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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... -
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 Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503638648
RRP: $50.68$44.27Housing 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... -
The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990 by Peter Schjeldahl
RRP: $58.50$45.42A collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and new, creative directions.About the AuthorPeter Schjeldahl is art critic... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works: Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781435142855 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$5.99No 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... -
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... -
Roses and Revolutions by Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814334454
RRP: $56.45$52.51Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in African American literature during the twentieth century, best known for his poetry and his work as the editor and publisher of Broadside Press in Detroit. While he published six books of poetry during his... -
New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 by Patrick O'Donnell 9780521388337
RRP: $48.73$41.30Thomas Pynchon's novel, The Crying of Lot 49, is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the fifties and sixties in America. In the... -
Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls by Peter Josyph
RRP: $46.78$41.42Novelist Cormac McCarthy's brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy's House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative,... -
Theorizing Twilight: Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World by Maggie Parke 9780786463503
RRP: $42.88$36.17Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the tortured relationship between human heroine Bella Swan and her vampire love Edward Cullen has become a world-wide sensation--inciting screams of delight, sighs of... -
Elizabeth Bishop in Context by Angus Cleghorn
RRP: $173.53$166.43Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators,... -
The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980 by Patrick O'Donnell 9781405167550
RRP: $64.25$56.82The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin by Janet Beer 9780521709828
RRP: $44.83$38.14Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its... -
The Best of Plimpton by George Plimpton 9780871135032
$21.76George Plimpton is best known for taking to the arenas of professional sports and surviving to write about his experience--with grace, urbanity, and considerable good humor. But such classics as "Paper Lion" and "The Bogey Man" are... -
Dreads and Drolls by Arthur Machen 9781469928388
RRP: $39.47$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469928388Author Arthur MachenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins by Susan Fraiman 9780231166348
RRP: $58.50$45.42Domesticity 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... -
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor by Rosemary M. Magee 9780878052653
RRP: $58.40$53.45As this collection of interviews shows, Flannery O'Connor's fiction, though bound to a particular time and place, embodies and reveals universal ideas. O'Connor's curiosity about human nature and its various manifestations compelled her to explore... -
Don Delillo: The Physics of Language by David Cowart 9780820325811
$60.12In this revised edition, David Cowart discusses Don DeLillo's 13 novels, including ""Cosmopolis"", and explores the ways in which DeLillo's art anticipates, parallels, and contests ideas that have become the common currency of... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton 9780521147958
RRP: $44.83$38.14The 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... -
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature by Michael North 9780195122916
RRP: $88.71$61.99The Dialect of Modernism describes the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Revolting against the standard language, modernists reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the... -
New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Michael Awkward 9780521387750
RRP: $60.43$38.98After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic,... -
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture by Tessa Roynon 9780199698684
$199.84In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and... -
Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau 9781573922029
RRP: $21.43$16.03Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and opponent of injustice. Civil Disobedience(1849),... -
Cormac Mccarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned by Patrick O'Connor 9781474497275
RRP: $38.98$35.84Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output Provides a vital interpretive framework for understanding Cormac McCarthy's literary and philosophical perspectives Offers a systematic study of... -
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... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Beautiful and Damned: New Critical Essays by Associate Professor of English William Blazek 9780807178577
$53.96F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American... -
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 by Barbara Foley 9780822313946
RRP: $50.68$44.64In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West by Steven Frye
RRP: $44.83$38.14This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson by Frank Shuffelton
RRP: $46.78$33.40This Companion forms an accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Essays explore Jefferson's political thought, his policies towards Native... -
The Microeconomic Mode: Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics by Jane Elliott
RRP: $42.90$33.85From The Road to Game of Thrones, across works as seemingly different as Gone Girl and Saw, literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of survival and choice. When the trapped rock-climber hero of 127 Hours is confronted... -
New York: A Literary History by Ross Wilson 9781108470810
RRP: $60.43$52.98New York City's streets, parks, museums, architecture, and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York's earliest settlement to the present day. The exploration of the city as both a symbol and as a reality has formed the... -
H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines by Eileen Gregory 9780521106764
RRP: $74.08$59.14H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H. D.'s hellenic intertextuality is examined in the... -
Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity by David Bradshaw 9780198714170
$194.69The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological;... -
New Essays on White Noise by Frank Lentricchia 9780521398930
RRP: $46.78$39.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780393679465
RRP: $25.33$22.35This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel, published in 1851 by Ticknor, Reed and Fields.Robert S. Levine's insightful introduction, revised headnotes, expanded explanatory footnotes and note on the text and annotations.A... -
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Casebook by Carol J. Singley 9780195156034
RRP: $122.85$88.65Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers. The House of Mirth not only initiated three decades of Wharton's popular and critical acclaim, it helped move women's literature into a new place of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain by Forrest G. Robinson
RRP: $56.53$47.62The 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... -
Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay 9780814741771
$66.28Lesbian writers include some of the most innovative and adventurous writers of this century, but only recently have they been given their due attention in terms of critical study. This book is the first anthology to discuss the subject of lesbianism as... -
Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song by Laurence Coupe 9780719071133
RRP: $38.98$34.34This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them. Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term 'Beat Zen', and who influenced the counterculture which...