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Kurt Vonnegut by Jerome Klinkowitz
Booksplease Price: £108.12Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to... -
Kurt Vonnegut by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780367346669
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to... -
Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780822311522
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents... -
With the Tigers over China, 1941-1942 by Jerome Klinkowitz
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £29.97In the twelve months centered around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a diverse group of American and British flyers fought one of the most remarkable air campaigns of WWII. Pilots including... -
Frank Lloyd Wright and his Manner of Thought by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780299301446
Booksplease Price: £23.98An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome... -
Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan: The Postmodern Habit of Thought by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780820340166
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £30.06Jerome Klinkowitz presents an opening attempt to define postmodernism as it applies to the arts and culture. Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the... -
The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780820339429
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £27.18In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had... -
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered by Jim O'Loughlin 9780817320119
Booksplease Price: £44.07A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), who began his writing career working for popular... -
New Essays on Rabbit Run by Stanley Trachtenberg 9780521438841
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Still John Updike's most popular and critically acclaimed novel, Rabbit Run introduced the character of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one of those middle-class Americans who, in Updike's words, aren't... -
Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa by La Vinia Delois Jennings 9780521173391
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.21Toni Morrison's fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. La Vinia Jennings reveals the fundamental role African traditional religious symbols... -
Medicl Research Novel by Scott 9780879725525
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome... -
Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After by Marcel Cornis-Pope 9780312238377
Booksplease Price: £46.58Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a... -
Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After by Marcel Cornis-Pope 9781349631827
Booksplease Price: £46.28Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a... -
The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War by Philip D. Beidler
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12In these essays, a combination of personal remembrance and broad-stroke cultural history, Philip Beidler addresses the culture and politics of post WWII America: the national blindness toward the... -
Critifiction: Postmodern Essays by Raymond Federman 9780791416808
Booksplease Price: £24.35This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and... -
Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel by Kathryn Hume 9780801450013
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £40.68A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine... -
Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays by Charles D. Augello 9781476690704
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £35.97This collection of 29 interviews explores the outer reaches of the Kurt Vonnegut universe. Conversations reveal how Robert B. Weide's letter to Kurt led to a long friendship and an acclaimed... -
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture by Robert O'Meally 9780231104494
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.62Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art...