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Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 by Richard Adelman
Booksplease Price: $62.63Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness and aesthetic consciousness during the... -
Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation by Ato Quayson 9780231139038
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.20Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of... -
Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present by Richard Begam 9780199980970
Booksplease Price: $83.05As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global... -
What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon by Ankhi Mukherjee 9780804795258
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring... -
Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa by Byron Caminero-Santangelo
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.31Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and... -
Experimental Life Writing Today Professor Vanessa Guignery 9781350529915
Booksplease Price: $167.02This comprehensive volume offers compelling critical essays surveying the myriad forms of innovation in contemporary Anglophone life writing. Experimental Life Writing Today provides a historical and... -
Step Across This Line Salman Rushdie 9780099421870
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including... -
Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Stephen Morton 9780745632858
Booksplease Price: $38.43Gayatri Chakravorty Spivaks seminal contribution to contemporary thought defies disciplinary boundaries. From her early translations of Derrida to her subsequent engagement with Marxism, feminism and... -
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Joyce Carol Oates 9780062564504
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $36.04A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" ... -
Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction by Thom Dancer 9780192893321
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $149.99From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing humanity can feel impossible to solve. Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction argues that contemporary fiction helps... -
Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms by Katia Pizzi 9783031355455
Booksplease Price: $218.63This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It... -
Speaking in Tongues J.M. Coetzee 9781787305137
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language... -
Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future by Rajeshwari S. Vallury 9781498570381
Booksplease Price: $167.02Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone... -
Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form by Doug Battersby 9780192863331
Booksplease Price: $204.24In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a... -
Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination by Taylor Eggan 9780813946849
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's... -
The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader Peter D McDonald 9781399524414
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $44.07The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls... -
J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography by Marc Farrant
Booksplease Price: $65.31Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records... -
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa by Chielozona Eze 9781580469333
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41Examines the importance of South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy, especially in light of Nelson Mandela's belief that cosmopolitan dreams are not only desirable but a binding duty. ... -
The Museum of Useless Efforts by Cristina Peri Rossi 9780803287648
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite... -
Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture by Peter Balakian 9780226254333
Booksplease Price: $48.36Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three. "I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary... -
Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity by Donald R. Wehrs 9781611494426
Booksplease Price: $233.22In thirteen essays on writers ranging from Virginia Woolf and A. A. Milne to J. M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature puts the thought of the twentieth century's... -
Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity by Donald R. Wehrs 9781611496505
Booksplease Price: $117.76In thirteen essays on writers ranging from Virginia Woolf and A. A. Milne to J. M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature puts the thought of the twentieth century's... -
Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late-Twentieth-Century Novels by Shameem Black 9780231149785
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.35Theorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing "the Other." Shameem Black takes a different stance. Turning a fresh eye... -
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: The Stoke Newington Edition by Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) 9781684480968
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $73.24Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years... -
Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road Darius Brubeck 9780252088261
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Catherine and Darius Brubeck's 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the... -
Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi by Victor Brombert
Booksplease Price: $30.85“All art and the love of art,” Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality, “allow us to negate our nothingness.” As a young man returning from World War II,... -
The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art Wendy Steiner 9780226772196
Booksplease Price: $56.26Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and America's Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Face-book and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing... -
In the Middle of Nowhere: J.M. Coetzee in South Africa by Jonathan Crewe 9780761866930
Booksplease Price: $65.31Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee's formation as a writer of international prominence,... -
Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road Darius Brubeck 9780252046179
RRP: $200.85Booksplease Price: $155.61Catherine and Darius Brubeck's 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the... -
J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography by Marc Farrant 9781350165953
Booksplease Price: $201.06Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records... -
The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments by Andrew Linzey
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3 million animals in experiments-a normalization of the unthinkable on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death,... -
Hamlet's Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare by David Schalkwyk 9781441129284
Booksplease Price: $53.78Hamlet's Dreams brings together the Robben Island Prison of Nelson Mandela and the prison that is Denmark for Shakespeare's Hamlet. David Shalkwyk uses the circulation of the so-called 'Robben Island... -
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary by Stephen Clingman 9780199653812
Booksplease Price: $116.20In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of... -
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer,... -
Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? by Blakey Vermeule
Booksplease Price: $56.69Blakey Vermeule wonders how readers become involved in the lives of fictional characters, people they know do not exist. Vermeule examines the ways in which readers' experiences of literature are... -
Borrowed Forms: The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction by Kathryn Lachman 9781781380307
Booksplease Price: $88.32An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Borrowed Forms examines the use of music by contemporary novelists and critics from... -
Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries by Sumana Roy 9780300266139
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.32From the acclaimed author of How I Became a Tree, an enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world "A striking mix of memoir and literary... -
Animals and the Human Imagination: A Companion to Animal Studies by Aaron Gross 9780231152969
RRP: $261.30Booksplease Price: $207.15Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals'... -
Theory After 'Theory' by Derek Attridge 9780415484190
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of... -
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933 by Joseph Roth 9780393325829
Booksplease Price: $32.45The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw...