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The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative Jean-Michel Ganteau 9781032423234
£41.27This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of... -
Anthony Burgess and America: The Untold Story Behind the American Influences on Burgess’s Life, Work and Legacy Christopher W Thurley 9781526174147
RRP: £95.00£80.75Anthony Burgess and America is a biographical and critical analysis of Burgess’s commentary on and relationship with the United States of America.Utilising Burgess’s entire canon and newly discovered materials to assess Burgess’s views on America, this... -
Emotions and Contingencies in Conrad's Fiction Yoko Okuda 9783031667220
RRP: £109.99£93.49This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of Conrad’s conception of human emotions lies in his... -
Representations of Dalit Protagonists: Indian English Fiction and Marathi Dalit Literature Hanumant Ajinath Lokhande 9783031664434
RRP: £109.99£93.49This book interrogates canonical Indian English fiction which has Dalit characters as protagonists or major characters, and argues that the representation of such characters, although well-meant, is regulated and made unremarkable. It examines how the... -
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780198864400
RRP: £6.99£5.94'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!' Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay... -
Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing' Robert Thacker 9781350270428
RRP: £28.99£24.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350270428Author Robert ThackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g -
Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays Adam J. Frank 9780810148079
RRP: £99.00£84.15Returns us to Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein’s plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Stein’s theater and proposes that radio, when approached both... -
Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice Lucy Evans 9780198919889
RRP: £77.00£65.45Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and... -
Marion Milner: On Creativity David Russell 9780192859204
RRP: £18.99£16.14This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better--and what they have to do with one another. The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting better related to each...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £18.99£16.14Subtotal: -
Japanische Thomas Mann-Übersetzung zwischen Kulturheteronomie und Emanzipation: Tonio Kröger-Retranslations im digitalen Topic Modeling Nicole Marion Mueller 9783662695685
RRP: £34.99£29.74In diesem Open Access Buch nähert sich Nicole Marion Mueller mithilfe innovativer digitaler Methoden dem japanischen Übersetzungspluralismus im 20. Jahrhundert und seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen an. Dabei bezieht sie sich auf Thomas Mann, der... -
These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks Joseph R. Millichap 9781621908753
RRP: £96.00£81.60The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its... -
George Egerton: Terra Incognitas Isobel Sigley 9781032532363
RRP: £135.00£114.75George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence into the milieu of London publishing in 1893 to her... -
Ezra Pound and Chinese Landscapes Kent Su 9781638041115
RRP: £110.00£93.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638041115Author Kent SuFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body Talia Abu 9780813079288
RRP: £90.00£76.50Exploring the important themes of guilt and morality in James Joyce’s final work James Joyce’s last novel, Finnegans Wake, is notorious for its complex structure and considered by many to be unreadable. Approaching this complicated book with attention to... -
Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays Linda Dryden 9781350440845
RRP: £85.00£72.25In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays takes the opportunity to reflect on Conrad’s enduring influence on literature and culture in the 21st century. Offering... -
Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding Cam Cobb 9781606354827
RRP: £37.95£32.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354827Author Cam CobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Kent State University PressPublisher Kent State University Press -
Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays Adam J. Frank 9780810148062
RRP: £33.95£28.86Returns us to Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein’s plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Stein’s theater and proposes that radio, when approached both... -
Freedom Is Not Enough: T. S. Eliot for Liberation, Resistance, and Hope Patrick R. Query 9781438499772
RRP: £72.27£61.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499772Author Patrick R. QueryFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Chronistin und Kritikerin der Moderne: Zum Werk Gabriele Tergits Luisa Banki 9783662688106
RRP: £89.99£76.49Gabriele Tergit (1894–1982) war bis 1933 eine der erfolgreichsten Autorinnen ihrer Generation. Aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland geflohen, fand sie jedoch im Exil kein Publikum mehr – obwohl sie kontinuierlich schrieb. Ihr vielseitiges... -
The Pound Biennial: Vol. 1 Anderson Araujo 9781638040354
RRP: £95.00£80.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040354Author Anderson AraujoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Günter Grass Ronald Hayman 9781032889382
RRP: £50.00£42.50Günter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translating the sordid history of the movement into fiction; none has looked more critically at the ‘denazification’... -
Seamus Heaney Blake Morrison 9781032872278
RRP: £50.00£42.50In recent years Seamus Heaney has earned the reputation of being ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’. In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sources of... -
Tolstoy Ronald Hayman 9781032887197
£85.87Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Extracts are, however, taken from all the major novels and... -
Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade: Publishers, Agents, and the State (1900-1947) Anna Lanfranchi 9783031649110
RRP: £109.99£93.49The 19th-century copyright revolution gave authors and translators powerful tools over the use of their works. It encouraged publishers to form networks that connected them to writers, translators, authors’ societies, and literary agents worldwide. This... -
These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks Joseph R. Millichap 9781621909408
RRP: £26.95£22.91The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its... -
The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics Marta Fossati 9780198910978
RRP: £88.00£74.80Through detailed close readings alongside investigations into the history of print culture, Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century. She examines... -
Theorizing Literature: Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis Erik Schilling 9783031533259
£102.49This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino’s If on a... -
A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft Cleanth Brooks 9781032861296
RRP: £115.00£97.75In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism that has been developed to deal with it. Most of the essays concern poets and novelists of the twentieth century, but there are also... -
The Vacuum Cleaner: A Cultural Investigation Maud Ellmann 9783031566653
RRP: £29.99£27.40This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at... -
The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice Laurie McRae Andrew 9781474497558
RRP: £19.99£18.38The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallace's novels through the lens of historical geography. It explores the connections between Wallace's literary practice and the reshaping of American geographical... -
Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art: The Modernist Picture Book Julia Pond 9781032727011
RRP: £49.99£42.49In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children’s literature. Through analysis of her dozens of titles published during the height...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £49.99£42.49Subtotal: -
Postcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature Ambreen Hai 9780197698006
RRP: £78.00£70.88Postcolonial Servitude explores how a new generation of contemporary global, transnational, award-winning writers with origins in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh engages with the complexities of domestic servitude as a problem for the nation... -
Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades Regina Marie Mills 9781477329139
£95.61A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in... -
Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades Regina Marie Mills 9781477329146
RRP: £29.99£27.38A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in... -
Virginia Woolf and Capitalism Clara Jones 9781399514088
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Thomas Mann-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung Andreas Blödorn 9783662694367
RRP: £79.99£67.99Der Literaturnobelpreisträger von 1929: Thomas Mann gehört zu den produktivsten, wichtigsten und wirkungsreichsten deutschsprachigen Autoren der Moderne. Seine Romane, Erzählungen, Essays, Briefe und Tagebücher reflektieren und prägen die erste Hälfte... -
Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics Ria Banerjee 9783031549304
RRP: £99.99£84.99This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in diaries, essays, novels, poems, and plays to express...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £99.99£84.99Subtotal: -
Gombrowicz: An Introduction Aleksandra Konarzewska 9781032010434
RRP: £48.99£42.66This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and... -
Joe Orton C.W.E. Bigsby 9781032868196
RRP: £50.00£42.50Though Orton’s roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of ‘anarchic farce’ which was very much his own – hence the... -
Yale French Studies, Number 143: The French Seventies Richard J. Golsan 9780300274240
RRP: £60.00£57.15A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now Number 143 of Yale French Studies, “The French Seventies,” reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a period...