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In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the...

In The Art of Criticism, William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin have brought together for the first time the best of the Master's critical work: the most important of his Prefaces, which R. P. Blackmur has called "the most sustained and I think the most...

Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experiments of writers such as Greene, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Nabakov, Calvino, Beckett, Eco, Spark, Hoban,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632460110Author Curtis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561637027Author Stephen WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 369g

Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics' attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding...

The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue...

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day...

In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville's works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to MelvilleConsiders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351974Author Heta PyrhonenFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 470g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351967Author Heta PyrhonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 520g

Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880214Author Donna SeamanFormat PaperbackPage Count 467Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 669g

Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books is the first comprehensive best book guide to wordless picture books (and nearly wordless picture books). It is an indispensable resource for parents and teachers who love...

Packed with fascinating facts, Literary Miscellany is sure to please both professor and pleasure reader alike. Wouldn't it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you'll...

"Re-reading is one of life's joys," Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great book is inseparable from the endeavor to succeed at...

A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence are not easily...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect investigates the material conditions of producing, distributing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474494885Author Jonathan RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474494854Author Mary HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolano's novel has also been called an exercise in...

Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experiments of writers such as Greene, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Nabakov, Calvino, Beckett, Eco, Spark, Hoban,...

The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices? And what does it take for granted? Originally published in 1990, this is the first study to connect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127314Author Kate GavinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 224g

Invented in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping-the creation of solid printing plates cast from movable type-fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801742Author Stan GoldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525574972Author Michiko KakutaniFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781080408252Author Jonathan W SweetFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955370205Author Rodney M ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint The Red Gull PressPublisher The Red Gull PressWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061856037Author Howard MittelmarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465429889Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Publisher DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Weight(grams) 1134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578596355Author Daniel BurtFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467929127Author Bill LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684859071Author BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544146679Author Italo CalvinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226824093Author P J M MarksFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101974537Author Haruki MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283377Author Inge Van de VenFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press