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State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 by Asha Rogers 9780198857761
$181.67Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature, Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major... -
A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: $18.88$13.02A comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouse's two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet ('Reggie') Jeeves, Bertie's friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may... -
Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927 by Daniel Albright
$56.55How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great... -
Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory by Raymond Tallis 9780333639269
RRP: $125.98$114.93This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.Book InformationISBN... -
The Literature of Connection: Signal, Medium, Interface, 1850-1950 by David Trotter 9780198850472
RRP: $76.63$66.63This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network society'. It investigates the prehistory not of the... -
The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics by Sara Danius 9780801488009
RRP: $62.98$54.58In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's... -
Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century by Professor Kate Marshall 9780226827834
RRP: $44.10$42.65A wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird. Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the... -
Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review by Clare Hutton
RRP: $46.18$41.85James 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... -
Ulysses by Numbers by Eric Jon Bulson
RRP: $46.20$35.68Ulysses has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure, design, and history of Joyce's masterpiece, we pay attention to the numbers?Taking a computational approach, Ulysses by Numbers lets us... -
Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place by Neal Alexander
$229.36This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modernism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modernism tend to regard it as an... -
Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form by Judith Brown
RRP: $92.40$79.04Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown... -
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel by Martyn Sampson
RRP: $62.98$54.58What is a "Catholic" novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions,... -
The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde by Sam Cooper
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the... -
Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Jean So
$65.60The canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress-recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However,... -
The Beats in Mexico by David Stephen Calonne
RRP: $58.78$44.46Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac's On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S... -
Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns
RRP: $73.50$66.63J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is increasingly recognized as the most influential writer of the twentieth century. Sales of his books remain exceptionally high, and Middle-earth fan clubs flourish around the world. The massive success of the film versions... -
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall
RRP: $63.00$47.92At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for... -
Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927 by Daniel Albright 9781421416434
RRP: $108.15$94.50How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great... -
The Fifth Notebook of Dylan Thomas: Annotated Manuscript Edition by Dylan Thomas
$149.04Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems. They contain the drafts of almost all of the work that would form his first two reputation-making collections, 18 Poems (1934) and Twenty-five Poems (1936), and many of... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173652
RRP: $178.50$127.20In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music... -
Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons by Lisa Siraganian
RRP: $189.00$171.32Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific... -
The Making of a Pure Poet: Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (1904-1908) and his life while writing them: 1: Things That Happen When Reading Rilke Volume 1 by Augustus Young 9781853982057
RRP: $41.98$29.99When Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet and military cadet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke for advice in 1903, he could not in his wildest dreams have expected such a voluminous response from the acclaimed German writer. The young poet wasn't to know that... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198829454
RRP: $170.10$143.09This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its... -
Eastern African Literatures: Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity by Russell West-Pavlov
RRP: $62.98$59.85The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This volume offers... -
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes by Jill Richards
RRP: $63.00$47.92In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women's movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Juno Jill Richards argues that these movements were not... -
Mozart and the Wolf Gang: By Anthony Burgess by Alan Shockley
RRP: $168.00$119.05Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of... -
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat 9780815637936
$66.76War 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... -
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring 9780231205450
RRP: $52.50$40.28What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.Aging Moderns... -
The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought by Sonali Thakkar 9781503637337
RRP: $54.58$46.28World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for... -
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall 9780231197083
RRP: $245.70$187.74At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for... -
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures by Leona Toker
RRP: $35.68$30.95Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198886440
RRP: $52.50$48.17This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its... -
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: $35.68$30.95From the central concept of the field-which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field- have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In... -
Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts by Jonathan Goldberg
RRP: $54.58$48.85Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time... -
Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives by Marco Bernini
RRP: $155.40$141.35Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental... -
Alexander Pope in the Making by Joseph Hone 9780198842316
RRP: $151.20$137.61How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted. As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton... -
Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations by Tim Conley
RRP: $50.38$42.86Tim 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... -
Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling by Professor Judith Roof 9781501362576
$51.77Tone is often decisive in whether we love or dislike a story, novel, or even critical essay. Yet literary critics rarely treat tone as a necessary or important element of literary style or critique. There are surprisingly few analyses of what tone is,... -
Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism by Elizabeth Pender 9780271082219
RRP: $67.10$58.95Djuna 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... -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan
RRP: $189.00$169.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443357Author Aidan TynanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press