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Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit by Elizabeth Dipple
RRP: £33.99£30.00Originally published in 1982, this brilliant study provides a perceptive and up-to-date assessment of the novels of Iris Murdoch, up to and including Nuns and Soldiers, published in 1980. The Fire and the Sun, her book on Plato, is also considered in... -
The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics by Sara Danius
RRP: £116.00£98.54In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's... -
Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years by Ery Shin
RRP: £42.95£35.12Examines 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... -
Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text by Albert Rolls
RRP: £19.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224555Author Albert RollsFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Terry Pratchett Could Save the World by Rebecca Ann Bach
RRP: £125.00£107.86This monograph contends that attending to Pratchett's work could help to save our world. It draws attention to the astonishing capacity of Pratchett's novels to inspire and argues that Pratchett's fantasy novels directly address many of the most... -
Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film by Robbie Moore
RRP: £20.99£18.58A richly historicised account of the modern corporation and its spatial manifestations in Britain and America Centres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and culture Examines architectural and financial records, hotel... -
Kate O'Brien by Mentxaka
RRP: £29.99£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087340Author MentxakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd... -
Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th-century British Fiction by Lauryl Tucker
£105.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979688Author Lauryl TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital PressWeight(grams)... -
Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things by Jessica Gildersleeve
RRP: £20.99£17.19From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the ways in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist... -
Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel by Sina Farzin
RRP: £83.95£72.87"Science in fiction," "geek novels," "lab-lit"-whatever one calls them, novels about science open a creative space in which the reading public can experience and think critically about the powers of science to illuminate and... -
V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought by William Ghosh
RRP: £76.00£69.10V.S. Naipaul was one of the most influential and controversial writers of the twentieth century. His writings on colonialism and its aftermath, on migration and landscape, and on cultural loss and creativity, were both admired and criticised by a wide... -
Cross-Channel Modernisms by Claire Davison
RRP: £25.99£22.71Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and an intellectual barrier between... -
Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake by Colleen Jaurretche
£104.83This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wake-the dreamlike masterpiece that critics have called his "book of the night." Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars... -
Misreading Anita Brookner: Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century by Peta Mayer
£111.51Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the famously depressed Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on Brookner's... -
Margaret Harkness: Writing Social Engagement 1880-1921 by Flore Janssen
RRP: £90.00£63.91Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literary innovation and social change at the turn of the twentieth century. Its multidisciplinary approach... -
Collecting as Modernist Practice by Jeremy Braddock
RRP: £25.00£21.58In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression-the art collection, the anthology, and the archive-and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States... -
The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism by Professor Sean Latham
RRP: £34.99£33.48Bringing together 17 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the field of modernist studies at the turn of the millennium and into the 21st century. The... -
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... -
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation by Annie Pfeifer
RRP: £61.00£51.77To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors-Henry James,... -
Modernist Intimacies by Elsa Högberg
RRP: £20.99£18.58Illuminates 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... -
South African London: Writing the Metropolis After 1948 by Andrea Thorpe
RRP: £85.00£69.28This 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... -
Circling the Canon, Volume II: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995-2017 by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: £64.00£52.21One 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 II focuses on the second half of her prolific... -
Diplomacy and the Modern Novel: France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature by Isabelle Daunais
RRP: £49.00£41.80Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Paul Claudel, Albert Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, John le Carré, André Malraux, Nancy Mitford, Marcel... -
Writing Postcommunism: Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins by D. Williams
£48.05Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.Book InformationISBN... -
Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in Readers' Engagement with Characters by Marco Caracciolo
RRP: £54.00£45.95A storyteller's craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are "strange" first-person narrators: they are fascinating... -
Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction by Rochelle Tobias
RRP: £54.00£45.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803215924Author Rochelle TobiasFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner
£81.60Thomas 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... -
Iris Murdoch by Richard Todd
£66.60Originally 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... -
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis
RRP: £30.00£22.82In 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... -
Novelists in Interview by John Haffenden
RRP: £33.99£30.00Originally published in 1985, fourteen foremost writers of fiction give detailed accounts of their writings in this absorbing collection by John Haffenden, whom The Sunday Times has applauded for having 'perfected' the art of the literary interview... -
Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture by Jennifer Julia Sorensen
RRP: £39.99£35.06The years from 1890 through 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, both in terms of the variety of venues for publication and in the vast circulation figures and the quantity of print forums. Arguing that the formal strategies of modernist texts can only... -
Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism by Nathan Waddell
RRP: £86.00£71.46How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts,... -
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque by Michel Delville
RRP: £135.00£117.28This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body's heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or... -
Tuning in to the Neo-Avant-Garde: Experimental Radio Plays in the Postwar Period by Inge Arteel
RRP: £85.00£60.17Bringing together an international and diverse group of scholars, Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium's significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar... -
Beckett and Politics by William Davies
RRP: £119.99£109.55This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as... -
Time in Literature by Hans Meyerhoff
RRP: £34.00£26.45This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form by Rachel Murray
RRP: £20.99£18.58Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations... -
Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture by Michael Shallcross
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one... -
Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations by Baidik Bhattacharya
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores the debates surrounding two dynamic fields - postcolonial studies and world literature. Contrary to many dominant narratives in critical theory, it asserts that as an analytical framework the idea of world literature is dead: the... -
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon: The Modern Library Series, 1917-1955 by Lise Jaillant
RRP: £43.99£38.44In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series brought out cheap editions of modernist works. Books by writers including H G Wells, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, were published and marketed alongside detective fiction and other books that we would...