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Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time by Francois Hartog
RRP: $46.20$36.46Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,... -
The Age of Shakespeare Sir Frank Kermode 9780753819951
RRP: $20.98$14.70'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of... -
Tree by Matthew Battles
RRP: $20.98$16.57Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower... -
High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism by David S. Wills 9780993409981
RRP: $35.68$28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993409981Author David S. WillsFormat PaperbackImprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom Books -
The January Children by Safia Elhillo 9780803295988
RRP: $27.28$24.72Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry "A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."-Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan... -
My Dad Wrote a Porno by Jamie Morton 9781501180699
RRP: $41.98$27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501180699Author Jamie MortonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 152mm * 18mm -
Baden Powell s Fighting Police The SAC: The Boer War unit that inspired the Scouts by Ross, Hamish 9781399083621
RRP: $52.50$37.59This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organisation, Baden-Powell is asked to create a... -
Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference by John Gillies 9780521458535
RRP: $83.98$69.85In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and... -
Why Iris Murdoch Matters by Gary Browning
RRP: $54.58$48.24In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought. Browning argues for Murdoch's position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in... -
On the Gods and the World: Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni Papyrus by Vojtěch Hladký 9780192873156
RRP: $226.80$205.02The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical... -
Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition by Philip Nel
RRP: $48.28$46.58Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children's literature and culture. Mapping this... -
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: $41.98$37.40Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the "really real": blunt factuality, nature's curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with... -
Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude Saigyo Saigyo 9781611809428
RRP: $33.58$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809428Author Saigyo SaigyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Arthurian Women: A Casebook by Thelma S. Fenster
RRP: $83.98$73.63Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the... -
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) 9780226306599
RRP: $50.40$48.36"Renaissance Self-Fashioning" is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance - More,... -
Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias by M. Edwards 9780856682476
$63.67Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies ... -
Astronomica by Marcus Manilius
RRP: $52.40$52.16Poetry of the sky and stars.Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celestial... -
A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays by Paul Allen
RRP: $16.78$11.84Do you belong to an amateur theatre group wanting to 'do an Ayckbourn'? Are you the Artistic Director of a professional theatre seeking to slot an Ayckbourn into next season? Are you a fan of Ayckbourn's work and would love a handy reference book? A... -
The Half Healed by Michael Symmons Roberts
RRP: $25.20$18.23The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts's fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. As ever, this is a metaphysical poetry rooted in physical detail - but the bodies here are displaced, disguised, in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth by Timothy Parrish 9780521682930
RRP: $50.38$35.97From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two... -
The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past by Anthony Welch 9780300178869
$80.62This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral... -
Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze by Gerhard Richter 9780823284023
RRP: $58.78$51.49What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to... -
The Cambridge Companion to 'The Canterbury Tales' by Frank Grady
RRP: $50.38$39.98Chaucer's best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its... -
Inklings Forever, Volume X: Papers from the 10th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends by Joe Ricke 9781935688143
$82.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935688143Author Joe RickeFormat HardbackPage Count 586Imprint Winged Lion Press, LLCPublisher Winged Lion Press, LLCWeight(grams) 1025gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914 by Joanne Shattock 9780521709323
RRP: $52.48$44.48The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of... -
Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun 9780060937232
RRP: $31.48$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060937232Author Jacques BarzunFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening... -
The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story by Ann-Marie Einhaus
RRP: $50.38$41.98This Companion provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other international sites. A collection of international experts examine the development of the short story in a variety of contexts... -
The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales: The Illiad the Odyssey and the Migration of Myth by Felice Vinci 9781594770524
RRP: $50.40$45.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594770524Author Felice VinciFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Measure for Measure by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $18.88$17.26From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Measure for Measure in performance, takes a... -
Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery
RRP: $23.08$15.83He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. He is indestructible.Beautiful Burnout is about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. It's about the second when the guard ... -
Shakespeare in Cambridge: A Celebration of the Shakespeare Festival by Andrew Muir
RRP: $27.28$18.29Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridge's part in Shakespeare appreciation through the centuries. Against this background the book celebrates the annual open-air Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. ... -
Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
RRP: $33.60$27.49For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric... -
Literature and the Public Good: The Literary Agenda by Rick Rylance 9780199654390
RRP: $49.33$37.99The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture by Michael Higgins
RRP: $52.48$44.48British culture today is the product of a shifting combination of tradition and experimentation, national identity and regional and ethnic diversity. These distinctive tensions are expressed in a range of cultural arenas, such as art, sport, journalism,... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $46.20$32.76An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden by Stan Smith 9780521829625
RRP: $105.00$95.30This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning... -
Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles Jennifer Neville 9781487552527
RRP: $130.20$112.48At the end of the tenth-century English manuscript the Exeter Book, there is a collection of almost one hundred riddles. They are notable for many reasons, but one feature in particular has challenged modern readers: their lack of solutions. In Truth Is... -
Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for...All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek... -
Homer's "Iliad": a Commentary on Three Translations by Peter Jones 9781853996573
RRP: $48.28$45.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853996573Author Peter JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...