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Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 by Eric Schmaltz 9781773854564
£65.89Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, instillation,... -
Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor by Alison Arant 9781496831798
RRP: £109.00£103.17The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor", which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014... -
Making the Poem: Stevens' Approaches by George S. Lensing 9780807168943
£43.75Over sixty years after his death, Wallace Stevens remains one of the major figures of American modernist poetry, celebrated for his masterful style, formal rigor, and aesthetic investigations of the natural, political, and metaphysical worlds. In Making... -
Sherwood Anderson's Pan-American Vision: Letters in Pursuit of a Cross-Cultural Bond by Celia Catalina Esplugas 9781476669144
RRP: £46.99£38.32Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1939-1941): his exposure to Latin America. Thematically arranged correspondence traces his positive reception in South... -
Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism by Amy Feinstein 9780813068756
RRP: £29.95£20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068756Author Amy FeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g -
Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels by David McCracken 9780786479290
RRP: £21.99£17.97Chuck Palahniuk, America's premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics or academics. His prose is considered vulgar by some but his body of work addresses a core motivation of... -
Left Politics and the Literary Profession by Lennard J. Davis 9780231065665
RRP: £109.00£85.21By providing a meditative overview of the past twenty years in the political study and teaching of literature, Where We're Bound assesses the concrete contributions of the sixties and the kind of changes that needed to come about to institutionalize the... -
World Beats - Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature by Jimmy Fazzino 9781611688986
RRP: £38.00£36.69This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that... -
Collecting as Modernist Practice by Jeremy Braddock 9781421403649
RRP: £37.50£33.79In 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... -
Sixteen Modern American Authors: A survey of research and criticism by Jackson R. Bryer 9780393005691
RRP: £30.00£25.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393005691Author Jackson R. BryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 748g -
Voyages Out, Voyages Home by Jane De Gay 9780984259816
RRP: £18.95£15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984259816Author Jane De GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)... -
Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism by Diana Royer 9780979606649
RRP: £18.95£15.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606649Author Diana RoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)... -
Woolfian Boundaries by Anna Burrells 9780979606618
RRP: £20.95£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606618Author Anna BurrellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 299g -
The Orwell Tour: Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis 9781785789649
RRP: £10.99£7.32Orwell roamed widely, living in London, Southwold, Henley, Wallington, Hayes and Jura. It's this rootless, restless man that writer Oliver Lewis pursues in his innovative and thorough book, The Orwell Tour. A travelogue exploring the life and work of... -
Elevated Realms - An Anatomy of Mina Loy by Sara Crangle 9781399524322
RRP: £95.00£77.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399524322Author Sara CrangleFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 603g -
D. H. Lawrence and Feminism by Hilary Simpson 9781032748955
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1982, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism discusses Lawrence’s work by examining it in relation to aspects of women’s history and the development of feminism. Two different modes of pre-war feminism which provide important themes in Lawrence’s... -
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World by Dorian Lynskey 9781529095937
RRP: £25.00£17.43'A brilliant, scholarly, sharp and witty account of our weird eternal obsession with the end times... So enjoyable, that I didn't want it to end - the world, or the book.' - Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived'Everything... -
Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing by Daniel McKay 9781531505158
RRP: £94.00£75.53Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on... -
Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing by Daniel McKay 9781531505165
RRP: £25.99£22.49Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on... -
The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford by Paul B. Armstrong 9781501722714
RRP: £16.99£14.24The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and... -
The Reception of Northrop Frye by Robert Denham 9781487508203
RRP: £110.00£104.40The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye's influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton's 1983 rhetorical... -
Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien's Legendarium by Mark Doyle 9781498598699
RRP: £35.00£30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498598699Author Mark DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011 by Martin Moling 9781793647238
RRP: £90.00£79.21Can rock music help us understand literature? Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011 argues that a close analysis of the rock music incorporated into a literary text-an investigation of the lyrics, a musicological exploration of the sounds and... -
The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Expression by Rochelle Rives 9781421448381
RRP: £29.00£26.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448381Author Rochelle RivesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University Press -
The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Expression by Rochelle Rives 9781421448374
RRP: £79.00£69.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448374Author Rochelle RivesFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)... -
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion by Marit Grøtta 9781399526982
RRP: £90.00£73.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399526982Author Marit GrøttaFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 494g -
Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes: Languages of Invention by A J Carruthers 9781399526821
RRP: £95.00£86.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399526821Author A J CarruthersFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 694g -
Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere by Stacey Balkan 9780271091594
RRP: £29.95£26.91Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture... -
Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel by Sina Farzin 9780271089799
RRP: £29.95£27.35“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and... -
Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic by James Procter 9780198894179
RRP: £78.00£70.88Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole... -
V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad by Nivedita Misra 9781839989193
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989193Author Nivedita MisraFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Varieties of Joycean Experience by Tim Conley 9781785274596
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785274596Author Tim ConleyFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Imagining Gender, Nation, and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s by Rachael Alexander 9781785273476
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785273476Author Rachael AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music by Joseph Cummins 9781785279720
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279720Author Joseph CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g -
The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music by Joseph Cummins 9781785270918
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785270918Author Joseph CumminsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Echoes of Growing Up Italian by Gina Valle 9781771838689
RRP: £16.95£13.06What you will find in Echoes of Growing up Italian are accounts of the immigrant experience as told through the eyes of women. The Italian diaspora is one of the most significant of the 20th century, with a far-reaching impact in the Americas, Australia... -
Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett: Voices in the Closet by Nathalie Camerlynck 9781785277955
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785277955Author Nathalie CamerlynckFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Counterblasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson by Gregory Betts 9781772120370
RRP: £42.99£35.03In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound-the founders of vorticism-undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on... -
The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Satisfactions of Soil and Sweat by Ethan Mannon 9781666944068
RRP: £81.00£71.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666944068Author Ethan MannonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Understanding Agatha Christie by Tison Pugh 9781643364414
£23.33Explores seven startling paradoxes behind the bestselling novelist's lasting popularity Agatha Christie stands as the bestselling novelist of all time and, in terms of total sales in all genres, places only behind the Christian Bible and Shakespeare...