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2011
Literature
The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series identifies works of cultural and artistic significance
previously overlooked by translators and publishers, canonical works of literature and philosophy needing new trans-
lations, as well as important contemporary authors whose work has not yet been translated into English. The series is
designed to bring to the English-speaking world leading poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, and playwrights from
Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, to stimulate international discourse and creative exchange.
Songbook
Can Xue, Translated by Karen Why Translation
Gernant and Chen Zeping
The Selected Poems of Umberto
Chinese author Can Xue’s Five Spice
Matters
Saba Street stands out as one of the most Edith Grossman
Umberto Saba astonishing novels written in any Why Translation Matters argues for the
Translated by George Hochfield language over the last twenty years. The cultural importance of translation and
and Leonard Nathan; Introduction, first of Xue’s full-length works to be for a more encompassing and nuanced
Notes, and Commentary by George translated into English, this compelling appreciation of the translator’s role.
Hochfield book explores a secret that takes on a life
Why X Matters Series
of its own as neighbors speculate, argue,
Umberto Saba’s reputation in Italy and Paper 2010 160 pp.
indulge their fantasies, and reveal their ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17130-3 $16.00
Europe has steadily grown since his deepest anxieties.
death in 1957, and today he is posi- Cloth 2010 160 pp.
tioned alongside Eugenio Montale and Cloth 2009 352 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12656-3 $24.00
Giuseppe Ungaretti as one of the three ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12227-5 $25.00
most important Italian poets of the first
half of the twentieth century. Until now, New in paper
however, English-language readers have
had access to only a few examples of this On the Death and Life
poet’s work. This bilingual volume at For more information of Languages
last brings an extensive and exquisitely on this series, visit Claude Hagège
translated collection of Saba’s poems to
English-speaking readers.
yalebooks.com/margellos Translated by Jody Gladding
Cloth 2009 592 pp. 1 b/w photo In this timely book, Claude Hagège, a
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13603-6 $35.00 renowned linguist and leading French
public intellectual, ranges over all conti-
nents and language families to uncover
not only how languages die, but also
how they can be revitalized.
An Editions Odile Jacob Book
Paper 2011 384 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16787-0 $20.00
Cloth 2009 384 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13733-0 $30.00
New
New
In the Demon’s
The Anatomy of Influence Bedroom
Literature as a Way of Life Yiddish Literature and the Early
Harold Bloom Modern
“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it,” writes Harold Bloom in The Jeremy Dauber
Anatomy of Influence, “is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and
passionate.” This important study is the first to offer
a sustained look at a variety of early
For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of modern Yiddish masterworks, paying
the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive particular attention to their treatment
and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine of supernatural themes and beings.
paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him
Cloth 2010 416 pp.
for so many years.
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Available in April 2011
Cloth 2011 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16760-3 $32.50
New in paper
Thinking in Circles
New New in paper An Essay on Ring Composition
Ralph Ellison in The Puritan Origins Mary Douglas
Progress of the American Self In this controversial book, social anthro-
pologist Mary Douglas argues that many
From “Invisible Man” to “Three Sacvan Bercovitch famous antique texts are misunderstood
Days Before the Shooting . . . “ with a new preface by the author and others have been dismissed because
Adam Bradley Mr. Bercovitch’s subject is the develop- they employ ring composition, a literary
Ralph Ellison in Progress is the first ment of the concept of American identi- style unfamiliar today. She explores ring
book to survey the expansive geography ty; his method is comparatism to specify composition across cultures and examines
of Ellison’s unfinished novel while the uniqueness of that development; its function in the Iliad, the Bible’s Book of
re-imaging the more familiar, but often and his discussion, centering upon the Numbers, and Tristram Shandy.
misunderstood, territory of Invisible interaction of language, myth, and soci- Selected by as an Outstanding Academic
Man. It works from the premise that ety, explores the Puritan achievement in Title for 2007 by Choice Magazine
understanding Ellison’s process of its broadest cultural context.
The Terry Lectures Series
composition imparts important truths Available in February 2011 Paper 2010 192 pp. 14 b/w illus.
not only about the author himself but Paper 2011 260 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16785-6 $24.00
about race, writing, and American iden- ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00 Cloth 2007 192 pp. 14 b/w illus.
tity. Drawing on thousands of pages of ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11762-2 $35.00
Ellison’s journals, typescripts, computer
drafts, and handwritten notes, many Sex and Religion in
never before studied, Adam Bradley
the Bible Grand Strategies
argues for a shift in scholarly emphasis Literature, Statecraft, and World
that moves a greater share of the weight Calum Carmichael Order
of Ellison’s literary legacy to the last
forty years of his life and to the novel he In this unique book, one of the most Charles Hill
left forever in progress. original voices in biblical studies today
focuses on the themes of marriage, From “the man on whom nothing was
Cloth 2010 256 pp. sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, lost,” a uniquely engaging guide to the ele-
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14713-1 $27.50 and love in the Bible to illuminate the ments of statecraft, fusing literature and
remarkable subtlety and sophistication international relations through spirited
of biblical views about sex and religion. interpretations of classic literary works.
Cloth 2010 224 pp. Available in April 2011
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15377-4 $50.00 Paper 2011 384 pp. 5 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17133-4 $18.00
Cloth 2010 384 pp. 5 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16386-5 $27.50
Jewish Lives
This series of brief, interpretive biography is designed to illuminate the imprint of eminent Jewish figures upon
literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with
authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the breadth and complexity of Jewish experience from
antiquity through the present. Jewish Lives is a partnership of Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation.
New New
Sarah Hank Greenberg
The Life of Sarah Bernhardt The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One
Robert Gottlieb Mark Kurlansky
“Mr. Gottlieb’s fluid style and lightly worn authority of- New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky
fer a lucid and essential modern guide to the making of delivers the compelling life story of Hank Greenberg, the
celebrity, in an era before the noun existed.”—Norman first Jewish player elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal Available in March 2011
Cloth 2010 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. Cloth 2011 224 pp. 1 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14127-6 $25.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13660-9 $25.00
New New
Moses Mendelssohn Solomon
Sage of Modernity The Lure of Wisdom
Shmuel Feiner Steven Weitzman
Translated by Anthony Berris This unconventional biography explores the surprising
The “German Socrates,” Moses Mendelssohn role the story of King Solomon has played in shaping
(1729–1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of Western culture and what it has come to mean for Jews,
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Feiner’s book Christians, and Muslims over the past two thousand
is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fasci- years.
nating man—providing a vivid sense of Mendelssohn’s Available in March 2011
daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. Cloth 2011 240 pp. 4 b/w illus.
Cloth 2010 248 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13718-7 $25.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16175-5 $25.00
Icons of America is a series of short works written by leading scholars, critics, and writers, each of whom tells a new and innovative
story about American history and culture through the lens of a single iconic individual, event, object, or cultural phenomenon.
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Table of Contents
Literature........................................2 Biography & Memoir ...................9-13
The Margellos World Republic General Humanities...................13-17
of Letters….............................3-4
Icons of America .............................18
Language & Translation….............4 Theater & Film ................................19
Poetry & Poetry Studies.................5 Music & Dance ..........................20-21
Books & Reading............................6 Rethinking the Western Tradition
Literary Studies/ ..............................22
Literary Criticism ...................7-8 Philosophy .................................22-25
Modernism.......................................9