20th Century

Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry examines the ways in which Bolaño employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism. Pasten B. coins these aesthetics "postmodernism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984259816Author Jane De GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606649Author Diana RoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606618Author Anna BurrellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 299g

Orwell roamed widely, living in London, Southwold, Henley, Wallington, Hayes and Jura. It's this rootless, restless man that writer Oliver Lewis pursues in his innovative and thorough book, The Orwell Tour. A travelogue exploring the life and work of...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399524322Author Sara CrangleFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 603g

First published in 1982, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism discusses Lawrence’s work by examining it in relation to aspects of women’s history and the development of feminism. Two different modes of pre-war feminism which provide important themes in Lawrence’s...

'A brilliant, scholarly, sharp and witty account of our weird eternal obsession with the end times... So enjoyable, that I didn't want it to end - the world, or the book.' - Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived'Everything...

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on...

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on...

Literary 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...

The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and...

The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye's influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, at which point he became obsolete, his work having been buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton's 1983...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498598699Author Mark DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Can rock music help us understand literature? Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011 argues that a close analysis of the rock music incorporated into a literary text-an investigation of the lyrics, a musicological exploration of the sounds and...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448381Author Rochelle RivesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448374Author Rochelle RivesFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399526982Author Marit GrøttaFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399526821Author A J CarruthersFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 694g

Oil, 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...

“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and...

Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989193Author Nivedita MisraFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785274596Author Tim ConleyFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785273476Author Rachael AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279720Author Joseph CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785270918Author Joseph CumminsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

What you will find in Echoes of Growing up Italian are accounts of the immigrant experience as told through the eyes of women. The Italian diaspora is one of the most significant of the 20th century, with a far-reaching impact in the Americas, Australia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785277955Author Nathalie CamerlynckFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Ted 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...

In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound-the founders of vorticism-undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666944068Author Ethan MannonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Non-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 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...

Explores 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531501600Author Jonathan GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 127g

Major changes in media in the late 19th and early 20th centuries challenged traditional ideas about artistic representation and opened new avenues for authors working in the modernist period. Modernist authors' reactions to this changing media landscape...

Literary 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...