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Understanding Etheridge Knight: With a New Preface by Michael S. Collins 9781643364391
RRP: $39.80$32.80Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major-but understudied-American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as well as a drug addiction that led to an eight-year prison... -
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form by Christopher Laing Hill 9780810142145
RRP: $73.40$60.44Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about "world literature" by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher... -
Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State by Ashley Maher 9780198816485
RRP: $170.10$154.48Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this... -
Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review by Clare Hutton 9780198744078
RRP: $180.60$164.66James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in New York in the Little Review between 1918 and 1920. What kind of reception did it have and how does the serial version of the text differ from the version most readers know, the iconic volume edition... -
Genetics and the Literary Imagination by Clare Hanson 9780198813347
RRP: $48.28$45.11Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It... -
The Evolutions of Modernist Epic by Václav Paris 9780198868217
RRP: $159.60$145.11Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed. As a radical form of national fiction it appeared in many parts of the world in the early twentieth century. Reading a selection of works from the United States, England, Ireland,... -
Transgression and Redemption in American Fiction by Thomas J. Ferraro 9780198863052
RRP: $151.20$138.45Transgression and Redemption in American Fiction is a critical study of classic American novels. Ferraro returns to Hawthorne's closet of secreted sin to reveal The Scarlet Letter as a deviously psychological turn on the ancient Meditererranean Catholic... -
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Dr Stephen Ross 9780192888358
RRP: $136.50$122.98Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical... -
An Acre of Green Grass: English Writings of Buddhadeva Bose by Rosinka Chaudhuri 9780199483600
RRP: $79.78$72.79Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is known to readers of Bengali as perhaps the greatest and most versatile talent in the Bengali literary sphere succeeding Tagore. Poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist of great... -
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton 9780192857743
RRP: $136.50$122.98British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the AnthropoceneDLa proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early... -
The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment by David Rodriguez 9781399522922
RRP: $178.50$145.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399522922Author David RodriguezFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations by Tim Conley 9781487502508
$98.68Tim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought... -
Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory | Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion by Federico García Lorca 9781736189375
RRP: $48.30$36.94A new translation of Federico García Lorca’s captivating lecture on duende. For years, Federico García Lorca’s lecture on duende has been a source of insight for writers and performers, including Ted Hughes, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, and Amanda Gorman... -
From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature by Glenn Hughes
RRP: $96.50$78.75Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that... -
Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 by Dianne C. Luce
RRP: $189.00$153.89Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthyDevotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be... -
Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D. by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
$176.55H.D.'s friends and lovers were a veritable Who's Who of modernism, and Hollenberg gives us a glimpse into H.D.'s relationships with them. With rich detail, the biography follows H.D. from her early years in America with her family to her later years in... -
Humanities, Provocateur: Toward a Contemporary Political Aesthetics by Brinda Bose
$218.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388414920Author Brinda BoseFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g -
Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature by Sarah Davison
RRP: $163.80$148.85Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary... -
Divercity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age by Melanie Pooch
RRP: $81.88$67.16This work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon, the "DiverCity," based on the reading of selected North American novels. By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto in What We All Long For, Chang-rae Lee's New York in Native Speaker, and... -
Understanding Philip Roth by Matthew A. Shipe
RRP: $109.20$88.83With 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... -
Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere by Stacey Balkan
RRP: $218.30$188.83Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture... -
Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons by Lisa Michele Siraganian
RRP: $56.68$50.93Winner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language Association Winner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies Association Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v... -
Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye by William Calin
RRP: $69.30$62.98The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert Beguin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and... -
Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism by Elizabeth Pender
RRP: $165.80$142.95Djuna Barnes once said that "there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object," and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes... -
Presences: A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition by Robert Creeley
RRP: $134.40$108.80First published in 1976, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol's monumental pop-art sculptures face the blocks of Creeley's prose poems. The new introduction by Creeley scholar Stephen Fredman describes... -
Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object by Arthur Rose
$230.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474482424Author Arthur RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Julian Wolfreys
$67.79The Mayor of Casterbridge is conventionally understood as being indebted to the forms of tragedy. Following the intertwined fates of its various protagonists, Thomas Hardy's narrative weaves its various strands together as these lead inexorably to the... -
Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction by Susan McHugh
RRP: $62.90$55.42Love in a Time of Slaughters examines a diverse array of contemporary creative narratives in which genocide and extinction blur species lines in order to show how such stories can promote the preservation of biological and cultural diversity in a time of... -
Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction by Philip Weinstein
RRP: $62.98$57.50Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing" by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the narrative props that support the drama of coming to... -
Modernist Literatures by Sarah Davison
$57.54This Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literatures of the modernist period. Sarah Davison explores a variety of critical works, from initial pronouncements to recent... -
Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh by Steve Pinkerton
RRP: $61.93$57.02Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy-the... -
Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody by Saul Noam Zaritt
RRP: $151.20$137.61Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul... -
Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives by Anne Reus
$230.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474485623Author Anne ReusFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Circling the Canon, Volume I: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994 by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: $71.30$58.78One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career,... -
Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times by Gabriele Schwab 9780231211611
RRP: $58.80$44.86Samuel Beckett's work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett's characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure,... -
Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin 9780679761785
$20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761785Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood by Patrick Keating
RRP: $63.00$47.92The camera's movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In... -
Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel by Professor Stephen Ross
$59.89From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of "Cool Britannia," the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that... -
Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig 9780811221399
RRP: $27.28$21.48After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser... -
Write Like Hemingway by Cider Mill Press 9781604338874
RRP: $27.28$17.81An examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style.Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable...