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Silences by Tillie Olsen 9781558614406
Booksplease Price: €20.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614406Author Tillie OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint < -
Tell ME a Riddle by Tillie Olsen 9780813521374
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €30.44Tell Me a Riddle" renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict... -
Yonnondio: From the Thirties by Tillie Olsen 9780803286214
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.74Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up... -
Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen 9781844085637
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.79ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST GIFTED AMERICAN WRITERS 'Tillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such . . . reverence' MARGARET ATWOOD'Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and... -
The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen by Nancy Huse 9780313287145
Booksplease Price: €78.50The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The essays link Olsen with socialism, feminism, and the American... -
Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works by Tillie Olsen
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €13.03A century after her birth, Tillie Olsen's writing is as relevant as when it first appeared; indeed, the clarity and passion of her vision and style have, if anything, become even more striking over... -
Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision by Elaine Neil Orr 9781604734126
Booksplease Price: €27.41This intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objective is not simply to offer literary criticism but... -
Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature by Anthony Dawahare 9781498578752
Booksplease Price: €46.87Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen’s writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last... -
A Study Guide for Tillie Olsen's O Yes by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375385404
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375385404Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 54I -
Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur by Constance Coiner 9780195056952
Booksplease Price: €91.75Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary... -
A Study Guide for Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375381918
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375381918Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 34I -
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb by Joanne Dearcopp 9780806169361
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.52Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her... -
Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst by Nora Ruth Roberts 9781138868939
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were... -
California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration 9780520275409
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €24.26Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his... -
Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness by Janet Zandy 9780813521220
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €29.63This is a book about working-class identity, consciousness, and self-determination. It offers an alternative to middle-class assimiliation and working-class amnesia. The twenty-five contributors use... -
Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood by Joanne S. Frye 9780815609698
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €27.30A second-year doctoral student from a Midwestern family, Frye is twenty-three when she marries a German professor ten years her senior. Previously sheltered, Frye seeks new vistas but instead finds... -
Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left by Alan M. Wald 9780807853498
Booksplease Price: €51.79Wald offers a comprehensive history and reconsideration of the U.S. literary left in the mid-twentieth century. Recovering the central role Marxist-influenced writers played in fiction, poetry,... -
Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 by Charlotte Nekola 9781642596571
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €34.00This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are... -
Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman by Candace Falk 9781978806467
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €117.45"What this remarkable book does . . . is to remind us of that passion, that revolutionary fervor, that camaraderie, that persistence in the face of political defeat and personal despair so needed in... -
Mother Puzzles: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary American Literature by Mickey Pearlman 9780313264146
Booksplease Price: €90.21Despite extraordinary attention within the past five years by novelists, playwrights, and critics, the subject of mothers and daughters, and motherhood and daughterhood, has remained complicated and... -
Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America by Joseph B. Entin 9780807858349
Booksplease Price: €46.43Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, ""Sensational Modernism"" uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive... -
Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism by Elaine Hedges 9780195073072
Booksplease Price: €121.11Thirty years ago, in a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute, Tillie Olsen first addressed the problem of silences in literature-paving the way for future explorations of the subject, including her... -
The Anna Book: Searching for Anna in Literary History by Mickey Pearlman 9780313275852
Booksplease Price: €91.40Why are so many fictional characters named Anna (or a variant), and what does this signify? The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature (Old Testament Hannah and New... -
Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism by Elizabeth A. Meese 9780807841495
Booksplease Price: €44.91Exploring the controversial question of feminist criticism's relationship to recent critical theory, Elizabeth Meese resists the impulse to encompass women's diverse experiences within a single... -
The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide by M. Keith Booker 9780313304705
Booksplease Price: €79.60Unique in its scope of coverage, this reference work provides students and scholars interested in researching modern American leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place for... -
Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read by Barbara Lounsberry 9780813062952
Booksplease Price: €86.38In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf's multivolume diary, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929. During... -
The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class by Gary Lenhart 9780472069170
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €21.82"The Stamp of Class addresses an important area that has not received sufficient attention. Lenhart directly confronts and deeply analyzes these questions while offering readers his clear,... -
Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish by Myles Weber 9780820326993
RRP: €34.45Booksplease Price: €33.26J. D. Salinger was an author in 1951 when he published The Catcher in the Rye. Is he one now? Was Henry Roth an author during the sixty years that separated Call It Sleep, his literary debut, from... -
Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State by Susan Edmunds 9780195338539
Booksplease Price: €50.68In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as... -
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 by Barbara Foley 9780822313946
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €32.02In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival... -
Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women by Susan Aiken 9780822313908
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €32.02Co-authored by Russian, Ukrainian, and American critics, Dialogues/Dialogi is the first fully collaborative and comparative study of American and (ex)Soviet women writers. Truly a dialogue, the book... -
Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination by 9780814334348
Booksplease Price: €32.68This is a history of representations of American Indians in Jewish literature and popular media. In ""Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination"", author Rachel Rubinstein... -
Going Blind: A Memoir by Mara Faulkner 9781438426686
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €27.82Memoir and meditation on blindness.Finalist for the 2010 Minnesota Book Award presented by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library Mara Faulkner grew up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a... -
Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €25.68While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including... -
Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman by Candace Falk
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94"What this remarkable book does . . . is to remind us of that passion, that revolutionary fervor, that camaraderie, that persistence in the face of political defeat and personal despair so needed in... -
My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria Andrée Blouin 9781839768712
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.21Andree Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial... -
Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose by Jeanne Bryner 9781606353585
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.94What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bedlaughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how... -
The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature by Thomas J. Lyon 9780195124613
Booksplease Price: €36.27The story of western literature is the story of two Wests, the one immediately and deeply persuasive, the second more complex in its intentions and effects. This anthology, gathered and introduced by... -
Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism by Seth Moglen
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen argues that American literary modernism is, at its heart, an effort to mourn for the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. He demonstrates that the most... -
The Golden West: Fifty Years of Bison Books by Alicia Christensen 9780803234888
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.77In the fifty years since its inception in 1961, the Bison Books imprint at the University of Nebraska Press has published some of the best historical, literary, and original western literature. The...