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Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace by S. J. Harrison 9780199691845
RRP: £45.49£45.15S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison... -
The Theology of Samuel Beckett by John Calder
RRP: £9.99£8.16Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the world into which we are born. Knowledgeable about the religion his family and education instilled in him, which as an adult... -
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron' by Lucasta Miller
RRP: £11.99£7.94A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of... -
Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374499Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Not Me by Eileen Myles
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936756677Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Shakespeare and Memory by Hester Lees-Jeffries 9780199674251
£28.15Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern sources, theatre history, performance, material culture, and... -
Outsiders Looking In: The Rossettis Then and Now by David Clifford 9781843311065
RRP: £16.95£16.72This new interdisciplinary collection of writing explores the achievements of the Rossettis in the context of the Victorian era and in the light of modern cultural and literary criticism. 'Outsiders Looking In' considers the position that the... -
Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature by Susan Stewart
RRP: £28.00£24.93From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of "making sense" from which they are derived... -
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde by Barry Windeatt 9780198111948
RRP: £55.00£43.17The three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his work and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £12.99£9.34J. 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... -
The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle by Kelly Hurley 9780521607117
RRP: £38.99£33.26Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written in Great Britain at the end of the nineteenth-century. This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic,... -
Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel
RRP: £20.00£17.38Hailed by the New York Times as a book that "examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence" "An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement. . . . Sharp and taut. . . . A lesson... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 3: Paradiso by Robert M. Durling
RRP: £32.99£23.37One of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators, Robert Durling's rendition of the third and final volume of Dante's masterful literary epic is now available in paperback. As with the two preceding volumes, Durling's precise and powerful... -
Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 by Anthony Seldon 9780198202387
RRP: £56.00£53.16The Conservative Party has been the dominant force in twentieth-century British politics. On its own or as the predominant partner in a coalition it has held power for more than sixty years since 1900. Despite this it has been the most neglected and... -
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: £9.99£6.84'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' Sebastian Barry Over the... -
Best by Miles by Miles Kington 9781908699053
RRP: £8.99£7.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699053Author Miles KingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Transdisciplinary Beckett - Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process by Lucy Jeffery
£69.20This is the first monograph to analyse Beckett's use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett's complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio... -
The Ancient Mariner David Jones 9781904634140
RRP: £15.00£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904634140Author David JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon Press -
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9780393962987
£14.28The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leigh's inception, evolution, and... -
On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe by Eva Hoffman 9780691212692
RRP: £18.99£15.35A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he... -
The Psychology of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Examination Of The Boy Who Lived by Neil Mulholland
RRP: £12.99£12.39Harry Potter has provided a portal to the wizarding world for millions of readers, but an examination of Harry, his friends and his enemies will take us on yet another journey: through the psyche of the Muggle (and wizard!) mind. The twists and turns of... -
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler 9780674066380
RRP: £21.95£17.73Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of... -
Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller 9780141190020
RRP: £9.99£7.32In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how... -
The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages by Shoshana Felman
RRP: £19.99£17.54What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and J... -
Julius Caesar: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128601Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale by Andreas Johns 9780820467696
RRP: £28.10£24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467696Author Andreas JohnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 510g -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
RRP: £14.99£12.57What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and... -
Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 9781931859288
RRP: £14.99£10.14In these remarkable interviews with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indonesia's most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses personal and political topics he... -
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 2: Books vi X by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £29.95£24.43Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also... -
The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) by Peirce Edition Project
RRP: £27.99£24.54Praise for Volume 1:" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of BooksVolume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's... -
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction by Edward James 9780521016575
RRP: £26.99£22.80Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and... -
The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation by Jerome J. McGiann 9780226558509
RRP: £30.00£29.25Claiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideology-by an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representations-Jerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the... -
Arabian Nights of 1934 Geoffrey O'brien 9781949597271
RRP: £23.00£15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949597271Author Geoffrey O'brienFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova Press -
The King of Tars by John H. Chandler
RRP: £13.00£11.19The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.About the AuthorJohn H... -
Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night by Sukhdev Sandhu
£17.01Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: £20.00£15.89Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four... -
David Jones in the Great War by Thomas Dilworth
RRP: £15.00£11.53David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not only experienced the war in all its horror, but who was... -
Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives by Philip Kitcher 9780190842253
RRP: £23.49£17.13Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction. This book probes the possibilities for thinking philosophically... -
Homer on Life and Death by Jasper Griffin 9780198140269
RRP: £56.00£52.11This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that... -
Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman 9780747529460
RRP: £25.00£17.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.