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J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson 9781442277946
RRP: $73.50$66.95Since 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... -
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy by Daniel Kalder 9781250181602
RRP: $46.20$29.11Apologies 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 *... -
The Great War and the Modernist Imagination in Italy: Annali d'italianistica by Luca Somigli 9780692556580
RRP: $105.00$83.60Apologies 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 -
Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject by Adam Meehan 9780807172186
$86.29In 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... -
The Song of the Figures by Jose Maria Eguren by Jose Maria Eguren 9780578690230
$33.83Apologies 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 -
James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections by E. H. Mikhail 9780333438701
RRP: $243.60$210.42This 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: U. S. Public Diplomacy Overseas by Na Na 9780312048099
RRP: $115.48$80.93"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... -
Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation by Janaka Bowman Lewis 9781643363851
RRP: $178.50$145.49An 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... -
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity by Patrick Kindig 9780807178515
RRP: $73.40$60.44Most 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: H.D.'s Late Modernist Prose by Lara Vetter 9780813064413
RRP: $52.40$42.55A 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... -
Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor by Alison Arant 9781496831804
RRP: $73.40$60.44The 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... -
Technomodern Poetics: The American Literary Avant-garde at the Start of the Information Age by Todd T. Tietchen 9781609385903
RRP: $134.40$108.80After 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... -
Faulkner and Slavery by Jay Watson 9781496846495
RRP: $62.90$50.67Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall WilhelmIn... -
The Shared Witness of C. S. Lewis and Austin Farrer: Friendship, Influence, and an Anglican Worldview by Philip Irving Mitchell 9781606354179
RRP: $123.90$100.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354179Author Philip Irving MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Kent State University PressPublisher Kent State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Faulkner and Slavery by Jay Watson 9781496834409
RRP: $228.90$185.79Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall Wilhelm... -
Understanding Marilynne Robinson by Alexander John Engebretson 9781611178029
RRP: $75.50$62.10Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson’s fiction and essays to date, providing an overview of the author’s life, themes, and literary and religious influences. Understanding Marilynne Robinson examines this author of... -
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form by Christopher Laing Hill 9780810142152
RRP: $207.90$168.99Figures 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... -
Understanding Bharati Mukherjee by Ruth Maxey 9781643363479
RRP: $39.80$32.802021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleBharati Mukherjee was the first major South Asian American writer and the first naturalized American citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in Kolkata, India, she immigrated to the United States... -
Archetypal Figures in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality by David L. Anderson 9781606353882
RRP: $90.20$73.75A new and provocative analysis of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Hemingway's short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," has secured a place among the greatest works in that genre-the story is widely considered Hemingway's greatest. To... -
Hemingway's Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding by Frederic Svoboda 9781606353875
RRP: $56.60$45.80Encapsulating all of Hemingway's interests, his short stories are essential for understanding him. Sometimes characterised as the most significant author since Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway was an acknowledged master of the short story, with his... -
Hemingway in the Digital Age: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding by Laura Godfrey 9781606353813
RRP: $79.70$65.44Remarkable connections between Hemingway's time and our own digital era How can we convince readers, and especially students, to slow down to the crawl that is often necessary to see the real power in the compressed language Hemingway uses to tell a... -
Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 by Robert Thacker 9781552388396
$70.90In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries... -
Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 by Eric Schmaltz 9781773854564
RRP: $134.40$108.80Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, instillation,... -
Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War by Steven Belletto 9781609386313
RRP: $153.30$123.80Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict... -
Reading Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing: Glossary and Commentary by Mark Cirino 9781606354230
RRP: $102.80$83.75A compelling and authoritative reading of Hemingway's final collection of short storiesWritten in 1933 and one of Hemingway's lesser-known books, Winner Take Nothing was his third and final collection of short stories. These stories are about loners and... -
Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde by Kurt Beals 9780810141063
RRP: $207.90$168.99Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde demonstrates that the poetics of the Dada movement were profoundly influenced by the telegraph and the technological and social transformations that it brought about in the nineteenth and early... -
Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor by Alison Arant 9781496831798
RRP: $228.90$185.79The 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... -
Making the Poem: Stevens' Approaches by George S. Lensing 9780807168943
RRP: $83.90$68.78Over sixty years after his death, Wallace Stevens remains one of the major figures of American modernist poetry, celebrated for his masterful style, formal rigor, and aesthetic investigations of the natural, political, and metaphysical worlds. In Making... -
Sherwood Anderson's Pan-American Vision: Letters in Pursuit of a Cross-Cultural Bond by Celia Catalina Esplugas 9781476669144
RRP: $98.68$80.47Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1939-1941): his exposure to Latin America. Thematically arranged correspondence traces his positive reception in South... -
Understanding Marilynne Robinson by Alexander John Engebretson 9781643360775
RRP: $37.70$31.19Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and essays to date, providing an overview of the author's life, themes, and literary and religious influences. Understanding Marilynne Robinson examines this author of... -
Understanding Agatha Christie by Tison Pugh 9781643364407
RRP: $205.80$167.31Explores seven startling paradoxes behind the bestselling novelist's lasting popularity Agatha Christie stands as the bestselling novelist of all time and, in terms of total sales in all genres, places only behind the Christian Bible and Shakespeare... -
Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical Edition by Sangam MacDuff 9780813069913
RRP: $168.00$137.09This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called “epiphanies.” Among Joyce’s earliest literary compositions, although published posthumously, the epiphanies are a series of highly polished miniatures, many of which... -
Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism by Amy Feinstein 9780813068756
RRP: $62.90$44.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068756Author Amy FeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g -
Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels by David McCracken 9780786479290
RRP: $46.18$37.74Chuck Palahniuk, America's premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics or academics. His prose is considered vulgar by some but his body of work addresses a core motivation of... -
Left Politics and the Literary Profession by Lennard J. Davis 9780231065665
RRP: $228.90$175.94By providing a meditative overview of the past twenty years in the political study and teaching of literature, Where We're Bound assesses the concrete contributions of the sixties and the kind of changes that needed to come about to institutionalize the... -
World Beats - Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature by Jimmy Fazzino 9781611688986
RRP: $79.80$77.05This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that... -
Collecting as Modernist Practice by Jeremy Braddock 9781421403649
RRP: $78.75$69.66In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression - the art collection, the anthology, and the archive - and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States... -
Sixteen Modern American Authors: A survey of research and criticism by Jackson R. Bryer 9780393005691
RRP: $63.00$53.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393005691Author Jackson R. BryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 748g -
Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner by Jennifer Bartlett 9780826362117
RRP: $134.40$108.80Larry Eigner (1927-1996), born with cerebral palsy, was an active and significant figure for the New American Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with the Black Mountain School. While his writing has been overshadowed by his contemporaries, such... -
Circling the Canon, Volume II: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995-2017 by Marjorie Perloff 9780826362766
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 II focuses on the second half of her prolific...