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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913988012Author Accolade PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Accolade PressPublisher Accolade PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910956106Author Bernard SharrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint New Crisis QuarterlyPublisher New Crisis QuarterlyWeight(grams) 358g

Revolutionary bodies provides a detailed study of the erotics and politics of the male body in Irish fiction. Some of the authors discussed in the book include: Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, John Broderick, Colm Tóibín, Keith Ridgway, Jamie O’Neill,...

Art 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 book represent a genuine and important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems, often considered closed with the publication of the "Complete Poems". Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on "The Faith in the West" program airing...

This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit...

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951319533Author Georges BernanosFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Wiseblood BooksPublisher Wiseblood BooksWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288265Author Martin Paul EveFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Art 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666775273Author Randy RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349213689Author Vincent PiketFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399504522Author Beth Rigel DaughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887251967Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 34Imprint Chelsea House PublicationsPublisher Chelsea House Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887251523Author Jeff SolowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Facts on FilePublisher Facts on FileWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031306Author V. S. NaipaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625476Author Ronna JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887251509Author Jeff SolowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Facts on FilePublisher Facts on FileWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539596554Author D P TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty...

Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953377005Author Jose Maria EgurenFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint DulzoradaPublisher DulzoradaWeight(grams) 140g

This work examines Stephen King's position in popular literary circles and then considers the contributions of his family to the landscape of contemporary fiction. Though they have to a degree been eclipsed by Stephen King's popularity, the work of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947237193Author Ed BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Nodin PressPublisher Nodin PressWeight(grams) 499g

Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The...

Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South's and the nation's most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served...

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic...

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic...

Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181602Author Daniel KalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador PaperPublisher Picador PaperWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 147mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692556580Author Luca SomigliFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Annali D'Italianistica, Inc.Publisher Annali D'Italianistica, Inc.Weight(grams) 513g

In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and adjacent lateA -twentieth-A century intellectual traditions had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578690230Author Jose Maria EgurenFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint DulzoradaPublisher DulzoradaWeight(grams) 159g

This work attempts to provide a portrait of Joyce from many viewpoints, aiming at selecting those interviews and recollections that have not been reprinted as well as those that are not readily accessible. James Joyce was a self-centred man. Unlike Wilde...

"Communicating with the World" defines and examines public diplomacy in the context of a government's conduct of foreign affairs and identifies its rationale as an outgrowth of the worldwide communications revolution, ideological conflicts, and...

An 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...

Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of...

A Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.D. in the aftermath of World War II, a little-known body of work that has been neglected by scholars, and argues that the trauma H.D. experienced in London during the war profoundly changed...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor", which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014...

After the second World War, the term “technology” came to signify both the anxieties of possible annihilation in a rapidly changing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural change. Technomodern Poetics examines how some of the most well-known...