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There Is No Book So Bad…That It Does Not Have Something Good In It: New Books In Graduate Services In May
There were lots of books that arrived here in Graduate Services in May. And I betcha one of these books uses the word quixotic at least once. I wonder which one it is. You might have to come down here and go through all of them to find out. Enjoy the books while you’re doing this.
Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion by Joshua D. Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization Of Myth, Art, And Culture In France, 1909-1939 by Mark Antliff
The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Second Edition edited by David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick
States Of War: Enlightenment Origins Of The Political by David WiIliam Bates
A Search For Sovereignty: Law And Geography In European Empires, 1400-1900 by Lauren Benton
Poems In The Porch: The Radio Poems Of John Betjeman edited by Kevin J. Gardner
Empires In World History: Power And The Politics Of Difference by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper
Equipment For Living: The Literary Reviews Of Kenneth Burke edited by Nathaniel A. Rivers and Ryan P. Weber
Ornamentalism: How The British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine
The Book Of Memory: A Study Of Memory In Medieval Culture (Second Edition) by Mary Carruthers
Cervantes, Literature And The Discourse Of Politics by Anthony J. Cascardi
The Sentimental Education Of The Novel by Margaret Cohen
The Empire Project: The Rise And Fall Of The British World-System, 1830-1970 by John Darwin
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britian, And The “Improvement” Of The World by Richard Drayton
The Financier: The Critical Edition by Theodore Dreiser edited by Roark Mulligan
The BBC Talks Of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition edited by Mark Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls
Doubt, Atheism, And The Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia by Victoria Frede
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise Of The English Empire In The American South, 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay
Life: Organic Form And Romanticism by Denise Gigante
A History Of American Literature (Second Edition) by Richard Gray
Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, And The Origins Of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 by Richard H. Grove
The Wide Road by Lyn Hejinian and Carla Harryman
Bodies Of Memory: Narrative Of War In Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 by Yoshikuni Igarashi
The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Signs Taken For Wonders: Essays In The Sociology Of Literary Forms by Franco Moretti
The Way Of The World: The Bildungsroman In European Culture (New Edition) by Franco Moretti
Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton
The Agamben Dictionary edited by Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
Charles Olson: Letters Home, 1949-1969 edited by David Rich
Exorcism: A Play In One Act by Eugene O’Neil with a Foreward by Edward Albee
The Rule Of Moderation: Violence, Religion And The Politics Of Restraint In Early Modern England by Ethan H. Shagan
Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation Of Modern Europe by James J. Sheehan
Habermas: An Intellectual Biography by Matthew G. Specter
Christianity Not As Old As The Creation: The Last Of Defoe’s Performances edited by G.A. Starr
Ida: A Novel by Gertrude Stein edited by Logan Esdale
To Do: A Book Of Alphabets And Birthdays by Gerturde Stein with illustrations by Giselle Potter and an introduction by Timothy Young
Line In The Sand: A History Of The Western U.S.-Mexico Border by Rachel St. John
The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit Of Justice In The Wake Of World War II by Yuma Totani
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein
Capitalism And Slavery by Eric Williams with a new introduction by Colin A. Palmer
Happy Hour All Day Long: New Books In Graduate Services In April
Come on into Graduate Services this month for Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis, and stay around for Rub Out The Words by William S. Burroughs. Before its over you’ll be mind deep in The Handbook of Medieval Sexuality among other things. I mean its a proven equation for happines: (Social Lubrication) + (Rubbing One Out) + (Getting All Medieval) = Smiley Face. I know. I promise. Enjoy.
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens
Handbook Of Medieval Sexuality edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage
Rub Out The Words: The Letters Of William S. Burroughs, 1959-1974 edited by Bill Morgan
The Refinement Of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Richard L. Bushman
The Works Of Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim edited by J.H. Stape and Ernest W. Sullivan II
The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy by Margaret Drabble
The Pursued by C.S. Forester
Beautiful Circuits: Modernism And The Mediated Life by Mark Goble
Fat Master by Thomas Kinsella
Love Joy Peace by Thomas Kinsella
The Grand Piano: An Experiment In Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 v.1-10 by Bob Perman, Steve Benson, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Rae Armantrout, Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, and Ted Pearson
It’s Your Misfortune And None Of My Own: A New History Of The American West by Richard White
Brevity Is Not The Soul Of Walt Whitman: New Books In Graduate Services In March
A pretty good study haul of books this month. You don’t believe me, take a look for youself. Just scroll down. Leaves some comments if you want. Enjoy.
Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography by Roland Barthes with a forward by Geoff Dyer
The Continental Aesthetics Reader (Second Edition) Edited by Clive Cazeaux
Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord translated by Ken Knabb
The Beast and the Sovereign Volume II by Jacques Derrida
Voice And Phenomenon: Introduction To The Problem Of The Sign In Husserl’s Phenomenology by Jacques Derrida
The Cruise Of The Rolling Junk by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Parade’s End: No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford
In Our Time/De Nos Jours by Ernest Hemingway
Historiography In The Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity To The Postmodern Challenge: With A New Epilogue by Georg G. Iggers
The Sixties: Diaries, Volume Two: 1960-1969 by Christopher Isherwood edited by Katherine Bucknell
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers Volumes 1 and 2 edited by James Karman
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
Evening’s Empire: A History Of The Night In Early Modern Europe by Craig Koslofsky
The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin edited by Archie Burnett
The Cambridge Companion To Modernism (Second Edition) edited by Michael Levenson
Records Of Early English Drama: Inns Of Court v.1-3 edited by Alan H. Nelson and John R. Elliot, Jr.
Dawn: Thoughts On The Presumption Of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
Before Fiction: The Ancien Regime Of The Novel by Nicholas D. Paige
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike Edited by Christopher Carduff
The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject by Paul Virilio
Early Christian Lives translated and edited by Carolinne White
By Word Of Mouth: Poems From The Spanish, 1916-1959 by William Carlos Williams
Februready Or Not, Here We Come: New Books In Graduate Services In February
Like almost always, some great books made it to the Graduate Services shelves in February. And being February, the month of the valentine, why not come down and be a part of the letters of T.S. Elliot, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein. You’re the reader, they are the writers, and with a little imagination these letters could be their valentines to you. Strike up a bond and in the process be woohooed. No need to limit yourself to books of letters though, jump on into any book here in Graduate Services and be a part of the February experience. Because like a valentine given needs a valentine given back to really be a worthwhile valentine, books need readers to really be worth their weight in dead treeness. Enjoy.
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
Every Third Thought: A Novel In Five Seasons by John Barth
Last Essays (The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Joesph Conrad) by Joseph Conrad edited by Harold Ray and J.H. Stape
The Letters Of T.S. Eliot Volume I: 1898-1922 (Revised Edition) edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
Le Corps Utopique: Suivi de les Heterotopies by Michel Foucault
How We Should Rule Ourselves by Alasdair Gray and Adam Tomkins
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
Langston Hughes And The South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence edited by Shane Graham and John Walters
The Politics of Sociability: Freemasonry and German Civil Society, 1840-1918 by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy
Quetzalcoatl (The Cambridge Edition Of The Letters and Works of D.H. Lawrence) by D.H. Lawrence edited by N.H. Reeve
Syntactic Borrowing In Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation (Research Monographs In French Studies 30) by Mairi McLaughlin
Arthur Miller: A Descriptive Bibliography by George W. Crandell
Filosofia Ed Eresia Nell’inghilterra Del Tardo Cinquecento: Bruno, Sidney E I Dissidenti Religiosi Italianai by Diego Pirillo
Athusser’s Lesson by Jacques Ranciere
The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere
The Routledge Comapnion to Postmodernism Third Edition edited by Stuart Sim
The Letters Of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition As Conversation edited by Susan Holbrook and Thomas Dilworth
Stanzas In Meditation: The Corrected Edition by Gertrude Stein edited by Susannah Hollister and Emily Setina
Make It A Double Singularity Of Fredric Jameson On The Rocks: The 2011-2012 Avenali Lecture
Fredric Jameson, the esteemed literary theorist and critic (as well as a man whose books have appeared on this blog many times), will be giving the 2011-2012 Avenali Lecture this Tuesday night (February 28) at 6pm at the Chevron Auditorium in the International House. This lecture is titled “The Aesthetics of Singularity.” To commorate leap day, a follow up panel discussion with Fredric Jameson, Whitney Davis, Martin Jay, Colleen Lye, and Robert Kaufman will take place Wednesday (February 29) from 12 to 2pm in the Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall–and to think this day didn’t even exist a year ago. These events are sponsered by the the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley and are made possible thanks to the generous gift of Peter and Joan Avenali.
Below are a few of the many books written by Fredric Jamson in the Graduate Services Collection. Come read a few in anticipation of this great event. Enjoy.
Archaeologies Of The Future: The Desire Called Utopia And Other Science Fictions
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings On The Postmodern, 1983-1998
The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema And Space In The World System
The Ideologies Of Theory: Essays 1971-1988 Volumes 1 And 2
Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The Prison-House Of Language: A Critical Account Of Structuralism And Russian Formalism
The Political Unconscious: Narrative As A Socially Symbolic Act
The Emperor’s New Year’s Clothes Rack: New Books In Graduate Services In January
The New Year brought resolutions to some of you, while it also brought new books to Graduate Services for some of you to use. What’s more, these books have a shelf life longer than most resolutions, as they are usually much harder to break. I mean, just look around Graduate Services. You don’t see many broken books lying around do you. There might be books about breaks, gaps, and various lacunae. But not many broken books. No, not very many broken books at all. And speaking of books, some good ones arrived while most students were still enjoying their winter break. The Baudrillard Dictionary came in holding hands with the new revised Deleuze Dictionary, and both were being escorted by a few new Foucault books. Poor little Les Annees d’Hiver, 1980-1985 by Felix Guattari followed hurriedly behind in his ill fitting English attire wondering what that damn Deleuze Dictionary had to say about him. Books by Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranciere strutted along in their au naturel French laughing a laugh no one could understand, while the volumes of animal poems by Ted Hughes ran wild around Allen Ginsberg’s If Not Forever: A Letter to Jack Kerouac, which Wendell Berry’s WIndow Poems pleaded with to be a bit more transparent as an animal poem nudged his nose between his pages. Yes, it was a crazy January here in Graduate Services and many other books had a good time too. Too many to talk about them all right now though. Let’s just say The Empire of Signs might or might not have played a part in The Original Accident. Oh, and by the way, the Foucault books seemed to really like their ill fitting attire. Enjoy.
Second Manifeste Pour La Philosophie by Alain Badiou
Empire Of Signs by Roland Barthes
Window Poems by Wendell Berry
The Baudrillard Dictionary edited by Richard G. Smith
The Deleuze Dictionary (Revised Edition) edited by Adrian Parr
The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 by Selim Deringil
The Courage of Truth (The Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the College de France, 1983-1984 by Michel Foucault
Manet and the Object of Painting by Michel Foucault
Plays 3: The Firstborn; The Boy With A Cat; A Phoenix Too Frequent; Thor, With Angels; A Sleep Of Prisoners; Caedmon Construed; and A Ringing Of Bells by Christopher Fry
The Train Driver by Athol Fugard
If Not Forever: A Letter to Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg
Fleck: A Verse Comedy by Alasdair Gray
Les Annees d’Hiver, 1980-1985 by Felix Guattari
Collected Animal Poems volumes 1-4 by Ted Hughes
A Chancer by James Kelman
Hardie and Baird & Other Plays by James Kelman
Sur le Commerce des Pensees: Du Livre et de la Librairie by Jean-Luc Nancy
Tombe de Sommeil by Jean-Luc Nancy
Verite de la Democratie by Jean-Luc Nancy
The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War by Jean-Yves Le Naour
Small Avalanches and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Charles Oslon At Goddard College, April 12-14, 1962 edited by Kyle Schlesinger
L’inconscient Esthetique by Jacques Ranciere
Le Spectateur Emancipe by Jacques Ranciere
The Original Accident by Paul Virilio
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren volume 5: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969-1979 edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins
Some Tricky Treats: New Books In Graduate Services In October
Trick or Treat? How about some books that might be a little tricky, but after some time spent with them turn out to be treats? Because Graduate Services has got these for your costume clad identity to scope out. So, take a gander at what’s below and then come on in to get on down. Wear a costume if you like, but just remember to bring your UCB ID card with you to get inside. Enjoy.
Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Selected Letters of William Empson edited by John Haffenden
A Short Autobiography by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Germany In Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005 edited by Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes
Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley compiled by David J. Bromer
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, vols. 1-2 edited by Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert
Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics by Shannon Jackson
Tea and Biscuits by A.L. Kennedy
The World and The Bomb by Hanif Kureishi
Collected Plays: 1944-1961 by Arthur Miller
The Principle of Measure in Composition by Field: Projective Verse II by Charles Olson
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
BFI Film Classics: The WIzard of Oz by Salman Rushdie
In Defence of the Enlightenment by Tzvetan Todorov
Translations From the Russian by Virginia Woolf and S.S. Koteliansky
W.B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters edited by Ann Saddlemyer
Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949 by Wen-Hsin Yeh
Three’s Company Performed By The Royal Shakespeare Company: New Books In Graduate Services In November
The third times a charm must mean three is a very lucky number. Well, what do you know, but Graduate Services received three books in November. A lucky month for those Hemingway scholars and Egyptian history buffs, as well as for those French reading philosophical cinephiles. And if you have found some way to synthesize the scholarship in these three books then you have turned three’s a crowd into three’s company. Shakespeare by way of Mister Furley. Enjoy.
Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography by C. Edgar Grissom
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History by Alan Mikhail
Deleuze, Philosophie et Cinema by Pierre Montebello
The Notebooks of Robert Frosty the Snowman: New Books In Graduate Services In December
A Santa’s bag full of books arrived here in Graduate Services before Christmas this year. I am talking a good haul for the month of December my friend. Just scroll on down and take a look see. I bet there are a few down there you hope wind up in your stocking the morning of the 25th. I’m fired up for the second volume of the Letters of Samuel Beckett myself. I just hope my stocking can hold it up without falling into the fire place, as these letters do not look to be minimal in the least. Hey, I love the Graduate Services collection, but sometimes I need to read at home. And not only can you not take books out of Graduate Services–no, not even me–but Graduate Services will be closed for this last week of December. You remember that earlier post don’t you? Well, they will all be here when Graduate Services opens up again January 2nd, 2012. Enjoy them then and enjoy your time off from the library between now and then.
Five Lessons On Wagner by Alain Badiou
The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume II: 1941-1956 edited by Lois More Overbeck
Elizabeth Bowen’s Selected Irish Writings edited by Eibhear Walshe
Vita Sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis by Odon de Cluny edited by Anne-Marie Bultot-Verleysen
The Derrida Dictionary by Simon Morgan Wortham
Against Method: New Edition by Paul Feyerabend
The Notebooks of Robert Frost edited by Robert Faggen
The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Stories by Alasdair Gray
A History Maker by Alasdair Gray
The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely by Elizabeth Grosz
A Free Man Of Color by John Guare
An Old Pub Near the Angel And Other Stories by James Kelman
If It Is Your Life by James Kelman
Day by A.L. Kennedy
Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politics by Hanif Kureishi
The Lyotard Dictionary edited by Stuart Sim
The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes by Peter Matthiessen
Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen
George Orwell: Corresponance avec son traducteur Rene-Noel Raimbault
The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Perez de Villagra’s Historia de la Nueve, Mexico, 1610 by Genaro M. Padilla
Selected Poems by Robert Pinsky
European Romanticism: A Reader edited by Stephen Prickett
Aux Bords du Politique by Jacques Ranciere
Malaise dans l’Esthetique by Jacques Ranciere
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers by Ishmael Reed
Babylonian Horoscopes by Francesca Rochberg
A Concise Companion to History edited by Ulinka Rublack
Television: Technology and Cultural Form by Raymond Williams
The essential Zizek: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology by Slavoj Zizek
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek
Putting The You In Usual: New Books In Graduate Services In September
New Books in Graduate Servcies. Like usual every month. Just sitting here on the shelves. Ready to be read. By you. There’s poetry: Ashbery turning a phrase of Rimbaud into Ashbery. Photography?: Derrida letting the spiel loose on the subject. Plays: Albee, Fry, Kureishi, and Williams have some words you can act out to. Playwright who hates himself: David Mamet’s has some secret knowledge you might not want to act on. UC Berkeley faculty publication: Beshara Doumani letting you know about academic freedom after September 11th now that it started fifth grade this fall. Another UC Berkeley faculty publication featuring philosophy: Suzanne Guerlac introducing you to Henri Bergson. More philosophy: Heidegger is going to do some introducing of his own–the world to thinking and poetizing. Still more philosophy: All eight volumes of the History of Continental Philosophy; and Lyotard is going to figure into all this discourse somehow. Modern Authors who are not playwrights or poets already mentioned above: Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and Margret Drabble I present to you. Beckett: There’s always room for Beckett. Enjoy.
Me, Myself and I by Eward Albee
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud translated by John Ashbery
Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 by Samuel Beckett
The Problem of the Color[blind]: Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance by Brandi Wilkins Catanese
Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography by Jacques Derrida
Academic Freedom After September 11 edited by Beshara Doumani
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories by Margaret Drabble
A Writer’s Britain by Margaret Drabble
Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel, and Heidegger by Karen S. Feldman
Plays 2: Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough, Curtmantle by Christopher Fry
The Mella of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City by Emily Gottreich
Collected Verses by Alasdair Gray
Poor Things: Episodes From the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer by Alasdair Gray
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson by Suzanne Guerlac
Introduction to Philosophy–Thinking and Poetizing by Martin Heidegger
Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire by Michael Iarocci
“And the Judges Said…”: Essays by James Kelman
Collected Stories by Hanif Kureishi
The Mother by Hanif Kureishi
Discourse, Figure by Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet
A Life In Letters by George Orwell edited by Peter Davison
Suicide As A Cultural Institution In Dostoevsky’s Russia by Irina Paperno
The History of Continental Philosophy volumes 1-8 edited by Alan D. Schrift
Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanse and the Birds with a Catalogue of Sumerian Bird Names by Niek Veldhuis
The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 by Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude
Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room: The Holograph Draft edited by Edward L. Bishop
The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams
The Resurrection: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats edited by Jared Curtis and Selina Guinness