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Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjectionsby Robert Appelbaum
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 18.00We didn’t always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine , the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup tells the story of how early modern Europeans put food into words and words into food, and created an experience all their own. Named after characters in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night , this lively study draws on sources ranging from cookbooks to comic novels, and examines both the highest ideals of culinary culture and its most grotesque, ridiculous and pathetic expressions. Robert Appelbaum paints a vivid picture... more...
Mr Playboyby Steven Watts
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 16.95The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon "Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."- Newark Star Ledger "Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography."- Chicago Sun Times "This is a fun book. How could it not be? Watts aims to give a full account of the man, his magazine and their place in social history. Playboy is no longer the cultural force it used to be, but it made a stamp on society."- Associated Press "In Steven Watts' exhaustive, illuminating biography Mr. Playboy , Hefner's ideal for living -- marked by his allegiances to Tarzan, Freud, Pepsi-Cola and jazz -- proves to be a kind of gloss on the Protestant... more...
The Subversive Copy Editorby Carol Fisher Saller
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 13.00Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online . Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post -face." In The Subversive Copy Editor , Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fictionby Bran Nicol
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 21.00A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo. more...
Name of the Motherby Marie Maclean
Routledge 1994; US$ 135.00Skilfully combining critical literary theory and cultural history, The Name of the Mother traces the place of personal narratives of illegitimacy in history and theory from Elizabeth I to Freud, Sartre and Derrida. more...
Unconsciousby Antony Easthope
Routledge 1999; US$ 22.95The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways. more...
Critical Theory and Practiceby Keith Green; Jill Le Bihan
Routledge 1995; US$ 42.95A refreshingly clear and readable introduction. Its tailor-made combination of extracts from literary and critical works, guiding commentary, a variety of exercises, glossary and bibliography, is ideal for the beginning student. more...
Edward Saidby Bill Ashcroft; Pal Ahluwalia
Routledge 2000; US$ 22.95Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism . This volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism. more...
In Search of Adventureby Bruce Northam; Brad Olsen
CCC Publishing 1999; US$ 15.00These short travel essays from around the globe get to the heart of what the words travel and adventure really mean. In Search of Adventure explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of what traveling the world has to offer. The Trampled Underfoot” section features tales of woe on the roadthe worst of the worst, or making the best of the worst. In Global Issues & Viewpoints,” authors explore the changing world, oppressive governments, and the homogenizing of world cultures. From warm and inviting to raw and shocking, these nonfiction travel pieces present disparate viewpoints on the diverse world in which we live and leave no emotion untouched. more...