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Kurt Vonnegut by Jerome Klinkowitz
£81.60Drawing 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: £35.00£28.82Apologies 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: £25.99£24.76Explores 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: £125.00£108.26The 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: £91.99£79.80As 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: £125.00£107.86This 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: £85.00£69.28Apologies 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
£42.74The 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: £79.00£69.85A 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: £81.00£57.39Revolutionary 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: £39.99£35.06Transcending 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... -
From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad by Angelie Multani
RRP: £135.00£117.28This 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... -
Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America by Isabel Gómez
£42.74A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel C. Gómez makes the case for this... -
The Timelessness of Proust by Mr Charles R Embry
RRP: £14.00£12.26Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu-In Search of Lost Time-is one of the most important and influential novels of the modern era. In recent decades, Proust has enjoyed a new surge of critical attention, as well as a sustained growth in... -
Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature by Corey McCall
RRP: £41.99£36.75This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin’s and Theodor Adorno’s essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply... -
Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea: Distant and Close Reading by Jae-Yon Lee
RRP: £125.00£107.86Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea argues that Korean authors who entered the literary scene during modern literature's formative years were the subject mediated by periodicals. However, it has been difficult to substantiate this statement... -
Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées by Benoît Glaude
RRP: £130.00£112.11A novel perspective on comics and adaptations. A literary insight into famous French-language comics throughout the history of the ninth art. Robust close readings of fascinating and little-known novels that comics have engendered. First monograph on an... -
John le Carre by Eric Homberger
RRP: £31.99£28.33Since the heyday of Ian Fleming's fantasy superspy James Bond, the novels of John le Carre have held up to readers across the world a sombre, fascinating picture of decline, deception and ethical ambiguity. In this study, originally published in 1986,... -
Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II by Claire Seiler
RRP: £25.00£19.59How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension-a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors... -
Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace: Vol. 2 Aesthetics and Theory by Peter Adkins
RRP: £109.50£70.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979374Author Peter AdkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver: Influence and Craftmanship in the Neoliberal Era by Jonathan Pountney
RRP: £20.99£19.25The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers.About the AuthorJonathan Pountney, Independent researcherBook InformationISBN 9781474455510Author Jonathan PountneyFormat... -
Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The "Returned Yank" in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present by Sinead Moynihan
£30.09Drawing on historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" in the cultural imagination, taking as its point of departure the most exhaustively discussed Returned Yank narrative, The Quiet... -
Alain Robbe-Grillet by John Fletcher
RRP: £31.99£28.33Alain Robbe-Grillet had traditionally been seen as an austere experimentalist in fiction, addicted to arid and interminable descriptions of objects like coffee pots, erasers and pieces of string. His own rather bellicose theoretical pronouncements were... -
Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences by Kostas Boyiopoulos
RRP: £135.00£117.68Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one... -
The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention by David Letzler
RRP: £50.00£43.41A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, has attracted wildly varied responses, from fanatical devotion to trenchant criticism. Looking at... -
The Plays of Harold Pinter by Andrew Wyllie
£26.93This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays, charting the controversies which have arisen in response to... -
Jeanette Winterson and Religion by Emily McAvan
£104.28Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have... -
Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture by Alex Goody
RRP: £110.00£89.27A contemporary collection of scholarly essays exploring the vibrant intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studies Presents the diverse range of intersections between modernist and critical animal studies Includes cutting-edge... -
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: £108.00£93.40In 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
£52.62Examines 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... -
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£19.25A 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£74.13"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
£84.29V.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... -
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... -
Collecting as Modernist Practice by Jeremy Braddock
RRP: £25.00£22.03In 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...