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Blanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Iberian Mysticism: From Post-Mortem to Post-Mystic by Robert Simon 9781498565714
RRP: $178.50$164.01This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu's work within the 1980s post-"novisimo" movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible... -
Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928 Present by Monika Szuba 9781474484206
RRP: $178.50$145.49Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes Covers a range of the relationships between landscape, literature, and culture Explores the lived relationship between form, content, and consciousness... -
Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction by Matthew Wilkens 9781421420875
RRP: $64.05$57.48Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century-still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age-and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties... -
The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media by Matthew Kilbane 9781421448121
RRP: $69.30$61.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448121Author Matthew KilbaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University Press -
Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism by Joshua Logan Wall 9781421443799
RRP: $60.90$54.77A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry. What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one?... -
Rethinking Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays by Lance S. Butler 9781349205639
RRP: $78.75$74.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349205639Author Lance S. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 286g -
D. H. Lawrence: New Studies by Christopher Heywood 9781349186976
RRP: $84.00$74.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349186976Author Christopher HeywoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 264g -
A Critical Introduction to Henry Green's Novels: The Living Vision by Oddvar Holmesland 9781349182237
RRP: $84.00$66.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349182237Author Oddvar HolmeslandFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 340g -
Literature of Crisis, 1910-22: Howards End, Heartbreak House, Women in Love and The Waste Land by Anne Wright 9781349174515
RRP: $84.00$57.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349174515Author Anne WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan -
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels by Jarosław Milewski 9781032588872
RRP: $283.50$246.29Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist. This research monograph juxtaposes the works about the AIDS epidemic which were... -
Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own by Sarah Parker 9781032348667
RRP: $283.50$247.13While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by... -
Circling the Canon, Volume I: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994 by Marjorie Perloff 9780826360502
$181.21One 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,... -
Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years by Ery Shin 9780817361242
$62.08Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions.Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years brings to life Stein’s surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of... -
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures by Leona Toker 9780801422119
RRP: $107.10$92.95Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction... -
The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes: Family, Text, Nation by Steven Boldy 9780719085918
RRP: $52.50$46.26This study examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes' art, from the critical realism of his early novels to his highly experimental novels of the late sixties, and to his novels from the eighties where national identities are playfully evoked and largely... -
Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel 9780231211260
RRP: $245.70$190.95Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly... -
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes by Jill Richards 9780231197106
RRP: $184.80$144.38In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women's movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Jill Richards argues that these movements were not just... -
Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II by Claire Seiler 9780231194686
RRP: $157.50$121.99How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension-a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors... -
Ulysses by Numbers by Eric Jon Bulson 9780231186049
RRP: $193.20$150.80Ulysses has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure, design, and history of Joyce’s masterpiece, we pay attention to the numbers?Taking a computational approach, Ulysses by Numbers lets us... -
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto 9780231211536
RRP: $63.00$48.91When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized... -
Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times by Gabriele Schwab 9780231211604
RRP: $228.90$178.10Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure,... -
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto 9780231211529
RRP: $245.70$190.95When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized... -
Alexander Theroux: A Fan's Notes by Steven Moore 9781953409058
RRP: $37.70$29.09Since the publication of his first novel in 1972, Alexander Theroux has won great acclaim for his dazzling style and forceful intellect. That first novel, Three Wogs, was named Book of the Year by Encyclopedia Britannica and nominated for the National... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night by Nicolas Tredell 9780230292215
$184.88The 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... -
Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures by Elena Igartuburu García 9781032447759
RRP: $283.50$246.29Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical... -
The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition by Thomas Hughes 9781032700670
RRP: $172.18$150.57The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance and, as such, deserves its place of interest in dramaturgical studies for its historical significance. It offers a detailed literary... -
The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain by Bécquer Seguín 9780674260108
RRP: $79.70$64.07“The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and... -
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics by Aroosa Kanwal 9781032008844
RRP: $283.50$246.29Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many... -
Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place by Neal Alexander 9781474484411
RRP: $52.48$42.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474484411Author Neal AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis 9780231201841
RRP: $245.70$190.95In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of the war, searching for new creative and political... -
Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration: Discovering the Ethical Prison by Doran Larson 9781611479829
RRP: $168.00$154.56Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration works from the premise that if the law establishes and maintains both its practical and symbolic authority on the basis of its monopoly on legally sanctioned violence and the suffering threatened and delivered by... -
Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien's Legendarium by Mark Doyle 9781498598675
RRP: $178.50$164.01Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien's Legendarium explores how Tolkien's works speak to many modern people's utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also examines how Tolkien's... -
Reading Graham Swift by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz 9781498569514
RRP: $178.50$164.01This collection of essays on Graham Swift's fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swift's oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and... -
Modernist Time Ecology by Jesse Matz 9781421426990
RRP: $99.75$88.14Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope-or the fantasy-at work in many modernist novels for which time was not only the major subject but also an object of reparative aspiration. Aimed at a kind of... -
Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America by Will Norman 9781421420943
$88.54The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In ... -
Bangladeshi Literature in English: Critical Essays and Interviews by Mohammad A. Quayum 9781032670355
RRP: $283.50$246.29This pioneering book brings together several critical essays on Bangladeshi writers in the English language, both at home and abroad, and interviews with a prominent poet and a novelist.The past years have seen various attempts to conceptualize and... -
Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature by Hannah L. Huber 9780252087523
RRP: $46.18$40.30The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued... -
Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Jean So 9780231197724
RRP: $168.00$129.97The canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress—recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However,... -
South African London: Writing the Metropolis After 1948 by Andrea Thorpe 9781526174598
RRP: $52.50$46.26This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the... -
The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought by Sonali Thakkar 9781503636446
RRP: $226.80$196.14World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for...