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What Is a Western?: Region, Genre, Imagination by Josh Garrett-Davis 9780806163949
£34.49There's "western", and then there's "Western" - and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination. Part cultural criticism, part history, and... -
Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface by Janet Savage
RRP: £10.95£8.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546320890Author Janet SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook by Linda Wagner-Martin 9780195145748
RRP: £36.99£31.79Still the most popular book of Hemingway's to teach, The Sun Also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britains in Paris after World War I. As the international vacationers move from Paris to Pamplona for the... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization by Jasper Bernes
RRP: £25.99£20.84A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives. Over the last few decades, we have... -
The Jazz Poetry Anthology by Sascha Feinstein
RRP: £21.99£18.37" . . . in a class by itself . . . sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery . . . the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." -Jazziz Magazine"In the course of the history of jazz, there have been only a few articles that get to the core of the... -
Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism by Daniel K Green 9780990915034
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990915034Author Daniel K GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Cow Eye PressPublisher Cow Eye PressWeight(grams) 200g -
Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation by John Tytell
RRP: £12.99£9.61Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs-their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study... -
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past by William Logan
RRP: £22.00£17.36In 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... -
Reading Modernist Poetry by Michael H. Whitworth 9781405167314
RRP: £30.95£27.45This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and othersConsiders key... -
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton by Stanley Corngold
RRP: £32.00£24.76A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany... -
Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left by Alan M. Wald 9780807853498
RRP: £44.95£42.63Wald offers a comprehensive history and reconsideration of the U.S. literary left in the mid-twentieth century. Recovering the central role Marxist-influenced writers played in fiction, poetry, theater, and literary criticism, he explores the lives and... -
Margaret Atwood: "The Robber Bride", "The Blind Assassin", "Oryx and Crake" by J. Brooks Bouson 9780826430625
£32.28This is a collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts. In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical... -
The Norman Maclean Reader by Norman Maclean 9780226500270
RRP: £17.00£14.62In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim - as well as the devotion of readers... -
Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel by Bob Batchelor 9781442249073
RRP: £30.00£26.68In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced his third novel, a slim work for which he had high expectations. Despite such hopes, the novel received mixed reviews and lackluster sales. Over the decades, however, the reputation of The Great Gatsby has grown and... -
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect by Heather Houser 9780231165150
RRP: £28.00£21.80The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively... -
E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry by Norman Friedman
£26.93Originally published in 1960. In E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry, Norman Friedman argues that critics who have focused on what Cummings's poetry lacks have failed to judge Cummings on his strengths. Friedman identifies a main strength of Cummings... -
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible by Malik Gaines
RRP: £27.99£21.67Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixties Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors... -
Cormac McCarthy in Context by Steven Frye 9781108488839
RRP: £111.00£110.95Cormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences... -
The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Jonathan Senchyne 9781625344748
£28.11The true scale of paper Production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives... -
New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History by Jeffrey N. Cox
RRP: £70.00£54.30This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. The collection brings together for the... -
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781009282062
£22.29F. Scott Fitzgerald began composing Tender Is the Night in the summer of 1925, but he struggled with the novel and reworked it intensively over the next nine years. A study of the disintegration of a talented young American psychiatrist, set among... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction by Gerry Canavan
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville by Kevin J. Hayes 9780521671040
RRP: £19.99£15.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives by Hester Blum 9780807858554
RRP: £37.95£35.55With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in... -
Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture by Eric G Anderson 9780807178584
£27.77Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness... -
The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History by Walter Benn Michaels 9780691126180
RRP: £28.00£21.80The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's... -
Anarchism Is Not Enough by Laura Riding
RRP: £30.00£23.29Anarchism is Not Enough is a manifesto against systematic thinking, a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. For the scope of its critical imagination, it is the most radical work of Laura Riding's early period. This period extends from the end... -
Decoding the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction by Simon Cox 9780743287272
RRP: £17.99£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743287272Author Simon CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 20mm -
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Christopher Beach 9780521891493
RRP: £28.99£23.80The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and... -
New Essays on Moby-Dick by Richard H. Brodhead
RRP: £24.99£21.18The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction by giving details of the novel's composition, publication history and contemporary reception. The group of essays,... -
A Faulkner Profile: The Man and the Writer by William Pratt
RRP: £29.99£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087159Author William PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co... -
American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen by Gavin Cologne-Brookes 9780807178591
£23.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807178591Author Gavin Cologne-BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g -
A Brief History of American Literature by Richard Gray
RRP: £30.95£27.85A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American... -
New Essays on Call It Sleep by Hana Wirth-Nesher 9780521456562
RRP: £23.99£19.99Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been hailed, finally, as the finest Jewish-American novel of the first half of the century and one of the... -
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: A Reference Guide by Barbara A. Heavilin 9780313318375
£38.39John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is one of the most widely read American novels. Much has been written about the book, yet a number of recent critics have challenged its merits and questioned its place in the canon. The novel was published... -
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century by Walter Benn Michaels
RRP: £27.00£21.06"The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism" discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines... -
On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry by John Shoptaw 9780674636132
RRP: £39.95£32.05One of America's most important poets, John Ashbery has dazzled readers with the elusive pleasures of his work for over four decades. John Shoptaw heightens those pleasures by discovering the inner and outer workings of this incomparable poet. In... -
Untitled by To Be Confirmed S&s Canada
RRP: £27.99£15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982164508Author To Be Confirmed S&s CanadaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140g -
New Essays on The Sun Also Rises by Linda Wagner-Martin
RRP: £28.99£24.42The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel and is widely considered to be the most important of his longer works of fiction. Written in an accessible style by prominent scholars, this collection of essays provides helpful and valuable insight... -
The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World by Ralph Bauer 9780813942568
£37.75The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the...