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EDITOR CAMELIA ELIAS

Roskilde University

Dept. of Culture and Identity

Universitetsvej 1, Hus 3.2.5

4000 Roskilde

Denmark

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THE PRESS gives priority to works that engage with rigorous thinking, but which are yet informed by a creative style, and irreverent approaches to literature, culture, and philosophy.

THE GENRES represented are academic interdisciplinary writing, poetry, aphorisms, fragments, and other borderline manifestations.

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THE PRESS publishes works in English, Danish, Romanian, and bilingual editions.

PULVERIZING PORTRAITS:

LYNN EMANUEL'S POETRY OF BECOMING

(criticism)

CAMELIA ELIAS

NEW RELEASE: January 1, 2010

ISBN: 978-8799245680

Pulverizing Portraits provides the first book-length study of contemporary American poet Lynn Emanuel. Emanuel’s poetry is significant because it situates itself in relation to current debates about the state of poetry, creative writing in the academia, and the importance of drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to poetry via visual aesthetics, poststructuralist literary and theoretical perspectives, and philosophy. Elias traces the power of Emanuel’s writing and looks at her subtleties in combining intrinsic and formal constraints in poetry with extrinsic and socio-historical methodologies.

List Price $22 (paperback)

JAGGED TIMELINE

(poetry)

ROBERT GIBBONS

NEW RELEASE: March 15, 2010

ISBN: 978-8799245673

This bilingual volume introduces the work of American prose poet Robert Gibbons to a transatlantic audience. The volume shows how multifaceted a poet he is, effortlessly exploring political, aesthetic and emotional themes, such as war, poverty, exile, work, love and the archives of Time. Presenting Danish translations of 64 of the poet’s best pieces, juxtaposed with the American original versions, the book also contains a lengthy scholarly introduction by the editor and translator, Bent Sørensen, forming the first sustained academic study of Gibbons’ work.

List Price $20 (paperback)

BETWEEN GAZES: FEMINIST, QUEER AND OTHER FILMS

(criticism)

CAMELIA ELIAS, ed.

March 15 2009

ISBN: 978-8799245697

In this book Camelia Elias introduces key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. Taking her point of departure in the question, "what do you want from me?" she detours through Lacanian theory of the gaze and reframes questions of subjectivity and representation in an entertaining entanglement of visual with textual poetics in film.

List Price $28 (paperback)

PASSION SPENT: LOVE IDENTITY AND REASON IN E.A. POE

(criticism)

BENT SØRENSEN

July 21 2008

ISBN: 978-8799245666

This book is a reading of the arabesque tales of Edgar Allan Poe, focusing on the main themes of love, identity, and reason as they are played out in a core set of four love stories bearing the names of beautiful undying ladies. Included are chapters on structural plot analysis, the doppelgänger motif and close readings of thematic features in the four Poe tales. The book also offers a categorization of Poe's entire fictional oeuvre using the terms arabesque and grotesque, as well as a discussion of love's psychology and tellability.

List Price $23 (paperback)

FEDERMAN FRENZY

(criticism)

CAMELIA ELIAS, ed.

October 22 2008

ISBN: 978-8799245642

Celebrated American author Raymond Federman is 80 this year. The present volume, which is a collaboration between scholars at Aalborg and Roskilde University, marks this event in addition to introducing Federman to the general public. As Federman has given the editor, Camelia Elias, his permission “to use and abuse whatever you need and want from my work including my body,” she has not hesitated to do so. The result is a fascinating read. The volume features 4 scholarly essays and an inédit encounter between Federman and Elias, featuring both of these authors’ texts.

List Price $18 (paperback)

FIVE FACES OF DERRIDA

(criticism)

BENT SØRENSEN, ed.

July 14 2008

ISBN: 978-8799245635

Derrida is still with us. Through his writings and his performances. This book offers a unique insight into Derrida's last years through analyses by 4 Danish scholars of Kirby Dick and Amy Kofman Ziering’s movie "Derrida" (2002). Derrida emerges not only as a wise man, but also as one who can touch our most sensitive cores. The four essays presented here end with a fifth text which is a dialogue between Bent Sørensen, the editor, who met Derrida immediately after 9/11, Camelia Elias, who personally knew Derrida, Steen Ledet Christiansen, who has never seen Derrida, and Søren Hattesen Balle, who personally tried to convince Derrida that he is a Romantic.

List Price $19/€15 (paperback)

ÅRSTIDER I SKEPTIKERENS HIMMEL

VALERIU BUTULESCU

(aforismer; udvalgt og oversat af Camelia Elias & Bent Sørensen), 2008, anmeldt af K.T. Hansen

July 10 2008

ISBN: 978-8799245628

Denne samling aforismer introducerer læseren til den rumænske forfatter, politiker og doktor i mineralogi, Valeriu Butulescu. Denne samling består af udvalgte aforismer fra flere af Butulescus værker, som i øvrigt er blevet oversat til 32 andre sprog. Aforismerne er på linje med den store tyske og franske tradition men har også deres egen rumænske skarphed og klang. Butulescu er i en klasse for sig. Oversætterne, Elias og Sørensen, som her introducerer både aforismegenren og Butulescu, er begge universitetslektorer og forsker bl.a. i kortprosa.
 

List Price $18/€14 (paperback)

EIGHT SENSES PLUS TWO

(poetry)

CAMELIA ELIAS

July 1 2008

ISBN: 978-8799245611

This volume of prose poems takes the reader through a journey which starts in the living-room. At the core of the collection are a number of Socratic dialogic exchanges between the main speaker of each poem and a number of other figures (fictional and non-fictional). The initiating conversations between a woman and a man continue through dialogues between the woman speaker and other voices (mainly academics and writers) and culminate with exchanges between the woman's voice and that of literary protagonists. There is an intended symmetry at work between the poems which are dedicated to real-life authors and the poems which are dedicated to fictional characters. The poems show how literature is entangled with the geography of being on more than one level

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UNTITLED

(criticism)

CAMELIA ELIAS, ed.

July 14 2008

ISBN: 978-8799245659

The present collection focuses on the use and function of titles in various cases of postmodern American and Scottish literature. While the postmodern may at first glance appear to seek to transcend the religious practices of yesteryear and associate itself with a distrust of grand narratives such as Christianity, it may as easily be claimed that much postmodern literature in fact investigates the interstices between narrative traditions and conventions, in order to explore what might be left of the sublime or mystical in narratives and in textuality per se. The essays specifically engage with instances of titles and titling as may be termed problematic titling, conspicuous over-titling, limit titles, or meta-titles.

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FORTHCOMING

SØREN HATTESEN BALLE:  'WHAT A POEM CAN BE': STUDIES IN GENRE AND GENDER IN JOHN ASHBERY'S POETRY

ANTHONY W. JOHNSON & JYRI VAAHTERA (EDS.): FIVE RESTORATION PLAYS FROM THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

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The fragmentary: what comes to us from it, question, demand, practical decision? To no longer be able to write except in relation to the fragmentary is not to write in fragments, unless the fragment is itself a sign for the fragmentary. To think the fragmentary, to think it in relation to the neuter, the two seeming to pronounce themselves together, without a community of presence and as outside one another. The fragmentary: writing belongs to the fragmentary when all has been said. There would have to have been exhaustion of the word and by the word, accomplishment of all (of presence as all) as logos, in order that fragmentary writing could let itself be re-marked. Still, we cannot, thus, writing, free ourselves from a logic of totality in considering it as ideally completed, in order to maintain as "pure remainder" a possibility of writing, outside of everything, useless or endless, whose study a completely different logic (that of repetition, of limits, and of the return)—still difficult to disengage—claims to guarantee us. What is already decided is that such a writing would never be "pure", but, on the contrary, profoundly altered, with an alteration that could not be defined (arrested) in regard to a norm, not only because it always coexists with all forms of existence, of speech, of thought, of temporality, which alone would make it possible, but because it excludes the consideration of a pure form, excluding even an approach to itself as true or proper in its very disappropriation; even all the reversals which we easily use up—beginning again as beginning, variation as authenticity, repetition as difference—leave us within the logic of validity.

The fragmentary expresses itself best, perhaps, in a language that does not recognize it. Fragmentary: meaning neither the fragment, part of a whole, nor the fragmentary in itself. The aphorism, the proverb, maxim, citation, thoughts, themes—verbal cells in being further removed than the infinitely continuous discourse whose content is "its own continuity", continuity that is assured of itself only in giving itself as circular and, by this turn, submitting itself to the preliminary of a return whose law is outside, which outside is outside the law.

- Blanchot, Le Pas Au-Dela
 

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AUTHORS

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Camelia Elias is an associate professor of American Studies at Roskilde University. She has published academic work in American literature, culture, philosophy, and the borderlines between art history, philosophy of science, and theology.

Valeriu Butulescu is a renowned Romanian author, politician, and a mineralogist. He has published extensively within the genres of the aphorism, drama, and short prose. He has been translated into 32 languages.

Bent Sørensen has a PhD in American Literature and Culture from Aalborg University, where he is Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of the English program, and the former Coordinator of the Culture and Media Studies program. He teaches 20th and 21st century American literature, cultural studies and theory, and various writing classes in the interdisciplinary Department of Language and Culture.