Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Edinburgh University Press IsraelPalestine
Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Libyan Novel
Book SynopsisAnalysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era, focusing on encounters between humans, animals and the land.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace
Book SynopsisExamines how D. H. Lawrence established a professional writing career.Trade Review"Grice provides a finely-tuned assessment of how Lawrence shaped his identity as a writer early on, through strategies and negotiations, and assistance from professional and social networks. For a comprehensive account of how Lawrence developed his talents and attained legitimacy in the literary marketplace, this book is key." -Judith Ruderman, Duke University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Exoskeleton
Book SynopsisFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Novel Sensations
Book SynopsisConcentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind..
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Book SynopsisThis book uses the methodology of sociology and literary studies to come to terms with the reality of Palestinian citizens of Israel across several generations.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Beckett Beyond the Normal
Book SynopsisThis book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Devolving Black Britain
Book SynopsisWriting Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Brigid Brophy
Book SynopsisThis book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy's eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Internationalism and the Russian
Book SynopsisExplores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Transgender and the Literary Imagination
Book SynopsisTransgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Writing the Past in TwentyFirstCentury American
Book SynopsisArgues for a reawakened commitment to historicity in contemporary American fiction.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Specters of World Literature
Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an other that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Specters of World Literature
Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an other that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Book SynopsisAn edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.Trade Review"This is an outstanding collection, which stands out for its thoughtful range of topics, theoretically informed investigations and uniformly high quality of analysis. Well-chosen and excellently developed, the articles create an arc exploring Pennell's life and work, making this collection soar above what one might expect." -Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press King Lear After Auschwitz
Book SynopsisProvides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on the legacy of Shakespeare in post-war drama and culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination
Book SynopsisAn account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Kathy Acker
Book SynopsisThis study boldly argues for Acker's revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including the Paris Commune, Russian Nihilists and the global revolts of the 1960s.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Religion in the Egyptian Novel
Book SynopsisThis is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early twentieth century to present, Phillips provides a thematic exploration of the push and pull between religion and secularism as it played out on the pages of the Egyptian novel.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Landscape Poetics
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£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Primordial Modernism
Book SynopsisThis adventurous study focuses on experimental animal writing in the major interwar journal transition (1927 1938), which contains a striking recurrence of metaphors around the most basic forms of life.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press NeoAvantGardes
Book SynopsisA systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution
Book SynopsisAnalyses contemporary Iranian literature in both Iran and its diaspora, in relation to the social, economic and political fields.Trade Review"A most welcome, exceptionally valuable and timely contribution to the study of Iranian literature, world literature, comparative literature and diasporic literature. Nanquette's book is grounded in years of fieldwork and travel in Iran, with extensive interviews, data collection and participant observation; there are few more qualified to write on global Iranian literature." -Professor Karen L. Thornber, Harvard University
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Literary NeoOrientalism and the Arab Uprisings
Book SynopsisProvides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Literary NeoOrientalism and the Arab Uprisings
Book SynopsisProvides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in
Book SynopsisExamines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Counterpoetics of Modernity
Book SynopsisProvides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry.
£127.44
Edinburgh University Press Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World
Book SynopsisExplores how military medical practitioners articulated and represented their spatial and sensory experiences of caregivingTrade Review"Marie Allitt presents shocking, grotesque evidence from many unexplored medical texts about World War I. Her geographies of care" reveal how spaces localize violations of the body, pain, observers' perspectives, and wrenched language to show the breakdown of places, persons and expression. A powerful introduction to the literature of war."" -Margaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Children
Book SynopsisPresents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and children.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Anxious Men
Book SynopsisFocusing on a complex and contentious period that was formative in shaping American society and culture in the twentieth century, this book sheds new light on the ways in which fiction engaged with contemporary notions of masculinity.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Geographies of David Foster Wallaces Novels
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between geography and David Foster Wallace's novels
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Modernist War Poetry
Book SynopsisRe-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetry
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality
Book SynopsisThe first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitalityTrade Review"While Joyce scholars have long recognised that the theme of hospitality permeates his work, Richard Russell is the first to read both Dubliners and Ulysses through the lens of what he calls the greatest of all parables." His argument is crisp, lucid and thoroughly readable."" -James A. W. Heffernan, Dartmouth College, author of Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality
Book SynopsisThe first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitality
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Gendering Civil War
Book SynopsisProvides new and original analysis on how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the
Book SynopsisThe first book to comprehensively address Yeats's engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural worker
£135.00
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Secrecy and Community in 21stCentury Fiction
Book SynopsisSecrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with what is called ''communities of secrecy'', it is fundamentally indebted to the thought of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who have pointed to the fallacies and dangers of identitarian and exclusionary communities, arguing for forms of being-in-common characterized by non-belonging, singularity and otherness.Also drawing on the work of J. Hillis Miller, Derek Attridge, Nicholas Royle, Matei Calinescu, Frank Kermode and George Simmel, among others, this volume analyses the centrality of secrets in the construction of literary form, narrative sequence and meaning, together with their foundational role in our private and interpersonal lives and the public and political realms. In doing so, it engages with the Derridean ethico-political value of secrecy and Derrida'sTrade ReviewThe secret as index of ineradicable opacity rather than hidden knowledge to be disclosed; the forms of community that come from honoring the singularity and inviolability of others; and literature as an especially revelatory location for both of these operations – these are among the insights provided by this well-conceived, eclectic collection. Secrecy and Community highlights the urgency of recasting our sense of the present through the medium of Derrida’s late work. It is an impressive and moving achievement, and a welcome addition to contemporary thought. * Greg Forter, Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA, and author of Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction: Atlantic and Other Worlds (2018) *This much-needed volume of essays extends Derridean theory through close readings of a wide range of 21st-century narrative texts, thus demonstrating the complex interrelationship between secrets and community, identity politics and literature. * Leslie W. Lewis, Susan D. Morgan Distinguished Professor of English, Goucher College, USA, and author of Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature (2017) *Many anthologies on secrecy exist, but only a few include cutting-edge essays and vivid empirical studies. In this timely book, the studies compiled by María J. López and Pilar Villar-Argáiz explore the link between secrecy, community, democracy and literature with admirable articulacy and precision. This volume attests to the intersectional articulation of these elements, and will contribute much to research on the different dimensions of literary secrecy. * Eduardo Barros Grela, Professor of English Studies, University of A Coruña, Spain, and co-editor of American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States (2011) *Table of ContentsNotes on contributors Foreword Joseph Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine, USA) Acknowledgements Introduction: Secrecy and community in twenty-first-century fiction María J. López (University of Córdoba, Spain) Part One. SECRECY, LITERARY FORM AND THE COMMUNITY OF READERS 1. Secrecy and community in ergodic texts: Derrida, Ali Smith and the experience of form Derek Attridge (University of York, UK) 2. Protective mimicry: Reflections on the novel today Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex, UK) 3. ‘Where all is known and nothing understood’: Narrative sequence and textual secrets in Toni Morrison’s Love Paula Martín-Salván (University of Córdoba, Spain) 4. Challenging stereotypes of femininity through secrets in Alice Munro’s fiction Mercedes Díaz Dueñas (University of Granada, Spain) 5. Zoë Wicomb and the secrets of the canon Liani Lochner (Université Laval, Canada) Part Two. COMMUNITIES OF SECRECY 6. Cryptaesthetic resistance and community in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland María Luisa Pascual Garrido (University of Córdoba, Spain) 7. Queering the Maori crypt: Community and secrecy in Witi Ihimaera’s The Uncle’s Story Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas (University of Granada, Spain) 8. Secrecy, invisibility and community in Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque (University of Córdoba, Spain) 9. Novel mediums: The art of not speaking in (and of) Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black Hannu Poutiainen (Tampere University, Finland) Part Three. SECRECY, POSTCOLONIALISM AND DEMOCRACY 10. Shame and the idea of community in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings and What Happened to Us Mike Marais (Rhodes University, South Africa) 11. ‘Whilst our souls negotiate': Secrets and secrecy in Jonathan Franzen’s Purity Jesús Blanco Hidalga (University of Córdoba, Spain) 12. Conversing with spectres: Secrets and ghosts in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees Kim L. Worthington (Massey University, New Zealand) Index
£29.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Enchanted Ground
Book SynopsisEnchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writersâmainly Andrà Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, Renà Magritte, Charles Estienne, Renà Huyghe and othersâwho viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after ImpressionismâPaul CÃzanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Goghâbecame canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist (by critics and curators such as Alfred H. Barr, Roger Fry, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, John Rewald and Robert L. Herbert), and then unpacks chapter-by-chapter, for the first time in a single volume, the Surrealist positions on the same artists. To this end, it contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s and that examine the fascination withinTrade ReviewParkinson’s extensive knowledge of the field allows him to navigate with ease between continents, following the various developments and reception of modern art in the twentieth century. His ability to modify the length of his focus from detailed textual analysis to wider comparative geographical and art historical contexts makes this book one of the most astute on the movement to date. * French History *Enchanted Ground [...] is a work that further confirms Parkinson's reputation as one of the most original of today's writers on Surrealism. * The Burlington Magazine *Gavin Parkinson had the novel idea to reconsider the canonical figures of late nineteenth century French painting as they appear within the discourse of Surrealism: Cézanne or Gauguin through Breton or Dalí. His gambit pays off brilliantly. He ferrets out a shadow history of French modernism, tracking long-lost interpretive metaphors that shift from positive to negative and back again. The surrealist alternative to traditional criticism generates an unfamiliar constellation of cultural significance. From out of its obscurity, Parkinson reveals the “mythic, poetic or magic resonance” of the practice otherwise known as modernism. * Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director of Center for the Study of Modernism, University of Texas at Austin, USA *Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat—those canonical modernists we thought we knew—are reinvested with myth, magic and poetry in this lively and polemical account of their 'Surrealisation' in the mid-20th century. Parkinson pulls no punches in voting for the Surrealists as the most perceptive interpreters of this alternative cast of 19th-century precursors. * Linda Goddard, Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies, University of St. Andrews, UK *Enchanted Ground highlights Parkinson’s skill in asking unexpected questions of modern art, matched with astute answers; and in taking Surrealism seriously, as a source of vivid and relevant ideas rather than just an art movement. This book’s great strength lies in shining a searchlight at its material, not simply to look at Surrealism, but look with it and through it, alert to the refractions that illuminate adjacent histories in fresh ways. Enchanted Ground is on high alert to details, anomalies and the overlooked, using them to unpick received wisdom about Surrealism, modernism and art history itself. * Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Professor of Visual Culture, Norwich University of the Arts, UK *Gavin Parkinson’s text is a timely reminder that there are other ways of seeing the founding fathers of modernist painting than through the lens of Greenberg’s formalism. He explores the posthumous critical fortunes of Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Seurat in the writings of the doyen of Surrealism, André Breton. Part intricate historiography, gathering together writings that have hitherto been overlooked because dispersed and difficult of access, Enchanted Ground brings us familiar art from an unfamiliar, indeed magical, Surrealist perspective. This is an arresting, ambitious and important book. * Belinda Thomson, Honorary Professor of Art History, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Art After Impressionism After Surrealism 1. Greengrocer, Bricklayer or Seer? Psychoanalyzing Paul Cézanne 2. Painting as Propaganda and Prophecy: René Magritte and Pierre-Auguste Renoir 3. Method and Poetry: Georges Seurat’s Surrealist Dialectic 4. Between Dog and Wolf: Georges Seurat, Brassaï and the City of Light 5. Civilization, Realism, Abstraction: Paul Gauguin and Surrealism, 1948-53 6. Dialectic of Brittany: From Myth to Folklore in Paul Gauguin and Surrealism Epilogue: Disenchanted Ground, or Vincent van Gogh, Antonin Artaud and Magic in 1947 Conclusion: On André Breton Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their
Book SynopsisWhat makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities?This collection of interviews elicits truly honest and thought-provoking responses that focus on the biographical dimension in speculative fiction, questions of intersectionality, genre (re)definitions and the politicization of fiction. It gives voice to women of different races, nations, classes and sexual orientations who write and edit speculative fiction such as Ellen Datlow, Kathe Koja, Angela Mi Young Hur, Eugen Bacon, and Cat Rambo. The interviews clarify how the junction of genre and gender is a key element to understanding this literary field, while simultaneously contextualizing and theorizing the interview itself, as a literary genre and a research tool.Trade ReviewThis very original collection of carefully led interviews brings together established and new international voices from the field of horror and speculative fiction written by women. Their great variety and the energy they deploy cast new light and raise intriguing and intertwined questions about the category and categories of 'genre' fiction, enriched and complicated by gender and intersectional issues. * Didier Coste, Professor Emeritus, Bordeaux Montaigne University, France *Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction achieves two important aims. It tells of how progressive intersectional politics has performed, disguised as ‘mere’ genre fiction, beneath prescriptions of literariness, whilst unyoking itself from equally prescriptive notions of gender. In horror and speculative fictions, these genre narratives told the Other’s story. But the volume also witnesses this telling, not with a sovereign eye, but through 24 compelling interviews with women writers, who together create a method suitable for our era of auto-fiction and selfie-awareness. To pull off such a double whammy is no mean achievement. This volume will be a significant resource for anyone interested in life. * Simon Frost, Principal Lecturer in English, Bournemouth University, UK *The writers featured in Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words offer great insight into how their various origins and different kinds of lives inspire their writing, and their choice to write horror and speculative fiction. In a series of conversations, a range of women-identifying authors share their insights and motivations as they challenge social conventions through fiction, interrogate the increasing inclusive interpretations of the categories of gender and genre, and in the most dazzling examples demonstrate the power of anger and fired-up libido to forge innovative acts, invented worlds, and new expressions of identity: 'the great thing about horror,' according to Gemma Files, 'is that you can kill everybody … if you want to.' Read this collection, gathered by Doubinsky and Kkona during the strange early years of Corona virus, if you want a rare peek into thought processes of writers of horror and speculative fiction. * Christina Ann Messa, Lecturer in American Studies, Stanford University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Eugen Bacon 2. Francesca Barbini 3. J. S. Breukelaar 4. V. Castro 5. Ellen Datlow 6. Gemma Files 7. Elizabeth Hand 8. Marie Howalt 9. Ai Jiang 10. Penny Jones 11. Margaret Killjoy 12. Kathe Koja 13. Anya Martin 14. Angela Mi Young Hur 15. Jane Mondrup 16. Lisa Morton 17. Malka Older 18. Nuzo Onoh 19. Cat Rambo 20. Tricia Reeks 21. Priya Sharma 22. Angela Slatter 23. Ann VanderMeer 24. Kaaron Warren Index
£21.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don
Book SynopsisApocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of last things in Don DeLillo's worksthings like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and the end of the world more generally. Michael Naas untangles complex themes in short, witty chapters that highlight and celebrate DeLillo's inventive and playful writing, employing a novel approach to literary criticism. Making no use of secondary sources, the book is entirely a discussion of DeLillo''s work, accessible to any level of readership while maintaining a firm grasp of the theory necessary to make this unique argument.And yet, this book is also about all the things that double or shadow those last things in the very same works, like the wonder of language or the radiance of everyday events. From Americana (1971) up through Zero K (2016) and The Silence (2020), and perhaps like no other American author,Trade ReviewMichael Naas's Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America displays a thorough knowledge and an impressive thematic cartography of Don DeLillo's oeurve. This invaluable synthesis, which consider's DeLillo's work through the lens of contrabanding, illuminates the contradictions that make America what it is and confirms DeLillo's magisterial and uninterrupted examination of America as a country and as an idea. * Karim Daanoune, Associate Professor in American Literature, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, France *In Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America, Michael Naas artfully delineates the dense web of thematic crosscurrents and connections that run through DeLillo’s entire oeuvre. Naas foregrounds the pleasure of reading DeLillo, allowing the humour of the works to be reflected in his own distinctive and accessible writing style. Naas reads DeLillo’s fiction as a body of theoretical enquiry in itself rather than applying existing theory and criticism, making this an innovative and necessary addition to scholarship. * Rebecca Harding, Independent Scholar, UK *Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works by Don DeLillo Preface: Last Things 1. Countermovements America…New York, New York…“USA! USA! USA!”…The West, the Desert, and, Inevitably, California…Automobiles…Airplanes…Beyond America 2. Countercurrents Sports, Games, Sports Gaming…Academia…Philosophy…Technologies of Life and Death 3. Counterproductions Empire, Capital, the Corporation…Money…Advertising…Consumerism and Waste 4. Counterhistories American History 2.0…Terrorism…9-11, The Twin Towers…Creation and Ruin…War and Peace 5. Countermeasures Self and Others…The Individual and the Crowd…Prophylactics and Purifications...The Shit, the Shower, the Shave, and the Haircut 6. Counterforces Life and Death…Mourning…The Afterlife…The Apocalypse…The Omega Point, the Death Drive 7. Counterworlds Space…Time…Space-Time…Religion… Miracles…The Everyday…Earth, Moon, Sun…Radiance Conclusion: Silent Mode (The Future of Contraband) Acknowledgements
£22.99
Hodder Education Modern Languages Study Guides: Bonjour tristesse:
Book SynopsisLiterature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology.Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Bonjour tristesse (Hello sadness) this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.- Strengthen language skills with relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout- Aim for top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to enhance exam response- Build confidence with knowledge-check questions at the end of every chapter- Revise effectively with pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout- Feel prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner commentary
£17.16
Black Rose Books Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass –
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£16.14
The New York Review of Books, Inc Miserable Miracle
Book Synopsis'This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored.' In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable.Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.
£15.29
The New York Review of Books, Inc Memoirs Of Montparnasse
Book SynopsisMemoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time.
£15.29
Africa World Press Voices From The Continent, Vol Iii: A Curriculum
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£21.21
Africa World Press Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Drama And The Kamiriithu
Book SynopsisAn in-depth study of the African activist theater and the context of the Ngugi plays.
£29.71
Africa World Press The Mines Of His Mind: Critical Reflection on the
Book SynopsisA collection of rich ideas and commentary on the much celebrated African author Tayo Olafioye. Includes essential biographical information.
£25.46
Africa World Press Emerging Perspectives On Aminata Sow Fall: The
Book SynopsisVarious contibutors demonstrate Fall's unique intervention in literary creation where realism and heroism merge.
£29.71
