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Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature by Sarah Daw
RRP: $46.78$42.61Compelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry.Book InformationISBN 9781474430036Author Sarah DawFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh... -
Shakespeare After Theory by David Scott Kastan 9780415901130
RRP: $74.08$65.09The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us.About the... -
Reading George Steiner by Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
RRP: $51.68$45.42George Steiner's accomplishments in criticism, in theory of literature, and in the history of ideas have made him a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. He is as widely known for his frequent contributions to the New Yorker and TLS as... -
Qur'?Nic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience by Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
RRP: $40.93$37.54Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'an Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'an Draws on narratology, rhetoric and Qur'anic studies to develop a new methodology Examines the interaction of... -
The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond by Galin Tihanov
RRP: $105.30$91.24Until the 1940s, when awareness of Russian Formalism began to spread, literary theory remained almost exclusively a Russian and Eastern European invention. The Birth and Death of Literary Theory tells the story of literary theory by focusing on its... -
The Cambridge History of American Poetry by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: $85.78$76.34The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars,... -
Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity by Giovanni Manetti
RRP: $54.58$47.07"It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates." -Umberto EcoAvailable in English for the first time is... -
Who Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms by Maryam Wasif Khan
RRP: $60.45$53.35Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan-popular novels, short stories, television serials-is formed... -
The International Companion to Scottish Poetry by Carla Sassi
RRP: $48.65$36.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980151Author Carla SassiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Kim Stanley Robinson by Robert Markley
RRP: $38.98$34.20Award-winning epics like the Mars Trilogy and groundbreaking alternative histories like The Days of Rice and Salt have brought Kim Stanley Robinson to the forefront of contemporary science fiction. Mixing subject matter from a dizzying number of fields... -
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry by Wendy Beth Hyman 9780198837510
$160.41Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments... -
Virginia Woolf's Essayism by Randi Saloman
RRP: $46.78$42.61This book explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction. Randi Saloman shows that it was by... -
The Good of the Novel by Liam McIlvanney
RRP: $25.33$16.69There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially... -
Christians in Conversation: A Guide to Late Antique Dialogues in Greek and Syriac by Alberto Rigolio
RRP: $187.20$120.61This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopted and transformed the dialogue form to suit the new needs of religious debate. Connected to, but departing... -
Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words, Ideas, Interactions by Megan Cavell
RRP: $165.75$117.33Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The... -
The Stylistic Development of Keats Walter Jackson Bate 9781138990081
RRP: $38.98$34.50This study, first published in 1945, gives a precise description of the unfolding of a great poet's craftsmanship and suggests alignments of the technical progression with the changes of the mind.Metrical analysis is given in order to throw light on... -
On the Edge of the Holocaust - The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture by Edna Aizenberg
RRP: $62.40$60.66In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Dr. Patsy Stoneman 9780719074479
RRP: $38.98$34.75This pioneering study, described as 'a model of feminist criticism' (The Year's Work in English Studies) on first publication, revealed Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challenged the Victorian disjunction between public and... -
Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace': Volume 5 by Gill Plain
RRP: $175.50$160.62A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged... -
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial by Sarah D. Wald
RRP: $60.45$53.35The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the editors and... -
Inside the Critics' Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times by Phillipa K. Chong
RRP: $68.25$54.09An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to sayTaking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle... -
Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945-1990 by Gerrit-Jan Berendse 9781800730687
RRP: $193.05$156.92For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman
RRP: $85.78$76.91Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Archeson
RRP: $56.53$52.47The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It... -
Six Galician Poets by Manuela Palacios 9781910345450
RRP: $23.38$16.17Distinctive and innovatory, contemporary Galician poetry has a strong presence on the literary scene of Spain, continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literary creation in the language of the region. In the thirteenth anthology in this series, we are... -
Modernism, Science, and Technology by Mark S. Morrisson
$58.81From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of intense scientific and technological change. Modernism,... -
The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing by Paul Stephens 9780816694419
RRP: $42.88$39.35Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically... -
New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History by Jeffrey N. Cox
RRP: $136.50$105.89This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. The collection brings together for the... -
After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature by Neil Corcoran 9780192892317
$66.75Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention. For a start how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in Englsih by... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction by Stacey Olster
RRP: $38.98$33.40The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture by Celia Marshik
RRP: $46.78$39.72Modernism emerged alongside radical challenges to traditional belief systems, the reorganization of public and private spheres, new modes of visual display, and innovations in recreation and entertainment. This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the... -
Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry by Francis Cairns
RRP: $34.13$33.13Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation. First published in the philological climate of the early... -
Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature by Kevin Pelletier 9780820339481
$92.74In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be... -
How Proust Can Change Your Life by De Botton Alain
RRP: $33.15$18.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679779155Author Alain De BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Early Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art by Willard Bohn
RRP: $81.88$71.66This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movements that shaped our response to the demands of the modern age and contributed to the creation of a modern... -
La Dentelliere by Pascal Laine
RRP: $74.08$65.09The full French text of Laine's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.Book InformationISBN 9780415040013Author Pascal LaineFormat PaperbackPage... -
Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser
RRP: $59.48$53.37Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as... -
Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance by David Weir
RRP: $48.32$42.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791458181Author David WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Literary Criticism: A New History by Gary E. Day
RRP: $54.58$50.72A THE Book of the Week Did you know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those that ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in Boswell's Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the... -
The Epigrams of Sir John Harington by Gerard Kilroy 9781138376144
RRP: $93.58$81.53Many scholars have been calling for a new edition of Sir John Harington's Epigrams. Gerard Kilroy, using the three manuscripts arranged and revised by the author, offers the first complete text in print of Harington's four hundred Epigrams, uncovers...