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Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
RRP: €35.64€28.71The papers in this volume of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture... -
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: A Reader's Companion by Jonathan S. Cullick
€28.51Robert Penn Warren is one of the best-known and most consequential Kentucky writers of the twentieth century and the only American writer to have won three Pulitzers in two different genres. All the King's Men, generally considered one of the finest... -
From Gift to Commodity by Hildegard Hoeller
RRP: €41.59€34.25In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange. Rooting her analysis in the period's fiction, she shows how... -
Faulkner and Garcia Marquez by Andrew B. Leiter
RRP: €17.79€14.91On October 11-13, 2018, Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies hosted 'Faulkner and Garcia Marquez,' a three-day conference devoted to the writings and connections of Nobel Prize winners William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia... -
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express by Brian Edwards
RRP: €30.93€26.23Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "the Arab." In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American... -
The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962 by Carl Rollyson
RRP: €35.64€29.90By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner (""A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados""- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and... -
A Word or Two Before I Go: Essays Then and Now by Arthur Krystal 9780813950624
RRP: €26.12€21.35Lauded by the critics Dana Gioia, Morris Dickstein, Edward Mendelson, Christopher Hitchens, Joseph Epstein, and Michael Dirda alike, Arthur Krystal has written for publications as varied as Harper's, the New Criterion, Raritan, the American Scholar, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Horror by Stephen Shapiro
€28.18Opening up the warm body of American Horror - through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums - this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life... -
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J King
RRP: €23.80€20.68Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing-or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick... -
American Gothic: An Anthology from Salem Witchcraft to H. P. Lovecraft by Charles L. Crow 9780470659793
RRP: €45.16€40.17American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the twentieth century including recently discovered material,... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871406705
RRP: €26.78€21.82Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: €33.32€25.89In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by Timothy Parrish
RRP: €32.12€27.13This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics... -
Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human by Onno Oerlemans 9780231159548
RRP: €65.45€50.15Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It... -
Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction by Dorrit Claire Cohn
RRP: €53.55€41.26This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton 9780521147958
RRP: €27.36€27.19The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521890472
RRP: €24.98€20.15This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: €40.45€35.30The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social,... -
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell
RRP: €29.74€25.26In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780393924664
RRP: €16.65€15.05This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit... -
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by J. W. Ernst 9780823215591
RRP: €53.55€45.78Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were... -
The Beats: A Literary History by Steven Belletto
RRP: €35.69€30.58Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these... -
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend by Roy Morris, Jr. 9781421431536
RRP: €24.40€19.44The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The... -
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka 9780231185752
RRP: €35.70€27.16The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic... -
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
RRP: €30.93€26.23What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts-and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading-are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book... -
M: Writings, 1967-72 by John Cage 9780714511351
RRP: €18.98€15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714511351Author John CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker 9780801881855
RRP: €45.22€40.67Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man who lived among the cannibals!" Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and... -
The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh by Sneharika Roy 9780367890438
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and... -
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
RRP: €35.64€18.22A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work... -
Whaddyacall the Wind? by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto 9781599541938
RRP: €23.80€17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541938Author Annie Rachele LanzillottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)... -
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology by Karen L. Kilcup 9780631199861
RRP: €66.58€59.23Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression.About the AuthorKaren L. Kilcup is Professor of American literature... -
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins by Susan Fraiman 9780231166355
RRP: €26.18€20.22Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic... -
The Theology of John Donne by Jeffrey Johnson
RRP: €23.79€23.07John Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology. John Donne is here treated as an original religious thinker; the evidence for the distinguishing features of his theology is... -
The Book of Stupid Questions by Tom Weller 9780446389723
RRP: €17.84€16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446389723Author Tom WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 118g -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by Inger H. Dalsgaard 9780521173049
RRP: €27.36€21.05The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible,... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by Robert S. Levine
RRP: €27.36€22.69The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are... -
Walking the Rez Road: Stories by Jim Northrup 9781555919771
RRP: €18.98€14.65Celebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war but has trouble surviving the peace.About the AuthorJim... -
Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons by Robin Roberts 9781578069989
RRP: €33.26€27.35Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons is the biography of a writer who vividly depicted alien creatures and new worlds. As the author of the Dragonriders of Pern series, McCaffrey (b. 1926) is one of the most significant writers of science fiction and... -
American Drama: In Dialogue, 1714-Present by Jacqueline Foertsch
€37.72An essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain by Forrest G. Robinson
RRP: €34.50€30.29The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of...