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ISBN: 9780292744295 - Cormac McCarthy's House Cormac McCarthy's House
Peter Josyph

ISBN10: 0292744293  ISBN13: 9780292744295
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Unconventional journeys into the genius of Cormac McCarthy form a new, highly personal way of appreciating literary greatness Novelist Cormac McCarthy's brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy's... More

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ISBN: 9780814717417 - Tomorrow's Parties Tomorrow's Parties
Peter M Coviello

ISBN10: 0814717411  ISBN13: 9780814717417
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in nineteenth-century America before it solidified into the sexuality we know In nineteenth-century America - before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public... More

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ISBN: 9780814771709 - Bonds of Citizenship Bonds of Citizenship
Hoang Gia Phan

ISBN10: 081477170X  ISBN13: 9780814771709
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labour ideology in American culture In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil... More

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ISBN: 9780674073128 - The Work of Revision The Work of Revision
Hannah Sullivan

ISBN10: 0674073126  ISBN13: 9780674073128
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
Revision seems to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in redrafting from the modernist period. Examining changes made in manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf... More

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ISBN: 9781441174321 - Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk
Francisco Collado Rodriguez

ISBN10: 144117432X  ISBN13: 9781441174321
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Edition: annotated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists. This book is... More

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ISBN: 9781441141941 - Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk
Francisco Collado Rodriguez

ISBN10: 1441141944  ISBN13: 9781441141941
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Edition: annotated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists. This book is... More

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ISBN: 9781847085115 - The Faraway Nearby Bestseller The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit

ISBN10: 1847085113  ISBN13: 9781847085115
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
An inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed a hundred pounds of ripening apricots, which lay on her bedroom... More

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ISBN: 9781137280565 - New York School Collaborations New York School Collaborations
Mark Silverberg

ISBN10: 1137280565  ISBN13: 9781137280565
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances... More

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ISBN: 9781844087662 - Careless People Careless People
Sarah Churchwell

ISBN10: 1844087662  ISBN13: 9781844087662
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books, delighting readers across the world. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail the... More

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ISBN: 9780199654291 - The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (v. I) The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (v. I)
Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker

ISBN10: 0199654298  ISBN13: 9780199654291
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 May 2013
The first full study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism. A major scholarly achievement of immense value to teachers, researchers and students interested in the material culture of the first... More