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LITERARy STUDIES 78 LITERARy STUDIES Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy Lorna Burns • Draws on Deleuze to critique postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary Caribbean writing • Maps a new history of post- 1930 Caribbean literature, from Césaire to Derek Walcott • Brings together postcolonial and postcontinental approaches to establish a new critical discourse for Literary Studies This study interrogates the postcolonial tropes that lie at the heart of the dialogue between contemporary Caribbean writers and Deleuze. LORNA BURNS is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. UK July 2012 US September 2012 208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441116437 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum Irish Writing London: Volume 1 Revival to Emergency Edited by Tom Herron Salman Rushdie’s Cities Reconfigurational Politics and the Contemporary Urban Imagination Vassilena Parashkevova • Examines urban themes in Rushdie’s novels, short fiction and non-fiction • Establishes interdisciplinary critical frameworks for the exploration of cities in urban writing • Surveys postmodern, contemporary and postcolonial writers: Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, zadie Smith, Hanif Kureishi Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. VASSILENA PARASHKEVOVA is Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Associate Lecturer in English Literature at London South Bank University, UK. UK February 2012 US April 2012 240 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441148506 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Studies in the City Continuum • Covers a range of Irish literary figures including Wilde, Joyce, MacNeice and McGahern • Situates Irish writers within the long and complex history of the Irish in London • Includes an extensive bibliography directing readers to the field of Irish writing London The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. TOM HERRON is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. UK May 2012 August 2012 192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441168054 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Studies in the City Continuum Pastoral Elegy in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry Iain Twiddy • An original theoretical conception of pastoral elegy in contemporary poetry • Psychoanalytic and eco-poetic models inform close readings of Hughes, Heaney and Muldoon • Evaluates the ethics of elegy Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading. IAIN TWIDDy is Associate Professor of English in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University, Japan. UK March 2012 US May 2012 280 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441139412 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum Irish Writing London: Volume 2 Post-War to the Present Edited by Tom Herron • Covers a range of Irish literary figures MacNeice, Boland and McGahern • Situates Irish writers within the long and complex history of the Irish in London • Includes an extensive bibliography directing readers to the field of Irish writing London Written by an array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deepseated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city. TOM HERRON is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. UK May 2012 US August 2012 192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441172488 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Studies in the City 2 Volumes Continuum
The Works of Graham Greene A Reader’s Bibliography and Guide Mike Hill and Jon Wise • Covers Greene’s literary writings, contributed chapters, journalism and his published letters and interviews • Includes a substantial listing of secondary readings on Greene’s life and works • A substantial and fully cross-referenced index helps researchers find the information they need A comprehensive reference guide to the published writings of Graham Greene, this book surveys not only Greene’s literary work but also his journalism, his published letters and major interviews. MIKE HILL is former Director of the Greene International Festival. JON WISE is a freelance researcher, based in the UK. UK April 2012 US June 2012 288 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441199959 - £75.00 / $140.00 Continuum Knowing One’s Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig Magdalena Kay • A new linkage of two disparate but surprisingly similar literary traditions • A completely new juxtaposition of poets with important transnational links Are we allowed to choose where we belong? What pressures make us feel that we should belong somewhere? This book brings together four major poets—Heaney, Mahon, zagajewski, and Hartwig—who ask themselves these questions throughout their lives. MAGDALENA KAy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. UK April 2012 US February 2012 240 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches HB 9781441116420 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History Michael O’Sullivan • The first literary and philosophical history of weakness • Puts important Western and Chinese theorists in conversation around the notion of weakness • New readings of canonical writers such as Keats, Nietzsche, Eliot and Joyce By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O’Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it is interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN is Assistant Professor in English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. UK May 2012 US August 2012 208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441162991 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum Divine Providence: A History The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante Brenda Deen Schildgen • Interdisciplinary examination of the idea of providential history • Draws out the influence of Virgil, Orosius and Augustine on Dante’s thought This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing principle for understanding the divine purpose for humans in texts that may be literary, historical, philosophical, and theological. BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of California, USA. UK September 2012 US July 2012 208 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.5 x 8.5 inches HB 9781441112705 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum LITERARy STUDIES Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of- England Novel Mine Özyurt Kiliç • Close readings of Gee’s texts in the context of broader debates about race, gender, class • Covers her novels, short stories, memoir and essays • Discusses the place, role and image of authors in the contemporary literary market In the first critical study of Gee’s work, Mine özyurt Kiliç identifies the specific social problems her novels address and explains the quality of social consciousness Gee shares with the Victorians. MINE özyURT KILIç is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey. UK November 2012 US January 2013 192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441108784 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald Arne De Boever • Offers a new reading of the post-9/11 ‘political turn’ in contemporary literature • Combines literary criticism and political theory with the novel concept of the aesthetic decision • Shows how contemporary fiction can help one to make sense of the world today This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels that were published around 9/11: Life of Pi, Middlesex, Disgrace and Austerlitz. ARNE DE BOEVER is Assistant Professor of American Studies in the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA. UK May 2012 US March 2012 160 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.5 x 8.5 inches HB 9781441125972 - £55.00 / $100.00 Continuum LITERARy STUDIES 79
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