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Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture by Tessa Roynon 9780199698684
£102.48In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and... -
Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts by Jonathan Goldberg
RRP: £23.99£20.84Being 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... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night by Nicolas Tredell 9780230292222
£25.45The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known novels. They draw on Fitzgerald's own vivid experiences in the 1920s but transform them into art. This stimulating introductory guide analyses their accomplished style and... -
Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations by Tim Conley
RRP: £22.99£20.01Tim 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... -
Iris Murdoch: Texts and Contexts by A. Rowe 9780230348288
RRP: £89.99£80.03Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch's work by placing it within a diversity of new contexts. It also... -
Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism by Elizabeth Pender 9780271082219
RRP: £31.95£28.61Djuna 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... -
Orwell's Politics by John Newsinger 9780333968581
RRP: £99.99£89.87Orwell's Politics is a study of the development of George Orwell's political ideas and beliefs from his time as a policeman in Burma through to the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four . It places Orwell's thinking in historical context, examining his... -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan
RRP: £90.00£81.97Apologies 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 -
The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader by Sophie Corser
RRP: £90.00£73.28The Reader's Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader and text. Sophie Corser describes and queries the activity of reading prompted... -
Elizabeth Bowen by Heather Ingman
RRP: £29.99£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087371Author Heather IngmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co... -
Modernist Intimacies by Elsa Högberg
RRP: £20.99£19.25Illuminates the new and unsettling forms of intimacy explored in modernist literature and art Opens up fresh perspectives on modernism as central to early twentieth-century explorations of new modes of intimacy, many of which shape today's social and... -
The Boy Moon: Lost Love Poems Found in an Envelope by Boy Moon 9780956041609 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£2.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956041609Author Boy MoonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Boy Moon Books LtdPublisher Boy Moon Books Ltd -
Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary by Radha Chakravarty 9780367702748
£41.27Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This book engages with Devi’s works as a writer-activist who critically explored subaltern subjectivities, the limits of history and the harsh... -
The Poetry of W.H. Auden by Paul Hendon 9781840460469 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99£3.03W.H. Auden has been a dominant force in twentieth-century poetry since the publication of his first book of poems in 1930. His work has borne witness to some of the major events of the century - from the slump of the 1930s to the war in Vietnam - yet it... -
Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike by John McTavish 9780718895372
RRP: £19.25£16.79Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of the most serious writers of modern times. Myth, as Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike shows,... -
The Plays of Harold Pinter by Andrew Wyllie 9780230299634
£75.12This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays, charting the controversies which have arisen in response to... -
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction: Writing Malaysia by Robert Hampson 9780333714058
RRP: £44.99£44.97This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such... -
Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life by David Wykes 9780333611371
RRP: £89.99£89.87Waugh's life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were 'objects', unrelated to the life of their author. This study traces the shifting... -
The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror by Kath Filmer 9780333570043
RRP: £89.99£89.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A.S. Byatt by Mariadele Boccardi 9780230275713
RRP: £23.99£23.80This comprehensive new study offers a detailed analysis of all of Byatt's fiction and also discusses her critical output. Mariadele Boccardi examines Byatt's work in the light of postmodern concerns with language, narrative and self-referentiality.Book... -
Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture by Andrew Epstein 9780190887407
RRP: £35.49£29.45Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the... -
John Fowles by James Acheson 9780230348066
£25.45This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of... -
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway by Michael Whitworth 9780230506411
RRP: £85.00£84.96Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its... -
Alice Walker by Maria Lauret 9780230575882
RRP: £95.00£94.80Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple', is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme... -
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb by Joanne Dearcopp 9780806169361
£23.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806169361Author Joanne DearcoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press -
Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences by Sebastian Groes 9781137520579
£102.53This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital... -
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life by Phillip Mallett 9780333557204
RRP: £89.99£89.87This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first... -
Ethical Issues in Twentieth Century French Fiction: Killing the Other by C. Davis 9780333733714
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key twentieth-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even texts which apparently espouse ethical positions... -
Sisters in Literature: Female Sexuality in Antigone , Middlemarch , Howards End and Women in Love by Masako Hirai 9780333731451
RRP: £89.99£89.87A unique study of how novels by Lawrence, Forster and George Eliot can be read as rewritings of Sophocles's Antigone : each is presented as a socially and sexually involving argument between two sisters. The author provides an interconnected case-study... -
The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers: Critical Essays by Jeana DelRosso 9780230600256
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions.Book InformationISBN... -
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories by L. Harte 9780312231644
RRP: £89.99£89.87Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and consistently challenging work by both new and established writers. Contemporary Irish Fiction provides an... -
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction by Alice Bennett 9780230364240
RRP: £44.99£44.97Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's... -
Flaubert and Henry James: A Study in Contrasts by David Gervais 9780333236680
RRP: £89.99£89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333236680Author David GervaisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 475g -
Virginia Woolf's Essays: Sketching the Past by Elena Gualtieri 9780333749319
RRP: £89.99£89.87Although marginal and often neglected genres, the sketch and the essay represented for Virginia Woolf the two forms of writing through which she articulated her understanding of the workings of literary history. In this innovative study, Elena Gualtieri... -
Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England by Michael Giffin 9780333948088
RRP: £89.99£89.87Jane Austen is often thought of as a secular author, because religion seems absent from her novels, because she satirises her clerical characters, and because history and literacy criticism - and the literary sensibility of the twenty-first century... -
T. S. Eliot: A Chronology of his Life and Works by C. Behr 9780333328286
£25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333328286Author C. BehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 178g -
Women and World War 1: The Written Response by Dorothy Goldman 9780333513101
RRP: £89.99£89.87The literary canon of World War 1 - celebrated for realising the experience of an entire generation - ignores writing by women. To the sorrows that war has always brought them - the loss of husbands, lovers, brothers - the Great War added a revolutionary... -
Radical Spaces of Poetry by I. Davidson 9780230228658
RRP: £44.99£44.97The Radical Spaces of Poetry introduces a diverse range of experimental writing from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines the political, social and cultural implications of some of the most exciting and dynamic work of recent years, and... -
Alice Walker by Maria Lauret 9780230575899
£30.33Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple', is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme... -
Edwardian Bloomsbury: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group Volume 2 by S. Rosenbaum 9780312239091
£90.27'This is the second volume of a formidable enterprise, and part of a series of publications by the same author that may entitle him to the position as the leading scholar of the Bloomsbury Group...Rosenbaum has managed to write with freshness and insight...