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Auden and the Muse of History by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb 9781503633926
RRP: $50.68$43.86Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in... -
Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard by Benjamin, Szumskyj 9780977173457
RRP: $29.25$27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977173457Author Benjamin, SzumskyjFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm)... -
The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces: How Ignatius J. Reilly Defeated Hollywood by Stephan Eicke
RRP: $56.53$46.90For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way lawsuits were filed, filming locations destroyed, friendships... -
Literary Criticisms of Law by Guyora Binder
RRP: $146.25$114.06In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition by Mark Twain 9780520272255
RRP: $48.75$36.91The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1", the first... -
Keywords for Media Studies by Laurie Ouellette 9781479859610
$42.26Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media... -
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s by Sarah Meer 9780820327372
$66.34Titled after ""Tom-Mania,"" the name a British newspaper gave to the international sensation attending the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, this study looks anew at the novel and the songs, plays, sketches, translations, and imitations it inspired. In... -
More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form by Barry Atkins 9780719063657
RRP: $29.23$21.68The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of... -
The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance by Hannah Roche
RRP: $97.50$76.28In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford's Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as "the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside." Hannah Roche takes Stein's definition as a principle for the... -
Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Edward Sugden 9781479889266
RRP: $54.58$47.07Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and time Emergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that... -
Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature by Roy Scranton 9780226637310
$44.91Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero--the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence--has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521402309
$156.06Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the most popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed... -
Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre by Sharon Cameron
RRP: $54.60$53.41"Lyric Time" offers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric. ... -
Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s by Leigh Claire La Berge 9780190845988
RRP: $62.38$57.23The Long 1980s could be summed up handily in the annals of U.S. cultural history with the enduring markers of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Oliver Stone's film Wall Street, and Dire Straits's hit single "Money for Nothing." Despite their vast differences,... -
The Three Latkes by Eric A Kimmel
RRP: $13.63$10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541588929Author Eric A. KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Kar-Ben PublishingPublisher Lerner Publishing GroupDimensions(mm) 222mm * 266mm * 6mm -
Ayn Rand Nation by Gary Weiss 9781250022318
RRP: $44.83$30.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250022318Author Gary WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story by Robert Paul Lamb 9780807140031
$41.94In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul... -
Beat Poetry by Larry Beckett 9780956952530
$26.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956952530Author Larry BeckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom Books -
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by Simon During 9780823242559
RRP: $54.58$47.07This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it... -
Douglas Coupland by Andrew Tate 9780719076619
RRP: $48.75$42.96This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an... -
Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century by Monica Cure
RRP: $42.88$37.42The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has "died" many times-this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our... -
Incarnational Art Of Flannery O'Connor by Christina Bieber Lake 9780881467062
RRP: $58.40$52.01The Incarnational Art Of Flannery O'Connor argues that O'Connor designed a unique asthetic to defy the Gnostic dualisms that characterize American intellectual and spiritual life. Focusing on stories with artist figures, objets d'art, child protagonists,... -
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521170444
$47.19Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces - 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' - as well as other stories from his earlier career. Tales of the Jazz Age reproduces the original... -
The American Short Story Since 1950 by Kasia Boddy
RRP: $48.73$44.28The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John... -
American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance by John T. Irwin 9781421421155
RRP: $83.85$74.33The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol,... -
Anne Bradstreet: Poems and Meditations by Margaret Olofson Thickstun
RRP: $103.35$99.55This volume presents all the surviving writings of the poet Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672): the poems published during her lifetime in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America; or, Several Poems (London, 1650), poems added to the posthumous edition of... -
David Foster Wallace in Context by Clare Hayes-Brady
$166.45David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable... -
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... -
Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature by Thomas B. Gilmore 9780807841747
RRP: $97.40$90.54A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original,... -
Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life by Benjamin Kahan
RRP: $44.83$39.02In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Richard H. Millington
RRP: $52.63$44.46The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American... -
Modernism by Michael H. Whitworth 9780631230786
RRP: $79.85$69.99This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism. A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical... -
Novelty: A History of the New by Michael North 9780226077871
RRP: $44.85$43.15If 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... -
On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections by Alice Petry 9781572336421
$68.35Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most enduring works of southern fiction ever written. Although a literary phenomenon - tens of millions of copies have sold worldwide - there is surprisingly little... -
A Companion to T. S. Eliot by David E. Chinitz 9781118647097
RRP: $74.00$65.83Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503638648
RRP: $50.68$43.86Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works: Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781435142855 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$6.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works: Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781435142855
RRP: $25.33$17.55No writer portrayed Americas Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of elegant ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties... -
Short Form American Poetry: The Modernist Tradition by Will Montgomery
RRP: $40.93$37.54Reading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse. It begins with Imagism and devotes chapters to William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Lorine... -
Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos by Kim Addonizio 9780446679046 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13$4.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.