April showers bring May flowers and a whole lot of books to Graduate Services. After years of “it’ll be here next year for sure,” the first volume of Samual Beckett’s letters are finally here. and they live up to the anticipation for sure. After you’ve burned through Becketts letters, why not move on to a few years of T.S. Eliot’s. I’m sure James Joyce will come up in both books, which will get you geared up for delving into the new corrected edition of Finnegans Wake. Corrected editon of Finnegans Wake you say? How would anyone know what needed to be corrected? Well the Houyhnhnm Press does and this nice, beautiful, typographically reset editon needs to be checked out for sure! And after you’ve had enough of literature that is so last century, grab a New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Wollers to get your mind around how today’s literature was shaped by the new old literature. But that is not all folks, we also got Zizek talking to Badiou about the state of philiosophy in one books while he talks about Christ in another. And if you don’t know what Zizek or Marcus and his coterie are talking about, just consult New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society ’cause that one sprouted up here in May too (not sure this is going to help out with the Wake though). What’s more, books from Derrida, Ashbery, and another batch of books from Wole Soyinka are populating the Graduate Services shelves now. Then there is Joyce Carol Oates’ children’s book, Come Meet Muffin! (her exclamation point, not mine). Its got pictures folks! (my exclamation point, not hers). So dry off, relax, and dive in. Enjoy.
Planisphere by John Ashbery
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor Edited and Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston
Badiou & Zizek: Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou and Slovoj Zizek edited by Peter Engelmann
The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus Chisti Play as Recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290 Volume I: The Text Edited by Richard Beadle
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940 Edited Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck
New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, adn Meaghan Morris
Imagination in Place by Wendell Berry
Socrates and the Fat Rabbis by Daniel Boyarin
The Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jacob Burckhardt
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present Edited by David Damrosch, Natalie Melas, Mbongiseni Buthelezi
Encyclopedie Capricieuse du tout et du Rien by Charles Dantzig
The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I by Jacques Derrida
The Letters of T.S. Eliot volume 2: 1923-1925 Edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
Contemporary Film Theory Edited by Antony Easthope
Ennin’s Diary: The Record of a Pilgramage to China in Search of the Law by Ennin translated by Edwin O. Reischauer
The Journals volume II: 1966-1990 by John Fowles Edited by Charles Drazin
Encounters with Nationalism by Ernest Gellner
Collected Writings on Poetry by Robert Graves Edited by Paul O’Prey
Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall Edited by Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg and Angela McRobbie
Marxism and Historical Writing by Paul Q. Hirst
Jameson On Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism by Fredric Jameson Edited by Ian Buchanan
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Edited by Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon
Readings in Poetry by Thomas Kinsella
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction by Catherine Malabou
A New Literary History of America Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by SIdney W. Mintz
Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez by Franco Moretti
A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates
Come Meet Muffin! by Joyce Carol Oates
WIld Nights! and Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish 1906: Two One Act Plays by Joyce Carol Oates
Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680 by Herman Ooms
Nationalisms & Sexualities edited by Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yaeger
The World Republic of Letters by Pascale Casanova translated by M.B. DeBevoise
Anti-Americanism Edited by Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross
Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction Edited by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Michel Serres
Kicking a Dead Horse by Sam Shepard
A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns by Jinno Shotoki of Kitabatake Chikafusa Translated by H. Paul Varley
King Baabu by Wole Soyinka
La Mort et l’Ecuyer du Roi by Wole Soyinka
Plays: 2 by Wole Soyinka
Selected Poems: Idanre, A Shuttle in the Crypt, Mandela’s Earth by Wole Soyinka
He Flies Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease: A William Saroyan Reader Edited by William E. Justice
Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre by Shannon Steen
Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America by Elisa Tamarkin
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo Translated by WIlliam Scott Wilson
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj ZIzek, John Milbank, and Creston Davis