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Spain's Forgotten Novelist: Armando Palacio Valdes (1853-1938) by Brian J. Dendle 9780838752944 [USED COPY]
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £2.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838752944Author Brian J. DendleFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America Jerónimo Arellano 9781684485840
Booksplease Price: £32.66Newly available in paperback, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America is the first study of affect and emotion in magical realist literature. Against the grain of a vast body... -
Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century by Emily M. West 9781684486113
Booksplease Price: £44.22In the eighteenth century, "technology" didn't name a particular device or a process. It referred instead to written accounts of the mechanical arts, a now-obsolete category encompassing the wide... -
Confidences Adela Zamudio (1854-1928) 9781684486052
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Juan is a Bolivian poet at the turn of the century, visiting the city of Cochabamba and writing letters to his friend Armando about the masked sensuality and hostility he feels seething beneath the... -
Bernard MacLaverty Richard Rankin Russell 9781684485611
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.49This newly updated and expanded paperback edition of the first monograph in English on Northern Ireland-born Bernard MacLaverty discusses his fiction in its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and... -
Black California Gold Wendy M Thompson 9781684485505
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold-promising easy riches but... -
Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment by Kevin L. Cope 9781684482016
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.31Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance... -
Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment by Dawn Duke 9781611483031
Booksplease Price: £95.49This study examines Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian women writers, as well as analyzing the roles of women of African descent in Cuban and Brazilian literature. Initially, literary imagination locked... -
Women and Music in the Age of Austen by Linda Zionkowski 9781684485154
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £34.43Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on... -
Faust, A Tragedy, Part I by Eugene Stelzig 9781684481422
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 by Slav N. Gratchev
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This... -
Two Women by Barbara F. Ichiishi
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.42In 1842, a young Cuban woman living in Spain published a novel that was so passionate and boldly feminist in content, it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Two Women... -
Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology by Judith G. Miller 9781684485123
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £107.98Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators... -
Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction by Maureen O'Connor
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960-a book that undermined the nation's ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhood -Edna O'Brien has provoked controversy in her native... -
Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella by Frieda Ekotto
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Don't Whisper Too Much was the first work of fiction by an African writer to present love stories between African women in a positive light. Bona Mbella is the second. In presenting the emotional and... -
Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Shanee Stepakoff 9781684483105
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.68IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award (TM) gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone's devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to...