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  • The Joyce Archive at Reading

    Catalogue and Contexts

    Edited by Professor Steven Matthews, Dr Mark Nixon, Xander Ryan ...
    Series series Modernist Archives
    A fully contextualised catalogue of one of the most significant archival Joyce acquisitions of recent times.When Stephen James Joyce died on 23 January 2020, he and his wife Solange bequeathed an archival collection and library to the University of Reading, comprising a wealth of documents, photographs and rare books relating to James Joyce and his literary work. Some of this material has not been ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

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  • Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies

    New Critical Essays

    by Professor Chris Ackerley, Prof Graley Herren, Dr Peter Fifield, Dr Ulrika Maude, Dr Matthew Feldman, David Wheatley, Dr Mark Nixon, Professor Andrew Gibson, Dr Iain Bailey, Dr David Addyman0, Yoshiki Tajiri2 ...
    Series series Plays and Playwrights
    Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David Addyman, the volume presents ten research essays by leading international scholars ranging across ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature

    Edited by Dr Ulrika Maude, Dr Mark Nixon ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    In this book, leading international scholars explore the major ideas and debates that have made the study of modernist literature one of the most vibrant areas of literary studies today. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature offers a comprehensive guide to current research in the field, covering topics including:· The modernist everyday: emotion, myth, geographies and language ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

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  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

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  • Modernism

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    by Christopher Butler ...
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    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Read more

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  • Electric Spark

    The Enigma of Dame Muriel

    by Frances Wilson ...
    Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyShort-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionThe award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century.“Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is,” said Muriel Spark.Muriel Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in ... Read more

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  • Continental Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Critchley ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Simon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often ignored by the analytic tradition. He discusses the ideas and approaches of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida, and introduces key ... Read more

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  • The Most Dangerous Book

    The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses

    by Kevin Birmingham ...
    **Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction“The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times**James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of ... Read more

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  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

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  • Gertrude Stein

    An Afterlife

    by Francesca Wade ...
    Winner of the Plutarch AwardNamed one of the Best Books of 2025 by Washington Post Book World, Fresh Air, PBS Newshour, and AirMailThis critically acclaimed, “superb” (The Washington Post) biography of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century examines both Gertrude Stein’s life and her partner’s emergence from the shadows after her death, in the decades ... Read more

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  • The Rare and the Beautiful

    How the Garman Sisters Captured the Heart of Bohemian London

    by Cressida Connolly ...
    Like the better-known Mitfords, the Garman sisters took center stage in Bohemian London during the first half of the twentieth century. Beautiful, flamboyant, and headstrong, they broke away from middle-class conventions, seducing and inspiring a generation of artists. Kathleen, an enigmatic artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover and, later, wife of controversial American-born sculptor ... Read more

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