{"title":"Series: Literature Now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterature Now\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a diverse exploration of contemporary themes across a range of genres and disciplines. Readers will find works that delve into cultural reflection, historical insight, and creative expression, bridging fields such as arts, history, and politics with literary craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis series invites engagement with both the personal and the global, from poetic voices and social commentary to explorations of technology and design. 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Departing from the national and global paradigms that dominate literary history, Jennifer Scappettone traces the aesthetic and geopolitical resonance of “xenoglossic” poetics: poetry composed in the space of contestation between national languages, concretising dreams of mending the ruptures traced to the story of Babel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs global migration, aerial bombardment, and the wireless telegraph shrank distances with brute force during the twentieth century, visions of transcultural communication emerged in the hopes of bridging linguistic difference. 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Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force during this period because it could speak directly to the degradation of the social-democratic notion of the public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry in General\u003c\/i\u003e explores how poets expanded their practice into the realms of politics, work, and everyday life from 1960 to the present, from the apex of the welfare state to an era of privatisation and austerity. It considers a compelling array of figures—including Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, and NourbeSe Philip—whose works draw on conceptual techniques to transform official documents and spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinberg shows how these public texts expose the mechanisms of the neoliberal consensus about work and leisure, the state’s facilitation of capitalism, and enduring racial and gender inequities. She also provides politically charged ways to interpret and critique racial capitalism, antiabortion legislation, and mass debt. A new literary and institutional history of postwar poetics, this book shows how poetic experiments address the privatisation of collective life and rethink the category of the public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46792471314668,"sku":"9780231219228","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8248983482270.jpg?v=1757005633"},{"product_id":"writing-backwards-by-alexander-manshel-9780231211277","title":"Writing Backwards","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly dramatic for writers of colour. Even as the literary canon has become more diverse, cultural institutions have celebrated Black, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous novelists almost exclusively for their historical fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting Backwards\u003c\/em\u003e explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture. Alexander Manshel investigates the most celebrated historical genres—contemporary narratives of slavery, the World War II novel, the multigenerational family saga, immigrant fiction, and the novel of recent history—alongside the literary and academic institutions that have elevated them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe examines novels by writers including Toni Morrison, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Colson Whitehead, Julia Alvarez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Chabon, Julie Otsuka, Yaa Gyasi, Ben Lerner, and Tommy Orange in the context of MFA programs, literary prizes, university syllabi, book clubs, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Manshel studies how historical fiction has evolved over the last half century, documenting the formation of the newly inclusive literary canon as well as who and what it still excludes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering new insight into how institutions shape literature and the limits of historical memory, \u003cem\u003eWriting Backwards\u003c\/em\u003e also considers recent challenges to the historical turn in American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47406342701292,"sku":"9780231211277","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71deTQhmYeL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773963315"},{"product_id":"big-fiction-by-dan-sinykin-9780231192958","title":"Big Fiction","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other large corporations purchased other formerly independent publishers. As multinational conglomerates consolidated the industry, the business of literature—and literature itself—transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author. Giving an inside look at the industry's daily routines, personal dramas, and institutional crises, he reveals how conglomeration has shaped what kinds of books and writers are published. Sinykin examines four different sectors of the publishing industry: mass-market books by brand-name authors like Danielle Steel; trade publishers that encouraged genre elements in literary fiction; nonprofits such as Graywolf that aspired to protect literature from market pressures; and the distinctive niche of employee-owned W. W. Norton. He emphasizes how women and people of colour navigated shifts in publishing, arguing that writers such as Toni Morrison allegorised their experiences in their fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBig Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e features dazzling readings of a vast range of novelists—including E. L. Doctorow, Judith Krantz, Renata Adler, Stephen King, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy, Chuck Palahniuk, Patrick O'Brian, and Walter Mosley—as well as vivid portraits of industry figures. Written in gripping and lively prose, this deeply original book recasts the past six decades of American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430163497196,"sku":"9780231192958","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231192958.jpg?v=1774559654"},{"product_id":"bookishness-by-jessica-pressman-9780231195133","title":"Bookishness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-first-century culture is obsessed with books. In a time when many voices have joined to predict the death of print, books continue to resurface in new and unexpected ways. 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Books can represent shelter from—or a weapon against—the dangers of the digital; they can act as memorials and express a sense of loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExamining the works of writers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Jennifer Egan, Mark Z. 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