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Correspondence by Herman Melville 9780810109957
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $77.30The letters by and to Melville in this volume extend from letters he wrote at the age of nine in 1828 to ones he sent and received during the year before his death at seventy-two in 1891. To fill the... -
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch 9780226498195
Booksplease Price: $194.25At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, characters in books... -
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Lynch
Booksplease Price: $63.90At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, characters in books... -
My Antonia by Willa Cather 9780803264335
Booksplease Price: $58.09Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, My Antonia secured Willa Cather's place in the first rank of American writers. Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in... -
A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources for Fantasy and Science Fiction by Marshall B. Tymn 9780367334635
Booksplease Price: $73.96Academic attention to science fiction and fantasy began in 1958, when the Modern Language Association scheduled its first seminar on science fiction at its New York meeting. Over the years science... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780803214576
Booksplease Price: $146.64Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, "the first time I walked off on my own feet-everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired... -
The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Linda Trinh Moser 9781682173947
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $169.70Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.Maxine Hong... -
A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Marshall B. Tymn 9780367334611
Booksplease Price: $235.85Academic attention to science fiction and fantasy began in 1958, when the Modern Language Association scheduled its first seminar on science fiction at its New York meeting. Over the years science... -
After Strange Texts by Gregory S. Jay 9780817302245
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.59In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question:... -
The World of René Girard: Interviews by Nadine Dormoy 9781611864861
Booksplease Price: $113.25In 1988, Nadine Dormoy conducted a series of interviews with RenE Girard at a pivotal moment in his career, just after a number of books and conferences had situated his work in a new context of... -
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler 9780415289894
Booksplease Price: $32.21A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of... -
Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 by Steven Justice 9780520206977
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $56.66In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the... -
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.43A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of... -
Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh by Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui 9780312294410
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $69.72This book is about transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui explores the figure of the transvestite and his/her relation to the... -
Arguedas / Vargas Llosa: Dilemmas and Assemblages by Mabel Morana 9781137575227
Booksplease Price: $190.18An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel... -
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 9780803214279
Booksplease Price: $146.64First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental... -
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place by Kevin A. Morrison
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $197.78An interdisciplinary study of British liberalism in the nineteenth century Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political... -
Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh by Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui 9780312294403
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $70.85This book is about transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui explores the figure of the transvestite and his/her relation to the... -
Moby-dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville 9780810119116
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.11This edition of ""Moby-Dick"", released in honour of the book's 150th anniversary, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers set out in pursuit of a... -
Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society by Deborah Brandt 9780470401347
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.60Deborah Brandt, a recipient of the Grawemeyer Award, is one of the most influential figures in literacy and education. Brandt has dedicated her career to the status of reading and writing in the... -
Janet Frame in Focus: Women Analyze the Works of the New Zealand Writer by Josephine A. McQuail 9781476669731
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $65.14New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) during her lifetime published 11 novels, three collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. The details of her life--her... -
The History of Language Teaching from The Spanish-American War Until the Sputnik Moment: From Hot to Cold Wars Harley Jay Siskin 9783031750557
Booksplease Price: $243.81This book highlights the lively exchanges that shaped foreign-language pedagogy and educational policy during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. It is critically important to revivify... -
Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s by Robert D. Denham 9780786460694
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $71.36This book brings together letters from 89 of Northrop Frye's students, friends, and acquaintances in which they record their recollections of him as a teacher and a person during the 1940s and... -
An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China by J. Hillis Miller 9780810131620
Booksplease Price: $78.75Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory. Over time, he has assisted in the development of... -
Shakespeare's Religious Frontier by Robert Stevenson 9789401537636
Booksplease Price: $193.39THIS slight volume is addressed not to Shakespearean special ists, but rather to the general public. My chief purpose has been to view Shakespeare's manipulation of his clergy. The last three... -
Poets on Paintings by 9780786447251
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $119.01Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465292
Booksplease Price: $97.19Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990 by Robert D. Denham 9780786441983
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), providing biographical details, information on Wright's sources... -
Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry by Thomas M. Greene 9780300027655
Booksplease Price: $135.03"Extraordinarily rich and awesomely learned.... The complexity of its subject matter is here mastered in an exemplary fashion. The study offers detailed, concrete, and perceptive assessments of... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465322
Booksplease Price: $97.19Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire by Katie Trumpener
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $93.56This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw... -
National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion by Professor Erin Hurley 9781487521332
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How... -
The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact by Gary Tomlinson 9780521110174
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $44.63In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural... -
National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion by Erin Hurley 9781442640955
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $66.68In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How... -
The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930 by Meredith Martin
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth... -
Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez 9780801453830
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $88.45In Chariots of Ladies, Nuria Silleras-Fernandez traces the development of devotion and female piety among the Iberian aristocracy from the late Middle Ages into the Golden Age, and from Catalonia to... -
Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer by Robert Cochran, Jr. 9780803215467
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.17Louise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted women's sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work... -
Literature, Language, and Politics by Betty Jean Craige 9780820338071
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $51.24Literature, Language, and Politics brings together papers drawn from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on "Politics and the Discipline" held at the 1987 Modern Language... -
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 47: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series by Reinhold F. Glei 9781538157909
Booksplease Price: $173.73Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since... -
Pro-Choice/Pro-Life: An Annotated, Selected Bibliography (1972-1989) by Joan P. Diana 9780313275791
Booksplease Price: $139.84This book represents the first compilation for pro-choice and pro-life issues into one annotated publication. Richard Fitzsimmons and Joan P. Diana provide an objective, comprehensive listing of all...