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Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays Adam J. Frank 9780810148079
RRP: $207.90$176.72Returns 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: $161.70$137.45Crime 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... -
Japanische Thomas Mann-Übersetzung zwischen Kulturheteronomie und Emanzipation: Tonio Kröger-Retranslations im digitalen Topic Modeling Nicole Marion Mueller 9783662695685
RRP: $73.48$62.45In 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: $201.60$171.36The 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: $283.50$240.98George 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: $231.00$196.35Apologies 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: $189.00$160.65Exploring 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: $178.50$151.73In 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: $79.70$67.75Apologies 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: $71.30$60.61Returns 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: $151.77$129.00Apologies 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: $188.98$160.63Gabriele 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...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $188.98$160.63Subtotal: -
The Pound Biennial: Vol. 1 Anderson Araujo 9781638040354
RRP: $199.50$169.58Apologies 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: $105.00$89.25Günter 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: $105.00$89.25In 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
$142.25Originally 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... -
These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks Joseph R. Millichap 9781621909408
RRP: $56.60$48.11The 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
$189.71Through 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
RRP: $209.98$209.39This 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: $241.50$205.28In 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: $62.98$57.54This 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: $41.98$38.60The 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: $104.98$89.23In 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: $104.98$89.23Subtotal: -
Postcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature Ambreen Hai 9780197698006
$168.48Postcolonial 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
RRP: $182.70$158.61A 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: $58.78$50.69A 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: $167.98$142.78Der 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: $209.98$178.48This 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: $209.98$178.48Subtotal: -
Gombrowicz: An Introduction Aleksandra Konarzewska 9781032010434
RRP: $102.88$89.59This 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: $105.00$89.25Though 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: $126.00$120.02A 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... -
John Berger: Ways of Learning Iona Heath 9780192864239
$39.88Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger. In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John... -
Cicely Saunders and Total Pain: Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life Joe Wood 9781399531061
RRP: $199.50$169.58Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders' term 'total pain' has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person's pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological,... -
George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions Krystyna Wieszczek 9781032409535
RRP: $283.50$240.98George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell’s Polish reception during WWII and the cold war. Offering a tri-partite approach to studying reception in conditions of state-imposed censorship – from émigré, official and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $283.50$240.98Subtotal: -
Teaching Anne Frank and Other Difficult Life Stories Waltraud Maierhofer 9781032645148
RRP: $283.50$240.98This volume, grounded in the “Diary of a Young Girl” and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the 21st century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $283.50$240.98Subtotal: -
Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller Kirsten Reimers 9783662689653
RRP: $209.98$178.48Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller zählen zu den wichtigsten Dramenautoren der Weimarer Republik. Politisch gab es zu Lebzeiten zahlreiche Berührungspunkte zwischen beiden, und ebenso finden sich hinsichtlich ihres ästhetisch avancierten Anspruchs mit...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $209.98$178.48Subtotal: -
Graham Greene John Spurling 9781032871066
RRP: $105.00$89.25Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outsiders and his most typical plot is that of the hunter and the hunted. In this book, originally published in... -
The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar Geographies Johannes Riquet 9781526174017
RRP: $189.00$160.65The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped – and are currently transforming – the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and... -
Bigger: A Literary Life Trudier Harris 9780300269321
RRP: $39.88$35.62A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and...