya Deren: Incomplete Control, by Sarah Keller, and Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media, by Adam Lowenstein.

We hope you share our enthusiasm for these books and the course they mark for the future of our list.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Crewe, director and editor for Asian literary studies Philip Leventhal, senior editor for literary and film studies

CONTENTS

LITERARY THEORY & CRITICAL STUDIES Forthcoming May

Literary Theory & Critical Studies................... 3 American Literature & Culture..................... 23 Japanese Literature & Culture......................32 Chinese Literature & Culture........................35 Asian Literature & Culture............................42 Modernist Studies........................................ 45 Film Studies.................................................. 47 UK & European Literature............................ 61 Journalism & Media Studies........................67 Animal Studies.............................................68 Language & Linguistics...............................69 Order Information.........................................71

Teresa, My Love

An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila Julia Kristeva

Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the following editors: for Asian literary studies— Jennifer Crewe at jc373@columbia.edu. For literary and film studies — Philip Leventhal at pl2164@columbia.edu For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: www.cup.columbia.edu For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: cup.columbia.edu

Translated by Lorna Scott Fox

“Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic investigation of love leads her to the extraordinary case of Teresa of Avila, and to the “inoperable” rapport of desire and the need to believe.

Kristeva remains faithful to psychoanalysis and to non-belief while offering this thoroughly engaging “imagined life” of Saint Teresa. It is of the greatest pertinence in a world that seems to have revived the need to believe in aggressive forms.

—Peter Brooks, Princeton University

Teresa, My Love is written with force, drive, and a verbal agility that carries the reader off and makes the book into a page turner.”

Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. If no UK price appears for a title, it is most likely available from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada.

—Verena Conley, Harvard University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-14960-0 2014 624 pages / 11 illus

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VirginiaWoolf a portrait

Viviane Forrester

Head Cases

Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times Elaine P. Miller

“Deftly moving through Kristeva’s corpus, Miller brilliantly stages engagements between Kristeva’s thought and that of Adorno, Arendt, Augustine, Benjamin, Freud, Green, Hegel, Kant, Klein, Lacan, and Proust, among others. Her analysis also sheds light on some of Kristeva’s most intractable concepts, including negativity, the uncanny, time, the semiotic, mimesis, art, and the aesthetic.

Head Cases is filled with keen insights, rigorous scholarship, and beautiful prose.”

—Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16682-9 2 0 1 4 304 pages C olumbia T hemes i n P hilosoph y, S ocial C r iticism , a n d the A r ts

Virginia Woolf

A Portrait

Viviane Forrester

Translated by Jody Gladding

“Drawn with psychological subtlety, critical sophistication, and the novelist’s art, Viviane Forrester’s portrait of Virginia Woolf combines journalistic freedom and liveliness with deep research, original analysis, and deft, poetic prose, interspersed with fragments, notes, impressions, and questions. A welcome and provocative contribution to our understanding of Woolf ’s life and work.”

—Christine Froula, author of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf ’s relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15356-0 M a y 2 0 1 5 256 pages

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Not Like a Native Speaker

On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience Rey Chow

"Rey Chow's book Not Like a Native Speaker is not only a brilliant and original reflection on the fate of language in the afterlife of colonialism, but also an authoritative statement on postcolonial theory; moving beyond the confinement of the politics of identity, it provides a unique map for the postcolonial criticism of the future, one informed by rigor and unafraid of judgment."

—Simon Gikandi, Princeton University

“A critically important and intellectually exciting contribution to debates concerning voice and language in postcolonial studies.”

—Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton University

“Not Like a Native Speaker may become one of the classic texts of Anglophone postcolonial studies.”

—Panivong Norindr, University of Southern Californi $25.00 / £15.95 paper 978-0-231-15145-0 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-15144-3 2 0 1 4 192 pages

The Rey Chow Reader Edited by Paul Bowman

“Rey Chow is one of the most interesting and iconoclastic theorists cited in the United States and writing in English today. She crosses fields and areas of study with such assurance and brio as to make one wonder why no one else has done so before.”

—Caren Kaplan, University of California at Davis

“Rey Chow has opened up postcolonial, cultural, and feminist studies to the most rigorous and self-aware political and theoretical questioning. In doing so, she has shown us how to think more clearly and carefully about elaborating new modes of political and intellectual engagement.”

— Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-14995-2 $84.50 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-14994-5 2 0 1 0 320 pages

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Born Translated

The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature Rebecca L. Walkowitz

“Born Translated offers a fresh approach to contemporary fiction. Among the first to offer a convincing explanation of how national traditions morph into the world novel.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz practices what she calls ‘close reading at a distance’ and succeeds in showing—brilliantly, to my mind—that novels by Coetzee, Ishiguro, Mitchell, Desai, Davies, Phillips, and Sebald force us to confront a world where languages, territories, and nations no longer line up.”

—Nancy Armstrong, Duke University

Born Translated builds a much-needed framework for reading translation’s effect on fictional works, as well as digital art, avant-garde magazines, literary anthologies, and visual media. $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16594-5 J u l y 2 0 1 5 352 pages L ite r atu r e No w

The Fall of Language in the Age of English Minae Mizumura Translated by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter

“Provocatively participates in debates on world literature, translation, reading, and writing, bringing an illuminating perspective to the translingual formation of national languages and the now-endangered arch of modern literature.”

—Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University

“A dazzling rumination on the decline of local languages. Moving effortlessly between theory and personal reflection, Mizumura’s lament is broadly informed, closely reasoned, and, in a manner that recalls her beloved Jane Austen, at once earnest and full of mischief.”

—John Nathan, translator of Natsume Sõseki’s Light and Dark $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16302-6 2 0 1 5 256 pages

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The Elements of Academic Style Writing for the Humanities Eric Hayot

“An utter tour de force, a guide to scholarly writing in the humanities that manages to be at once lively, funny, absorbing, rigorous, and immensely insightful. It offers a wealth of advice from the minute and grammatical to the disciplinary and career-changing, even as it probes deeply into the humanities as they are actually practiced, in the nitty gritty of our writing.”

—Sarah Cole, Columbia University $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16801-4 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16800-7 2 0 1 4 240 pages

Reading Style

A Life in Sentences Jenny Davidson

“This book offers a lively, unusual, and highly intelligent set of comments on the pleasures of reading—which are in Davidson’s view not quite the joys or benefits of close reading in the received academic sense but are definitely those of reading closely, paying precise attention to details of style and reflecting on the mixture of meaning and delight that such details give to anyone who cares about them."

—Michael Wood, Princeton University

“Reading [Davidson’s] discussions of writers ranging from Marcel Proust to Wayne Koestenbaum—by way of Jonathan Lethem and George Eliot—is like being in the company of a very clever friend as she unfolds the treasures of her bookshelf: one who enlightens without condescension, and who is eager to share the pleasures of a wellturned sentence while also being able to point out the satisfactions to be found in a bad one."

—Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch $25.00 / £17.50 cloth 978-0-231-16858-8 2 0 1 4 208 pages

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Inheriting Dance

The Invention of Private Life

Edited by Marc Wagenbach and the Pina

Sudipta Kaviraj

An Invitation from Pina Bausch Foundation

How should we archive dance? How do we process performative heritage in the twenty-first century? How do we describe the performativity of remembering? And what is involved in building an archive for tomorrow that will serve as a workshop for the future? Inheriting Dance explores these questions and provides insight into the local, national, and global work of the Pina Bausch Foundation as it builds an archive as a place of transformation, exchange, creative production, and artistic practice.

Contributors include Salomon Bausch, Stephan Brinkmann, Royd Climenhaga, Katharina Kelter, Gabriele Klein, Sharon Lehner, Keziah Claudine Nanevie, Linda Seljimi, Bernhard Thull, and Michelle Urban. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-2785-5

Literature and Ideas

“Sudipta Kaviraj is one of the foremost scholars anywhere in the world working on South Asia. A master of the essay form, his writings on political theory and Indian politics show him to be a scholar of vast erudition, subtle analytical skill, and brilliant humor.”

—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University

A longtime political analyst and thinker, Sudipta Kaviraj proves in this probing collection that he is also an acute writer on literature and politics. In these works, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, Kaviraj locates serious reflections on modernity’s complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography.

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On Slowness

Cloud of the Impossible

Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary

Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement

Lutz Koepnick

Catherine Keller

“Koepnick’s understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of ‘slowness’ is refreshingly optimistic and energetic. It propels the reader to discover his or her own instances of slowness amid the dizzying culture of speed in which we find ourselves enmeshed.”

—Nora M. Alter, Temple University

“Koepnick’s readings are compelling and encourage the reader to think of other examples, to question how temporality and space are lived and represented today, and to ask what aesthetic strategies can be persuasive in our world and why.”

—Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16832-8 2 0 1 4 352 pages / 44 illus.

“Facing the complex majesty of Cloud of the Impossible, one cannot help but feel like some Moses-manqué before a literary Sinai.

The proseis finely wrought, tracing the interand indeterminacies of a provisionally named ‘apophatic entanglement.’....A beautiful and important book that traces the contours of a transfigured, queerly theological discourse and practice—precisely where such a thing might seem impossible.”

—Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University

“Catherine Keller leads us via ancient, medieval, and recent traditions of unsaying certainties into a rich understanding of divine entanglement as a basis for communal thriving and just democracy. This is a monumental contribution to Christian theology."

Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University

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$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17115-1 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-17114-4 2 0 1 4 384 pages I n su r r ectio n s : C r itical S tu d ies i n Religio n , P olitics , a n d C ultu r e

LITERARY THEORY & CRITICAL STUDIES NICO ISRAEL

The Whirled image in TWenTieTh-CenTury liTeraTure and arT

Spirals

The Whirled Image in TwentiethCentury Literature and Art Nico Israel

“A dazzling, dialectical energy marks every page of Spirals, one of the most exciting recent syntheses of literary and art historical scholarship. Israel’s ability to trace the spiral across a truly heterogeneous, intermedial, yet coherent sweep of twentieth- and twentyfirst-century aesthetic production, from Yeats to Smithson, is exhilarating. Its procedure points to a really new modernist studies.”

—Martin Harries, author of Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship

Nico Israel's superb Spirals revisits a history of modernity whose most secret desires and powerful realizations are captured by the dialectical image of the spiral....From Tatlin's Constructivism to Yeats's gyres, from Duchamp's Rotoreliefs to Smithson's Spiral Jetty, from Ubu's helical paunch to Kentridge's whirling cartoons, we rediscover works that renew our understanding of the world."

—Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsyvlania $45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-15302-7 2 0 1 5 272 pages / 78 illus.

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Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print

Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime Carrie Noland

“A landmark work that gathers the various studies of Negritude poetry of the preceding decades to make an informed, compelling, and necessary intervention into the heart of francophone studies.”

—Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University

"Noland demonstrates that the poetic innovations of Césaire and Damas were first of all major modernist interventions, deeply engaged with the textual sphere of experimental print culture in the interwar period. These virtuosic, revisionary readings are an exhilarating model of what it means to do diasporic literary criticism today."

-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16704-8 2 0 1 5 352 pages M o d e r n ist L atitu d es

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regimes of historicity presentism and experiences of time françois hartog t r a n s l at e d by saskia brown

Regimes of Historicity

Presentism and Experiences of Time François Hartog

In Stereotype

South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary Mrinalini Chakravorty

Translated by Saskia Brown

“Since his classic Mirror of Herodotus, François Hartog has emerged as the most significant theorist of history and chronicler of our changing relationship to our own past that France has produced. In this series of meditative chapters, he takes us from the Greeks to the present once more, emphasizing how the theory of history must move from diagnosing the modern gap between expectation and experience to confronting the exigency of historical crisis today. " —Samuel Moyn, Columbia University

"In a book that should be required reading for anyone interested in history's role in contemporary society, Hartog shows how unexamined assumptions about the past shape our understandings of ourselves and our place in history.”

— Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles

“Chakravorty locates the stereotype’s staying power in the production of new forms of intersubjective relationships. She adroitly spotlights global fiction to illustrate the formative influence of stereotypes in creating cultural boundaries between communities, producing cultural difference itself.”

—Gauri Viswanathan, author of Outside the Fold

In Stereotype considers the influential work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to illustrate how stereotypes about South Asia provide insight into the material and psychic investments of contemporary imaginative texts: the colonial novel, the transnational film, and the international bestseller. $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16596-9

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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure

The Dirty Art of Poetry William Logan

In Translation Translators on Their Work and What It Means Edited by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky

Praise for William Logan:

"The preeminent poet-critic of his generation."

—Kirkus Reviews

"William Logan is the best practical critic around."

—Poetry

"An archaeologist of midcentury popular culture and an extraordinary unraveler of some poets’ very raveled threads, Logan stands out for the energy of his appreciation and for the diligence in his erudition."

—Stephen Burt, Harvard University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16686-7 2 0 1 4 352 pages

“A strong introduction to the field.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Knowledgeable and articulate....the book raises and clarifies a variety of significant issues about the many decisions translators must contend with.”

— Kirkus Reviews

“An obvious choice for writers and readers interested in translation; challenging but also accessible to the nonacademic reader.”

— Library Journal $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15969-2 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15968-5 2013 288 pages

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Beyond Bolaño

There are Two Sexes Essays in Feminology

The Global Latin American Novel

Antoinette Fouque Edited by Sylvina Boissonnas Translated by David Macey and Catherine Porter

Héctor Hoyos

“An extraordinary character, a highly cultivated woman, and a relentless activist, Fouque took controversial steps while opening new paths for the inscription of women in the world. Her formulations were idiosyncratic, forceful, debatable, provocative. This book helps the English-speaking world complete the intellectual and political puzzle formed by what was called French feminism.”

—Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University

“A strong and powerful collection for anyone interested in the areas of sex, gender, and women.”

—Owen Heathcote, author of From Bad Boys to New Men? $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16986-8 2 0 1 5 352 pages

"Héctor Hoyos offers a fascinating analysis of what "the globe" looks like from Latin America. An ambitious and necessary reframing of the world literature debates, Beyond Bolaño is also an exemplary illustration of what textured literary analysis can tell us about the the geopolitics of cultural prestige."

-David Kurnick, Rutgers University

Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other contemporaries, Héctor Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16842-7 2 0 1 5 288 pages / 27 illus.

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Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction

An Expanding Universe Chris Andrews

“An Expanding Universe is an engaging, original, and thoroughly successful attempt to interpret Roberto Bolaño’s entire corpus of fiction. The questions Andrews raises about ethics and the relationship of literature to life are timely and should appeal to a range of readers.”

—Ignacio López-Vicuña, University of Vermont

"Chris Andrews's writing, like Roberto Bolaño's, expands horizons, opens up remarkable possibilities, sings like an angel, makes new and unexpected connections, quietly understates its immense erudition, and offers a ride through a ‘utopia of unending narration’ that is thrillingly free of obfuscation, lip service, sanctimony, grandiosity, and boredom."

—Esther Allen, coeditor of In Translation $30.00 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-16806-9 2 0 1 4 304 pages

Moved by the Past

Discontinuity and Historical Mutation Eelco Runia

“Runia is one of the only scholars I know who is developing a sub­stantive philosophy of history and doing so in terms that are accessible to academic readers regardless of discipline. His main ideas about presence, metonymy, discontinuity, and adaptation through radical niche construction deserve a wide readership.”

—Michael S. Roth, author of Memory, Trauma, and History

“Runia’s ability to convey complex ideas about the theory of history in elegant, exciting, and often surprising prose is virtually unmatched, and I have the highest regard for him as a writer, as an original thinker, and as a scholar.”

—Ethan Kleinberg, executive editor of History and Theory $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16820-5 2 0 1 4 272 pages E u r opea n P e r spectives : A S e r ies i n S ocial T hought a n d C ultu r al C r iticism

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LITERARY THEORY & CRITICAL STUDIES Ahmed the PhilosoPher Al AiN BAdioU 34 Short Plays for Children & Everyone Else

No Country

Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization Sonali Perera

“A powerful new theorizing of working-class literature in a global dimension. Gender inflections are given in unprecedented detail, through deeply learned and meticulously documented close readings of an astonishingly diversified collection of texts.

[Perera's] readings of Marx are relevant to contemporary realities.”

Ahmed the Philosopher

Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else Alain Badiou Translated by Joseph Litvak

“A terrific translation of an intriguing play. In it, Badiou presents the most fundamental elements of his philosophy, including his critique of multiculturalism, his theory of the event, and his ruminations on love, in a vivid, dramatic form.”

—Martin Puchner, author of The Drama of Ideas

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

“A timely, intellectually ambitious, and original piece of work. It hopes both to reinvigorate critical interest in a complex genre/period category and, in the same movement, to provoke new thinking about such major categories as class, history, and literature

“Litvak’s translation is a remarkable achievement, both faithful to the original and enormously creative in its transposition into our language and culture.”

—Kenneth Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles

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— Ellen Rooney, Brown University

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LITERARY THEORY & CRITICAL STUDIES KIRSTEN SHEPHERD-BARR

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Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

“Shepherd-Barr is the perfect person to write a book on theater and evolution. Her chapters on Ibsen and Shaw are masterful, easily the best writing on these two important playwrights in recent years.”

—Martin Puchner, Harvard University

“A distinctive and significant contribution to the field, a work of high-quality intellectual engagement.”

—Jane R. Goodall, author of Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin

Beckett/Philosophy Edited by Matthew Feldman and Karim Mamdani Foreword by Alexander Gungov

“This collection of essays offers an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.”

—S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett Studies $54.00 / £37.50 paper 978-3-8382-0701-8 2015

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This book follows evolutionary theory in mainstream European and American drama and other theatrical entertainments, including circus, pantomime, and the “missing link” show. $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16470-2 2 0 1 5 384 pages

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Falsifying Beckett

Another View

Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies

Tracing the Foreign in Literary Translation

Matthew Feldman

Eduard Stoklosinski

“That we now speak of the ‘grey canon’—the archive of note-books and unpublished papers that have transformed our understanding of Beckett’s debts and influences—is in no small part due to Feldman’s groundbreaking interventions.”

—Rónán McDonald, University of New South Wales

Featuring a dozen essays and an original introduction, this collection exemplifies the “empirical turn” in Beckett studies.

Drawing on manuscripts that construct revisionist interpretations, this approach illuminates Beckett’s early immersion in philosophy and psychology and his later collaboration with the BBC.

Another View examines the impact of the foreign in the context of nonnative prose writing and its implications for literature in translation. Containing significant debut translations into English from such authors as Herta Müller and Yoko Tawada, Another View also serves as an anthology demonstrating the potential for new directions in literary translation, heightening and tracing the originals’ textuality, flow, and accent. $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-62897-060-9 2 0 1 4 260 pages d alke y Archive Press

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Dealing with Evils

Culture—Theory—Disability

Essays on Writing from Africa

Second, Revised, and Expanded Edition

Encounters Between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies

Annie Gagiano

Anne Waldschmidt,

“Incisiveness, innovation, multilayered contextualization, and meticulous referencing are what one has learned to expect from Annie Gagiano’s literary analyses, and this volume delivers no less.”

—Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Annie Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods, ranging from transcriptions of ancient folktales to classic African English texts and recent writings on social and gender issues.

Gagiano focuses on these texts’ engagement with the forces that damage and threaten life in Africa and these authors’ political courage, social concern, and subtle delineation of their characters’ experiences. A new preface and several new essays bring the collection up to date with the latest developments in the field.

Hanjo Berressem, and Moritz Ingwersen, editors

What does disability studies gain by opening itself up to cultural studies, and which theoretical frameworks of contemporary cultural criticism can disability studies deploy to rethink the discipline? What can cultural studies gain by embracing disability more fully as an object of inquiry and as a framework for analysis? This collection of essays enriches the thriving new discourse of cultural disability studies.

To contour the various “contact zones” between the two fields, the volume works transdisciplinarily, incorporating such fields as sociology, literary studies, art history, and philosophy. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2533-2 2 0 1 4 280 pages t r a n sc r ipt - ve r lag

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LITERARY THEORY & CRITICAL STUDIES

Ritual and Narrative

Exercises in Criticism

Theoretical Explorations and Historical Case Studies

The Theory and Practice of Literary Constraint

Vera Nünning, Jan Rupp, and Gregor

Louis Bury

Ahn, editors

How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from applying concepts in ritual studies to narrative? This book joins literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science to explore in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative within different media and historical contexts. $50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2532-5 2 0 1 4 278 pages t r a n sc r ipt - ve r lag

“Exercises in Criticism is at once an encyclopedia of Oulipian procedures and a utopian Grand Grimoire, showing how to practice literary criticism as a life-saving, joybringing regime.”

—Wayne Koestenbaum

By tracing the lineage and enduring influence of early Oulipian classics, he argues contemporary American writers have, in their adoption of constraintbased methods, transformed such methods from apolitical literary laboratory exercises into a form of cultural critique. His own constraints function as a commentary on how and why we write and talk about books, culture, and ideas. $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-1-62897-105-7 2 0 1 5 290 pages DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS

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Bodies We Fail

Productive Embodiments of Imperfection Jules Sturm

This book explores the productive effects of bodily “failure” within the sphere of visuality, marking the body’s constant exposure to visual constraints and distortions, incorporated so strongly into everyday images that they become invisible though representative of cultural norms. By analyzing artistic literary and visual representations of imperfect, disabled, aging, queer, and monstrous bodies, this project exposes the “handicaps” of normative vision and recognizes a multitude of corporeal existences and practices. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-2609-4 2 0 1 4 220 pages / 22 illus. t r a n sc r ipt - ve r lag

The Generation of Postmemory

Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust Marianne Hirsch

“Significant contributions to Holocaust literature, women’s and gender history, and memory studies.”

—Women’s Review of Books

“A brilliant text that movingly examines the ineluctable abyss between reality as we find it now and trauma as it was lived by those who were forced to undergo the Holocaust.”

— Brett Kaplan, author of Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15653-0 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15652-3 2 0 1 2 320 pages 57 illus Gender and Culture Series

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Commerce with the Universe

Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination Gaurav Desai

Winner of the 2014 René Wellek Prize, American Association of Comparative Literature

“In Gaurav Desai’s capable hands, the Indian Ocean emerges as both a historical and critical contact zone, an area that models how to think in interdisciplinary, historically broad, generically diverse, and critically nuanced ways not just about this particular geography or its shaping of events (slavery, colonialism, migration, trade, decolonization, nationalism, and globalization) but also about the very categories of ethnic history and ethnic identity.”

— Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa Cruz $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16454-2 2013 352 pages

The Homoerotics of Orientalism Joseph Allen Boone

“Boone's groundbreaking, timely book challenges us to revisit a wide range of orientalist visual and textual artifacts produced over the last four hundred and fifty years in which the recurrence of homoerotic desire contests heterosexual norms, colonial control, and race and gender hierarchies. The wealth of textual and visual materials and the broad selection of figures are, in and of themselves, extraordinary contributions to scholarship. A must read for scholars both of Anglo-European-American and MiddleEastern and Islamicate gender and sexuality studies."

-Sahar Amer, University of Sydney

"A masterpiece...a completely new and convincing reading of a body of politicized knowledge that has dominated much of the field in the last thirty years."

-Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem $30.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-15111-5 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15110-8 2 0 1 4 520 pages / 250 illus.

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The Novel After Theory Judith Ryan $22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-15743-8

Globalectics

Theory and the Politics of Knowing ~ ~ Ng ugi wa Thiong’o

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Masks of Conquest

Literary Study and British Rule in India Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Gauri Viswanathan With a New Preface by the Author

Rewiring the Real

In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo Mark C. Taylor $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16041-4

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17169-4 2 0 1 4 224 pages cloth edition 1989 978-0-231-07084-3

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Paleopoetics

The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination Christopher Collins $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16093-3 2 0 1 4 2 7 2 pages cloth edition 2013 978-0-231-16092-6

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AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE who’s A F RAID of

AcADem Ic FReeD o m ?

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The Trouble with Post-Blackness

Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? edited by Akeel Bilgrami and

edited by Houston A. Baker and

Jonathan R. Cole

K. Merinda Simmons

“A fantastic compilation of essays about a critically important and understudied topic.

It has been one hundred years since the definition of academic freedom was laid out by the academy and seventy-five years since it has been studied and synthesized in any significant way, thus making this collection one of the most important documents in the last century regarding the academy and its role in our society. I would consider this to be the leading compendium of ideas and thinking on academic freedom yet produced.”

—Michael Crow, president, Arizona State University

In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16880-9

“An excellent collection; a timely intervention in a conversation with important ramifications for scholarship and civic life.

There is both breadth and depth in these pieces, and a pleasing and engaging diversity of concerns and writing styles.”

—George Lipsitz, University of California Santa Barbara, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

"The Trouble with Post-Blackness courageously puts to rest the dangerous and delusory claim that we inhabit a post-racial America. Through these critically engaging essays the concept of "post-Blackness" is indeed troubled, rendered turbid and untenable in an America in which Black people continue to face ontological occlusion and existential foreclosure."

-George Yancy, Duquesne University, author of Black Bodies, White Gazes $30.00 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-16934-9 2 0 1 5 304 pages

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A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean

James Davis

Eric Walrond James Davis

Eric Walrond

A Coney Island Reader

A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean

Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion

James Davis

John Parascandola

Eric Walrond...may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance. His collection, Tropic Death, was an astonishing succes d'estime. A Guggenheim Fellowship certified the promise of The Big Ditch, Walrond's bildungsroman of capitalism, underdevelopment, and race.

In one of the more mysterious losses in American letters, the book never appeared and its author disappeared. James Davis’s finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure, a triumph of archival sleuthing that reintroduces readers to almost everybody known to his peripatetic protagonist."

—David Levering Lewis, New York University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15784-1 2 0 1 5 416 pages / 17 illus.

edited by Louis J. Parascandola and

“A timely, important addition to anthologies of New York writing. A Coney Island Reader will be welcomed by urban historians and a general public that continues to be fascinated

by Coney Island’s ramshackle roller coaster of a history.”

—Bryan Waterman, New York University

Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world’s finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers—including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe— this anthology is the first to focus on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape. $26.95/ £18.95 paper 978-0-231-16573-0 $79.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16572-3 2 0 1 4 368 pages / 25 illus.

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Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

The Story of Chinese Food in America

Heather Houser

Yong Chen

“The ‘ecosickness’ that Heather Houser explores offers yet another example of the dangers of humanity’s efforts to ‘master’ nature. The novels and memoirs she studies demonstrate the intricate connections between somatic and ecological damage. Yet it is the literary critical argument that most distinguishes this work. Houser elegantly shows how these novels and memoirs produce narratives with unpredictable affects and how that unpredictability in turn generates an ethics that, she argues, might lead to new ways of addressing ecological damage."

-Priscilla Wald, Duke University

“A thoughtful, original, and beautifully written book that will have a major impact on studies of contemporary U.S. fiction, environmental literature, and the relationship between affect and literature.”

Chop Suey, USA

"Chop Suey, USA is an utterly original and significant contribution to the field, wellorganized and breathtakingly broad in its geographic scope. Yong Chen has done a superb job ” —Hasia Diner, New York University

“A thoroughly researched, highly readable account of the development of Chinese American food, this book fills important gaps in the literature of ethnic and food studies.”

—Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto

“A perceptive view of an America built on abundance and consumption.”

—Kirkus $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16892-2 2 0 1 4 352 pages / 18 illus.

A r ts a n d T r a d itio n s of the Table : P e r spectives o n C uli n a r y H isto r y

—Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16514-3 2 0 1 4 336 pages L ite r atu r e No w

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Aged Young Adults

Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films Anita Wohlmann

When Toula’s father in My Big Fat Greek Wedding says to his daughter (age thirty) “you look so old,” or when Don DeLillo’s protagonist in Cosmopolis (age twenty-eight) “feels old,” these characters are exhibiting an age awareness that has received little attention in age scholarship.

Leaving aside the chronological or biological dimensions of age, this study approaches the phenomenon as a metaphoric practice, arguing that “feeling old” should be thought of metaphorically rather than literally.

Examining the cultural meanings of age and aging, this text recasts the meaning of such common terms as late-comingof-age and perpetual adolescence. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2483-0 2 0 1 4 280 pages / 15 illus. t r a n sc r ipt - ve r lag

Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems

Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North-American Pacific Rim Susanne Wegener

Kathryn Bigelow’s Hollywood film Strange Days (1995), Karen T. Yamashita’s novel Tropic of Orange (1997), and Larissa Lai’s novel Salt Fish Girl (2002) are aesthetically intricate speculative fictions that perceptively critique current political-economic discourse and its subtle reconfiguration of race, class, and gender. This study focuses on these North American fictional texts and their dystopian near-future scenarios that position risk as a new rationality for governance. They also position neoliberal speculation as a new paradigm of subject formation within a hypercapitalist, millennial Pacific Rim. $50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2416-8 2 0 1 4 300 pages t r a n sc r ipt - ve r lag

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The World Within the Word

Tests of Time: Essays

William H. Gass

William H. Gass

“Gass is an ironist of the highest caliber. He is an improbable éminence grise of American letters, festooned with accolades; if there is any justice in the world he will one day get his Nobel prize.... As an essayist, his prose is gorgeously musical, ticking along smoothly as if measured out by metronome.

He composes miniature fugues and conducts cadenzas while meandering around his subjects.”

—New York Observer

The World Within the Word is a landmark collection discussing Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, “art and order,” and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction.

Revelatory and gor­geous, at turns humorous and devastating, the collection was first published by Knopf in 1978 and stands among Gass’s best and most provocative books.

“Of all living literary figures, William H. Gass may count as the most daringly scathing and most assertively fecund: in language, in ideas, in intricacy of form; above all in relentless fury.”

—Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review

In Tests of Time, William H. Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, cul­ture, history, politics, and public opinion, providing essays on classic writers and contemp­oraries, literary “lists” and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and the First Amendment. $17.00 / £11.50 paper 978-1-62897-038-8 2014

320 pages

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AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE Forthcoming July

Collected Stories John Barth

Life Sentences

Literary Judgments and Accounts William H. Gass

“The finest prose stylist in America.”

— Washington Post

A dazzling collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought— from one of America’s master writers.

The work emphasizes William H. Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and then moves to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers, among them Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust.

When John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth’s writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time; it beckoned back to the founders of the novel: Cervantes, Rabelais, and Sterne, echoing their playfulness and reflecting the freedom inherent in the writing of fiction. This collection of Barth’s short fiction is a landmark event, bringing together all of his previous collections with a few new stories. Its occasion helps readers assess a remarkable lifetime’s work and represents an important chapter in the history of American literature. $16.95 / £11.95 paper 978-1-62897-095-1 J u l y 2 0 1 5 600 pages d alke y a r chive p r ess

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AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE Forthcoming July

The Floating Opera John Barth

“[Barth's] ability to contrive a really preposterous situation is impressive. His gift of gab is impressive, too.”

—New York Times

Written when he was twenty-four years old, The Floating Opera is John Barth’s first novel. Published in 1957, it is a firstperson reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide.

Having been influenced by French existentialist authors writing within the postwar zeitgeist, Barth composed a novel that compellingly questions the value of a life through the eyes of a thirty-seven-year-old man. $14.95 / £9.95 paper 978-1-56478-918-1 J u l y 2 0 1 5 240 pages dalkey archive press

Beware of the Other Side(s)

Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction Heike Schwarz

This interdisciplinary study examines the vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder. Now called dissociative identity disorder this syndrome encompasses the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take control of a person’s behavior paired with inexplicable memory loss. Synthesizing psychiatric research and the dynamics of the disorder with its influential representation in American fiction, this study confronts how psychiatry and fiction mutually influence a mysterious syndrome and how this reciprocity created a genre of fiction that persists in a distinct, self-referential mode. $55.00 paper 978-3-8376-2488-5

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Samuel Taylor’s Last Night

A Novel

Joe Amato

“Joe Amato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, and verbal collages. At times, they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph world, but then they recoil from it with speedy wit and righteous indignation in a weave of rhetorics designed to ward off the twenty-first century’s demons.”

—Anselm Hollo

A failed professor, Samuel Taylor is haunted by the premonition that in attempting to write out his system and the circumstances surrounding his failure, he will only find himself at the mercy of another system: language itself.

Each iteration of his creative effort, whether centered around seemingly mundane activities, such as driving or manual labor, illustrates that while experience might preempt artistic aspiration, those who are wedded to the demands of literary art are at its beck and call.

Embracing Differences

Transnational Cultural Flows Between Japan and the United States Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt

Many treat the omnipresence of American consumer products in Japan as a consequence of cultural imperialism, yet this assumption oversimplifies the phenomenon. This book challenges the belief that the transfer of cultural products has been one-sided.

Investigating Disney theme parks, sushi, and film, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt reveals a dialogical exchange between these two nations that has transformed the image of Japan in the United States. $50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2600-1 2 0 1 4 262 pages t r a n sc r ipt - ve r lag

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The Other Blacklist

Toward the Geopolitical Novel

Mary Helen Washington

Caren Irr

The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

“Mary Helen Washington’s study is a wonderful combination of careful research, adept historicizing, and insightful close reading. Her book brings needed critical attention to understudied figures and helps readers rethink the careers of others whom they believe they already know.”

— James Smethurst, author of The African American Roots of Modernism

“A groundbreaking and eye-opening study. In Mary Helen Washington’s sure hands, biography, politics, and cultural history combine to open new intellectual vistas.”

— Alan M. Wald, University of Michigan $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15270-9 2014 352 pages / 28 illus.

U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

“Irr has written a superb study, one that contributes greatly to our appreciation of the new dimensions of contemporary U.S. fiction. Perhaps the most exciting aspect lies in Irr’s willingness to conceive of her subject, not on the basis of a handful of texts, but on a voluminous array of novels. The historical nuance and theoretical edge of this broadly based inquiry exhibit both her grasp of interpretative subtleties and her luminous powers of synthesis. It is simply the best book we have yet on the literature of this century.”

— Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16441-2 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16440-5 2013

280 pages

Literature Now

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JAPANESE LITERATURE & CULTURE Forthcoming June

Reading

The Tale of Genji

SOURCES FROM THE FIRST MILLENNIUM

EDITED BY

Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane

Reading The Tale of Genji

Sources from the First Millennium edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo

Ground Zero, Nagasaki

Stories

Seirai YŪichi Translated by Paul Warham

Shirane

“This book is a treasure. Erudite and masterful translations, many appearing here for the first time, will advance the field in significant ways.”

—Melissa McCormick, Harvard University

“A brilliant example of what collaboration among scholars can produce. The introduction to the whole work and to the individual texts are clear, cogent, concise, and engaging, and the translations are very readable and display different nuances in style.”

“Ground Zero, Nagasaki represents some of the best literary fiction that is being produced in Japan today. It should gain an appreciative audience among those who enjoy moving, informative writing.”

—Van Gessel, Brigham Young University

“A moving document of the atomic experience and one that suggests the ways it still affects Japan today.”

—Stephen Snyder, Middlebury College $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17116-8 2 0 1 5 208 pages

—Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto $65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16658-4 J u n e 2 0 1 5 656 pages / 13 illus.

New in paper

The Tale of Genji

Translation, Canonization, and World Literature Michael Emmerich $30.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16273-9 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16272-2 2015

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JAPANESE LITERATURE & CULTURE THE

CO LU M B I A A N T H O LO G Y O F J A PA N E S E E S S AY S Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

E D I T E D A N D T R A N S L AT E D B Y

Steven D. Carter

The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama

Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

edited by J. Thomas Rimer, Mitsuya Mori, and M. Cody Poulton

edited and translated by Steven D. Carter

“An excellent representative sampling of modern Japanese drama and a substantial contribution to Japanese literature in translation and the body of Japanese scripts available in English for Western theater artists.”

A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a Meijiperiod novelist, and a physicist at Tokyo University: they all wrote —Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary University genre encompassing features of the “Few anthologies are as comprehensive as non-fiction or personal essay and this one, and the translators have done an miscellaneous musings. For sheer range admirable job in capturing the language of subject matter and perspective, the and tone of each of the playwrights. This zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese anthology will open up much of modern and literary tradition. This anthology contemporary Japanese theater work to a wider audience.” presents more than one hundred zuihitsu by close to fifty authors, —David Jortner, Baylor University including Matsuo Bashō, Natsume $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-12830-8 2 0 1 4 880 pages Sōseki, and Kōda Aya, as well as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsurō, whose works appear here for the first time in English. $40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-16771-0 $120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-16770-3 2 0 1 4 512 pages

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LIGHT DAR K •AND•

• A NOVEL •

NATSUME

SO–SEKI TRANSLATED,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION,

BY

JOHN NATHAN

Light and Dark

The Frontier Within

Natsume Sõseki

Abe Kõbõ

A Novel

“Natsume Sõseki’s Light and Dark is one of the most gripping novels in modern Japanese literature. It represents a historical turning point in the development of Japanese fiction.

John Nathan, a distinguished translator, has produced a masterful rendition that captures the subtle nuances of the original.”

— Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, author of Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16142-8 2 0 1 3 464 pages / 188 illus.

Weatherhead Books on Asia

Essays by Abe Kōbō

Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Richard F. Calichman

“ The Frontier Within redresses the lopsided and biased understanding of Abe Kõbõ as solely a writer of fiction. First and foremost a thinker, he was extremely conscious of the fundamental conditions in which language operated and human existence was formed. The essays in this volume provide wonderful insight into Abe Kõbõ's engagement with imperialism, border creation, postwar ‘democracy,’ U.S.–Japan relations, and postwar Japanese Marxism.”

— Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University, coeditor of Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16386-6 2 0 1 3 224 pages Weatherhead Books on Asia

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wa n g

The Lyrical in Epic Time

Internet Literature in China Michel Hockx

The Lyrical in Epic Time Modern Chinese Intellectuals and artists Through the 1949 Crisis

David Der-wei wang

Internet Literature in China

The Lyrical in Epic Time

Michel Hockx

"Michael Hockx's Internet Literature in China is one of the first books to survey the field of electronic literature in China, and his analyses show the complex interrelations between literary production, internet technologies, and social contexts in postsocialist China."

-N. Katherine Hayles, Author of How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis

“This book is the best introduction available in English to the psychic landscape of contemporary Chinese netizens who know how to play with censors to articulate their personal desires, fantasies, phobias and exhibitionism."

-Lydia H. Liu, author of The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16082-7 2015

256 pages / 29 illus.

Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis David Der-wei Wang

“Wang moves with ease and flair from one discipline to another as he delineates the complex dynamics of the evolving cultural lyricism in mid-twentieth-century China. No other published book in the field can rival this in breadth, depth, and goals.”

—Zong-Qi Cai, University of Illinois

“By bringing energetic questioning and immense erudition to bear on lyricism, Wang succeeds in throwing a brilliant new light onto crucial aspects of modern Chinese experience in ways that demand a reconfiguration of our understanding.”

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Shanghai Homes

Palimpsests of Private Life Jie Li

"Shanghai Homes recounts the lives of three generations of residents in Shanghai’s alleyway neighborhoods, once vibrant communities that have all but disappeared since the late 1990s. In her detailed and wonderfully written account, Li treats her subjects with a rare combination of personal engagement and academic rigor. A remarkable work in urban cultural studies."

—Hanchao Lu, author of Beyond the Neon Lights

“A real gem...Shanghai Homes is that unique work that effortlessly moves between and cuts across several disciplinary areas: family history, Cultural Revolution politics, urban architecture, and above all personal and collective memory and its place in postSocialsit and globalized China.”

—Leo Ou-Fan Lee, author of Shanghai Modern $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16717-8 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16716-1

City of the Dead and Ballade Nocturne Gao Xingjian Translated by Gilbert C. F. Fong and Mabel Lee

City of the Dead and Ballade Nocturne are two plays by Gao Xingjian, the Nobel laureate, which create new modes of theatrical presentation by experimenting with prose and poetry. In City of the Dead, Gao employs traditional Chinese opera techniques that combine singing with dialogue, movement, and martial arts into a modern play. Ballade Nocturne, conceived as a poem-play with dance, uses one female actor and two female dancers to represent the subjective self of the contemporary woman, divided into the “I” and the “she.” These two plays advance Gao’s theatrical experiments in dramatic prose across linguistic and cultural boundaries. $24.00 cloth 978-962-996-650-8

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Jeffrey C. Kinkley

edited by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema

"The anthology, together with original introductory segments, opens a new window onto the urban milieu of the formative period of early Chinese theater. For anyone interested in not only in the literary, but in the performance aesthetics of traditional Chinese drama, this collection will be indispensable."

-Patricia Sieber, The Ohio State University

"These translations and introductory essays present the distillation, in a single volume, of decades of study by two leading scholars on the traditions of performance and textual reproduction and adaptation of Yuan drama."

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"Kinkley dives directly into the complex and sometimes murky intersection between history and literature in contemporary China.

Along the way, we are introduced to the leading voices in Chinese literature today— including Mo Yan, Su Tong, Yu Hua and Wang Anyi— and offered nuanced readings of the dystopian undercurrent in their major works. For those interested in delving deeper into the most important Chinese novels of the past quarter century, this is where to start."

-Michael Berry, author of History of Pain and Speaking in Images

“A lucid, thought-provoking, and substantial study of several of China's most important creative writers; one that poses crucial questions about the links between fiction, history and politics in the contemporary People's Republic.”

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Chinese Opera

Snow and Shadow

Siu Wang-Ngai

Translated by Nicky Harman

The Actor’s Craft

Dorothy Tse

With Peter Lovrick

Dorothy Tse’s stories sometimes start in a vein of innocent realism, yet she Chinese opera embraces more than 360 different styles of theater that make one invariably brings us up short with an abrupt twist: dreamscapes descend of the richest performance arts in the world. It combines music, speech, poetry, and the pages become populated with ever-weirder characters. Not only mime, acrobatics, stage fighting, vivid do strange things happen, they are face painting, and exquisite costumes. juxtaposed in ways that confound all First experiences of Chinese opera logical expectations. This collection of can be baffling because its vocabulary thirteen short stories is not for the faintof stagecraft is familiar only to the hearted—violent and sensual elements seasoned aficionado. Chinese Opera: The abound and limbs, even heads, are Actor’s Craft makes the experience more lopped off with alarming regularity. Yet accessible for everyone. This book uses scenes are sometimes so outrageous they breath-taking images of Chinese opera make us laugh, and Tse’s bold thematic in performance by Hong Kong phoand narrative experiments yield results tographer Siu Wang-Ngai to illustrate that are alternately beguiling and deeply and explain Chinese opera stage disturbing. technique. The book explores costumes, $18.00 / £12.50 paper 978-988-16046-0-6 gestures, mime, acrobatics, props, and 2 0 1 4 212 pages stage techniques. Each explanation ho n g ho n g u n ive r sit y p r ess is accompanied by an example of its use in an opera and is illustrated by in-performance photographs. $45.00 / £31.00 cloth 978-988-8208-26-5 2 0 1 4 232 pages / 227 illus. ho n g ho n g u n ive r sit y p r ess

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Islands or Continents

International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013

International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013

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This abridged volume features bilingual and trilingual selections of the choicest works produced by the internationally acclaimed poets in attendance at the 2013 International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong.

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Another Man’s City

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Choi In-ho Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton

This little-known novel, titled Shenlou zhi, Another Man’s City is structured as a is translated here for the first time. virtual-reality narrative manipulated by Published in 1804, it is the earliest an entity referred to as the “Invisible novel to deal with the opium trade and is closely connected to events that Hand” and “Big Brother.” The scenario echoes Peter Weir’s 1998 film The occurred in Guangzhou and Huizhou Truman Show and Kazuo Ishiguro’s just before its publication: the arrival novel The Unconsoled. The book begins of a new superintendent of customs with a series of seemingly minor in Guangzhou and the outbreak of juxtapositions of the familiar and rebellion in Huizhou. This strikingly the strange, as a result of which the original work advances the culture of protagonist, K, gradually finds himself adolescence first depicted in Honglou inside a Matrix-like reality populated by meng and showcases, in its account of the rebellion, the romantic conventions shapeshifting characters. $16.95 / £11.95 paper 978-1-62897-101-9 of Shuihu zhuan. $55.00 cloth 978-962-996-581-5 2 0 1 4 450 pages

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Beyond Sinology

A Critical Reader edtied by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards

Andrea Bachner

“The emergence of Sinophone studies within the last decade has been one of the most interesting developments. Most exciting is that nearly all of the very foundations and earliest adumbrations of this novel concept are to be found in Sinophone Studies, which makes it a unique resource for introducing this fresh field to student and scholar alike.”

— Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania

“China is one of the oldest extant empires as well as one of the most powerful countries in the world today, yet the term ‘Sinophone’ is not part of our vocabulary the way ‘Anglophone’ and ‘Francophone’ are. This expansive collection will change that."

Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture “The story of Chinese writing as told by Andrea Bachner is traversed by necrophilia, hallucination, fetishism, patriotism, identity/ alterity politics, new age mediality, and multiple other passions; it is also one in which the controversial protagonist, the sinograph, has resiliently stood its ground.

No other contemporary study I know of showcases sino(graph)philia with as much verve and aplomb. This is an impressively ambitious and innovative book.”

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From the Old Country

When the Future Disappears

Zhong Lihe

Janet Poole

Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan “Zhong Lihe has a well-deserved major reputation in Taiwan as a writer of “homeland literature” and was an inspiration to many later Taiwanese writers. Here he presents one of the most vivid depictions of rural life in Taiwan in the 1940s and 1950s."

— Edward Gunn, Cornell University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16630-0 2 0 1 4 336 pages / 16 illus M o d e r n C hi n ese L ite r atu r e f r om Tai w a n

The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

"In this world-class piece of scholarship and conceptual thinking, Poole shows how Korean poets, philosophers, and essayists in the colonial period struggled in their work with the notion of a disappearing future with no change in sight. Through the local Korean case she works through the broader question of the complex temporality of the late colonial period, and shows how culture bears the imprint of this sense of time in its very form."

-Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley

“An indispensable addition to existing studies on Japanese modernism, Japanese imperialism and its politics and culture, European modernism, and the growing body of scholarly works on colonial Korea.”

—Jin-Kyung Lee, University of California, San Diego $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16518-1 2 0 1 4 336 pages S tu d ies of the Weathe r hea d E ast A sia n I n stitute , C olumbia U n ive r sit y

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Memories of Mount Qilai

The Education of a Young Poet

The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

Yang Mu

edtied by Sung-sheng Yvonne

Translated by John Balcom and Yingtsih Balcom

Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju

"A landmark in Taiwanese literature as well as in modern Chinese prose. It has reinvented the genre of literary autobiography by welding together a paean to the beauty of indigenous landscapes and peoples, a penetrating look at the social and political transformations in postwar Taiwan, an honest and moving bildungsroman, and, above all, a poetic language that is supple and sinewy at the same time."

-Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis

“Memories of Mount Qilai provides rich insight into the author’s personal experience, merging human psychology, history, geography, and Taiwan’s topography into a thick portrait of life in Taiwan during the middle of the twentieth century.”

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“This book is a tour de force, bringing together many of the most important documents relating to the history of Taiwan literary criticism and many firsthand reflections on writing and the literary scene from leading writers, playwrights, and poets. Translating an impressive array of critical writings on literature into English for the first time, there is no other volume quite like this, certainly not in English, and perhaps not even in Chinese.”

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The Great Civilized Conversation

Education for a World Community Wm. Theodore de Bary $24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-16277-7 2014 432 pages

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Writing Resistance

The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature Laura R. Brueck

“An original and timely contribution to scholarship on Hindi literature, modern Indian literature, and Dalit studies. The work is well researched, using a judicious combination of Hindi and English sources, and provides, for the first time in English, an overview of the central concerns of Hindi Dalit literature as a political and aesthetic movement.”

—Allison Busch, Columbia University

“In a wide-ranging investigation of origins, motivations and genres, Laura Brueck addresses the fundamental questions of what makes this literature Dalit, and what makes it literary; her fine book offers a sympathetic and yet penetrating guide to a vivacious new canon of Hindi prose.”

Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea Freedom’s Frontier

Theodore Hughes A Choice Ou tstanding Academic Title $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-15749-0 2014 304 pages

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Prose of the World

Modernism and the Banality of Empire Saikat Majumdar $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15695-0 2015 248 pages

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-Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16605-8 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16604-1 2 0 1 4 288 pages S outh A sia A c r oss the Discipli n es

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MODERNIST STUDIES Forthcoming August C O L D W A R MODERNISTS

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Cold War Modernists

Planetary Modernism

Provocations on Modernity Across Time Susan Stanford Friedman

Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy Greg Barnhisel

“A brave, challenging, and incredibly stimulating account of where modernist studies might go next. It should be read and debated widely. In many ways this book turns the ‘new’ of modernism into the ‘now.’ This is a work that emphatically, and in the very best possible way, provokes!”

—Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University

Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, post-colonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia.

Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study.

"Deftly working across genres, Greg Barnhisel mobilizes rich archival sources to show not only the accommodation of modernism to anti-Communism but also the entanglement of the highbrow and the middlebrow. In that way, this lively, fascinating book contributes to the histories of both cultural diplomacy and cultural hierarchy."

-Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester

"Greg Barnhisel's important new study combines an assured grasp of historical context with sensitive readings of artworks and literary texts to illuminate previously obscure aspects of the 'Cultural Cold War.'" -Hugh Wilford, author of The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16230-2 2 0 1 5 256 pages / 24 illus.

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KILLING THE MOONLIGHT MODERNISM IN VENICE

Killing the Moonlight

Modernism in Venice

Jennifer Scappettone

“Killing the Moonlight is a shimmering, brilliant reflection on Venice’s making of a modernist aesthetic, one not simply to be understood as a minor modernism, but one arising on the thresholds of the city’s lagoons and lacunae....In a tour-de-force reading of John Ruskin, Henry James, Ezra Pound, the Italian Futurists, Massimo Cacciari, Italo Calvino, and Jeanette Winterson, Scappettone has written what will be a classic work on the spaces and times of modernity."

-Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University

“A theoretically sophisticated project, far reaching in its comparativist approach and methodologically rigorous throughout.

Scappettone’s work brings to our attention... the interrelation of imaginary and lived spaces, literary and cultural history, textual and urban terrains.”

—Carla Billitteri, University of Maine $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16432-0 2 0 1 4 472 pages M o d e r n ist L atitu d es

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FILM STUDIES Forthcoming July

The Cinema of the Coen Brothers

Hard-Boiled Entertainments Jeffrey Adams

This study surveys Oscar-winning films, such as Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as cult favorites, including O Brother, Where Art Thou?

(2000) and The Big Lebowski (1998).

Beginning with Blood Simple (1984), Jeffrey Adams examines major themes and generic constructs and offers diverse approaches to the Coens’ enigmatic films. Pointing to the pulp fiction of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, Adams focuses upon the postmodern aesthetics of the Coens’ intertexual creativity. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-17461-9 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-17460-2 J u l y 2 0 1 5 240 pages / 24 illus. w allflo w e r p r ess

The Curse of Frankenstein Marcus K. Harmes

This 1957 film was the first to bring together the “unholy two,” Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, with the Hammer company and director Terence Fisher, a combination now legendary among horror fans. This book travels back to the start of the Hammer horror production, considering the film as a loose literary adaptation; as a work avoiding echoes of James Whale’s 1931 film; and as a text inspired by the Gainsborough bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the 1950s. The film jolted 1950s cinema and has never been surpassed. $15.00 paper 978-1-906733-85-8 2 0 1 5 112 pages / 12 illus.

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German Exile Cinema 1933-1951

GERD GEMÜNDEN

Continental Strangers

German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemünden

“Gerd Gemünden combines perceptive close readings of select films with sharp archival investigation to show how some key movies of classical Hollywood came-in often fraught manner-to engage with the evils of fascism. By understanding cinema as a complex negotiation over political meanings, from production to final results onscreen, this volume represents a major contribution to the literature on the Hollywood emigrés and their cultural work. ” —Dana Polan, New York University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16679-9 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16678-2 2 0 1 4 296 pages / 40 illus.

New in paper

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 Thomas Doherty

Slow Movies

Countering the Cinema of Action Ira Jaffe

“Superb... A brilliant writer, Jaffe deftly... [gives] the reader a window into a much wider world of cinema. Yet another excellent film book from Wallflower Press...commands the reader’s attention.”

—Choice

"In a time of hypermodern acceleration in cinematic narrative, Ira Jaffe turns a penetrating eye to films that embody a transcendent and deeply probing slowness.

Interpretive deliberation, emptiness of moment and observation, virtuosity of meditation, the revelation of the long take, and the patient angling of narrative gain new clarity—even radiance—in Jaffe’s important analysis of works by Jarmusch, Van Sant, Kiarostami, Oliveira, Ceylan, Puiu, Zhang-ke, and Tarr."

—Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University

Named one of the Best Film Books of the Year

$27.00/ £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16979-0 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16978-3

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Forthcoming July

DIRECTORS

FIlmS? . Pedro Almodóvar . Terence Davies . Todd Haynes . Gus Van Sant . John Waters

EmanuEl lEvy

Gay Directors, Gay Films?

Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters Emanuel Levy

“Levy moves with fluid grace and astonishing erudition through a range of national traditions and personal styles. His study will enchant anyone interested in the twists and turns of gender, sex, and cinema.”

—Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939

Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, Emanuel Levy draws a clear timeline of gay filmmaking over the past four decades and its influences and innovations. While recognizing the “queering” of American culture that resulted from these films, Levy also takes stock of the conservative backlash and its impact on cinematic art.

Director's covered include Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters, Pedro Almodóvar and Terence Davies. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-15277-8 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-15276-1

The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Hermann Kappelhoff

“This is a major work of critical writing on film and one that moves the intellectual discourse about film, politics, and the aesthetic movements and projects of the twentieth century forward.”

—Robert Burgoyne, author of Film Nation

Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema’s ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17073-4 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17072-7 J u l y 2 0 1 5 272 pages / 40 illus.

C olumbia T hemes i n P hilosoph y, S ocial C r iticism , a n d the A r ts

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Documents of Utopia

The Politics of Experimental Documentary Paolo Magagnoli

“Documents of Utopia makes a significant contribution to our understanding of two seemingly opposed trends in contemporary art practice: the archival turn and the burgeoning interest in utopia. Paolo Magagnoli offers a clear and sophisticated argument that a desire to recover the past can also be one to rethink the future.”

—Paul Wilson, Ithaca College

Paolo Magagnoli analyzes the experimental documentary projects of such artists as Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Tacita Dean, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, and Alison Craighead, as he illustrates how theit work has contributed to the debate on the conditions of utopian thinking in late-capitalist society. $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-17271-4 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-17270-7 M a y 2 0 1 5 224 pages / 24 illus. w allflo w e r p r ess

Postmodernism and Film

Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthestics Catherine Constable

This study examines postmodern film aesthetics and challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating film analysis. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, postclassical/new Hollywood styles and their construction as a linear history in which postmodernism informs a debatable final act. This history is challenged through Lyotard’s nonlinear conception of postmodernism, which recasts postmodern aesthetics as a paradigm ocurring across the history of Hollywood. The book also explores “nihilistic” postmodern theorists Jean Baudrillard and Frederic Jameson and “affirmative” theorists Linda Hutcheon and Judith Butler, charting how they help conceptualize variants of postmodern aesthetics and deploy them in the analysis of such films as Bombshell (1933), Serial Mom (1994), and Kill Bill (2003). $22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-17455-8 J u n e 2 0 1 5 144 pages / 12 illus. w allflo w e r p r ess

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German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

“Rentschler’s command of individual filmmakers’ oeuvres, from the unjustly forgotten and overlooked to the internationally recognized and celebrated auteurs, and of historical periods from the silents to the evolving present is as impressive as his ability to ‘drill down’ analytically and uncover significant details, motifs, or patterns.”

—Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan

Balancing history and theory in his readings, Rentschler discusses critics and theorists such as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim; key New German directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Alexander Kluge; films from the so-called Berlin School, particularly those of Christoph Hochhäusler, Thomas Arslan, and Christian Petzold; and seminal genres such as the mountain film, the early sound musical, the postwar rubble film, and recent heritage cinema.

Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come

“Strikingly original. Casetti shifts the focus to the viewer’s experience of the moving image in the new media landscape, offering a much needed riposte to those who have proclaimed cinema dead.”

—Malcolm Turvey, Sarah Lawrence College

Francesco Casetti travels from the remote corners of film history and theory to the most surprising sites on the Internet and in our cities to prove the ongoing relevance of cinema. He does away with notions of canon, repetition, apparatus, and spectatorship in favor of expansion, relocation, assemblage, and performance. The result is an innovative understanding of cinema’s place in our lives and culture, along with a sea change in the study of the art. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17243-1 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17242-4 2 0 1 5 304 pages F ilm a n d C ultu r e S e r ies

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Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media ADAM LOWENSTEIN

Dreaming of Cinema

Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein

"This highly imaginative and innovative book stages a dialogue between the theory and practice of surrealism and film spectatorship in the digital age. Following the critical and creative pathways of surrealist thought, it argues for a expanded sense both of the medium of cinema and of the forms of spectatorship that cinema yields, and it finds the promise of surrealism alive in contemporary media practices."

—Richard Allen, New York University

“Lowenstein turns technological teleology on its head, arguing that new media studies urgently needs a theory of cinema—both what it was and what it continues to be.”

— Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick

Maya Deren

Incomplete Control Sarah Keller

"A tour-de-force of historical and critical scholarship that explores new primary research material from Maya Deren's voluminous and complex archive in order to assert the significance of incompletion and process as central to Deren's artistic and intellectual production. Keller's clear, erudite prose offers brilliant new readings of Deren's extant films, including canonical works like Meshes of the Afternoon, and comprehensively explores Deren's incomplete projects-films, research projects, writings-to draw out Deren's radical imaginings of art and culture."

-Michael Zryd, York University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16221-0 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16220-3 2 0 1 4 304 pages / 26 illus.

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Motion(less) Pictures

The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes

Reading Andy Warhol’s Empire (1964), the Fluxus work Disappearing Music for Face (1965), Michael Snow’s So Is This (1982), and Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993), Justin Remes shows how motionless films collapse the boundaries among cinema, photography, painting, and literature. Analyzing furniture films, designed to be viewed partially or distractedly; protracted films, which use slow motion to impress stasis; textual films, which foreground the static display of letters and written words; and monochrome films, which display a field of monochrome color as their image, Remes maps the interrelations among movement, stillness, and duration and their complication of cinema’s conventional function and effects. $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16963-9 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16962-2 2015 208 pages F ilm a n d C ultu r e S e r ies

Be Sand, Not Oil

The Life and Work of Amos Vogel Paul Cronin, Editor

Amos Vogel was one of America’s most innovative film historians and curators.

An émigré from Austria who arrived in New York just before the Second World War, he created Cinema 16, a pioneering film club, in 1947 and helped establish the New York Film Festival in 1963. Vogel later synthesized his experience for students and the wider public, publishing the culmination of his thoughts, along with an extraordinary collection of stills, in a book entitled Film as a Subversive Art. Be Sand, Not Oil is the first book about Vogel’s life and work, including uncollected writings, an unpublished interview, and new essays documenting the filmmaker’s never-ending quest for what Werner Herzog, his friend of many decades, has described as “adequate imagery.” $32.50 / £22.50 paper 978-3-901644-59-7 2 0 1 4 256 pages / 50 illus.

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Film Worlds

A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone

"A half-century after Jean Mitry's magisterial integration of classical film theory, Daniel Yacavone has done the same for its modern counterpart, managing not just to reconcile, but to recruit the extremes of cognitivism and of phenomenology for his prodigious satellite mapping of the terrae incognitae he rightly calls 'Film Worlds.'..." Yacavone delivers a stable and progressive suite of concepts that address films as texts and as embodied affect.

He has culled these from a balanced review of an impressive roster of film theorists as well as of the 20th century thinkers many of them have drawn on, some of whom, notably Nelson Goodman and Ernst Cassirer, have been waiting in the wing to contribute to a compelling vision like Yacavone's."

-Dudley Andrew, Yale University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15769-8 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15768-1

"It's the Pictures That Got Small" Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age edited by Anthony Slide Foreword by Jim Moore

"Reading Charles Brackett’s diary entries is like stepping into a time machine. It provides a vivid and valuable account of day-to-day life in the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system and a bittersweet chronicle of his volatile relationship with Billy Wilder. I couldn’t put the book down."

-Leonard Maltin

"An indispensable guide to the complex, increasingly awkward relationship between two men who had next to nothing in common and yet contrived to make a fair number of the studio system's finest films."

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Biopics

The Cinema of Ang Lee

Ellen Cheshire

Second Edition

The Other Side of the Screen

A Life in Pictures Biopics contains a series of case studies that throw light on this most unique of genres. Unlike other genres, bio-pics seem to share no familiar iconography, codes, or conventions. What links them are the films’ depiction of an “important” person’s life. Through a carefully selected range of thematically linked (Englishlanguage) biopics released since 1990, this book explores key issues surrounding their resurgence, narrative structure, production, subject representation or misrepresentation, and critical response. $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-17205-9

Whitney Crothers Dilley

Through suggestive readings of gender and identity, this book explores the international appeal of an acclaimed contemporary director. The author has revised the book’s introduction to reflect Ang Lee’s new films and their global reception and adds to the text a consideration of new developments in Chinese film, recent critiques of Brokeback Mountain (2005), and chapters on Lust/ Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), and Life of Pi (2012).

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Film Theory

Parallel Lines

Creating a Cinematic Grammar

Post-9/11 American Cinema

Felicity Colman

Guy Westwell

Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, and includes the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The volume treats film theory as a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar applicable to a wide range of media forms. By creating authorial trends, identifying the technology of cinema as a creative force, and producing films as aesthetic markers, film theories contribute an epistemological resource that connects the technologies of filmmaking and film composition.

Parallel Lines describes how films from Spike Lee’s 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012) relate to different, competing versions of American national identity in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The book combines readings of films (World Trade Center, United 93, Fahrenheit 9/11, Loose Change) and cycles of films (depicting revenge, conspiracy, torture, and war) with extended commentary on recurring themes, including the relationship between the United States and the world; narratives of therapeutic recovery; and questions of ethical obligation. $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-17203-5 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-17202-8 2 0 1 4 240 pages wallflower press

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They Live

Latin Hitchcock

D. Harlan Wilson

Born out of the cultural flamboyance and anxiety of the 1980s, They Live (1988) is a hallmark of John Carpenter’s singular canon, combining the aesthetics of multiple genres and leveling an attack against the politics of Reaganism and the Cold War. This study traces the development of They Live from its comic book roots to its legacy as a cult masterpiece while evaluating the film in light of the paranoid/postmodern theory that matured in the decidedly “Big 80s.” Directed by a reluctant auteur, the film is examined as a complex work of metafiction that calls attention to the nature of cinematic production and reception as well as the dynamics of the cult landscape. $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-0-231-17211-0 2 0 1 4 128 pages wallflower press

How Almodóvar, Amenábar, de la Iglesia, del Toro, and Campanella Became Notorious Dona Kercher

This study explores how five major directors—Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Juan José Campanella— modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his film aesthetics. Each section of the book begins with an extensive study, based on newspaper accounts, of the original reception of Hitchcock’s movies in either Spain or Latin America and how local preferences for genre, glamour, moral issues, and humor affected their success. The text brings a new approach to world film history, showcasing both the commercial and artistic importance of Hitchcock in Spain and Latin America. $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-17209-7 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-17208-0 2 0 1 5 240 pages wallflower press

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Last Words

Bollywood's India

Considering Contemporary Cinema

A Public Fantasy

Jason Wood

Priya Joshi

“Wood asks crisp, pointed, well-focused questions while simultaneously building a conversational relationship with the person being interviewed. The remarkable assemblage of filmmakers who comprise his cast of characters represent just about every point along the spectrum of serious screen art today, and every one of them has ideas, opinions, and experiences that deserve the attention of everyone who cares about the troubled present and uncertain future of worthwhile cinema.”

—David Sterritt, chair, National Society of Film Critics

Last Words features extensive interviews with Christopher Nolan, Harmony Korine, Charlie Kaufmann, Nicolas Winding Refn, Wim Wenders, Michael Winterbottom, Christian Petzhold, and many others. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17197-7 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17196-0

"Joshi’s work is a timely assessment of key films and periods in Bollywood’s history.

Its wide ranging literary, theoretical, and socio-cultural perspectives which cut across literature, postcolonial studies, media and cultural studies will surely be taken up by other scholars as well as general readers."

—Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester

Summoning the 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi deftly examines blockbusters from notably tumultuous moments when the idea of India was made, unmade, and remade. Joshi’s incorporates fresh explorations of iconic films such as Awara (1951) and Deewaar (1975), as well as those less analyzed, such as Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957) and A Wednesday (2008). $30.00 /£20.50 paper 978-0-231-16961-5 $90.00/ £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16960-8 2015

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Carrie

Neil Mitchell

Omar Ahmed

DEVIL’S ADVOCATES is a series devoted to exploring the classics of horror cinema. Contributors to Devil’s Advocates come from the worlds of teaching, academia, journalism and fiction, but all have one thing in common: a passion for the horror film and for sharing that passion.

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Studying Indian Cinema

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The Blair Witch Project Peter Turner

Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel Carrie is one of the defining films of the 1970s ‘New Hollywood’ and a horror classic in its own right. The story of a socially outcast teenage girl who discovers she possesses latent psychic power, leading to her retribution against her peers, teachers and abusive mother, Carrie was an enormous commercial and critical success and still stands as one of the finest screen versions of a King novel.

Neil Mitchell’s contribution to the Devil’s Advocates series explores the film not just in terms of a formal breakdown - its themes, stylistic tropes, technical approaches, uses of colour and sound, dialogue and visual symbolism - but also the multitude of other factors that have contributed to its classic status. The act of adapting Stephen King’s novel for the big screen, the origins of the novel itself, the place of Carrie in De Palma’s oeuvre, the subsequent versions and sequel as well as the social, political and cultural climate of the era (second wave feminism, sexuality, representations of adolescence, etc.) and the explosion of interest in and the evolution of the horror genre in the 1970s are all shown to have played an important part in the film’s success and enduring reputation as a whole.

Carrie

This book analyzes key films in their social, political, and historical contexts while engaging with the ideological strands underpinning each one. Omar Ahmed reads sequences through conceptual frameworks common to film and media studies, such as narrative, genre, representation, audience, and mise-en-scene. Case studies run chronologically, from Awaara (1951) to The Elements Trilogy: Water (2005) and include films by such major directors as Satyajit Ray (The Lonely Wife), Ritwick Ghatak (Cloud Capped Star), Yash Chopra (The Wall), and Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!).

Neil Mitchell is a writer and editor, most recently of World Film Locations: Melbourne and, as co-editor, of Directory of World Cinema: Britain. He also edits the film magazine The Big Picture.

Neil Mitchell

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Few films have had the influence of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Its arrival was a horror cinema palette cleanser after a decade of serial killers and postmodern intertextuality, a bare bones “found footage” trendsetter. In this Devil’s Advocate volume, Peter Turner tells the story of the film from its conception through its production, and then provides a unique analysis of the techniques used, their appeal to audiences, and the themes that helped make the film such an international hit, including its pioneering Internet marketing campaign. $15.00 paper 978-1-906733-84-1 2 0 1 5 110 pages / 20 illus.

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Despite its reputation as one of the greatest horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960), and this study is the first single volume dedicated to the work. Martyn Conterio positions the film as one of the first sound Italian horror films and describes how its success kickstarted the Italian horror boom. He considers the film’s particular perspective on the gothic, which it pioneered, and its innovative approach to horror tropes such as the vampire and the witch. He also considers how the casting of British “Scream Queen” Barbara Steele was crucial to the work’s success. $15.00 paper 978-1-906733-83-4 2 0 1 5 110 pages / 20 illus.

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Must We Kill the Thing We Love?

Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman

“In his seminal book, The Murderous Gaze, Rothman emerged as a central voice in the study of Hitchcock with his probing and fine grained analysis of the filmmaker’s style and deep interpretations of his work. This new project builds on the critical premises of this earlier work yet modifies its predominantly ironic view of Hitchcock. Here Rothman argues with critical verve that Hitchcock’s films also contain a redemptive vision of the perfectibility of human nature.”

—Richard Allen, author of Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony

“Nobody knows the films of Alfred Hitchcock better than William Rothman. The idea of linking these wonderful and dense films with an Emersonian vision is inspired."

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UK & EUROPEAN LITERATURE

Best European Fiction 2015

New Tunisian Cinema

Allegories of Resistance

edited by West Camel

Robert Lang

“Through subtle and rich close readings of eight films released between 1986 and 2006, Robert Lang examines how contemporary Tunisian filmmakers resisted authoritarianism in both the public and private spheres of their society and successfully forged a national cinema that sought to keep in sight the secular and modern vision of their country’s founding intellectuals.”

—Hakim Abderrezak, University of Minnesota

“The decoding of these films as allegories of political resistance is well argued and draws on an immense wealth of knowledge both theoretical and practical.”

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“Every piece benefits serious fiction lovers’ reading experience.”

—Booklist (starred review)

“An exhiliarating read.”

—Time

For the past five years, this anthology has stirred reactions across the globe, exciting readers, critics, and publishers alike. As in past Best European Fiction volumes, special attention is paid to writers that hail from smaller countries, such as Albania, Ukraine, Belarus, Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia, Latvia, and Estonia, that are ften overlooked in favor of the major languages. This tradition continues with the present volume. $16.95 / £11.95 paper 978-1-56478-967-9

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Newspaper Edouard Levé Translated by Jan Steyn

“This is fiction, but it is fiction of a sort that raises some very serious questions about the possibility of cordoning off actual realities from imagined ones....Dizzying and disturbing in a way that is quite unlike anything else I have ever read.”

—The Millions

In Newspaper, Edouard Levé’s second “novel,” the acclaimed writer, photographer, and artist made perhaps his most radical attempt to remove himself from his own work. Consisting of fictionalized newspaper articles, arranged according to broad sections—some familiar, some not—Newspaper provides a tour of the modern world as reported by its supposedly impartial chroniclers.

Much of this “news” is quite sad, some is funny. The work as a whole serves as a gory parody of the way we have been taught to see our lives and the lives of our fellow human beings. $13.95 / £9.95 paper 978-1-56478-195-6 2 0 1 5 160 pages d alke y a r chive p r ess

From Out of the City John C. Kelly

“Rampant wit and a deft and elegant control of language.”

—The Times

“Witty, inventive, exhilarating.”

—The Guardian

This intriguing novel portrays a future in which electricity is scarce and Dublin has gone to seed. Hawk-eyed octogenarian Monk is keeping desperate characters under surveillance—among them Schroeder, recently sacked from Trinity College, now stalking a reporter in the days leading up to the visit of the U. S. president. When the president is assassinated, Monk tries to discover what has happened to those in his care and, along the way, to the late president—yet this is not, he insists, the story of an assassination. Nor is it a thriller; it is the truth. $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-62897-000-5

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Melancholy II

Mirror Gazing

A Novel

Warren Motte

Jon Fosse

“I believe (and I’m choosing my words carefully) that this is the most extraordinary book about reading I have ever read.”

Translated by Eric Dickens

“Fosse...has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more.”

—Jacques Jouet

—New York Times

Jon Fosse’s coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, the novel treats us to the thoughts of Hertervig’s sister, carrying on with her life in the absence of her eccentric brother. In Fosse’s hypnotic prose, Melancholy II serves as an investigation not only into the “collateral damage” wrought by art and artists but also into a master’s tools and obsessions.

Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the printed page. It is an archival project, based on a wealth of material collected daily by celebrated critic Warren Motte over thirty-five years and squirreled away for some eventual winter. It is also a love letter, a confession, a tale of deep obsession, and a cry for help addressed to anyone who takes literature seriously. $15.50 / £10.50 paper 978-1-62897-014-2 2 0 1 4 270 pages d alke y a r chive p r es

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The Republic of Užupis

The Planetarium

A Novel

A Novel

Haïlji

Nathalie Sarraute

Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton

A young writer desires his aunt’s apartment, and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Nathalie Sarraute’s focus on the emotional lives of her characters surpasses even Virginia Woolf, revealing the disparity between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us.

“This is the tenth novel of Haïlji, a novelist who has expressed the devilish nature of man and the absurdity of the world through his unique form of narrative experimentation since coming on the literary scene in 1990...

This story...calls to mind a Möbius strip with no beginning or end....[It] can also be read as the journey of a wandering writer in search of the origin of art.”

—List

Užupis (“on the other side of the river”) is, in reality, a neighborhood in Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel, however, it is the lost homeland of a middle-aged man named Hal, who lands in Lithuania hoping to travel back to the town of his birth to bury his father’s ashes—in a place that might not really exist.

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Youth

Non-Memoirs

A Novel

Yuri Lotman Translated by Caroline Lemak Brickman

Wolfgang Koeppen Translated and with an Introduction

by Michael Hofmann

“It is hard to think of a German writer of his generation who has written more sensitively or more profoundly about the Holocaust and its effects than Wolfgang Koeppen.”

“[Lotman’s work] will be of compelling interest to literary scholars, historians, semioticians, and those concerned in any way with the workings of the human mind and the nature and limits of human knowledge.”

—The Slavic and East European Journal

One afternoon in December 1992, Yuri Lotman sat down to dictate to his Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy assistant. These sessions were spread out over that winter and into the spring of years: a radical, not to say terrifying 1993—the final spring of Lotman’s life. stylist; a caustic, jet-black comedian; a bitter prophet. His late autobiographical The result is this book of memories and recollections. Five sections concern a work—the short, intense autofiction Youth, translated here for the first time— single anecdote or theme including lice on the front, an encounter with a hare, is a portrait of the little north German a visit from the KGB, Tartu School town of Greifswald before World War politics.

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