Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
W. W. Norton & Company Prousts Way A Field Guide to the Search for Lost Time
Book Synopsis"Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times
£20.00
W. W. Norton & Company Warrior Poet A Biography of Audre Lorde
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and "essential" (Choice) biography of the author, poet, and American icon of womanhood, black arts, and survival.Trade Review"Warrior Poet is a literary event of considerable significance." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A clearly written and extensively researched volume that is every bit as formidable as Lorde herself was, and will likely be regarded as the definitive study of the controversial poet." -- Buffalo News"De Veaux’s thorough tale of a complicated artist is compelling. Lorde comes to life, and her powerful prose is presented in a whole new light." -- Essence
£23.75
WW Norton & Co Literary Outlaw
Book SynopsisAlmost indecently readable . . . captures [Burroughs s] destructive energy, his ferocious pessimism, and the renegade brilliance of his style. VogueTrade Review"I was captivated. . . . Funny. . . exhaustive . . . clear-sighted." -- Paul Theroux"Triumphant. . . . Unsparingly naturalistic reporting at its best." -- Washington Post
£35.62
Random House USA Inc James Joyce
Book SynopsisWith the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert presents a work that is at once scholarly, authoritative and stimulating.
£12.84
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Serious Money Student Editions
Book SynopsisPerhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play, Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, which has prompted city financiers to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. This edition contains an introduction, commentary and questions for study.Trade ReviewA breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance Independent 'The play is a fine example of the stage's special ability to respond to the big, immediate stories of our day far more forcefully than journalism and much faster than the cinema.' Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday, 17.5.09 'Caryl Churchill's brutally brilliant, savagely funny and appallingly realistic play (1987) about the bankers and dealers and the wheeler-dealers, the publicists and the media vultures who flourished in and around the banks kindly deregulated by Mrs Thatcher' John Peter, Sunday Times, 17.5.09
£15.60
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Full Room An AZ of Contemporary Playwriting Plays and Playwrights
Book SynopsisDominic Dromgoole, a key figure in new British drama, witnessed the explosion of new writing that took place at the end of the millennium. In a series of profiles of over 50 British playwrights this title looks at new plays and theatres which have changed the shape of contemporary British drama.
£26.48
Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminist Poetics Performance Histories
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£60.47
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel
Book SynopsisThe Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel examines the aesthetics of adventure travel since World War II by exploring the many referents travelers evoke as they imagine their escapes: the lingering memory of the war, the disintegration of empire, and the rapid growth of capitalism and commercial culture.Trade Review"well-grounded, systematically organized, and intriguingly new conceptualizations of postmodern subjectivity and the adventure travel genre with wide interdisciplinary appeal." -- Modern Fiction Studies, Kristine A. Wilson, Purdue UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: A Point of EntryAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Introduction: Adventure Travel, Leisure Practice and Social CritiqueChapter Two: The Contemporary Crusoe: Obsessionality and Adventure TravelChapter Three: Postmodern Pilgrimages: Conversion and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the Hysterical Travel NarrativeChapter Four: The Self in Ruins: Mourning and Melancholia in Contemporary Travel WritingChapter Five: Conclusion: Negation as a Lived Critique of Global CultureNotesBibliographyIndex
£176.17
Cambridge University Press American Drama 1900 1990
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£12.89
Cambridge University Press Modernism and After English Literature 19101939 Cambridge Contexts in Literature
Book SynopsisCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Approaching Modernism; 2. Approaching the texts; 3. Texts and extracts; 4. Critical approaches; 5. How to write about the age of Modernism; 6. Resources.
£12.89
Cambridge University Press Contemporary Fiction The Novel since 1990 Cambridge Contexts in Literature
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£12.89
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Gospel According to Tolkien
Book SynopsisReaders have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth...
£19.95
£15.19
Random House USA Inc Animal Farm Everymans Library Contemporary
Book SynopsisOne of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories.“A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.” --The New York TimesThis story of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, is a universal drama. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in Animal Farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message.“Remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history.” --Malcolm Bradbury&ldqu
£17.60
Random House USA Inc Fire Next Time
Book SynopsisA stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington“The finest essay I’ve ever read.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Between the World and MeWith clarity, conviction, and passion, James Baldwin delivers a dire warning of the effects of racism that remains urgent nearly sixty years after its original publication. In the first of two essays, “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” Baldwin offers kind and unflinching counsel on what it means to be Black in the United States and explains the twisted logic of American racism. In “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind,” Baldwin recounts his spiritual journey
£17.60
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Stella Adler on Americas Master Playwrights Eugene ONeill Thornton Wilder Clifford Odets William Saroyan Tennessee Williams William Inge Arth William Inge Arthur Miller Edward Albee
Book SynopsisStella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights brings to life America’s most revered playwrights, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, Adler’s lectures on the giants of twentieth-century theater feature her indispensable insights into such classic plays as “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Come Back, Little Sheba,” “The Glass Menagerie,” and “Death of a Salesman,” while shedding new light on such lesser known gems as Tennessee Williams’s “The Lady of Larkspur Lotion” and Arthur Miller’s
£15.19
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Passionate Minds Women Rewriting the World Vintage
Book SynopsisWith a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art. Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness.'Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus.' ?The Boston Globe'One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time.' ?Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books
£16.47
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature A Difficult Modernity New Readings Series
Book SynopsisRobert S.C. Gordon is Head of Department of Italian, Professor of Modern Italian Culture, and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK. His publications include Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues, The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi, The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010, and on cinema, Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity. He is co-editor of Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th-Century Italy.
£29.44
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
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£22.79
Polity Press Modern Irish Theatre
Book SynopsisThrough analysis of both major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to 20th century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world.Trade Review“Mary Trotter’s Modern Irish Theatre will find a permanent residence on the reading lists for every course I teach on modern and contemporary drama. Her expertise is vast and deep, and this book makes a fine, unique contribution to our knowledge of the ‘infinite variety’ of Irish drama.” Stephen Watt, Indiana University “Through a set of superbly constructed phases Mary Trotter situates twentieth-century Irish theatre in its evolving socio-political contexts. She covers theatrical activities from Belfast to Cork and from Dublin to Galway, analysing along the way a vast array of texts and performances from the high modernism of the early Abbey through to the community theatre of Charabanc. In a highly accessible style she articulates superbly how Irish theatre has performed the nation, how its use of realism can be read as counter-hegemonic, and how representations of gender and race have disrupted the myth of the rural in the theatrical imaginary.” Brian Singleton, Trinity College, DublinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Timeline of Signifi cant Events in Irish Arts and Politics ix Introduction 1 Part I: Performing the Nation, 1891-1916 5 Introduction to Part I 7 1 Imagining an Aesthetic: Modern Irish Theatre’s First Years 13 2 Realisms and Regionalisms 35 Part II: War and After, 1916-1948 61 Introduction to Part II 63 3 The Abbey Becomes Institution: 1916-1929 67 4 New Voices of the 1930s and 1940s 91 Part III: Rewriting Tradition, 1948-1980 113 Introduction to Part III 115 5 Irish Theatre in the 1950s 119 6 Irish Theatre's Second Wave 136 Part IV: Re-imagining Ireland, 1980-2007 151 Introduction to Part IV 153 7 Theatres Without Borders: Irish Theatre in the 1980s 157 8 A New Sense of Place: Irish Theatre since the 1990s 176 Conclusion: What is an Irish Play? 195 Notes 199 Bibliography 210 Index 224
£21.53
Liverpool University Press Brian Friel
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical examination of Friel’s dramatic writing both within the context of Irish storytelling and considering his crucial position as a writer from the north of Ireland negotiating between the responsibilities of art and the demands of violent conflict.
£17.76
Liverpool University Press Ivor Gurney
Book SynopsisDrawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney’s difficult, indeed tragic life, in order to show that Gurney’s poetry, while undoubtedly affected by his mental problems, his trench experiences in World War One, and his complex relationship to Gloucester, the Cotswalds and London, is the sane utterance of a deeply radicalized writer.
£25.99
Liverpool University Press Anita Desai
Book SynopsisThrough detailed discussions of a number of short stories and novels, and references to other works by Indo-English writers, this book shows how Desai maps her ‘India’, and opens up ways of reading ‘India’ for the reader as outsider.
£25.22
Liverpool University Press Marina Warner
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of Marina Warner's work.
£25.22
Liverpool University Press The Imagist Poets
Book SynopsisThe Imagist Poets revises the received view of Imagism by drawing upon current re-readings of modernism in terms of gender and sexuality, cultural geography, and the idea of literary institutions and formations.
£17.76
Liverpool University Press Anita Desai
Book SynopsisThrough detailed discussions of a number of short stories and novels, and references to other works by Indo-English writers, this book shows how Desai maps her ‘India’, and opens up ways of reading ‘India’ for the reader as outsider.
£71.50
Liverpool University Press Bram Stoker
Book SynopsisThis accessible book offers an introduction to a range of Bram Stoker's work – novels, short stories, biography, and criticism. It provides a discussion of recent scholarship on Stoker including the many attempts to write his life and find the ‘real’ Bram Stoker, and the lurid speculation this provokes.
£71.50
Liverpool University Press Salman Rushdie
Book SynopsisThis study seeks to provide a balanced view by approaching Rushdie's fiction in terms of its dual responsibility to the 'found' world of historical circumstance and the 'made' world of the imagination.
£17.76
Liverpool University Press Vernon Lee
Book SynopsisThis book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.
£17.76
Liverpool University Press Childrens Literature From the Fin de Siecle to the New Millennium
Book SynopsisA volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts.Trade Review‘In anyone’s terms this is a virtuoso and scholarly tour de force analysis of the past 100 years of children’s fiction.’ Times Higher Educational Supplement‘..a very useful book in an area where a short pithy introduction like this is badly needed.’ Times Educational Supplement‘a constantly thoughtful and thought-provoking book with the importance of literature and the needs of real children as its constant concerns. There are some remarkable insights into the history of children’s literature.’ The School Librarian‘a fascinating, scholarly examination of the dialectical relationship between children’s literature and attitudes towards children and childhood.’ The Reader’s Guide to Literature.‘Reynolds..has approached the task in an original and potentially illuminating fashion..’ Folly
£17.76
Taylor & Francis Ltd Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged A Philosophical and Literary Companion
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£176.17
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story
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£28.99
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Letters to Felice
Book SynopsisMore than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
£14.99
LSU Press Afterlife
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Siddhartha
Book SynopsisBy the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A book—rare in our arid age—that takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime. Trade Review"The cool and strangely simple story makes a beautiful little book, classic in proportion and style; it should be read slowly and with savor, preferably during the lonely hours of the night." -- The Nation"In Siddhartha the setting is Indian and we encounter the Buddha, but the author’s ethos is still closer to Goethe." -- Washington Post Book World"One could even hope that Hesse’s readers are hungrily imbibing Siddhartha, and that they will be so wisely foolish as to live by it." -- Chicago Tribune"Hermann Hesse is the greatest writer of the century." -- San Francisco Chronicle
£8.99
Random House Publishing Group Letters on Life By Rainer Rilke published June 2006
Book SynopsisGleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offers the best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme-from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience of loss, from dealing with adversity to the nature of inspiration-here are Rilke’s thoughts on how to infuse everyday life with beauty, wonder, and meaning. Intimate, stylistically masterful, brilliantly translated and assembled, and brimming with the passion of Rilke, Letters on Life is a font of wisdom and a perfect book for all occasions.
£17.09
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Idella
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£999.99
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Modernist Soundscapes Auditory Technology and the Novel
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism
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University Press of Florida Panepiphanal World James Joyces Epiphanies The Florida James Joyce Series
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Lyric and Dramatic Poetry 194682
Book SynopsisA collection of poems by the Martinician poet Aime Cesaire, who was read as a poet of revolutionary zeal during the Black Power movement of the 1960s. This collection is the first English edition to include "And the Dogs Were Silent" and "i, laminaria". There is a critical introduction.
£26.98
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry
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£29.03
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Radicals on the Road The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s
Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered divergent and conflicting ideologies and travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. This study explores both the intentional political rhetoric and the more oblique, almost unconscious subtexts of Waugh, Orwell, Greene and West.
£28.41
Ohio State University Press Digital Fiction and the Unnatural
£83.79
Ohio State University Press A New Anatomy of Storyworlds
£94.91
Ohio State University Press Brave Humanism
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£126.82
Ohio State University Press Slow Narrative Across Media
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£83.79
