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This successful introductory textbook simultaneously develops advanced skills in reading texts and the ability to think in sophisticated ways about the defining concepts of contemporary English Studies. Fully revised and updated, the second edition now...

This collection of scholarly essays reassesses the Beat Generation writers in mid-century American history and literature, as well as their broad cultural impact since the 60s from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary...

For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links...

This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by newly updated and expanded explanatory annotations and an introduction by Michael Gorra. "Backgrounds and Contexts" is divided into three sections, each of which...

In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field's central object and preoccupation: loss. She demonstrates how contemporary Black feminist writers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593577622Author Khadeen EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Rodale BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

The second adventure in Maz Evans's laugh-out-loud funny Vi Spy series! PRAISE FOR THE SERIES: 'Twists, turns, spies and surprises. What more do you want? Tears? Laughter? Maz Evans delivers them all.' FRANK ...

How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora.How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora.About the AuthorLan P. Duong is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California,...

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"-the path...

In a segregated society in which black scholars, writers, and artists could find few ways to reach an audience, journalism was a means of dispersing information to communities throughout the United States. The black press has offered incisive critiques...

THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK "As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin "A masterpiece of...

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806101Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

At the end of his seventy-year career as a journalist, Benjamin Franklin trained his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, in his profession. After his grandfather's death, Bache brought the republican and Enlightenment ideas he had been taught to the...

In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316301183Author David SedarisFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'...

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393543056Author Ernest HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820328072Author Steven WeisenburgerFormat PaperbackImprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 585g

In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews,...

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540619396Author Silly WillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006429Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 133mm * 13mm

The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb 'Brilliant and...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by Elizabeth Ammons's preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations.A rich selection of historical documents on slavery and abolitionism...

Included here are: a preface, a critical essay and explanatory annotations by Margo Culley; essays by acclaimed Kate Chopin biographers; selections from the conduct books of the period; contemporary perspectives on womanhood, motherhood and marriage; and...

"Whilst others scarcely put a toe in the water, in The Black Atlantic Gilroy goes in deep and returns with riches." Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps,...

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467348Author Valerie HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689503Author David ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420927061Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587150685Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

'Another chocolate book?' you might say? The answer is: this book is different than any other book on the market! The Chocolatier's Kitchen offers over 270 simple, concrete and practical recipes, covering the entire spectrum in confectionary (from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900830Author John MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Picking up where the highly praised REWRITES ended, Neil Simon presents the second act of the comedy-drama of his own life. THE PLAY GOES ON takes readers from the mid-1970s to the present, a period during which Simon wrote some of his best and most...

Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566893Author Harry BordenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press