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By the Rivers of Mazovia by Mikhoel Burshtin 9781734193633
RRP: $26.25$25.45Mikhoel Burshtin's novel paints an unforgettable portrait of a community—delicate, tenacious, and vulnerable. Poland, 1935. Under the shadow of the Nazis' rise to the west, the Jews of Smolin continue to eke out their existence, marked by poverty,... -
Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity by Adam McKible 9780231212656
RRP: $63.00$48.91In the early twentieth century, the Saturday Evening Post was perhaps the most popular and influential magazine in the United States, establishing literary reputations and shaping American culture. In the popular imagination, it is best remembered for... -
Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film: A Study in Globalectics by Lokangaka Losambe 9781032195735
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa’s encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings,... -
Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism by Polina Mackay 9781032160474
RRP: $83.98$73.63This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female writers associated with the Beats – Diane di Prima, ruth... -
Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous by Kerstin Oloff 9781837644223
$202.88Ecology of the Zombie marks a significant intervention into the fields of world literature, film studies, ecocriticism, and Gothic Studies. Arguing that the zombie is a fundamentally ecological figure, the book offers original readings of a range of... -
Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists by Elaine Wood 9780367857226
RRP: $283.50$246.29Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual... -
Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature: Musical Modernism by Katherine O'Callaghan 9780367593476
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important... -
Fiction & the Colonial Experience by Jeffrey Meyers 9781032190822
RRP: $182.68$158.63British 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,... -
Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture by Michael Shallcross 9780367667344
RRP: $83.98$73.63This 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... -
The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: Volume 5 by John D. Morgenstern 9781837640515
$222.83The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the new edition of his complete poems, and the... -
Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival by Petra Johana Poncarová 9781399501194
RRP: $178.50$145.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399501194Author Petra Johana PoncarováFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Cold War Negritude: Form and Alignment in French Caribbean Literature by Christopher T. Bonner 9781837644711
$202.88Cold 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
$202.88Apologies 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: $83.98$73.63Posthumanism 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: $189.00$153.89Apologies 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: $60.88$52.69British 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: $283.50$246.29Wallace 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: $73.48$63.59Women’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: $73.48$66.76This 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: $83.98$73.63Following 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: $83.98$73.63This 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: $83.98$73.63In 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: $83.98$73.63What 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: $83.98$73.63This 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: $77.68$68.31This 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: $262.50$226.51This 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: $262.50$226.51Joyce 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: $273.00$235.43Wilfred 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: $67.18$59.49Thomas 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: $67.18$59.49Few 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: $67.18$59.49Drawing 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: $41.98$37.15In 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: $41.98$37.15Originally 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: $54.58$49.52This 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: $67.18$59.49Doris 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: $52.50$43.93An 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: $50.40$48.36Apologies 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
$117.39In 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: $262.50$226.51Offers 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: $41.98$37.15Since 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...