[New-Poetry] Litteraria Pragensia

[Anny Ballardini]

Litteraria Pragensia: poetry and drama titles--while stocks last ...
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COMPLICITIES: BRITISH POETRY 1945-2007
eds. Robin Purves & Sam Ladkin
ISBN 978-80-7308-194-2 (paperback). 261pp.
Publication date: November 2007.
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/complicities.html
Price: € 12.00 (not including postage)

"... an excellent, timely set of essays ..." --Peter Middleton

This collection of essays does not seek to fashion a bespoke
21st-century Albion from the remnants of Britain's various poetic
traditions. The poetry considered here, and its criticism too, is by
and large critical of the "new imperial suitings" beneath which the
old and new networks of power run. The work gathered in these pages
knows language and culture to be profoundly complicit across the board
in the extension of acts of domination, from the preparation for and
execution of war, to the composition of the suicide note, from the
overt corrupting of the democratic franchise, to cold calling's
interpellation of the human subject as consumer-in-waiting.

Contributors to this volume include: Thomas Day, Keston Sutherland,
Alizon Brunning, Robin Purves, J.H. Prynne, Bruce Stewart, D.S.
Marriott, Stephen Thomson, Craig Dworkin, Sophie Read, Sara Crangle,
Malcolm Phillips, Tom Jones, Josh Robinson, Sam Ladkin, Jennifer
Cooke, Ian Patterson.

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AVANT-POST: THE AVANT-GARDE UNDER "POST-" CONDITIONS
ed. Louis Armand
ISBN 80-7308-123-7 (paperback). 300pp.
Published: September 2006.
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/avant_post.html
Price: € 12.00 (not including postage)

"The question at the heart of these sixteen essays--alternately
theoretically demanding, impishly elusive, stylistically impacted, and
wholly absorbing--is this: what, in the context of contemporary
politico-aesthetic practices, is the avant-garde, and how, if at all,
can some version of it continue to exist in an historical moment when
... everything is permitted, hence nothing is any longer possible?"
--American Book Review

Avant-Post engages the question of whether or not avant-garde practice
remains viable under the prevailing conditions of a whole series of
"post-" ideologies, from Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism, to
Post-Historicism, Post-Humanism and Post-Ideology itself.

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MONOLOGUES
ed. Clare Wallace
ISBN 80-7308-122-9 (paperback). 330pp.
Publication date: December 2006.
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/monologues.html
Price: € 12.00 (not including postage)

Monologue is to be found across the spectrum of modern and postmodern
theatre and drama, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Karen
Finley and Spalding Gray. The theatre of monologue revolves around the
ambiguities of narrative as a means of knowing and communicating, and
is conditioned by dubious authenticity. This collection will bring
together original essays on monologue by theatre scholars and
practitioners that address the complexities of the form as it appears
in contemporary drama and performance.

Contributors: Mateusz Borowski & Malgorzata Sugiera, David Bradby,
Daniela Jobertova, Mark Berninger, Laurens De Vos, Eamonn Jordan, Dee
Heddon, Catharine McLean-Hopkins, Rebecca D'Monte, Jorge Huerta &
Ashley Lucas, Brian Singleton, Eckart Voigts-Virchow & Mark Schreiber,
Johannes Birringer.

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NEW!

STEWART PARKER: TELEVISION PLAYS
ed. Clare Wallace
ISBN 80-7308-124-5 (paperback). 580pp.
Publication date: October 2008.
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/parker.html
Price: € 16.00 (not including postage)


Stewart Parker ranks among Ireland's most innovative dramatists and
yet as the twentieth anniversary of his death approaches, critical
engagement with his work has still much ground to cover. With the
exception of The Actress and the Bishop (1976) and Kingdom Come
(1977), Stewart Parker's theatre plays have remained in print with
Methuen. This is the only material that is currently widely available
to scholars, students and readers. However, Parker's work extends well
beyond this known core including numerous journalistic writings,
literary criticism, radio and television plays.

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of Stewart Parker's death,
Litteraria Pragensia Books is proud to announce the publication of a
two volume set of Parker's TV plays and journalistic writings with
critical introductions. Both volumes provide unique and long overdue
perspectives on Parker's work in an accessible format aimed to extend
critical acknowledgement of Parker's status as one of the most
versatile and engaging writers to emerge in Northern Ireland in the
1970s and 1980s.

***For a complete catalogue of Litteraria Pragensia titles please
visit our website: www.litterariapragensia.com



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