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Bad Modernisms by Douglas Mao
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €90.61Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's most vibrant... -
The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.24This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise,... -
Bad Modernisms by Douglas Mao 9780822337973
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's most vibrant... -
The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao 9781108487061
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €107.09This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise,... -
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice by Douglas Mao
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.97A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present,... -
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice by Douglas Mao 9780691212302
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €102.67A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present,... -
Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 by Douglas Mao 9780691146614
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in... -
The Contemporaneity of Modernism: Literature, Media, Culture Michael D'Arcy (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) 9781138547643
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.32At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the... -
Utopian Spaces of Modernism: Literature and Culture, 1885-1945 by Rosalyn Gregory 9780230303720
Booksplease Price: €55.62This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their... -
Utopia Duncan Bell 9780198922889
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €93.96Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings' social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different... -
Utopia Duncan Bell 9780198922872
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.63Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings' social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different... -
American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century Xavier Kalck 9781350419476
Booksplease Price: €108.75Offering a new introduction to an important yet often overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines their work as a group while giving special attention to their individual... -
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century by Ms. Alice Reeve-Tucker 9780230358935
Booksplease Price: €55.62Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions;... -
Aesthetic Subjects by Pamela Matthews 9780816639939
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €22.06Demonstrates the remarkable resurgence of interest in the aestheticRecent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning... -
The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics by Rachel Teukolsky 9780199739233
Booksplease Price: €33.22In Victorian Britain, authors produced a luminous and influential body of writings about the visual arts. From John Ruskin's five-volume celebration of J. M.W. Turner to Walter Pater's essays on the... -
The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism by Professor Sean Latham
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €42.26Bringing together 17 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the field of modernist studies at the turn... -
Modernism and the Ordinary by Liesl Olson 9780199349784
RRP: €52.35Booksplease Price: €37.29Traditionally literary modernism has been seen as a movement marked by transcendent epiphanies, episodes of estrangement, and a privileging of the extraordinary. Yet modernist writings often take... -
Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy by Jamie Callison 9781474457224
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €102.57Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious... -
Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture, 1947–2000 Lynn M. Somers 9781350378865
Booksplease Price: €126.09This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play,... -
The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability Sharon Cameron 9780226837048
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €105.37A study of the incommensurable, often discordant elements that define major works of American literature. In Sharon Cameron's essays, a magnetic constellation gathers works of Emerson, Whitman,... -
Decadence in the Age of Modernism by Kate Hext 9781421429427
Booksplease Price: €58.37The first holistic reappraisal of the significance of the decadent movement, from the 1900s through the 1930s.Decadence in the Age of Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all... -
Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899-1939 by Richard Begam 9780822340386
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial... -
On Close Reading Professor John Guillory 9780226837437
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €18.09John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental... -
On Close Reading Professor John Guillory 9780226837420
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €105.37John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental... -
The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination by Ravit Reichman
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €47.48Unhampered by the practical limits lawyers and judges face, literature expresses the unspoken sentiments that underpin legal doctrine. Through readings of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Hannah... -
The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives by Melanie Micir 9780691259260
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.86How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary historyIt's impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the... -
The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism Matthew Hayward 9780231217453
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.85In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At the University of Papua New Guinea and... -
The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism Matthew Hayward 9780231217446
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €109.03In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At the University of Papua New Guinea and... -
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes by Jill Richards 9780231197106
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €109.03In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women's movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals... -
Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel by Dora Zhang
Booksplease Price: €29.51The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description-what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool." As a result, critics have largely neglected... -
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes by Jill Richards
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.85In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women's movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals... -
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism by Rhonda K. Garelick
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.39Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international...