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The Bughouse: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel Swift
RRP: $23.08$16.53'An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane... -
'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History by Denise Riley 9780333346136
RRP: $94.48$94.44Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the... -
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect by Kester Rattenbury 9781848222502
RRP: $83.98$65.04Thomas Hardy's architectural career is not considered a success. Seen usually as a mere prelude to his literary output, it is most often summed up by reference to the 'shockingly' suburban home he built himself at Max Gate. But in this new work,... -
Stage Invasion: Poetry & the Spoken Word Renaissance: 2019 by Pete Bearder
RRP: $21.00$15.14Award-winning poet Pete "the Temp" Bearder presents the unwritten history, science and skill of spoken word. Stage Invasion answers some strangely unaddressed questions: How was the live art of spoken verse kicked out of the Kingdom of Poetry? What is... -
The Learned Banqueters: v. VIII: General Indexes by Athenaeus
RRP: $52.40$49.90Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of ... -
Antonio Machado: Selected Poems by Antonio Machado
RRP: $71.30$58.00Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first hand... -
Seven Viking Romances by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $27.28$25.87Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic... -
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780198704478
RRP: $41.98$29.99There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World... -
Languages of Tolkien's Middle earth by Ruth S. Noel
$23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395291306Author Atanielle Annyn RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film by Jeremy Withers 9780803269729
$101.03Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as "vehicles" for that text's themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy... -
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $31.48$27.07Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues... -
The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong by Pu Songling 9780197606308
RRP: $48.28$41.92The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute by one... -
Lost Goddesses Of Early Greece by Charlene Spretnak 9780807013434
RRP: $52.50$35.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013434Author Charlene SpretnakFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm *... -
Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires by Mark D. Jordan 9781531504533
RRP: $46.18$40.30FINALIST, THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD FOR GAY NONFICTION, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDS A passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender. Twenty-five years ago, Mark D. Jordan published his landmark book on the... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain 9780520272781
RRP: $79.80$66.38Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author's death, as he requested. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of... -
Thebaid: A Song of Thebes by Publius Papinius Statius
RRP: $58.78$52.33The clarity of Joyce's translation highlights the poem's superb versification, sophisticated use of intertextuality, and bold formal experimentation and innovation. A substantial introduction and annotations make this epic accessible to students of all... -
The Divine Comedy: II. Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $38.83$29.34First published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.Book InformationISBN 9780195004137Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm) 204mm... -
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen 9780007517442
RRP: $23.08$17.89A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the... -
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City by Alev Adil 9780863566745
RRP: $27.28$18.54Cyprus' capital Nicosia has been split by a militarised border for decades. In this collection, writers from all sides of the divide reimagine the past, present and future of their city. Here, Cypriot-Greeks coexist alongside Cypriot-Turks, the north... -
Greek Historical Inscriptions 478-404 BC by Robin Osborne
$87.09This volume is both a companion to the editors' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis... -
Brain, Mind and the Narrative Imagination by Professor Christopher Comer
RRP: $41.98$37.57Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia - but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds and characters from the words we read on the page? Rapid advances in the scientific understanding of... -
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts by Bill Ashcroft 9780415661911
RRP: $69.28$61.24This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity... -
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism by Alison Waller
RRP: $96.58$84.27Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"-themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models of adolescence do not arise solely from discourses of... -
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Second Edition by Robert Motherwell 9780674185005
RRP: $79.70$66.68The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures:... -
The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot by George Levine
RRP: $46.18$39.38This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian... -
The Letters of Douglas Oliver and J. H. Prynne, 1967-2000 by Joe Luna 9789491780189
RRP: $50.40$41.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491780189Author Joe LunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Last BooksPublisher The Last Books -
Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes Dominique Battles 9781032439570
RRP: $73.48$64.79Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western medieval literature from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, spanning both the Latinate and Germanic traditions. Type-scenes are the... -
Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American Literature David Herd 9780719095849
RRP: $41.98$30.49Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts.Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he... -
Dietland: (TV Tie-in) by Sarai Walker
RRP: $18.88$13.19Dietland will be adapted into AMC's 10-episode straight-to-series starring multiple-Emmy winner Julianna Margulies and Joy Nash. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. But... -
W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats 9780571222964
RRP: $18.88$13.19In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The 100 Best Novels: In English by Robert McCrum 9781903385470
RRP: $20.98$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385470Author Robert McCrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado by Daniel Vitkus 9780231110297
RRP: $63.00$48.91During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire posed a clear and present danger to Christian rule in Europe. While English commerce with the Mediterranean world expanded, Ottoman forces invaded Greece, Hungary, and Austria. At the... -
Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore 9780822320494
RRP: $41.98$36.83Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, Dangerous Intimacies challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century. Lisa L... -
The Art of Poetry: Edexcel GCSE Conflict by Neil Bowen 9780995467194
RRP: $25.18$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467194Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 200g -
Blake's Poetry and Designs by William Blake
$48.83In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake's notebook,... -
The Road to Middle-Earth: [How J.R.R. Tolken Created a New Mythology] by T. A. Shippey 9780618257607
RRP: $52.48$37.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618257607Author T. A. ShippeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *... -
Uses of Literature Rita Felski (University of Virginia, USA) 9781405147248
RRP: $58.70$51.72Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we readOffers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for... -
Historia Augusta: Volume I by David Magie
RRP: $52.40$49.90March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd by Michael Y. Bennett
RRP: $41.98$35.97Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both... -
Cicero: Pro Milone by Thomas J. Keeline
RRP: $54.58$47.48The Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public...