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The Public Burning by Robert Coover
Booksplease Price: €18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802135278Author Robert CooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Briar Rose by Robert Coover 9780802135414
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802135414Author Robert CooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover 9780802134851
Booksplease Price: €15.60Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse... -
Gerald's Party by Robert Coover 9780802135285
Booksplease Price: €15.72Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor... -
Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover 9780802137432
Booksplease Price: €15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137432Author Robert CooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove... -
Open House by Robert Coover 9781682193891
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682193891Author Robert CooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint OR BooksPublisher OR Books -
Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover 9780802135407
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802135407Author Robert CooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Ghost Town by Robert Coover 9780802136664
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.66A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out... -
Street Cop by Robert Coover 9781735075037
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735075037Author Robert CooverFormat PaperbackImprint ISOLARIIPublisher ISOLARII -
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions by Robert Coover 9780802136671
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.14Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring... -
Granta 2: The Portage Of San Cristobal 9780140145762
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140145762Format PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams)... -
Huck Out West: A Novel by Robert Coover 9780393355499
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.97At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western... -
Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover 9780141192994
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a... -
Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty by Peggy Kamuf
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €74.67Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with death penalty abolitionism for centuries? In this... -
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover 9798896230182
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896230182Author Robert CooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New York Review of... -
Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth by Thomas Pughe 9783764350239
Booksplease Price: €57.06The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more... -
![The Babysitter as the Sexualised Object of Male Fantasies in Robert Coover's "The Babysitter" by Jana Karoff 9783668094727](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8645067/9680296/9783668094727__41382.1750182445.jpg?c=1 "The Babysitter as the Sexualised Object of Male Fantasies in Robert Coover's "The Babysitter" by Jana Karoff 9783668094727")
The Babysitter as the Sexualised Object of Male Fantasies in Robert Coover's "The Babysitter" by Jana Karoff 9783668094727
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668094727Author Jana KaroffFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Metafictional Muse, The: The Works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass by Larry McCaffery 9780822984894
RRP: €58.25Booksplease Price: €54.24McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term “metafiction” here refers to a strain in... -
Parodistic Intertextuality and Intermediality in Postmodern American Fiction: Robert Coover and Kathy Acker by Matthias Voller 9783838602011
RRP: €74.85Booksplease Price: €66.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838602011Author Matthias VollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Diplom.dePublisher Diplom... -
Fiction in the Quantum Universe by Susan Strehle 9780807843659
Booksplease Price: €48.17In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a... -
Understanding T. C. Boyle by Paul Gleason 9781570037801
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.86This is the first critical companion to the works of this darkly comic short story writer and novelist. ""Understanding T. C. Boyle"" is the first book-length study of one of contemporary America's... -
Understanding David Foster Wallace by Marshall Boswell 9781643360690
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so... -
Understanding David Foster Wallace by Marshall Boswell 9781643360683
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €87.58Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so... -
Preserving the Spell: Basile's the Tale of Tales and its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition by Armando Maggi
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €56.64Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today,... -
Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture by Linda S. Kauffman
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €28.77Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art,... -
Discourse Deixis in Metafiction: The Language of Metanarration, Metalepsis and Disnarration by Andrea MacRae
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.86This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels. Building on existing scholarship in the field, the book begins by... -
Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.06Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. However, argues Elizabeth Wanning Harries in this provocative book, a vital part of this history has... -
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691160580
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.41In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms... -
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691173672
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €32.12In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms... -
American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction. by Jaroslav Kusnir 9783898215145
Booksplease Price: €32.38Jaroslav Ku nir's book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej... -
Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction by Stacey Olster 9780521109802
Booksplease Price: €38.22Post-modernist fiction apparently presents a world of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility. Focusing on American post-modernist writers, Stacey Olster offers a challenge to... -
Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction by Stacey Olster 9780521363839
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €97.25Post-modernist fiction apparently presents a world of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility. Focusing on American post-modernist writers, Stacey Olster offers a challenge to... -
Novels and Arguments: Inventing Rhetorical Criticism by Zahava K. McKeon 9780226560342
Booksplease Price: €45.72In this absorbing study-the first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novel-Zahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and... -
Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale by Stephen Benson 9780814332542
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €24.86This book considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette... -
Intimations: Stories by Alexandra Kleeman 9780062388704
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062388704Author Alexandra KleemanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism by James Baxter 9783030815745
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.77Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert... -
Scholes Loves a Story. a Book for Bob by Geoffrey Green 9780557695324
RRP: €25.59Booksplease Price: €24.42To celebrate Robert Scholes, writers created this secret book of stories about him as a tribute to his generosity of spirit, his time, his friendship, & his personality. Jenny Anger * Robert... -
Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa 9789811950278
Booksplease Price: €84.35This book discusses how American literary modernism and postmodernism interconnect memory and identity and if, and how, the intertwining of memory and identity has been related to the dominant... -
Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa 9789811950247
Booksplease Price: €109.21This book discusses how American literary modernism and postmodernism interconnect memory and identity and if, and how, the intertwining of memory and identity has been related to the dominant... -
Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies by Cristina Bacchilega
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through...