New Releases by Michael Bishop

Faux Titre is a longstanding book series for state-of-the-art research in the field of French-language literature(s). Besides the more classical research in French literature, covering the field of Medieval Studies to XXIth century literature, the series offers a platform for new directions in literary studies in relation to translation studies, minority literatures, gender and queer studies, ecology, medical humanities, hemispheric studies, transatlantic studies, network studies and social sciences, as well as reflections on studies in French literature as a discipline.

Contemporary French Women Poets offers the first full-length study, divided into two volumes, of a wide range of women''s poetry in France written over the past forty years. Volume I provides a broad Introduction, eight chapters devoted to individual critical assessments of the work of Andrée Chedid, Heather Dohollau, Denise Le Dantec, Janine Mitaud, Jacqueline Risset, Anne Teyssiéras, Esther Tellermann and Marie-Claire Bancquart, followed by a provisional Conclusion and Bibliography. Volume II recentres the overall analysis via a brief Introduction, then proceeds to offer eight more individual critical evaluations of the work of Jeanne Hyvard, Jeannine Baude, Françoise Hàn, Céline Zins, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Denise Borias, Marie Etienne and Anne-Marie Albiach. An overall Conclusion is then developed, followed by a Bibliography.

La Collection monographique Rodopi en littérature française contemporaine vise à faire découvrir, à travers un riche éventail d''approches critiques, les écrivain/e/s français/es d''aujourd''hui dont l''œuvre s''impose de par l''originalité de sa vision et la profondeur de ses enjeux. Rédigées en français ou en anglais, les études traiteront à la fois de la pertinence globale et des spécificités marquantes de ces œuvres dont la force d''interpellation innerve le champ de la production littéraire récente. The Collection monographique Rodopi en littérature française contemporaine engages, by way of a rich variety of critical approaches, with today''s French writers whose work exhibits a striking originality of vision and breadth of creative endeavour. Written in French or English, studies will explore at once the overall significance and the distinctive features of these works whose multifaceted appeal places them at the fore of recent literary production. Single authors and editors of collected volumes are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Christa Stevens.

La Collection monographique Rodopi en littérature française contemporaine vise à faire découvrir, à travers un riche éventail d''approches critiques, les écrivain/e/s français/es d''aujourd''hui dont l''œuvre s''impose de par l''originalité de sa vision et la profondeur de ses enjeux. Rédigées en français ou en anglais, les études traiteront à la fois de la pertinence globale et des spécificités marquantes de ces œuvres dont la force d''interpellation innerve le champ de la production littéraire récente. The Collection monographique Rodopi en littérature française contemporaine engages, by way of a rich variety of critical approaches, with today''s French writers whose work exhibits a striking originality of vision and breadth of creative endeavour. Written in French or English, studies will explore at once the overall significance and the distinctive features of these works whose multifaceted appeal places them at the fore of recent literary production. Single authors and editors of collected volumes are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Christa Stevens.

Contemporary French Women Poets offers the first full-length study, divided into two volumes, of a wide range of women''s poetry in France written over the past forty years. Volume I provides a broad Introduction, eight chapters devoted to individual critical assessments of the work of Andrée Chedid, Heather Dohollau, Denise Le Dantec, Janine Mitaud, Jacqueline Risset, Anne Teyssiéras, Esther Tellermann and Marie-Claire Bancquart, followed by a provisional Conclusion and Bibliography. Volume II recentres the overall analysis via a brief Introduction, then proceeds to offer eight more individual critical evaluations of the work of Jeanne Hyvrard, Jeannine Baude, Françoise Hàn, Céline Zins, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Denise Borias, Marie Etienne and Anne-Marie Albiach. An overall Conclusion is then developed, followed by a Bibliography.

This is a story about Brooklyn—about a young man who grew up in a neighborhood called Crown Heights. It is a story of an ordinary kid who fell in love with music; first the music he heard at home, then with the music of the streets. This street music had been bubbling up around the city for nearly 10 years before the kid discovered it at a block party one summer evening. It was loud, infectious, and alive. The crazy thing was this music was really familiar but different at the same time. This crazy new kind of music grabbed the boy’s attention and lit a fire in him that would never be put out. This music didn’t have a name but later became known as Hip Hop.

Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent paleontologists. As a result, Joshua is invited to join a most unusual time travel project and is transported millions of years into the past of his dreams. In early Pleistocene Africa, living among the pre-human species Homo habilis, experiencing the same hardships and the same intense pleasures, Joshua finds, for the first time in his troubled life, not only contentment but real love - a love that transcends almost everything. Intelligent, thoughtful and deeply moving, No Enemy but Time brilliantly evokes the remote past and, at the same time, presents a powerful and convincing portrayal of a relationship surmounting even the most daunting barriers. It is a challenging and highly original novel exploring the nature a nd origins of humankind.

Un troupeau de licornes hante les hauteurs d’une chaîne de montagnes du Colorado, au moment où, en pleine apparition du sida, Libby héberge son cousin malade, Bo Gavin. Quel rapport voir entre le fantastique secret qu’elle garde et la terrible épidémie ? Pourtant, les licornes souffrent elles aussi d’une peste et l’univers parallèle dont elles proviennent semble posséder une certaine magie, provoquant des fantômes et des visions... Mythes américains et années sida : Colorado, amérindiens, téléviseur, publicité et cause LGBT, ce grand roman qui a obtenu le prix Mythopoeic est enfin traduit en France.

A wide-ranging study of Prévert’s promethean imagination and creativity in the interwoven realms of theatre, film, poetry, art, photography, and song, Michael Bishop’s Jacques Prévert seeks to demonstrate the originality of a genial fabricator of image and word whose essential focus, unpretentious yet urgently felt, unintellectualised yet buoyantly and wittily intelligent, ever remains the quality of our daily being-in-the-world, the possibility of our self-transformation, the stunning availability – should we truly will it, and despite all that can weigh upon existence, above all ideologically – of joy and love and freedom.

Reconnu depuis longtemps comme un des grands écrivains exemplaires de notre modernité, André du Bouchet nous lègue une oeuvre richement diversifiée, dense et transparente à la fois, transgénérique à bien des égards mais incontestablement poiétique dans sa conception et sa pratique. La présente étude cherche à privilégier les nombreux textes – essais, traductions, notes de carnet et autres accompagnements - où s’enlacent et s’entretissent une méditation critique profondément sentie, parfois obsessivement vécue, et une écriture poétique étonnamment originale visant à installer naturellement, mais avec discrétion, ses propres spécificités, tout en creusant selon des angles d’approches très variés celles des grands auteurs et artistes constamment et librement interrogés. Ecriture d’altérité et de non-différence, d’automultiplication et d’harmonisation intersubjective, celle qu’on analyse ici – avec ses textes consacrés à Baudelaire ou Hugo, Tal-Coat ou Segers, Mandelstam ou Joyce, Poussin ou Hölderlin – ne cesse de révéler cet instinct de généreuse et fraternelle affinité qui, au coeur des brillantes explorations que voue le moi à son être-dans-le-monde, tisse son réseau de résonances subtiles et sûres.

This retrospective Michael Bishop collection of fifty short pieces (thirty-four stories, fifteen poems or prose-poems, and one amusing Moon-based play about writing SF, "The Grape Jelly and Mustard Method") spans the author''s entire career, from "Asytages''s Dream," written while Bishop was a college student, to "Yahweh''s Hour," an acerbic but moving work of science-fantasy political satire composed in 2020. The collection''s most distinctive attribute, however, lies in the fact that no contribution is longer than 3,000 words and most are shorter, a kind of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories for lovers of short fiction, heartfelt pieces that afford the reader as much meat as they do flash. "A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals," set on Saturn''s largest moon, Titan, embodies a requiem for the entire human species. "Philip K. Dick is dead, a lass" memorializes in verse science fiction''s preeminent bard of the reality breakdown." "Love''s Heresy" and "The Library of Babble" appear to be channeling the labyrinthine mind of Jorge Luis Borges, albeit with surprising jinks all their own. And the list of narrative explorations grows and grows . . . Humor and horror, music and whimsy, primates and pathology, mice and men, religion and rebellion: these stories and poems cover the waterfront of human experience while acknowledging the singularity of each human life.

Urban warfare in a post-collapse scenario is cruel to all combatants. But when the fighters are children, their resilience and passions combine to make for a bittersweet tragedy.

In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines the very recent work of nine major contemporary French and Francophone writers : Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson and Jacques Dupin. The issue of writing’s complex relation to the experience of the earth is of central pertinence, involving questions of dreaming, voice, figurativity, emotion, desire, revolt, metaphysics, meaning, poiein and being. Discussion entails close reading of works as well as broad contextualisation and a sensitivity to interrelevancies from writer to writer. Bishop’s book is intended as a companion to his 2014 Dystopie et poïein, agnose et reconnaissance. Seize études sur la poésie française et francophone contemporaine.

The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales gathers four of Michael Bishop''s unusual longer stories, from different stages of his almost fifty-year career, into a single remarkable volume. Discover the brave, far-ranging, unpredictable talent of Michael Bishop.

»Als Philip K. erwachte, stellte er fest, dass er über Nacht aus einem verhältnismäßig wohlgeformten, bilateral-symmetrischen menschlichen Wesen zu... einem runden, gliedlosen Planetenkörper geworden war, der einen gigantischen, dunstig-roten Stern umkreiste. Tatsächlich folgerte Philip K. aus dem simplen Gefühl, aus der totalen Aura, die sich in die Samenkörner seines Bewusstseins projizierte, dass er eine Tomate war. Eine Tomate, die hinsichtlich ihrer Dimension und Masse etwa dem Planeten Mars entsprechen mochte. Das war es, ohne Zweifel: eine Treibhaustomate.« Das Erscheinen Michael Bishops hat in der internationalen Science-Fiction-Szene beträchtliches Aufsehen erregt - dies nicht zuletzt deswegen, weil sich seine atmosphärisch dichten und stilistisch ausgefeilten Erzählungen eher der modernen amerikanischen Literatur zurechnen lassen als dem, was man gemeinhin von der Science Fiction erwartet. Obwohl man ihn vornehmlich als Verfasser einer stark soziologisch orientierten Science Fiction apostrophiert, zeigen die in diesem Band versammelten Erzählungen, zu welcher Ausdrucksstärke und Farbigkeit dieser Autor fähig ist. Bishop ist ein Ideenmann und Stilist, sein Werk ist von einer grundlegenden Menschlichkeit, auch wenn seine Charaktere uns unmenschlich erscheinen mögen oder - mitunter – gar Maschinen sind. Arachne enthält die besten Kurzgeschichten und Novellen des Autors. Mehrere der hier vorgelegten Texte wurden für den Hugo-und den Nebula-Award nominiert.

A private citizen discovers compelling evidence that a decades-old murder in Nashville was not committed by the man who went to prison for the crime but was the result of a conspiracy involving elite members of Nashville society. Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A few months later a judge''s son is convicted of the crime. Decades after the slaying, Michael Bishop, a private citizen, stumbles upon a secret file related to the case and with the help of some of the world''s top forensic experts--including forensic psychologist Richard Walter (aka "the living Sherlock Holmes")--he uncovers the truth. What really happened is completely different from what the public was led to believe. Now, for the very first time, Bishop reveals the true story. In this true-crime page-turner, the author lays out compelling evidence that a circle of powerful citizens were key participants in the crime and the subsequent cover-up. The ne''er-do-well judge''s son, who was falsely accused and sent to prison, proved to be the perfect setup man. The perpetrators used his checkered history to conceal the real facts for over half a century. Including interviews with the original defense attorney and a murder confession elicited from a nursing-home resident, the information presented here will change Nashville history forever.

Joel-Brock Lollis''s family has vanished into the labyrinthine Sporangium below a curious Georgia emporium, Big Box Bonanzas. Glimpses of an older J-B Lollis of the Atlanta Braves on a BBB television suggest that Joel-Brock may never get back his parents and sister. The Valorous Smalls--almost-ten Joel-Brock, lively teen Addi, and tiny detective Valona--forge their way into the mushroom realm to change that possible future. Young readers who enjoy quests with marvels in the kingdom of the weird--mushroom warriors! mazes! time games! giant slugs!--will find much to interest, amuse, and surprise them in Michael Bishop''s unusual fantasy, Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls, well and profusely illustrated in pen-and-ink by Orion Zangara.

Corre el año 1982. Estados Unidos posee una base permanente en la luna; Richard M. Nixon se encuentra en el cuarto mandato del «Imperio Presidencial»; y un excéntrico novelista llamado Philip K. Dick acaba de morir en California. ¿O no está muerto? La doctora Lia Pickford se queda perpleja cuando Dick entra en su despacho de un pueblo de Georgia para pedirle ayuda. Cal Pickford, eterno admirador del autor y conmocionado por la noticia de la muerte de su héroe, se entusiasma cuando su esposa le habla de su visita. Comienza entonces una serie de acontecimientos que implican a Cal en la política represiva del régimen de Nixon junto con una envejecida diva del cine, un inmigrante y un hombre negro que trabaja como mozo de cuadra.

After the death of her husband, Mary Stevenson "Stevie" Crye supports her two children in their small Georgia town by becoming a freelance writer. But when her typewriter breaks, she begins receiving demonic messages through the machine and uncovers a curse over the Crye household.

Seventeen of writer Michael Bishop''s favorite stories were handpicked from his previously uncollected works to create this compelling collection, providing an excellent overview of a career that includes award-winning science fiction, horror, fantasy, satire, space opera, and mystery. In "A Tapestry of Little Murders, " a murderer attempts to escape along a literal road to self-destruction. A medical missionary, tortured by government thugs, reveals her dying wish in "With a Little Help from Her Friends." In "The Procedure, " an operation to remove a tumorous growth will hopefully excise from the patient''s mind and body all tendencies toward faith and superstition. From futuristic mystery and Vietnam-era dark fantasy to theological speculation on Christ''s death, a variety of lyrical voices speak through these haunting stories. An essay by the author divulges the genesis of each story.

In the domed city of Atlanta, after the breakup of the United States, a young writer named Julian Cawthorn is in trouble. Because he insulted the daughter of a public official, Cawthorn is out of work, and virtually unemployable. He begs a temporary job on the city newspaper and finds himself assigned to cover the first public appearance of the aliens Cygnusians, travelers from outer space who have been living in seclusion in Atlanta while visiting Earth. A Christian revivalist dictatorship rules Atlanta; church services are as much social as they are religious events. When one of the aliens chooses to appear at a church service, Julian watches as the first alien from space stands up and is "saved". The alien''s voluntary salvation is taken as a sign that the state religion is indeed the one true religion, and minority groups, previously tolerated, are attacked by gangs, leaving Atlanta in turmoil. The service is a turning point in Julian''s life. He is hired by Fiona Bitler, hostess to and protector of the aliens; at her invitation he goes to work in the secret alien enclave. In this environment Julian comes to know the fascinating aliens. He is mystified by the aliens'' interest in his personal life and cannot understand how they have acquired so many oddly human characteristics in their brief period on Earth.

It seemed like a good idea; even a noble experiment. But the outcome was sheer hell. When the Balduin brothers escaped from the tedium of the human hive of Atlanta, Georgia, they had a mission. They were to voyage to the planet Trope, contact a tribe there known as the Ouemartsee, and transport it to Glaparca for a useful purpose. But suddenly the Balduin brothers discovered that they were in the slave trade, and that the Ouemartsee had made one of them a God . . .

Xavier Thaxton is the arts editor of a great metropolitan newspaper, and is a man whose aesthetic values are of only the highest calibre. But after an accidental dip in a radioactive swimming hole, Xavier finds his life changing as he is forced, step by step, despite all he can do, to assume the mantle and manner of a comic book superhero, and to be a living icon of the pop culture he has spent his life detesting.

A multinational expedition has landed on the planet Onogoro, a cold and dour world circling one star of a binary pair. Their objective is to investigate a strange alien race, known to the human visitors as the Kybers. These aliens, dwelling in a great network of ruined palaces, are partly biological creatures and partly machines, with the ability to switch themselves off at will. Expedition scientists discover that the Kyber''s sun is soon to blaze up in a nova, yet the Kybers are not alarmed.

Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadaud: after the eleven essays of Contemporary French Art 1, devoted to major artists from Ben Vautier and Niki de Saint Phalle to Annette Messager and Gérard Titus-Carmel, the present volume pursues its interrogations of the what, the how and the why of contemporary plastic production of some of France’s finest practitioners. If, as ever, such production can reveal elements of an interweaving of individualized preoccupations and modes, endless specificities demarcate and affirm originalities that pure theory and its leveling anonymity may obscure. Thus is it that Gérard Garouste is alone in that obsession with ‘indianness’ and ‘classicalness’; that Colette Deblé’s gesture is drawn implacably to the unseenness of female representation; that Georges Rousse plunges photography into the realm of matter’s poetic sacredness; that Geneviève Asse traverses a pure seemingness of abstraction to attain to an intimacy of silence; that Martial Raysse’s ‘hygiene of vision’ may endlessly renew and hybridize itself. Christian Jaccard, too, will explore with uniqueness an art of materiality at the frontier of metaphysics; Joël Kermarrec will offer us the inimitable exquisite traces of surging desire and deception; Danièle Perronne’s boxes and stringings, her paintings and her sheetings will unfold a psychic infinity at the heart of form. And, if Daniel Dezeuze seeks namelessness and pure structuration, the latter yet surge forth via works that relentlessly identify a gesture so distant, we may feel, from the at once sobering and ceremonial microproliferations of a Philippe Favier or the tense but genial articulations of Daniel Nadaud’s sculptural imagination.