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The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo by John N. Duvall 9780521690898
RRP: $44.83$36.89With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired and studied for their narrative technique, political themes, and their prophetic commentary on the... -
The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale 9781503614062
RRP: $58.48$51.68For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of... -
Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment by Juliana Spahr
RRP: $48.65$38.79In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Presence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. "Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in... -
Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex by Jessica Hurley 9781517908744
RRP: $44.83$39.02A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project... -
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography by Fred Kaplan
RRP: $58.50$53.33One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and difficult family, he left the United States for Europe, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred... -
Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era that Shaped his Masterpiece by Andrew Levy 9781439186978
RRP: $33.15$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439186978Author Andrew LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing by Steven Gilbar
RRP: $50.70$40.42This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers - be they naturalists or armchair explorers - will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the... -
Novelty: A History of the New by John Lardas Modern
RRP: $35.10$34.30If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new-new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism by Walter Kalaidjian
RRP: $52.63$44.46The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical... -
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
RRP: $66.20$56.57America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions... -
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2: A Cultural History by Will Kaufman
RRP: $58.48$51.36Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress... -
Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays by James Richardson 9780967266893
RRP: $33.15$17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967266893Author James RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan 9780520259294
RRP: $97.50$79.40Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid-... -
Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations by Robert J. Begiebing 9780807178133
$72.64Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author's centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters... -
American Literature in Context from 1865 to 1929 by Philip R. Yannella
RRP: $40.85$36.08This book places major literary works within the context of thetopics that engaged a great number of American writers in theperiod from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the GreatDepression * Topics include Civil War memory, the virtual... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry by Timothy Yu
RRP: $44.83$36.97A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, takes place in new modes and contexts that require... -
Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King's IT by Whitney S. May 9781496842237
$66.30Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in... -
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn 9780674387324 [USED COPY]
RRP: $68.15$7.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn 9780674387324
RRP: $68.15$64.37Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In... -
Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose by Robert Duncan 9780520324848
$46.20This volume in the Collected Writings of Robert Duncan series gathers a far-reaching selection of Robert Duncan's prose writings including most of his longer and more well-known essays along with other prose that has never been widely available. Ranging... -
Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge by Kathryn M. Hunter
RRP: $87.75$68.87A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the... -
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds 9780199782840
$78.00Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "impressively informed and heroic" and in The Economist as "richly suggestive," the award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our... -
Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity by Gavin Jones
RRP: $68.23$54.81John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a... -
Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" by Graley Herren 9781785278464
RRP: $156.00$149.14Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These... -
Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time by Wai-chee Dimock 9780691114507
RRP: $62.40$48.28What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world... -
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature by Crystal Parikh
RRP: $44.83$36.70The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant... -
Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s by George Hutchinson
RRP: $58.50$46.20Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of... -
Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales by Martyn Bone 9780820351865
$123.40Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that... -
The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Michelle Van Parys 9780691247960
RRP: $36.95$24.18How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American... -
A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture by David Bradshaw 9781405188227
RRP: $87.65$78.51The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism. An essential resource for students and teachers of... -
Loss: The Politics of Mourning by David Eng
$47.64Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering 'what is lost' in terms of 'what remains'. Such a perspective, these essays... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets by Mark Richardson 9781107560789
RRP: $60.43$51.54The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry... -
Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation by Ato Quayson 9780231139038
RRP: $54.60$42.51Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal... -
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past by William Logan 9780231186148
RRP: $58.50$45.42In Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can... -
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson 9780393312560
RRP: $68.25$57.51Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio
RRP: $44.83$36.89Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens'... -
The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology by Alan Heimert 9780674740662
RRP: $89.60$72.33The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from... -
Stalking Nabokov by Brian Boyd 9780231158572
RRP: $58.50$45.42At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years... -
The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell
RRP: $62.30$49.86With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date... -
Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color by Nicholas Gaskill
RRP: $42.88$37.42The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880-1930Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children's books to the...