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Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry (LOA #18) by Stephen Crane 9780940450172
RRP: €41.65€36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450172Author Stephen CraneFormat HardbackPage Count 1379Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond by Lawrence Buell 9780674012325
RRP: €36.83€29.06The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing by Alfred Bendixen 9780521678315 [USED COPY]
RRP: €34.50€9.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: €34.50€29.06Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the... -
Modernism from the Margins: The 1930's Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas by Chris Wigginton 9780708319277
RRP: €8.32€6.50"Modernism from the Margins" is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the... -
Henry James: Literary Criticism Vol. 2 (LOA #23): European Writers and Prefaces to the New York Edition by Henry James 9780940450233
RRP: €53.55€36.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450233Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 1442Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm)... -
The Art of Fiction by James Salter
RRP: €20.17€14.46James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes--youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad,... -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan 9780520324855
RRP: €35.70€28.91A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including... -
Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford
RRP: €26.17€22.82How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making... -
The Cambridge Companion to Boxing by Gerald Early 9781107631205
RRP: €36.88€32.33While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic... -
Auden and the Muse of History by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb 9781503633926
RRP: €30.93€26.76Concentrating 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: €17.85€16.51Apologies 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: €34.50€28.62For 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: €89.25€69.60In 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: €29.75€22.53The 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
RRP: €29.74€25.79Introduces 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
€40.48Titled 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: €17.84€13.23The 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: €59.50€46.55In 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: €33.31€28.73Reimagines 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
€27.41Since 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
€95.24Since 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: €33.32€32.59"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: €38.07€34.93The 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: €8.32€6.50Apologies 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: €27.36€18.46Apologies 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
€25.60In 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... -
A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865 by Edwin S. Redkey 9780521439985
RRP: €27.36€22.92The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public. There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and specifically the participation of black Americans in and reactions to the war and the war's outcome. Almost 200,000... -
Beat Poetry by Larry Beckett 9780956952530
€15.90Apologies 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: €33.31€28.73This 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: €29.75€26.22This 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: €26.17€22.84The 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: €35.64€31.74The 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
€28.80Fitzgerald'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: €29.74€27.02The 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: €51.17€45.36The 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: €63.07€60.75This 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
€101.58David 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: €28.55€26.00Compelling 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: €59.44€55.25A 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,...