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Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $29.23$19.11First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore substantial selections of the poetry of ten of the most consistently... -
Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 by Jon Cook
RRP: $74.00$67.00Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry. Helps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage... -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
RRP: $21.43$16.34'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich... -
Henry IV Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192865823
RRP: $13.63$10.00'What is honour? A word. What is in that word 'honour'? What is that 'honour'? Air.' A history play that combines a coming-of-age narrative with a tale of power, rebellion, friendship, and betrayal, Henry IV, Part I has been a perennial favourite from... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
RRP: $25.33$16.69When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses... -
A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians by Timothy Larsen 9780199570096
RRP: $134.55$106.67Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in... -
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance by Jayne Ann Krentz
RRP: $38.98$34.20In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume-all best-selling romance writers-explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and... -
Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language by David Crystal
RRP: $29.23$24.47For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original... -
The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie
RRP: $21.43$15.46'Wry, sharp-eyed and uncompromising, The Caiplie Caves is the most ambitious collection yet from an essential poet.' The Telegraph'Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken'. - Michael Hofmann, LRB The Canadian Karen Solie is rapidly... -
The Origins of Science Fiction by Dr Michael Newton 9780198891949
RRP: $17.53$13.79'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision...' This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction. It... -
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett 9780915924608
RRP: $38.90$34.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915924608Author Ron PadgettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Teachers & Writers CollaborativePublisher Teachers & Writers CollaborativeWeight(grams)... -
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick
RRP: $25.33$16.17Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism,... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Dr. Gesine Manuwald
RRP: $58.48$52.01Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern... -
Volpone and Other Plays by Ben Jonson
RRP: $25.33$17.73The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances... -
The Human Condition by Sahar Aurore Saeidnia
RRP: $12.68$11.91Hannah Arendt's 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt's interpretative... -
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye 9780691202563
RRP: $37.03$29.62A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye... -
New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin by Andrew L. Sihler 9780195083453
RRP: $263.25$205.28Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the... -
Modernism by Peter Childs 9781138931626
RRP: $44.83$39.31Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural... -
The World of Harlequin: A Critical Study of the Commedia dell' Arte by Allardyce Nicoll 9780521291323
RRP: $77.98$64.86The commedia dell'arte was an improvised drama performed by masked players. How did the actors react to these demands and limitations? What force kept this form of theatre alive for more than two centuries and made Harlequin such a potent image? In this... -
The Oxford Companion to British Railway History: From 1603 to the 1990s by Jack Simmons 9780192116970
$173.10Of all the products of the Industrial Revolution, none left its mark on the landscape of Britain, or changed the lives of the British people, more than the railway. The encyclopedic Oxford Companion to British Railway History reveals, for the first time,... -
A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries by Susan J. Wolfson
RRP: $58.40$46.92A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than... -
Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw
RRP: $17.53$12.09Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena. After the success of earlier entries in the series, Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he returns to... -
Oxford Bookworms Library: Starter Level:: Robin Hood by John Escott
$18.10"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.You're a brave man, but I am afraid for you,' says Lady Marian... -
The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature by Siegfried Wenzel 9780807836835
RRP: $97.40$88.92Wenzel presents the history of the concept of acedia, of spiritual sloth,"" from its origins among the Egyptian desert monks through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The investigation proceeds in chronological order and pays close attention... -
Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal by Jeffrey J. Kripal
RRP: $46.80$40.01In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,"... -
Rebel Barons: Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture by Luke Sunderland 9780198788485
$182.85Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this... -
Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric by Maria Rosa Menocal 9780822314196
RRP: $44.83$39.02With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and... -
Wisdom of the North: Proverbial Allusion and Patterning in the Icelandic Saga by Richard L. Harris 9780935995299
RRP: $101.40$87.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935995299Author Richard L. HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Cornell University LibraryPublisher Cornell University LibraryWeight(grams)... -
The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind by Meg Harris Williams
RRP: $95.53$83.19The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its combined masculine and feminine qualities and ambiguous,... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry by James Chandler 9780521680837
RRP: $50.68$42.88More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no... -
Short Story Theories by Charles E. May 9780821402214
RRP: $40.93$35.82Although the short story has often been called America's unique contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular commentators, academic critics, and short story writers... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Aurora Leigh': A Reading Guide by Michele Martinez
RRP: $48.73$44.28Introduces new readers and students to a celebrated and controversial Victorian novel-poem Michele Martinez guides readers through the poem's major themes and literary and socio-cultural contexts, introducing a range of interpretive frameworks. Long... -
A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour - Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder by Grace A. Musila
RRP: $87.75$85.04Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated. Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in... -
Dear Angel of Death by Simone White 9781937027674
RRP: $23.40$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027674Author Simone WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 250g -
The Gray Notebook by Josep Pla
RRP: $44.85$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176719Author Josep PlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 665gDimensions(mm)... -
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark
RRP: $52.63$45.71The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... -
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925 by Aldous Huxley 9781566633222
RRP: $58.50$43.74These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span... -
The Writing of the Disaster by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $46.78$40.64Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century-world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its... -
The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick by Kyle Arnold 9780199743254
RRP: $38.01$28.63Widely recognized as one of the most inventive and iconic science fiction writers of all time, Philip K. Dick is an author whose literary sophistication elevated the sci-fi genre into the storytelling powerhouse it is today. His works, known for their... -
Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature by Ed Simon
RRP: $42.88$30.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478777Author Ed SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g