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Cover Oxford Handbook of Dante

The Oxford
Handbook of Dante

ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021

Forty-four specially written chapters provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante’s oeuvre. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante’s formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante.
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Beverly Buchanan

Marsh Ruins
Amelia Groom

Afterall Books and The MIT Press (February 2021)

Beverly Buchanan's Marsh Ruins (1981) are large, solid mounds of cement and shell-based tabby concrete, yet their presence has always been elusive.

Materialism and Politics

ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, Ayşe Yuva

Cultural Inquiry, 20

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021

Open Access
Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Associated with fatalism and naturalism, it evolved as a central concept of progressive politics, in Marxist- and Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, and feminist discourses.
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Double Trouble in Exhibiting the Contemporary

Art Fairs and Shows
ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clarissa Ricci, and Angela Vettese

Scalpendi editore (July 2020)

The strange brotherhood between art fairs and biennials, and other recurrent or mega exhibitions, continues to arose criticism but little attention in academic literature, despite the importance of such exhibition formats in the life cycle of art, artists, and anyone entering the art world.
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Same Old

Queer theory, literature and the politics of sameness
Ben Nichols

Manchester University Press (July 2020)

Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to 'sameness' only thwart and stymie queer forms of life.
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Possibilities of Lyric

Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
With an Epilogue by Antonella Anedda Angioy
Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden

Cultural Inquiry, 18

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020

Open Access
Opening to passion as a transformative force; extending desire to the text; imagining pleasures outside the norm; overcoming loss, defying resolution and cohesion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores.
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Weathering

Ecologies of Exposure
ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer

Cultural Inquiry, 17

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020

Open Access
Weathering is atmospheric, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down or accrued patina. It also denotes ways in which subjects resist adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines.

Climate Fictions

Special Issue of Paradoxa, 31 (2019–20)
ed. by Alison Sperling
'Climate Fictions' continues to open up the concept to new modes of theorizing the relation between climate and fiction beyond the boundaries of the novel and beyond questions of genre, where climate fiction scholarship has so far largely resided.

Weird Temporalities

Special Issue of Studies in the Fantastic, 9 (Summer/Fall 2020)
ed. by Alison Sperling and Jordan S. Carroll
This special issue of Studies in the Fantastic on 'Weird Temporalities' engages the relationship between 'The Weird' (old and new) as a genre, mode, or aesthetic with question of temporality.

Critique of Journalistic Reason

Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper
Tom Vandeputte

New York: Fordham University Press, 2020

This book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.
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