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Cold War Negritude: Form and Alignment in French Caribbean Literature by Christopher T. Bonner 9781837644711
$165.72Cold War Negritude is the first book-length study of francophone Caribbean literature to foreground the political context of the global Cold War. It focuses on three canonical francophone Caribbean writers—René Depestre, Aimé Césaire, and Jacques-Stephen... -
Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism by Katherine Ebury 9781638040750
$165.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040750Author Katherine EburyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So by Andrew Hicks 9780367521677
RRP: $68.59$60.14Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention,... -
The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth by Nicholas Manning 9781399507998
RRP: $154.38$125.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399507998Author Nicholas ManningFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Fiction & the Colonial Experience by Jeffrey Meyers 9781032190907
RRP: $49.73$43.04British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study, originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad,... -
Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing by Ian Tan 9781032487021
RRP: $231.57$201.17Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens’s lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of... -
Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts by April Patrick 9783031412561
RRP: $60.02$51.94Women’s Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women’s health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750. Through chapters on pregnancy and childbirth, contraception and abortion, and breast and... -
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction by Sarah J. Link 9783031332296
RRP: $60.02$54.53This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an... -
Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination by Robert T. Tally Jr. 9780367609849
RRP: $68.59$60.14Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing... -
Trauma and Transformation in African Literature by J. Roger Kurtz 9780367562120
RRP: $68.59$60.14This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive... -
Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction by Eleni Philippou 9780367750831
RRP: $68.59$60.14In this monograph Theodor Adorno’s philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity – apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet’s dictatorship, and the Greek military junta. This book... -
World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal by Ian Almond 9781032034553
RRP: $68.59$60.14What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the "West"? Starting with the provocative premise that the "'West' is ten percent of the planet", World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global... -
Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures by Silvia Schultermandl 9780367741006
RRP: $68.59$60.14This edited collection applies kinship as an analytical concept to better understand the affective economies, discursive practices, and aesthetic dimensions through which cultural narratives of belonging establish a sense of intimacy and affiliation. In... -
From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad by Angelie Multani 9781032508436
RRP: $63.45$55.80This multi-genre collection of chapters presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the shift from the study of mainly British literature and language to a more versatile terrain of... -
Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction by Emma Roche 9781032344065
RRP: $214.41$185.01This book interrogates the significance of the revival and reformulation of the romance genre in the postmillennial period. Emma Roche examines how six popular novels, published between 2005 and 2015 (Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, Gone Girl, Sharp... -
Joyce as Theory: Hermeneutic Ethics in Derrida, Lacan, and Finnegans Wake by Gabriel Renggli 9781032421537
RRP: $214.41$185.01Joyce as Theory is the first study to argue James Joyce can be read as a theorist. Joyce is not just a favourite case study of literary theory; he wrote about how we make meaning, and to what effect. The present volume traces his hermeneutics in those... -
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism by Naomi Wynter-Vincent 9780367439460
RRP: $222.99$192.30Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process, and creative writing. There is now renewed interest... -
Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner 9780367347994
RRP: $51.44$48.59Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and... -
Richard Brautigan by Marc Chenetier 9780367347352
RRP: $51.44$48.59Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was systematically refused recognition as a major novelist... -
Kurt Vonnegut by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780367346669
RRP: $51.44$48.59Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. His work... -
Donald Barthelme by Maurice Couturier 9780367343637
RRP: $34.29$30.34In the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary postmodernism, a key and central experimental writer. In this study, originally published in 1982, two leading critics present... -
Iris Murdoch by Richard Todd 9780367340421
RRP: $34.29$30.34Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published twenty-one novels since 1954 (she went on to write... -
Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War by Alice Kelly 9781474459914
RRP: $44.58$40.45This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.About the AuthorAlice Kelly, Harmsworth Postdoctoral Research Fellow and... -
Doris Lessing by Lorna Sage 9780367336646
RRP: $51.44$48.59Doris Lessing was one of the most impressive, prolific and vital of twentieth century writers. Her fiction is obsessed with the workings of cultural change and she radically extended the novel's scope - most famously and influentially in The Golden... -
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780300251159
RRP: $42.88$35.88An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then he took on his... -
On This Modern Highway: Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry by Jan Mrazek
RRP: $41.17$39.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788024651125Author Jan MrazekFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Karolinum Press, Charles UniversityPublisher Karolinum Press, Charles... -
Donald Barthelme by Maurice Couturier
$95.89In the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary postmodernism, a key and central experimental writer. In this study, originally published in 1982, two leading critics present... -
Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution by Chloe Ashbridge
RRP: $214.41$185.01Offers the first sustained critical assessment of twenty-first-century fiction about Northern England and uncovers the region’s evolving literary identity. Brings together political philosophy and literary criticism to situate Northern England at the... -
Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives: Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing by Jenny Taylor
RRP: $34.29$30.34Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership. Written from a feminist political perspective, and employing diverse modes of critical analysis, the present volume, originally... -
Kurt Vonnegut by Jerome Klinkowitz
$139.97Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. His work... -
Walter Macken: Critical Perspectives by Heinen Sandra
RRP: $60.04$49.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782054917Author Heinen SandraFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork University PressWeight(grams) 155g -
Samuel Beckett and Technology by Galina Kiryushina
RRP: $44.58$42.47Explores Beckett's engagement with various technologies throughout his artistic career Approaches the topic of technology from multiple perspectives previously unexplored in Beckett criticism Intervenes in current debates within Beckett Studies and... -
Japanese-American Literature through the Prism of Acculturation by Małgorzata Jarmołowicz-Dziekońska
RRP: $214.41$185.70The twentieth-century reality in the Unites States was harsh for Japanese immigrants who attempted to settle down and follow their dreams in the new land. Prejudice and discrimination against the newcomers, rife among Americans, were exacerbated by the... -
Resistance Literature by Barbara Harlow
RRP: $157.79$136.88As one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow's Resistance Literature introduced new ground in Western literary studies. Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a new Preface, this powerfully argued and... -
The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Gunter Grass by Alex Donovan Cole
RRP: $214.41$185.01This manuscript argues for the importance of Gunter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit... -
Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman by Jeff Wallace
RRP: $145.80$118.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474461658Author Jeff WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Tao of S: America's Chinese & the Chinese Century in Literature and Film by Sheng-mei Ma
$73.31The Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei Ma examines the work of... -
Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism by Joshua Logan Wall
RRP: $135.51$119.81A 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?... -
Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing by Michael G. Cronin
RRP: $138.94$98.44Revolutionary bodies provides a detailed study of the erotics and politics of the male body in Irish fiction. It examines work by Brendan Behan, John Broderick and Colm Toibin to critically analyse the emergence of contemporary Irish gay fiction since... -
Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm by Susana Onega
RRP: $68.59$60.14Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various...