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How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Philip Womack
£14.15'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus? In this unique introduction, Philip... -
The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830 - 1890 by Robin Gilmour
RRP: £47.99£46.38This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated... -
Homer: Poet of the Iliad by Mark W. Edwards
RRP: £30.50£27.37Homer: Poet of the "Iliad" is the perfect companion both for readers deepening their appreciation of the poem and its form and for those encountering Homer's work for the first time. Mark Edwards combines the advantages of a general introduction and a... -
Proust for Beginners by Stephen Bachmann 9781939994448
RRP: £11.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994448Author Stephen BachmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell 9780719074103
RRP: £19.99£14.87Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary... -
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature by Malcolm Godden 9780521154024
RRP: £29.99£23.25This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars,... -
The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams by David L. Walker 9780691612508
RRP: £32.00£24.76Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the... -
Dante the Theologian by Denys Turner
RRP: £29.99£25.94An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an appreciation of Dante's work as a whole. That is the starting-point of this vital new book. In giving theology fresh centrality, the author argues that... -
Timelessness: Conversations on Life, Literature, Spirituality, and Culture by James G Cowan 9781596500310
RRP: £29.95£25.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596500310Author James G CowanFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint New Cultures PressPublisher New Cultures PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The New Testament As Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kyle Keefer 9780195300208
RRP: £8.99£6.45The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this relatively small group of twenty-seven works, written during the height of the Roman Empire, not only helped create and sustain a vast world religion, but... -
The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention in the Arts and Sciences by Brewster Ghiselin
RRP: £25.00£21.19This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell,... -
In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy 9780814751008
RRP: £24.99£22.07In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York... -
Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War by Eve Ensler 9780375756030
RRP: £18.99£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756030Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 10mm -
No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt by Andreas Hoefele
RRP: £29.49£27.15No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas... -
The Arthurian Handbook: Second Edition by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £43.99£38.84Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the... -
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent by Alfreda Murck
RRP: £29.95£24.66Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting... -
Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien
RRP: £28.00£21.80"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth": metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture... -
The Future of the Classical by Salvatore Settis 9780745635996
RRP: £14.99£13.58Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
RRP: £30.00£23.29Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of... -
The Classic FM Musical Treasury: A Curious Collection of New Meanings for Old Words by Tim Lihoreau 9781783962563
RRP: £12.99£8.73There are all sorts of people, events and sounds that exist in the musical world for which there are no words. We have been sadly bereft of a satisfactory way to describe the contortion of a singer's mouth when reaching for the high notes; the audience... -
Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book by Kelly Anton 9780137967445
RRP: £48.99£36.37Learn graphic design using Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the... -
Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art by Susan Owens
RRP: £32.50£28.55The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her... -
The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785-1829 by Maria Purves 9780708320914
RRP: £24.99£20.29This book constitutes the first sustained analysis that comprehensively proves that revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in Gothic scholarship that the roots of the Gothic novel should be seen within a late eighteenth century popular... -
Octavia E. Butler by Gerry Canavan
RRP: £16.99£15.07"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama by John Burgess
RRP: £12.99£8.56An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence and Seneca.Features... -
In Search of Lost Time: v. 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375751547Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £12.99£9.09J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens... -
Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne
RRP: £34.99£28.51This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or... -
Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
RRP: £14.00£10.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394702780Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
L'Etranger by Albert Camus
RRP: £37.99£33.38L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern... -
Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan by Michael Livingston
RRP: £18.99£13.89With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time.'Jordan has come to dominate... -
On the Names-of-the-Father by Jacques Lacan 9780745659923
RRP: £14.99£13.58What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said,... -
Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue by Konrad Hirschler 9781474426398
RRP: £32.99£27.62This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus and edits its catalogue.About the AuthorKonrad Hirschler is Professor of History of... -
Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 by John Kerrigan 9780198183846
£31.16Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how... -
The Mantle Adorned: Translated, with Further Poetic Ornaments by Al-Busiri
RRP: £34.95£29.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872038155Author Al-BusiriFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Quilliam Press LtdPublisher Quilliam Press Ltd -
Summer Lightning & Other Stories by Olive Senior 9780582786271
£13.78Written in vivid, colourful detail, these rich, compelling stories recreate with sensitivity and wit a whole range of emotions, from childhood hope to brooding melancholy.Book InformationISBN 9780582786271Author Olive SeniorFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook by Kimberley Reynolds 9780230525542
£32.28Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of... -
Bu Me Be: Proverbs of the Akans by Ivor Agyeman-Duah 9780955507922
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955507922Author Ivor Agyeman-DuahFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 660g -
Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape by W Ralph Eubanks 9781604699586
RRP: £25.00£18.37"This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created."... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: £29.95£24.06Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to...