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Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War by Petra Rau 9780230231528
RRP: $87.73$87.69This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World War I to the present day, it includes... -
New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism by Ann Heilmann 9780333794166
RRP: $175.48$175.25The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siecle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the... -
Sisters and Rivals in British Women's Fiction, 1914-39 by Diana Wallace 9780333774007
RRP: $175.48$175.25What happens when two women love the same man? This is the first book to examine female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women's fiction and to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative... -
Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama by Madeleine MacMurraugh- Kavanagh 9780333681688
RRP: $175.48$175.25Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama is an accessible, informed survey of Peter Shaffer's work to date. Covering much ground, the book brings a fresh and original approach to this playwright's drama, incorporating discussion of every play in his canon... -
Beckett and Philosophy by Richard Lane 9780333918791
RRP: $87.73$87.69Beckett and Philosophy examines and interrogates the relationships between Samuel Beckett's works and contemporary French and German thought. There are two wide-ranging overview chapters by Richard Begam (Beckett and Postfoundationalism) and Robert... -
Radical Larkin: Seven Types of Technical Mastery by J. Osborne 9780230348240
RRP: $87.73$87.69The first critical monograph to benefit from the textual rigour of Archie Burnett's landmark edition of The Complete Poems (2012), Radical Larkin celebrates Larkin's technical genius by offering seven in-depth analyses of the stylistic strategies he used... -
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century by Ms. Alice Reeve-Tucker 9780230358935
RRP: $87.73$87.69Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted... -
Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 2: International Influence and Politics by Lisa Shahriari 9780230517677
RRP: $87.73$87.69This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars from around the world, focusing on Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politics. Themes include war, freedom of the press, economics and cultural production, the Hogarth Press, the... -
Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film by Robert Eaglestone 9780230019379
RRP: $87.73$87.69The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom... -
Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: Civilisation and Savagery Under the Union by M. Kelsall 9780333779361
RRP: $87.73$87.69This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is... -
Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures by Lorna Burns 9780230348257
RRP: $87.73$87.69Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial... -
One Family's Shoah: Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe by Herbert S. Lindenberger 9780230341159
RRP: $87.73$87.69Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art... -
One Family's Shoah: Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe by Herbert S. Lindenberger 9780230341135
RRP: $87.73$87.69Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art... -
Orwell's Politics by John Newsinger 9780333682876
RRP: $175.48$175.25Orwell'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... -
'Confessional' Writing and the Twentieth-Century Literary Imagination by Miranda Sherwin 9780230219564
RRP: $87.73$87.69Far from being a unique, defining property of the confessional poets, confessionalism is a central trope of American literature. This book examines confessional writing not as a private, apolitical art, but rather one that demonstrates an engagement with... -
Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Professor Norman Page 9780333720226
RRP: $87.73$87.69Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars... -
Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War by R. Hawkes 9780230301535
RRP: $87.73$87.69Ford Madox Ford is a major modernist writer, yet many of his works do not conform to our assumptions about modernism. Examining ways in which he, alongside other 'misfit moderns', undermines 'stabilities' we expect from novels and memoirs, this book... -
Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today by C. Bloom 9780333778333
RRP: $87.73$87.69In 1997, thirty years after the demise of 'Swinging London', Britain again seemed to be the centre of the cultural universe, with a thriving arts scene, a new Labour government and a young and enterprising prime minister. 'Cool Britannia' seemed to sum... -
Modernist Patterns: in Literature and the Visual Arts by M. Roston 9780333681701
$88.47In this stimulating study, the author explores how Conrad, T.S.Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley and others responded to the immediate challenges of their time, to the implications of Freudian psychology, molecular theory, relativist... -
Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel by J. Clements 9780230303546
RRP: $87.73$87.69This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Literary Life by A. Hook 9780333738498
RRP: $87.73$87.69Often seen as a mirroring the contemporary movement of American history itself, Scott Fitzgerald's literary life was a roller-coaster ride from early success in the 1920s to apparent oblivion by the end of the 1930s. This study attempts to account for... -
Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life by T. Sharpe 9780333650318
$64.88Tony Sharpe explores the symbiotic and antagonistic relations between Stevens's literary life and his working life as insurance executive, outlining the personal, historical and publishing contexts that shaped his writing career, and suggesting how... -
The Fiction of the 1940s: Stories of Survival by N. H. Reeve 9780333918852
RRP: $175.48$175.25This collection of essays explores the strange and intense relationship between history and artistic form during the 1940s. The essays cover a comprehensive range of issues, including the Blitz, spying, demobilisation, traumatic loss, nostalgia for the... -
Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt: Knitting the Net of Culture by Dr. Lena Steveker 9780230575332
RRP: $87.73$87.69This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in... -
Intercultural Voices in Contemporary British Literature: The Implosion of Empire by Lars Ole Sauerberg 9780333801703
RRP: $87.73$87.69During the last decades of the twentieth century it has become increasingly difficult to consider British literature as 'national' or 'mainstream'. The book investigates contemporary fiction and poetry written in, or relating to, Britain and uncovers a... -
Anais Nin: Literary Perspectives by Suzanne Nalbantian 9780333650875
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions... -
Jean-Paul Sartre: Politics and Culture in Postwar France by Michael Scriven 9780333633212
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book offers an assessment of Sartre as an exemplary figure in the evolving political and cultural landscape of post-1945 France. Sartre's originality is located in the tense relationship that he maintained between deeply held revolutionary political... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life by Linda Wagner-Martin 9780230276963
RRP: $87.73$87.69Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages.Book InformationISBN 9780230276963Author Linda... -
Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture by Dennis R. Perry 9780230120860
$146.46Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of... -
Masculinities in Text and Teaching by B. Knights 9780230003415
RRP: $87.73$87.69In a climate of anxiety about boys and reading, this book addresses the gendering of English Studies, drawing on recent research on masculinity. In drawing together the study of text and narrative with insight into the experience of the classroom, this... -
Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction by Edward Engelberg 9780312239473
RRP: $87.73$87.69In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope... -
The Making of the Twentieth-Century Novel: Lawrence, Joyce, Faulkner and Beyond by John Orr 9780333373392
$176.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333373392Author John OrrFormat HardbackPage Count 219Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 445g -
English Fiction Since 1984: Narrating a Nation by B. Finney 9780230008557
RRP: $87.73$87.69This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of... -
Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body: The Organs and Senses in Modernism by Yoshiki Tajiri 9780230008175
$156.06This book studies the representation of the body in Beckett's work, focusing on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', it aims to resituate Beckett in the broad... -
Before Modernism Was: Modern History and the Constituency of Writing by G. Gilbert 9780333770511
RRP: $175.48$175.25Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that... -
Beckett's Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void Ciaran Ross 9780230575189
$161.66Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical challenge to accepted viewpoints of Beckett's negative... -
Graham Greene's Narrative Strategies: A Study of the Major Novels by M. Roston 9780230003453
RRP: $87.73$87.69In Narrative Strategies Roston focuses upon the Greene's texts themselves and their manipulation of reader response, highlighting the innovative strategies that Greene developed to cope with the mid-century invalidation of the traditional hero. The... -
The Contemporary British Historical Novel: Representation, Nation, Empire by Mariadele Boccardi 9780230200074
RRP: $87.73$87.69A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with... -
Modern Slovak Prose: Fiction since 1954 by Robert B. Pynsent 9780333515969
RRP: $175.48$175.25Modern Slovak Prose is a collection of essays based on papers delivered at a symposium at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Although few major Slovak writers published during the 1970s 'normalisation' period after the Warsaw Pact... -
A Curious Peril: H.D.'s Late Modernist Prose by Lara Vetter 9780813054568
$159.82A 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...