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Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object by Arthur Rose 9781474482431
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies 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 -
Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability by Slav N. Gratchev 9781498582711
RRP: £40.00£35.62Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin's literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability... -
Mikhail Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability by Slav N. Gratchev 9781498582698
RRP: £113.00£99.02Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin's literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability... -
The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader by Sophie Corser 9781474481441
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies 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 -
Borges: An Introduction by Julio Premat 9780826502254
£30.42This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies,... -
Dorothy Richardson by Carol Watts 9780746307083
£33.19Dorothy Richardson is a major modernist novelist, only now beginning to attract the critical attention she deserves. In her time she was regarded as a pioneer, the originator of narrative 'stream of consciousness', her exploration of a woman's...Qty in Cart: 0Price:£33.19Subtotal: -
Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing by Étienne Achille 9780198893134
RRP: £70.00£63.74Contemporary 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... -
The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture by Karen Jacobs 9780801486494
RRP: £35.00£30.74The Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with... -
Borges: An Introduction by Julio Premat 9780826502261
RRP: £86.00£85.96This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies,... -
Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn: Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian by Stephanie Schwerter 9781349444632
£49.42Seamus 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... -
Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them: Turning the Table by Jennifer D Ryan-Bryant 9781793614179
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793614179Author Jennifer D Ryan-BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later by Aimee Pozorski 9781498584487
RRP: £30.00£26.68Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by... -
Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 by Kimberly K. Dougherty 9781793653086
RRP: £81.00£71.06The first century of airpower has ended, yet few critics have addressed the literature that chronicles its human toll. Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 offers fresh insight into this airpower century by placing literature of... -
Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis by Paul Crosthwaite 9780198891796
RRP: £80.00£73.06Speculative 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... -
Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them: Turning the Table by Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant 9781793614155
RRP: £85.00£74.51Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them: Turning the Table examines early draft manuscripts and published poems by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in order to uncover the compositional approaches that they held in common. Both poets not only honed... -
Non-Normative Sexualities in US Latinx and Latin American Literature Through a Capitalist Lens by Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez 9781666933741
RRP: £81.00£71.06Non-Normative Sexualities in US Latinx and Latin American Literature Through a Capitalist Lens studies how Latin American and Latinx authors represent non-normative sexualities through a capitalist lens. In our society, heterosexuality manifests as... -
Perspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez: Caribbean Troubadour by Gustavo Arango 9781666916331
RRP: £73.00£64.18Perspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez: Caribbean Troubadour utilizes a variety of perspectives to approach the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez. Gustavo Arango explores both the big picture and the small details about the... -
Circling the Canon, Volume I: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994 by Marjorie Perloff 9780826360502
£82.45One 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,... -
Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire by Reza 9780198896319
RRP: £80.00£72.66Anticolonial 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: £70.00£63.74National 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: £70.00£63.74The 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... -
Genetics and the Literary Imagination by Clare Hanson 9780198813286
£73.63Oxford 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... -
Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography by Jerome Boyd Maunsell 9780198789369
£30.08What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels? How do they present themselves, and what do their self-portraits reveal? In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from... -
The Matter of High Words: Naturalism, Normativity, and the Postwar Sage by Robert Chodat 9780190682156
RRP: £83.00£73.68In a world of matter, how can we express what matters? When the explanations of the natural sciences become powerfully precise and authoritative, what is the status of our highest words, the languages that articulate our norms and orient our lives? The... -
Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange by Rebecca Colesworthy 9780198778585
RRP: £89.00£83.64From 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... -
Eric Ambler's Novels: Critiquing Modernity by Robert Lance Snyder 9781793614186
RRP: £85.00£74.51Eric Ambler's first six novels released between 1936 and 1940 quickly established his reputation as a master craftsman of intrigue and espionage narratives. Far less often discussed are the twelve Cold War novels he published, after an eleven-year hiatus... -
Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction: Creating Questions by Amy Frazier-Yoder 9781666925524
RRP: £77.00£67.62Characters are made, scripted, and invented, but Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth Century Latin American Fiction explores what occurs when literary creations become creators themselves. Representing Latin American fiction’s increasingly skeptical... -
Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts by Amrita Ghosh 9781793627964
RRP: £73.00£64.18Kashmir's Necropolis: New Literatures and Visual Texts is an interdisciplinary book that studies literary texts, film, photography, and art to understand the different forms of violence represented in the cultural productions from and on Kashmir. The... -
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat 9780815638001
£71.05War 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... -
Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture by Caroline Zoe Krzakowski 9781683932901
RRP: £73.00£64.18In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines representations of international relations in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carré, and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock... -
Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature by Kyle Wanberg 9781487506841
RRP: £47.00£40.88During 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... -
The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy by Jonathan Foltz 9780190676490
RRP: £74.00£68.48According to prevailing media histories, film long ago ought to have rendered the novel obsolete. The irony of this story is that the "death of the novel" at the hands of film has for a long time now been a pervasive trope of the novel's continued... -
Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture by Andrew Epstein 9780199972128
RRP: £102.50£72.57Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part. Drawing on theories and debates about the nature of... -
Eastern African Literatures: Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity by Russell West-Pavlov 9780198745723
RRP: £71.00£63.31The 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... -
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice' by Emma Sutton 9781789621808
£111.51This is the first book-length study of Forster's posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begun in 1913 and... -
Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State by Ashley Maher 9780198816485
RRP: £87.00£78.91Reconstructing 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: £93.00£71.46James 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: £24.99£23.26Oxford 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... -
As German as Kafka: Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000 by Lene Rock 9789462701786
RRP: £26.00£24.68Countless literary endeavours by 'new Germans' have come into the spotlight of academic research since the turn of the 21st century. Yet 'minority writing' and its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity are far from a... -
The Evolutions of Modernist Epic by Václav Paris 9780198868217
RRP: £82.00£74.45Modernist 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,...