New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

literary studies
Como Agua para Chocolate
The Novel and Film Version
by Nathanial Gardner
Laura Esquivel’s debut novel Como agua para chocolate took the literary world by
storm with its unique yet familiar story of love and longing on the Mexican border
during the perilous times of the Mexican Revolution. Nathanial Gardner introduces
the reader to both the novel and the film version and examines not only key themes
but also its style and main characters. He analyses many of the components the
book and film share and emphasizes the cinematic mechanisms that are unique to
this particular presentation of Esquivel’s most widely-studied creation to date.
120p, paperback, 9780729304535, $21.95, Grant & Cutler, December 2009,
Critical Guides to Spanish & Latin American Texts and Films 74.
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Julio Medem
by Jo Evans
Critical guide and study to the work of Spanish
Basque film director Julio Medem.
126p, paperback, 9780729304511, $21.95,
Grant & Cutler, December 2007, Critical Guides to
Spanish & latin American Texts and Films 71.
Le Roman symboliste
Un art de l’extrême conscience: Edouard Dujardin, André Gide,
Remy de Gourmont, Marcel Schwob
by Valérie Michelet Jacquod
Symbolist novels were often criticized because of their contradictory place between
the fictional realism of novels and Symbolism’s rejection of narrative in favor
of language. The artists studied here chose to transform these contradictions
into a literary subject, illustrating the “extreme consciousness” of Symbolism and
discussing the idealism and other foundations of symbolic poetry. French text.
512p, paperback, 9782600012386, $70.00(s), Librairie Droz, December 2008,
Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire 447.
Pedro Almodóvar
by Ann Davies
Critical guide and study of the work of renowned
Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar.
127p, paperback, 9780729304528, $21.95,
Grant & Cutler, December 2007, Critical Guides to
Spanish & Latin American Texts and Films 72.
George Buchanan
Poet and Dramatist
by Philip Ford and Roger P H Green
Contents: Buchanan’s poetic achievement; ‘Redundant’ epithets in Buchanan’s
Pastorals; Literary metamorphosis in Buchanan’s De Sphaera; The writing of memory
in George Buchanan’s Iusta; Homo exsul as the lyric persona in Buchanan’s Psalms;
A Psalm-paraphrase-poem analysed; The historical importance of Jean Servin’s
settings of Buchanan’s Psalm Paraphrases; Buchanan’s Psalms and the musical settings
by Statius Olthof; Buchanan’s tragedies and contemporary dramatic theory;
Biblical inspiration in Buchanan’s tragedies; Buchanan and the poetics of borrowing;
‘Translating’ Buchanan; Buchanan on stage; The Letter of Walter Dennistoun to
George Buchanan and Buchanan’s Reply; George Buchanan’s Half Millennium.
380p, b/w illus, hardback, 9781905125364, $100.00(s), Classical Press of Wales,
December 2009.
L’Art de l’Équivoque chez Laclos
by David McCallam
David McCallam reveals the brilliant modernity
of Liaisons dangereuses and of the
Laclosian universe, rereading Laclos’ masterpiece
based on heretofore ignored notions
and patterns such as the secret or the
promise. The literary study is completed by
the consideration of the author’s life, his
activities as revolutionary secretary and
Bonapartist general, wherein the secretary
commands while the general abdicates.
L’Art de l’équivoque shows how apparently
simple acts, like keeping a secret and making a promise, reveal themselves to be
fundamental and paradoxical, and why the characters in Liaisons are no longer
formed morally, but modally. French text.
196p, paperback, 9782600012096, $45.00(s), Librairie Droz, December 2008,
Bibliothèque des Lumières 72.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009