Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593766771Author Chelsea MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258620Author Christine HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Mad Creek BooksPublisher Mad Creek Books

This is the first book of essays by a major new Irish non-fiction writer from the West of Ireland, comparable to the celebrated Kilkenny essayist Hubert Butler first published by The Lilliput Press and subsequently widely acclaimed. Gerard McCarthy’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889773714Author Glen SorestadFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Regina PressPublisher University of Regina PressWeight(grams) 152g

Bruce Stovel championed Jane Austen studies and blues music with equal measures of expertise and passion. The outpouring of affection at the celebration of Bruce's life and at a subsequent musical tribute inspired the plan for a book that would celebrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524749095Author Emma SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476749525Author Christopher BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476789972Author Andrew BlaunerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258828Author Paul CrenshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739987411Author Sam MooreFormat PaperbackImprint Queer Street PressPublisher Queer Street Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776329496Author M. BrutonFormat PaperbackImprint Footprint PressPublisher Footprint Press

This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent 'war on terror'. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration...

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415290791Author Wilson KnightFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 544g

From Sioux Falls to Khartoum, from Kyoto to Darwin; from the panchayat forests to the Giant's Causeway; in taxis and at bus stops, in kitchens and sleigh beds, haystacks and airports-people are kissing one another. The sublime kiss. The ambiguous kiss...

Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration,...

The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 contains award-winning features, exposes, and profiles along with extraordinary commentary, fiction, and poetry from America's leading magazines. This year's selections include stories that not only covered the...

This work presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology. The author analyzes the interplay of liberal and authoritarian impulses in Emerson's work in various domains:...

"The only way out," writes Howard Nemerov, "is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present-henceforth?-the subject to...

The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers' Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in...

An inspirational, allegorical guide to living. 'The Prophet' is the most famous work of religious fiction in the twentieth century and had sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran has his protagonist, called Simply the prophet,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780821409602Author William Dean HowellsFormat HardbackPage Count 395Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University Press

Peter S. Prescott was one of the most informed and incisive American literary critics to write for the general public. Never content merely to summarize or to pronounce quick judgments, Prescott's reviews are witty and delightful essays to be enjoyed for...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415606622Author Wilson KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, Room considers the subject of 'women and fiction.'...

Devastated by the series of terrorist attacks that killed 130 people - the deadliest attacks on France since World War II - Lustiger, a German journalist living in Paris, set out to find answers to the questions that obsessed her: why has our generation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353380Author A. K. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640092532Author Marion WinikFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064602Author Andria AlefhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 80g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604868258Author Karen Joy FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272660Author Richard KostelanetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint AutonomediaPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 389g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569025437Author Micere Githae MugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

In Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, Deaf New Englander William B. Swett recounts his adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the late 1860s. Given to us in short, energetic episodes, Swett tells daring stories of narrow escapes from death and...

This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies.The individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by...

Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of...

Isabel Paterson is widely recognized as an advocate of radical individualism and a prophet of the libertarian movement. She influenced a wide variety of libertarian and conservative writers and public figures, from Ayn Rand to William F. Buckley, Jr. In...

'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New YorkFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of...

The Walled Garden is a unique collection of short essays addressing a wide variety of subjects. From an exploration of the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Federico Fellini to an update on the linguistic theories of Ernest Fenollosa, from a look into the...

Fast Fallen Women includes 75 previously unpublished pieces on the topic of the ways in which women fall- whether they reach the boundaries of their lives and take flight, whether they stumble, or are pushed over the edge. Holding a compact...