New Year’s Eve is approaching, and Book fans will have lots to look forward to in 2022. Unfortunately, given the current state of the publishing supply chain; getting your hands on your next favorite books; may be difficult unless you pre-order immediately.
Similarly, if you were planning to gift-wrap some books for your family and friends this holiday season, you may run into problems, but pre-orders make excellent gifts. It will not only give your pal something to anticipate in 2022, but it will also benefit your favorite authors. Pre-order figures are used by publishing houses to determine which authors have the most popular books, which can lead to higher advances and better book agreements for authors in the future. You may also help small businesses succeed in difficult times by putting a pre-order at your local bookstore.
It’s fine if you don’t have the funds to pre-order and purchase the book you want to read. You can still aid your favorite authors by requesting that your local library order the works you’re anticipating in 2022.
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1. From Instruction to Delight Book
This rich survey of children’s literature from the middle ages to the mid-nineteenth century features a remarkable variety of literary forms, including fairy tales, fables, letters, and poems. Drawing on an ever-growing body of scholarship, this anthology places each selection in the context of its era and helps students develop an appreciation of early children’s literature.
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2. The Contemporary Irish Novel
This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish writing during the 1980s and 1990s and reads works by established authors alongside those by the new generation of writers. The novels examined include works by John Banville, Jennifer Johnston, Roddy Doyle, Emma Donoghue, Seamus Deane, William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Joseph O’Connor, Patrick McCabe, Mary Morrissy, Glenn Patterson, and Robert McLiam Wilson.
The Contemporary Irish Novel addresses themes such as ghosts and haunting, mimicry, obedience and subversion, the relocation and reinscription of identity, the mother figure, parent-child relations, madness, masculinity, self-harm, sexuality, domestic violence, fetishism, and postmodernity. Drawing on a range of critical approaches including postcolonial, gender, and psychoanalytic theory, Peach explores and celebrates the diversity of Irish fiction and suggests that the boundary between literature and theory is as permeable as that between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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3. Heimskringla Book
Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway’s patron saint. Once found in most homes and schools and still regarded as a national treasure, Heimskringla influenced the thinking and literary style of Scandinavia over several centuries.
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4. Individualism : The Cultural Logic of Modernity Book
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries; and then individualism in the twentieth century. These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkably tenacious narrative on ‘the rise of the individual.’
Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance of selfhood in modernist fiction over and against postmodern nihilism. Yet others move to the foreground underappreciated topics, such as the role of courtly cultures in the development of individualism. Taken together, the essays provocatively revise and enrich our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself. Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and Adorno. The essays in this volume first began as papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held at Princeton University. Among the contributors are Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Juenemann, Lucy McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein.
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5. One World Two Book
One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to One World and another globe-trotting collection of stories. But it is more than simply an anthology of short fiction, as it contains representative literature from all over the world, conveying the reader on thought-provoking journeys across continents, cultures, and landscapes.
One World Two is even more ambitious than Volume One in its geographic scope, featuring twenty-one writers drawn from every continent. Most of the stories are unique to this volume, while others are appearing for the first time in English (Egypt’s Mansoura Ez-Eldin and Brazil’s Vanessa Barbara). The themes and writing styles are as richly diverse as their writers’ origins.
The collection is built around a loose theme of building bridges. It is interested in the human condition as a dynamic central line linking individuals, cultures, and experiences: east and west, north and south, and, perhaps most importantly, past, present, and future.
This book features established stars such as Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory), Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), and Aminatta Forna (The Hired Man) and authors who are steadily building a reputation such as Fan Wu, Ana Menéndez, and Daniel Alarcon.
In order of appearance, the authors are Yewande Omotoso, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Heidi North-Bailey, Ana Menéndez, Mathew Howard, Okwiri Oduor, Desiree Bailey, Vamba Sherif, Alice Melike Ulgezer, Daniel Alarcon, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Aminatta Forna, Nahid Rachlin, Samuel Munene, Vanessa Barbara, Ret’sepile Makamane, Fan Wu, Olufemi Terry, Balli Kaur Jaswal, Chris Brazier, and Edwidge Danticat. Edited and compiled by Ovo Adagha and Chris Brazier.
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6. Seeing Red : An Anger Management and Peacemaking Curriculum for Kids Book
“Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also the ungraspable, and pain.”—Roberto Bolaño
This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships.
Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today, has won numerous prestigious international prizes and lives in New York, where she teaches at NYU.
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7. Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century Book
Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation ever since, the current combination of technological developments; market pressures, and changing reading habits have led to an unprecedented paradigm shift in the world of books.
Bringing together a wide range of perspectives industry veterans and provocateurs, writers, editors, and digital mavericks this invaluable collection reflects on the current situation of literary publishing and provides a road map for the shifting geography of its future: How do editors and publishers adapt to this rapidly changing world? How are vibrant public communities in the Digital Age created and engaged? How can an industry traditionally dominated by white men become more diverse and inclusive? Mindful of the stakes of the ongoing transformation, Literary Publishing in the 21st Century goes beyond the usual discussion of ‘print vs. digital’ to uncover the complex, contradictory, and increasingly vibrant personalities that will define the future of the book.
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8. The Self-Completing Tree Book
The Self-Completing Tree is the author’s collection of the best of her last 50 years of writing. In this new edition, the celebrated Grand Dame of English Canadian letters and the award-winning poet use the metaphor implied by the title a tree, half verdant, half in flames to symbolize the androgynous self. This is the theme of much of Livesay’s work and a central metaphor for the most definitive collection of her poetry. The result is a spiritual autobiography charting the fascinating domains of her own life and the universal struggles we all share.
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9. Where the Blood Mixes Book
Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author’s First Nations heritage and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations. But what is the greater story, what lies untold beneath Floyd’s alcoholism, under the pain and isolation of the play’s main character? Loring’s title was inspired by the mistranslation of the N’lakap’mux (Thompson) place name Kumsheen.
For years, it was believed to mean “the place where the rivers meet”–the confluence of the muddy Fraser and the brilliant blue Thompson Rivers. A more accurate translation is: “the place inside the heart where the blood mixes.” But Kumsheen also refers to a story: Coyote was disemboweled there; along a great cliff in an epic battle with a giant shape-shifting being that could transform the world with its powers–to this day his intestines can still be seen strewn along the granite walls. In his rage the transformer tore Coyote apart and scattered his body across the nation, his heart landing in the place where the rivers meet.
Floyd is a man who has lost everyone he holds most dear. Now after more than two decades, his daughter Christine returns home to confront her father. Set during the salmon run, Where the Blood Mixes takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People. In 2009 Where the Blood Mixes won the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script; the Sydney J. Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright; and most recently the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
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10. Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment Book
Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of the apostrophe; and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration; one that not only changed the relationship of literary; production to authority in the modern period; but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature; from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Seeking to redefine what we mean by secularization in the early stages of modernity; Eron argues that secularization’s link to enthusiasm, or inspiration, often associated with Romanticism; begins in the imaginative literature of the early eighteenth century.
If Romantic enthusiasm has been described through the rhetoric of transport; or “unworldly,” then Augustan invocation appears more akin to a process of; “worlding” in its central aim to appeal to the social other as a function of; the eighteenth-century belief in a literary public sphere. By reformulating the passive structure of ancient invocation; and subjecting it to the more dialogical methods of modern apostrophe and address; authors such as the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld; formally revise inspiration in a way that generates a new and distinctive representation of the author.
In this context, inspiration becomes a social gesture—an apostrophe to a friend; or judging spectator or an allusion to the mental; or aesthetic faculties of the author himself, his genius. Articulating this struggle toward modernity at its inception; this book examines modern authority at the moment of its extraordinariness; when it was still tied to the creative energies of inspiration; to the revelatory powers that marked the awakening of a new age, an era and an ethos of Enlightenment.
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11. Silent Parts Book
Finding yourself can change the way you see the world very family has its secrets – and its lies. The Lamberts have Uncle Harry; who fought in World War; But never came home from France. Each Lambert relative now clings to a different story- Harry died a hero’s death on the battlefield. Harry married a sweet French girl. Harry drowned in the mud in Gallipoli. He was a coward who ran from the enemy. As his great-niece Julie struggles to sift fact from fiction, she finds how easy it is to rewrite the past.
Gradually Harry comes to life- the awkward boy in turn-of-the-century Australia; the obedient son caring for his aging mother, the 40-year-old bachelor, the reluctant soldier in France. Harry posted out of harm’s way; – but then he’s called up to the front; makes a decision that not only changes the course of his life but changes the way he sees himself.
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12. Ideology By James Decker Book
This book concise introduction to the concept of ideology; provides an overview of the term and considers its impact on literary theory. James M. Decker analyzes the history of Western ideology from its pre-Enlightenment roots to its current incarnations; providing readers with both an essential overview of key terms issues; and a thoughtful assessment of some of the important critical thinkers associated with the notion including Marx, Gramsci, and Althusser.
Ideological theories are introduced within three broad categories – the subjective, the institutional; and the political – which helps students to synthesize a concept that sprawls across the traditional disciplinary lines of; philosophy, politics, economics, history, and cultural and literary studies.
Close readings of key texts demonstrate the impact of ideology on critical practice and literary reputation. Texts include:
– Toni Morrison’s Sula
– William Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’
– George Orwell’s 1984
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