Literature and Literary Criticism

British Novelists and Indian Nationalism Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye, James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith

Author: 

Kalpakli, Fatma

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Department of English Language and Literature, Selcuk University, Konya (Turkey)

This is an intriguing and groundbreaking study by a scholar who not only is not British nor Indian but belongs to a society that has had its own imperial history as well as having a strong ,revitalizing nationalist movement in the 20th c. It is through this prism that Dr Kapakli discusses,compares and contrasts Indian nationalism in three seminal novels. The novels in question are Shadow of the Moon (1957)by Mary Margaret Kaye, the Siege of Knishnapur(1973) by James Gordon Smith and White Teeth (2000)by Zadie Smith.

Market: 
India in 20th C British Literature,Indian nationalism in British writing,the 20th Novel of India ,Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies
Release Date: 
10/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-77-5 / 1933146-77-X
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Dead and the Quick: Cliches and Neologisms in the Written, Spoken and Visual Cultures of Britain, The United States and France

Author: 

Redfern, Walter

Credentials: 

Ph.D Cambridge University; Professor, Reading University and sometime Professor of Comparative Literature ,University of Illinois. Author of 20 research works including French Laughter(Oxford University Press,2008), Paul Nizan :Committed Literature(Princeton University Press)

This work is a major contribution to the study of cliches and neologisms since it moves beyond considering them separately into their interlinked role in written,spoken and visual cultures in contemporary Britain, France and the United States.

Market: 
Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics and Literature, Language, Communication, Media
Release Date: 
09/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146- 76-8/ 193314676-1
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Ted Hughes' Art of Healing: Into Time and Other People

Author: 

Xerri, Daniel

Credentials: 

Lecturer, D/English, University Of Malta

The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry yet until now there has been no monograph on Hughes conception of poetry as a healing device. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes' poetic works and evaluates the poet's notion of its significance for human civilization.

Market: 
Ted Hughes, British Poetry 20th c, poetics, British Literature 1945 – 2000 Cultural Studies
Release Date: 
12/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-78-2 / 1933146-78-8
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading

Author: 

Villar-Argáiz, Pilar

Credentials: 

Ph.D Professor, University of Granada(Spain)

“Pilar Villar-Argáiz’s sustained, meticulous, and exacting study of Eavan Boland opens up and articulates in a fresh way the key dimensions of her poetry. It succeeds not only in tracking the far-reaching ramifications of Eavan Boland’s politicized aesthetic as a postcolonial writer but in urging us to revisit the crystalline and precisely etched poems of one of the most significant artists in contemporary Irish culture.”
Professor Anne Fogarty, University College, Dublin (from the Introduction)

Market: 
Irish Studies, Irish poetry,20th c, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Studies(Poetry)
Release Date: 
8/2007
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-23-0
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
312
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Beyond the Page: Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual

Author: 

Huizar, Angelica J.

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Professor of Spanish and the Latin American Studies Program, Old Dominion University,VA.

This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary: they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples.

Market: 
Latin American [Spanish-language] poetry, theories of performance, contemporary poetics and aesthetics, literary theory and cultural studies, Brazilian poetry, Antillean (Francophone)poetry
Release Date: 
06/2009
ISBN: 
978-1-933146-41-6 / 1933146-41-9
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
228
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Le Clezio: A Literary Topography of New Departures, Poetic Adventure and Sensual Ecstasy—The Man and His Works

Author: 

Redfern-West, Robert

Credentials: 

Publisher and editor, “Robert Redeker-Depression and Philosophy “

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was born in France in 1940 and spent his youth in Africa, France and England. His family had strong connections to Mauritius and its Anglo-French creole elite. This research study is the first to be released in English since LeClezio won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008 . It discusses the man, his unique history and travels and the extraordinary production of 43 novels not to mention short stories, children’s literature and journalism/criticism.

Market: 
Modern Novel, Modern French Literature, Novels of Africa
Release Date: 
03/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 193314664-8; 978-1933146645
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870 - 1914

Author: 

Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Daniel and Tague, Gregory F. - Editors

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds: Meyer-Dinkgrafe is the author of author of Consciousness and the Actor (Frankfurt,1996) and Tague is the author of author of several monographs and collections including Origins of English Literary Modernism (Bethesda,2007)

The aim of this volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors/playwrights and controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and theatre. The editors have focused on the essence of creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the Great War (1914).

Market: 
English Drama late 19thc/early 20thc, Dramatic Arts, Theatre Studies, Theatre History, Literary Modernism, Aesthetics
Release Date: 
06/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-9331466-66-9 / 1933146-66-4
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
452
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style

Author: 

Donovan, Julie

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/English George Washington University

Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr.Donovan contextualizes an important yet relatively neglected author by analyzing an emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship; the criticism was not without some basis since Owenson was an actor’s daughter and grew up in the company of traveling performers.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Irish Literature,19th C, Women’s Studies, Irish History, Travel Literature
Release Date: 
04/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 9781933146559/ 978193314655-3
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
278
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Form and Perception in Visual Poetry

Author: 

Lopez-Fernandez, Laura

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Director, Senior Lecturer of Spanish, University of Canterbury

FORM and PERCEPTION IN VISUAL POETRY one of the first serious monographs in English that explores what is defined as Visual Poetry. This intermediate genre has its own characteristics. It demands inclusion of a number of disciplines: philosophy, psychology, neurobiology, literature, painting and graphic design, etc. As with many an emergent area of study an interdisciplinary approach takes into account new perspectives of analysis while maintaining respect for traditional methods of approach to poetry.

Market: 
Poetry, Literary Criticism, Experimental poetry/writing, Visual Studies, Perception(Philosophy), Modern poetry, Design
Release Date: 
6/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-9331426-3 / EAN 978-1-9331426-3
Price: 
$76.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
168
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Joycean Elements in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Aspects of Burlesque, Shadowing, Dichotomies and Doubling

Author: 

Tanner, Barney, former John Hay Fellow at Columbia and author

Credentials: 

Independent Scholar, with a commendatory foreword by Professor Gavin Jones, D/English, Stanford University

This research monograph argues that Scott Fitzgerald consciously used a variety of Joycean devices in THE GREAT GATSBY and these devices were the result of close readings of Joyce’s DUBLINERS and ULYSSES. The monograph breaks new ground in Fitzgerald scholarship and has implications for Joyceans as well. The author’s research was first begun under the mentorship of Professor Wallace Stegner and has lasted over 35 years. Tanner also benefited from a correspondence with Edmund Wilson prior to Wilson’s death.

Market: 
Fitzgerald Studies, Joyce Studies, 20th C.Literature American and Irish, Literary Criticism, History of the Novel
Release Date: 
03/2007
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-25-7
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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