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Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America by Liliana M. Naydan 9780820360560
RRP: $34.77$28.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820360560Author Liliana M. NaydanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Fortnightly Reviews: Poetry Notes 2012-2014 by Peter Riley 9780692373057
RRP: $22.58$20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692373057Author Peter RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Odd VolumesPublisher Odd VolumesWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Autistic-Coded Representation and Autism Stereotypes: Looking for the Spectrum by Martin Brick 9781666910001
RRP: $99.33$89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666910001Author Martin BrickFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction by Jaime Harrison 9781802074710
$131.08What does it mean to be human in a world increasingly determined by algorithms? How can fiction articulate identity and subjectivity in the face of technology which seeks to reduce us to raw data? These questions drive a growing body of fiction about our... -
Understanding Barbara Kingsolver by Ian Tan 9781643364773
RRP: $24.45$20.15A modern understanding of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver's fiction.Book InformationISBN 9781643364773Author Ian TanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South... -
9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels by Danel Olson 9781793638342
RRP: $38.70$35.46Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels returns to the ruins and anguish of 9/11 to pose a question not yet addressed by... -
The Literature of Exclusion: Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature by Andrew C. Wenaus 9781793614636
RRP: $125.13$115.51In the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art, nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war. With their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists sought to "signify no thing." Today, data also... -
The Literature of Exclusion: Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature by Andrew C Wenaus 9781793614650
RRP: $45.15$41.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793614650Author Andrew C WenausFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature by Mara E. Reisman 9781793648464
RRP: $94.17$87.23Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature offers a critical analysis of moral complexity and social responsibility in works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick McGrath, Graham Swift, Andrea Levy, and Jeanette Winterson. Mara Reisman argues... -
Making Use of History in New South African Fiction: Historical Perspectives in Three Post-Apartheid Novels by Sten Pultz Moslund 9788772897844
RRP: $28.37$22.70A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike Nicol's "The Ibis Tapestry", and Zakes Mda's "Ways of Dying". Moslund shows... -
Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions by Yvonne Volkl 9783837666168
RRP: $58.05$46.36During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to ?pandemic fictions? or started to produce their own ?Corona Fictions? across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises... -
Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter by Cecilia Konchar Farr 9781496839312
RRP: $126.42$125.94Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadao Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick... -
Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee by Pawel Wojtas 9781399522571
RRP: $122.55$100.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399522571Author Pawel WojtasFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 626g -
J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism in the Contemporary Novel by Marc Farrant 9781399507783
RRP: $116.10$94.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399507783Author Marc FarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 558g -
No Judgment: Essays by Lauren Oyler 9780063235359
RRP: $37.40$21.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063235359Author Lauren OylerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 644g -
The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr 9780241678503
RRP: $32.25$22.73A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American... -
Mystical Symbolism and the Posthuman in the 20th and 21st Century Poetic Voice of Ana Rossetti: The Purple Gladiolus and the Mystic's Map by Robert Simon 9781666900101
RRP: $89.01$79.75This study, spanning c. 1980 to 2016, offers an alternative critical perspective of the poetic works of the acclaimed Spanish poet Ana Rossetti. At its core, it explores the presence of Posthumanism and the mystical in late 20th and early 21st Century... -
Read My Plate: The Literature of Food by Deborah R. Geis 9781498574433
RRP: $104.49$96.12Whether 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... -
Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality by Alison Gibbons 9781496234612
RRP: $74.82$63.57Readers, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person—an artist and creator—and as a theoretical concept that shapes the way we read literary works. Whether anonymous,... -
Climate Lyricism by Min Hyoung Song 9781478015116
RRP: $118.68$101.16In Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O'Hara, Ilya... -
Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature by Daniel Shank Cruz 9780271095646
RRP: $113.46$98.40Ethics for Apocalyptic Times is about the role literature can play in helping readers cope with our present-day crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the shift toward fascism in global politics. Using the lens of Mennonite... -
Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community by Daniel Shank Cruz 9780271082448
RRP: $32.19$27.79Though the terms "queer" and "Mennonite" rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have built a body of queer Mennonite literature that shifts... -
Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions by Shameem Black 9780231206037
RRP: $38.70$29.44Yoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism and staged mass yoga sessions, and Indian officials have proposed yoga as a national solution to a range... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes 9780231191609
RRP: $150.93$115.33Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of... -
9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels by Danel Olson 9781793638328
RRP: $104.49$96.12Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels returns to the ruins and anguish of 9/11 to pose a question not yet addressed by... -
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje by Robert Lecker 9780228019039
RRP: $38.69$34.40Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction such as The English Patient, winner of the Golden... -
Nordic Gothic by Maria Holmgren Troy 9781526163950
RRP: $32.25$27.84Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic... -
Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction by Matthew Hart 9780231188388
RRP: $103.20$78.44The 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... -
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio 9780231207560
RRP: $150.93$115.33By 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... -
Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions by Shameem Black 9780231206020
RRP: $150.93$115.33Yoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism and staged mass yoga sessions, and Indian officials have proposed yoga as a national solution to a range... -
Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Situating India by Jyoti Atwal 9780367784607
RRP: $59.33$51.77This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses historical and contemporary developments that trigger violence while... -
The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century by Katharina Donn 9780367222512
RRP: $174.15$151.29How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in... -
Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community by Daniel Shank Cruz 9780271082455
RRP: $101.85$87.81Though the terms "queer" and "Mennonite" rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have built a body of queer Mennonite literature that shifts... -
Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature by Stephanie N. Saunders 9781855663428
RRP: $96.75$93.31In the last two decades, the glorification of sewing - whether involving needlework, tailoring, or fashion design - has thrived in Latin American and Iberian cultural works, particularly literature. While fast fashion has relegated the handicraft to... -
New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature by Dr Casey Michael Henry 9781350178694
RRP: $42.56$13.52How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American... -
Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience by Someshwar Sati 9780815369844
RRP: $174.15$151.29This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of translation to exhibit how disability is constructed... -
Writing the Modern Family: Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberal Culture by Roberta Garrett 9781786605184
RRP: $140.61$129.44Although a large body of work has emerged which addresses neoliberal representations of the family in other cultural forms (such as parenting advice programmes) little has been written specifically on the family and contemporary literature. This book... -
Nordic Gothic by Maria Holmgren Troy 9781526126436
RRP: $109.65$96.12Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic... -
After Postmodernism by Wang Ning 9781032289182
RRP: $51.59$45.23The first comprehensive critique of the critical and cultural theories after postmodernism by a Chinese scholar in a international and comparative manner. Offers a panoramic overview of the critical and cultural theories in the 20th century in a... -
Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers: A Special Collection of Essays by Nina Cornyetz 9781032437330
RRP: $47.72$41.96The book explores the writing of Japanese authors whose work has previously been underrepresented in English-language publications. The contributions feature from a diverse group of scholars from across the spectrum of the academic arena, from...