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Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 by Katerina Clark
RRP: $90.20$70.83A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world literature, from a major voice in the field.Katerina Clark charts interwar efforts by Soviet, European, and Asian leftist writers to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that... -
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis by Archaeologist Warwick Ball
RRP: $49.33$41.94A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of... -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: $42.00$30.01Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the characters, the motifs and the moments that set his... -
James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study by Stuart Gilbert 9780394700137
RRP: $23.08$21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394700137Author Stuart GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley
RRP: $29.38$20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898838Author Jenny MintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan 9781474443364
RRP: $44.08$39.02Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel... -
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism by Naomi Wynter-Vincent
RRP: $67.18$59.49Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process, and creative writing.There is now renewed interest in... -
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature by A. Robert Lee
RRP: $92.38$80.72Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as... -
Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell by Toril Moi
RRP: $54.60$52.19This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi... -
Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History by Joseph North
RRP: $79.70$62.87Literary Criticism offers a concise overview of literary studies in the English-speaking world from the early twentieth century to the present. Joseph North steps back from the usual tangle of figures, schools, and movements in order to analyze the... -
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege by Adam Parkes 9780192866295
RRP: $163.80$149.69During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain's hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's affairs. Widely remarked on by commentators at the time,... -
Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin 9780197565940
RRP: $117.60$106.24Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and in the central role they accord philosophy--in part through... -
Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines by Alice Wood
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women's magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper's Bazaar... -
Cult Writers: 50 Nonconformist Novelists You Need to Know by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: $27.28$24.74WHAT MAKES A CULT WRITER? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult writers come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a... -
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop
RRP: $29.38$22.58This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings-the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams-novelist, poet,... -
Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death by Aim e Gasston 9781399527415
RRP: $178.50$159.98During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War... -
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Stephen Fender
RRP: $18.88$15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776120Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The World According to Proust by Joshua Landy 9780197648681
RRP: $31.48$23.81100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time readers and veterans alike to view the novel in a new way. ... -
Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics by Gemma Moss
RRP: $54.58$44.23An interdisciplinary account of the political importance of music in modernist literature A new methodology for analysing music in literature, informed by T. W. Adorno, that examines the politics of aesthetics An intensely interdisciplinary book,... -
Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism by Mark Steven 9781421423579
RRP: $90.30$78.58In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned-and aesthetically responsive-to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR... -
My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene by Michael Mewshaw
RRP: $44.08$29.80"One of the Year's Best," Times Literary Supplement When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction he's famous... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson 9780199288359
$88.37English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the sixties, and throughout the rest of the century... -
Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller Helen Tyson 9781399522090
RRP: $178.50$159.98Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernist, psychoanalytic and popular writing from the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her... -
Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object by Arthur Rose 9781474482431
RRP: $41.98$37.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474482431Author Arthur RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader by Sophie Corser 9781474481441
RRP: $41.98$34.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474481441Author Sophie CorserFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing by Étienne Achille 9780198893134
RRP: $147.00$133.85Contemporary French writers have embarked on various quests for new sources of thematic and formal inspiration which are increasingly tied to issues of postcolonial legacies. However, French literature has never been consistently examined through the... -
Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn: Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian by Stephanie Schwerter 9781349444632
$108.65Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a... -
Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis by Paul Crosthwaite 9780198891796
RRP: $168.00$153.43Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's... -
Understanding Philip Roth by Matthew A. Shipe 9781643363103
RRP: $37.70$31.19With the publication of his debut Goodbye, Columbus in 1959, Philip Roth established himself as one of the most prominent and controversial American writers of his generation. By the time of his death in 2018, he had won the Pulitzer Prize, two National... -
Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire by Reza 9780198896319
RRP: $168.00$152.59Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Europe by African writers: Présence Africaine, launched in Paris in 1947, and Mensagem, published between 1948... -
National Review's Literary Network: Conservative Circuits by Stephen Schryer 9780198886204
RRP: $147.00$133.85National Review's Literary Network traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review. In the 1950s, the magazine sought to establish itself as a conservative alternative to liberal... -
The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean by Dashiell Moore 9780198879800
RRP: $147.00$133.85The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a historical and literary analysis of the connections between the 'First and Last of the New Worlds': Australia... -
Genetic Joyce: Manuscripts and the Dynamics of Creation by Daniel Ferrer 9780813069715
RRP: $178.50$145.49An introduction to the fascinating world of Joyce's manuscriptsThis book shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts. Daniel Ferrer offers a practical demonstration of the theory of genetic... -
Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses by Dr Sam Slote 9780198912750
$84.13James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. This volume, with over 12,000 individual annotations (and more than double the word count of Ulysses itself), explains these references and... -
Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century US Literatures by Elizabeth Rodrigues 9780472038909
RRP: $54.50$44.18On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms draw from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data... -
Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange by Rebecca Colesworthy 9780198778585
RRP: $186.90$175.64From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and... -
Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America by Isabel Gómez 9780810145962
RRP: $207.90$168.99A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel C. Gómez makes the case for this... -
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat 9780815638001
$149.21War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as... -
Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature by Kyle Wanberg 9781487506841
$104.90During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained... -
Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation by Janaka Bowman Lewis 9781643363868
RRP: $60.80$49.06An engaging study of Black Feminism as expressed through literature written by and about Black girlsIn Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation, author Janaka Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth...