AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS

University Press of Florida 9780813066370 Pub Date: 4/7/2020 $85.00 Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards 198 Pages Literary Criticism / Modern LIT024050 Series: The Florida James Joyce Series 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.9 lb Wt

Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake

Colleen Jaurretche

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This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with intangible things in his dreamlike masterpiece Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce wrote this work to suggest exactly why it follows the order it does.

This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wake—the dreamlike masterpiece that critics have called his “book of the night.” Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce composed this work to suggest why he wrote and arranged it as he did. Jaurretche provides a sequential reading of the four chapters and corresponding themes of the Wake from the perspective of prayer. She examines image, manifested by the letters of the alphabet and the Book of Kells; magic, which Joyce equates with the workings of language; dreams, which he relates to poetry; and speech, glorified in the Wake for its potential to express emotions and ecstasy. Jaurretche bases her study on important thinkers from antiquity to the present, including Origen of Alexandria, Giambattista Vico, and Giordano Bruno. She demonstrates how these philosophers influenced Joyce’s view that prayer can imbue language with power.

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Colleen Jaurretche is continuing lecturer in the Department of English and Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Sensual Philosophy: Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism and the editor of Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative.

University Press of Florida 9780813069555 Pub Date: 12/6/2022 $85.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards 288 Pages Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes LIT025010 Series: The Florida James Joyce Series 9 in H | 6 in W

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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and Ulysses

The Life and Times of Albert L. Altman

Neil R. Davison

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A forgotten historical figure and his influence on the writing of James Joyce

In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853?1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce's creation of the character of Leopold Bloom as well as Ulysses' broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire. Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals parallels between the lives of Altman and Bloom, including how the experience of double marginalization-which Altman felt as both a Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in the British Empire-is a major idea explored in Joyce's work. Altman, a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in municipal politics over issues of Home Rule and labor, and frequently appeared in the press over the two decades of Joyce's youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a familiar name in the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman's career on the Dubliners story "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses. Through Altman's biography, Davison recovers a forgotten life story that illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in Joyce's Dublin.

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Neil R. Davison, professor of modernism, Irish studies, and Jewish cultural studies at Oregon State University, is the author of Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern and James Joyce, "Ulysses," and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and 'the Jew' in Modernist Europe.

University Press of Florida 9780813056302 Pub Date: 5/21/2019 $85.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards 314 Pages Literary Criticism / European LIT004200 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

Mina Loy's Critical Modernism

Laura Scuriatti

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This book provides a fresh assessment of the works of British-born poet and painter Mina Loy. Laura Scuriatti shows how Loy’s “eccentric” writing and art celebrate ideas and aesthetics central to the modernist movement while simultaneously critiquing them, resulting in a continually self-reflexive and detached stance that Scuriatti terms “critical modernism.” Drawing on archival material, Scuriatti illuminates the oftenoverlooked influence of Loy’s time spent amid Italian avant-garde culture. In particular, she considers Loy’s assessment of the nature of genius and sexual identity as defined by philosopher Otto Weininger and in Lacerba, a magazine founded by Giovanni Papini. She also investigates Loy’s reflections on the artistic masterpiece in relation to the world of commodities; explores the dialogic nature of the self in Loy’s autobiographical projects; and shows how Loy used her “eccentric” stance as a political position, especially in her later career in the United States.

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Laura Scuriatti, associate professor of English and comparative literature at Bard College Berlin, is coeditor of The Exhibit in the Text: Museological Practices of Literature.

University Press of Florida 9780813068756 Pub Date: 6/28/2022 $29.95 Discount Code: Trade Trade Paperback 296 Pages Literary Criticism / Jewish LIT004210 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.9 lb Wt

Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism

Amy Feinstein

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Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein's constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career. Amy Feinstein argues that Judaism was central to Stein's ideas about modernity, showing how Stein connects the modernist era to the Jewish experience. Combing through Stein's scholastic writings, drafting notebooks, and literary works, Feinstein analyzes references to Judaism that have puzzled scholars. She reveals the never-before-discussed influence of Matthew Arnold as well as a hidden Jewish framework in Stein's epic novel The Making of Americans. In Stein's experimental "voices" poems, Feinstein identifies an explicitly Jewish vocabulary that expresses themes of marriage, nationalism, and Zionism. She also shows how Wars I Have Seen, written in Vichy France during World War II, compares the experience of wartime occupation with the historic persecution of Jews.

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Amy Feinstein teaches English in the New York City public schools.

University Press of Florida 9780813066516 Pub Date: 7/21/2020 $90.00 Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards 230 Pages Literary Criticism / Medieval LIT011000 Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions 8.5 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.8 in T | 0.9 lb Wt

An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders

Carl Phelpstead

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Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism.

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Carl Phelpstead, professor of English literature at Cardiff University in Wales, is the author of Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas.

University of Florida Press 9781683402497 Pub Date: 10/12/2021 $28.00 Discount Code: Trade Hardcover 304 Pages Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats NAT025000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 1.2 lb Wt

Imperiled Reef

The Fascinating, Fragile Life of a Caribbean Wonder

Sandy Sheehy

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This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

The beauty and drama of a world beneath the surface of the waves

This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, this reef is the second largest coral structure on the planet. Imperiled Reef searches out the breathtaking intricacies of this endangered ecological treasure. Research shows that the future of the reef is at risk, Sheehy explains. Looking closely at threats ranging from global warming to overfishing to irresponsible development, Sheehy draws attention to the inspiring efforts of nongovernmental agencies, scientists, and local communities who are working together to address these challenges. She includes practical actions individuals can take to protect this reef—as well as marine ecosystems everywhere. Celebrating a vast, submerged landscape that has too often been undervalued, Imperiled Reef is a strong case for protecting an international marvel.

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Sandy Sheehy is a journalist who has dived the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef for four decades. She is the author of Texas Big Rich: Exploits, Eccentricities, and Fabulous Fortunes Won and Lost and Connecting: The Enduring Power of Female Friendship.

University of Florida Press 9781683401674 Pub Date: 1/5/2021 $40.00 Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards 230 Pages Science / Natural History SCI100000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.8 in T | 1.1 lb Wt

Chocolate Crisis

Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao

Dale Walters

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Addressing the threatened future of chocolate in our modern world, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree.

Chocolate is the center of a massive global industry worth billions of dollars annually, yet its future in our modern world is currently under threat. In Chocolate Crisis, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree. Walters takes readers to the origins of the cacao tree in the Amazon basin of South America, describing how ancient cultures used the beans produced by the plant, and follows the rise of chocolate as an international commodity over many centuries. He explains that most cacao is now grown on small family farms in Latin America, West Africa, and Indonesia, and that the crop is not easy to make a living from. Diseases such as frosty pod rot, witches’ broom, and swollen shoot, along with pests such as sap-sucking capsids, cocoa pod borers, and termites, cause substantial losses every year.

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Dale Walters is emeritus professor of plant pathology at Scotland's Rural College. He is the author of many books, including Fortress Plant: How to Survive When Everything Wants to Eat You.

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles

University of Florida Press 9781683402633 Pub Date: 9/13/2022 $26.95 Discount Code: trade Trade Paperback 128 Pages 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.5 lb Wt Status: ACTIVE

Mighty Foresters of the Insect World

Jiri Hulcr, Marc Abrahams

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A loving look at one of the world’s most maligned, misunderstood, and fascinating insects

Famous foe of forestry professionals and despised spreader of Dutch elm disease, bark beetles have a bad reputation: the World’s Worst Forest Pests. They chew through timber profits and kill healthy trees, turning forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. But entomologist Jiri Hulcr sees more to these evil weevils than meets the eye, and offers you a closer look—literally. With science journalist Marc Abrahams, Hulcr offers a funny and informative introduction to these under-studied and underappreciated insects. This lively book turns cutting-edge research into an enjoyable tour through the miniature world of a charming critter. Vivid macrophotography captures every aspect of bark beetle life in stunning detail, from their dramatic family stories and curiously endearing looks to their mating strategies, and the secret fungus farms where they cultivate their own “ambrosia.” You’ll learn how much we don’t know about bark beetles —and what that means for science’s attempts to control them as climate change alters their habitats. Whether you’re a scientist seeking up-to-date pest management strategies or you’re just wondering if your backyard trees are at risk, this book will help you better understand the latest discoveries in beetle symbioses, molecular biology, and ecology. But be warned: at the end of this read you may be filled with affection for these adorable and astonishing beetles.

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Jiri Hulcr is associate professor of forest entomology at the University of Florida and a founding member of ProForest, a forest health research group. Marc Abrahams is a science writer, the editor of Annals of Improbable Research, and the founder of the Ig Nobel Prize.