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The Origins of Dislike by Amit Chaudhuri 9780198793823
RRP: £27.49£19.78'Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers... -
The Living Are Few, The Dead Many: Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn by Hans Henny Jahnn 9781900565592
RRP: £12.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565592Author Hans Henny JahnnFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Reading for Life by Philip Davis 9780198815983
RRP: £31.99£28.00Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It... -
We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century by Mabel Moraña 9780826506702
RRP: £103.00£83.67We the Barbarians embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in December of 2021, the work... -
Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction by Alexandra Lawrie 9781474463454
RRP: £19.99£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474463454Author Alexandra LawrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism by Arin Keeble 9781474478670
RRP: £95.00£77.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474478670Author Arin KeebleFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Best Literary Translations 2024 by Jane Hirshfield 9781646053353
RRP: £19.00£12.95Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary... -
Understanding Jonathan Franzen by Timothy W. Galow 9781643363714
RRP: £18.95£15.62The first comprehensive study to address Franzen's work to date, including his latest novel, Crossroads. Jonathan Franzen-novelist and essayist-is a critical darling, commercial success, and magnet for controversy. His third novel, The Corrections... -
Anarchists in the Academy: Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry by Dani Spinosa 9781772123760
RRP: £21.99£17.60Dani Spinosa takes up anarchism's power as a cultural and artistic ideology, rather than as a political philosophy, with a persistent emphasis on the common. She demonstrates how postanarchism offers a useful theoretical context for poetry that is not... -
Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Literature by Katherine D. Johnston 9781609388935
RRP: £77.00£62.88Algorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. These stories are being told inside boardrooms, banks, presidential briefings,... -
Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction by Cheryl Cowdy 9780228010647
£64.73Though a large proportion of Canadians live in suburban communities, the Canadian cultural imaginary is filled with other landscapes. The wilderness, the prairie, cityscapes, and small towns are the settings by which we define our nation, rather than the... -
Battle Beyond Kurukshetra: A Mahabharata Novel by P.K. Balakrishnan 9780199480166
RRP: £21.99£19.93This book is the English translation of the Malayalam novel 'Ini Njan Urangatte' (And Now Let Me Sleep), a novel that subsists on the Mahabharata. The book is unparalleled in its lofty language, imagery, and depth and is considered one of the best... -
Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe by Michael Lackey
£31.70How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the... -
Reading Hilary Mantel by Dr Lucy Arnold
RRP: £110.00£109.56From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of Hilary Mantel are often haunted by supernatural figures... -
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio 9780231207577
RRP: £30.00£22.82By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigrants create ethnic communities and maintain ties to... -
Reading for Life by Philip Davis
RRP: £19.49£16.73Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It... -
Understanding Jennifer Egan by Alexander Moran 9781643362250
RRP: £17.95£14.85Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Alexander Moran examines each of Egan's varied published works,... -
Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction by Matthew Hart
RRP: £25.00£19.18The future of fiction is neither global nor national. Instead, Matthew Hart argues, it is trending extraterritorial. Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. They cut across geography and history but do not point... -
Pedagogy of the Depressed by Dr. Christopher Schaberg
RRP: £16.99£15.11This book is one English professor's assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly... -
China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature by Duncan M. Yoon 9781009300278
£96.39China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope encompasses how China, which emerged as a main engine of the... -
Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused by Anita Wohlmann 9781399500876
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399500876Author Anita WohlmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century by Mabel Moraña 9780826506696
RRP: £33.95£27.99We the Barbarians embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in December of 2021, the work... -
Tabsrey wo Jaizey: (Reviews) by Mohammad Ameen 9789358723182
RRP: £19.99£14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358723182Author Mohammad AmeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 132g -
Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies by Jacqueline A. Zubeck 9781498548687
RRP: £35.00£32.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bhala Galpa: Bhumi O Bhumika by Gourahari Das 9781645604013
£13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645604013Author Gourahari DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 240g -
Understanding Barbara Kingsolver by Ian Tan 9781643364766
RRP: £98.00£79.67The most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara KingsolverIn Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, Ian Tan situates Kingsolver's oeuvre in an ecocritical and ecofeminist context and argues that her work puts... -
The City Speaks: Urban Spaces in Indian Literature by Subashish Bhattacharjee 9781032347721
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book studies the significance and representation of the ‘city’ in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists. It demonstrates how cities give birth to social images, perspectives, and complexities, and explores the ways in which... -
Jamon and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucia by Christina Civantos 9781943208364
RRP: £21.99£19.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943208364Author Christina CivantosFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Amherst CollegePublisher Amherst CollegeWeight(grams) 152g -
Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies by Jacqueline A. Zubeck 9781498548663
RRP: £94.00£86.56Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author's work published in the 21st century: The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K, the plays Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short... -
Journal of Beat Studies Vol. 5 by Ronna Johnson 9781935625926
RRP: £40.00£34.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625926Author Ronna JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 413g -
Project Mayhem by Pauli D Loeffler 9781533366405
RRP: £12.99£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533366405Author Pauli D LoefflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others after 9/11: Homeland Insecurity by Lopamudra Basu 9781498558242
RRP: £85.00£78.81Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity examines playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar's contributions to multiple genres including film and theatre. This book situates Akhtar's oeuvre within the social and... -
Read My Plate: The Literature of Food by Deborah R Geis 9781498574457
RRP: £35.00£31.88Whether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: The Literature of Food explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the... -
Real Recognition: What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity by Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl 9781032340944
RRP: £39.99£35.06Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on... -
Coloniality in Discourse Studies: A Radical Critique by Solange Maria de Barros 9781032324609
RRP: £39.99£35.06The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals what different research fields – such as sociology of language, social psychology, history and political science,... -
Understanding Jennifer Egan by Alexander Moran 9781643362243
RRP: £52.00£42.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643362243Author Alexander MoranFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina... -
Understanding Stewart O'Nan by Heike Paul 9781643361499
RRP: £52.00£42.30This first book-length study of Stewart O'Nan's work offers a comprehensive introduction to his writings and carefully examines recurring thematic concerns and stylistic characteristics of his novels. The author of eighteen novels, several works of... -
Understanding Jonathan Franzen by Timothy W. Galow 9781643363707
RRP: £57.00£46.26The first comprehensive study to address Franzen's work to date, including his latest novel, Crossroads. Jonathan Franzen—novelist and essayist—is a critical darling, commercial success, and magnet for controversy. His third novel, The Corrections... -
Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Novels by Associate Professor Rebecca Suter 9780824889814
RRP: £29.95£24.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824889814Author Associate Professor Rebecca SuterFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii... -
Understanding Chuck Palahniuk by Douglas Keesey 9781611176971
RRP: £35.95£29.57Ever since his first novel, Fight Club, was made into a cult film by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk has been a consistent presence on the New York Times best-seller list. A target of critics but a fan favorite, Palahniuk has been loathed and loved in...