Books & Reading

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

For fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and entertaining interactive guide to reading, featuring voicemails, literary Easter eggs, checklists, and more, from...

The backbone of this book on books is a history of a most unusual concept of the book that developed in South Asia with reference to the Veda… By the 19th century, regional cultures of print showed an uneven and spatially discontinuous development across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632460394Author Jaime ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

This volume raises provocative questions about the status of words and literature in contemporary culture. It argues that words and images are equal and that the vast number of text messages, e-mails, tweets, comments, blogs, and daily social network...

This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and...

Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474463072Author Aina MartiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life. Hughes shows how Naipaul's narratives pair off histories and novels,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474490009Author Stephanie JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474481595Author Elizabeth AmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

The Unexpected Dante brings together leading scholars whose discoveries and observations add new understanding to The Divine Comedy as a multilayered masterpiece whose publishing history coincides with both the dawn of printing and the digital age. Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474458009Author Annalise GriceFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474494861Author Mary HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to...

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based on cultural productions including films, plays, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474475778Author J Louise McCrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 304g

Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending...

A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the "death of the book" has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens...

The twelve essays in this edited collection examine the experience of reading, from the late medieval period to the twentieth century. Central to the theme of the book is the role of materiality: how the physical object - book, manuscript, libretto -...

What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632280176Author Matt BurriesciFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Viva EditionsPublisher Viva Editions

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this...

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 this book, a group of prominent scholar-teachers meditate on how to read, in the context of a specifically Christian university or college education, some of the greatest texts of the Western tradition. Each author devotes himself or herself to a...

Disturbed by stories of drownings in the river behind his home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, writer B. J. Hollars combed the archives of local newspapers only to discover vast discrepancies in articles about the deaths. In homage to Michael Lesy's cult...

The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary...

Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S. N. Behrman (1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The New Yorker as a time defined by ""feverish contact with great theatre stars, rich people and social people at posh hotels, at...

NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529282Author Robert B. DownsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 167g

From Frankenstein and Dracula to Psycho and The Chainsaw Massacre, horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes and narratives. Considering horror fiction both as a genre and as a social phenomenon, Joseph Grixti provides...

Starting with the premise that the history of a medieval subject cannot be properly written "without recourse to the materials it produced," Lesley Smith's Masters of the Sacred Page provides an illuminating study of theology in the Middle Ages. She...

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal...

The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the 19th century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside...

In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of...

An exploration of the creative process in four classic works: Death in Venice, Treasure Island, The Rubaiyat of Mar Khayyam, and War and Peace. Creating Literature Out of Life examines four very dissimilar masterpieces and their authors in search of...