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I Can’t Believe It’s Not FTD: New Books In Graduate Services for May
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
These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins: New Books in Graduate Services for April
Not many lilacs or books coming in this month. But from those that did arrive, there’s sure to be some memory and desire that could sprout a bit of knowledge, right? And besides, it’s our little way of letting you get caught up on the other books we already have you’ve been meaning to get to. Fragments shored against my Ruins? Sounds like a nice day at the beach reading a book and listening to noise. Maybe April isn’t the cruellest month after all. Enjoy.
Joseph II, Volume II: Against the World, 1780-1790 by Derek Beales
History of Venice volume 3 by Pietro Bembo translated by Robert W. Ulery, Jr.
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
The Politics of Subversion: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century by Antonio Negri
Blackout, Blowout & Beyond: Wole Soyinka’s Satirical Revue Sketches by Wole Soyinka Ed. by Martin Banham
The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness by Wole Soyinka
More Dante for Your Halloween Needs: New Titles in Graduate Services for October
Appropriately, October brings The Cambridge Companion to Dante in a revised second edition. Forget those new fangled ideas of Hell, and get back to the original. Along the way, learn about Purgatory on your way to Heaven. Yes, there is that much more to reference when you dress and dance around like a devil–or an angel–on Halloween. But wait, that is not all: Cambridge is also prepared to guide you through Hegel and 19th Century Thought, while politics get radical and reframed by Chantel Mouffe and Nickolas Rose. And then there is some Latin poetry and a few Modern Authors Collection books from Lawrence and Pinter to string out the journey. You can’t leave Graduate Services with these books, but man the places you can go. Enjoy.
The Cambridge Companion to Dante (2nd Edition) edited by Rachel Jacoff
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy edited by Frederick C. Beiser
The Vicar’s Garden and Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence edited by N.H. Reeve
Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community edited by Chantal Mouffe
Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008 by Harold Pinter
Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought by Nikolas Rose
Latin Poetry by Jacopo Sannazaro translated by Michael C.J. Putnan
Christiad by Marco Girolamo Vida translated by James Gardner
Dauntingesque Alighierical; or A Portrait is Worth About 400 Pages of Letters: New Titles in Graduate Services for September
Supposedly, Pablo Picasso made Gertrude Stein sit more than eighty times for her portrait. And then painted out the head and redid it three months later without having seen her again. When told Stein did not look like her portrait, Picasso replied, she will. Ever wonder what the two of them were talking about when Stein wasn’t spending her days sitting for Picasso? Well, Correspondence: Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso edited by Laurence Madeline is now a part of the Graduate Services Collection and it might answer this question. Along with the letters between these two titians of Modernism, the corresponce between George Bernard Shaw and his publishers and the letters between Theodore Dreiser and his women (the ones he fancied anyway) are now in Graduate Services; both should make for some interesting reading to say the least. There is also a book of George Orwell’s thoughts on art in general and a book length conversation with Seamus Heaney on his art in particular. Want more? How about Burroughs and Kerouac sparring with art (and authorial ideology) as well as each other while finding their voices through collaboration in the long lost manuscipt now not so lost, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks. Trying to get a word in edgewise are some works by Bowen, Atwood, Badiou (twice again), Cheever, Merwin, Oates, Zizek, and, always a part of the conversation 700 years and counting, Dante. From old favorites getting new looks to a few new books from old favorites talking about their books. Literature, letters, and good conversation seemed to sum up September. Enjoy.
Inferno by Dante Alighieri translated by Robert M. Durling
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri translated by Robert M. Durling
A Quiet Game and Other Early Works by Margaret Atwood
The Century by Alain Badiou
Conditions by Alain Badiou
People, Places, Things by Elizabeth Bowen
National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature by Mitchell Breitwieser
And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
Complete Novels of John Cheever
Collected Stories and Other Writings of John Cheever
Letters to Women: New Letters Volume II by Theodore Dreiser
The Dream We Carry by Olav H. Hauge translated by Robert Bly and Robert Hedin
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll
The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery by Jennifer L. Morgan
Dear Husband by Joyce Carol Oates
All Art is Propaganda by George Orwell
Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw and his Publishers edited by Michel W. Pharand
Correspondence: Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso edited by Laurence Madeline
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections by Slavoj Zizek
I’m talking about Georg Lukacs, not George Lucas: New Titles in Graduate Services for July and August
Looking to shake off the lethargy of a summer vacation with a few academic New Year’s resolutions are you? Well your home away from home, Graduate Services, has a few home away from home house warning gifts to keep your blood pumping and your mind focused on the year ahead. These gifts are the new books we recieved in July and August. The list may not look like much, but with the OskiCat machine now up and running you can expect a lot more in the coming months. And we didn’t want to overwhelm you too much right away. We’re nice like that. Enjoy.
The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukacs
Popular Politics and the English Reformation by Ethan H. Shagan
Catholics and the ‘Protestant Nation’ edited by Ethan H. Shagan
Reading for the Plot by Peter Brooks
Something Old, Something New: New Titles in Graduate Services for June 2009
June saw the following books make their way to Graduate Services. Some are old favorites and some are new books from old favorites about some of our favorite things, like numbers and the things Linda Williams usually writes about. They are now all here for you all the time. Enjoy.
Screening Sex by Linda Williams
Number and Numbers by Alain Badiou
Paradise Lost by Barbara K. Lewalski, John Milton
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Mary Carruthers
France Since the Second World War: Seminar Studies in History by Tyler Stovall
Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall
Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Amy J. Elias
The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert (Cambridge Studies in French) by Christopher Prendergast
Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, 1812-1855 (Russian Research Center Studies) by Martin Malia
Gramsci and Marxist Theory edited by Chantal Mouffe
Esthétique de la disparition by Paul Virilio
Worth the wait: OskiCat goes live June 24th, 2009
The UC Berkeley Library will not thrust a product on its patrons that does not meet the high standards of such a distinguished institution. As a result, the go live date for the new library catalog, OskiCat, has been pushed back from June 16, 2009 to June 24, 2009. A few kinks needed to be worked out, but it’ll be worth the wait, trust me. In the meantime, do a little recon and take a look at the Library Tutorials Page for a sneak preview of this OskiCat.
What is this OskiCat you speak of?
Have you been wondering what all that chalk graffiti around campus referring to an OskiCat is about? No, we are not changing our lovable school mascot Oski from a bear to a cat. What we are changing though, is our school’s library catalog from GLADIS/Pathfinder to OskiCat–the Cat part being short for catalog. Beginning June 16th, 2009, OskiCat will go live, and GLADIS/Pathfinder will simply just go. Don’t worry, the Library will give GLADIS/Pathfinder a proper burial before we give you, the user, a more bearable path to your research needs. Still trying to get your bearings straight, for more information about OskiCat go to the webpage and view the preview. Hibernation is over, the bear that is a cat will be here soon.
No new books in Graduate Services lately? What’s with that?
The New Book Shelf in Graduate Services has been barren the last few months. This does not mean Graduate Services has stopped acquiring important books for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. In fact, in the coming months you can be certain to see books rolling on to and off these shelves just like in the old days. For now though, the move from GLADIS/Pathfinder to our new integrated library system called OskiCat has resulted in a moratorium on the processing of new materials. Don’t worry though, these new books will be here soon. Rome wasn’t built in a day and if OskiCat was, we probably wouldn’t want it.
Also, remember, if there is a book you think would be a valued addition to the Graduate Services Collection, fill out the Purchase Recommendation Form at our website or in person at the Graduate Services circulation desk.
If you would like to know more about OskieCat, visit the OskieCat information page on the Library’s homepage.
Will you be blocked from checking out books when OskiCat goes live?
The UC Berkeley libraries are moving from GLADIS/Pathfinder to a new integrated library system called OskiCat. Right now, graduate students and faculty are allowed to check out an unlimited amount of items. Once OskiCat goes live on June 16, 2009 this will change: the maximum number of items allowed to be checked out by a graduate student will be 200; the maximum number of items allowed to be checked out by a faculty member will be 300. If you are over the 200 or 300 items limit, your account will be blocked and you will not be able to check-out or renew books until you have cleared this 200 or 300 item limit. So don’t get caught when you need that book. Return the items you don’t need and get under the limit–that is, if you are over the limit.
Look for the OskiCat webpage soon to be linked to the Library homepage containing everything you wanted to know about OskiCat but were afraid to ask.